on January 26th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 26th, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
Congratulations to Joe Ranyak, who scored a 10 this week to Beat the Blogger’s
total of 4 and beat the field to win this week’s contest.
This week’s matchups will be posted soon so make sure you check back to get your picks
posted before the start of the first game to be eligible to a win.
Thanks to all that played and thanks for recruiting some newcomers as well. Let’s
try and do the same this week and get a record turnout and with this week’s winner
being a first-timer, it just shows how easy it is to Beat the Blogger and win.
With the number of weekly participants slipping a bit the last few weeks I’m making
a call to action to all of our regulars to do some recruiting. While more people
means more work for the Blogger and more people for the Blogger to go up against,
I welcome the challenge and offer this challenge to you: If each player can recruit
10 new players and we can boost the total to 200 or more, I’ll triple the weekly prize.
So spread the word about the contest to all your co-workers, family and friends
and meet that goal and boost the prize.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends so they can be a part of the action, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
This week’s winners are posted below and this week’s matchups will be posted
later today so make sure you check back and get your picks posted before the start
of the first game to be eligible to win this week’s prize. As always, good luck.
While I enjoy giving prizes to several people vs. having just one weekly winner, from
this point forward contestants will be asked to provide a tie-breaker on the week’s
last game so we narrow our winner down to one. Contestants will now b
e
asked to predict the total score from the last game on the list and the closest to
the actual score will be deemed the winner). I’ll also require contestants
to post their e-mail address with their picks so I can track down the winners
easier.
For those unfamiliar with the Beat the Blogger contest, the idea is simple.
The Blogger posts 10 matchups each week and then selects his choices for the winners
of those matchups. Contestants enter the Beat the Blogger contest by clicking on
the “Comment” section below the post with the matchups and then select their
own 10 winners. You can also designate one of your picks as a “Doubler” and
you will receive an extra point if you’re correct so don’t forget to designate your
“Doubler” pick and increase your chances of winning. If you Beat The Blogger’s
total and post the high score for the week, you win. The regular weekly
prize is an authentic signed 8-by-10 color photo of stars such as LaDainian
Tomlinson, Drew Brees, Marshall Faulk, Santonio Holmes, Gale Sayers, Catfish
Hunter and many more. From time to time, the Blogger will sweeten the pot for
the weekly contest so look for special prize packages.
This week’s matchups with winning picks in parenthesis
Saturday Jan. 23/Sunday, Jan. 24
NCAA Mens Basketball
Duke at Clemson (Duke)
Ohio State at West Virginia (W. Virginia)
Texas at UConn (UConn)
NBA Basketball
Philadelphia at Indianapolis (Philadelphia)
Minnesota at Milwaukee (Millwaukee)
New Orleans at Denver (Denver)
NHL Hockey
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (Pittsburgh)
Dallas at Colorado (Colorado)
NFL Playoffs
NY Jets at Indianapolis (Indianapolis)
Minnesota at New Orleans (New Orleans)
Tiebreaker: Total points in Minnesota at New Orleans game (59)
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on January 26th, 2010 by admin
2010 Press Pass Football is scheduled to release on 31 Mar and will cost around $90-$100 per hobby box. Each box will contain 28 packs with four cards per pack. Collectors can expect at least five on-card autographs per box. The will be six autograph levels to collect to include “Power Picks Showbound” parallel numbered [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by Spiff
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on January 26th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on January 26th, 2010 by T.S.
An SCD subscriber sent me the picture you see here, illustrative of an
ostensibly unopened box of 1971 O-Pee-Chee Baseball cards that he bought on
eBay recently. As the image hints, the packs apparently weren’t all that uncirculated,
and our subscriber ultimately got his money back.
It’s perfectly understandable that a hobby niche with such a particular
allure would be actively pursued by the unscrupulous, but it’s also worth noting that
the kind of malfeasance portrayed here doesn’t always end up being quite so blatant
and outrageous as having stats written in ballpoint pen on the front of a poor condition
Cookie Rojas.
As veteran hobbyists are aware, there are at least a couple of hundred
“Christmas” themed rack packs that routinely circulate in the hobby that, while hardly
as flagrant as the above-mentioned O-Pee-Chee ripoff, certainly raise a lot of eyebrows
about their bona fides and lineage.
The so-called Christmas Racks sell online and even in conventional
big-time catalog auctions, with a wide spectrum of careful descriptions provided.
The most reputable companies are more than a little careful in their catalog descriptions;
the rest of the gang uses language that ranges from the awkwardly circumspect to the
ridiculous.
I get a kick out of some of the online descriptions, which in some cases
exhort the winning bidder not to even consider opening the pack, noting that such
an outlandish move would likely hurt the investment value. Translated: opening them
would reveal that these are not uncirculated cards.
There are plenty of hints about the questionable heritage of these racks,
not the least of which is the selling price, which while not typically chump change
is rarely in line with what you would expect to pay for uncirculated vintage material.
Another telling point: the cards that are included in the racks are across
several series, essentially unheard of in anything that Topps was involved in during
those years (1952-63). If you need more, there’s also the curiosity of so many stars
appearing in prominent “on top” position in the packs, frequently multiple Hall of
Famers.
If you need more incriminating evidence, there’s also the recurring theme
of those very same Hall of Famers being substantially off center. Obviously, given
all the off-center cards that Topps produced during that span, finding them in racks
would be expected, but hardly in the kind of overwhelming percentages found here.
I could add that a reasonable examination of the racks – I have seen
several and looked at photographs of literally dozens – either screams or loudly mutters
that these cards have some kind of a history in the hobby.
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on January 26th, 2010 by admin
2009-10 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hockey is scheduled to release on 1 April and will cost about $100-$130 a box. Each box will contain 24 packs with 5 cards per pack. Each box will deliver three autographs (with at least one being a Future Watch autograph), two SP Holo F/X cards and three SP Essentials. [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by PunkRockPaint
Every year before the XXXXXXXXX (name of big football contest removed), I start getting antsy for spring training. Full disclosure: I start getting antsy right after the World Series ends. This spring could be one of the best yet!For years, my dad and …
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on January 26th, 2010 by admin
2009-10 O-Pee-Chee Metal Hockey is scheduled to release on 13 April and will cost about $65 per hobby box. Each box will contain 24 packs with each pack delivering five cards. Each pack will include two Metal Parallel. Find all cards from the 800 O-Pee-Chee card set to include all rookies that debuted in October [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1989 Donruss Darryl Strawberry
A very nice looking card that could have been made just a bit better by doing any of the following…
Show Darryl’s famous leg-kick
Give me the rest of the bat
Show me both of his hands
I don’t ask for a whole lot do I? I love baseball cards and I have my preferences; is that [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
Did you know that Bob Uecker and Wayne Gretzky share the same birthday today? Thats what you call an odd couple. The only reason I know this is because today is my mom’s birthday too.
Gretzky is probably one of the most popular hockey player’s in history, and even if you don’t follow sports, I bet [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on January 26th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Ricky Bones, middle reliever for the Florida Marlins in 2000, had to be placed on the disabled list after he injured himself changing channels on the clubhouse television.
**factoid courtesy of ‘Armchair Reader – Grand Slam Baseball’
My take – In the ‘real world’ imagine calling in with that excuse… WHOA!!!
[...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by Rod
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on January 26th, 2010 by zman40
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on January 26th, 2010 by JRJ
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on January 26th, 2010 by chemgod
There are several intriguing free agents that are still out there. The one I am most surprised with is Jim Thome. Sure he is 39 years old, but it’s not like he can’t swing the bat. He is an ideal candidate for a DH in the American League. He is a sure fire Hall of [...]
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