2023 COMC BINGE - PART 14: HEY TEK

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE I ONLY PICKED UP ONE JASON HEYWARD CARD IN MY BLACK FRIDAY BINGE. THE FIRST ORDER I EVER MADE ON COMC WAS MADE UP OF MOSTLY J-HEYS. I GUESS I JUST HAVE TOO MANY PLAYER COLLECTIONS NOW, PLUS NEW HEYWARD CARDS ARE STARTING TO BECOME SCARCE NOW THAT HE'S MORE OR LESS A FOURTH OUTFIELDER TYPE. POOR JASON, GETTING CROWDED OUT BY RONALDS AND TRAES. EVEN WORSE I BOUGHT THIS SAME CARD LAST YEAR

2014 TOPPS HIGH TEK JASON HEYWARD MICROCHIP PATTERN

FROM BLAST PATTERNS TO MICROCHIPS. I LIKE THIS DESIGN MUCH BETTER. MAYBE IT'S JUST BECAUSE IT'S PHOTOGRAPHED INSTEAD OF SCANNED BUT IT LOOKS WAY COOLER THAN EXPLOSIONS GOING EVERYWHERE AND CLASHING WITH THE COMET SHARDS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. I LOVE CLEAR CARDS AND I LOVE HOLOFOIL AND I REALLY LOVE CLEAR CARDS WITH HOLOFOIL SO THIS IS A NO BRAINER PICKUP FOR ME. I'M GLAD I DID, THERE ARE NO MORE COPIES OF THIS CARD ON COMC AND I DON'T ANTICIPATE ANYONE DUMPING A PILE OF DECADE OLD FRINGEY ODDBALL SET CARDS ON THE SITE ANY TIME SOON 

MY TCDB LIST IS ALREADY HOPELESSLY OUT OF DATE AND I'M CERTAIN THAT I'VE ALREADY PUT SOME CARDS IN THE BINDER THAT DID NOT GET INTO THE DB. I DID PUT THIS ONE IN THOUGH ALTHOUGH IT TOOK SOME DIGGING TO DETERMINE THAT WHAT COMC CALLED THE MICROCHIP PATTERN TCDB CALLED THE PIPES PATTERN. THIS WAS COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO PICTURE FOR JASON'S CARD. SADLY MY SCANNER IS KAPUTT AND I DON'T THINK THEY LIKE PEOPLE UPLOADING JANKY OFF KILTER PHOTOS TO THE SITE SO IT WILL REMAIN PICTURELESS FOR THE TIME BEING. I NOW HAVE 215 CARDS (THAT I'VE BOTHERED TO ENTER) FOR 4.7% OF ALL HEYWARD CARDS. LORD HOW I WISH I COULD FILTER OUT ALL THE SHORT PRINTED AND SERIAL NUMBERED CARDS AND GET A NICER NUMBER. I'M STILL IN THE TOP TEN OF COLLECTORS WHO HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO ENTER IN THEIR CARDS ON THE DB WHICH IS NICE, BUT I'M FALLING BEHIND THE CUBS COLLECTORS QUICKLY. JASON'S GOING INTO THE HALL WITH A CUBS HAT AND I'VE ACCEPTED THIS

AND HERE'S THE BINDER PAGE OF TEK CARDS I PROMISED IN THE LAST POST. THERE'S ALSO A CAMEO APPEARANCE FROM THE FIRST PAGE OF THE 2015S WHERE J-HEY CARDS TRANSITIONED FROM BRAVES TO -UGH- CARDINALS. THAT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER REASON I'D LIKE TO FILL UP THIS PAGE AS A TRIBUTE TO THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF HEYWARD CARDS. I'M FINDING OUT IT WILL BE WAY EASIER TO GET A PARALLEL SERIAL NUMBERED UNDER 100 AND AN AUTOGRAPH TO FILL OUT THE BOTTOM ROW THAN IT WILL BE TO FIND THE RARER ZIG ZAG AND SHATTER STRIPES PATTERNS. THIS IS ONE REASON WHY I STILL HAVEN'T PICKED UP THE MOST COMMON BASE CARD, I WANT TO HAVE AN OPTION TO PICK UP A CHEAP HEYWARD IN A PINCH. PLUS THE MOMENT I BUY IT I WILL FIND A PILE OF THEM IN A DIME BOX. I'LL BUY THEM ALL ANYWAY BUT STILL