Shadow Shots

 What do you see in the shadows?

Beetle Bailey's boot (one of them anyhow).

A (front) parenthesis symbol.

I see someone about to throw a spear, just kidding I see see a person wounded lying on the ground begging for help.

Enjoy the weekend!

Oh yes we did!

 First yes, we won last night. Didn't really need much help, but we definitely had it. My daughter Hunter (who once dated a guy named Hunter in High School).  Okay side track. I live on a cul de sac.... 4 homes. At one time a decade ago 3 of the 4 houses contained a young person named Hunter. How weird is that? 

Back to last night.... my daughter, her boyfriend (his parents stopped by to say hello as they had massage appointments otherwise they too would have been there playing), his sister and her husband came, and at the last minute Hunter's friend Destiny and her husband (also named Hunter) came. Yeah, we had a team, and they good at trivia too. Here are the names.

John, Jack, Hunter and Jalen, Mariah and Jared, Destiny and Hunter). And the two that didn't play this time are Ernie and Heather. We were cruising along holding first place all the way through, and didn't really get/need much help except for some of the bonus "images". That was a big help, but again the images don't give you the opportunity to double up compared to the 5 question bonuses. So the scores stay relatively the same throughout when using images. After the 5 rounds we had 87 points, another big team (old elderly 70's +) was in third with 72 points and one team had 85 points, just 2 behind us. In the end the 85 point team didn't finish in the top 3. The 72 point team didn't wager anything on the final question and took home 2nd place with the 72 points, we however doubled up betting it all and got it right. So we finished with 174 points (that is 102 points ahead of team #2). Wow, what a finish.

Anyways, I'm sure we'll have 6, 8 or 10 people next time we play and hopefully do a repeat :).

Now, just two scans of the new to me Braves I pulled out of those Grand Slam monster boxes - the 21k). 

I must be honest, I did already have the 2025 Bowman Prospects sitting in my Sport Lots inventory when I bought these boxes, but hey I build the set too so win win. BTW, I got my 1134 card Slots (sport lots) box shipment in (took a month) last week. It was predominantly Prizm set builds which have already been sorted, recorded, and put in their binders. There were more Braves than I thought, although I probably won't be scanning them. Okay, I'll make some scans. 

Have a great weekend people, and I'll see you in the SHADOWS.

Wacky Wednesday

 Heading off o=to play trivia shortly. My daughter and her boyfriend will be joining us again, and lookie lookie, he is bringing his sister and her husband to play too! We'll show those 12 person teams who's boss. (Actually I kind of feel like we already do that when it was just the 2 us. Always being at or near the top before the Final question. 

A few whoopsie's here, and some first cards. How about that nickname....Sugar Cain?

Autographs and relic cards.

 There might not be any big names or names of players that most if not all of us have never heard of, but still. Well, I do recognize a few of them. The 21K cards I bought at 2 cents a piece from Grand Slam in those 7 monster boxes all every single one of them had autos/relics in them. 

Not all baseball. Not all certified, but still.... Several players have multiples too.

There were many more, but they were dupes or trips of the cards above which I tried to pull them from the scans. I have one more post from those boxes, but it is a 2 scan post. I'll put that up on Thursday.

Have a great night everyone!

The 2025 Topps All Star Game

 As promised (not that anyone was looking forward to this post) lol. I finally scanned the non Braves inserts and parallels from the 25' ASG edition I picked up last month. 

I know that I was supposed to continue with the autos & relic cards I pulled out of those Grand Slam monsters boxes I bought, but this gets these things out of the way and done. 

I did scan the insert backs as those are pretty nice. Good reading for sure.

The bottom four cards look like the base in this scan, but they are NOT, they are silver parallels, and in hand no doubt about it. Just didn't scan well.

These are ugly when grouped together like this, but individually they are okay.

DONE! Posting this early as I am going out to dinner tonight.

I'll get the autos/relics tomorrow from that 21K card pick up.

Shadow Shots

 I saved myself 2 plus hours of driving and a quarter of a tank of gas yesterday. You maybe asking, huh? Let me explica por favor. 

Every couple of months I run up to Valdosta area, typically that is a couple of hours each way. yesterday, I decided that I would go to o Georgia, then cross I-10 to Jacksonville. I did this so that I didn't waste 2 days driving as I wanted to go Jax and see if I could talk the owner of the Jax card shop into a really big deal (I couldn't- but that is a whole another story). A trip to Jax is 5 hours round trip from the house. That would've been 9 hrs+ driving and a full tank of gas and leave me on empty. So I did the 2 hrs to GA, then another 2 hrs to Jax, then 2.5 hrs home. Only used 3/4 of a tank with a a half of a tank still in there and saved myself 2.5 hours of driving to boot. That was a win. I even was able to get a 3K box of baseball cards for $15.00. That was a win too.

Now for some shadows, and tell me what you see.

I see alien fingers.

Looking at this shadow turned upside down.... I see a bush mustache.

I really don't know what to make of this shadow, but it is a great shadow. Maybe Wiley coyote missing his ears., lol.

Enjoy what is left of the weekend.

The 4th visit begins today

 The 4th visit to Grand Slam collectibles is the visit where I bought those 21K cards.

I will break it up into 3 sections, although most cards did not get scanned because of they are going towards set builds, and let's face it that would be just way too much work. Heck I haven't really been posting "completed sets" the last couple of years even though I have certainly completed many.

Tonight I will do a variety from what was in those boxes. Some pretty cool stuff. 

I was able to add some cards to the pretty ladies binder.

Likewise, found some stickers too.

I did find a few inserts, variations, parallels, buybacks, and even a couple of numbered Diamond Kings.

Starting line-up cards are always a plus and when combining the current (at the time) release of parallels it's a win.

Lots of good cards too.

I pulled a good chunk of that Canseco set too. I figure the rest of the set was mixed in the other boxes (they had bought 200 monster boxes). 

Pulling out a handful of these Safelon lunch bags discs was fun especially with the HOFer's and other Stars. Nice start to the set. 

Now, this section is over but there is still some goodies yet to be seen. The next post for this series on Monday will be the auto's and relics cards I pulled out (keep in mind I got random boxes) so I am figuring they were in every one of those boxes too. 

Have a great night and weekend too!

Wacky Wednesday!

 Hump day once again. From a positive perspective, it's good that they keep rolling around. It means we're still here.

Who's on first? One of the great A & C skits.

See ya.

Something completely DIFFERENT

 Reverting back to those 21K cards I picked up from Grand Slam several weeks ago. Most were baseball, I think I have a thousand football, and a little less basketball. Some were not sports at all.

Shang-Chi a 2021 Upper Deck Marvel release based on the movie (Ben Kinsley was in the movie). The cards have a couple of parallels, the RED version looks really good. 

I think the red looks better than the base. 

I wasn't aware of this film. Now I am. The set has a few inserts as well including I think 2 parallels of the base red inserts. 

You can easily pick the green parallel out.

As well as the blue parallel. I'm sure the golds and silvers would be similar. They are also stated clearly in LARGE print on the back which one they are. LOL. 

I wound up with 62 of the 70 card base set plus the inserts and insert parallels. I also got 39 of the 70 Red parallel base set. Like I said something different.

Next posts will come from the 4th visit to Grand Slam. There will be maybe 3 posts in all. I have a hundred or so Braves cards to check and enter into my systemS. I have had them sitting on my scanner for about 3 weeks (next to the stack of the Topps ASG cards that need scanned). I also got a few decent Braves from Ormond when I got those 50K cards. Somewhere in between I have sort out that HUGE Sport Lots order that is mostly set build Prizm cards (not scanning those, but there are some Braves in the box too). I have yet to open the box. 

Have a great night everybody!