3rd Annual Almost the Easiest World Series Contest on the Web World Series Finalist!! And then there were 7.

Wow I thought the Tigers might have forced a game 7. That was until the 7th inning last night.  Either way we now have our World Series teams set. We lost a lot of people in the last round and now have just 7 moving on. And of those 7 noone picked the Red Sox over the Cardinals, but we have two that picked the Cards over the Red Sox. So if the Cards pull it out that will be the first time I've had anyone, let alone two people pick the correct team and the correct opponent.  Pretty cool.  Here is the line up that we had going into the LCS games.
Greg Zakwin - Dodgers over Oakland in 6 games, 7 HRs

Play at the Plate- Dodgers over Oakland in 5 games with 8 homeruns. PIMP

Richard Nebe Jr - Boston over the Braves in 5 with 7 homers. PIMP

Cards from the Quarry - Cardinals over the Indians in 6 with 13 homers.

JediJeff - Tigers over the Dodgers in 5 - 12 dingers.

Bo - Cardinals over A's in 5 with 4 HRs

defgav - Dodgers over Tigers in 7 with 7 HRs.

Stealing Home - Dodgers over Red Sox 5 Games 11 HRs

Dion's IP Autos Only - Tigers over Braves in 6, 8 HRs

Superduperman99 - Cardinals over the A's in 6 with 9 home runs

Dhoff - Tigers over Braves in 7, a dozen dingers.

Chris - Dodgers over Tigers in 6, 11 HRs. 

Shane Patrick - Cardinals over A's in 6. 11 touh 'em alls

Spiegel83 - Dodgers over A's in 5 games with 3 total homers.

Andrew Carwile - Cardinals over Boston in 6. 6 homeruns

Chris Reed - Dodgers over Athletics in 6. 7 HR

Chunter - Dodgers over Boston in 6, 8 HR

AdamE - Red Sox over Dodgers 6 games, 14 HR.

Jafronius -Tigers over Dodgers in 6 games. 10 homers.

Wilson -  Cardinals over Boston in 7, 10 HR PIMP

Remember you were playing for that sweet box set of Pinnacle The Naturals and 1990 Topps Coins set. I'll also be throwing in some vinatge packs I have lying around. Vintage being over 20 years old! Ahem yeah that puts them in the junk wax era.  

I also found a nice door prize for all who entered. 

How's about some vintage!! Real vintage this time.  I've got 3 1969 Topps cards to give away.  Nobody special and condition is well loved, but still 69 Topps.  

Thanks everybody who played and pimped.  Next contest post will be the winner announcement.  

Almost the Easiest Super Bowl Contest on the Web 3

It's that time again.  It's NFL playoff time and that means in time for the 3rd Annual Almost the Easiest Super  Bowl Contest on the Web.........

It's easy to play and you could win some cool stuff.


All you have to do is tell me who's going to win the Super Bowl.  That's it.  But since more than one person might actually pick the right team we need a few tie breakers.  So I want you to tell me who the opponent is,  how many total points will be scored in the game and I also want you to tell me how many turnovers will happen.

So your entry should look like this:

Packers over the Patriots, 56 points, 2 TOs

If for some reason there is still a tie we go to random.com to find a winner.

What am I going to win this year CB, you ask?

Well the Grand Prize is .....

 both of these 2012 Topps Rookie Premiere Patch cards and some other cards of your favorite team.

Update also added to the Prize pool this!!!

But there will also be a door prize for anyone who enters and if you pimp this contest on your blog you will get an extra door prize entry.  All names will be entered into random.com and the list will be randomized 3 times to find a winner. The door prize will be one or maybe two or three  eTopps card(s) from your favorite team, maybe, I've got a lot of eTopps in hand from about 2003 till they quite making them so chances are I'll have something you like.

So for easy picking here are your choices

AFC
Division Champs
New England Patriots
Baltimore Ravens
Houston Texans
Denver Broncos

Wildcards
Cincinnati Bengals
Indianapolis Colts

NFC
Division Champs
Green Bay Packers
Atlanta Falcons
Washington Redskins
San Francisco 49ers

Wildcards
Minnesota Vikings
Seattle Seahawks

So leave your pick on this page and a link to your blog or website pimp of the contest.  The contest in open until Saturday January 5th at 12 noon Alaska Time, 4 pm Eastern.

Only 2 weeks left till The Third Annual Almost the Easiest Super Bowl Contest on the Web!!!!!

Wow that season went by really fast.  And despite the rocky start with the NFL refs lockout it seems that we had a fairly good season.  Got to see some amazing rookie standouts and of course my team clinching their division in week 15 was pretty nice too.

So just like in past years it'll be pretty simple.  All I want you to do is pick who's going to win the Super Bowl.  But of course there's always the possibility that two people will the same team so we need the tie breakers.  You'll need to pick the opponent and total number of combine points scored in the game.  And if for some reason that still doesn't decide it, I'll use the random.com, but we've never had to go that far and I don't expect to have to this year either.  I know your saying CB this is a contest right? What are the prizes?  I don't know yet.  But we'll have a great grand prize and of course a door prize for all those you participate and pimp the contest.  I'll be posting the official contest link after next Sunday and you should have a good week to get your guess in.

2011 Allen and Ginter Floating Fortresses Set

My last set I picked up was the 2011 Allen and Ginter Floating Fortress set.  Being a big history buff I knew I was going to go after this one as well.  My only complaint was that there weren't any warships from WWII like the Iowa class battleships or the more modern ships like the Nimitz aircraft carriers.  But it's a very interesting mix of old warships from all over the world.  So here we go all 20 Floating Fortress cards fronts and backs. 

2011 Allen and Ginter Uninvited Guests Set

Here we have the second set I purchased, the Uninvited Guests mini set.  Only 10 little mini's in this set.  Being a fan of the Ghost Hunters, even though they never seem to find anything and I've even put up with Ghost Adventures who seem to think that flexing your biceps and yelling at ghosts is a productive way to lead a paranormal investigation and some of those other ghost shows, I was always planning on trying to put this set together.   I'm a little disappointed that this set wasn't larger, as I know that there are literally thousands of locales that Topps could have chosen for these cards.  Anyway, here are all 10 front and back.

Bachelor's Grove is said to be the most haunted cemetery in the world.  It even has it's own website.

Learn more about the White House ghosts here.

It seems that any good haunted place has a website.  You can even schedule your own ghost adventure here.  I'm pretty sure that both TAPS and the Ghost Adventures have been here.

Once again another haunted house another website, check out more here.  For 400 bucks you and 5 of your friends can spend the night.  Spooky!!

I find it funny that nobody has set this house up as a Ghostly B & B, it is however for sale again, at least it was last month for 1.35 million.  Time did a story about it too.

The Lemp Mansion is now an Inn and Restaurant, you can check it out here.

Alcatraz is now a National Park.  You can check out the NPS site here.

 I remember watching a special on this house when I was younger. It was either an Unsolved Mystery or most likely on an episode of Ripley's Believe it or Not. They too have their own website complete with hot models trying to sell t-shirts.

Like the back of the card says the Queen Mary is now a hotel in Long Beach.  You can check out their website here.

Check out the Lizzie Borden B & B if you dare.http://www.lizzie-borden.com/

There you go all ten and links to more info if you want. 

Next up Floating Fortressi

CB out