{"id":3442,"date":"2025-02-03T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:50:56","slug":"tek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Tek!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2015, I sent in my 11.08.2004 Time Magazine to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=969\">Doug K to have Keith Foulke sign it<\/a>.  It is a classic cover that features Jason Varitek leaping into Foulke&#8217;s arms to celebrate the final out of the 2004 World Series.  Foulke signed it beautifully and I waited until Varitek was signing at a reasonable cost to complete it.  When I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/shopredseat.com\/\">Red Seat Collectibles<\/a> was having Tek in for a signing, I sent in the magazine to have it completed.  It arrived today!  It was signed exactly how I requested it to be!  Red Seat did a great job and I can now call this issue completed!<br>I also received my second envelope from Mike E which contained a 2023 Topps #56 Jermaine Palacios and an upgrade (not much of one as Kyle&#8217;s autograph is not great to begin with) to my 2021 Topps Heritage #668 Kyle Garlick card.<br>All in all a great mail day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-1164x1536.jpg 1164w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek-1200x1584.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20041108_Time_Foulke_Varitek.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, I sent in my 11.08.2004 Time Magazine to Doug K to have Keith Foulke sign it. It is a classic cover that features Jason Varitek leaping into Foulke&#8217;s arms to celebrate the final out of the 2004 World Series. Foulke signed it beautifully and I waited until Varitek was signing at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tek!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bought","category-non-si-magazine","category-private-signing","category-topps-twins-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}