Contest Pimp - Play at the Plate at it again!

It's been awhile since the Contest Pimp has made an appearance.  Brian over at Play at the Plate has decided to come out of his contest hibernation and offer you up a free hanger box of 2016 Topps Series 1 just for guessing the first card he pulls out of his first pack of the product.

GO HERE to sign up.

Contest Pimp - Play at the Plate Year Ender

Yo Yo Yo, Contest Pimp back. Tis the season, with the Super Bowl coming up and the end of the year literally days away. If you don't know about the contest on this blog, shame on you and go enter.  But if you want an even easier contest go to Play at the Plate. You can enter 1895 times if you want and it's easy. Here is a link to the page with rulz.

Stay tuned I'm sure I'll be back with some more contests to Pimp!!

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.

Winning.

I always try to get in on the free easy contests all you fellow bloggers hold from time to time.  Brian over at Play at the Plate had a contest awhile back.  I believe you had to guess what he pulled from packs or boxes or something, anyways I know I guess right twice, but only got one entry, but one was all I needed, cuz I won!!!

My prize was a blaster of 2012 Topps Series 1.  Brian asked if I'd mind he just send the cash as that would be a lot cheaper than shipping a whole blaster up to me.  And of course it didn't bother me at all.  He also sent along a sweet Yovani Gallardo relic he pulled too.

Well when I got home last night I had a nice package from Texas.  I had to take the dog for a walk, but after dinner I hightailed it right down to Target to get my blaster!  I had already bought one from Wal-Mart, so I figured I'd mix it up and see if I could pull a few Brewers red bordered cards, spoiler alert, I did not.

Here's my blaster.  I already pulled a Joe Morgan Historic Stitches card, I was hoping to get a Retire number patch card, spoiler, I did not.

Of course blaster packs come with 2 less cards

Another picture of Roy Halladay.

Here are the two Gold parallels.

I got two 87 Mini's both of which I didn't need for my set.

The funny thing about my two Gold Standard cards is not only did I need them for the set, but I also have player collections for both guys too.  

Paulie Mo in his Twins Jersey.

Reggie in his Angels.

Here are my Red parallel cards.  Colbey and Hiflew, I've put the Braves and Rockies in your respective trade piles already, so unless you don't want them they're yours.

I also got two Golden Giveaway code cards. Since I've been hemming and hawing whether or not I wanted to enter any codes this year or just sell them off, I decided to say what the hell and enter my two codes from the blaster, since it was free.  Here are my two coins.

I also got a small stack of all the other inserts, but seeing as I'm not a huge fan, I won't bore you with those either and just get to the good stuff.

Jackie!!!!!

Unfortunately there are some minor flaws with the Stitches card, you can't tell from the scan but the upper right hand corner where the patch meets the cardboard has a small crease and there's a small crease by the J in the low left.  I was hoping to pull a Reggie Jackson for my PC, but what can you do.  

Anything not already spoken for is up for trade. Let me know.  I have a few trade packages getting ready to head out to all you awesome people who helped me out with my 2009 Upper Deck set.  If I end up getting all the cards pledged I'm down to only 2 left!!!!