Phil me up! Nice Ebay Lot

I noticed I had been spending too much of my endless free time on cards. Shopping ebay, twitter, and facebook for deals. I had to drain my paypal to make sure I would put my phone down more. So, I bought a sweet lot from ebay for about $15 shipped. It had a ton of relics and big name rookies. It shipped in ziploc bags which I was not thrilled about but only the Pete Alonso canvas sticker had any obvious damage. I got 5 big PC cards in the lot.

At first I thought he was sitting. 1988 Score #555. BOOM!

/999

Love how shiny these are. The lot had a Luis Urias RC of these too.

I don't PC Riley but I am keeping a handful of his cards. I enjoyed his hot streak last year.

Corner damage, ugh.

Really, really big team bags.

Too Many Goodies from Dennis

Bloggers are a different breed. Seems lately I have my Tweeps I trade with on Twitter that are okay, my favorite Trading Card Database swappers I exchange cards and pleasantries with, and then there are the handful of Bloggers I call my friends. Bloggers share that passionate generosity where we feel  thrilling excitement for other people's reactions of what we send to them almost more than when we open cards for ourselves. Dennis from Too Many Verlanders is my closest blogger friend and the most generous person I swap cards with. This dude is always looking out for me in every box of cards he peeks through. He gets me JaCoby Jones and Nolan cards often. Very often. But, even more incredible is the deep cuts he hits into my PC. I can barely remember who I collect. I swear Dennis knows what I collect better than me. Check out this package I got from him pre-Xmas that my lazy ass is just now getting into posting.

JJ and Nolan Scribbles. 

Might have to ask Gibby to start taking my pics for me, jeesh.

How would he even think of me for that Salty? I love it!

Vizquel Blue Jays....mind blown.

Hockey too!

God, these pics are terrible. That Tony Phillips is a work of art. 

He even dipped into some hoops for me!

I couldn't even list and show all the cards he gave me. Last week I forced him to drive to me to meet up with Chuck (C2Cigars) from Trading Card Database. It was a good time but the show was crazy busy for the first time ever. Its always fun to catch up with people in person that you've only interacted with online. Chuck was great and even gave us some cards. I was at least able to give Dennis my less than stellar box of cards I am always building for him. Not being a college sports guy at all, I really owe him something big for his PC very soon. Dennis is the man. I would recommend becoming his friend. He sent out like two dozen packages just like this right before Christmas. Like a Blogger Santa. Santa Blogs? I donno. Thank you Dennis!

Sealed for Freshness and Made with Love from Dennis!

My best bloggin' buddy Dennis  hooked me up "freaky fast" with a sammich bag full of goodness. Thus proving you can ship safely in a ziploc. He tends to drop pounds (of cards) like Jared from Subway in my mail box and in person very often.  Somehow we are both in some kind of USPS super-speed vortex sweet spot that allows us to get packages to each other faster than a Gargantuan from a 16 year old Jimmy John's driver in his mom's 1988 Trans Am. We literally received each other's packages less than 24 hours after sending them. I don't think I will ever break even with the stuff that Dennis finds for me.

Dennis loved the loose Miggy RC in a baggy via ebay I got a few days ago so much he has incorporated the shipping technique into his own trades. 

I've been watching this one card jump between $25-35 on ebay for over a year. Now I have one!

That pinstripe is sick! Young Arenado sporting his guns.

My first Reimold AUTO for my "Nolan" collection!

I have always loved these donruss relics. Andy Dirks is a personal favorite and I have been waiting to pick up enough Panini Points to snag this card. Now, I can get the Austin Jackson on instead. 

Oooh, Acetate cards are my jam!

Prince's swing arm > Encarnacion's Parrot arm home run trot. 

Golden express!

This pin is amazing. I have never seen one before and I always look at the random boxes and in the nooks and crannies of junk tables. 

Now that is a sketch card!

/1500 no less!

Every Nolan Ryan collector has these cards banging around in boxes. I rarely see them in the original box and now can be certain I am not missing any.

How Silly Our Hobby Is

This is that card got above (this one is /99, but big whoop) that I have been watching forever and the seller will not mark it down. Don't have to watch it get relisted anymore!

One single blaster. A break spot in one single blaster. $20. That IS the price of the blaster. I hope nobody was silly enough to get into this.

Silly is probably not a strong enough word for a $1K pack of cards.

I feel like the Tigers have been doing this with Miggy for a long time. They ask $350+ for his signature ttm and way more on actual decent items. 

Secret Santa '18: I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday!

The Collector aka Chris was my secret santa this year and CRUSHED IT! I received two packages in one. He sent along a stack of great Tigers and Nolan Ryan cards as well as 3 HUGE hits for my PC.

Vintage barely describes the age of this sweet fish card from 1900. 

A gorgeous Vizquel auot. Love the crisp blue ink!

A new JJ out of /125! 

Nolan Ryan playing Arthur Morgan. 

Check out this fat stack of Nolans with a Arenado GOLD!

Some Tiger greats and color variations I needed!

I say it a lot but can't say it enough; our blog community rocks! A very Merry Christmas to Chris from The Collector blog. Also, a huge shoutout and thank you to Jon at A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts blog for making sure this happened again this year! I am absolutely thrilled and hope everybody gets what they want this year.

Night Owl Sighting and a Birthday Weekend Card Show

Night Owl Drops a Pellet Full of Goodness

Night Owl Cards is one of my favorite blogs to follow. I find the writing very relatable and share many of the opinions Greg has on the hobby. This week I was surprised by a thank you package from the card hooter that contained some sweet stuff. Thank you Night Owl!

Always need these. Its awesome when I get a stack of them.

What a year for the Tigers team set. Look at that talent!

Some harder to find PC cards I needed.

Reg and Sparkly!

I needed that Stadium Club RC bad!

PC Dudes

The Hometown Heroes team set

I've busted a lot of packs for this card. Thankfully I can stop wasting money now.

PC and Tiger players from my personal "dead era" of collecting. I have barely anything from 1999-2003.

Take a closer look at Jonesy. Wow. The trainer ran out of peroxide that day.

St. Patrick's Card Show

I was born on St. Patrick's day. I like to think that makes me a little luckier than most but I do have to field the "Oh man, you must have crazy birthdays" comments when alcoholics find out. I have never done a pub crawl or gotten sloppy on my birthday but I always have fun. This past birthday I hit up the local card show the day after. I got to meet Dennis from Too Many Verlanders as I posted earlier and got to spend some pocket change. Here's the haul:

I have been craving some 1993 Fun Pack for a few months now. So finding 1994 for $7 helped a little. The 1993-1996 era of cards was my wheelhouse. It was so much fun to break but about 30 seconds in I felt guilty keeping it to myself. This box is meant to be opened with a kid. There are so many packs, interactive cards, and the colors and names are amazing. I am going to buy up some more of this to bust with Nolan in about 10 years.

Look at these names. Soaked in nostalgia.

Where did heat activated cards go? Maybe the gov't bought the technology.

My other big purchase (by size not price) was a box of 1990 Topps Traded for $3, The Nolan Ryan express set for $2 so maybe I'll stop buying them from dimeboxes...maybe, and a binder. The binder was $2 and inside is the complete set of 1992 fleer with prospects and provisions!

From there I hit the singles boxes. The nickel box had not been refilled so I settle for dime, quarter and dollar.

/499

/99

Never pass a good Griffey for cheap, its easy trade bait all day

Can't pass up another Tino RC for pennies

Nice refractor and Flair RC

I have a not so PC, PC collection of Longoria. I respect the guys game for sure. Plus, two cards stuffed into one toploader for a quarter isn't bad.

I have this somewhere but can't find it.

Yup

Super cool Story RC.

Rarish Rocket cards.

More Jimmy

Signed Weaver card? Yes please! He was our "ace" for a while.

I love this set.

Do you think the photographer in the photo was mad that the photographer of this card stole this shot and it turned out cooler than his idea?

Like it says "gold".

Yup. Centered cards be damned. This card is sweet.

Love it

The start of a complete silver signature checklist set.

Wonder when that was written?

Numbered Kapler from the early years of numbered cards.

Cha.

Die Cuts

Numbered Thome, you bet!

When prizms really popped!