Showing posts with label Daily Dimwit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Dimwit. Show all posts

Monday, October 7, 2013

Trades at the Plate!! And some Dimwittedness.

See what I did there?
I've traded with Brian who writes the great blog Play at the Plate many many times.  He's a Rangers fan so I usually save all my Rangers for him. I find a special kinship with Brian. I've never met him or spoke with him, only emails and comments on the blog, but we started are blogs literally days apart.  He recently celebrated 4 years. I'm about 6 days away.
Anyways Brian was looking for some Topps Chipz Rangers which I had two to offer. So we worked up a little trade.  A nice smattering of shiny Brewers card. Lot of "He who shall not be named" and a cool Peralta mini chrome Bowman, not to be confused with a Bowman Chrome mini card. They're different, seriously. And my first Brewers Topps Chipz.
A few days ago I got the second part of our trade in the mail.  In it was a card I've been waiting for. I'll post more on that card later, but Brian also included this Wonders of the World 2013 A&G box topper.
I'm a sucker for those Ginter history subjects.
I ended up pulling one of the modern wonders from my box of Allen and Ginter and had been debating whether or not to pursue the set.  But now I've been pushed in that direction.

I also worked out a trade with Sam over at the Daily Dimwit.  For some reason I was sure I'd traded with Sam before, but I couldn't find him anywhere in my Traders notebook.  I must have been involved in one of his group breaks.  Anyway he was interested in a Arian Foster die cut I had pulled from my Topps Football box.  I ended up throwing in a relic card from this year's Ginter of an Astro, I can't remember who.  I also sent a stack of Astros cards because Sam is the only Astros fan I know.  In return he was able to knock a large section of my 2013 A&G want list off. Not all trades are glamorous, but it's just like the Stones said, sometimes you get what you need. And I always appreciate getting help with completing a set.

Thanks guys.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Winning is like Christmas



First off Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone.

I was surprised to get an email from Sam over at the Daily Dimwit that I had won his 800th post contest. It was a simple contest, which are the best kind, shameless plug, the 3rd Annual Almost the Easiest Super Bowl contest on the web is only a week away.  All I had to do for Sam's contest was tell him one of my favorite blogs and then post a link to something, your blog, photobucket, ect.  I chose to represent a non-sports card blog and recommended The Bloggess.

Anyways Sam informed me that I had won the contest and asked if there was anything I'd like that he had highlighted on his blog.  Well I went back a few months and asked if he'd let me have a 2012 Triple Threads Reggie Jackson Black parallel card I had seen or some random Brewers would be fine too.

Well I got my winnings just before Christmas and lets just say it was a great prize pack.

He sent along the Reggie I asked for.  And that probably would have been enough.


But also nestled in the package was this card

A 1991 Upper Deck Dan Plesac autographed card and this...

a 2008 Taylor Green Rookie bat card...
numbered to 500!  But wait there was also this...

2011 Bowman Sterling Jed Bradley Prospects Autograph card and this...
A 2009 Upper Deck A Piece of History Mat Gamel rookie autograph card #d to 99!

And while autos are awesome it was this last card that made me take notice.

2004 Fleer Platinum Richie Sexson patch card.  Sure this labels Richie as a Diamondback, but he's featured in a Brewers uni and the patch is obviously a piece from a Brewers jersey. But lets have Fleer prove it.


Man remember when card companies put these kind of COA's on the backs of cards?  "The card you've just received contains a piece of a jersey patch, taken from an authentic game worn Brewers jersey worn by Richie Sexson of the Arizona Diamondbacks"!! I mean yes Richie's now with Arizona, but here is a kick ass piece of jersey from one of his old Brewers jerseys.  

Anyways it was a great prize pack and I'm really happy to be able to add all these cards to my collection.  Thanks Sam!!