Okay okay....I'll get to the story

 Our winner last night was: Bo

I also have an update that I will get to after the Ormond cards are finished.

Now a couple of weeks ago I headed over to Ormond. I was supposed to meet up with Fred there but he had texted me while I was about half way there wanting to do the next day instead. I went on to the card shop. I dug through the newest dime boxes, then headed over to the monster boxes that I had marked to go through. I spent pretty much 4 hours digging through boxes. It was getting close to 6pm when the shop closes during the week. I gathered my cards that I pulled and started heading over to "check out". I no more than stood up with cards in hand (they were in a 3 row box). When Kyle and a dealer from somewhere else agreed to bust open (splitting) the freshly released Topps Tribute. They retail for $500.00 a box. They would be splitting the packs and had a contest on each pack agreed upon by both and whoever got the win got all of the cards from that pack. Every pack would be a different win such as who had the lowest serial number stuff like that or the oldest player or the shortest last name. Each box had 6 packs and each pack had just three cards. Yeah $500.00 18 cards. Yowsers! I immediately sat down and Kyle's team boxes when I heard them say they were busting one. I knew I had 6 or 7 of those boxes that I hadn't been through yet, so I did that while they were playing the game. I watched and listened while pulling cards. I wound up pulling another 94 cards from those boxes but more on that in another post. They ripped that box had their fun and I got to watch for free. It was fun. Then they decided to bust another box. Wowzers. In the end Kyle got a bit more than half of the cards. I know this because I got all of the base cards. I also got the base cards from a box of Finest that had also just been released. Those range around $250.00 a box of 60 cards. I wound up with 34 base cards from Finest 3 parallels, and 7 inserts and 18 from Tribute. Only 1 double which was a PC guy so it's a keeper too.

That is the Finest portion.  BTW one of those finest was an SP which takes 4 boxes to get just 1! The last insert is below. I got 44 of the 60 cards, the guy who actually busted it got two autos of the same guy last name was Mitchell. Kyle got the rest of the cards, kept fourteen fancy inserts and serial numbered cards. 

Now on to the Tribute.

That was certainly a fun day to end like it did at the shop. It was actually 6:30 when all was said and done. I was so distracted by the high end box breaks that I lost my train of thought. Mainly because I wanted all of those base cards. I was sitting there thinking it the entire time. I hit Kyle up right away on obtaining them. I did however miss the fact that the other dealer left with his winnings. I didn't think to hit him up for his cards.  There is also a little bit more to the story but not so much relating to the actual high ends cards and you will have to wait to hear that story.