“My hypocrisy only goes so far”
I'm your huckleberry...Package from Dennis
I got a great trade package in the mail the other day from my Tiger trade buddy Dennis over at Too Many Verlanders/Grandersons/Manninghams/BlogTitles. 😉 I had sent him a message about the Olympics set disappearing from store shelves and we initially were going to...
PWE from Sam
My good buddy Sam over at the Daily Dimwit mentioned to me that he had a couple cards I had been looking for and that he was sending me a PWE. What I didn't realize was that it would finish off not one set, but two. First up, four previous Red Sox members who were on...
Hockey Hits
I've been on a bit of a hockey kick lately. Not that I'm ever "off" hockey, as a fan I'm always following my team, but it's not a big part of my collecting habits. For one, hockey cards seem under-produced in general, which leads to higher prices. I'd rather throw $3...
Series Uno
Wait, what? Series 1, are you serious? Yeah, kinda. Heritage came out last Friday, and I'm so ticked off at it that I'm actually going to post a now completed team set for Series 1. Why? Because, while flawed at a fundamental level, at least Series 1 has the common...
The Good Stuff
Finally, we come to the end of the rainbow. This post may be exceedingly long, mostly due to the fact that I wanted to post most of these individually. Everything here will be part of my personal collection. These are the reasons I went to the card show in the first...
One of these things doesn’t belong
Actually, more like all of them, and specifically to my personal collection. Well, a couple of them are borderline. A couple of them were also complete mistakes. Let's start with those! So, picture this. Large conference/event center, hall filled with people and...
Random Rookies and Refractors
By "Rookies" I mean both official rookie cards and "early card from people who may/may not suck" and by "Refractors" I also mean parallels, diecuts, sparkles and any other bullcrap a card company can think up. That was actually going to be the title of the post,...
Back to the Show
The title works in a number of ways. Most as a return to form as well as a call back to cards I picked up at the end of January. For myself, writing has always helped with the stress of things, or being entirely to stressed out to write was entirely a double-edged...
Where the hell have I been?
That's a fair question. I just wish I had a more interesting answer. Right here. I haven't gone anywhere. I've been busy worrying, planning, contemplating, and trying to float in a sea of uncertainty. My company is "re-organizing". Anyone that's seem Office Space...
Quick Olympic Update
I've been busy with work, and scanning stuff from the card show in my non-existent spare time, which I promise to post at some point, but I wanted to toss out a quick update on a set in hope that someone might have the cards I'm looking for. I've been trying to put...