Hero Cardboarding

Welcome to TWIC!!! I found some blasters i was actually interested in at the local Wally World and the best part is that they were 40% off, not as great as 50%, but good enough for me. I decided to go with an 08 UD Baseball Hereos Blaster for nine bucks. These are the first packs i have ripped of the product but i am a little familiar with the cards since i have received some of the cards via trades. On to the break:


Pack 1

Stan the Man
and
Mattingly
UD is letting us know they are MVPs
ummm... DUH!!

Pack 2

Wade "claims 5th Batting Title"
impressive
Wright "Climbs into 30-30 Club"
nice
Trio of Young Pitching Stars
agreed
Alex Gordon "Connects for First Homer"
really UD what is heroic about that?

Pack 3

Peavy "Captures NL Triple Crown"
remember when Peavy was a super stud
Bench "Wins Second Straight WS Title"
superbad
Buchholz "Throws No Hitter"
i remember that

Pack 4

McCann "Homers in Fifth Straight Game"
really a fielding photo, maybe a hitting would have made a little more sense
Yount serial numbered and odd color background
my hit

Pack 5

Ozzie
great photo
Kenji
why are two homers Hereo worthy?
a new Reggie for my collection
Carlton 3000Ks
love the history

Pack 6

Mags "Bangs Out AL Batting Title"
and helped me win my NFBC Fantasy League
an Ichiro
wish the photo was a little larger

Pack 7

Bill Hall "Makes Mother's Day Special"
to bad UD couldn't make the card special
and actually use a photo of Bill with a PINK bat
Robinson MVP
vintage photo, great
Upton "Nearly Swings for Cycle"
what? seriously?

Pack 8

Gibson "Earns MVP and CY"
amazing
Stras-who?

Pack 9

I really like these cards, i find the facts a nice touch, its just when UD reaches to include someone, they should have realized that maybe they shouldn't be in the set. The cards are thick and the pictures are sharp along with a classic design, very fun blaster.

Thanks for checking out TWIC.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding, I am sooooooo exhausted, this week i have been stripping a 30 year old hutch and have been very consumed in the garage and far away from the cardboarding world.

Here is what i picked up thanks to the bay of e:

nothing witty or silly, just to tired, sorry
09 Ultimate 0.50
09 Tribute Blue 1.50
10 Tribute Blue 0.49
10 A&G Celestial 0.99

Thanks for checking out TWIC, hope you have a wonderful week :D
*Sorry but my Sunday comic will be skipped this week and this is why my Rays Sketches have been on pause.

If I Ruled the World...

there would be a salary cap.

Since the Rays and Yankees are going head to head again, I figured why not finally post this thought. The thought originated back on May 19th, while watching the Rays and Yankees game. Now that my drawing side has surfaced again, I was inspired to do a drawing to enhance my opinion. Of course living in NY, the game was broadcasted on the YES network - which I usually don't mind, actually I usually have it muted, too much Yankee propaganda is bad for the brain, but this time I was actually listening, and the commentators started saying that Crawford will not be resigning with the Rays, like its a forgone conclusion, and of course Pena will have to take a huge cut if he wants to stay and there is no way they will be able to afford Soriano if he continues what he is doing, well he is continuing to pitch very well. The good news is, not only did the Rays beat the Yanks but they only brought it up that one time. I really hope the Rays keep Crawford and sign him. Its good for baseball when there are legacy players, you know the players that are only associated with one team, ie Sandberg, Ripken, Gwynn, Biggio, etc.

Here are some random facts and my argument for a salary cap.

Based on the 2010 Salary Budget. There are eight teams over $100 million, that means there are twenty-two not yet spending $100 million or put another way, two-thirds of the MLB teams are spending less than $100 million. One team has a salary above $200 million. That one team is more than double two-thirds of the league, and triples twelve teams. Pretty easy to tell things are not balanced and favor only a few teams.

Now imagine if you were in a fantasy league where one owner had a budget that is twice as much as two-thirds of the owners and triples on-third of the league.

So if this was a 12 team fantasy league

• 1 team has $200 budget
  
• 3 teams have $110 budget
• 4 teams have $90 budget
• 4 teams have $65 budget

Would you play in this fantasy league?

I wouldn't.

It isn't set up for fair competition.

MLB needs a fair and balanced system and therefore should have a salary cap.


* data taken from cbssports
Current 2010 Salaries by division
AL East
New York Yankees $206,333,389
Boston Red Sox $162,747,333
Baltimore Orioles $81,612,500
Tampa Bay Rays $71,923,471
Toronto Blue Jays $62,689,357

AL Central
Detroit Tigers $122,864,929
Chicago White Sox $108,273,197
Minnesota Twins $97,559,167
Kansas City Royals $72,267,710
Cleveland Indians $61,203,967

AL West
Los Angeles Angels $105,013,667
Seattle Mariners $98,376,667
Texas Rangers $55,250,545
Oakland Athletics $51,654,900

NL East
Philadelphia Phillies $141,927,381
New York Mets $132,701,445
Atlanta Braves $84,423,667
Washington Nationals $61,425,000
Florida Marlins $55,641,500

NL Central
Chicago Cubs $146,859,000
St. Louis Cardinals $93,540,753
Houston Astros $92,355,500
Milwaukee Brewers $81,108,279
Cincinnati Reds $72,386,544
Pittsburgh Pirates $34,943,000

NL West
San Francisco Giants $97,828,833
Los Angeles Dodgers $94,945,517
Colorado Rockies $84,227,000
Arizona Diamondbacks $60,718,167
San Diego Padres $37,799,300

Sticky Cardboarding

Welcome to TWIC, and I mean Sticky has in you bought something on eBay and received it but the top loader is covered with scotch tape, making for a messy top loader, I have tried cleaning them with alcohol, but most time they are just ruined and off to the plastic recycling bin they go. Why am I getting charge so much in shipping when the sellers are ruining part of what i am paying for? So I have devised a feedback method which i hope catches on, somewhere, anywhere, please leave the following:

TLwTape - Top Loader with Tape, which of course leaves sticky residue and nastiness
TLwSlv - Top Loader with Fold over Sleeve, which of course is sticky free

Hope to see sellers being called out and get them to change the way they are shipping, it would be nice to be sticky free :)

hehe - thats some of next weeks cards :)

Now on to this weeks acquisitions

Finally found some Target and Walmart parallels of Mr. Longoria and and an SP i needed, along with the hobby give away card

All of these had been sticky-fied from two different sellers :(

The Target is definitely my favorite of the base Longoria because it is true cardboard, now to just find the Celeb"Rays"tion Target version.

and my last week's missing quarter will just be moved to this week, since the above just broke ten bucks

I first saw this card on Fielder's Choice Blog when I perusing some of his later posts, a fun thing to do when i have the time, if your a Rays fan. I have been watching ebay for a while now in hopes that this would pop up and it did about a month ago in a multi-card Longo lot, but it went for six or seven plus and i had to let it go because the cards i needed didn't justify me spending that kind of coin. Then i found a buy-it-now at six and offered half because the scan showed something that looked like a scratch and the seller agreed, not to mention informing me the card was just spiffy and that it was the scan and not the card. Well after much waiting i am happy to have this very cool looking Target Exclusive 400 series from the 2008 Topps Update. A very nice addition to my Longoria collection.

As always , thanks for checking This Week in Cardboarding and I hope you have an awesome week!!

If I Ruled the World...

there would be blood testing for everything.