It's time for the Second Annual Almost the Easiest World Series Contest on the Web

I was going to hold off  till after the Wild Card playoff, but seeing as that there will be two other playoff games starting Saturday the MLB is really cramping my style.  So let the contest start.  You have until Sunday Oct 7th, oh let's say 4pm Alaska time or 12 noon EST, to get your picks in. If you want to wait till after the Wild Card playoffs that's cool too, and yes I'm giving you till after the first game in regular playoffs.

What do I want from you? It's simple.  Just tell me who's going to win the World Series.  And again this year we need some tie breakers in case a few of you pick the right team.  So also include who will be the loser of the World Series, how many games in the Series and how many home runs total in the series both teams.

So your entry would look like this

Rangers over the Reds, in 6, 15 home runs.

Now the Teams

American League
Detroit Tigers
New York Yankees
Oakland Athletics
Baltimore Orioles


National League
Washington Nationals
Cincinnati Reds
San Francisco Giants
St Louis Cardinals


What can you win?

Well the grand prize winner will receive every single Golden Giveaway code I pull from Update.  I was hoping to have a box break for you, but Bosco's didn't have any in when I went to trade night last night, so no dice.  But I do still plan on picking up a Jumbo to put my set together, so there will be at least 10 code cards in the mix. But like always I'm sure I'll pick up a few random packs and blasters along the way.
Grand Prize right now:  10 Golden Giveaway codes

And there will be a door prize from just signing up. What will it be?  I don't know yet, probably more vintage or something along that line.  And if you plug this contest on your blog I'll give you an extra entry into the door prize.  Just leave a comment with a link to the post.

All right let October begin!!!

TTM Success - Packers WR Randell Cobb.

I have to say I was excited to see one of my TTM return envelopes postmarked from Green Bay.  I sent a bunch of Packers some cards way back at the start of training camps in May.

Anyways it was awesome to get my second Randall Cobb auto in less than a week.  The first one in a trade and now a TTM. And Randall is stepping it up this season. Returning punts, playing both as a back and wide receiver.

TTM Stats

Date Sent 5/10/12
Date Recieved 10/3/12

Address used

Randall Cobb
c/o Green Bay Packers
1265 Lombardi Ave
Green Bay, WI 54304

Thanks Randall. A great addition to my Packers collection.  Keep up the good work.

Second Annual Almost the Easiest World Series Contest on the Web. It's almost time

I'm not quite sure I like this one game playoff series. I mean I do like that my team had a shot of sneaking in, but to be honest I'm torn. I mean on one hand you've got the 4 best teams in each league about to go for the gold and now you've got the 5th best that might make a push.  With that said and knowing that those playoff games start only 2 days after the end of the regular season and that 2 divisions in the American League haven't even been decided and it's the last day of the regular season, there's not much time to get a contest started.

Soooo.
I've decided not to include the 1 game series in the contest and there might even be a one game tie breaker up in the AL East. And how exciting is it that the Rangers and Athletic's are tied and playing each other for the pennant title tonight!!!!??!!! It's freaking awesome!

So I'm going to wait till we know the final eight teams and the playoff schedule.  But I'm still planning on having the contest so stay tuned.

Trading with the ARP.

Before I left with my last trip. Adam from ARPSmith's Sportscard Obsession asked if I could help out with his 2012 Topps Football needs and if I'd trade one of the Auto's I'd pulled from one of my Jumbo boxes.  Well I figured since I was sorting through my extras for Colbey's set, why not help out another set builder as well.  Well I ended up being able to finish Adam's set and sent off the Kahil auto.  When I got back from my work trip I had a nice think padded envelope full of Packery goodness waiting for me.

Here is a smattering of the goodness.  Plus there was a lot more,  some great team set filler for my sets.
And of course there was this...

Yowza!!! Thanks Adam.  All those Packer cards have found a good home.

Welcome back Ed!!!

I'm sure you all have heard by now, seeing as this came out last night and I'm as much as 4 hours behind the rest of the country. But the NFL and the Refs Union have come to an agreement and we will have official officials on the field TONIGHT.  I will be turning my flag back over.  Now we can start bitching about blown calls from the real guys.  Reset the standings and lets go!!

5 More packs of Series 8 Lego Minifigures

It's funny I get a ton of page hits when I post about Lego minifigures. So I'm going to post about them again.  I was walking by the toy aisle at my local Fred Meyer's, the same one I seem to walk through all the time and the same one I snagged my first three packs from.  I notice there were still a few Series 8 blind packs left.  8 to exact and I had thought of snagging all 8, but I think that would have been a little greedy. So I only grabbed 5 packs.  And added 4 new figures to the collection.  It's almost impossible for me to pass up a box of these things they're like crack.  Here's what I got.

The DJ

The business man/banker. If you were paying attention you might have caught I said I bought 5 packages and only added 4 new figures.  That's because I pulled two of these bad boys. So one if up for trade if you have an extra minifigures, kreons, ect. that I don't have, to trade for it. I have a link on the side to my need list.

Now my two favorite of the bunch.

Guten Tag!!! I got me the Bavarian/German/Lederhosen guy!!! Sweet pretzel. I love pretzels!!

I also got two feathers for his cap in the package. I'm sure that was just a production mistake.

And my favorite of the set so far....

The freaking pirate!!!! The best part is that peg leg and the hook for a hand.

OK I'm much better after a good nights sleep.

Ok Deep Breath. One last post and then I move on till this Sunday which I won't be watching the NFL if there are no real refs.

First I want to say congrats to the Seahawks. Your defense played awesome, Packer offensive line not so much.  And yes if the Packers had done a few things differently than that last play of the game wouldn't have matter. But it did and I'm still a little miffed.  I'm not mad at the Seahawks players or their fans.

I am still mad at Godell and the NFL for letting this go on. It's hard for me to blame the replacements.  I mean how can you be mad at your dog for shitting on the floor if you don't let him outside all day? I mean he tried to hold it, but come on if you gotta go you gotta go. And with that I too scoured the web for funny things generated by last nights show.  Sorry if you've seen some of these or I stole them from you.

Ok I'm better now. Hey baseballs still going on!! Kewl!!!