Just Another Maddux Monday

 We had another repeat winner last week.....Congrats RJ! Already in the mail too.

Here are this weeks freebies:

You know the rules, now go get em! 

Part THREE: The PC additions

 Well....at least possible PC additions. As you know over the last decade and a half it takes me 2 years to update my PC players. That should end with this update for a couple of reasons.

1) I've cut way back on the overwhelming bulk buys, thus reducing cards just to throw in a box and wait and wait until time to update them. In years past that could be a min. of 50K to 100K+ waiting to find out if I need them. No more. I should complete the R's this weekend with Nolan Ryan bringing us to the largest of all the letters the S's. I have apx 50K of just those to go through and will probably take me 2 months. That will leave me with June through October to finish the rest which only the W's have a good bit, so still ahead of the game. But, man o man am I ready to be done. That way I can have a break before starting the next UPDATE which should only take 6-9 months start to finish going forward. That is the true win here.

2) I cut out roughly 750 players.  Works out great too, as three completely full book shelves house the KEEPERS, with no room to spare.

Now let's see what the highlights (highlights only) of the PC guys from that $90.00 deal.

J-Rod is a future guy and that card is sitting in the "keeper boxes" and I have recorded NO DATA in regards to his cards that I have. Same goes for Caroll and Elly. Yordan is also in the keeper boxes, but I do list his cards in my excel (maybe even TCDB). Seager and Stanton are both binder guys and will be updated soon.

That Ryan is in the current update and will be in TCDB before the weekend is over.

Churio is another one of those future guys as is Roki, but I will actually list the Roki cards here soon. That one cost me a buck! Not a bad deal at all (they were asking $3.

That is a wrap for the PC highlights. There were obviously hundreds more, but they are sitting in the next update boxes. BTW, right now there are apx 25K sitting and waiting for the NEXT Update. 

Have a great weekend. I will be finishing the part 4 with the MISC section on Tuesday. You can then decide if I got a deal or not.

Part TWO: set build highlights

 Alrighty, coming in tonight with the Trivia win last night. YEA!

Now let's get to the 2nd part of that $90.00 deal (roughly 450-500 cards in total).

The set build highlights:

Nothing wrong with some high end product for 2025. 

In reality I didn't check the card backs for those 2025 Bowman above. I was actually thinking they were the Bowman Prospects, and turned out to be the Bowman Draft. Not really a super big deal, but I bought the complete paper Draft set the week before on Ebay and was waiting for them to arrive. No biggie, the chrome version was all needed. Yes, I did just mention ANOTHER COMPLETED SET.

Three singles that were needed to close out tonight.

I'll do the PC section tomorrow. Well....the highlights anyways.

Wacky Wednesday

Mid week and trivia night. Who wants to see some more of those interesting 1995 Stadium Club cards?

 Plus a few others. It's been awhile since I posted up the 2014 Gattis, one of my favorite wacky cards for sure. I doubt that card would ever get released today. I remember the first time I laid eyes on it. In case you didn't know his nickname was "The White Bear".... Odd choice, but it has something to do with his struggle down in Venezuela making it as a ballplayer (he actually took a break and worked as a janitor for a bit). I don't get the reference, but I do love that card.

I wish for a fantastic rest of of your week, and hey  there is a regular season MLB game today!

Spreading $90.00 over FOUR posts!

 I was going to go down to Clearwater last Friday for a card show, but I didn't feel like driving. I wound up visiting Grand Slam collectibles (my local card shop). The deals haven't been abundant lately so I don't go there often anymore. The "quarter boxes" are pretty much gone and in there place are dollar boxes. Some of the cards in those many boxes are not in top loaders, so I told Dylan that I'd be expecting to treat those like they were quarter cards, and he said we work something out. Something new at the shop was a "free" box for kids. It has a ton of stuff from all sports in there including baseballs. I pulled apx 100 2026 Topps cards from there (no there were plenty with dupes for the kids). I added those 100 to about 350 I pulled from the dollar boxes, so that is 450 cards. I then worked my way through the "wooden" boxes prices as marked stuff (these cards were priced when added them at the full value). It is easy to know that they aren't worth anywhere near the marked value. I grabbed quite a handful from there with some marked $10.00 (one of those was actually a fair price for the card and you will see that one tonight). All in all those cards had a marked price of $124.00, I offered $50.00 on those and he was like nope, I explained my reasoning and he looked up a couple and low and behold I was pricing them right, and then for me to buy them I wanted a deal, I'm not paying full price. I bumped my offer up $5.00 and we closed the deal at a total of $90.00 no taxes (no loyalty point either though and that's okay. 

I broke the cards down into 4 groups:

Needed Braves

Set builds

Misc

PC guys.

I didn't scan them all.....not even close. Basically a highlight for the PC, Misc, and Set builds.

Tonight you'll get the new to me Braves cards. Well, sort of. 

I did have all of these (except for Chipper) already sitting in my Sport Lots box, but now they are in hand and ready for the Braves binders. They were all from the "free" box.

The Drake Baldwin Museum rookie was very nice to find. That one I think was marked $2 or $3 in the wooden box. The rest I believe were from the dollar box cards that I got for $35.00

The Hank Aaron reprint is a LIMITED Edition variation which was a sweet get. The autograph card was that $10.00 (marked) card from the wooden boxes I mentioned earlier. Well worth $10.00. The Evergreen Aaron was also a nice find.

The last card from the wooden box was this 1949 Bowman.

I didn't need it for Braves binders, but I did need it for the set build. Dylan thought it was a reprint, and I told him it wasn't, but the creases shoots all value from the card that at best in NM would be about 10.00, so he figured $2 and I worked the deal I mention above. So, I reckon I'll do the set builds on Thursday.

Enjoy the night!

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Last week's winner was R.J. Congrats!

Here are this weeks giveaway Greg Maddux cards.

I hope your week has started off wonderful.

Have a great night!

UPDATING THE -UPDATE: The PC update specifically....updated Saturday

 I just finished updating (even in TCDB) Arod. I have a lot of cards of him. According to TCDB I am ranked #6 with 1319 different. The PC binder however holds or will hold as I still need to put them into 2 binders is sitting at 1160 cards. (update: they're in the binders and on the shelf). One of the areas that upped the count was the 2007 Topps (branded) Road to 500. Those cards were spread out over pretty much EVERY Topps/Bowman products. Some here some there. I have 123 of the 500. Go figure Topps even put a parallel or two of the set, but I have none of those.

What I do have are 16 dupes that are available if you are building that HUGE set run. Here are those dupes if interested.

I only have a few of the 400's, so chances are if you have dupes of those I could use them (for the next update-lol).

Hope your weekend is awesome!

Incoming via the Night Owl

 Greg dropped a mailer to me a week or two ago.

Greg contributing to TCDB Atlanta Braves chase which is gone all crazy (I'm back to being 700 cards behind that other guy). 

Greg also sent 4 of the current trophy cups (my first of the year). Now I just need the other two from series 1. 

Greg also returned some of the cards that I sent him by mistake (thank you Greg (wasn't necessary though). I put most of them into stacks again for the guys they were originally intended for (at least I hope I did, lol). Our brains sometimes "miss" things which is how they wound up in New York.

Greg also included a bunch of 1982 Fleer Stamps (the bigger ones). I pulled out my PC guys, and some for those stacks previously mentioned. 

Thanks Greg for the surprise always appreciated!

Wacky Wednesday

 Running a little behind today, so getting right to the cards.

Some good 90's Stadium Club there with more next week.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 I hope everyone wore green today, or at least didn't get caught not wearing green. I wouldn't want you to get pinched.

I recently updated my Rizzo PC and had to scan this card with this day approaching.

I like it when a "holidate" falls on a weekday especially one that isn't a Monday.

Now for my usual annual tribute.

Now moving on to those that celebrate (or not) or celebrated their birthday today.

Looks like I didn't add any new ones (2025 issues) last year. I do have a stack of hundred or so cards for the mini collections to put away.....eventually.

Just Another Maddux (giveaway) Monday

 Howdy howdy howdy! Welcome to a new week. The winner from last week was none other than Merlin of KCJAYS fame. Congrats on the win.

Now here are this weeks giveaway Greg Maddux cards.

Just like always comment here by midnight Friday....the rules are simple. 

Be a follower of this blog, and be Stateside or Canada.

Acuna vs Ohtani

 Anyone want to take a guess at who will win this battle? It is Friday with Hunter and Elijah here tonight so I am getting straight to it.

First up are the four packs from the Acuna tin.

I figured the "items" were the 1st edition packs in both tins. I didn't scan all of the cards in the pack, just the keepers and rookie logo cards plus this pack had a numbered parallel.

A set that I am still working on and the only card I needed here was the Kirk and it happens to be a refractor......So I still really need it.

High numbers and I scanned 9 of the 10 cards. Another set build and needed none of these.

I like the Chrome version, and wow I needed the Maris and the Mercedes for the set build. The Acuna tin didn't net me too much.

Now for the Ohtani tin.

Nothing special here but as they were all put into my rookie boxes.

No help here. There at least was an Ohtani card in the Ohtani tin.

I needed 5 of these for the set build (again these are from high numbered set). The NO NO was a nice get.

No needs, but the Skubal and Kershaw are keepers. It's a shame the Hernandez wasn't a Dodgers card so I could throw it in a stack for Greg.

5 vs 2 takes the win so I know it maybe hard to believe but Ohtani was better than Acuna.

Now for a return to blogging PIMP.

Red Carboard

Have a great weekend!

Shall we compare?

 You might find yourself asking....compare what? Me against you? Nope, that's not it. What could I possibly be thinking about comparing? Is this guy messing with our minds....again? That one might be a little true. Yet, what do I want to compare? I could tell you maybe pitting Acuna (jr) against Ohtani, and many if not all of you would bust out laughing. I'll admit it there isn't a fair fight in that dog, but this one too is a little true. With that said Ronnie has a chance to beat Shohei (now I am thinking about an old restaurant franchise that isn't in these here parts anymore.....Shoney's, man they had an awesome all you can eat breakfast buffet.  Okay, even though that is true it has nothing to do with this post. So how am I planning on comparing Acuna and Ohtani?

Easy enough, but first let's show some pictures to assist you in your guessing abilities.

This caught my eye in the card aisle at a visit to Walmart last week (or maybe it was Monday...lol). (The ONE mystery item especially caught my attention). I know many of you folks like those repack boxes from days gone by. I bought a few and even pulled a few hits, but it didn't take long for me to realize that not really a bargain so I quit buying them. 

MJ Holdings (the card hoarders-lol). Got a little fancy this time and used tins.

They had an Altuve as well, but Acuna and Ohtani seemed like a chance I would take. the tins are nice, but they weren't priced. I was hoping for $15.99 at the register, but no those days are long gone. I was prepared to tell the cashier to not ring them up when I had her check the price before ringing them up. In reality I was expecting $19.99, but apparently those days are long gone too. $24.98 each. I was like I don't know, the tins are nice and I really want to know what that mystery item is. Is it an oddball trinket of the player depicted? That would be cool, so I bought them.

Yeah.....nope. A forth pack is not what I was expecting for a mystery item. The packs above came from the Acuna tin.

These are the packs from the Ohtani tin.  Disappointment again. Well at least I can pit the two against each other and squeeze two blog posts out it and have a little fun.

You see.....you are going to have to check tomorrows' post out for the comparison, but at least you didn't have to wait for me to mess with your mind.

Have a great night folks!