More Chrome Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding!! Contined... More from my chrome spree, aka spending bday money :)

Pack 1

Crawford, off to a great start
Felix refractor

Pack 2

Lee looks so wrong in a Seattle uniform now
Xfractor

Pack 3

Purple, to bad its someone i don't like

Pack 4

Wandy xfractor

Pack 5

Carpenter refractor

Pack 6

Pack 7

Tex refractor
another Allen Craig - Dang DUPS!!!! >:(

Pack 8

Manzella Xfractor

Sweet i actually got 3 xfractors, noone i really want and i guess that's why there was no insert. Some nice Rookies with Boesch, Desmond and Stubbs, but still none of the big names :( The Schwartz is not with me this year.

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Chrome Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding!!! Just had to pick up some chrome blasters to get my fix for this year. Back when it first hit retail stores. So these cards have been sitting for quite awhile collecting dust while life was happening. Will i be going crazy this year, like last year? Chasing down all the cards, collecting the entire set, ripping pack and blaster with no regard, just enjoying each and every insert and parallel i would get. Nope, probably not. Thank heavens i used some birthday money on my chrome this year, which essentially means they were gifts and not my money blown. I was really excited about this set, like i am every year, but topps definitely dropped the ball on this one.

Pack 1

mclouth refractor - great photo
former Ray Edwin Jackson

Pack 2

i am liken all four photos of this pack
another former Ray Kazmir
Tulo with the best photo of the bunch
and a Dice K
no refractor - bad topps!!

Pack 3

Wainwright refractor

Pack 4

santos xfractor

Pack 5

Werth insert

Pack 6

Howard Xfractor

Pack 7

yadier reractor
another Texiera , a DUP! :/

Pack 8

Roberts blue
and another Kila and Russo, DUPS!!! >:(

I know many have already commented on the miscuts (which i am sure was intentional by topps, because how many years have they gone without it happening) and the major warping (which is just a sad pathetic effort by topps). But the biggest faux pas, was changing the Xfractor, it just doesn't have the sparkle to it, it looks like a really bad bitmap photo from when the internet first came out and photos would load slowly and you get this really weird pixelated image until it finally loaded. The fact that there are such major issues with the cards leaves me to just skip this set and i am in no way spending the money i did last year on this poorly executed product. Okay Positives, it is always fun opening packs (even if i didn't get anything i really like/want), i like most of the photography from the set (even though i have seen it on the base set, but it is way better on the chrome) and i like how i got the Roberts Blue and regular card along with the Werth regular and insert. But to get doubles of three base cards (Russo, Ka'aihue and Kanekoa) is horrible. I mean I only got 32 cards overall, so technically i got 29. Thanks topps :(

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My Little Rookie

In case you wondered why I have been away

WORLD, WELCOME

EMILY OK

I missed every second of the World Series, and was happy to do so. Life has gotten so AWESOMELY AMAZING thanks to this little girl. The entire series I was held up in the hospital, two day labor and the typical two day stay plus and extra day for some light therapy. But everything is good and she is a healthy growing little bundle of awesomeness. Now three weeks in and the misses and I are still sleep deprived but getting the hang of things. Heck I found time to make a blog post, a custom card and some cookies today. Even with the wifey still at less than a 100%. I am happy for the Giants for winning it all but I was definitely rooting for the Rangers after they crushed the Yankees which I did get to enjoy. The parentals living in the Big D brought a Rangers hat for me when they came and visited, to funny, since it will never be used. Well maybe when we move there (which is strongly be considered) ..... naaah, I think its safe to say that it will never be used. I have acquired a few things in the past weeks, that I will be sharing, when time allows. Nothing legendary but when has my collection hit that status :)

and to cover a long over due TWIC

I picked up this bad boy for .99 and 2.50 shipping making me very happy. Pretty much the same price as a pack of chrome from Target with tax. I am definitely drawn to the Xfractors and Blue parallels even though 2010 Xfractors are not as sharp as years previously. Thanks for reading and have a HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!!!