Written by So, just in case I wasn’t angered enough by being in the process of moving, sick as a dog, and on a 56KBPS modem, Toppsarchives has apparently become a smidgen too popular and is stealing more than it’s fair share of cpu. In addition to that, I can’t publish freakin post text. So, while I [...]
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San Diego Padres + Notgraphs
I love notgraphs. Everyone’s capable of crunching the numbers or explaining pfx to you, but they choose to write awesomeness instead. Anyways, Carson Cistulli, one of the best baseball writers out there, posted something on Luke Gregerson’s mustache and the wheels in my brain started churnin’ because that what happens when you’re a stat geek. You [...]
READ MORE »2011 Bowman Platinum Autograph Patches: Yikes.
Those who purchased 2010 Bowman Platinum figured that things couldn’t get worse, right? Topps had, after all, mislabeled an entire set of autograph patches. People purchasing redemptions for Autograph / Patch cards were getting autographed jersey cards and losing their mind. Autographed Jerseys are fairly common place, but autograph patches really get the collecting universe [...]
READ MORE »2011 Topps Football: Game Day Autographs
Very rarely am I undecided on a product, but that’s the case with Topps Game Day Autographs featured in the bran’ spankin’ new 2011 Topps Football. I might not even be undecided, I might just be confused: On one hand, I absolutely love the veteran versions of the autograph set, but on the other hand, [...]
READ MORE »Topps Allen & Redemption
I’ve been close to the edge for a while, but finally 2011 Allen and Ginter has pushed me over. No longer are redemptions a rarity, they seem to be the norm in Allen and Ginter. I view redemptions as basically an open letter to collectors that states a company’s incompetence: Dear Collector, we are incapable [...]
READ MORE »Topps At The National: Things I Like.
Topps fired some goodies to their email list today: Each card will be sequentially numbered to just 299 copies. To obtain any one of these cards, collectors must open 5 packs of 2011 Topps/Bowman branded trading cards at the Topps booth. Each customer will be limited to one card per day. The subjects and [...]
READ MORE »Blowout Cards: An Overwhelming Presence.
Located in Virginia, Blowout Cards has done something magnificent. They’ve entered the trading card industry and succeeded through a combination of cut-throat tactics and innovation. They are, make no doubt about it, a business first. Every penny from every revenue stream is protected with a saber and competition is beheaded before it can come close [...]
READ MORE »2011 Allen & Ginter Week: Tracker Day Two!
You can view day one here and i’ll probably update it a bit… // 220813540391 – Jason heyward N43 AUTO /15 230646626183 – Daniel Hudson RED /10 180695312870 – Sanya Richards RED /10 260817670822 – Gore and Olbermann 190554929077 – Peter Gammons 400229301828 – Jake LaMotta 150631861522 – Dick Vitale 150631862061 – Manny Pacquiao 230646624139 [...]
READ MORE »Ginter Week: Man Vs. Machine!!!
It’s Ginter Week! While I’ve rooted through auctions to find the good stuff, it’s a bit tiresome and not nearly as much fun as writing. So let me ask you a question: Who Wins The Battle of Man V. Machine? My memory of the last few Terminators is a bit hazy, almost non-existent to be [...]
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Bryce Harper Talk: 2011 Bowman Platinum
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Maybe I’m alone, but I still think that there’s almost no chance that Bryce Harper gets the call this year. That means, at least to me, there’s almost no reason to purchase anything but Bryce Harper’s first Bowman Chrome card and that’s still iffy. document.write(” ); Bowman Paper and Bowman Platinum will depreciate in value [...]
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