Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Shoutouts #6

Shoutout to the ladies of Dinged Corners.  After getting the box to send your cards in, I’ve decided to make it beautiful.  I’m gonna draw a bunch of cool stuff on it.  Hope you approve.

Shoutout to the one and only Shane Diaz of Shoebox Legends.  The reason I haven’t sent your stuff yet is because… well, I’m broke at the moment.  I have about $5 to my name until tomorrow.  I’ll get it to you shortly though.

And sometime in April, I will get around to properly documenting the awesome lot of cards you sent.  I actually got some of them scanned!  w00t! 🙂

Shoutouts to Peter and Chris (but not Peter Criss, wokka wokka) of Dropped Third Strike and Nachos Grande, respectively.  With the maneuvering I did with Yankee Stadium Legacies, I can move the Reds up to 3rd in the Great Cardening of 2009.  I can’t guarantee anything close to an exact time when I’ll have them posted though.  As for the 8 or so remaining YSLs, they will be up with the rest of the Yankees as soon as I get them posted.

Finally, thanks to Marie from A Cardboard Problem for the linkage that popped normal daily viewer count of like 6-10 when I’m posting regularly, to over 60!  The least read sports card-centric blog going today humbly thanks you.

I recognize that annoyed look on Babe’s face.  At least I can say I give it as much as I get I guess.  Straws are being grasped at.  Anyway…

That’s all for now.  Back to Pokemon!  Seeyas.

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Yankees by Friday

It looks like I’m going to be able to trade some of my Phillies after all, so I’m shooting for having the Yankees up by Friday afternoon, at the latest.  I will be including the handful of Yankee Stadium Legacies that weren’t claimed by Marie in a behind the scenes trade.

Watch out for low flying Jeters when The Great Cardening of 2009 rolls on.

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Philadelphia Phillies Updates and Highlights

After breaking down and succumbing to my baseball card addiction Saturday night, I have a few more Phillies to add to the mix, though it seems there are no takers.  Are there even any Phillies fans out there in the blogoverse?

Chase Utley

2009 Topps Turkey Red Insert #TR14

Steve Carlton

1983 Topps Phillies Batting & Pitching Leaders w/ Bo Diaz #229

The rest…

1988 Topps Ron Roenicke #783

1989 Topps Juan Samuel mini thingamabooble #66- I forget the origins of these minis.

2003 Upper Deck First Pitch Randy Wolf #238

2007 Upper Deck Carlos Ruiz #868

2009 Topps Andrew Carpenter RC #12 and Ryan Madson #186

There ya go, and here’s what came before…

I’m having issues at the moment, so seeya when I sees ya.

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The Great Cardening of 2009 #1: Philadelphia Phillies

It’s time for the first team in The Great Cardening of 2009.  Can you feel the excitement?  The losingest team in professional sports history, but the defending World Series champions, the Philadelphia Phillies!!!!!

We’ll divide ’em up by superstars first.  So Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, and legends like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton will be in their own categories.  Then we’ll do hits and numbered cards.  Then inserts and finally base, by year on each I guess.  To make it easier to tell where one card ends and another begins, I’ll alternate between regular and italic as well.  Sound good?  We’ll see how it turns out. I’m pretty much doing this on the fly tonight since I forgot to set it up last night, so if you have any suggestions to improve things for later teams, please do leave a comment.

Onward!

Cole Hamels

2008 SP Authentic #49, 2007 Topps Chrome #28, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #136, 2008 Upper Deck Goudey #144(x2), 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum #73

Ryan Howard

2008 Allen & Ginter #300, 2005 Donruss Team Heroes #246, 2008 SP Authentic #39, 2007 Topps (NL MVP) #322, 2007 Topps Generation Now #GN32, #GN38, #GN46, 2006 Upper Deck (Team Checklist) #890, 2008 Upper Deck #604, 2009 Upper Deck #290, 2005 All-Star Classics (All-Star Futures) #74, 2007 Upper Deck Future Stars #71, 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum #72, Upper Deck X #76

Jimmy Rollins

2005 Bowman Heritage #144, 2007 Fleer #98, 2006 Sweet Spot #65, 2007 Topps Co-Signers #42, 2008 Upper Deck (Season Highlights) #392(x2), Upper Deck Heroes Black Parallel #134(x2), Upper Deck Goudey #141, 2007 Upper Deck Spectrum #84 (Front is noticeably scratched up), 2008 Upper Deck X #75, 2008 Upper Deck X Die-Cut Parallel #75, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X #X-JI, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X3 #X3-JR

Chase Utley

2008 SP Authentic #27, 2007 Topps #350, 2007 Topps Generation Now #GN68, 2008 Upper Deck First Edition StarQuest Common SQ-27, 2009 Upper Deck Superstar Scrapbooks #SS-3, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #135, 2008 Upper Deck Timeline #10, 2008 Upper Deck X Xponential X2 #X2-CU (miscut a little bit)

Legends

Steve Carlton

1985 Topps #360, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes #139 and #183 (w/ Johan Santana)

Mike Schmidt

2002 Donruss Donruss ’83 insert #6 of 20, 1986 Topps Major League Leaders #55, 1989 Topps #100

Hits/#’ed

2005 Topps Updates & Highlights #UH287 Kelvin Pichardo First Year Gold Parallel #’ed 1706/2005

2006 Upper Deck Special F/X #414 Ryan Franklin Green Parallel #’ed 40/99 & #743 Green Parallel #’ed 77/99, #745 Sal Fasano Green Parallel #’ed 80/99

Inserts/Parallels

2008 SP Authentic Brad Harman Rookie Exclusives #RE-BH

2007 Topps Chrome Zack Segovia Refractor #323

2006 Upper Deck Special F/X Tom Gordon Blue Parallel #746

I’ve read the blues had a print run of only 25 and I did get the same number of them as red parallels that are #’ed /50 (2 of each) in the box I bought last year while getting way more of the higher numbered greens and purples.  I don’t know for sure though.  Not that it matters much, just thought it was worth mentioning.

Base

1983 Topps Greg Krukow #331, Ozzie Virgil #383, Ivan DeJesus #587

1986 Topps Major League Leaders Juan Samuel #54

1989 Donruss Chris James #312, 1989 Topps Keith Miller #268, Bruce Ruffin #518

1992 Confex The Baseball Enquirer (pretty sure it’s Lenny Dykstra) #37

1993 Leaf Milt Thompson #417

1996 Donruss Darren Daulton #395, 1996 Score Lenny Dykstra #67(x3)

2003 Flair (Woooooooooooo!!!!!) Bobby Abreu #49, 2003 Topps Opening Day Brett Myers #22, Mike Lieberthal #107, 2003 Upper Deck First Pitch Mike Lieberthal #236

2005 Topps Updates & Highlights Greg Golson (Prospect) #UH100

2006 Topps Opening Day Aaron Rowand #24(x2), 2006 Topps Updates & Highlights Scott Mathieson (RC) #UH139, 2006 Topps ’52 Scott Mathieson (RC) #179

2007 Bowman Zack Segovia (RC) #BDP16, 2007 Bowman Chrome Derek Griffith (1st Year) #BC34, 2007 Topps Pat Burrell #441, 2007 Topps Zack Segovia (RC) #323, 2007 Upper Deck Goudey Redback Aaron Rowand #3

2008 Allen & Ginter Pat Burrell #286, 2008 Bowman Chrome Chance Chapman (1st Year) #BCP21, Brad Harman (1st Year) #BCP99, 2008 Topps JD Durbin #18, 2008 Upper Deck Kyle Lohse #193, Brad Lidge #608, Brett Myers #609, Geoff Jenkins #612(x2), Tom Gordon #613, 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes Pat Burrell #137(x3), 2008 Upper Deck Goudey Shane Victorino #143

2009 Upper Deck Brett Myers #297(x2)

And we are done!  Hit me up in the comments section if you want some Phillies.

Once the Phils are whittled down by half or more, the Yankee Stadium Legacy cards will be up for the taking, followed by a very ridiculous number of Yankees themselves.

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Progress?

I spent all afternoon yesterday sorting out baseball cards.  All baseball cards have been separated from other sports.   The Phillies, Yankees, Yankee Stadium Legacies, Cardinals, Dodgers, and White Sox are all officially sorted out.  The Brewers just need to all be put into a single stack.

As well, the outstanding Red Sox have been sorted out and ready to be put into the cases I send my trades in.  The O-Pee-Chee hockey cards haven’t been dealt with yet.  I’ll let you know when they are sent, Shane.

I shuffled the 80 or so cards for Dinged Corners already encased out of their cases.  Since I am sending over 200, the tiny cases that hold only 20 cards max are not going to work.  Therefore, over the weekend I am going to pick up closest thing to an appropriate sized box the “card shop” nearby has, and send it in that.  I really hope it proves safe to send them in.  Apologies in advance for the ridiculous amount of tape that will be completely engulfing the box.

I guess that is all there is to report.  Looks like we’re on schedule for a Sunday or Monday start to The Great Cardening of 2009.  I will let those who I know collect specific teams know when their team is up via their comment section, since I think only about 2.5 people actually pay enough attention to  my blog to know what’s going on.

Now I need to go get my head right.  If you’ll excuse me… *bows*

Going, Going, Gone…

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Shoutouts #5

Let’s get right to it, shall we?

Shoutout to the ladies of Dinged Corners.  I officially can’t find the bubble mailer with your address on it.  If you’d be so kind to email it to me, I’ll have your ridiculously huge lot of cards on their way by this time next week, if not sooner.

Shoutout to Bailey of The Nennth Inning.  The cards you sent arrived safely a day or two ago.  A Sweet Spot Josh Beckett jersey, a Ryne Sandberg Masterpieces SP and a Bowman Chrome Carlos Zambrano X-Fractor, correct?  Thanks much, btw.  I’m very pleased on multiple levels.

Cheese and Beer, the Prince Fielder and Corey Hart are all yours.

Shoutout to who it may concern.  The defending champion Philadelphia Phillies will be up first in the The Great Cardening of 2009.  Look for that this weekend probably.

And when that one is completed, we’ll go on to the hated minorly annoying division rival Milwaukee Brewers.  I actually do find them fairly enjoyable to watch, but I have no need for my damaged Prince Fielder jersey or any other Brewers cards any longer.

My Yankee Stadium Legacy cards will be up third, and the regular Yankees demanded to bat cleanup in a fit of roid rage.

Ooh, topical.

Also to who it may concern, my official Want List is up.  Hopefully this will help in the great Cardening.

Is that it?… I think it is.  No more shoutouts today.  Sorry. :/

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Allen & Ginter, We got BOTH of ‘Em!

I picked up my blaster of A&G last night, and… I think I picked the right one.  Let’s see if you agree.

Pack 1

61 Adam Dunn

18 James Loney

271 Paul Lo Duca

254 Hunter Pence

131 Todd Helton Mini

Crack teh Code Promo

106 Brian Schneider

Pack 2

192 Yunel Escobar

196 Edgar Renteria

112 Akinori Iwamura

336 Allen Fisher SP- Arm wrestling champion.

WL16 Konstandinos Karamanlis. Greece The World Leaders- Prime Minister is his official title.

AGR-TPH Travis Hafner JERSEY- w00t!  Finally got a hit of a guy who I can say is difinitevely NOT the worst player in the pack. *dances awkwardly and moral victoriously*

Checklist Three of Four

167 Marie Curie

Pack 3

266 Matt Kemp

53 Chien-Ming Wang

WGV16 The Battle of Thermopylae The World’s Greatest Victories- Speaking of moral victories, I think it’s fair to say this battle was one.  They held out long enough for the forces back home to be prepared and ultimately win the war, but they all ended up getting killed.  Moral victory, no?

234 Jared Weaver Mini

166 Bram Stoker

42 Luke Scott

Pack 4

46 Chris Young (Padres)- Team Denotation will become important later…

74 Khalil Greene

5 CC Sabathia

335 Phil Hughes SP

120 Derek Jeter Mini

US39 Paul Konerko (Rhode Island) The United States of America

223 Nyjer Morgan Pirates RC

Pack 5

155 Troy Tulowitzki

90 Jose Reyes

126 Chris Young (Diamondbacks)- Wait for it… WAIT FOR IT… keep waiting… there it is… yes…

46 Chris Young (Padres) Mini- WHAMMY~!!!!!!!!!!! Back-to-back different people with the same names!!

72 Clayton Kershaw Dodgers RC

154 Jesse Carlson Blue Jays RC

Nice to get two rookies I have yet to pull from A&G or elswhere.  I am so sick of Ian Kennedy and Max Scherzer.

Pack 6

222 Jeremy Bonderman

47 Chad Billingsley

195 Russell Martin

343 Bengie Molina SP

9 Ian Kinsler Bazooka Back Mini

US18 Jonathan Papelbon (Louisiana) The United States of America- It might already be too late to stick this in with all the other cards I’m sending to Shane.

Checklist Four of Four

273 Jay Bruce Reds RC

Pack 7

101 Adrian Beltre

241 Ryan Garko

36 Michael Young

54 Takashi Saito Mini

Crack teh Code Promo

217 Friedrich Nietzsche

286 Pat Burrell

Pack 8

164 Jorge Posada

225 Roy Oswalt

111 Dan Uggla

305 Randy Johnson SP

177 Evan Longoria Mini Rays RC

US19 Tim Stauffer (Maine) The United States of America

252 Callix Crabbe Padres RC

I think I did pretty well for myself with this one.  A not guaranteed jersey, a couple of nice inserts, good rookies and a couple of nice minis.  Can’t ask for any better than that from a blaster.

Hit me up in the comments section if you see something you like.

Until our next…