My main collection, the cornerstone of it all for me are my Mets team sets. I collect Mets cards. There, now you know my dirty little secret.
Unfortunately, I'm only one of at least 7,000 Mets collectors within the blog scene, so competition can get tough. If I wanna get in on a group break, I need to get lucky and sign up minutes after the sign ups are posted. Sometimes I wish I collected Pirates cards. I would have the market cornered, a complete monopoly of the trading industry and there ain't shit that Standard Oil can say about it!!!
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So not too long ago, I jumped on board a break over at Cards from the Quarry. It was only $12 for 4 boxes, so I signed up and thought about my bank account later.
This was by far the best card of the break for me. 2004 Topps Chrome "Black" of Reyes. This is one thing I don't understand. Albert Pujols BREAKS HIS FUCKING ARM and is back in the lineup like what, 2...3 weeks later? Reyes feels "tightness" in his leg and is out until fuck knows when, most likely the season.
Another neat parallel from the Chrome box. I really can't recall anything special about Seo's time with the Mets. I could look it up, but the Google button is all the way over there...
Just a sampling of the 2 other boxes from the break. A 1998 Aurora and some 1996 Studio action. Quick question, why is John Franco not in the HOF?Another break I was able to get in on happen a little while ago. Thoughts and Sox came across a box of '87 O-Pee-Chee and was selling teams for $3 each.
"Fuck yeah!" I said to myself.
I only had one card from that set, so while I was expecting to finish off the team set a nice chunk would be very welcomed in my not so far off completion of '80s Mets sets. He broke the box, pack by pack, card by card. I waited...
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...a little more
BOOM!
Bobby O in the 7th pack! Bow chicka wow wow, MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!So I broke the ice in the 7th pack and 29 packs later I was left with a Bob Ojeda card. That's it. Nothing else. Just, a single... Bob... myspace....
Luckily for me, Adam also announced that he had a healthy stack of '87 Leaf to throw into everyone's pile as well.
This made the break for me. I had nothing from this set and with this addition, I'm now only 2 short of adding this to the completed section of the '80s binder.Thanks guys for the breaks! Hopefully I can sneak into some more in the future!
(...Joe)
As a Braves collector I feel your pain. I miss out on a lot of great group breaks on a regular basis. I was glad to see that hiflew's break was successful for you. That Reyes card is sharp. Too bad he wasn't out of the line up when the Mets and Braves played weeks ago. He killed the Braves all by himself!
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