Wacky Wednesday

 Hump day and trivia night. Let's hope my brother and I do better this week. Last time we stunk!. :)

Have a great one!

Sport Lots box

 I got my long awaited Sport Lots box (2 orders in one) that had been sitting there for most of the year. Nearly 300 cards (276). No, I am sadden as they were not all Braves. Maybe half, and most of those had since been acquired. New to me Braves total 74. 

This is about as close to the half way mark as I can get. I'll do the last half on Thursday. I'm still a smidge over 1,100 cards behind that "other guy"....again.

What really pisses me off is last weeks update after I put in nearly two hundred Atlanta Braves cards (includes the 74 cards from this order), still doesn't show them as unique Braves in my collection. My numbers remain the same as they were a month before (as of yesterday). His numbers changed every single day..... I haven't checked today as I am writing this post in the morning, but I will. I did get some Braves at the Deland Show, that I haven't put in yet (kind of waiting to see when the last cards finally show up.

Just another Maddux Monday

 Here we go again. Derek has taken back to back weeks in the Maddux giveaway!

Now for this week's contenders:

Love that look on Greg's face on the Ultra above.

Greg's grin on that Pinnacle up top looks like he just pulled a prank or some kind.

Here is to kicking off your week! Here in my world my grandson Elijah and I go to the movies once a week (the kids shows are only a buck)! We went today to kick start our week. Tomorrow I think after my brother visits we'll go get us a slurpee :) 

U.S. Flag day is coming.

 This weekend holds a holiday: Flag Day. Here are some athletes that share June 14th as their birthday.

Throwing two more names out there for you:

Jeremy who I should see tomorrow at the Deland card show, and of course President Trump!

My flag is always flying! God bless America!

That other stuff

 I did say that I would be posting the "other stuff" from the last trip to Grand Slam tonight, so here they are. But first a moment of silence for the Braves dropping their third series of the season to the Chisox.

A few for set builds and a few for PC guys.

Some colorful hopefuls.

Some for the ladies binder.

Most certainly a set build grab. I was very happy to have swiped these up as those boxes are so expensive. 

 

Happy to swipe these too. Now, I know for certain (3x over) that I didn't need the Acuna SP, but figuring It was a dollar before I squeezed my discount in....couldn't leave it. The Ohtani SP super sweet for a buck (before discount). The Maddux and Aaron have a short story behind them.

I pulled them out of the wooden box. The Hank was priced at $10.00, and the Maddux at $7.00. I plopped them down with all of the others stuff that day and told Dylan we had to serious talk about these two. 

He said, why? I said no way are they booking for any where close to that especially with the stains on the Twinkies.

He looked them up and we settled on $5.00 for the Hank and $3.00 on the Maddux. The Maddux probably should have been a buck, but I had never seen it before and knew I needed it.

I got my Sport Lots box in and tallied them up, now I just need to scan them and enter them in tcdb.

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 Mid week has arrived (as so has the rain). It is that time of the year where it rains everyday, maybe 5 minutes....maybe 5 hours. Typically in the late afternoon.

Here are this week's interesting cards:

Later folks!

Kicking off the summer by grilling some steaks! NOT!

 I didn't grill anything last year. I will be grilling tonight on a charcoal only grill I bought last summer. This will be the first time on it, hope things go well! 

UPDATE: Got cloudy, so changed plans to cook the steaks inside, bummer. Oh well, another day!

I visited my LCS 3 weeks in a row last month. I have a couple of posts from the most recent. One of Braves, and then the other stuff. Each visit cost more than the previous with the first one of those 3 trips at $4.00. The middle one was 15x the first, and this one was 2x the previous one.

These Hank Aaron reprints are the "LIMITED EDITION"  parallel.  I have most if not all of the base version and I had 1 of the LE, but got lucky here and didn't double up. Now I have most of the LE too!

I did double up on Tate though. Apparently he is tearing up the basepaths down in the minors. I believe Drake Bowmans best is a refractor....I forget now. Shiny Hank Aaron cards you bet.

heck, even if Hank is shiny his cards that I don't have will be welcomed with the same appreciation! A new to me Brave auto. I do the other stuff Thursday.

Have a wonderful evening. My post from yesterday just popped up on my roll at 3pm today. Let's see how long it takes this one. UPDATE: POSTED INSTANTLY, LOL.

Just another Maddux Monday. FREEBIES

 The winner last week takes us north of the border: Derek your cards are on the way!

The freebies for tonight/today (depending on when google updates, lol). For those who may not be aware, the cards below all go to one randomized commenter who just so happens to be a follower of this blog. Comments must be posted no later than midnight this coming Friday.

Enjoy the week!

How about a quickie?

 It is Friday, home alone thus far as the youngins went to Aquatica in Orlando and won't be back til late. I finished up my Sammy Sosa PC update today and realized an oddity.

He has a total of 30,356 cards listed in TCDB through 2026. The total for 2025 alone is 16,754 then 2026 has 969 so far. That just goes to show just how ridiculous the card makers have gotten.

Now for the quickie. I bought a complete "paper" set of the 2026 Bowman base for under $20.00 delivered.

I only scanned the first 9 cards. It isn't Bowman's worst for sure, but being that I am not the first to show off any new Bowmans' these will do. The design is okay and is one of their better ones of the last decade (last year wasn't too bad either).

Tomorrow is D-Day.

Have a great weekend!

Sport Lots auction winnings

 Not sure how many of you folks have went the Slots auction route before. I check it from time to time, and it's different but sometimes I win one. This time there was a "lot" right up my alley. 

There was a lot of 93 Atlanta Braves Topps rainbow foil cards with no dupes. I had a competitor but I won out in the end. $4.50 (plus $6.00 for shipping). Now rainbow foils are one of the easier parallels to obtain and that means that I have a lot, but not all so it would be a chance. 

The years were 205-2025. I scanned only the needed for the Braves team.

I needed 48 of 93! That was really awesome. Several more went to the PC boxes (for the next sort). Only 21 cards were of no use to me. I call that great!

I was certainly surprised by the big names being in there too.

The auction win was definitely a good thing for me. On a side note, I've finally requested my "BOX" containing 276 cards mainly Braves to be shipped and they are now on the way! And even if I need 200 of them that still keeps me behind that other guy by 1000 cards, yeah he is back to where he was staying for years around 1100 cards ahead of me no matter how many I add he always comes back to that number which is why I think he fakes it. But oh well, I will get there one day it just takes a really really long time when I am keeping it on the cheap side (usually .25 or less cards). The box order coming does has some .50 cards though.

Wacky Wednesday

 Hump and pump day! For those inquiring minds:

Hump day: mid week Wednesday

Pump day: had the septic tank pumped today, lol.

Now for baseball cards that in one way or another are interesting.

Score is holding down the lot tonight.

Enjoy!

AI sucks!

 I think Greg hit the nail on the head last week about blogger....it is just getting worse and worse. In case you are wondering (not that any of you are, lol) I would be just fine going 100% completely off grid. Of course that means I need to buy an excellent conditioned and low mileage truck from say 1985 or earlier. You remember those kinds of vehicles, the kind you could not just work on yourself, but fix anything too without any special tools. Some people might think, no way we are too spoiled, but those in my real life know that I would even be okay if we were living in the horse and buggy days. Just need a good horse. 

I got this 90's St. Vincent Grenadine from Bob D over at OCT.

Inside left side. That first day issue is technically pertaining to the $2.00 Hank Aaron stamp.

here we have some fuzzy math. The Gold foil stamp is a $10.00 stamp. The game is a weird one, because looking it up AI came up with a couple of answers one correct and one incorrect. One said Braves won the game, and the other said the Braves lost.

As for the some weird math this is hand written #5 of three. 

Needless to say Hank Aaron was certainly a "work horse". How else does it get the nickname "The Hammer" "Hammerin' Hank"? 

Bob D. is also a work horse within the OCT world. He has won more quarterly trading periods (point wise) than anyone and by far. I am the closest to him and I will never be able to catch him, and the guy behind me shouldn't be able to catch me either. That's not to say I don't have some records that aren't ever going to be touched on OCT, I do....many in fact. I haven't popped a new milestone over there in a few years, so I may need to do something before the end of the year. 

Here is to the rest of the week being awesome!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Well, my Braves dropped one to the Reds yesterday, hoping tonight they take the series. The good news is that they were the last team in the majors to hit 20 loses. Acuna seems to be back doing his thing. Hopefully, he will remain healthy for the rest of the season.

Now on to the giveaway Greg Maddux cards for tonight.

I am hoping that the cards I mailed out last week have made it to their destinations by now. I'll have Hunter and Elijah here for the summer, here is to a great summer!

Have a great night.

Incoming: round two

 Round two of incoming cards tonight.

As I mentioned in a recent post, after landing the 1/1 Carter Holton I went looking for others especially auto's. I found this numbered 2/10 Carter Holton which just so happens to be a new to me autograph for the Braves. It is also not the only one here tonight. $4.29 with tax and free delivery!

The rest of the cards below all came from fellow OCTer's.

The above cards came from Randy Griffin which includes another new to me Braves auto.....Steve Sisco.

The SI for kids cards came from Tim Morales. The first scan are keepers, but the 2nd are up for grabs. There is one more from an OCTer, but that one should have it's own post.

Have a great weekend!

Incoming: round one. Plus an Out going.

 Well my Braves got whooped last night night, shutout. OUCH. Me no likey that. Something else that I don't like (pertaining to my current PC update) is when I come across a player who spent some time, but not exclusive with the Braves. Such is the case with Gary Sheffield. I should have before kick starting this PC update a year and a half ago, weened the mostly Braves cards from the binders that were put in there during the last update because they should have in the Braves binders. Not all of them as I had to do some weening at the beginning of this year too, but I didn't get everybody who had Braves cards. I have to check to see if they were actually dupes, or if they need to be in my Braves binder a very time consuming process for me. Also back in January I realized that I hadn't pull the Braves cards from the sorted cards for this years update, another huge time suck, and when adding to cards that I decided to build the set this year, ugh. 

I am almost done with Shef, but the other half of the S's all the way through Z is making me wonder if I'll actually finish this year, lol. That would suck because I have lolly gagged around several months this year alone. Oh well, let's see what baseball cards I have for you tonight.

Let's show off round 1 of some incoming cards. The pair of Red parallels above come from OCTer Andy Blackwood, both were needs. Funny is the Harris in the base set is an SP (still needed), but the parallels aren't. Go figure Topps.

I grabbed this less than a Lincoln (remember that theme I used to do)? off of Ebay. Normally I wouldn't pay $5.00 (plus 1.50 shipping) for a prospect. But come on it is a Brave one of one. I had too. After winning this Holton card I did a little prospecting on Ebay, and the next round of incoming might have another of his. Might have. :)

 

This year's BCB custom BUBBLEs from Gavin. Gav said he got lazy with the backs, but I love it. It even reminds me of a non-related southern joke.....Georgia specific.

Do want to hear/read it? Too late here is goes:

A fried bologna sandwich (love em) is also known as "Georgia round steak". And the proper way to say bologna is blony or bloney. :)

Closing out this round with the cards that came in first of all of these were from our highly caffeinated Matt G. These were Braves needs too.

Thanks guys. As for the out going about a dozen zip codes have cards coming.

As for the Braves and BoSox they are knotted up going into the 6th for the series decider game.

Wacky Wednesday

 Man the Braves lost another former player yesterday with the passing of Bob Horner. That's three in less than 2 weeks. OUCH! RIP Mr. Horner. At least the Braves one game 1 against the BoSox. Money Mike (Harris) had a great game going 4 for 4.

Now for the interesting cards this week.

I hope the rest of your week is awesome!

Grand Slam again!

 Let's get this out of the way....My Braves lost their 2nd series of the year to the Nat's over the holiday weekend. Alrighty then. I'm over it moving on to more from that previously mentioned and posted trip to my LCS which should wrap up that visit. 

(I went again this weekend).

Another $20.00 grab was an opened box of these 2025's. Typically the hobby boxes sell between $139-150.00, so getting a slew of them was nice for a set build and some obvious prospecting. These are just the numbered parallels above.

More parallels, and yes that was an extra/dupe of the Brave.

Some of the inserts.

More inserts.

Finally.....more inserts. Overall I wound up with 3 Braves for my team sets, and 68 of the 200 card base set plus the inserts and parallels above. That to me was worth the twenty bucks, but that wasn't it all.....

Just the highlights as I grabbed another opened box of the 2026 USA Stars & Stripes that had about as many cards in it as the other box. Wound up with 73/200 base cards plus the other stuff. Again, definitely got my twenty bucks worth in this post. 

Hoping my Braves get back on a winning streak and finish the first half of the season strong.