Catching Up

I’m in a good mood tonight. It’s funny how a Blazers win will do that to me. I’ve also given up on trying to write these blog posts as if it were the day that my readers are likely to read the post rather than the day it currently is for me. Right n…

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I just have a quick post tonight. As I mentioned previously, I hit the card shop about a week back. I scooped up a small stash of Ozzie Smith cards for my collection. I actually started my collection of Ozzie cards before I got serious about startin…

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This is what happens when I get behind at work and don’t give myself any time to mess around and catch up on baseball card blog reading. A terrible thing happened to a fellow blogger and sender of too many packages for me to keep track of anymore. Fo…

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Swing training has kicked into high gear now, and it’s the time of year when a fan of just about any team (besides the Astros) has something to be excited about out. I’ve already settled into a routine of catching a few innings of Grapefruit League ac…

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I’ve already managed to flip one of my unwanted cards from my Panini Limited Box/Pack break and I’m quite pleased with the result. I was able to turn a low numbered Sam Young jersey/auto thing into a Dante Cunningham card, also autographed, thanks to …

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Strange and interesting things are afoot across the world wide webspace. Do people still call it that? Erin alerted me to the recent decision about the MLB Properties vs. Upper Deck case by way of a glowingly positive press release from UD. Panini i…

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My mind was set. I’m not a big fan of the 1961 Topps design (the first year I can say that about in the Topps catalog) and since I started this blog almost two years ago I have yet to complete a set. Therefore, I was going to make the 2010 Heritage s…

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I really wanted to rejoin the Topps Million code party this past weekend. I really did. On two separate occasions at two separate stores, I bought 5 packs and came up empty both times. 10 packs… no dice. I’m not bitter or anything. Instead of po…

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I made two rather embarrassing baseball card purchases today, but I’m not ready to call this one the most embarrassing. As much as there is to dislike about the Opening Day set overall, I was disappointed when it was cancelled last year. Call me a su…

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A couple of weekends ago I won a high-end basketball “box” that is really a pack (or is that a pack that is really a box?) from the polarizing people at Beckett. For some reason, I had high hopes for this thing. Visions of Brandon Roy jersey chunks d…

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This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won’t be any picnic either.That means I don’t have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post.I know. Th…

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After Topps reached big success with their two most recent Traded sets, marked by the Olympians and strong rookie crop of the 1988 set and Ken Griffey Jr. himself in the 1989 set, the 1990 effort could have been filed somewhere between piss and poor. …

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Alright, folks, it’s time to conclude this mid-’90s parade of baseball cards. If I have learned anything from this venture, it’s that if I was actually serious about putting together a set like this that I should have stopped after 2/3 of a box. The …

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In what would certainly count as a surprise package in my world, reader Steve from ID became the first person to send me 2010 Cardinals cards. In most trade posts, I’ll just select a handful of cards that were noteworthy to me or at least produced som…

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Here’s part two of my 1996 Pinnacle Series 2 box break. If you’re sensitive to light or flashy gold colors, you may want to look elsewhere or at least dim the setting on your monitor a bit.Pack 9:226 – Jeff Conine (Fancy bit of photography here to cat…

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(Or is that barrelful?) Here’s another trade post from a frequent trader: Ed from Roll Out the Barrel. This wasn’t really a trade for anything specific that I recall, but I did recently send him a stack of Brewers and stuff from his want lists.While …

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Inspired by the recently flurry of mid-’90s breaks by the likes of The Collective Troll and possibly others, I found myself grabbing a 1996 Pinnacle Series 2 hobby box from a recent card show on the cheap. Lately, I’ve found it hard to resist passing …

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As this has become known as the week of the Topps Million Card giveaway, I found the overall distribution results a bit interesting. I have yet to see anyone get a great vintage Cardinals card (or Ozzie Smith rookie) on any of the blogs that I frequen…

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On a day in which I’m even more embarrassed to be a Duck than ever before, I thought I’d reach into the faithful bag of trade post tricks. Tim of the Great Sports Name Hall of Fame sent over a Duck-free package of Cardinals and Blazers that I don’t……

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Here’s just a few some notes in lieu of a big post tonight as I watch the tape of the Blazers/Clippers game. Keith Olbermann took a couple of minutes out of his Countdown show tonight on MSNBC to open a pack of 2010 Topps on air. The real treat is ri…

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Earlier this month I received an entire cardboard box full of 2008 Goudey cards, courtesy of The Sewingmachineguy. Not only did he knock off every last base card need from this set, but he also sent a ton of short prints and inserts. Erin and I are w…

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Well, Redemption Day (also known as Presidents’ Day in some parts) came and went today and a lot of people apparently spent a lot of time mashing buttons and clicking on things in futility until something went their way. I do have to admit to checking…

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I suppose I’m not actually so late to this party as I am just lazy. I’ve been sitting on these for awhile. Well, I haven’t literally been sitting on them, because that would be weird. It’s time to check out a 2010 Phungo pack as well as some of the …

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I actually had another card hand-selected and scanned for today’s post, but then I started prepping for another post that will hopefully show up sometime this weekend if not later today and found this little gem. As with most catastrophes, the picture…

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My backlog of trades to post about has now officially reached desperate and pathetic levels. I received an amazing package from Play at the Plate late last week and realized that I still had not gotten around to posting about the last package he sent….

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Here it is! It’s the grand finale of the 3 blaster purchase I made on eBay recently. You can see the first box here and the second box here. While the 2003 Topps blaster was the instigator in this purchase, I was definitely the most intrigued about …

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Finally, I’ve arrived to packages received this year. I try to do the trade post thing in the order that I’ve received stuff from people. Unfortunately, even after I finally got to this package that Chris from Nachos Grande sent me a month ago, I sti…

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