3 More 1964 Topps Coins

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Me: If you were an ice cream cone, I'd eat you real fast so I got brain freeze. Cuz I'd want losing you to fucking hurt like hell

So you may be wondering why I haven't posted in a week.

Wait, what's that? You didn't even notice? I haven't said a word in 7 seven days and you didn't miss me one bit? Well then fine. I'm not telling you where I've been. All I'm telling you is that it involves a midget, a donkey and a water cooler. Yeah. Now YOU feel left out. Too bad.

Last month I went nuts and came 20 coins closer to finishing off the set. I managed to knock off some of the big pieces I still needed, including these two which I'm sure will make Night Owl mad...
A little bit of Sandy Koufax action
And some Don Drysdale for good measure.

Both these coins are in incredible condition! I would say about EXMT-NRMT and the fact that I got them for what I did is a feat in itself. The Koufax for $10 and the Drysdale for $7. The great price on Donnie was attributed to the fact that the seller had a shitty picture, so I'm sure that kept some bidders at bay. The Koufax, however, I have no idea why that didn't attract more people. It was all there in the title description, the picture was fine and the seller had perfect feedback AND free shipping!!! Lucky day I guess.

Last for today, we have one that I did have to settle on. One prerequisite I had going into my shopping spree is that I wanted coins in fairly good condition. They didn't have to be mint, but I didn't want any fillers. For this next one though, I settled but I don't think I'll be able to do much better anyways...
2nd year Pete Rose! This has been a tough coin to even find on ebay for me, let alone one at a decent price. The paint on the edges is not good, but for $13 I went for it. I only have a few more big names to finish off and then I'm down to picking off the commons little by little. I still have a ways to go, but it's all beginning to come to together.

Anti-climactic ending

(...Joe)

It Ain't Easy Bein' a Pimp

Ya'll wanna group break?

that's right, I live in New York and I just said "ya'll". fuck off.

Over at Community Gum, there's an 11 box break of Topps randomness.

Mets are taken, my bad.

I'm hoping half these cards are all Piazzas. That'd be sweeeeeeeetttt.

Why are you still on my page? go Go GO!!!!

(...Joe)

World Series Drinking Game

The World Series is only a day away! Which can only mean one thing, it's time for a drinking game!!! The rules are simple, anytime one of the occurrences listed below happens, take a drink.

Rather than go a more traditional route of "Anytime a run scores, drink" I decided to play off the predictability of the FOX announcers. So grab some beers and a couple good friends, 'cuz we're gonna be getting slutty drunk!

Take a drink:
Anytime Tim McCarver mentions Joe Buck's father, John Buck
Anytime Tim McCarver mentions Steve Carlton
Anytime Tim McCarver laughs at his own joke
Anytime Joe Bucks announces the score incorrectly
Anytime Joe Buck mentions Matt Holliday's hand injury
Anytime you see Ken Rosenthal's bow tie
Anytime Ken Rosenthal mentions a celebrity
Anytime Albert Pujols's impending free agency is mentioned
Anytime Josh Hamilton's comeback story is mentioned
Anytime the Yankees are mentioned
Anytime the Phillies are mentioned
Anytime Tony LaRussa is shown
Anytime Ron Wasington is shown

And for bonus points:
Anytime Core Contrarian publishes a "They Just Said" post about the game

Feel free to add your own!

(...Joe)

2009 A Piece of History Trade Bait

As advertised, here is what I have for trade from my box!

spoiler alert: brewers fans might just wanna scroll to the bottom

First let me do some pimping for My Cardboard Mistress, since his ripping spree of these boxes got me wanting some of my own. While I didn't blow his breaks out of the water, I definitely did very well for myself. Onwards!!!

Each box has 16 packs and 7 cards per pack and I picked my box up for $50 at my LCS. The thing that impressed me the most overall, is that I didn't get any doubles out of my box. This year it seems common to be pulling doubles out of the same pack, let alone a box. Anyways, the good stuff...

What I'm keeping:

These are what the base card look like, in case anyone didn't know. If anyone needs any to finish off their set or just want a certain team, let me know. It's alllll for trade.

These are the "Historical Moments" subset and they actually didn't piss me off as much as I thought pulling them from the packs. Most deal with wars and signings of treaties and whatnot but my favorites are the astronomy based ones! I've been toying with this idea for a little bit now, but I'm gonna make it official. I am starting a theme collection of cards that depict anything to do with Astronomy! There's not alot, but I know they're out there.

Everything from here on out is for trade...
Base Parallels:

Zack Greinke "Blue" #/299 (Royals)
Carlos Lee "Blue" #/299 (Astros)


Cut from the Same Cloth:

Manny Ramirez/Matt Holliday "Green" #/149 (Dodgers/Athletics)
*pending* Justin Morneau/Adrian Gonzalez #/999 (Twins/Padres) *pending*

B.J. Upton/Justin Upton #/999 (Rays/Diamondbacks)

Timeless Moments:
Mark Buehrle #/999 (White Sox)

Box Score Memories:

Nick Markakis "Gray?" #/149 (Orioles)
Melvin Mora "Gray?" #/149 (Orioles)
Chipper Jones #/999 (Braves)

Stadium Scenes:

TRADED Chris Carpenter "Blue" #/25 (Cardinals) TRADED

TRADED Tim Lincecum "Green?" #/99 (Giants) TRADED
Rickie Weeks #/999

Relics/Autos:
Ben Stiller "A Piece of Hollywood" (Along Came Polly) costume

Scott Kazmir "Timeless Moments" jersey (Rays)

TRADED Ryan Braun "Box Score Memories" #/25 jersey/auto!!!! (Brewers) TRADED

That Braun came in the last pack of the box! I did get shorted a Relic (gee, wonder who's mutant boxes that fell into?) but between the Braun, Carpenter and Lincecum can I really complain?

Nope.

I'm looking for the typical stuff: Mets, Piazzas and Wrights. For those who have traded with me before, you know I'm pretty easy to strike a deal with, but be forewarned, I'll be holding a little higher ransom for the Braun and Carpenter. I obviously would prefer to trade, but if someone realllllyyyy wants the Braun but doesn't have the card goods to exchange, I would consider selling it.

Offer away!

(...Joe)

Some New Trade Bait Coming Soon!

I've had this itch for some time now.
The burning sensation was too much.
"I really need to bust some wax" I th0ught to myself.
But first, it's on to the doctor's office to get this checked out.
I'm starting to chafe pretty hardcore here...

I picked up a blogger inspired box of 2009 A Piece of History. And wow, am I glad I did. I have a ton of base if anyone needs, a bunch of parallels, some relics and a couple cards that I like to file under the "Serious Trade Bait" classification. Mmmm, can't wait. Should find some time in the next couple days to get them posted.

(...Joe)

Sweet New Patch Card

"At least he's lighter without his head"

I'll leave that one open for interpretation.

The other week, I was rummaging around on ebay (as I'm known to do) just looking at whatever cards came out of the search result "Mets". I wasn't planing on buying anything (of course) but I did (of course) and the result is a sweet sweet new patch card...
There are so many fun things about this card.
First, I picked it up for under $6 shipped. Somehow I managed to be the only bidder.
Second, it's a Mets card.
Third, it's a 3 color patch that I'm guessing is either from the name plate or a number.
Fourth, it's numbered to 25!
Fifth! The subject of the card is about how a single player decimated an entire Yankee team.

I've been real interested in picking up some boxes of this stuff. Especially after watching some of My Cardboard Mistress's breaks, I think I'm gonna bust a couple of these soon.

(...Joe)

Tradewinds

Text of the day:

Me- This text is brought to you by that awkward moment when you realize that not only does she have a penis, but it's actually bigger than yours.
Tom- omg joe.... no way. Did you at least get a picture of it?

I swear, I hate my friends...

So, back to "reality". I've picked up some sweeeeet new cards recently, from both ebay and trades. I was gonna show off some new '64 Coins, but I guess I never took the pictures I thought I did, so I'll just do a couple trades first before I forget.

First up we'll showcase Play at the Plate's stuff since that ALDS collision is still fresh in everyone's mind. Not sure if Brian and The Collective Troll had another bet this year or not, but if they did then C.T. needs to stop placing those bets. Dude, if you wanna bet on baseball and win, bet against the Mets. I do it every year and sure I hate myself a little more with each passing breath, but self-esteem doesn't buy a swimming pool of gummi bears. A Wisconsin bank roll does.

Anyways, baseball cards. Here they are
Shiny makes me happy :^)

Nextly is a first time trade between Angels in Order and I. I know I wasn't his first trade and won't be his last, but I hope he remembers the trade we had. I just wish to trade with him again. Just one more trade. that's all i ask
First we have a smattering of 2003 MLB Showdowns. Only need a couple more to round out the team set now.

This is the gem of the trade for me. The only modern set I'm currently working on, 2007 Turkey Red and this is one of the SPs I still needed. With this I'm down to 14 left and then I'm done with set collecting! Well, modern at least. I still have the '64 Coins and I have some other vintage insert sets I want to do as well. The only reason why I haven't given up and taken the Turkey Red set apart yet is because I have way to much time and money into it. And at this point, it's just gotten personal.
Nothing like junk wax that you still need. Two former Top 10 Most Wanted cards with the Myers completing the '87 Leaf team set and the Cone bringing me to within one for the '88 Donruss set. I'm about halfway finished with the decade of the '80s so every maybe I'll get a want list together to help finish it off.

Thanks again for the trades guys!


(...Joe)

1972 Team Set Done!!!

This post is brought to you by that awkward moment when you realize the cute girl with the pretty smile that's been flirting with you, is actually a Yankees fan.

Finally. I FINALLY picked up the last card to finish off the '72 Mets team set. All I needed was a Tim Foli In Action, high number of course but whatever, I was prepared to pay the extra $2 it takes to reel those in.

Tim Foli, who gives a shit about Tim Foli cards, right?

Biggest pain in my ass I've encountered in cardboard in a long time.

For a little while, I wasn't finding any on the bay and beginning to doubt it's existence. Then, when they did start showing up, they were all graded and/or BINs for some ridiculous ransom.

But I stayed strong and finally nabbed the fucker for about $6 shipped. Maybe I still over payed by a buck or two but it was time to finish this off and it was better than the next cheapest option of over $15.

Anyways, here's the completer card which leaves me with only '70, '71 and '76 left to finish off the decade!

(...Joe)

Two Packs 'O Chrome

Good news, I'm finally done with the antibiotics the doctor gave me and I almost have full use of my hand!

Gooder news, I didn't get rabies, which means you get to continue reading whatever mindless shit I publish here!!!

OMG ok, so Timmy started dating Becky. She is such a slut. I heard she can fit like, three guys in her mouth at once. And did you see her shoes yesterday? Gross. She's so pretty.

Ahhh, to be a teenage girl again...

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So these were the first two cards from pack #1. Helton seems to be taking over as the player I always pull from packs now that Griffey's retired. Just in case there are any Griffey collectors reading, if you ever see me doing a group break of boxes from his playing days, I would suggest picking up his team. I always pull Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Not complaining though, I mean, it's not like I get a Phillie in every pack...
fuck my life
I've decided that of all the uses for chrome, its best application is on baseball cards.
Grill of your car? Eh.
Grill o yo mouf? Not so much.
Kitchen faucet? A close second.

Onwards to pack #2!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so stoked.
Oh good, another Phillie. Which reminds me, let's check to see what's going on with the game. Oh good, the Phillies are winning. Yay. It must be my birthday.
All right, all right. Some David Price Refractor action going on right here. I have next to no Rays cards, so this was actually nice to pull. Gotta beef up them trade bait reserves!
WAHOOOOOOOO!!!! A Met! This marks my first '11 Chrome base Met so far. I've had pretty good luck knocking off this years team sets relatively quickly, so hopefully I can do the same with this set as well.

Everyone except Davis is for trade, so let me know if your fancy has been tickled!

(...Joe)