Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Yehaw I'm going to Spring Training.
Well the tickets are booked the time share is acquired and the suntan lotions is bought. Now wait. You may remember I got married back in July. July is a terrible time to leave the state of Alaska. One because it's a super busy time for my job and two there is no snow on the ground and it isn't freezing. Winter or early spring is the time to leave Alaska. As one of our wedding gifts some friends gave us their time share where ever we wanted. We had thought about Hawaii, but after looking at how much airfare or using miles would cost us, my wife suggested Arizona, in March. Yes, she suggested it. I looked at her funny when she brought it up, but then she said "Spring Training duh!" Plus she really wants to go see the Grand Canyon. It's been over 20 years since I went to go see the Grand Canyon. I'm sure the Canyon itself probably hasn't changed much, but everything else around it has. So with our sights set on Arizona we were a little disappointed to find out we couldn't get anything near Phoenix. Surprising huh, height of Spring Training, so we opted for a nice middle ground between the Grand Canyon and baseball, Sedona. As luck would have it we also have some older friends who winter in Tuscon, so we'll probably head south for a couple days too. I think we figure to catch a couple of games, one for my Brew Crew and one for her Cubbies and a nice trip up to the canyon and who knows what else. I'm just pretty excited to get to go. I realize that baseball just ended, but I'm chomping at the bit to see the Spring Training schedule. It would be awesome to go catch a Brewers/Cubs game.
Anyone been down to Spring Training lately? I'm really hoping to get a couple autos while I'm down there too.
cb out
World Series Contest Last Update I swear.
If you didn't win my World Series contest or weren't a runner up this post isn't for you, but if you are one of those 3 this is for you. All prizes went in the mail yesterday afternoon. So you can hopefully expect your packages sometime this week or this weekend, maybe.
Cynicalbuddha's Top 100 #37
Hey look another Bart Starr card. Damn right! Of course this card is near the end of Bart's great career. Still the 1970 Topps Football is a nice looking set. 1970 would be that last full season Bart played football, still he's like a golden god in Green Bay. This is and the 1960 I featured earlier are the only 2 Starr's I own. I get on certain kicks in my collecting. At one time I was aquiring Packers pretty hard, now I seem to be focusing on my Brewer collection. But I ended up getting this Starr for a good price and it's in great shape. And it's nice to feature a card now and then that isn't gold foiled, low numbered, and encrusted in relics.
#37 on the Top 100
1970 Topps Football #30 Bart Starr
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Cynicalbuddha's Top 100 #36
Another Reggie! Well yeah. I featured this card just after I pulled it a few months back, but it's got to be put up on the Top 100 wall. I only bought 2 packs of Lineage this year, and I don't plan on buying anymore. Mainly because how do you top this? Well I guess I could have pulled the Yount Jumbo.
#38 on the Top 100
2011 Topps Lineage AJR-14 Reggie Jackson 60th Anniversary Jumbo Relic #d 21/25.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
1st Annual World Series Contest Rehash
I know I already made a hasty post on Friday night after the Cardinals won the 107th World Series, but lets rehash the whole thing for posterity and for something to do.
OK. Well we had a fairly good turn out, not as good as I'd had hoped, but 21 ain't too bad. I suppose if I'd had made you all pimp it for extra entries or something I might have gotten more, but I don't care. I simply asked which team would win the World Series. Then I asked for the opponent, number of games in the series and total home runs for the series (both teams combined) for tie breakers. And like I said before we didn't need to go to the tie breakers because only one intrepid blogger picked the right team.
Here's what you were playing for
Five nice, but not spectacular, vintage 1960 Topps Baseball cards and a stack of cards from your favorite team.
Here are the 21 original entries if you don't remember what you picked.
The Lost Collector - Yankees over Phillies in 6. 8 Homers.
Night owl - Rangers over Brewers in 6. 7 Homers.
Colbey - Cardinals over Tigers in 5. 7 Homers
And of course only Colbey from Cardboard Collections picked the right team.
I just got the last address I need from Brian over at Play at the Plate. I decided to give the other two finalists a nice stack of their favorite team as well. So all the prizes should go out tomorrow or Wednesday.
Thanks again everybody who participated and congrats to Colbey.
OK. Well we had a fairly good turn out, not as good as I'd had hoped, but 21 ain't too bad. I suppose if I'd had made you all pimp it for extra entries or something I might have gotten more, but I don't care. I simply asked which team would win the World Series. Then I asked for the opponent, number of games in the series and total home runs for the series (both teams combined) for tie breakers. And like I said before we didn't need to go to the tie breakers because only one intrepid blogger picked the right team.
Here's what you were playing for
Five nice, but not spectacular, vintage 1960 Topps Baseball cards and a stack of cards from your favorite team.
Here are the 21 original entries if you don't remember what you picked.
Play at the Plate - Rangers over Phillies in 6. 13 Homers.
Sports Card Blog - Tigers over Brewers in 6. 13 Homers.
Eric L. - Tigers over Phillies in 7. 15 Homers.
Dfwbuck2 - Tigers over Phillies in 7. 11 Homers.
Night owl - Rangers over Brewers in 6. 7 Homers.
Spankee - Phillies over Rays in 5. 5 homers.
Greg Zakwin - Phillies over Yankees in 6. 5 Homers.
Cardanathema - Phillies over Tigers in 6. 7 Homers.
The Dimwit - Phillies over Tigers in 6. 9 Homers.
Paul - Yankees over Brewers in 6. 11 Homers
Josh D. - Phillies over Yankees in 6. 8 Homers.
Matt - Phillies over Rangers in 6. 6 Homers.
Potch - Tigers over Phillies in 7. 9 Homers.
Dan - Yankees over Phillies in 6. 8 Homers.
Piratesfan731 - Diamondbacks over Yankees in 6. 8 Homers.
Stealing Home - Phillies over Rays in 6. 11 Homers.
Robert - Tigers over Phillies in 7. 11 Homers
Colbey - Cardinals over Tigers in 5. 7 Homers
Steve D. - Phillies over Yankees in 5. 6 Homers
AdamE - Tigers over Phillies in 5. 7 Homers
Of those 21 only 3 made it to the final round.
Play at the Plate - Rangers over Phillies in 6. 13 Homers.Night owl - Rangers over Brewers in 6. 7 Homers.
Colbey - Cardinals over Tigers in 5. 7 Homers
The official winning guess would have been this one with all tie breakers correct.
Cardinals over Rangers in 7. 17 Home Runs.
And of course only Colbey from Cardboard Collections picked the right team.
I just got the last address I need from Brian over at Play at the Plate. I decided to give the other two finalists a nice stack of their favorite team as well. So all the prizes should go out tomorrow or Wednesday.
Thanks again everybody who participated and congrats to Colbey.
Cynicalbuddha's Top 100 #35
The second of my 3 Sterling Quad autos of Mr. Yount and yes all three are going to be on the Top 100. It's nice that all these cards are numbered only to 10, it's not so nice that Topps put out 1000's of different cards though, or so it seemed. Still the scan doesn't do this card justice. 2008 was a banner year for this Yount collector with tons of cards issued of the Hall of Famer. I'm slowly running out of variety in my collection and soon it's probably only going to be sweet cards from my PC's and Team collections like this one. But for now...
#35 on the Top 100
2008 Topps Sterling Robin Yount Quad Relic Auto 4SMA-186 #d 01/10
Friday, October 28, 2011
Winner Winner chicken Dinner!!! the Almost easiest World Series Contest on the Web has a winner!!!
It came down to 7 games. We had 3 make it to the finals. I asked you who would win. Then asked for the opponent, number of games in the series and the total number of home runs (combine for both teams).
Well it didn't come to any of the tie breakers after all and Colbey from Cardboard Collections takes it all!!! Congrats Colbey I have those vintage cards coming your way and a nice stack of Braves cards and probably a few Panthers as well. I have the Night Owl's address but if Play at the Plate will shoot me an email with his address I have some conciliation prizes for you guys.
I'm kinda bummed the Rangers didn't pull it out, but I'm even more bummed my Brewers didn't.
So thanks to everybody who played and stay tuned for my next contest.
Well it didn't come to any of the tie breakers after all and Colbey from Cardboard Collections takes it all!!! Congrats Colbey I have those vintage cards coming your way and a nice stack of Braves cards and probably a few Panthers as well. I have the Night Owl's address but if Play at the Plate will shoot me an email with his address I have some conciliation prizes for you guys.
I'm kinda bummed the Rangers didn't pull it out, but I'm even more bummed my Brewers didn't.
So thanks to everybody who played and stay tuned for my next contest.
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