Ok, time for one of the best movies of all time. And I don't mean that overblown shite by Peter Jackson that desperately needed just one editor. The Good Version.
I have no idea how to create pages but I'll figure it out eventually godammit
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Movies I'm watching tonight
Halloween is finally here! I've got a comfy couch, a case of Diet Dew, a bag of candy and a pile of DVD's. Here's the movie lineup for tonight:
Always start off with a classic. No, not the first one, Jaws 2. Here sharky, sharky! Eat the yummy powerline! Zzzzzzzzap!
Next up something silly. How about Arachnophobia. Any movie with John Goodman is a good movie.
Let's change the pace with a nice Bergman film. Well, crap! The DVD's scratched! Back to Netflix for you. We'll watch this instead.
Can't have all Hallow's Eve without Joel & the Bots. Here, you can watch too! Wait, this is one with Mike! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ok, time for one of the best movies of all time. And I don't mean that overblown shite by Peter Jackson that desperately needed just one editor. The Good Version.
Ahhh, denouement. That was fun. Time to slip into something more comfortable. No, I'm not planning to watch the movie, I normally dress like this. Oh if you insist. Let's do the Time Warp again!
Ok, time for one of the best movies of all time. And I don't mean that overblown shite by Peter Jackson that desperately needed just one editor. The Good Version.
Braves and Free Agency notes
Braves draft pick Jason Heyward and 7 other first rounders got added to 2007 Bowman Draft Picks. Looks like I'll have to pick up a blaster or two now.
Curt Schilling lists Atlanta as one of the teams he'll consider pitching for next year. I'd much rather have him in the rotation than a certain other aged lefty.
The Dodgers are reportedly interested in Andruw Jones. I just hope someone signs him and we don't get snookered into a huge arbitration contract like the one Greg Maddux got a few years ago.
Baseball Prospectus has an amusing list of possible suitors for A-Rod and his 300 million dollar contract. I think Alex would look great in a Nippon Ham Fighters jersey.
Update: Bugger, Mike Cameron got pinched for teh eebil drugs. There goes a CF option for the Braves. Do cards, you big dummies!!!
This is the time of year when Ben Maller and MLB Trade Rumors are absolute required daily reading for at least the next 6 to 8 weeks.
Curt Schilling lists Atlanta as one of the teams he'll consider pitching for next year. I'd much rather have him in the rotation than a certain other aged lefty.
The Dodgers are reportedly interested in Andruw Jones. I just hope someone signs him and we don't get snookered into a huge arbitration contract like the one Greg Maddux got a few years ago.
Baseball Prospectus has an amusing list of possible suitors for A-Rod and his 300 million dollar contract. I think Alex would look great in a Nippon Ham Fighters jersey.
Update: Bugger, Mike Cameron got pinched for teh eebil drugs. There goes a CF option for the Braves. Do cards, you big dummies!!!
This is the time of year when Ben Maller and MLB Trade Rumors are absolute required daily reading for at least the next 6 to 8 weeks.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
2007 Topps Series 3: 15 pack break part 1
Series 3 is out (That's Updates and Highlights to you nitpickers) and I immediately grabbed as many packs as I could. Here's a 15 hobby pack break of this shiny new stuff.
Just as one does not simply rock into Mordor, one can't just open up 15 packs, list them out, scan them all and post everything into one massive post all at once. I'll be breaking this down into three sets of five over the next few days. I'll be updating the posts one pack at a time so you all don't have to wait three days to get the posts polished up before I post them. U&H was already delayed twice, why wait some more? Check out A Pack A Day if you just absolutely can't wait for a pack.
Pack 1:
UH112 Henry Owens
UH81 Kelly Shoppach
UH34 Paul McAnulty
UH159 Jarrod Saltalamaccia RC
UH107 Damion Easley
UH5 Steve Trachsel red
UH200 Brad Salmon RC red
GN522 Curtis Granderson Generation Now Double #3
UH162 Phil Hughes RC
UH227 David Wright NL All Star
Pack 2:
UH116 Jason Frasor
UH123 Jack Cust
UH104 Jorge Sosa
UH198 Mike Zagurski RC
UH45 Byung-Hyun Kim
UH173 Kevin Slowey RC red
UH59 Ryan Doumit
UH265 Jorge Posada Gold #0465/2007
UH273 John Lackey AL All-Star
UH268 Carlos Guillen AL All-Star
Checklist one of three
Pack 3:
UH194 Guillermo Rodriguez RC
UH189 Lee Gronkiewicz RC
UH124 Lenny DiNardo
UH322 David Murphy RC
UH69 Claudio Vargas
UH228 Carlos Beltran NL All-Star red
UH311 Josh Phelps red
GN408 Prince Fielder Generation Now Home Run #12
UH157 Andy LaRoche RC
UH218 Derek Jeter AL All-Star
Pack 4:
UH106 Ruben Gotay
UH118 John McDonald
UH136 Ramon Vazquez
UH101 Jayson Werth
UH200 Brad Salmon RC
UH138 Sean Marshall red
UH118 John McDonald red
GN543 Curtis Granderson Generation Now Double #24
UH157 Dan Haren AL All-Star
UH218 255 Dmitri Young NL All-Star
Pack 5:
UH209 Troy Tulowitzki Season Highlights
UH115 Casey Janssen
UH134 Reggie Willits
UH185 Nate Schierholtz RC
UH67 Tony Graffanino
UH236 Johan Santana AL All-Star red
UH202 Danny Putnam RC red
Barry Bonds Desecration of History 756
UH286 Prince Fielder Home Run Derby
UH257 JJ Hardy NL All-Star
Up soon... Packs 6-10.
Metapost: busier than a three peckered goat in a butt kicking contest
The last few days have been nuts. The World Series, the opening of the Basketball season and Topps Series 3 and 2008 preview are all coinciding with my Halloween posts, booksale finds, wheeling and dealing and Allen & Ginter type set. I'm going to get to all this stuff an more in the next couple of weeks, but first I want to do a little housecleaning so some of my readers don't think I forgot about them.
First of all, I asked for anyone who had their own blog to give me a shout so I could do a little promotion.
Reader Blake owns and operates TwinsCards.com, which - quite frankly - is RIDICULOUS in the sheer amount of cool stuff they have on that site. Just the pages of cards alone is enough to keep you busy for weeks. Don't believe me? Here's the page for Topps. THAT'S JUST TOPPS. There's 4 other pages full of galleries full of every kind of Twins card you could possibly imagine. Then there's photos, autos, magazines, stats, everything Twins under the sun. Now, I'm still a little sore about that thing that happened ion 1991, mind you... But I guess Morten's kick in the Metrodome probably makes us even. Plus I sure wouldn't mind if this guy took over for Andruw in center next year.
Reader Kevin informs me that he's been working on a Baltimore Orioles site that will be much like metsbythenumbers.com (no I'm not linking to such evil things) with lots of Orioles cards. I haven't got the link to the site yet, but when I do, I'll post it. In the meantime he has cracked open a box of 1995 Stadium Club Series One that he picked up online. In the next day or so (basically whenever I can find some scans to post with the break) I'll post it here and on A Pack A Day.
Basketball season tips off today and if you like basketball cards, or just autographs in general, reader Michael's blog Which Way is Springfield? is for you. There's a cool post on Bob Pettit up today. I've got that 1999 Upper Deck Century Legends Epic Signatures card and it's sweeeeeet.
Finally, reader Chris has three sites dedicated to Topps Heritage, Bowman Heritage and Allen & Ginter. These sites are pretty much sales sites and not blogs but they have a couple of interesting tidbits like info on the '07 Nick Swisher variation so what the hell, I'll give 'em a chance.
Anyone out there with their own blog, feel free to comment and you'll get a shout out sometime soon.
Now, what do I have planned for the next few weeks? Here's what:
Just keep on my butt if I start to slack off again. I don't want this stuff to go the way of the All Star Card ballot.
For any of you guys still reading this boring stuff (how did this post turn into a sales pitch?) here's a special treat that apparently none of you caught the first time I posted it as an easter egg. The 2008 Allen & Ginter card of Mythbuster Kari Byron. Enjoy...
First of all, I asked for anyone who had their own blog to give me a shout so I could do a little promotion.
Reader Blake owns and operates TwinsCards.com, which - quite frankly - is RIDICULOUS in the sheer amount of cool stuff they have on that site. Just the pages of cards alone is enough to keep you busy for weeks. Don't believe me? Here's the page for Topps. THAT'S JUST TOPPS. There's 4 other pages full of galleries full of every kind of Twins card you could possibly imagine. Then there's photos, autos, magazines, stats, everything Twins under the sun. Now, I'm still a little sore about that thing that happened ion 1991, mind you... But I guess Morten's kick in the Metrodome probably makes us even. Plus I sure wouldn't mind if this guy took over for Andruw in center next year.
Reader Kevin informs me that he's been working on a Baltimore Orioles site that will be much like metsbythenumbers.com (no I'm not linking to such evil things) with lots of Orioles cards. I haven't got the link to the site yet, but when I do, I'll post it. In the meantime he has cracked open a box of 1995 Stadium Club Series One that he picked up online. In the next day or so (basically whenever I can find some scans to post with the break) I'll post it here and on A Pack A Day.
Basketball season tips off today and if you like basketball cards, or just autographs in general, reader Michael's blog Which Way is Springfield? is for you. There's a cool post on Bob Pettit up today. I've got that 1999 Upper Deck Century Legends Epic Signatures card and it's sweeeeeet.
Finally, reader Chris has three sites dedicated to Topps Heritage, Bowman Heritage and Allen & Ginter. These sites are pretty much sales sites and not blogs but they have a couple of interesting tidbits like info on the '07 Nick Swisher variation so what the hell, I'll give 'em a chance.
Anyone out there with their own blog, feel free to comment and you'll get a shout out sometime soon.
Now, what do I have planned for the next few weeks? Here's what:
- 2007 Topps Series 3 15 pack break and review. As soon as they hit Wal-Mart, expect to see a few blasters broken as well.
- 2008 Preview review. I love the 'circus retro' look of the design.
- 2007-2008 Topps basketball review. Find out why I am collecting this set instead of Turkey Red this year.
- An epic trade just completed.
- More Skeery Monsters! Halloween's not over yet...
- 11 cards for 11 wins - 11 of my favorite Red Sox cards to commemorate their World Series victory.
- The Allen Ginter Project - my insane attempt to collect a 120 year old type set of flags, fish and fruits. I just got three more in the mail yesterday, so I'll be posting cards 4, 7, 3, 8, 2, 9 and 1 (which you have already seen) in that order.
- More Allen and Ginter set reviews like my N1 Editors review. With more MSPainted Allen & Ginter Prototypes! I'm still disappointed no one commented on Bert Sugar.
- The books I picked up from that library book sale a couple weekends ago.
- A special magazine review.
- And more random crap that pops into my head.
Just keep on my butt if I start to slack off again. I don't want this stuff to go the way of the All Star Card ballot.
For any of you guys still reading this boring stuff (how did this post turn into a sales pitch?) here's a special treat that apparently none of you caught the first time I posted it as an easter egg. The 2008 Allen & Ginter card of Mythbuster Kari Byron. Enjoy...
NEWS FLASH: 2008 Topps Preview
Shamelessly stolen from The Bench and Beckett Message Boards, here is a preview of the 2008 Topps design:
Long review plus tentative checklist forthcoming.
Short review: I LOVE IT
Snide comment: Topps' crack airbrushing team better get working on an Angels uni for A-Rod.
Developing...
Edit: bumped to top. THERE IS TOO DAMN MUCH STUFF GOING ON RIGHT NOW
Short review: I LOVE IT
Snide comment: Topps' crack airbrushing team better get working on an Angels uni for A-Rod.
Developing...
Edit: bumped to top. THERE IS TOO DAMN MUCH STUFF GOING ON RIGHT NOW
Edgar, we hardly knew ye
The Sox hadn't even had their Parade, Scott Boras hadn't even apologized for being an asshole, Joe Torre hadn't even been snapped up by a team without an idiot owner, and already Edgar was traded to the Tigers. I haven't even gotten a Renteria Goudey jersey card for my team set yet. So long Edgar, it's too bad we have a truckload of middle infielders and no starting pitching. You'll be missed.
But not that much if that Jair dude is any good. Yunel is a frickin' beast.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Hail To the Champs
Card Of the Week 10/29
I am a set builder, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not a very good set builder. I'm great at going through each of my sets and meticulously noting which cards I need, writing my lists down on a piece of paper, losing the paper, writing it down again, not labeling the paper so I don't know which set it's for, losing the paper again, writing it down in a notebook, not updating the notebook when I get some cards I need so I have to go through the set again for a reality check, doing it all over again in a different notebook that looks better than the original notebook and then going through them just one more time to put it in a word document so I can e-mail it. I'm not that good at actually getting that last card to finish the set. I'll spend hours scrounging through a common box with a wad of checklists picking out cards I need, but when it comes down to the last few I need I usually get stuck. Part of the problem is most of the new stuff I collect has the artificial short prints meant to provide a challenge to us set builders. For me they mostly provide an excuse. The 2002 Heritage set is one of my favorites of all time, but I am a couple of dozen or so short prints away from a complete set. I have all the base cards though, so I don't feel any urgency to find those scarce cards even though I could probably find most of them right now online with one search.
I have no excuse for not completing the base brand sets I collect. For me that primarily means Topps, but there are a few others I try to complete. My sets from the 80's and early '90s are particularly disgraceful as there is absolutely no reason why I can't finish them when complete sets are selling for ten bucks or less. Case in point: 1990 Upper Deck. I need a Mark McGwire, Nolan Ryan special card and Chris Sabo for that set. I have known that I need those cards for at least a decade, but I can't be arsed to go find them. With all the commons I have floating around I'll bet they are all somewhere in my house right now. Recent Topps sets are another pain for me. I have a lot of them completed but still more that aren't. For last years set I'm only missing a league leader card in Series One and I have all of Series Two. But for some reason I got bored with the Updates and Highlights set and still I'm missing a bunch from that set. I probably got distracted by Bowman Heritage on that one to be honest. My attention span isn't that grea- hey look, shiny thing! Part of the problem is I only have three real suppliers for commons: one who is only open near me once or twice a month, one who doesn't have a good selection of common cards and packs. Buying commons online is a pain in the ass and the other dealers around here like to charge a buck each for commons. Hey, if you need it, it's worth the price right? Meh.
I've got lots of excuses, but I think part of it comes down to a mental block I have on finishing sets. I love opening packs as you can tell my my prolific posting* on A Pack A Day. As long as I still need a card from a set, well I can still open packs from that set! What is the point in opening a pack of '87 Topps when I have two sets already, or an '88 or '89 Fleer pack when I already have the factory sets. Opening a pack of 1990 Upper deck is A-OK though. Gotta find that Chris Sabo! That's got to be why I'm not finishing that '06 Update set, I can still find packs everywhere. There has to be some deep-seated neurosis there where I'm terrified of the finality of completion or some such nonsense. In the past couple of years though, my attitude has been slowly changing. Might be because I'm growing up, might be because I'm sick of all the unfinished sets surrounding me, might be because between the license bloodbath and my disaffection with Upper Deck, there's less for me to try to collect and I no longer try to collect everything. Could be that the sheer thrill of finally finishing that sonuvabitch is finally overriding my laziness. One of my collecting goals this year was to complete each series of Topps before the next one came out. that didn't happen with Series One for a myriad of reasons (more excuses!) including the Jeter freakout, a general lack of commons out there and shifting focus to Topps Heritage. However, I've made my goal for Series Three (Updates and Highlights shall now be referred to as Series Three forevermore - pass it on) and finished up both Series One and Two with this week's Card of The Week:
Yep, #60 John Smoltz was the absolute last card I needed for my Topps set. Somehow despite knowing I needed Smoltzie for months and actively looking for him, I still couldn't find his card in Atlanta. Braves boxes, nope. Common boxes, hell nope. Piles of all John Smoltz cards, not there. Bricks with Braves cards on the front and back, nada. Dozens of packs, uh uh. Looking through Rack packs and those goofy packs with 21 cards and a stick of gum for one showing on the front or back, still no luck. I had even downloaded the Smoltz Topps card wallpaper from the web site of that game card that was in every other pack and I still didn't have the actual card. I had checked all the other ones off my list, but still couldn't find a Smoltz card IN ATLANTA. Finally I had my favorite dealer look through the stuff at his house and got this little beauty for free, no less. Hey, it never hurts to ask. In the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit that after doing a reality check, I found that my set was missing #93 Mike Napoli (really irksome since I had his stupid Generation Now inserts) and #436 Ricky Nolasco so they are technically the last cards I needed for the set. I'm not counting those however because I remember buying them out of a common box and they went sideways somewhere in between the shop and my set. They are likely hiding in a pile of doubles thinking they are being sneaky. I simply got two more from the same place I picked them up in the first place as they had several of each. The Smoltz was the one I really had to dig for, so he gets to be the one to finish it off. Bring on Series Three, I'm ready for you now!
*I originally typed posing instead of posting in this sentence before I went through one last proofread. My Freudian slip is showing.
I have no excuse for not completing the base brand sets I collect. For me that primarily means Topps, but there are a few others I try to complete. My sets from the 80's and early '90s are particularly disgraceful as there is absolutely no reason why I can't finish them when complete sets are selling for ten bucks or less. Case in point: 1990 Upper Deck. I need a Mark McGwire, Nolan Ryan special card and Chris Sabo for that set. I have known that I need those cards for at least a decade, but I can't be arsed to go find them. With all the commons I have floating around I'll bet they are all somewhere in my house right now. Recent Topps sets are another pain for me. I have a lot of them completed but still more that aren't. For last years set I'm only missing a league leader card in Series One and I have all of Series Two. But for some reason I got bored with the Updates and Highlights set and still I'm missing a bunch from that set. I probably got distracted by Bowman Heritage on that one to be honest. My attention span isn't that grea- hey look, shiny thing! Part of the problem is I only have three real suppliers for commons: one who is only open near me once or twice a month, one who doesn't have a good selection of common cards and packs. Buying commons online is a pain in the ass and the other dealers around here like to charge a buck each for commons. Hey, if you need it, it's worth the price right? Meh.
I've got lots of excuses, but I think part of it comes down to a mental block I have on finishing sets. I love opening packs as you can tell my my prolific posting* on A Pack A Day. As long as I still need a card from a set, well I can still open packs from that set! What is the point in opening a pack of '87 Topps when I have two sets already, or an '88 or '89 Fleer pack when I already have the factory sets. Opening a pack of 1990 Upper deck is A-OK though. Gotta find that Chris Sabo! That's got to be why I'm not finishing that '06 Update set, I can still find packs everywhere. There has to be some deep-seated neurosis there where I'm terrified of the finality of completion or some such nonsense. In the past couple of years though, my attitude has been slowly changing. Might be because I'm growing up, might be because I'm sick of all the unfinished sets surrounding me, might be because between the license bloodbath and my disaffection with Upper Deck, there's less for me to try to collect and I no longer try to collect everything. Could be that the sheer thrill of finally finishing that sonuvabitch is finally overriding my laziness. One of my collecting goals this year was to complete each series of Topps before the next one came out. that didn't happen with Series One for a myriad of reasons (more excuses!) including the Jeter freakout, a general lack of commons out there and shifting focus to Topps Heritage. However, I've made my goal for Series Three (Updates and Highlights shall now be referred to as Series Three forevermore - pass it on) and finished up both Series One and Two with this week's Card of The Week:
Hum Ho
Man it's sure been a while since Scott Boras has acted like a total dick hasn't it? Wait, what? Boooooooooring.
The Allen Ginter Project: Card #5 - N19 Pirates of the Spanish Main
Ahem. Sorry about that, I went all Piratey there again. What I meant to say is that I purchased this card for 9 dollars. There was no keelhauling, murdering or pillaging of any kind. It's easy to get carried away with this set, the fronts have a portrait of a murderous pirate with an appropriate scene of buccaneerish activity going on in the background, while on the reverse there's a short story of the pirate's adventures, often wonderfully bloody and horrific. The one I snagged is of Alexander Bras-de-fer, who is pretty tough to find information about online other than in a couple of old books scanned by Google. Ol' Iron Arms was also in a 1949 Topps X-ray set (card 165), so he couldn't be that obscure. I get a kick out of having my site pop up whenever I do a Google search so I'm going to add to Alexander's online lore by copying out the text on the back of his card for those of you not inclined to squint at the scan.
About the time that Lolonois, in command of a powerful fleet, was engaged in his fiendish exploits, there was a singular adventurer at Tortuga by the name of Alexandre Bras-de-Fer, who, in his small way, was engaged in making history with as earnest a purpose as his illustrious contemporary. This brave and prudent sea-robber never joined in large expeditions, preferring to sally forth in his swift cruiser, with no one to share or subtract from his gains. On one occasion when Alexandre was bound upon an expedition of great consequence, he was overtaken by a scorching tropical calm, which was followed some days later by a furious tornado. The pirate crew were suddenly stranded upon a lonely isle. Not many days after, a large ship approached, attracted by the pure water which the island afforded. Presently a boat was lowered, and a well armed party of Spaniards cautiously landed. Bras-de-Fer laid a careful ambush; and at a given signal, the buccaneers rushed fiercely upon the Spaniards and slew them to a man. Then they donned the dress of their victims; and thus disguised, pulled out to the ship. Not until they had clambered up the sides were they recognized. The surprise was sudden and complete. In a few minutes the rich ship was a prize to the buccaneers, and Alexadre triumphantly sailed away to seek other adventures.How's that for kicking ass and taking names? Iron Alex carries his ill-gotten booty in a BMF wallet. This is card #27 of the set. I almost bought a card of Charles Vane that was closing the same day as this card, but I held off because the back was damaged and you couldn't read the cool story. I kind of wish I had gotten it now though, this is a killer set. These suckers can get expensive too, stupid Johnny Depp and his movies had to make pirates all popular again.
Labels:
Allen Ginter Type Set,
N19 Pirates,
Pirates
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Old Football Brick
While the new cards remind me only of pain and idiot coaches and pit bulls and imploding franchises, old football cards are soothing reminders of better days. Geez, you know your team is in horrible trouble when you think wistfully about the Falcons teams of the 1980's. I still wish David Archer would just suit up already. He's probably too smart for that though, he's been watching that offensive line every week doing analysis on the radio broadcast.
1985 Topps Larry Moriarty #252
1985 Topps Rick Karlis #244
1988 Topps Tommy Kramer #148
1986 Topps Philadelphia Eagles #268
1972 Topps Bo Scott Pro Action #123
1992 UpperDeck Pierce Holt #250
1991 UpperDeck Dan Saleaumua #196
1991 UpperDeck Ferrell Edmunds #291
1991 UpperDeck Reggie Roby #272
1991 UpperDeck Christian Okoye #176
1991 UpperDeck Rod Bernstine #118
1991 UpperDeck Lee Williams #341
1991 UpperDeck Joe Kelly #509
1994 Pinnacle Carlton Bailey Trophy Collection #39.
1996 Finest Marvcus Patton Destroyers #337 D72
1996 Finest Rocket Ismail Playmakers #322 P111
1996 Finest Aeneas Williams Destroyers #317 D75
1996 Finest Carlton Gray Destroyers #333 D87
1996 Finest Lawrence Phillips Freshman #314 FM14
1996 Finest Adrian Murrell Playmakers #342 P109
1996 Finest Greg Hill Playmakers #297 P114
1996 Finest Alonzo Spellman Destroyers #279 D103
1996 Finest Brian Dawkins Freshman #344 FM26
1996 Finest Curtis Conway Playmakers #233 P77
1996 Finest Ray Mickens Freshman #330 FM31
1980 Fleer Baltimore Colts #3
1980 Fleer Atlanta Falcons #2
1979 Fleer Cleveland Browns #11
1979 Fleer New Orleans Saints #34
1979 Fleer Baltimore Colts #3
1980 Fleer San Diego Chargers #47
1980 Fleer Green Bay Packers #20
1980 Fleer Houston Oilers #22
1980 Fleer Cleveland Browns #11
1980 Fleer Miami Dolphins #27
1982 Fleer Oakland Raiders #40
1979 Fleer Green Bay Packers #19
1979 Fleer Baltimore Colts #4
1981 Fleer Flat Out #78
1981 Fleer Green Bay Packers #20
1981 Fleer New York Giants #35
1979 Fleer Super Bowl VII #63
1979 Fleer Houston Oilers #21
1979 Fleer Pittsburgh Steelers #43
1979 Fleer Super Bowl IX #65
1980 Fleer San Diego Chargers #47
1981 Fleer Miami Dolphins #28
1979 Fleer Super Bowl XI #67
1979 Fleer Super Bowl III #59
Here's the answer to the quiz from that Bo Scott card:
Labels:
brick,
Finest,
Fleer Action Football,
Football,
old Topps
Saturday, October 27, 2007
HOLY CRAP WE BEAT FLORIDA
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!
42-30!
Knowshon for Heisman!
Everbody done gone crazy!
I knew I should have had by Bulldogs cards scanned and ready... dangit
Watch this in the meantime:
42-30!
Knowshon for Heisman!
Everbody done gone crazy!
I knew I should have had by Bulldogs cards scanned and ready... dangit
Watch this in the meantime:
Labels:
Gooooooooooo Dawgs,
Sic 'em,
woofwoofwoofwoofwoof
Friday, October 26, 2007
More Skeery Monsters
Here's some more monsters for you to celebrate Halloween. These monsters come from my collection of old Garbage Pail Kids stickers.
Duncan here is one of the first emos, carving himself so he can feel. He needs a lot of work on his goth look though.
RAWR! Frankenstein squish cat! Ingenious placing of the neck bolts since none of these kids have any necks.
Real werewolves don't wear diapers. They let their wolfy nethers flap in the breeze while ravaging the populace. The bat flying in front of the moon is the closest thing I have to a vampire card. There has to be one of these things named BELLE LUGOSI out there somewhere.
This homage to the Mars Attacks! set is one of my absolute favorite trading cards ever. It's a shame Tim Burton screwed up the movie so badly.
Where'd you get your information from, huh? You think that you can front when revelation comes? I'm pretty sure this dude's in Revelations somewhere.
Everyone flipped out over the Sopranos ending and Topps had it nailed way back in the 80's. Tony's dead baby, but don't stop believin... In the movie he comes back as a ZOMBIE!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Hail to the Champ
Thorzul's 1981 Topps Tournament has crowned a winner! Who is it? Click and go see!

Meanwhile U L Washington and his toothpick wants a recount... I think you better give it to him.
Meanwhile U L Washington and his toothpick wants a recount... I think you better give it to him.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Skeery Monsters!
I can't blame all my recent inactivity to work and family and all that other real life stuff that keeps me from messing with my baseball cards. I've been distracted by the thing that makes October great. No, not this crap, my team is long gone and I wanted to see the Indians and Phillies so we could find out once and for all which city's Voodoo losing curse is stronger. (turns out both are pretty darn strong) No, it's Halloween season! There are bad horror movies to watch! Goofy Pop Culture references to catch! And Candy! Lots and lots of candy. I'm munching on some mallowcreme pumpkins as I type this.
There's not a lot of overlaps between horror movies and baseball cards except for maybe the Sandy Koufax card from Needful Things. There are tons of non sport stuff out there that feature monsters and such. I-Mockery, the folks who reviewed the candy in the link above, show off one of these old monster sets with their Topps Monster Initial Sticker Name Generator. It's a nice review of a rare old non-sports set, plus you can make your name out of monster stickers without tracking down the cards! Check it out!
Woooo! Scary monsters! If you scroll down to the end of the monster generating link, you get even more trading cards. The world is totally ready for a Herschell Gordon Lewis card. This is actually I-Mockery's second set of Scary-Ass trading cards, they put out a set of 13 last year. WARNING - the last card on that page is one of the most horrific monsters known to mankind... Click with Caution!!! You can't get series two in factory set form though, oh no... You have to collect them. Simply search through the site and find each of the cards, then e-mail the URLs listed to the webmaster to get your special bonus card (plus a chance to win a Halloween prize pack). There are twenty cards in this year's set and they are just as good as last year. I've found 15 so far, the latest is of one of my favorite actors:
Peter Lorre! Forget Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon and all the other great movies he did, he was the inspiration for the voice of Ren from Ren & Stimpy. This is a really nifty set for all the monster movie lovers out there. Go get 'em all, if you need some hints check the comments for some spoilers and then leave your own tips for finding cards.
There's not a lot of overlaps between horror movies and baseball cards except for maybe the Sandy Koufax card from Needful Things. There are tons of non sport stuff out there that feature monsters and such. I-Mockery, the folks who reviewed the candy in the link above, show off one of these old monster sets with their Topps Monster Initial Sticker Name Generator. It's a nice review of a rare old non-sports set, plus you can make your name out of monster stickers without tracking down the cards! Check it out!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Fat Managers
John Rolfe of Sports Illustrated has a fun article up on major league managers. His thesis is basically Old School Managers are a) fat or b) crazy or c) both. It's well worth reading it just to see Eric Wedge's sour puss. That picture is probably what he looks like right now after that terrible ALCS.
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