"Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated."
Author Unknown
TTM Success - Rod Henderson
21 hours ago
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Super Sick Mojo Ebay 1/1!!!!
Not gonna lie, when I bought this lot of Piazza cards off ebay, that's what I was looking for. I don't know why, but for some weird ass reason I had that feeling... ya know?
I'll get right to it, I found none of that. What I found was sooooo much betterer. Out of the 80 card lot I found your typical assortment of commons including my 1,000th copy of a '93 Donruss Piazza (I swear someone's gonna get a hell of a bipping one day) and the inserts were nothing all that rare or even uncommon. They were, however, some of the most fun cards I've received in awhile...
First up a "Tri-Fold" card from 2003 Topps T-205. I never opened a box of this stuff, so I had no idea about these cards. Turns out they're one per pack... sign me up! Obviously, you can see how awesome the pictures and layout are on this and the back has a write up about the play pictured in B&W. Super cool and oh, fuck Jimmy Rollins. It... it needed to be said.
Next up is the '95 offering from Studio. I've seen these cards mentioned on a few blogs before, but this is my first in hand experience. The cards are molded after credit cards, right down to the plastic it's made from to the raised lettering and the little black strip on the back that doesn't work when you swipe it take it from me the people at the store won't find it nearly as funny as you thought that maybe they would.
The next run of cards are all from '94 Fun Pack. Another set I knew (know) nothing about other then it's made by Upper Deck and it's packed full of awesomeness. As any Piazza collector can tell you, there are millions of '94 cards pairing Piazza with Tim Salmon and this one is no exception. Just like the T-205 card, it folds out, but remember... this was made by Upper Deck which can only mean one thing...
HOLOGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Nother foldout
And finally, this little number. Seems normal enough. The blacked out background is kindda weird but OH WAIT!!!
It's heat activated ink that and there's a cartoon dude sliding into home!!!
No autos, no jersey bits, no super short prints or 1:400 pulls (although I did score one on ebay that should be coming soon!!!) just some good clean mid '90s fun when the half-life of all the cocaine leftover in everyone's system from the '80s kicked in and resulted in some wacky cardboard goodness.
Love it.
(...Joe)
I'll get right to it, I found none of that. What I found was sooooo much betterer. Out of the 80 card lot I found your typical assortment of commons including my 1,000th copy of a '93 Donruss Piazza (I swear someone's gonna get a hell of a bipping one day) and the inserts were nothing all that rare or even uncommon. They were, however, some of the most fun cards I've received in awhile...
First up a "Tri-Fold" card from 2003 Topps T-205. I never opened a box of this stuff, so I had no idea about these cards. Turns out they're one per pack... sign me up! Obviously, you can see how awesome the pictures and layout are on this and the back has a write up about the play pictured in B&W. Super cool and oh, fuck Jimmy Rollins. It... it needed to be said.
Next up is the '95 offering from Studio. I've seen these cards mentioned on a few blogs before, but this is my first in hand experience. The cards are molded after credit cards, right down to the plastic it's made from to the raised lettering and the little black strip on the back that doesn't work when you swipe it take it from me the people at the store won't find it nearly as funny as you thought that maybe they would.
The next run of cards are all from '94 Fun Pack. Another set I knew (know) nothing about other then it's made by Upper Deck and it's packed full of awesomeness. As any Piazza collector can tell you, there are millions of '94 cards pairing Piazza with Tim Salmon and this one is no exception. Just like the T-205 card, it folds out, but remember... this was made by Upper Deck which can only mean one thing...
HOLOGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Nother foldout
And finally, this little number. Seems normal enough. The blacked out background is kindda weird but OH WAIT!!!
It's heat activated ink that and there's a cartoon dude sliding into home!!!
No autos, no jersey bits, no super short prints or 1:400 pulls (although I did score one on ebay that should be coming soon!!!) just some good clean mid '90s fun when the half-life of all the cocaine leftover in everyone's system from the '80s kicked in and resulted in some wacky cardboard goodness.
Love it.
(...Joe)
Friday, February 18, 2011
My Lowest #'d Piazza
For quite some time, my lowest serial numbered Piazza card was a Donruss Champions "Impressions" #/50.
Impressive? No. Not at all.
Don't get me wrong, I really like that card as I'm a fan of artificial scarcity but just about everyone in the blog scene here has me beat with their fancy 1/1s and printing plates and... and stuff.
Well this card smashes the numbering of the previous CHAMPIONS
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
2004 Leaf Certified Materials "Fabric of the Game" #/31
Bested by 19 copies! That's right, numbered to 31. Take that all you fancy 1/1s... yeah, that's right. Anyways, it's a great looking card, albeit he's in a Marlins jersey. That will never look right. It's a real slick glossy card so it feels kindda strange to hold, I've always liked the feel of matted type cards better but hey, what can ya do?
Thanks again to Mike for the trade as he sent me other great cards as well and this was long overdue. I should be getting a bunch of Piazzas of the bay soon so I'll post up on anything fun and interesting!
(...Joe)
Impressive? No. Not at all.
Don't get me wrong, I really like that card as I'm a fan of artificial scarcity but just about everyone in the blog scene here has me beat with their fancy 1/1s and printing plates and... and stuff.
Well this card smashes the numbering of the previous CHAMPIONS
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
2004 Leaf Certified Materials "Fabric of the Game" #/31
Bested by 19 copies! That's right, numbered to 31. Take that all you fancy 1/1s... yeah, that's right. Anyways, it's a great looking card, albeit he's in a Marlins jersey. That will never look right. It's a real slick glossy card so it feels kindda strange to hold, I've always liked the feel of matted type cards better but hey, what can ya do?
Thanks again to Mike for the trade as he sent me other great cards as well and this was long overdue. I should be getting a bunch of Piazzas of the bay soon so I'll post up on anything fun and interesting!
(...Joe)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Does Anyone Know...
...when that new Topps Giveaway thingy is supposed to start? The site just says "Coming soon!" and Google has failed me.
(...Joe)
(...Joe)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
2011 Topps Trade Bait!
Let me start off real quick by saying that I forgot how awesome Oragel is.
Anyways, I did it. I caved and bought a hobby box of '11 Topps. I'm not collecting anything from the set, except for anything Mets related of course, so everything I got from this box is up for trade! I'll list it all out below and whatever you want, just claim in a comment!
Before I list everything, just a few musings. I'm not gonna say "I like this or that" or talk about design because we've all heard and seen it already. I just wanted to show off my one hit from the box...
WAHOOOOOO!!!!
It never gets old pulling a card of your favorite player!
And one last thing. Whoever came up with/gave the green light on the "History of Topps" set is probably the same guy who goes home, turns all the lights off, lights a few candles and jacks off in front of the mirror. Why do we need this set? I can in all good faith compare this to a drug dealer handing out pamphlets to all of his "clientele" highlighting milestone moments in their life and how they became what they are today. It's a buzzkill Topps and it robs us of crack!
...cards, I mean. It robs us of, umm... cards and... stuff.
So yeah, comment or email to lay claim to whatever you want!
60 Years of Topps:
#3 Monte Irvin
#8 Roger Maris
#10 Juan Marichal
#15 Al Kaline
#26 Bruce Sutter
#29 Paul Molitor
#34 Steve Garvey
#42 Jim Edmonds
#53 Mark Teixeira
"Original Backs":
Duke Snider
Justin Verlander
Diamond Duos:
#DD-HJ Rickey Henderson/Desmond Jennings
Topps 60:
#7 Mickey Mantle
#16 Carl Crawford
#24 Josh Johnson
#45 Hanley Ramirez
Gold:
#142 Johnny Cueto
#179 Armando Galarraga
#262 Alex Gordon
Toppstown:
#5 Roy Halladay
#6 Vernon Wells
#11 Chris Young
#13 Chase Utley
#16 Nick Markakis
#17 Aroldis Chapman
#19 Andrew McCutchen
#21 Starlin Castro
#23 Evan Longoria
#24 Josh Johnson
#25 Ryan Howard
#27 Andre Either
#28 David Ortiz
#29 Carlos Gonzalez
#30 Ryan Braun
#32 Mike Stanton
#33 Victor Martinez
#35 David Price
#36 Robinson Cano
#37 Billy Butler
#38 Justin Verlander
#39 Adrian Gonzalez
#42 Kevin Youkilis
#44 Ubaldo Jimenez
#45 Hanley Ramirez
#46 Joey Votto
#47 Dustin Perdroia
#48 Troy Tulowitzki
#49 CC Sabathia
#50 Albert Pujols
For sanity's sake, I'm only going to list the card number. If your looking for a team, just let me know and I'll pull everything I got from your team!
Base:
#2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38,39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 73, 74,75, 79, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 111, 112,115, 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 146 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 161, 165, 166, 167, 171, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 197, 199, 201, 202 204, 205, 206, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225 226, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 238, 239, 241, 244, 245, 246, 247 248, 250, 251, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 283, 284, 286, 289, 291, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301 302, 303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 312, 313, 314, 315, 321, 322, 323, 325, 326, 329, 330
(...Joe)
Anyways, I did it. I caved and bought a hobby box of '11 Topps. I'm not collecting anything from the set, except for anything Mets related of course, so everything I got from this box is up for trade! I'll list it all out below and whatever you want, just claim in a comment!
Before I list everything, just a few musings. I'm not gonna say "I like this or that" or talk about design because we've all heard and seen it already. I just wanted to show off my one hit from the box...
WAHOOOOOO!!!!
It never gets old pulling a card of your favorite player!
And one last thing. Whoever came up with/gave the green light on the "History of Topps" set is probably the same guy who goes home, turns all the lights off, lights a few candles and jacks off in front of the mirror. Why do we need this set? I can in all good faith compare this to a drug dealer handing out pamphlets to all of his "clientele" highlighting milestone moments in their life and how they became what they are today. It's a buzzkill Topps and it robs us of crack!
...cards, I mean. It robs us of, umm... cards and... stuff.
So yeah, comment or email to lay claim to whatever you want!
60 Years of Topps:
#3 Monte Irvin
#8 Roger Maris
#10 Juan Marichal
#15 Al Kaline
#26 Bruce Sutter
#29 Paul Molitor
#34 Steve Garvey
#42 Jim Edmonds
#53 Mark Teixeira
"Original Backs":
Duke Snider
Justin Verlander
Diamond Duos:
#DD-HJ Rickey Henderson/Desmond Jennings
Topps 60:
#7 Mickey Mantle
#16 Carl Crawford
#24 Josh Johnson
#45 Hanley Ramirez
Gold:
#142 Johnny Cueto
#179 Armando Galarraga
#262 Alex Gordon
Toppstown:
#5 Roy Halladay
#6 Vernon Wells
#11 Chris Young
#13 Chase Utley
#16 Nick Markakis
#17 Aroldis Chapman
#19 Andrew McCutchen
#21 Starlin Castro
#23 Evan Longoria
#24 Josh Johnson
#25 Ryan Howard
#27 Andre Either
#28 David Ortiz
#29 Carlos Gonzalez
#30 Ryan Braun
#32 Mike Stanton
#33 Victor Martinez
#35 David Price
#36 Robinson Cano
#37 Billy Butler
#38 Justin Verlander
#39 Adrian Gonzalez
#42 Kevin Youkilis
#44 Ubaldo Jimenez
#45 Hanley Ramirez
#46 Joey Votto
#47 Dustin Perdroia
#48 Troy Tulowitzki
#49 CC Sabathia
#50 Albert Pujols
For sanity's sake, I'm only going to list the card number. If your looking for a team, just let me know and I'll pull everything I got from your team!
Base:
#2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38,39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 73, 74,75, 79, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 111, 112,115, 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 146 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 161, 165, 166, 167, 171, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 197, 199, 201, 202 204, 205, 206, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225 226, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 238, 239, 241, 244, 245, 246, 247 248, 250, 251, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 283, 284, 286, 289, 291, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301 302, 303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 312, 313, 314, 315, 321, 322, 323, 325, 326, 329, 330
(...Joe)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding
These past couple of weeks have SUUUUUUUUUCKED for me but I think I'm through that hazy feeling for the most part.
Obviously, posting has come to an all but screeching halt here and I even thought about going on the dreaded "H" word, but that didn't feel right and the whole "waiting around doing absolutely nothing with my dick in my hand" thing is part of the whole problem.
Unexpected financial bullshit has cut off just about any extra spending, but depending on the back end of this week I may get a hobby box of 2011 Topps.
I've begun working on really doing what it takes to get my business going as I prepare for the spring when I'm excepting it to really pick up (it's almost puppy season!!!!).
It may take a little longer for me go get back on track here, but soon enough I should be back posting, showing off my collection and buying new stuff to trade.
I'm excited are you excited becuz I'm excited!
(...Joe)
Obviously, posting has come to an all but screeching halt here and I even thought about going on the dreaded "H" word, but that didn't feel right and the whole "waiting around doing absolutely nothing with my dick in my hand" thing is part of the whole problem.
Unexpected financial bullshit has cut off just about any extra spending, but depending on the back end of this week I may get a hobby box of 2011 Topps.
I've begun working on really doing what it takes to get my business going as I prepare for the spring when I'm excepting it to really pick up (it's almost puppy season!!!!).
It may take a little longer for me go get back on track here, but soon enough I should be back posting, showing off my collection and buying new stuff to trade.
I'm excited are you excited becuz I'm excited!
(...Joe)
Friday, February 4, 2011
Philisophical Fridays
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."
Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
!!!
So, my head is still a fucking mess right now but this made me feel just a little bit better...
(...Joe)
If he does make it to the Hall, whether in 2013 or afterward, he would likely go in with a Mets cap on his plaque.
"I always try to celebrate my Dodgers heritage, but I just feel like the main bulk of my work was in New York," he said. "The shock of the trade and the expectations, going to the World Series and the compelling drama I went through on the Mets. I remember it most."
(...Joe)
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