Opening Day Contest Post number 4

We (I mean me) need to get this thing going.... today's contestants are Jason, The Angels In Order, Cool Breeze, and Dhoff.

Pack 13

Jason
Stephen Strasburg - ZOMG! I'm rich!!!!!!!!!! But he's a National. -1 pt
Koji Uehara - BONZAI! 0 pts
Clayton Kershaw - I think I read something about him once or twice on Night Owl Cards. 0 pts
Michael Young - The Leaning Tower of Young 0 pts
Mark Teixeira - a Yankee. -2 pts
Brian Roberts - Roberts is the kind of guy whose uniform is always dirty. Even before the game. 0 pts
Chase Utley - An insert! +2 pts, of a Phillie. -1 pt Total 1 pt

PACK TOTAL : -2 pts  BONUS TOTAL : 0 pts


Pack 14

The Angels In Order
Kurt Suziki - in full equipment! +1 pt
Matt Garza - no points deducted for the Yankee in the background. 0 pts
Hunter Pence - from the Houston ballet, Ole! 0 pts
Greg Halman - apparently no one wants to see Halman bat. 0 pts
Brett Anderson - not many people want to see Anderson pitch either. 0 pts
Jonathan Papelbon - he's taking karate lessons from Daiske. 0 pts
Alex Rodriguez - an insert +2 pts. Of the dreaded Yankees -2 pts. Total 0 pts

PACK TOTAL : 1 pt   BONUS POINTS : 2 pts

Pack 15

Cool Breeze
a user name referencing The Unit, one of my wife's favourite tv shows +1
James Shields - ever notice most of the Rays starters look the same? 0 pts
Justin Upton - snow cone! 0 pts
Hanley Ramirez - a Fish. -1 pt
Carl Pavano - he's still playing? 0 pts
Matt Holliday - insert +2 pts
Austin Jackson - picked him up as a 5th outfielder on my fantasy team. 0 pts
Russell Martin - People don't think he's very good. And he's over rated. A Yankee -2 pts

PACK TOTAL :  -1 pt  BONUS TOTAL : 1 pt

Pack 16

Dhoff

Placido Polanco - one of the three tenors. And a Phillie. -1 pt

Starlin Castro - nice shot. 0 pts

Dinger - what the hell is a Dinger? Insert +2 pts AND an ad for Coca Cola +1 pt Total +3 pts

David Wright - a Met  -1 pt

Justin Morneau - A Canadian! 0 pts

Matt Garza - rememebr what I said about Rays starters? Insert +2 pts

Aroldis Chapman - I got nuthin' .... 0 pts

PACK TOTAL : 3 pts   BONUS TOTAL : 3 pts

I'll get the updated scores up this afternoon when I get back home.

Opening Day Contest Post number 3

Opening Day Contest Easter Post - The day millions of chocolate bunnies are sacrificed to keep dentists everywhere in business.

Today's contetstants; Jeff Wilk, The Dimwit, jaybarkerfan, and dawgbones.

Pack 9

 Jeff Wilk
Carlos Marmol - Remember that Robert Munsch book, Murmel Murmel Murmel? I think of that every time I hear Carlos' name. 0 pts
David Ortiz - I should take a way a point because he can't play baseball and is hanging around as a D.H. 0 pts
Nick Swisher - a Yankee! -2 pts
Carlos Santana - a catcher in full gear! +2 pts
Buster Posey - a catcher not in full gear. 0 pts
Adam Dunn - Favourite team! +2 pts
Richard Nixon - insert! Throws a strike to Ted Williams. +2 pts

Pack Total : 4 pts  Bonus Total 1 pt

Pack 10

 The Dimwit
he adds cheese to a cheese pizza +1 pt
Ervin Santana - will he ever live up to the hype? 0 pts
Brian Bogusevic - Favourite team! +2 pts
Ike Davis - a Met. -1 pt
Obama - insert +2 pts. So far, on the two Bush cards and on the Nixon, the back of the card mentions that they threw the ball right down the middle as a strike. On Obama's card, it mentions that the ball sailed high and to the far left. Is that irony or a metaphor?
Dustin Pedroia - how can someone win the MVP and then disappear? 0 pts.
Troy Tulowitzki - cool action shot. 0 pts
Yovani Gallardo - boy did he get lit up last night. 0 pts.

PACK TOTAL : 3 pts  BONUS TOTAL : 1 pt


Pack 11

 jaybarkerfan
deepdish and double meat. Yum. +1 pt
Mark Buehrle - the start of a Chicago pack 0 pts
Aramis Ramirez - nice shades. 0 pts
Neil Walker - who? 0 pts
Daniel Descalso - interesting action shot 0 pts
Ryan Dempster - the second winningest Canadian pitcher 0 pts
Neftali Perez - Favourite team! +2 pts
Jay Bruce - insert +2 pts

PACK TOTAL : 4 pts  BONUS TOTAL : 1 pt

Pack 12

dawgbones
Aubrey Huff - who names their kid Aubrey? He's the one in the corner eating paste. 0 pts
Phanatic - insert! +2 pts He's a Phillie. -1 pt  TOTAL +1 pt
Martin Prado - A Brave!!! +2 pts
Kelly Johnson - a former Brave! a current Blue Jay! 0 pts
Andy Pettitte - a damn Yankee -2 pts
Brent Morel - Where is his chin??? 0 pts
Carlos Marmol - insert! murmel murmel murmel   +2 pts

PACK TOTAL : 3 pts  BONUS TOTAL : 5 pts

I'll update the leaderboard on Monday. Now go sacrifice another chocolate bunny.

Opening Day Contest Updated Leaderboard.

The unofficial almost updated leaderboard after 8 packs. Of course not all those listed have had their pack breaks yet.
Listed in order of pack break.

1. reoddai : Pack pts 0  Bonus pts 1 =1
2. daddyohoho : Pack pts 0  Bonus Pts 3 =3
3. LV : Pack pts -2  Bonus Pts 2 =0
4. F&S Baseball Cards : Pack pts 1  Bonus pts 2 =3
5. arpsmith : Pack pts 3  Bonus pts 5 =8
6. Greg Zakwin : Pack pts 4  Bonus pts 4 =8
7. Mariner1 : Pack pts 3 Bonus pts 1 =4
8. Superduperman99 : Pack pts 2  Bonus pts 0  =2
9. Jeff Wilk : Bonus pts 1
10. The Dimwit
11. jaybarkerfan
12. dawgbones : Bonus pts 4
13. Jason
14. The Angels In Order : Bonus pts 1
15. Cool Breeze
16. Dhoff : Bonus pts 1
17. Napkin Doon
18. Nick
19. Kazi : Bonus pts 4
20. Josh D.
21. Matt F.
22. bamlinden : Bonus pts 1
23. (...Joe)
24. High-Five Man : Bonus pts 1
25. The Diamond King
26. Dave H. : Bonus pts 4
27. BASEBALL DAD : Bonus pts 3
28. Play At The Plate : Bonus pts 4
29. Morgan : Bonus pts 4
30. night owl : Bonus pts 1
31. Cardhobbyist : Bonus pts 4
32. Hackenbush
33. 1967ers
34. Fuji : Bonus pts 3
35. The Dutch Card Guy
36. Don WickedOrtega

Bonus Participants

37. Jafronius
38. Adam E. : Bonus pts 4
39. Dodgerbobble
40. cynicalbuddha
41. FanOfReds : Bonus pts 1
42. Commishbob


I'm sure this makes sense to no one but myself. And that's okay. It'll become clear once more packs are opened.
And one thing that has been fun is trying to match people's real names on their emails with their blogger personna. I've done pretty good, but who is Justin the Cubs fan who sent me Ms Hope?

Opening Day Pack Wars Post Number 2

Alright... it's time for post number 2. Today's contestants are; arpsmith, Greg Zakwin, Mariner1, and Superduperman99.
I won't be home when this post publishes.... so I'll update the scores to reflect the bonus comments etc... later. Hopefully later tonight. But I know better than to promise anything.

Pack 5

arpsmith
an all meat pizza with thick crust??? Yes please. +1
arpsmith also sent in a nice picture. +3
John Lester - what happened to the Red Sox pitching??? 0 pts
Brian Matusz - It's hard to remember the Orioles ever having pitching. 0 pts
Alfonso Soriano - I'm surprised he's not DH'ing in the A.L. yet. 0 pts
Matt Holiday - an insert +2 a boring one, but one nonetheless.
Adrian Gonzalez - I liked him better in San Diego. 0 pts
Chase Utley - a cool insert. +2 but he's a Phillie. -1 so, +1 total
Justin Verlander - I wonder if he can pitch every other day? 0 pts

PACK TOTAL : 3  BONUS POINTS : 4 


Pack 6

Greg Zakwin
Greg sent me not one, but three lovely photos. +3
Tyler Colvin - stick that tongue in boy before you bite it off. 0 pts
Omar Infante - It's Omar! A former Brave! But now he's a fish. -1 pt
Andre Ethier - Favourite team! +2 pts
Alex Rodriguez - an insert! +2 a cool insert! +1 He's a Yankee -2 pts for +1 pt total
Something that would scare the hell out of my cat - insert +2 and Stirrups!!!! +1 for +3 pts total
Brennan Boesch - I should take a point off for another Molina sighting. 0 pts
Edison Volquez - the dreaded dreadlocks. -1 pt

PACK TOTAL : 4 pts  BONUS TOTAL : 3 pts


Pack 7

Mariner1
Miguel Tejada - what is he? 50? 0 pts
Garrett Jones - cool headset. But not cool enough. 0 pts
Johnny Cueto - How many Reds are in this set??? 0 pts
Colby Rasmus - Nice shades. Enjoy Toronto. 0 pts
Felix Hernandez - Favourite team! +2 pts
Ricky Nolasco - another fish. -1 pt
Troy Tulowitzki - night owl thinks he's the next Chipper. And it's an insert. +2 pts

PACK TOTAL : 3 pts   BONUS TOTAL : 0 pts


PACK 8

Superduperman99

Jaime Garcia - Favourite team! +2 pts

Chase Utley - effing Phillies. -1 pt

Angel Pagan - ack! a Met! -1 pt

Joel Pineiro - talk about a guy getting the most from the least. 0 pts

Carlos Beltran - they're just piling on now.... -1 pt

Tommy Hanson - A Brave!! +2 pts. It's Tommy Hanson! +1 pt for +3 total

Derek Jeter - an insert +2 pts. Of another Yankee. -2 pts for 0 pts total

PACK TOTAL : 2 pts  BONUS POINTS : 0 pts

There you have it. Like I said, I'll update the leaderboard, including any as yet unaccounted for comment bonuses later tonight.

Opening Day Pack Wars Contest is on!

Here we go kids. Remember the rules for bonus points. Here are Packs 1-4 for contestants reoddai, daddyohoho, LV, and F&S Baseball Cards.

reoddai -

I think he's Canadian +1pt

Mickey Mantle - are you kidding me? mantle as a base card in a 2011 Opening Day set? There are no corpses in any lineup on Opening Day. Except Jamie Moyer of course. -2pts

Bronson Arroyo - he of the wooden leg. 0pts

Gavin Floyd - it's still odd to see a White Sox player pitching against the Braves on a baseball card. 0pts

Pablo Sandoval - lose some weight Pancho. 0pts

Joey Votto - 225 million????? Really? 0pts

George Bush insert - I was going to minus a point for mixing politics and sports, until I realized there was a whole mess of them in this set.... +2pts

Andrew Bailey - Hope you Red Sox fans have a fall back option. 0pts

PACK TOTAL : 0 point  BONUS POINTS : 1 point so far.

PACK TWO

daddyohoho
I dig a good Taco Pizza +1pt
Ichiro - I should minus a point here for Topps not using his whole name. Lame. 0pts
Magglio Ordonez - cool shot. Nice to see the umpires being left in the shots again. 0pts
Ian Kinsler - ditto. 0pts
Cliff Lee - Favourite team +2pts Being a Phillie -1pt  +1total
Jon Niese - A Met! Boo! -1pt
A Rod insert - A Yankee insert -2pts
Nick Markakis insert - what the heck are the Orioles celebrating? 5th place? 2pts

PACK TOTAL : 0pts  BONUS POINTS : 1 point so far

PACK THREE

LV
Yadier Molina - WHAMMY!  -1pt
Alexei Ramirez - Prince needs to take Alexei out to one of his all you can eat buffets. 0pts
Andres Torres - this shot reminds me of those tilted ground shots they used to do in the mid 70's. +1pt
George Bush insert - George throws another stike down the middle! 2 for 2! and +2pts
Derek Jeter - George giveth and I taketh away. -2pts
Jose Reyes - A Met -1pt and dreadlocks, -1pt for -2pts total
Dan Haren - so Topps is owned by Disney, who owns ABC television network, which owns ESPN. And here we have an ESPN ad in the background. Coincidence? I think not. I'm on to you Topps. 0pts.

PACK TOTAL : -2pts   BONUS POINTS : 0pts so far


PACK FOUR

F&S Baseball Cards

a blog where he posts videos of him and his young son busting packs together and sharing the hobby. Very cool sir. +1pt

his wife makes a mean homemade pizza. I love homemade pizza. +1

Mike Leake - Yawn. 0pts

James McDonald - Boring. 0pts

Chris Perez - Wake me when this is over. 0pts

Clay Bucholz - at least it's not horizontal. 0pts

Scott Rolen - is he still playing??? 0pts

Chris Johnson - I have him on my fantasy team........ In football. 0pts

Billy The Marlin - We're gonna need a bigger boat. +2pts. Being a Marlin. Literally. -1pt   +1pt total

PACK TOTAL : 1pt   BONUS POINTS : 2 so far

After one round the leaderboard looks like this

F&S Baseball Cards 1+2=3pts

reoddai 0+1=1pt

daddyohoho 0+1=1pt

LV -2+0= -2pts

Again, remember the bonus rules, they can help you move up the standings, even after your pack is posted.

Next round posted tomorrow.

First Opening Day Contest Post up tonight...

I'll have the first Pack Wars Opening Day Contest post up later tonight. With a 36 Pack box, I think 4 packs per post will do nicely.

After randomization, here is the order for the Pack Wars.

1. reoddai
2. daddyohoho
3. LV
4. F&S Baseball Cards
5. arpsmith
6. Greg Zakwin
7. Mariner1
8. Superduperman99
9. Jeff Wilk
10. The Dimwit
11. jaybarkerfan
12. dawgbones
13. Jason
14. The Angels In Order
15. Cool Breeze
16. Dhoff
17. Napkin Doon
18. Nick
19. Kazi
20. Josh D.
21. Matt F.
22. bamlinden
23. (...Joe)
24. High-Five Man
25. The Diamond King
26. Dave H.
27. BASEBALL DAD
28. Play At The Plate
29. Morgan
30. night owl
31. Cardhobbyist
32. Hackenbush
33. 1967ers
34. Fuji
35. The Dutch Card Guy
36. Don WickedOrtega

Bonus Participants

37. Jafronius
38. Adam E.
39. Dodgerbobble
40. cynicalbuddha
41. FanOfReds
42. Commishbob
43. ???????

If you do NOT see your name here, and you think it should be.... leave me a comment and let me know.

A reminder to all participants to read the scoring rules to find out how to get bonus points.
RULES LINK HERE

And if you haven't signed up yet but want to.. GO HERE AND SIGN UP

I'll accept bonus entries until I post the first 4 packs tonight.

Contest Rules... and, there's still time to sign up for the bonus round.

Here are the scoring and rules for my Opening Day Contest.

1. My blog, my rules. And yes, I make them up as I go.

2.Points will be awarded or deducted for the following;

Braves +2
Your Favourite team +2
Your favourite player +2
Yankees -2
Mets -1
Phillies -1
Nationals -1
Marlins -1
any insert +2
Yadier Molina -1
a numbered parallel +2
anybody wearing obvious dreadlocks -1
Stirrups! +1
Catchers shown in equipment +1
Pitchers running the bases +1
Chippah! +1
Cards showing ads for pizza +2
Cards showing ads for Coca Cola +1

You can also score bonus points to increase your pack's value.

-comment on any of the pack war posts not including your own pack before the next one is posted +1
-comment on the pack war post featuring your pack before the next one is posted +2
-send me one card (or more) off of my wantlist before the end of the contest +2 (I can be bought, and I'm cheap)
-email me a picture of someone in your favourite team's jersey +2
----it's a woman +1
----it's a dude -100,000

I will also be adding and deducting random points based on the cards themselves as well as your sign up comments.
So if you haven't already signed up, scroll down and sign up on the previuos post.

We should get this ball rolling Wednesday evening.
Good Luck to all.

Opening Day Contest

I picked up a box of this at one of my local card shops for $15. Cheap wax means giveaways. And giveaways means a contest.

I had planned on doing a pack war type of contest, but then Play at the Plate started one. I thought about it for a few days.... but decided to just have one anyways. Pack wars are fun, right?

So here's the deal. 36 packs means 36 spots. The first 36 people who sign up will be in. Leave a comment about your favourite pizza, your favourite baseball team, your favourite Brave, and your favourite non-Brave.

EDIT: we are full up, but if you haven't entered already, sign up anyway and I'll have some sort of bonus round.

Official Made Up Rules posted on Monday sometime.....

Do You Follow Minor League Players?

That's the question. I'm not talking about the Strasburgs and Harpers of the world. Fox, ESPN and Topps force us to know about those guys.

I'm talking the A ball, AA ball, and AAA guys from your favourite team. Do you know who that hard hitting SS is down in High A?

I'm asking because when I was at the card shop last night, the owner handed me a gift from under his counter.

A nice, shiny card of Braves prospect Kyle Kubitza.

 An Artist's Proof card #/49. Very cool.

A buddy of mine immediately asked me if Kyle was any good. I had to admit I had no idea. He played rookie ball for our low A club in Danville last season after being drafted in the 3rd round of the 2011 draft.

Should I know this? Do you other Braves fans know of him?
Do you follow your team that closely?

Dollar goodness

My wife came home from the dollar store earlier today, and proudly presented me with this.

Sweet jesus.

I normally shy away from this type of thing. But it was a gift. My wife knew I was a big Warner fan, so she bought it. And as luck would have it, I didn't have that particular Kurt Warner until now.

Let's see what else is inside. 30 cards. 10 Football, 10 baseball, and 10 basketball. You get to see 9 of each, 'cause my scanner only holds nine at a time.

Football

 ZUBAZ!!! Star Pics! Pro Set!

Baseball

2011 A&G and Lineage, along with the usual assortment, but wait... Hello! Look at that Tom Glavine card! Awesome!

Basketball

meh.

Not sure if it was worth the buck, but it was cool to open. If anyone sees anything they like except the Warner and Glavine, speak up..... not all at once.... no pushing.

Gintery Fresh.

Awhile back I posted some new wantlists regarding my Allen & Ginter wants as well as Upper Deck. A couple of fellow bloggers answered my plea for help.

First up, all the way from the Nederlands, we have some Gintery Goodness that has found a permanent home.

Jeroen, the Dutch Card guy, sent me 8 A&G cards from three different years. I'll show you four of them...

The King of Kansas City...

 CHIPPAH!

 Mr 40HR

 Tommy Gun

 Thanks Jeroen! He also happens to be neighbours with Edwin van der Sar, the greatest keeper in the world and my personal fave. Jeroen may have a house guest very soon................

Scott from Hand Collated sent me some hockey stuff... and snuck in 12 Upper Deck Braves needs.
One from 2010...
Derek Lowe seems to be wondering how to get to Cleveland.

 the other 11 came from UD's debut set... I'll show off 3 to keep it brief.

A Lemmer rookie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Tommy... probably in the midst of striking out a Met.

 And good ole Ed Olwine, still giggling that someone is paying him to play baseball.

I hope you had the time of your life Ed.

Thanks for the help with the lists guys!!! Mucho appreciato.

Another Wagner back in circulation...

Open up the freezer and crack open that block of ice you hid the credit card in.... starting tomorrow (tuesday) morning at 9am EST, This T206 Honus Wagner will be on the auction block.

Graded VG3 by SGGC, it was purchased by a Houston business man in the mid '80's, and has not been circulated since.
Starting bid is $300,000. The card is expected to fetch between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 by the end of auction, April 19,2012.

It wasn't announced, but I'm guessing the original buy price of this card was about $8,000 - $10,000.
Talk about a nice profit.
I know one thing for sure.... no card I bought in the mid '80's is going to fetch anywhere near this amount.

Waxing Avery.

I've been a wee busy lately. Unfortunately I haven't posted much over the last week. Thanks to the three of you who noticed. And yes, all is well. Aside from Chipper announcing his retirement at the end of the season and then having knee surgery to repair a torn MCL the next day.

I'll be posting a lot about Larry over the next few months. You Met fans may want to turn your heads for awhile.

But not today.

Today we'll clean up a couple of things. First, is this amazing autograph of Braves pitcher Steve Avery. Steve was the Strasburg of his era. And then he pitched 485 games and 8946523957 innings in his third year. His arm was never the same, although he did end up having a good career. And I will never forget the 1991 stretch drive and subsequent playoffs. One of the most dominating pitching performances I have ever seen.

Sid Bream and Francisco Cabrerra get a lot of the attention for the Braves worst to first year and of course John Smoltz and Jack Morris get most of the attention for that tremendous Game 7 of the World Series. (Kent Hrbek is a cheater. Period.) But without Steve's pitching in the last month of the season and throughout the playoffs, there is no World Series, there is no playoffs. He was the man.

I got this autographed card a loooong time ago from the Wicked One himself down in F.L.A. No fan fare, it just arrived stuffed in amongst a bunch of other cards he sent. But I've always treasured this one over the others. The reason I bring it up now is I was looking through a binder of Tom Glavine cards and I found this one mis-filed. And like all favourite cards of mine, it brought back a tonne of memories.

I always liked Steve. Maybe because he is exactly one day younger than I am. I always thought that was cool too.

In other and more recent news, I've recieved a few gift packages from fellow bloggers over the last couple of weeks.

Big thanks go to Ryan from Another Orioles blog, Oscar at Stealing Home, Cynicalbuddah of Collector's Crack and for these cards from Ryan of Ryan's Pitch.

I had sent Ryan a box of about 250 '91 Fleer. No, no! It's ok! He requested them! Really! He has a wantlist and everything. Please don't burn crosses on my lawn. Dayf has threatened that and more if I ever send him anymore '91 Hoops basketball. (Speaking of that, I'm about due to send him another package...)

Anyways.. where was I? oh yeah, Ryan sent back a package of Braves. He couldn't help much with my wantlists, but he sent a nice stack of Bravos including some oddball sets like Topps American Pie, Topps Super Teams, and Topps Archives.

He also sent these.

 No, this was NOT payback for sending him '91 Fleer. I actually wanted this card.

 See? It's from the traded set. I'm down to needing four more and my '86 Braves set is done. If you can help with that, or any other year, please checkout my wantlists. LINK HERE.

One card I almost missed because it was mixeed in with those others from the previously mentioned  Topps Archives set was this beauty of Lew Burdette.

 a nice 1957 Topps Lew Burdette to be exact. Very awesome. This was two years before Lew became a lefty. Some of you know what I'm talking about.

Who knew Lew's name was 'Selva'???? Yeah... you can call me Lew.

Thanks everyone for the great cards.

My 3 pack Heritage break

2012 Heritage is here! Yay! Woot woot! Hurrah!

Did I summon up enough excitement for you? You've probably all seen it by now, but I thought I'd show you the results of my 3 pack purchase anyways.

Three packs for $10. Here we go.

The wrapper. Nice and bright, but simple. I like it.

 I'll show off all of the hits first.
Braves pitcher Mike Minor. (yes, pulling a Brave = a hit.... my blog, my rules)

 Braves pitcher, and Rookie of the Year, Craig Kimbrel. The photographer seems to have convinced Craig to climb something very high for this shot...

 One of those useless shiny refractory inserts of Dan Haren. It's up for swap.

 A flashback from 1963... this one of John Kennedy's assassination.

 Dustin Pedroia's game used something or other.... I have to say, I'd have been happier pulling another Brave instead... but Jack Plumstead's luck came through

 On to the cards themselves.... (yeah, only two Braves for me out of three packs)

Floating Heads!

 Elvis seems happy even though either him or that light tower is about to be hit by lightning.

 Cliff Pennington rocking the casual look at some neighbourhood park. Is that a portapotty in the background??

 Kyle Weiland and a chain link fence. There are not enough  chain link fences on today's baseball cards.

 Yankee rookie Andrew Brackman. This is not a trick perspective of the camera. Andrew is almost as tall as that light tower. 6' 10" and still growing. Maybe they just gave him Randy Johnson's old uniform. Gotta save a buck here and there ya know!

 The backs are okay. A little write up, and some stats. The only issue I have is with the cartoons. See here on Kyle's card....

 and Andrew's card....

Out of 20 cards with cartoons on the back, this cartoon appeared four times. And another cartoon three times. Is it that hard to sketch something a little different? Talk about saving a buck or two.

I would really like to build this set... but doing it by pack is out. Maybe I can pick up a lot online or something. We'll see.
Anyone else going to build it?

before 2012 Allen & Ginter hits the shelves....

I thought maybe before the new Ginter arrives, I should try and finish some of the old Ginter. Makes sense, no?

I completed 2008 and 2009 no problem.... but didn't even attempt 2010 or 2011. So what to do? After some thought, I decided to just concentrate on my team sets from all the years. So if you have any Allen & Ginter laying around, please check out my wantlists and help a blogger out.  LINK

If you have any Upper Deck flagship in those overflowing boxes of yours.... I made that list as well. I've been busy. LINK  Any help is appreciated and of course if I can help you in return, no worries.

One day I'll start 2011 Ginter... but until I can get a good start, I'll finish my team set. Baby steps, right?

Thanks for looking, and Paul, your stickers go out in the morning. Thanks for the trade.