Trade Package From Just A Cracked Bat Flip Away

WOW

Let me first start by saying Julie from the blog A Cracked Bat knows how to package some cards! No offense to anyone who has sent me packages in the past but this box was packed safer and more perfect than any I have seen before. A while ago I sent Julie some cards that in no possible way were equal to this package. If anyone ever receives a random pwe, bubbler or priority box from me without warning just know they are not a "trade package" just a "hey, have some cards because I enjoy your blog" package. Julie supplemented my Tigerfest load as well as probably doubled my Nick Castellanos and Jim Edmonds PC's. Julie only lives a few miles from me and sometimes its painful to look at her blog because of card envy but I have definitely learned its better to befriend collectors who share your PC's. I must apologize this package was so big I had to use my phone for pics instead of the scanner and it took a few days. I may have left out more cards than I wanted to. Check out what I was able to record for this post:

Absolutely perfectly packed box.

The cards just kept coming!

This team set is amazing! This is the Tigers logo and team I grew up on. I am hoping to get some of these scribbled on at Tigerfest.

Salty and Yelich!

Cool Worth refractor. He wasn't bad.

High end Fulmer!

Two very cool photos of Mags.

I love the look of these cards and Granderson is terrific!

Embossed Sheff!

/50!

A very cool Pudge I haven't seen before!

Mags and NOT C-Mo!

I was a big Dean Palmer fan! Mostly because there was nobody else on the team to root for back then.

Tiger fans will never forget Galarraga or Jim Joyce and this card is amazing!

Price refractor and die cut. Just reminders of the Aces the Tigers have lost: Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Price, Ray....

Sweet!

This card is so frickin' cool. I hope I see him at Tigerfest.

The Goodwin Champions set was underrated.

My first Honus Bonus cards!

A kid in front of me at the Jack Morris Walmart signing handed him this card. I will never forget his comment to the child "Who gives a shit what Derek Jeter says."

Minis of 3 of my fav's and Peralta

Youngster RC's!

Casty on Casty on Casty! Incredible.

My new favorite!

Senior pic?

Look at this! Who throws this in a random package?! PC Forever!

The UD card is amazing!

The core.

Gypsy Queen set! Just begging for scribbled ink.

Vintage!

My favorite vintage set of all time!

I hope Stanley does at least one more local signing.

GIBBY!

Embossed Fryman I have never seen before!

Big Daddy! That McDonalds card is so sweet.

Flair Insert Robby Alomar!

Two Prince's I didn't have.

Look at all the Miggy's! Who dishes out a stack of sure HOF cards?

Gold

Rainbow foil to take to Tigerfest!

Sparkly Migs

Harder to find Miggy

Shiny Miggy

Begging for ink Miggy

Miggy miggy miggy

more Miggy

Awesome Miggy. My first Moniker card.

/99!

/199!

Relic cards too!

Heading to Tigerfest with me!

#'ed Kaline? Dang!

Beautiful classics

I love military themed cards. This one is awesome!

Kaline!

Greats!

Willie!

The late Jim Bunning

My coolest Jim Edmonds card!

Third coolest.

Second coolest.

Rookies!

So many awesome Jim Edmonds cards!

Julie you are awesome! Thank you so much. Go Tigers.

WORST Mail Day Ever...Try to Top it

This is a very impromptu post that may get posted if I don't break my keyboard with my aggressive typing at the moment. Two ebay orders came today and I am calling out the sellers HARD. Sometimes we have to stick up for the hobby to weed out the idiots who take advantage of us and don't deserve to be part of it.

First and Worst:

Ebay seller jamestieh_4 shipped me 14 cards he sold me. Shipping was free so I expected a PWE. What I didn't expect was the cards to be wrapped in toilet paper stapled on the corners. I am NOT joking, take a look:

I am still in disbelief. He may as well have wiped his ass with it before sending. As you can see by the writing it is possibly a 6 year old kid plus the addresses were very very poorly written with no names and odd placement. If this is your kid; congrats for getting them into cards but keep them off ebay if you can't supervise it. My God.

Second and I said the last was worst but this is a pro breaker

I have done breaks with 702Breaks before but hadn't before my breaker review .  I recently got stupid and bid $13 on a football break with them. I only hit a base card in the break which sucks but that's the chance I take. Today the card showed up. Loose in the bubble mailer was my card, a penny sleeve, and a toploader. ALL SEPARATE. He didn't take the 2 seconds to slide the card into either the sleeve or loader. It was all banging around together in an oversized bubble mailer with nothing else in it. The amount of laziness involved should have been clear to me now looking back at the breaks and not enjoying listening to the vulgar oaf ripping packs apart. This is why I review breakers. To avoid bullshit breakers who suck. I am disappointed I didn't include this breaker in my reviews.

My $13 base card...naked.

Now, I know some will say "it was only a base card" but I spent $13. Many other breakers would send extra stuff for not pulling anything good. That is nice but I don't need that! I just need my purchase to be treated fairly no matter the value. Especially if you do this for a living.

RANT OVER

#THANKSEBAY