I picked up another ’08 Goudey blaster from K-Mart. Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment. At least if I’m gonna get a craptacular blaster, it’s half off right? I’m starting to think I’m the only person who’s actually buying them, because the amount of blasters collecting dust never seems to get smaller. I had my mom choose it since my luck has been so unflinchingly horrendous with blasters in general. She didn’t do much better, but it wasn’t horrible overall.
I got a black & white Derek Jeter for the unclaimed stack of Jeters waiting to be traded and couple more Red Sox to throw into my trade with Shoebox Legends. And I got a Rod Carew and a Griffey for myself. The real winner from this blaster though is whoever wants to trade for some Cardinals legends. I got Stan Musial, Ozzie Smith Sports Royalty (the very last card in the last pack I believe), and Lou Brock.
This wasn’t all I got though. I also went to Target and got an ’09 Upper Deck Series 1 blaster. And it was good. I had my mom choose that one too. She did better on it. Cards of note include 20th Anniversary Retrospective cards of Michael Jordan and Margaret Thatcher, O-Pee-Chees of Randy Johnson and John Smoltz, a Black Ultra Rare Chipper Jones Starquest, a Gold Rare Griffey StarQuest (which I am keeping), and an uncommon A-Rod (no commons in this one *le gasp*), and a spiffy looking team USA card. The guaranteed jersey was even good for once. I got Josh Hamilton. Sure kicks the stuffins out of the Zack Duke jersey from the ’08 Series 2 blaster I got a few days ago at any rate. Does anyone out there in blogland want it? Or (almost) anything else from these blasters for that matter? I’m only keeping the Cubs and Griffey, and the White Sox I already have a destination in mind for, but everything else is up for grabs.
I wanted to mention something about how these Upper Deck Cards look before I go. To my eye the design is absolutely outstanding (special commendation for the bright and colorful Team Leaders subset) and even blows away Topps’ much improved ’09 effort. The base cards and inserts are all colorful (and this year’s StarQuests are a huge step up) as well, something that Upper Deck is not normally known for, but I really like it. Whatever extra creative effort that may have went into the flagship set in 2009 really paid off.
I noticed almost immediately there seems to be one thing amiss though… and that is the photography. Not to say that it is bad in and of itself, but it seems like a lot of the shots are so up close and personal that you could smell the player’s breath. It may be an effect of the bottom border being closed off, but I’m not digging it, especially with Topps’ borders being smaller than usual and a good deal of their photography actually being on par with some of Upper Deck’s better efforts from the past.
Ok I’m all done here. Seeyaz next time, when I’ll have a couple of possibly worthwhile ideas to roll out before I start dropping the occasional sketch on ya.
PS: And I might finally have the cards for Dinged Corners sent out by then too. I may need your address though ladies. I had found it awhile back when I was almost ready to send it out in I think December of last year, but I believe the bubble mailer with your address is long gone now. And lets just say the lot (which was about 80 cards strong as of December) has gotten a little bigger since then.
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