2024 ONLINE BLASTER - PART 22: COMPLETED SETS FROM A NEW BOX

 I GOT MY SECOND BOX FROM BASEBALLCARDSTORE DOT CA AND I'M ONLY ON POST FOUR FROM THE FIRST BOX LOL. I'VE RUN OUT OF CUTE NAMES FOR THESE BOXES SO WE'RE JUST SWITCHING TO 2024 ONLINE BLASTER NOW UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF CARDS OR RUN OUT OF YEAR. I ALSO HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SORT THIS BOX INTO POSTS BUT I AM STICKING TO MY 2024 GOAL OF POSTING THINGS AS SOON AS THEY ARRIVE SO HERE'S A POST OF THE STUFF THAT COMPLETED SOME INSERT SETS FOR ME

THERE'S LOTS OF NEAT STUFF I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SHOWING OFF IN THERE AND THAT TEAM TIMBER ON TOP APPEARS TO BE SOME LAGNIAPPE AS I DO NOT REMEMBER BUYING IT ON THE SITE

1991 FLEER ULTRA BARRY BONDS ULTRA TEAM

I THINK I SHOWED THIS OFF ON A WEEKLY RECAP POST BUT NOW IT'S HERE SO I CAN SHOW OFF THE WHOLE SHEBANG

THIS IS A REAL SNAPSHOT OF 1990. FOUR HALL OF FAMERS, ONE SHOULD BE A HALL OF FAMER, ONE COULD HAVE BEEN HALL OF FAMER, ONE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE WITH FRIENDS ON THE VETERAN'S COMMITTEE HALL OF FAMER AND THREE HAD A CAREER YEAR IN 1990. WITH THIS I NOW HAVE THE MASTER SET OF 1991 ULTRA. EXCEPT FOR A FEW LOGO STICKERS. AND ABOUT HALF OF THE UPDATE SET. I DO NOT HAVE A MASTER SET OF FLEER ULTRA, BUT THIS INSERT SET IS DONE AT LEAST. 

1991-92 UPPER DECK BRETT HULL HOCKEY HEROES

IN A PREVIOUS POST I MENTIONED THAT I'M RUNNING OUT OF BASEBALL UPPER DECK HEROES INSERT CARDS TO COLLECT AND I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO START WORKING ON OTHER SPORTS. WELL, I STARTED. THIS SET IS A LITTLE ODD BECAUSE ALL THE BASEBALL HEROES SETS PAID TRIBUTE TO AN ALL-TIME GREAT WITH A CAREER'S WORTH OF HIGHLIGHTS, BUT HOCKEY CHOSE A 5TH YEAR PLAYER. IT WAS A VERY GOOD CHOICE AS HULL WON PRETTY MUCH ALL THE AWARDS BY 1991 AND ENDED UP IN THE HALL OF FAME WITH A COUPLE STANLEY CUPS. THANKS TO THE SHORT CAREER AT THIS POINT WE GET COLLEGE AND MINOR LEAGUE CARDS OF HULL IN THE HEROES SET WHICH IS PRETTY NEAT. HERE'S THE WHOLE THING WITH HEADER CARD

THIS IS A NICE LOOKING SET! UP NEXT FOR HOCKEY HEROES IS WAYNE GRETZKY (WHY DIDN'T THEY DO HIM FIRST??) AND GORDIE HOWE AND AFTER THAT I HAVE NO CLUE. I AM EQUALLY CLUELESS ABOUT THE BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL HEROES SETS. I'VE GOT SOME RESEARCH TO DO IF I'M REALLY DOING THIS HEROES COMPLETIONIST THING

2008 UPPER DECK PRESIDENTIAL PREDICTORS

THIS IS A CRUMMY THING TO POST NOW THAT WE'RE ENTERING MAYBE THE MOST MISERABLE ELECTION SEASON OF OUR LIVES BUT BACK IN 2008 THINGS WERE MORE WHIMSICAL*. UPPER DECK GAVE US A SET OF PREDICTOR CARICATURE CARDS FOR MOST OF THE TOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN SERIES ONE AND FOLLOWED IT UP WITH OBAMA VS. MCCAIN CARDS WITH HILLARY VARIATIONS SINCE THINGS WERE STILL A BIT UP IN THE AIR WHEN THE CARDS WERE BEING PRINTED. THE VERSUS CARDS ALL WERE PARODYING FAMOUS BASEBALL FIGHTS WITH THE CANDIDATES. THE ARTWORK WAS THE PERFECT MIX OF HILARIOUS AND HORRIFYING AS YOU CAN SEE BY THAT CARD OF HILLARY'S BADONKADONK WITH MCCAIN COPPING A FEEL IN THE SCRUM. AS AN OG CARD BLOGGER I WAS CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED TO BUY WAY TOO MUCH 2008 UPPER DECK AND HAD MOST OF THE SET ROTTING AWAY IN A BINDER. THESE TWO CARDS FILLED UP THE LAST TWO OPEN POCKETS AND NOW I HAVE TWO COMPLETED PAGES 

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE SINCE BEEN DISGRACED TO SOME LEVEL SINCE THIS - JESUS, IT IS SIXTEEN YEARS NOW?? - SET WAS RELEASED AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CARDS WITH PALIN AND BIDEN. I WILL NEVER COMPLETE THE ENTIRE SET AS THERE'S THE VP INSERTS THAT WERE IN SP AUTHENTIC AND AN OBAMA VICTORY CARD WHERE HE'S GETTING GATORADE DUMPED ON HIM THAT WAS A MAIL-IN EXCHANGE CARD I THINK AND THE ORIGINAL HILLARY CARD WHERE SHE WAS PORTRAYED AS MORGANNA THE KISSING BANDIT GOT YANKED AND I'M NOT EVEN CERTAIN IT ACTUALLY EXISTS OR IF IT WAS JUST A GIMMICK TO GET SUCKERS TO RIP MOAR PACKS. I'M ALSO MISSING ONE OF THE HILLARY VARIATIONS AS YOU CAN SEE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?  WITH TWO FULL PAGES THIS SHIT IS COMPLETE AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. THESE PAGES ARE BACK IN THE BINDER AND I NEVER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THEM AGAIN. HOORAY! 

A GET WELL SOON TO STEVEN, THE PROPRIETOR OF THE SITE WHO IS UNDER THE WEATHER AT THE MOMENT. HANG IN THERE BUDDY

UP NEXT: I HAVE NO IDEA! I STILL NEED TO SORT ALL THIS STUFF

*THEY WERE NOT, EVERYTHING WAS TERRIBLE AND WE WERE ALL A NERVOUS WRECK. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME