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Panini you do love me!!!

So awhile back I opened a crap load of Score Hockey.  I still need quite a few cards.  Stupid collation.  I do believe I busted 5 boxes or so.  And I got one rookie redemption out of all that.  And I finally got my redemption the other day.

I could have done worse.  A Minnesota boy, Derek played 2 years with the University of Wisonsin before going pro.  Not too bad of a rookie season so far either. 

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Trade Post 'bout time!!

Wow it's been a few days.  I ended up taking Tuesday off and making it a 4 day weekend.  A much needed mini-vacation.  Plus now I only have a 3 day work week this week, sweet.  But that means I neglected my blogging duties.  I've got a few things to post about, but first I want to catch up on my trade posts.

First Marie over at A Cardboard Problem inquired about some Cano's I had pulled from my two Series 1 Jumbo box breaks.  I had a Manu-glove and a Platinum Diamond cards that she wanted and we worked out a trade.

I was also in the Series 1 Case break and she sent me all my goodies all at once.  I didn't get anything too spectacular in the case break, I did pull about 4 team sets, a Braun Kimball and two Brewers Diamonds and a bunch of inserts.  I was hoping for a Braun glove or Fielder auto but what can you do?

So in the trade Marie sent me these two lovely Brewers relics from 2009 Goodwin Champions and a bunch of other Braun numbered cards and some other brewers stuff.  Very nice.  I think we're even Marie.

Next up is another trade with Greg from Plaschke thy Sweater is Argyle a hardcore Dodgers fan who was quicker than the other hardcore Dodgers fan also named Greg who is the Night Owl.  Anyways from the same box break Greg inquired about the Diamond  Clayton Kersaw and Carlos Santana I had up on the break and we set up a trade.  I also sent along some other random Dodgers cards from series 1 I had and he sent me a few odds and ends Brewers and Packers cards and this meat of the trade.

Actually the meat was the Hawk jersey card.  Very nice.  But I put the Freeman in there cuz he's numbered and shiny. 

And last but not least we get to my trade with Tony from the The Common (card) Man.  This is are second or third trade.  I lost track but it's usually a fairly large trade.  Last time I sent him a stack of 2010 Topps he needed and almost finished off his need list.  Oh so close.  So he emailed me asking if I'd like to trade for some 2011 Kimball Champions he had.  He wasn't going to put the set together, but I have a feeling he's going to attempt the Platinum Diamond Parallel set.  Because that's what we trade for.  We did a 1 for 1 on the Kimball/Diamonds.  I don't plan on collecting the Diamond variants other than the Brewers team set so it was a great deal for both of us and he knocked off 6 Kimballs from my need list.  He also sent me a huge stack of  2010 Topps Magic I needed for my set and a few 2010 T206's.  I also happened to have a ton of Score Hockey extras so I sent him a nice stack of those from his needs list.  Whew. 

Thanks to everybody and the trades.  If anybody has any 2010 Heritage extras I'm looking to finally completing that set, at least the base.  I have a ton of Heritage extras, as well as, huge stacks of 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 Topps Baseball and a few years of Topps Football, Score Hockey and Football, and 2009 Upper deck Baseball.  I'll probably put together a nice post about that some time later.  Check out my need list on the side bar.  And if you have any 2011 Diamond, Gold, Black, Wal-mart or Target parallel Brewers cards let me know I'm looking to complete my Brewers team sets in each of those parallel and the cards I need are on the needs list page. 

Alright have a great humpday everybody.

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I like winning stuff and so I have no problem pimping a contest or giveaway if it means more entries.  That's for sho....

But I digress.  Head on over to Crinkly Wrappers for another easy contest.  The prize?? A Topps card from 1952 to present. 

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Topps Diamond Giveaway....Ho hum.

It's been a few days.  I've been busy and haven't had anything to say so I didn't.  But I got home yesterday and found a nice box waiting for me.  It was my swag from A Cardboard Problems Series 1 Jumbo Case break.  I didn't get anything too exciting.  I didn't get a hit, which was a bummer, but did get 5 team sets, a bunch of inserts and a few sparkly Brewers cards.  There was also a bunch of other stuff from a trade Marie and I worked out for my Cano Leather Name Plate and Diamond card.  But I also got 2 Diamond Giveaway cards in the break and seeing as everyone was starting to throw codes in I figured I'd throw these 2 in to see what I got. 

My first code wasn't bad.

A 1973 Sam McDowell card.  I ended up getting quite a few 1973 cards from the Million Card Giveaway and it's a classic set.  At least I should be able to trade this for something I might like better.

Then I got the typical second cards

1991 Dave Hollins.  Who?  Yeah.  I looked Dave up.  He was in the majors for 12 years with 7 different teams. 

On a side note I went and had Topps ship me the rest of my Million Card Giveaway cards I wanted.  I just picked everything 1975 and before and then accepted every trade I had on the remaining cards.  You're welcome.  I also did the same thing with my Gridiron Giveaway cards.  Why do I feel so ripped off from Topps.  Their shipping is worse than COMC.  But I digress.  I didn't have to ship my cards to me.  I will say this for a "free" card giveaway it sure seems expensive.

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Just some thoughts on the Series 1 Wrapper Redemption.

This isn't breaking news by any means.  You should all know that Topps is doing another wrapper redemption for Series 1 Topps Baseball.  Wrapper redemptions were all the rage back in the 90's.  I remember sending in my Fleer Ultra wrappers for a limited edition Eckersley set back in the day.  I wonder where those cards are now? 

I found it interesting that last week while at trade night people were tossing their wrappers away.  Or most people were.  And yep I went dumpster diving.  Why not.  Pretty much free cards.  But unlike the Chrome redemptions there was no advertising for the redemption at the shop.  I'm thinking they probably didn't know.  It would seem like anything to sell more cards would be a good thing.  Not my point.  My point is why do I still have to mail these wrappers in.  It seems like such a waste.  This is the 21st century for God's sake.  I have to spend more money shipping trash back to Topps, Topps needs to hire someone to open my mail and count the trash I send, I need to make sure I include a letter with my address on it or something with my address on it, that's legible, and then they need to ship it out.  At least this year Topps is encouraging us to shipped all your wrappers together. 

So back to why we have to ship this stuff in.  I know Topps is terrible with the online stuff.  I don't see that changing anytime soon, but how hard would it have been if this was planned right to print codes on the insides of packs.  Have an online site where you set up an account enter codes and then after you enter 10 jumbo codes or 36 regular pack codes you get a free pack of there cards?  Seem like we reduce waste by no shipping trash through the mail, Topps doesn't need a person to open letters and count wrappers and it could be fairly automated.  Yes I know their redemption site sucks and it seems they are alwasy behind. 

But it occurs to me as I was packaging up my wrappers to send to Diarehha, I mean Duryea, that this could all be so much simpler.

Have a great weekend
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