on January 5th, 2009 by dayf
An embarrassment of riches today as three packages arrived along with my UPS parcel:First up is my first completed trade of the year. When I really started looking at this year’s Stadium Club and became appalled at the flustercluck the short prints tur…
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on January 5th, 2009 by dayf
1991 Topps Want List11 Roberto Kelly122 Paul O’Neill146 Dan Plesac224 Juan Gonzalez*227 Steve Avery*229 Rance Mulliniks273 Johnny Ray312 Charlie Hayes424 Calvin Schiraldi431 Paul Gibson435 Kevin Maas469 Chet Lemon499 Melido Perez540 George Brett*686 Mi…
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on January 5th, 2009 by dayf
My Christmas gift to myself showed up today. I probably would have had it last week had I not waited until Christmas Eve to place the order, but now I have a box to rip this week. I got it from Dave & Adam’s mainly because the box was cheap as dirt…
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on January 4th, 2009 by dayf
I loved the first day of the MLB Network. I watched that ‘56 World Series game twice. However, since then I have watched about a half hour of Hot Stove and flipped away all other times. Is anyone else as repelled by the 2008 World Series Replay as I am…
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on January 3rd, 2009 by dayf
Falcons Vs. Cardinals.Seriously, is there a more ridiculous playoff matchup ever? The team that has won exactly one playoff game since 1947 versus the one who has never had back to back winning seasons? I honestly have no idea who wins this game, The …
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on January 3rd, 2009 by dayf
There’s a bunch of blogs that I thought I had posted to the blogroll, but aren’t there. I’ve looked through my stuff and have finally added:Wrigley WaxI Heart HalosCrackin WaxWait Till Next YearGoose Joak (who alerted me to my linkage issues)The Infiel…
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on January 1st, 2009 by dayf
Ok, time to get caught up on posting all these packages that have been piling up. This one here is a present from The Easy Life. I still haven’t gotten his Christmas package together yet so I feel kind of bad. Steve sent along some nifty oddball stuff….
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on January 1st, 2009 by dayf
All right, 2009! Gotta be better than 2008, right? Has to be! I love New Year’s Day! It’s like Spring Training for life! Everything is all happiness and hope and anticipation for a good year! Sure, by February our hopes and dreams will once again be da…
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on December 31st, 2008 by dayf
This trade started a little strangely. I bought a pack of 2008 Topps Baseball Updates & Highlights Presents 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers Series when it first hit the local hobby store and I ripped it on a A Pack A Day. The big hit was a Jermain…
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on December 31st, 2008 by dayf
All right. Sadly we have come to the end the basketball poetry on Cardboard Junkie. These final two poems were composed by Madding of Cards on Cards. Madding is a huge Blazers fan so it’s appropriate he got the pair of Portlanders.Tom, a tall ballerTou…
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on December 30th, 2008 by dayf
If you wish to make a trade: Leave a message on this post and/or send me an e-mail :dayf13 at gmail dot comI will get back to you and accept or reject the offer. If you only leave a post and you don’t have contact info in four blogger profile, then it …
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on December 30th, 2008 by dayf
Ok, I promised myself at the beginning of the year that I wouldn’t do this and I did it. I decided to do some research on all new products I was interested in and not go off half cocked and buy a buttload of something without being informed. Well, buy…
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on December 30th, 2008 by dayf
I had a moment of weakness this morning. There was a blaster of Stadium Club that I bought a few weeks ago squirreled away in the trunk of my car that was being saved to do another live rip face off against Hand Collated. After ripping and posting the…
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on December 30th, 2008 by dayf
I want to get one more blaster in before 2008’s over so here is a no commentary bust. I’ll let the pictures do the talking.88 Hideki Matsui14 Prince Fielder131 Sean Rodriguez RC80 Ryan Braun144 Justin Ruggiano RC 1st Day82 Manny Ramirez56 Garrett Atkin…
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