by Matt | Jun 14, 2013 | Baseball
Pat from Hot Corner Cards surprised me with a PWE this week. He saw my Brock Holt collection post and chipped in two I didn’t have. I hadn’t bought any Archives and very little Heritage this year, and each product had a Holt I was missing.
Archives is a love it or hate it sort of product and I can’t really claim to be on the “loving it” side of the fence. I don’t have any problem with the concept of re-using older designs, but it seems like this year they just picked them completely randomly. I’ve very happy that Brock here isn’t on one of the designs from the 90’s.
A nice split-card with Kyle McPherson from the Pirates, which I can only assume is intentional since Holt was traded from the Pirates. Heritage is a set I could totally “get behind” if the set wasn’t so insanely large and if they’d stop friggin’ putting Ortiz as a short print. That’s just mean. That said, another awesome Holt RC off my checklist.
A big thank you to Pat, these are completely awesome and go directly into the collection! Thank you sir!
by Matt | Jun 13, 2013 | Baseball
I just got a mystery package, an awesome “B Strong” car decale. I have no idea which one of you to thank, but “thank you!”
Anyone recognize “Diamond Graphics” in Rhinebeck NY?
by Matt | Jun 10, 2013 | Games
Watching the MS E3 briefing this morning. This is a “stream of conscientiousness” thing, will update with details after.
Opening:
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by Matt | Jun 4, 2013 | Baseball
I have roughly (and this is a completely imaginary number) 400 Clay Buchholz rookie cards. Or so it seems. 2008 was the year of a million products and he was a hot rookie. There’s a Buchholz rookie in nearly every product from that year. Sometimes, as I’m about to show, multiple rookies cards at that.
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by Matt | May 31, 2013 | Baseball, Red Sox
The way I pick player collections is this: I don’t. They pick me. After stacking up an inordinately large number of the same player I start to contemplate adding him to my non-Sox player collection. If I get a hit or an auto from that player later on, then I’m pretty much sold. It’s meant to be. You can blame my insane amount of Ryan Zimmerman relics for this policy
What’s even weirder is when that person is traded to the Red Sox later.
Enter Brock Holt. Quite honestly, that’s the best baseball name I’ve ever heard. I can’t see a “Brock Holt” doing anything other than playing a professional sport. Either that or being a kick-ass space Marine in some sci-fi movie. With a name that badass, you have few options.
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