Addict supplying

Pack Addict had a three pack break of Opening Day and pulled a Topps Attack Longoria. I inquired with some 2010 Topps set help for it and then found the Piece of History Longoria further in his blog and offered up some Ichiro cards for his player collection. He included a great surprise and i am truly thankful for it.

Some sweet additions to my Longoria Collection:

The Documentary is interesting
because it doesn't even mention Longoria on the back
Tampa Bay fell to 1-6 to start September as Boston climbed
to one-half game of the Division leaders. Carlos Pena smacked his 20th double of the year.
but regardless its a great photo
and very welcome addition to my PC
The Piece of history marks October 2, 2008 when
he became just the second player ever to homer in each of his first two postseason at-bats.
The scan doesn't do the Topps Attack justice,
it really has a nice shine to it
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!

Thanks so much they are all great

Redemptions

I scored an Autograph Redemption of Emmanuel Burris from a blaster of Stadium back in late October. Then in February i got an email saying they were behind and if i wanted a replacement i should call. So i called only to be told they finally got it and it would ship out in three weeks. Well yesterday i finally received it and for the life of me, can't understand a single part of the autograph.

the E, i guess its an E, since it is the first letter,
looks like an S or an incomplete 8
then i can see a lower case L or is a giant lower case e
then he drew a star, well almost a star
then he started a B but made another eight followed by a z
WTF!!!!
the back of the card says
he was former NCAA swipes leader (42) for Kent State
he went to college and still can't even write his name

I have had high hopes for Emmanuel in fantasy, especially last year, only to be completely wrong. What was i expecting from someone who can't even write his own name.

Mr. Burriss, Topps this weak, really really weak.

So i decided to do some research since i am slamming Topps - yep Topps deserves it - never is there a Z at the end - a phone call will be made this Monday to see what happens. I seriously question the authenticity of this redemption because of all the variation compared to the other autos i researched. The player is lazy but why blame Topps? Simple, doesn't Topps pay the players. Shouldn't they be setting some kind of standard? I believe Topps should have some integrity and pride in the product they are putting out and since they are paying the player they have the power to decide if the player is doing the job and earning the money.

Why i am i so upset, because it is suppose to be an autograph not a mark. I, as the consumer, want an autograph not a mark. Since when is writing 5 random letters a signature, where is the pride in your autograph. Hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is a mark not an autograph. Players have become laaaazy and disgrace themselves with such antics. I usually avoid autographs because of what i expect the price to be, but players using marks instead of actually autographing is definitely another reason. That is why i don't have a Carl Crawford auto yet because Cl Cf is not an auto in my mind.

Autograph


Mark

Why do collectors put up with this? This really amazes me.

Opening Day Blues

No i am not sad, actually i am super excited about Opening Day!

Even more excited about Topps Opening Day.

Topps has Gold, but 2010 Topps Opening Day has Blue and Rays cards look magnificent in the Blue. A match made in cardboard heaven. So when BA Benny's Baseball Card Buffet had a Blue Wade Davis posted from a break of his, I immediately inquired when i saw such a beautiful card. He said sure and off went a bunch of Mets and here is what i received:

Along with the fabulous Blue, he include the base and an extra Ray

He then added three very nice Aki cards
Thank You, Thank You very much!

BA Benny also added six more 2009 Topps Chrome i needed - taking my need list down to 2

two promising Rangers rookies
two Red Sox cards
and Mauer and Lowe

Great bunch of cards - THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!

This Week in Cardboarding

This Week in Cardboarding i found a discounted blaster of stadium at my local Target. There weren't any hits but each pack did have one card i needed. So instead of posting each pack i will just feature the eight new cards, here they are:

Kazmir is my favorite photo of the bunch
would probably look better on a landscape card
and i finally got an Ellsbury
a pair of Astros with Berkman and Tejada
Berkman back handing a grounder with the shades on
definitely a unique photo
Webb and Young illustrating the leisure moments of the game
i've said before and i'll say it again
i love the photography of this set

and some of the doubles i got that i like - just to add some more pretty pictures to the post

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This Week in Cardboarding

Three packs of 2010 Heritage.... sort of. Actually, seeing many bloggers buying packs at four dollars, made me think, maybe i should take a different path with heritage this year. For the price of three packs twelve dollars, here is what i scored:

one base team set and a chrome refractor Longo

Although I don't usually chase team sets, it was nice knocking off so many player collections from a purchase that was the equivalent of a hobby pack. The only bad thing was that shipping for the two buy it now auctions was essentially the price of a pack or what i will call the invisible third pack. So pack one was the nonSp Team Set and pack two becomes the Longoria Refractor 066/561. For the Rays I am still missing the SPs, which are Price 426, Garza 435, Longoria 439, Madden 461, Garza (ALCS MVP) 485 and for my player collections I would still like the Gordon Beckham and maybe all the cards that feature that giant trophy. I am really diggin the trophies in Heritage - I hate the base Topps trophies this year, they are Uuuuuuu-gly. I will be passing on Ichiro this year in Heritage at least the base because I already have the photo from the card like ten times. Seriously Topps take/find a new picture of Ichiro . I don't care if it is a technically a different stadium, the same shot/pose in five straight years (probably more, my collection isn't all that extensive) of cards is cheap, pathetic, insulting and uncreative. Way to show you have no integrity Topps.

Hey MLB, this is something collectors would be happy about. Next time you make a monopoly, try and set some guidelines that would actually make collectors happy. Since you seem all proud that you know what makes them happy, by the way you obviously don't. For this collector, having ten cards with the same photo makes me not so happy, actual it's very irritating. Having ten cards with ten different photos makes me happy. That said the Sporting News Ichiro is very cool and i hope to acquire it sometime. Rant over.

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