Token Weekly Blazers Post: Ouch!

Brandon Roy has been out with an injured hamstring. Suddenly, everything up is down and vice versa. The Blazers beat a team they had no business beating (Boston) and then lost to a team they should have handled given a decent lead and a Tyson Chandle…

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Updates here from Cards on Cards central have been sparse. I’m in the midst of a two week vacation and thus have been avoiding my computer as much as possible. I’m still checking e-mails fairly regularly, so if we have potential trades going (or if y…

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It seems like it’s been about three months since the last Oregon football game. Finally, the interesting part of the bowl season starts today with the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. Oregon will be facing the Oklahoma State Cowboys, which have always amus…

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Portland finished a 2-2 week last week with a 102-89 victory over the Raptors that Brandon Roy just plain took over and made everyone else look silly. It’s hard to know what to make of this past week, however. It was disappointing - mostly the loss o…

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As much as I have a fondness for year-end/update/traded sets that goes back to my youth, I feel like everything about this set is a scam. The player selection is bad. Topps didn’t even throw in a bunch of all-star type filler cards in this edition as…

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Here is the fourth of four blasters that I bought at Target for $2.99. Looking back, I’m really glad I didn’t pay much more than $2.99 a piece for these things. It’s not that I would have entertained the idea of buying even one of these at the regula…

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Portland has been a total disaster this week. A historically crazy snowstorm seems to have limited most holiday activities and has wreaked havoc on my work schedule as well. Consequently, I have counted at least 8 packages I still need to send out to…

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And this is number three.Pack 1:43 - Felix Hernandez34 - Brian Roberts136 - Jay Bruce (RC) (All of a sudden I have so many Bruce cards.)5 - Russ[ell] Martin140 - Max Scherzer 1st Day Issue (alternate photo)Pack 2:67 - Joe Mauer28 - Ryan Church35 - Ken …

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The Blazers got a much needed break from the schedule makers as they only played two games last week, which was nice after the previous week’s multiple debacles. On Tuesday they completed a season sweep of the Sacramento Kings by pulling away in the s…

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Here is the second of the four Stadium Club blasters I bought last weekend. Sadly, the price of these things at Target seems to be back to normal now. Since I have several of these to get through, I’m going to keep commentary to a minimum.Pack 1:130 …

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Hand Collated has been doing a Year End Clearance - posts with want lists of some 2008 sets. I bit on the one about Topps base and we ended up doing a quickie trade. I got Mr. Ludwick here, plus some more Cardinal goodies and was able to knock off a …

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Where, oh where, do I even begin? Stadium Club premiered in 1991 as one of the first, if not THE first, premium quality baseball card set. The cards were coated with gloss and contained a full bleed photo design, boasting of Kodak quality photos on t…

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Night Owl Cards, which in my opinion is the most well-written baseball card blog out there, sent another stack of Cardinals my way in a trade. Actually, this wasn’t so much a trade as it was an exchange that went something like this:Night Owl Cards: “…

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The excellent Stats on the Back blog made a decision to pair down a baseball card collection in the most extreme way. Many cards were given the axe and sentenced to life in a dumpster. Like a good dumpster diver, I had to save the expendable Cardinal…

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I have been the lucky recipient of four packages of baseball cards in the mail in the past four days (not counting Sunday, of course, because that would be creepy.) Today’s package, which was actually received on Monday, was from FanOfReds over at Nac…

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I may have dropped hints here on this blog - I’m not sure (I don’t like to read my own writing) - but before I was a Cardinals fan my favorite team was actually the Yankees. And it seems like even back in my earliest memories, like when the Yankees fa…

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What a difference a week makes, huh? I get to post one lousy card, because Portland has lost 4 out of their last 5 games. Martell Webster, last season’s starting small forward, returned to the court for the first time since the first game of the pres…

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I am strongly considering a monumental shift in the way I store my Cardinals cards. The timing isn’t all that surprising, considering over the past two days I’ve received large boxes of Cards cards and I will probably be spending hours sorting through…

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I’ve gotten in the annoying habit of refreshing MLBTradeRumors.com repeatedly over the past week. While Cardinals talk is usually all sound and no fury this time of the year, it seems that they are pretty serious about reducing the glut in the outfiel…

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About a week ago I posted the first of five packs of 1984 Topps that I got from a card show last month over on A Pack A Day. I wasn’t entirely sure that I wanted to post the rest of the packs, considering how awful that first pack was, but the people …

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There’s still plenty of time left to get in on my minor league card giveaway. There are still no takers for the following teams: Angels, Astros, Athletics, Blue Jays, Brewers, Expos, Giants, Mariners, Mets, Orioles, Padres, Pirates, Rangers, Reds and …

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Yes, I’m trying to use up all of the cheesy titles I can come up with for these posts. If you’ve got any suggestions, let me know.Anyway, the Blazers hit the road for the first four games of yet another five game road trip this past week and came away…

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Khalil Greene was reportedly traded yesterday to the Cardinals from the Padres for reliever Mark Worrell (no relation to Todd) and a PTBNL. I have mixed reactions to this. As much as I like to root for ex-Portland Beavers, like Jason Bay (not so much…

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The Hot Stove League ™ is in full effect, and the Cardinals have made their first splash by signing 35-year old lefty reliever Trever Miller, last seen donning a Tampa Bay uniform.Trever Miller?Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Miller was always the…

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I’m officially jumping in with one or two toes in the pool on the holiday baseball card giveaway madness. I have a somewhat overflowing 800-ct. box of baseball cards that is (no longer) meticulously organized by set and card number. Unfortunately (fo…

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For a stretch of time, starting with 1986, I used to get a Traded set every year for either my birthday or Christmas, or sometimes both. The 1986 and 1988 Topps Traded sets were instant classics with their player selection (and in the latter set, the …

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Home, sweet home. The Blazers finally got to play a string of home games this past week and responded by going 3-0. Granted, the competition wasn’t always strong, but Portland actually squeaked by a team they were supposed to blow out (Sacramento) an…

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It’s time for the 112th meeting between the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers. There’s been a media blitz all week here in Oregon, similar to what you typically here in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. I’m not e…

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Am I back on the Eagles bandwagon after last night’s big win? Should I be? I haven’t had a lot of fun watching NFL games this season and it’s not entirely the Eagles fault. Last night’s game just reaffirmed the obvious: if Brian Westbrook is not hea…

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Trading cards with people is a great way to break up the monotony of bills, chain letters and the endless barrage of Comcast ads. I just received my end of a quick trade with Danny from Saints of the Cheap Seats a couple of days ago, and promptly took…

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It’s difficult enough these days to find places around here that sell baseball cards that aren’t big box stores, so a few months ago I was pleased to discover that there is a monthly card show that is held in a cheesy shopping mall just outside of the …

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I’m still loving the blind trades. I’m getting tons of Cardinals for my collection that I never had, plus plenty of doubles to trade to other Cardinals fans (I know you’re out there) and the chance to get to know other like-minded card bloggers. This…

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