Happy Festivus!

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Money for Sluggers

and yes this is a real frickin' card and it is AMAZING

one big Cardmas post will be done tomorrow...ish. Any grievances can be left down below.

AND BOY DO I HAVE SOME

A little help please

There are two things I hate like damn - not having time to post regularly, and not knowing the answer to a card-related question. Today I am going to try to kill two birds with one stone with this post.

Mario over at The Wax Morgue has a question: what the hell card is Jose Canseco ruining in this photo?

When Mario first tweeted this question, I was all "I got this". Then I took a good look and I don't got this. Here's a blowed up picture of the card:

Someone needs to get all CSI up in this bitch. ENHANCE! Can anyone out there figure out what card this is?

Wax Heaven O Face

Mario at Wax Heaven has a contest going asking people to send in a scan of their card with the best "O" face. Mario has MaggliO and Steve from White Sox Cards has his Own submission with Boone LOgan. The entries are piling up, so I figured I had to make a game plan if I wanted to win. I first decided to suck up to the judge by finding some CansecO cards. Here's the three stages of CansecO's O face.

Stage 1: "O"akland A's, Two at the same time

O

O

O

Stage Two: Texas Rangers, All dressed up and no place to g"O"

Boing

Stage Three: Chicago White Sox, Clinging on by his fingernails with ED and n"O" Viagra

O nO

Then I thought why try to sway the judge when I can try to sway his wife. Here's a Jeter "O" for the Infamous Tatiana:

"O" baby...

That all got screwed up though when I found this jewel while looking for more Cansecos to bribe Mario with:

Michael J "O" rdan

"O" my l"O"rd, I'm g"O"ing to be sick

Even the back has an "O" face, two actually.

Now that's a lotta Os. Kevin would be proud of all the Os. I don't even know if basketball cards count, but that's the nastiest, ugliest O face card I've ever seen. Go ahead and submit one better if you dare, but I doubt anyone can beat His Airness.

Card Of the Week 1/14/08

We go back to the dark ages of the 90's Insert Wars for this week's Card of the Week. This is a truly bizarre item from Pacific that I found while hunting Cansecos in my pile of neglected '90's boxes. Can you tell what this is? I don't have time to do the full write up now (Mondays suck) but I wanted to share at least the image for now.


And before you-know-who asks, yes this is definitely in your trade pile.

Fleerfan got it right, This is a 1997 Pacific Card-Supial card of Jose Canseco with a teeny little Mark McGwire stowing away in Jose's backside. Card-Supial... marsupial... it's like a little Kangaroo pouch, get it? Yeah, I think it's really stupid too. Here's the back of Jose's card unencumbered by mini-card parasites.

And here's the Mini-Me of Mark McGwire.

Notice how Pacific matched the legs on Jose and mark so the mini picture fits seamlessly in it's mother pouch. Now that's quality. In a time of increasingly absurd chase cards, Pacific was always on the cutting edge with their insert inanity but I have to admit this is one of the weirder ones. It is kind of nice to pull a card that's two cards in one even if one is tiny Cracker Jack prize sized. Only thing is that they didn't put the player's mini card in with the big size card, they were always two different players when you pulled them from a pack. The back of the card goes as far as to state:

"Complete your Card-Supial™." Collect the little Jose Canseco card and place it in the Card-Supial pouch!

This was easier said than done as there were 36 cards in the set, each with a big and mini version, all seeded at the typical one in 73 packs or whatever Pacific odds. If the chase card wasn't bad enough, now you had to chase another chase just to get a non-mixed up card. At least the pairing of the Bash Brothers was cool, even if Jose was in a Sox uniform at the time. The front is actually a really slick looking design, with a big swing swoosh for the name and foil rays radiating from the player as he presumably bashes a homer. I wouldn't send this into PSA though as both the big and mini cards have permanent creases where the mini was jammed in at the factory, which is found on all cards from this set. It's a nice card from the Golden Age of goofy-assed insert sets though, and I hope it will be enjoyed by our resident Canseco Completist, although I apologize in advance if you go nuts trying to find the mini card.