A Mooss once Bipped My Sister - Part 3 Rumeal

You didn't expect this contest to go quickly did you? You poor deluded fools. I have projects from 2007 I still haven't finished. Here's part three of Spastik Mooss'ssess' Epic 4  Brick Bipping. Bricks one and two were brutal, how about number three? Actually there were a lot of very pleasant cards in there.

Like this Hoops Checklist art card of Dominique Wilkins dunking in the heavens. It's very transcendent... if it weren't for Nique staring at you this would be a great picture to gaze at while meditating. With Nique's glare not so much. EMPTY YOUR MIND OF WORLDLY CONCERNS! LET GO OF YOUR BODY AND FLY... BE FREE! TO TOMAHAWK JAM! BOOM!

Eh, there are weirder spiritual practices...

I like Dan Patrick, I like Dikembe Mutomobo, I just don't understand why a player known for blocking shots and dunking is in a subset called "From Way Downtown". I don't think Deke took a shot from outside the paint in his entire career.

I Friggin love Conlin Cards and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I don't even know who this guy is, but he's vintagey and black and white and in an old Braves uniform and Charles Conlin took the photo when the guy wasn't expecting it and I love it. MY LOVE HAS NO SHAME

A Braves Hall of Famer! On a crappy set when he was at the end of his career and the splitter had turned all the ligaments in his right arm into overcooked spaghetti. Angel hair at that. Holy crap, is that Ron Gant playing second behind Bruce?

Aside from teh ZOMG JASON HEYWARD stuff one of the big items for discussion is about Bobby's last year and who will be his replacement come 2011. This guy here is generally considered to be pretty high up on the short list. If we're going to replace #6 with a rookie with no managerial experience I have to say I'm rooting for Eddie Perez. That dude's going to be a manager somewhere eventually anyway, why net here?

There was dang near an entire Braves team set of 1996 Pacific in the package. Here's Lemmer as an example of the set. It's not a bad looking set even though the foil is a bit ridiculous.

Ah, the 1988 Fred McBip. A rare variation indeed. Extremely rare indeed:

1/1 Bip Card. Hmm... some other blogger uses that schtick in his Bips. the name escapes me for now. So here was the announcement of my doom, now to show you every third card in the package.

That's right, 27 1988 Fred McGriffs to go along with the 1/1 McBip. SERIAL NUMBERED EVEN. So many they wouldn't all fit on the scanner. Holy frijoles. If I ever do a custom set like Phungo, I'll have to include these as an insert. There's one more of these things to go. Hopefully it will be up before Opening Day...

A Mooss once Bipped My Sister - Part 2 Leon

If you're wondering why this post took so long, just scroll down. Assuming your computer hasn't crashed. This was package two with Leon Durham on the front. See?

There's Leon, 2 Legit 2 Bip. Mooss was right too:

Two Crime Dogs ain't no bip. I'm not going to call weaksauce this time because he made up for it. Holy CRAP did he make up for it. Commentary will be minimal, and occasional asides like this one:

will be allowed for something interesting on the back. All of the custom cards are 1/1s too.

Ok, fasten your seat belts. This is Bip Country.

The GoodYear Bip

 

3 Crime Dogs

That's a Bip!

3 Clemens

Bipping has me bent out of shape!

(Boyd has a nice big crease through his face)

3 Big Whites

BP Bip

3 more McGriffs

I never Bipped on baseball!

(yes he did)

4 McGriffs this time

Man I love Dominos...

( note the clever Bip)

Dominos context

5 more McGriffs

The first True Bip of the package.

Did someone say Bip?

Why yes, I believe I just did, Randy. 

Bipped AND Bel Air'd

6 Sheffs

No more, please!

Nope, there's more

Random Pants on the Ground reference. and...

JAM MAN

7 more mCgriffs

This is getting out of control...

Gee Edgar, YA THINK???

The LAST of the McGriffs

(for now)

Bip Pantsed

Indirectly Bipped by Tribe Cards

Ok, I think it's safe to say I got bipped on that one. there are two more packs to go. Oh sweet Jesus, they looked like the real Bips too.

Bring it on

Why yes, I very likely did. I won't deny it, this is all my fault. You can't very well ignore cease-fires with bellicose indifference and unmitigated malice and not expect to have a few grenades launched your way. A certain fellow to the North casually announced in an e-mail today that I Shall Be Bipped. No worries. I'll take all comers, with the full knowledge that my Bipping arsenal is so mighty that with but a wave of my hand, I could unleash a volley of Bips that would leave the blogosphere a smoldering wreck. Mutually Assured Bippage. So bring it on, I'm not afraid. What does not kill me, only makes me stronger. Oh, wait,you have no clue what I'm talking about do you. Maybe this will help.

Tim the Spastik Mooss from Great Sports Name Hall of Fame left a comment in a post boasting he would epically Bip me. Pshaw. I have stared not one, but two 5000 count boxes of NOTHING BUT 1989 Topps in the face. I don't even have nightmares anymore. I lived one. However, every time Tim comments on a post he leaves his trademark Hahahahas and every time I see those Hahahahas I get a little piece of joy lodged in my dark black Bipping soul. Since Tim brings me such happiness, I thought I'd give him a shot at inflicting some Deep Hurting and pretty much dared him to do his worst. Well, today thee was a small Priority Mail package from Tim the size and weight of a brick. Inside was this:

 This is a 1997 Home Town Heroes card from Upper Deck. These coiuld be found in a box set or as a bonus card with a '97 Team set. Although it's a tiny bit worse for wear, it's a Chipper card I didn't have and I love the Tiptons anyway. Here's the back.

Pretty nifty shiny foily thing of the Jones Bros. (Dear God, I just realized that's one letter away from something horrible) Along with the nifty there was also this:

Is this a Bip? There is a small stack of what appears to be Panini Stickers inside. Strata on the side indicate there are some shinies and weirdness inside. On the back is a Panini Play Ball game.

Is this a Bip? On the front is an '88 Fleer Leon Durham. The back has 1996 Leaf #45. The side strata indicates a horrible mishmosh of seemingly random cards. That means nothing as every single one of those cards could be of a certain Mr. Roberts.

Is this a Bip? Rumeal Robinson was the NBA draft version of a Lottery Bip. The back has a 1996 Pacific Jeff Blauser card mocking me. The side is pretty nondescript, although I can see a few Donruss puzzle pieces hiding in there. This brick is actually made up of two different team bags, possibly indicating some shenanigans afoot.

Is this a Bip? There's a Braves Sticker on the front, a 1992 Topps Keith Mitchell on the back and a whole messload of 1990 Donruss in the middle. It's spread out with other cards breaking it up, but you can't mistake that blood, blood red.

IMPROMPTEAU CONTEST FOR ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION AT MIDNIGHT ON A SATURDAY

Pick which package(s) are actual Bippings and win a prize. That's all you gotta do. Just pick:

1) Panini Bip
2) Leon Bip
3) Rumeal Bip
4) Sticker Bip

Or any combination therein, and you win. Simple enough. Your prize?

I shall Bip you.

Yep, that's your prize. I'll Bip the heck out of you. Enter the contest... if you dare.

Mini Mall pt 10 Vintage O-Pee-Chee

Only two more posts for this mini mall thing and we can move on. The fodder for both posts came out of the vintage card (if you consider '70s cards vintage) dime box. Every time I see this dealer I make sure to always get something out of that box then once I get home I become deeply regretful that I didn't get more cards out of the box. One day I'll just buy the whole bloody box and be done with it.

Part one of the vintage cavalcade has to do with our friends north of the border. While there were a lot of '70s Topps cards in that box, there were also a few '70's O-Pee-Chee cards in there too. I have quite a few O-Pee-Chee cards from the '80s, but ones from the '70s are few and far between in my collection so I snapped all of 'em up. Well, not all of them, there were a lot of doubles in there. No one really needs more than one 1980 O-Pee-Chee Tony Brizzolara, do they?

1977 O-Pee-Chee:

155 Andy Messersmith
209 Jeff Burroughs
251 Jerry Royster

That Burroughs card does not say Braves in the '77 Topps set. It has the same crummy photo, but the Rangers team name. So that is most likely Jeff's very first Braves card! That might mean something if anyone knew who Jeff Burroughs was anymore, let alone that he once played for the Braves in The Dismal Years. Since the big attraction to O-Pee-Chee Cards is the french on the back, I scanned Andy Messersmith's card back. Read up, Francophiles. I also felt compelled to scan the cartoon on the back of Jerry Royster's card.

I'm glad Joe Morgan is an expert in something, 'cause it sure ain't baseball analysis.

1979 O-Pee-Chee:

142 Bobby Bonds

This one isn't a Brave, but it had the cool O-Pee-Chee logo inside the baseball and the traded blurb so I couldn't resist.

1980 O-Pee-Chee:

59 Bob Horner
73 Biff Pocoroba
86 Tony Brizzolara
241 Jerry Royster
263 Gene Garber
283 Jeff Burroughs

It just occurred to me that the 1977 and 1980 O-Pee-Chee cards are identical to Topps on the front. Well, except in Jeff's case. Eagle eyed collectors can tell from the card stock that something is amiss. In addition to the French (and in Jerry Royster's case some additional stats) on the back, O-Pee-Chee cards are printed on white cardstock instead of the traditional Topps blah gray. The edges of the card are often a little more ragged too. This comes from O-Pee-chee's practice of not using a blade to cut the card sheets but instead having an angry moose rend the cards asunder with his mighty antlers. That moose did a pretty good job too, except on those occasions he got into the stash of LaBatt's in the back room.