This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week is another blaster of 09 Topps Heritage High. Lots happening in the baseball world, not much happening in mine. On to the ripping:

Pack 1

Pujols and Cecil RC for the Updates
Borbon Chrome

Pack 2

Helton insert
tidbit from the back
Todd joins Jeter & Chipper as active players whose first 2000 hits
come with the same team

Pack 3

Fernando Martinez SP

Pack 4

Hill Chrome

Pack 5

Brett Anderson insert
in mock drafts he has a little buzz for a break out
Borbon Update - nice photo of his swing

Pack 6

Jason Bay SP - very sad he is no longer a Sox
Andruw Jones Refractor Chrome
Randy Johnson highlight 300th Win
i got the Heritage version last week

Pack 7

Bud Norris Chrome - anyone else have the Cosby Show
in their head when Rudi says Buuudd? or is it just me?

Pack 8

Hill SP

Another fun blaster and once again I got more chrome than SPs - which I am okay with, since I like the shiny. This was the last of my Xmas presents, hope you have enjoyed my budget breaks. Has always, thanks for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. Still stretching my way through Xmas presents to keep TWIC alive. This one was a blaster of 09 Topps Heritage High and it came with an extra pack so instead of the normal eight packs, I got nine. I feel lucky already and a little sorry if someone got shorted a pack in another blaster. Oh well, on to the ripping:

Pack1

Ray chrome :)

Pack 2

Street SP

Pack 3

Ichiro and Wolf Chrome

Pack 4

A McCutchen - the first I actually pulled - Me Happy :)
Blake Hawksworth Heritage and Topps Update in one pack
pretty neat
i wonder if anyone has gotten Beckham or McCutchen this way
if so - i'm super jealous

Pack 5

Coghlan SP
Ibanez great photo

Pack 6

Zimmerman Insert

Pack 7

Randy Johnson Insert

Pack 8

Trevor Black Chrome 35/60

Pack 9

Mazzaro Chrome

Well a very fun blaster from the start with the realization of an extra pack. Four Chrome and three SPs and two inserts made for a very enjoyable rip. Has always, thanks for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. I happen to get a 09 Heritage blaster for Christmas, yep a first series Heritage blaster. I am not sure where they found such a thing, but who am I to question, I want to rip.

Pack 1

Drew insert
a Miggy
Nyjer Morgan very curios from a fantasy angle
Will he repeat his numbers and stay healthy?

Pack 2

Lincecum Insert
Cardinal Coaches - SP

Pack 3

Lidge Chrome C18
cool card with Wright Arod - havent seen it before

Pack 4

David Wright - Will his power return?

Pack 5

CC - SP

Pack 6

Ichiro and Lester nice cards

Pack 7

Soto - SP
This is definitely the "they should be better pack"
Gordon, Francoeur, Young and Millege all super promising prospects

Pack 8

Reynolds what an incredible year
Both pitchers from the Giants - nice

3 SPs, two Inserts and a chrome. Nothing to exciting but I loved opeing a blaster not on shelves anymore. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week was is a tad late because I didn't get out of the house until late Sunday. So I didn't get to open it until late Sunday night. I went with another blaster of Heritage Hi from Target. Here is what I got:


Pack 1

the first card was dinged - which seemed to happen quite a bit

Pack 2

Tommy Hanson - cardboard back
Zavada fact from the back
Zavada did not allow an ER in his 1st 18 IP

Pack 3

an insert that makes no sense to me,
one hitter and one a pitcher,
one won the WS and one lost a WS
very odd to me

Pack 4

EVAN LONGORIA RELIC!!!!!!!
WOWee!! ZOWee!!!
Great Design and a relic of the main player i collect
Super Happy :)

Pack 5

Beckham another player I collect
Cahill Chrome
Future HOF John Smoltz
and a Reimold card (wish i still lived in Sarasota for the Orioles spring training)
Reimold help my fantasy teams
Sweet pack

Pack 6

a Ray
Rzepczynski a promising Blue Jay pitcher

Pack 7

Trevor Crowe Chrome
Cliff Lee in a Phillies Uni
Hampton a damaged card
Cecil another promising Blue Jay pitcher

Pack 8

David Hernandez Chrome
Qualls was the most damaged card

Not really sure what happened with the first card in five of the packs, the bottom right corner of each got snagged on something in production. I am really glad that no other cards got damaged.

The blaster was Awesomely Amazing and it was a blast to open. At first I was little sad that I wasn't pulling the chrome as easy as the last blaster but then in pack four when I got the relic and I immediately saw that it was Longoria, I was over the moon. To bad the wife just isn't as enthusiastic as I am about such things. But she does play along, as I kept informing her for the rest of the night, that I got a Longoria Relic and Beckham. Same thing happened when I started my chrome kick and got a Beckham and Hanson Auto. I love her, she lets me be silly and doesn't get annoyed with my excitement. I never expect autos or relic in blasters and to get one of a player I collect was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I did end up with three Chrome so that was a plus too.

Well this will be last blaster I will actually buy, until I gain employment again. What a great one to end with. I will try to think of things to post til than to keep the blog live and hopefully requests of baseball cards for Christmas from family will turn up and extend things into January. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.

This Week in Cardboarding

Welcome to This Week in Cardboarding. This week was late and probably not going to happen for a couple of reasons. The main reason I'll address in my closing and one reason was I was holding out for Heritage high, but all I found while out and about was a single pack of Heritage high, no blasters, just a lone pack, so I picked it up.

two rookies and an O dog chrome
not a bad single pack

Okay, so my plan for this blog was going to spend twenty a week and trade as much possible, but for the last month you may have noticed I didn't always spend twenty dollars. I always wanted this blog to be about baseball cards and didn't want to bring up other things. But there is no way around the subject anymore, I have lost my job. Things are going to get tight following the New Year. So I asked Santa and his helpers (family) for blasters and I hope to spread whatever I get as long as I can. Until I find a job, this blog will be stopping some time in the near future. I thank everyone for reading my little blog and really thank all my trading partners and the friends I have made over the last several months. Blogging has definitely been a great experience.

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Then I watched Julie and Julia on DVD with the wife last night, and got inspired to try to keep blogging until the end of the year. Its really only two more weeks, so I can definitely do it. I happen to be in a Target today and wouldn't you know they got blasters in of heritage high. Knowing I will get some Christmas money, I decided to take an advance out of future gifts and buy a blaster of heritage update. Here is what I got:

Pack 1

Sweet, a Tillman Rookie and its back is different

Pack 2

Zimmerman chrome - nice

Pack 3

another chrome rookie :)

Pack 4

Mazzaro rookie and a Ray - me like

Pack 5

Fowler insert

Pack 6

another chrome and three rookies (two Bsox :)

Pack 7

Banks, this is a guy I am definitely targeting in fantasy in 2010
Penny chrome refractor - :)

Pack 8

an insert and another Zimmerman

It was fun blaster and very nice to get four chrome (one refractor) in a single blaster. I definitely imagine I beat the odds with those. Thanks again for checking out This Week in Cardboarding.