A cardboard conundrum

a wee while ago, Matt from Cardboard Conundrum had a group break. Unlike a lot of the group breaks out there, he wasn't trying to make a profit. He just wanted to have some fun. He offered up 6 boxes of 2012 product. Topps Heritage, Topps Archives, Topps Jumbo Series 1, and Jumbo Series 2, as well as two boxes of Gypsy Queen. Your choice of teams for $20 shipped, later reduced to $15.

Sold.

With me not busting any boxes of baseball anymore, the opportunity to pick up almost complete team sets of my Braves from all of the 2012 product in one scoop was too good to pass up.

Relax, I won't show you every card I received, but a few highlights. You know how I like pictures.

 Pride of the NLTM. Uggla and Jones. Damn am I gonna miss Chipper.

 Did you know that in 2011, Eric O'Flaherty became the first pitcher in the history of baseball to appear in over 70 games and keep his ERA under 1.00? With Eric in the 7th, Venters in the 8th, and Kimbrel closing the 9th.... you had better be ahead after 6 if you wanted to beat the Braves last year.

In the box of Heritage I also received
229 Brandon Beachy 
238 Jose Constanza
308 Brian McCann
347 Chipper Jones (see? I don't show every Chipper card I get)
350  Tommy Hanson
394 Tim Hudson
409 Jair Jurrjens (what in the hell happened Jair???)
429 Jonny Venters
TN-AK Hank Aaron / Matt Kemp


2012 Archives

Here I'll show every card I got since I hadn't seen Archives in person yet.... plus I didn't get that many.

 Freddie on a really white card.... and his buddy Brandon. (oh Brandon, what could have been)

BMac and Huddy from the same photo shoot as the Heritage cards. Ahh... Atlanta at sunrise.

 The past and the future. Chipper and Kimbrel.

 here's my first 'hit'... a Jason Heyward gold foil parallel that my scanner doesn't like.

 Speed and Power. Hopefully we see more of both... and soon.

Topps Jumbo Series 1 and 2

I got quite a stack of these cards. But I had to show off this one.

 it has to concern a batter to be looking out at the pitcher and seeing this maniacal smile coming back at you.

Look owl! Mini's!

 ended up with three of them.

 These go great with the ones I already have, Heyward and Bourne. So I just need a couple more I think???? Chipper probably? I have no idea who's in the checklist.... anyone?

And now my second hit. A Randall Delgado autograph.

 Thank the gods Dempster said no. What in the hell is Frank thinking???????

I also received 30 Braves base cards from both series, as well as 8 inserts. Not bad.

Gypsy Queen

you knew Chipper was making an appearance along with his hunting buddy.

 someone needs to remind Freddie to catch with his glove. That's what it's there for. I showed the big version of Tommy to illustrate the mini variant I got. At least I think it's a variant. Maybe.

 I got three mini's out of those two boxes. I'm not sure if that's good or not.

 one of them was this crooked Straight Cut back of Craig Kimbrel. The irony is not lost.

 Here's where my luck really took off.

First, a mini relic of Tim Hudson.

 a regular sized relic of Brian McCann

 AND an on card auto of future Hall of Famer, John Smoltz.

NICE!

as well as 20 Braves base cards. No inserts. But I don't think they are in any of the insert sets. I think. Maybe. Hell I don't know.

If you are in need of any Braves base cards from this year, let me know, I may have dupes. Maybe we can swap for ones I need. IF I can figure out what I need.... that may take some doing.

I'll tell you what. Matt included a Golden Giveaway code card. (I'm assuming unused) The first person who offers up a card off of my wantlist gets the code. Any takers?

Group Break results... Red Ink Auto!

A little while ago, 1st and Goal had a couple of group breaks going on. You may have seen the pimping here on Waxaholic. Or maybe you didn't. Either way, I was in all the way. I entered the 2010 Topps Chrome football break. Leaving the Sweet Spot for others....

$7.50 got me a seat at the table and my pick of two teams. I took the Cowboys (duh...) and the Lions. Yes, the Lions.

Let's see what I got.....

Tony, pre-broken clavacle.

 Jason Witten from a game against the Dallas Texans. (Kansas City in their old AFL throwbacks)

 DeMarcus Ware doing what he does.... sacking the QB. In this case, a Dallas Texan. I guess they liked that game.

 Felix Jones

 Miles Austin

 Akwasi Owusu-Ansah ... take a wild guess as to where Akwasi was born. Nigeria? Yemen? Senegal? Nope. Gainsville. Florida. WTF?

 No fun inserts in the Cowboys section... let's hope for Detroit!

Calvin Johnson

 Ndamukong Suh Bowman Chrome RC

 Jahvid Best on a Gridiron Lineage card with Fumbleayah Peterson.

 and a Red Ink Auto of Ndamukong Suh!!!

WooT!

He's insane... really he is...

Our great friend, the Wicked One himself has decided to jump into the group break thing.

But if you know Wicked, you know it just won't be the normal variety. No. That wouldn't do.

Instead, he's got going the most unbelievably awesome group break going known to man or woman.

Go HERE, and sign up for The Awesome. Yeah. That's right. The Awesome. Capitalized.

in for a really cheap group break?

Go here.... 1st and Goal

there are two going on right now, dirt cheap. Sweet Spot and Chrome.

What are you waiting for? Go. Now. No seriously. Go.

Who wants brand new shiny hockey cards?

Go HERE. Sign up for the group break. Then sit back and bask in the awesomeness. It's a word. Ask around.

Who wants some?

I received a threatening email this morning from none other than The Collective Troll. Yes. Threatening.

He preceeded to threaten me that the 1976 Topps cards he promised me were not sent out yet, and wouldn't be sent out, until I agreed to pimp his Mid '90's box group break.

So what's a set collector to do? Consider the Troll's Mid '90's box group break pimped.

Now please Mr Troll, may I have some more?

In a group box break mood?

Head on over to I am Joe Collector and sign up for one of his group breaks coming up...
3 boxes each of 2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball and 2008 Playoff Contenders Football.

These are always good... I haven't really seen much of these cards as I don't usually buy the high end stuff. This is a good chance to get in fairly affordably.