From Lonestarr to the Lonestar State

Man, time sure flies by when you’re busy. I can’t believe it’s been a month since I’ve posted anything. Too many swimming, baseball and soccer practices to be able to do much else. I haven’t even been able to get in any Playstation 3 time since Christm…

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Well, lookee what I stumbled upon at the local Wally World today. That’s right 2012 Gypsy Queen is on the shelves, so I grabbed a value pack. The value packs have 3 six card packs plus a bonus of 3 exclusive framed cards.Each pack contained 4 base card…

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No it’s not a leg lamp, its a Panini’s Choice Award. I picked up this card on ebay a few weeks ago. I wasn’t really very interested in these cards when I first saw them, but when I saw Mark Aguirre on the checklist I became very interested. This is a C…

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Well I’m a little late to the party here as I’ve already seen other people review these elsewhere on the net, but here’s my take anyway. Panini has revived the Hoops brand and since these will serve as their entry level brand they are probably the only…

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A while back, I gave you the opportunity to ask me some questions. I promised to answer them all, but that kind of fell on the back burner. Well, I still plan on answering those questions, so here’s one more. Actually, you get a two-fer. One card will …

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If you’ve hung around my blog even a little bit, you know that I’m a Dallas Mavericks homer. An MFFL if you will. I’ve been a Mavs fan ever since I was a young tyke growing up in Illinois and they drafted my favorite college player Mark Aguirre out of …

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Well, I’m not sure if I’m actually first or not, but while checking the card aisle during the Walmart grocery trip I spotted something new.That’s right, 2012 Topps stickers are live. Not sure about the actual albums though as I couldn’t find any at our…

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While I’m awaiting new NBA product, I’m still picking up a few things from last year that managed to slip by. Panini’s Certified set is the focus of this latest pickup and I only bothered to get the Mavs from the set. There are only 6 Mavs available un…

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A few days ago Captain Canuck said he wanted to see some other sport besides basketball. Well, Captain, here you go (although, he probably meant hockey). I did a Spring Training set back in 2010, so I though I’d do another one. I still think Topps shou…

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I think Panini may be releasing Hoops this week, but I haven’t seen any so who knows. Either way, there has been a serious drought of basketball cards, so what choice do I have other than to make my own. Hopefully, you all aren’t getting tired of them …

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This post was supposed to be ready for the NBA All Star break, but I didn’t get around to posting it in time. So sue me. Anyway, this is by far my biggest custom undertaking so far with one card for every team in the league. 30 cards for 30 teams. Hope…

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This set features guys who have battled their way through the NBA playoffs and emerged as champions. Most of these guys I can’t stand though I respect their abilities. The reason I don’t like them has more to do with the fact that they have been respon…

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Since this is mainly a basketball blog these days, I wouldn’t be doing my duty of keeping it current if I didn’t give at least a little mention of the phenomenon known as Linsanity. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock the past few weeks, I…

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Several NBA teams are celebrating their ABA heritage this season by wearing throwbacks. I figured I would honor those NBA teams who are honoring ABA teams by creating a few custom cards. Honorable, no? Here you go.The New Jersey Nets are paying tribute…

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About halfway through creating this set of cards, I realized they were all white dudes, so I decided to stay with the theme. I have actually seen most of these guys dunk before so I suppose they CAN all jump at least a little bit. Unfortunately for me,…

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I’m not totally sure why we’ve just NOW gotten into our newest household collection, but we’re all into them nonetheless. At least my daughter and middle son and I are. What am I talking about you ask? Why Lego Minifigures, of course! Now don’t get me …

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Since Panini isn’t going to bother giving us any new NBA cards until Feb or March, I figured I might as well get mine out there. Here are some brand spanking new, 2012 NBA cards for you to enjoy. This is basically my “flagship” BigD set for the year. T…

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We are still quite a few stickers short of filling our 2011 MLB sticker book, but thanks to dayf, also known as the Cardboard Junkie, we are quite a bit closer.Dayf sent us 4 custom built packs including only stickers we needed. One of the packs was cu…

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Well, the Mavs are of to an 0-3 start after Kevin Durant stuck a dagger in us at the buzzer tonight. I’m not worried, though. I have faith that Dirk and the rest of the Mavs will right the ship before the end of the season. What I don’t usually count o…

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Well, I’ve been gone for a while, but today I read something that I had to post about and even though it’s Christmas Eve, I’m afraid it’s kinda negative. Tomorrow the World Champion Dallas Mavericks will tip off what I hope to be another successful …

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Nobie is getting somewhat close to filling his 2011 MLB sticker album so I told him I’d post a want list. Let me know if you’ve got anything we need or if you’d like to get a hold of some or our doubles. Later.This is what we need: 5, 7, 11, 12, 19, 20…

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Ok, so I said I was gonna mix it up a little so here we go with something a little different. Like a bunch of people in this country, I spend 8 hrs a day in a cubicle. Thankfully, my employer let’s us pretty much decorate them however we want. Some of …

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With all the comic book pub lately being heaped upon DC for their New 52 #1′s and Marvel for their black Spider-man and X-men Schizm, it’s easy to forget there are other publishers out there. One of those “others” is Image comics which just happens to …

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So, you’re wondering where I was for the last month right? Well, the answer is nowhere. I’ve been here all along. I just haven’t been posting for lack of subject matter/want. See when I started this blog it was to keep up with other collectors and to m…

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Some of you were probably beginning to wonder what happened to me. Or maybe not. Anyway, it’s been a whole month since I last posted and I didn’t want anyone to get worried, so here’s proof that I’m okay.That’s me holding the first issue of the all new…

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I thought I’d kickoff the soccer season with some fresh customs. Since my man Guy has no team playing to root for today, I’ll start with his Everton squad.

First up is USA goalkeeper extraordinaire, Tim Howard.

Next, is pretty boy Mikel Arteta. I …

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Tomorrow is opening day for the EPL. Newcastle will open the season home at St. James Park against Arsenal. These two team met in a classic game last season in which Arsenal jumped out to the lead early and lead at halftime 4-0. I don’t know what went…

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Just kinda curious how many soccer fans are out there amongst us bloggers. Of course, this will only tell me how many there are who also happen to check out my blog, and therefore, won’t be all that many, but oh well. In case you can’t tell, I’m a Ne…

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The 2011-12 English Premier League is set to kickoff this Saturday, but at least some of the games could be in jeopardy. Why, you ask? Well, because of a bunch of punk assholes is why.

If you’ve been up with the recent news in London at all, then you…

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I was messing around with the look of my blog the other day and completely lost my old look. I can’t figure out how to get it back. I think it was a discontinued template or something. Anyway, I figured it was a good time for an overhaul, so I decided …

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I just love how that looks! Dallas Mavericks 2011 NBA Champions! Panini put out this nice box set for the Mavs, so I had to get one. I’m not sure if they’ve done this before, or did they just do it for the hometown Mavs. (Panini’s headquarters are down…

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Score’s football release actually came a couple weeks before Topps’ did, but I’ve got them out of order. Oh, Well.Score’s wrappers are better because they’ve got Tony Romo of America’s Team on them and they red, white and blue. What could be more patri…

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I found some brand spanking new Topps football the other day so I grabbed 2 packs. Here’s one of them.Mark Sanchez is this year’s wrapper boy and there will be a rookie in every pack! Whoopee! Same wrapper design as baseball, so that’s a good sign that…

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I sure hope the doom and gloom of the NBA lockout doesn’t come true. I’m totally psyched for this season after coming off of our first championship. Then again, if the season is cancelled, I guess the Mavs will be the first 2 year champs of the NBA. Th…

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We haven’t bought a whole lot of 2011 Topps baseball, but we do pick up a few packs every so often. Last year we didn’t redeem any of the Million Card Giveaway code cards. We traded them away. This year I decided to see what all the hoopla was about es…

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