Atlanta Bravos Style

All of you who don't do The Twitters have not been subjected to my obsession with Gangnam Style.

That ends today.



Chop ChopChop Atlanta Bravos Style

2010 TriStar Obak Box Rip Video

I'll let the video speak for itself...



Because it's a video... of me speaking... 'cause that's what videos are for...

God, I love YouTube

Here's that post I promised this morning. I told you it wasn't very good.

A little while back I posted a video break of a 2010 Topps Series 1 Cereal Box. I think I may have offended the delicate sensibilities of some genteel YouTube viewers, because I got a scathing rebuke from babbiigiirll1385's 8 year old brother. 

your an idiot your a big fat santa clause you need to make a tops town codes im on my sises youtube and i got 8 packs yestwst if you send me some cod4es ill give you some codes

This here is why YouTube is the most amazing thing ever created by mankind. Now, thanks to the marvel of technology, even the illiterate may speak. For those of you who have no clue what the hell that says here is the entire statement parsed for clarity.

your an idiot

 Apparently something I own is an idiot.

your a big fat santa clause

 Silly YouTuber, There ain't no Sanity Clause. 

you need to make a tops town codes

 I believe the young whippersnapper is extolling me to become a ToppsTown Code counterfeiter. At the risk of enduring the wrath of the Baseball Card Secret Service, I'll give it a go.

LeRn2sP31|

9R4mR1zG0od

g!T0fFmIL4\/\/n

Results may vary.

im on my sises youtube

Well get off of it then! It might get squished!

i got 8 packs yestwst 

 

if you send me some cod4es ill give you some codes

 If I contact random 8 year old from the interwebs in any way shape or form, Chris Hansen will be waiting outside my door with a camera crew and a SWAT team, so please keep your cod4es.

So there you go. If you want free ToppsTown codes, the best way to go about it is by calling strangers a big fat santa clause. I hope that was as entertaining as it was informative. Actually I wish it was either. Now here's something you'll really like:

Three Decades of Fleer

Gracious, YouTube sure picked some good preview stills.

Well, I'm batting .333 at least. Here are the highlights:

1987 SCHMIDDTY ALL-STAR

scanned good this time!

1996 Bip Roberts

2007 Trevor Hoffman Insert Thingy

Wasn't that worth the wait? Don't look at me like that...

2010 Heritage Madness

HLUAGHALGHALGHLAUAGH

 

Buuuuuh BUUUUUUH Buuuuuuh

Hurf Durf DUUUUUUUR

nyongnyongnyongnyong

WooobWooobWooobWooobWooob!

PBBBBBBBBBBTTTTTHHHHHHHTTTTTTT

Millennium hand and shrimp buggerit!

 UALUEALUEALEUALE

HOOOO-HAH!!!!

GUM.

Obak Box Break Part 4

I had to chop this one in half too due to time constraints. I had fun with it at least.

Part 4.1

Teh hitz:

Tommay Turrific

Tommay Turrific Jr. Obak back

HOW THE HELL DO YOU DRIVE IN 254 RUNS IN ONE SEASON HOLY CRAP

Emmitt Ashford, Incredible Ump

Part 4.2 - Soap Opera Edition

Hitty Hitty Bang Bang:

Yes, THAT Heisman

My second Ryan variation back

Tommay Terrific and Some Guy

I don't know if I pulled the Spook #d to 50 in this exact video or not, but there it is anyway

Hell, it's the Pirates, they'll be in the rotation by June

Part Five up whenever I can be arsed to upload it.

Obak Box Break - Parts 2, 2 1/2, 3

Ok, back to Obak videos. I have to clear space off the hard drive before I wreck my 'puter,but I should have part 4 and maybe 5  (five?!?!) up tonightish.

PART 2

First one was too long so I chopped it in half.



More selected 'hits'

Auto #1 - Vince Coleman. Dr. Madding has answered the call...

Ryan again, this time normal sized with no variation.

2010 NL ROY

#1 overall pick in 2008.

The greatest pitcher ever.

Part 3 

YOU

must watch this video

All the hits that's fit to print:

Tommy mini

Beat Up Brooks

Johnny Vander Meer...

Greenback #6/25

Another parallel: Ike Boone black ink #7/50

Ted Williams in nuclear winter

Stan Musial runs from the fireball.

2009 Obak Box Break - Part 1 & 2

Viddy'd two and a half weeks ago while suffering from a raging cold. Forgive the wheezing.

PART 1

Selected 'hits':

 

Box topper....

And back #440/3600.

Checklist card...

and back.

Barry O short print back variation black variation #26/50.

No, really

Ryan Express mini....

Variation.

2009 AL ROY.

PART 2

I borked up the video. I think I got it right the second time.

More selected 'hits'

Auto #1 - Vince Coleman. Paging Dr. Madding... you have a call on the white courtesy phone...

Ryan again, this time normal sized with no variation.

2010 NL ROY

#1 overall pick in 2008.

The greatest pitcher ever.


Part 3 and maybe even 4 will be up tomorrow before I sleep.

I am an insomniac.

Flea Market Finds Contest

First up, if you haven't gotten in on Wax Heaven's Spectrum Contest, time is a-running out. If I'm lucky enough to win one of the contests, I'll be giving away one of the autographs I win. Well, except in one of these cases: If I win the Grand Prize, I'll probably try to sell off both of them because I don't really want those cards inside my home and others inexplicably want to buy them. Also, if I win the Up In Smoke set, there's no way I'm breaking up Cheech & Chong and I'll give away the Dee Snider I pulled last year instead. Also go check out 1st and Goal for sponsoring the contest in the first place.

Ok, now since I sort of unintentionally took the weekend off. I've got another contest for you. MrsTooth won the last one and her prize is being formulated as we speak. However, this is not an easy contest to win. It can be won, but the answers are somewhat obscure. I'm pretty sure you can find them somewhere in the archives of this blog. First though, I have to show off what I found at the flea market today.

My son got jealous of me going to the market last weekend and asked to go today. Since I had a kid with me, I couldn't go to the Card & Pr0n Mega-Emporium, but I was able to find a couple of interesting things. The guy I mentioned last week who had The Wiz Yankee set was back, this time in the place Sports Card Alley normally sets up. There I found these:

Spahn and Mathews and...

Bruce and Huddy.

Remember when I got that free ticket to the Astros game that had the Bob Horner '86 Topps reprint on it? Well, here's four more season ticket cards. They cost me a buck a pop (and he was charging two for a '92 Justice ticket because A-Fraud hit a homer or something in the game) but where the heck am I ever going to see any of these again? I have five out of the set now, only 76 more to go!

My other big find was at a table selling old movies on VHS. Who watches VHS tapes anymore? I do! I'm cheap as hell and I've still got three working VCRs in the house and when one or two of 'em die I'll but a VHS/DVD recorder and burn all my old tapes. Figuratively then literally. It's important to get the order right there. Most of the tapes were '90s action and horror movies, but I found two tapes I couldn't pass up. The first one is this one:

I love old B-movie monster flicks. Check out the writeup on the back (click to enlarge)

Can the scientist save the captured humans from the clutches of THE MONSTER? It's a 50's monster movie, what do you think? Here's the other one:

A documentary of one of my heroes. I didn't know this movie even existed. Hopefully there's a few of his routines on the tape, there's only so many times even a true fan can watch a grainy YouTube video of the animated "Thank You Masked Man" skit.

Ok, so here's the contest. I have two questions for you.

Question 1:

Why did I absolutely have to buy the video of "IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE"? What possessed me to do so?

Question 2:

What do I have in common with Lenny Bruce?

There are very specific answers to these two questions and you have to get them exactly right to win. if no one gets it, no one wins. Here are the prizes:

Answer question 1 correctly and win an autograph of my choice.

Answer question 2 correctly and win a relic card of my choice.

Answer them both correctly and you'll get an auto and a relic and some inserts and a pack and whatever else I can find lying around the house.

When someone answers the one correctly, there will be a 24 hour window to answer the other one. Two different people can both win. If no one ever guesses, no one wins (there's still an unanswered anime contest question out there from a year or two ago)

Here's the thing... I will have very little access to the interwebs this week so I might not get back to the winner right away so be patient for a ruling. You can keep guessing if you wish, but if you guess too much I might get annoyed and delete all of them. There's a very fine line you have to walk in my contests...