Cause and Effect ..... Yankee Edition.

The average price of the breakfast buffet in Las Vegas increased yesterday to $32.

Today, CC Sabathia signs a contract with the yankees for 5 years and 122 million.

Coincidence?

CC Sabathia seen here with Yankee fan, Miley Cyrus outside the locker room.

when there's something strange, in your neighbourhood...

As we all know, today is Halloween. For today's post, I was saving a pack of Ghostbusters 2 to break on the old blog. As I was saving the scans, I had troubles because my computer was telling me they already exist. Hmmm....

There they were in my image folder alright. I guess I scanned them already. Turns out I posted them already too.

In June.

Of 2009.

Getting old sucks kids.

So if you want to see more of the Ghostbusters gang.... click HERE. Then come back.

So in a last minute scramble I found these..... boxtoppers from the Vampirella Gallery set. They are oversized, about 3"x5". There are six in total, of which I did have all six at one time. I think. But I could only find two.

#'s 5 and 6 of 6. So if any of you has the other 4, let me know.

and a video, just because I can. Have a happy and safe halloween everyone.

Delayed Trade Night posting...

I'm only three weeks late in posting this. Which means.... I'm catching up!

I managed to acquire two Braves 'hits' at this trade night. The first is an Alvin Dark auto on a Topps Heritage card.

 The second piece is this Hank Aaron card. It says "Game Used Memorabilia".

 But what does that mean?

You have received a Topps Memorabilia Card. The relic on this card is not from any specific game, event or season.

What the hell does that mean?????? Does it have anything to do with Hank Aaron even??? This could be a floorboard from the dugout from Three Rivers Stadium for all I know.

Does anyone know what Topps has said about these? Anything?

I had to give up a DeSean Jackson '08 Masterpieces auto, a Carlos Ruiz sticker auto from Moments and Milestones, and an '09  Ginter Chase Utley grey jersey.

The 2010 World Cup is NOT over... Stickie edition.

Let your minds wander back to last summer.... okay, not the one that ended a couple of weeks ago, the one before that. It was World Cup Frenzy! People who never watched soccer before or since were all of a sudden experts. Games were watched. And discussed. The U.S got beaten, and all was forgotten.

Except for those few of you, who like me, were addicted to stickers. World Cup stickers. We were a small, but determined bunch. Most of us finished our sticker books as well as our online sticker books.

Or did we???

Like you, once I put the last sticker into my book, I let out a satisfied sigh and closed the cover. Until a few weeks ago.

I found out some disturbing news.

The bastards Panini had put out an UPDATE SET! ACK!!!

Are you kidding me?!???! No pigeon had come to my door telling me this. I MUST complete my sticker book!

So I did what any normal OCD set collector would do. I scoured the internet until 3am looking for these elusive unstuck stickers.

And after a few sleepless nights, I found them. All of them.

Behold.

 The reason for the update set was of course because not all of the players in the initail release actually played, so stickers had to be made up for those that did.

 Germany did fairly well considering that apparently they had no idea who their Keepers were going to be going in. 0/2 on that one.

 I guess I should show you the backs..... they are numbered according to who they replace in the book, with an "x" annotation. At the bottom, it also tells you by name the 'substitution' that needs to be made.

 The stickers are a bit longer than the original stickers, as the new information about the player needs to cover up the old pplayer's information that was pre-printed into the book.

 Team France added 5 new members, and still imploded.

 Not much to say about most of these guys....

 like any of you are still reading at this point anyways...

 that was a boring sheet... all white kits.

 The lone new American.

 all in all they were 80 new stickers made up for this update set

 and as a reward for actually scrolling through all that, may I present 6 members of Canada's womens soccer team. They never win any games, but we don't care.

Sorry there's no ponies... but it's best to stick with what you know.
(see what I did there?)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a great and safe holiday.

I need better sunglasses...

Things have got shiny around here lately. I thought I might share some of the shiny with you. Because everyone likes the shiny, right?

Put on some shades, lower the lights, and take a gander.

First up, one of those Topps Atomic refractors everyone has got all excited about.

 I got this one of Dan Uggla at my card shop the other night. It was a gift from another collector, left there for me to pick up. Very nice.

The next two cards cost me .50 cents each at a card show a couple of weeks back.

 JHey in shiny parallel glory.

 I got Mr Aaron Shiny in a trade package from Cheap Card Collecting two weeks ago.

 And for .25 cents each at that same card show, I picked up these four Braves wrapper redemptions.

First Uggla

 then Jason...

 The Devil Wears Prado...

 and finally BMac.

I now have more Braves shiny in the last couple of weeks then I had all before put together. I'm almost in overload. I think I need to go and look through my '50's Topps Braves binder just to calm down. These cards are for someone who has a.d.d or something.

I guess I have to do it...

I hadn't planned on it, but due to a couple of requests, the fourth annual Just A Bit Offside Fantasy Hockey League is back on.

 Due to a blatant rules violation by two other teams, my team was knocked down to third last season. I look to rectify that this year.
If you are interested in joining up, please leave a comment here. No experience necessary.
Email invites have been sent to those that were in last year.

And why yes ladies, during the draft I will be wearing one of these......

It's on!

Free stuff!

Awhile ago, (okay, a long time ago) David at First and Goal held a contest. I wanted to enter. This isn't rocket science is it? Well, it gets a little odd after that. You see, David is one of those new fangled techies who is on facebook and twitter etc... etc... I am not. I'll leave tweeting up to all the 14 year old girls who NEED to know where everyone is at all times and what they're doing. I could not care any less.

Stay with me...

Now the contest Dave was running required you to do something on twitter or myspace or something, I can't remember. I, being twitless, could not do the required task. So I just left a comment saying Good Luck with the contest.

Fast forward a month. A package arrives at my door with contest winnings from First and Goal. What??? I have no idea how I won, but I've never refused hobby generousity before.

I got me some loot. That wee little baseball set has Hank Aaron in it. Enough said. That is the second Emmit Smith tin I've got from David. This one was full of Tony Romo and Jason Witten cards, along with a few other Cowboys. And then 3/4 of a retail box of 08/09 UD Victory. Sweet. Packs to open are never a bad thing.

Thanks for the loot David!

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Tribecards on a Braves blog.......

One of the first few bloggers I ever "traded" with when I started this humble blog three years ago, was David from Indians Baseball Cards. Or Tribecards for his friends. You can call it Tribecards. Even people David hasn't met yet he considers friends. That's just the way he is.

I put the word "traded" in quotation marks earlier because back then there was very little if any trading going on. It was all more accurately described as "giving". If you saw something you liked, or needed it, someone would end up giving it to you. If you wanted to send something back, you did. You could call that trading I suppose, but it's different to me.

About a week ago I found a bubble envelope in my mailbox from the great state of Arkansas. That can only mean one thing.....

 Free wax packs!!! Well, free packs anyways... David doesn't use wax to seal his packs. He uses three rolls of tape. Per pack. I'm not kidding.
After freeing the cards from their protective cocoon, I sat and read them for an hour. David always includes a wide variety of cards in his packs, some of which I haven't seen before.
I'll just show a small sampling here, as most of the cards are already in binders, filling in holes in my team sets.

Some of you may not get past the first card. For it is Glorious.

 I can still hear Skip Caray screaming at the top of his lungs... "BRAVES WIN!!!! BRAVES WIN!!!!! BRAVES WIN!!!! BRAVES WIN!!!!!"  Damn I miss him.

Ladies, may I present Mr Ron Gant.

 Line forms at the left....

and of course, Terry Pendleton.

 Terry doesn't look overweight here.... I've never seen Terry not look overweight....

along with the old, I got some new as well....

 Tommy Hanson, and...

 ...Jason Heyward Ginter style.

 Tommy is sad someone took his hat......

 and finally for this showing.... Chipper and Smoltzie on some super embossed Upper Deck set that was cool but everyone has forgotten about.

Thanks David!!! If you want to get in the madness.... visit Indians Baseball Cards.... tell 'em I sent you. The magic password is "Tiger Blood"

QUARTER BOXES!!!!!!

If you were with me on my last post on my other blog, Just A Bit Offside, then you know I found a card shop that has Quarter Boxes! If you didn't read it, what's wrong with you???

Anyways... of course I scrounged through and absconded with almost all of the Braves from it. I'm told hockey and football quarter boxes are being made as well. Sweet.

But for now, bask in the glorious that is .25 cent Braves. Plus I have a rainbow to show off at the end. Not a My Little Pony Rainbow Bright anything... that's on the other Braves blog. He was first, and is still the best. Despite his latest obsession with ponies.

On with the cards!!!

 2007 Finest Chipper!

 2007 Finest Francoeur refractor....

 2007 SP Authentic Francoeur

 2007 SP Rookie Edition Saltalamacchia... which I already had at home. Oops.

 2007 Sweet Spot Classic Bob Horner /575

 2007 Elements Chipper!

 2007 Elements See through Chipper!.... which I already had at home. Oops.

 2005 Donruss Champions Niekro... I really hate these two cards... but they were a Niekro and Murphy for .25 cents that I didn't already have.

 see above comment. Dale doesn't like them either. He's running away.

 2006 Flair Showcase Chipper! I miss Flair... and Fleer.

 2006 Bowman Prospect of current Brave Diory Hernandez. If young Diory can't wrestle playing time away from Alex Gonzalez, I'm afraid his career may be over soon.

 2009 Sweet Spot BMac! which I already had at home.... Oops.

 2009 Sweet Spot Nate McLouth. Which I already had. Oops.

 2009 Sweet Spot Javier Vazquez. Which I already had. Oops.

 2009 Sweet Spot Chipper!!!! And I needed him!!!! Yes!!! It's a good thing too..... because I ended up buying two of him.

Oops.

2007 Topps Warren Spahn. I knew I had this already, but I wanted another copy.

 2006 Finest John Smoltz. Shiny!!!

 2006 Finest Chipper. More Shiny!

 and finally a Chuck James 2006 Finest Rookie Auto. I was pretty sure I had this already... and I did. But in slightly different form.

It is hidden behind a slab.

 but it has friends! The Refractor version....

 the X-Fractor version....

 and of course the Black X-Fractor version.

Quarter boxes!!! Thanks for looking. I can't wait to pillage the football and hockey ones. And I meant what I said about my other blog. Read it. I'll know if you don't.