This Kind Of Makes Me Sad (UPDATED)

This card sets off all sorts of red flags, first off. Its from a guy whose name is “hotpacksgalore,” sells all hot packs except for a bunch of ridiculous Ultimate patch cards that look suspect, and then there is this Peterson. A great and wonderful per…

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Over on FCB, a user posted a top ten list of “worst sports card ideas” that was printed in Tuff Stuff. After looking at the list, I agree with some, but others are just absolutely horribly wrong. Since they are a magazine that doesn’t really have the…

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The ‘personal touch’ cards out of Ultimate are not the first incarnations of a card like this, but they are the most valuable for sure. With each being limited to 3 copies, many collectors are picking them up at huge prices. Personally, I dont like the…

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Let me say this right off the bat, I don’t get why people are buying boxes of Famous Fabrics. I just don’t get it. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the set, its an unlicensed set that is built around jersey cards of people from all sports. …

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Pro football talk recently posted a story about hundreds of people showing up to meet Tim Tebow at store in Florida. Although the people showing up should be no surprise, the price that he was charging seems a little high. 160 bucks to sign and 75 for …

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The Mark Sanchez SP Authentic Logo that was sold recently is back on eBay, and I am not sure why someone decided this was a good idea. Why buy the card for $2600+ if you are just going to turn it around and sell the next day? In fact, the same thing ha…

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As expected due to the lawsuit, Upper Deck is out of baseball, at least for 2010. I just got a copy of an email from a distributor who had let me know that the four or so baseball products that UD was planning are no longer going to be available. This …

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Last year I started doing my research pretty early for the NFL draft, scouting out all sorts of scenarios to which I would build my collecting habits for 2009. My scouting for 2010 has already begun, and I have a good idea as to the people who I think …

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Over the last few years, SP Authentic has offered a cool chase card for the buyers of the product. Basically, for each of the last few sets, there has been one or two redemptions per year that offer a complete set of low numbered rookie patch autos for…

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These last few weeks have been a whirling dervish of ridiculousness in the hobby, and it has not been much different around the Gellman household either. First off, my wife is about to begin month eight of the pregnancy, and is getting to the point whe…

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Well, the Upper Deck Lawsuit Bonanza is over.I have just received an email from a source close to the case that MLBP and Upper Deck have reached a settlement in the case of the (non) missing logos. Although the details are sparse at this moment, I thin…

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Im not even sure why this is news worthy on a blog like this, but it does give me an avenue to spout a few nuggets of my beliefs on exclusives. Topps recently announced that they have aquired the exclusive to produce cards of the USA baseball team, som…

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One of the biggest questions that I have seen on the boards deals with handling a big pull. Im talking about when you buy that box of Exquisite and hit a top rookie auto or a Michael Jordan. This also applies to those HUGE pulls like logomen, cut autos…

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So far today, Press Pass has made a huge hulabaloo about an inconsequential detail that will affect no one but impatient Florida fans who buy SAGE. Sooooo, not many people. Right. Press Pass announced through a release that they had signed Tim Tebow to…

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It has become exceedingly rare that a card is released and I go fucking nuts trying to get it. Last week, Ultimate Football was released, and I was scrambling to find one of the Peterson Patch autos right off the bat. Because they were only numbered to…

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For those of you on the list, we are doing head to head (for now) with a draft on the last weekend in March. Please plan ahead and let me know if you want out. Otherwise, please check your mailboxes, the invites are there and all you need to do is foll…

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Guys, I am creating a fantasy baseball league for the site and I am looking for people to play. We had a great football league this year and baseball should be no different. I would prefer those of you who wont quit halfway through the season, so I am …

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One thing I love about SPA and Ultimate is that the number of 1/1s in this set are minimal. They are not like triple threads where every other card is a printing plate or serial numbered 1/1, and the value of the 1/1s usually reflects that. SPA has one…

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This past Saturday, I was bored. By bored I mean I was pacing around the house just to give myself something to do. Eventually I decided it was time to get out of the house, despite the fact that my pregnant wife was not happy about it. I ended up at a…

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A few weeks ago I posted on NSA, the douchebag scammers that have infested the net. These are the guys who do the shitty fake jersey “1/1s” that get fed into eBay on a daily basis. Personally, I cant understand why someone would even consider buying th…

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When I first saw the preview for Ultimate a few months ago, I was extremely underwhelmed outside of the Ultimate Patch cards. It just looked boring and not very exciting after a baseball product that blew everyone away. Although the box busting side of…

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I broke down and did it. Im sorry. I bought a redemption for a Percy Harvin Ultimate Rookie Signatures cheap on eBay, despite my better judgement that the card may never be produced. Although April 19th is far off, and I have received confirmation that…

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Now that Ultimate is live, we only have one set left in the 2009 card season. Its been a long year, but there have been some very nice additions to the lineup, while others have been lacking in originality and look. I want to go over a few of my favori…

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Not all rookies are created equal, especially those at the rookie premiere. Year in and year out, there are a good portion of guys who go to the premiere that never even have a shot at panning out unless there is some miracle involved. This year was no…

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First off, Im sure you are all expecting me to rant and rave about how awesome Ultimate is, but I am not going to do it in the way you expect. Ultimate has some ridiculously great elements to it, but there are parts that need to be examined from a pers…

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Due to many of the people wanting the card opened and given to the correct team, I did so this morning on video and it will be sent out. The card was an Aaron Curry 2009 SPA Rookie Patch Auto 3 color patch 87/999 (IIRC). This means it will go to Erik, …

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First off, I want to thank the people over at Upper Deck customer service. They swung into action when I reported our box had a missing hit, and today I received a package with a card in it. Obviously the popularity of the blog had something to do with…

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