Wacky Wednesday: New year's Eve

 Hump day and this one is a Holiday. My words of encouragement: If you drink...don't drive and in 2026 be alive! I wish everyone out there a great new year. 

Tonight is trivia night so hopefully we can follow up our time with back to back wins. 

UPDATE: No trivia tonight. My brother and I play just around the corner at the "Dugout Sports bar & grill". It is New Year's Eve, I get up there and a sign on the door, closed at 5PM. It's a pub, it's New Year's Eve.....What????? Oh well such is life lol.

 

Be safe everyone, be wise, and most of all be happy!

The November Tampa card show finale

 Before you go getting your hopes up....I did not save the best for last. They were the last of the scans. So let's get at them.

Minted in Cooperstown parallels.

A few of those I think TBT inspired by 78....maybe, lol.

You may but probably don't remember that I had mentioned this seller had a bunch of vintage boxes too. I only went through the one I the top as I was filling that second box.

Yeah, these Kellogg's are pretty much cracked all up, but hey I grabbed them all anyway.

Grabbed the few Hostess too. I'm sure there may have been more in the other 6 or 7 boxes, but time was thin and the box was full.

And finishing the scans with a bunch of Topps Now cards. That completes that trip finally. I can now focus on getting the rest of the incoming from Ebay and other bloggers and trade partners.

Catcha lata!

Tampa stuff part 2

 Is everybody ready for the New Year? I am. Back in September when I was sick for the entire month with the flu I had missed both the last Deland Toy, cards, comic, collectibles, and paper show as well as the last card show in The Villages. I am looking forward to attending both (fingers crossed and praying). 

Now let's knock out the next round of PC/Set build cards from a couple of months ago.

Picking right up where I left off with some of those ASA tribute cards of Willie Mays.

Some horizontal goodies.

A whole bunch of cards for my Patriotic binder. Now if I could just find time to organize it before the 4th of July sneaks up on us. It's a big one #250!

Finding a bunch of those World Series parallels was nice. 

One more round (a little shorter) to go and then I can get back to some incoming cards.

Shadow Shots

 Feeling kind of lazy today. Let's make quick work of this one.

1) I see a cat

2) I see a tornado shadow on his uniform

3) I see an elephant actually playing an actual trumpet. Okay maybe it's bear cub.

Enjoy the weekend!

Merry Christmas!

 Jesus is the reason for the season. With that said I hope that everyone had a blessed day with goodies, family and friends, and cards too. 

Normally, I would be posting up all of my Christmas binders/Holiday sets. I'm not doing that this year. I had the binders all FIVE of them out last week (in fact I forgot to put my 2025 set in a new binder yet which will make 6 Christmas binders). 

I figured that with all of the not so normal events of December that I could use a break from my normal to give a me a chance to catch up on some other things. And I have been "catching up" on other things which has me feeling gurd. GURD.  

I will however take advantage up this last week of the year and do a close out on a few things.

1) The blog/hobby goals

2) The numbers regarding Braves released.

My hobby goals each year are pretty simple and normally I score myself A+. This year I get an F.

Why you ask? 

Goal 1: obtain 1 T206 card for that set build, and for the very first time I did not. 

Goal 2: Complete the PC update a year ahead of schedule, eh! I know I kind of took at least 2 months off which certainly hurt that goal. I really was ahead of the game and this goal was possible, but nope I am right where I am usually at at 14 months in. Half way! I will be finishing the M's by years end. It does look like I will finish before the October 2 year mark, but those P's R's, S's, T's, and W's are sizeable.

Goal 3: Kick start the original themes for Wacky Wednesday and Shadow Shots. This I did do A+ here, I did make mention that I wanted to get my Franken Friday going, but made no promises on that one. As for the 2 aforementioned themes.... I should have enough in the binders to go another 2 years, but I'm pretty sure I will suspend both of those sometime during the coming year. The numbers just aren't there (ie: views and comments). 

I also wanted to make sure I cut back (way back) on bulk buys which I certainly did that as the "super deals" weren't found that often. 

Now to the numbers....Braves numbers. last year at this time the Braves were sitting at 12, 209 and I predicted with the "late" releases it would shoot up to at least 15K. I was correct. There are 16,512 for the 2024 Braves so I will need to find some time to see if I got them all updated on my want/needs list. I figuring I'm short a thousand or so.

For 2025 the Braves are currently sitting 14,291, and I feel strongly with the "late releases" will match the 16.5K from 2024. 

Now for the BLOG. By years' end I should be at 268 posts which is 40 more than last year, 2 more than 2023, and 2 short of 2021. Basically I did my normal for the last decade. Prior to that it was always 300-365 or more. I've been content posting 5 days a week and don't see that changing anytime in the near future.  

I wish everyone an AWESOME 2026. I will put out my blog/hobby goals probably on Jan. 1 next Thursday so I guess I had better start thinking about them.

Wacky Wednesday.

 Merry Christmas everyone. My shared meals and present swapping started yesterday and "wrapped" up today. On Christmas day, the only thing for me to do is say Happy birthday Jesus! I'd say I'll sleep in, but that is really unlikely as not only am I a night owl I'm also an early bird. 

With today being hump day let us peer into some interesting (for one reason or another) cards from the past.

There y'all go, enjoy the time with friends and family and your Holidays be blessed.

Tampa PC and set needs. Part 1

 Here we go, finally back to the bulk of what I bought down in Tampa.

Mind you I did not need the 2025 Bowman paper base cards above. I just wanted them. I also didn't need the Giambi, but just wanted it in case I didn't have one in the PC.

Same for the Puig. 

Those colorized are weird looking, so I grabbed all of the ones for my PC binders.

Speaking of PC, I dumped a few more players last night: Yoan Moncada, Dustin May, and Max Muncy (Greg, I'm sure you're happy about those).

Didn't need the 74' Cobb either, but snagged it anyways. It is in real good shape.

Pretty sure I had multiple copies of that Classic Piazza in both colors.

Fun note that Einstein was the very last card I put in the boxes I bought.

That will wrap part 1 of the PC/set cards from Tampa. I have 2 more posts of them. Looking forward to getting past them, so I can finish up with the rest of the incoming/ebay from the last 2 months. I still have a bunch left to post.

Back to Tampa.....

 Getting back to the cards I picked up in Tampa the last time I went down there. Tonight will just be the Braves from the "What are the Odds?" that I actually needed. Then tomorrow I can either go with some set build needs and PC guys.

The 86' Horner is a Tiffany, the UD hologram logo is the gold version.

It really is easy to find cards from the 90's and early 2000's that I need for my Braves team sets.

The 2000 teens get more into parallels, but inserts and oddballs have a chance to make the cut too.

The same can be said for the last 5 years too.

We have had 4 sets released in the last couple of weeks, and pretty sure there will be plenty of "2025" released in the coming year, lol. I haven't added much of those recently released, but I will snag those in the near future. I do have some sitting in my SLOTS (Sport Lots) box. But, if you run across the inserts and parallels chances are I need them :)

Have a great night!

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Good morning everyone! Dang it's cold (Yes I know I'm in Florida), but still ICE, uck. It is a sunny day though quickly moved from the 30's to now in the mid 50's. I think I will hit up Grand Slam to see if I can find something unusual for Angus as a return for that beautiful 68' OPC Hank Aaron card. Fingers crossed.

Now it's time to see what you see in the shadows.

1) Triceratops

2) pressure washer gun

3) Irish Setter

Your turn.

2020 Leaf: The red box. And the 2021 Leaf red box.

 Going to get right at tonight's short post. Showing the auto pulls from the last 4 boxes.

2020 red box 1.

Colt Keith has had a whisper from this past season, let's see how he does going forward.

2020 red box 2.

Got a gold in this box of Zac Veen.

Now onto the 2021 boxes.

box 1.

box 2.

 Tyler Black is a birthday binder guy.

Overall, I didn't get any of the few BIG Names that were possible, but that is gambling in it's simplest form. 

Enjoy the night folks, and the Holiday season!

Wacky Wednesday

 Made it to another hump day! Tonight is trivia night and some of the Gang (maybe all of them) will be there with us. Wish us luck :)

Today reader Bill Kearney visited and did some digging. He spent yesterday at Grand Slam Collectibles and seems like he had a good day digging through those quarter boxes as well as grab some minor league boxes. He had some common ground with Steve the owner of the shop as they conversed through the day. 

Now let's get to some wacky cards.

Looks like a great batch of interesting cards albeit it is hard to tell with the Sportflics 2000 card. 

Enjoy the night!

I was bored so.....

 That last spell of being sick, I did a lot of online card buying. Mostly Ebay which you have seen a good bit (but not all). I still had an itch to rip some stuff. I went to Blowout cards, you know the one ComC promotes to redeem your store credit (minus some of their countless fees of course). Go figure the forums on Blowout sure do a lot of negative things to say about ComC, but then we ALL already know this stuff. 

I decided to continue the odds maker thing (like with the Tampa cards that I still need to finish posting). I bought three boxes two of each. Now I didn't need these as I already had them, but I was going for the autographs. 

What products you ask? Oh, yeah....not exciting picks but I was only after the autos.

Like I said I bought 2 boxes of each so 16 autos to pull. I already had the sets so now I have extra sets. I pulled any pc guys and there were a few altogether. Still I have complete extra sets. Moving on.... I started with the blue box in the middle with just 2 autos per box.

Masyn made a splash, but we'll have to wait to see if the Gold parallel pull warrants the box (I think these were $20.00 a box....not sure now could have been $15.00).

Box 2 of the blue:

Box 1 was definitely better. I'll do one of the other 2 boxes Thursday and Friday.

Enjoy the night!