LOOKING FOR:

A Brian Cashman certified autograph – I know he’s had releases in both Topps and Upper Deck products. Ideally, I’d like to get one of his A&G autos, just because the other products I’ve seen are selling for pornographic amounts. If anybody has one, or knows where I can find a reasonably priced [...]

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I pulled a mini card of a Dodo from some Extinct Creatures series. That being said, I can’t find anything about the card anywhere – no mention on the checklist, nothing. The back of the card (which seems to be the insert set for this checklist) shows there are five forever-dead animals in [...]

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Two of ‘em! I am pretty sure I won’t be getting the case hit rip card, as I saw the Brad Penny pulled in the shop when I was picking mine up. Oh well, I’ll just keep my fingers crossed for that Cat Osterman auto and hopes I can put the lion’s share [...]

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Catchy, huh?
I gave into temptation and bought a few blasters of Masterpieces Football this past weekend, and am as hooked on these as I was on the 2007 baseball release. I love the “moments” cards, showing the Snow Plow game, Herm Edwards, etc. And the Time Warp cards rule too.
Here’s what I’m shameless [...]

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Yep, I have moved, once again – if we have any trades in the works, shoot me an email for my new address. If you have sent anything in the past few days, don’t sweat it, because I’m paying rent at my Bloomington address until August… which stinks.
Now where the hell are my A&G [...]

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Does anyone have Ryan from Trader Crack’s mailing address? I have some stuff I want to send him, but can’t find it anywhere. If you do, please look me up at my Hotmail account (I’m sure he doesn’t want it broadcast all over the interweb).

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They’re officially ordered! I took a bunch of g/u stuff and some Twins autographs over to the card shop and traded them in towards two boxes of A&G. I’m HOPING this will get me the lion’s share of the set, aside from the obvious SPs I’ll be missing out on.
So what I’d like [...]

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Thanks to the generosity of Dan from Saints of the Cheap Seats, and a little bit of luck at the card shop, my lists are dwindling down to nothing – which is a beautiful feeling. I hope to have 07 Masterpieces knocked out by the time A&G hits the streets, and maaaaaaaaaybe this year’s [...]

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With the upcoming releases of A&G, OPC, Topps Chrome and Goodwins, I figured I better put out the call one final time before people (myself included) get all excited about these new sets and put other releases on the backburner. I’ve knocked a very handsome chunk out of these lists thanks to all of [...]

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Aside from the two Masterpieces set, this is one of the finals I’m working on. And by “working on,” I mean “piecing together through $1.59 Target packs.” If you have any you don’t want… you know the drill.
What I need (there’s a bunch): 1, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, [...]

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Because you’re all sick of seeing my Heritage and Goudey lists (which, thanks to the generosity of some of you, have dwindled in number significantly).
UPDATE: I found some packs at Toys R Us this weekend (don’t ask).
UPDATE 2: Dan from Saints of the Cheap Seats hooked me up.  Updated to reflect…
1, 5, 6, 7, 10, [...]

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Wow, nice long title.
I bought a Heritage blaster, hoping to at least knock out a couple of insert, SP, and Chrome needs. Aside from a Manny Ramirez NAP, I got nothing, including a pair of SP duplicates. I don’t know how, but I have managed to pull more SP doubles than I have [...]

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Quick and to the pointless: 60, 73, 75, 81, 96, 115, 131, 156, 193, 227, 232, 241, 248, 270, 271, 286, 307, 324, 354, 373, 374, 395, 407, 418, 422, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448, 449, 450, 451, 453, 454, 455, [...]

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I think it’s a general consensus that pack searchers are losers, but also a very visible evil when buying retail. I found myself at Target tonight, and decided to nab a few packs of Heritage to, if nothing else, knock a few Mayo needs off my want list. I grabbed about six packs [...]

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Nothing like pandering for set needs to help me crank out an overdue post. I know the list is fairly SP/insert heavy, but if anyone cares to swap off what they don’t want, look me up.
2, 27, 33, 38, 50, 60, 73, 75, 80, 81, 96, 112, 114, 115, 125, 130, 131, 156, 176, [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, I learned that my Uncle Conrad had died after a long, long battle with emphysema. Truth be told, it’s remarkable he lived this long: back in 1993, he underwent an experimental surgery, where the holes in his lungs were patched with pieces of a pig’s heart. He was given a best [...]

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When the 2009 collecting year rolled around, I was admittedly late to the party. Like many other bloggers have mentioned, I bought a bunch of stuff last year to get a taste for what I liked. Unfortunately, that also meant I bought crap like A Piece of History and Opening Day, and I [...]

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Look at me updating – it’s not even a Tuesday!
To all the set builders out there – if any of the cards you are missing are Pettittes, look me up. I have about 600 doubles of him doing me no good, and I’d be more than happy to hook you up with some.
Also, to [...]

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Wow, it’s been a month since I’ve updated? For shame, Eric. To be fair, I haven’t had a heckuva lot to blog about on a day-by-day basis, but when I put it all together, I can get a decent sized post out of it.
First and foremost, is a potential gripe I may have [...]

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Unfortunately, as cool as some of the cards I’ve seen pulled from packs thus far may be, I will be waiting another few months for the Andy Pettitte, and the countless parallels, it seems.  However, Andy does appear in Series I of Upper Deck, along with a gold foil parallel.  It probably goes without saying, [...]

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/01/26/pettitte.yankees.ap/index.html
 
I may be a day late, but it still made for a good Monday.

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So I found a guy who is willing to take all of my non-SPs from 08 Goudey off my hands. If any of you need any cards from the base set to fill your set/team set/player collections, please let me know ASAP. I’m probably going to box them up and get them to [...]

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I feel like a boob typing this list up because chances are that I traded some of these to you earlier this year… well before I decided to put a set together. I’m also going to do the A&G and Heritage sets which should also lead to more aggravation due to my impetuous trading. [...]

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So earlier I announced I was finally working on set-building, and I dove in headfirst with a pair of Goudey blasters.  It was equal parts cool and frustrating pulling as many mini SPs as I did, and I’m curious if anyone is collecting them for any reason.  If you’re interested, look me up – I [...]

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I stink at updating this thing.  It’s okay, you’re not gonna hurt my feelings by agreeing with me.  Factor in that I have yet to upload a single picture or customize this in any way, and it’s safe to say I need to get my poop in a group.
So…. hmm.  I got some new Pettittes [...]

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Yeah, I do suck at updating this thing.  I started it as a way to distract myself at work, and all of a sudden things start pouring in for me to do.  Lame.  Anyway, this is going to be a mixed bag of random crap, so buckle up people.
Cliff from Capewood Commons and Charlie from [...]

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1-If I didn’t collect baseball cards, I’d collect _________.
McFarlane figures.  Even when I wasn’t collecting cards, I would still buy any Yankee or Vikings I came across, along with exceptions like Joe Mauer, Chad Pennington, and Kevin Garnett.
 
 
2-My baseball heroes include one you probably wouldn’t know from my blog or comments, and that person is [...]

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Yeah, this post is going to be substantially longer than the others – I need a lot of 2006 and the market was a little more Pettitte-friendly than the past two years.   Posting 2005 might kill me, and that would be a stupid way to die.  As per usual, I am not including refractors, parallels, [...]

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May as well throw one more easy on up.  While Beckett continues to be the scorn of many online, I have found one more use for them (the other being a nice checklist system): the dealer shop.  I found a dealer out in Oregon with a ton of cheap Andys and ordered the following:
(1) 1998 [...]

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I was looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend with my girlfriend’s family to celebrate Christmas.  The weekend got a headstart on getting turned upside down my buddy called Friday to ask if I wanted to go to the Vikings game today.  I replied, in a word, “yep,” and knew I would be looking forward [...]

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I have to kill a few hours at the office this morning, which equates to me posting on here.  A couple of people have posted their year-end wantlists for ‘08, and I figure I may as well do the same.  I’m not including any printing plates/1-of-1s, or refractors on here, but if you have any, definitely look [...]

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In paying tribute to my baseball card-whorish ways,  I am mentioning trading in my third consecutive post.  However, I’m not using this particular entry as a call for Pettitte cards, but more to explain how I trade, and what I’ll trade for.  I do mostly blind trading with other bloggers – the only two exceptions [...]

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Wow, it’s been a week since I posted. I used to get fussy at work when I would look around and see that nobody had posted a new blog for a few hours… I guess I should have typed a mile in someone else’s shoes before getting frustrated.
Today’s (work) mail brought me a nice [...]

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I figure I’ve bothered enough baseball card bloggers via email that it’s time I get my own blog and hopefully start getting solicited by other collectors out there.  After months of taking my quest to get new cards of Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter and Chad Greenway to other bloggers, I now hope that readers will [...]

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