Shadow Shots

 Had a blast last night. Hunter and Elijah spent the night, we had Chinese (E's choice) and then we went out for ice cream and man o man was it good. they are heading to our town's Light up Ocala festival today. Me....I'll be playing with my cards as is my usual almost everyday thing.

Tell me what you see in the shadows.

1) I see a stallion galloping along.

2) At first i saw a work bench/saw horse, but then quickly seen a giraffe.

3) Clearly a bucking BULL has escaped the rodeo and poor Mr. Curtis is trying to hop the fence so as not to get gored.

Bonus cards today.. When I grabbed those Japanese cards from the cheap boxes I also pulled these out too.

Nothing special but for a quarter (.20).

Jimy Williams had a pretty kush job in Atlanta with Glavine, Smolts, and Maddux.

For some reason I think I left these two cards out of the scans from last week. 

Enjoy the weekend, I am ready for Thanskgiving Day!

The In betweens and some gambling of sort.

Before I start on the post title. I got a text last night from "Ormond". Dime Section Special. 50 3 row boxes available $30.00 or $25.00 for 4 or more.  I did not reply.

In between my two flu invasions. I managed to make it to a card show down in Tampa last month. Now before you go and get all excited (just kidding). I said hello to Justin (told him I would sell him my 2 rookie Ohtani certified packed pulled autographs). I didn't take them with me, but I did mention me finding them last month here and I will tell that short story soon. I didn't really do much of anything at the show. I got there as they were setting up or at least some of them hadn't even made it to their tables yet. I wandered for maybe a minute or two and sat down in the back left corner at a dealer who had 4 tables. Half were all dollar boxes. He had a sign out that said take a box for $200.00. They were 3 row boxes for the most part, however all of the cards were in top loaders so roughly only 400 cards in each box. There were 28 baseball and that didn't count the 5 or or so vintage boxes. 

I decided I would go through them even it took all day and it did. Albeit I only went through one of the vintage boxes and did that quickly as it was time to head home. Throughout the day the dealer and I talked of course. Several people around midday started digging into the boxes too, but only a couple of guys (a father and grown up son) spent time in the baseball boxes and we talked a good bit too. At one point I was pitching the idea of just buying all of the baseball....if the price was right. 

The best price on a box the dealer would go down to if you got them all was $100.00 per box and I wasn't willing to drop 3 grand on the cards. Especially, with the cards being what I would call quarter cards to begin with. Me NO pay full price! NOPE NADA NEVER. I continued to dig through grabbing pretty much all of the Braves while trying not to grab dupes from the boxes. I did purposely grab some Braves that I knew I did not need because figuring I'd be paying close to a quarter I wanted to get those that I knew were a deal even if I didn't need them. There wasn't too many.

When all was said and done I filled TWO 3 row boxes containing 844 cards with 257 of them being Braves cards. The dealer asked for $350.00, I said nah...(I was still hoping for that $100.00 a box thing, lol). Settled on $150.00 each basically paying 3 for a buck. I broke the Braves down into 3 groupings. Each of those groups will get their own post. I am titling those posts "WHAT ARE THE ODDS?" I'll be starting those on Monday (I think).

I do regret not taking in the whole card show (3 hours of driving to and from). Spilled milk as they say. I was thrilled to be out and about after dealing with the stir craziness from the flu the first time combined with the frustration of trying to take over the #1 Atlanta Braves spot on TCDB. So yes of course those that turned out to be needs have long since been added to TCDB. But we'll be doing the BRAVES breakdown here at JohnnysTradingSpot. Three rounds of whether or not it was wise to put the cards in the box. So I will be starting those rounds next week.

Meanwhile, and so there are cards in this post here are the I knew straight up I didn't need these Braves anywhere, meaning not in the Braves teams sets, not in set builds, not in PCs, or mini collections. Just straight up wasn't leaving them behind. You can see the categories in this paragraph that I will be using for each of the 3 rounds.

I knew I didn't need these 16 Braves. I just found them worthy enough to grab them anyway at that moment. That was then and it helped me to realize now that I have to stop doing crap like that. Unless of course they were all Ohtani rookies, maybe then it would be okay, LOL.

I do also have 2 or 3 days worth of cards that went straight to the PC boxes (we all know it will be 2 years before I know if I needed them). Well, those that are M and beyond will get done in this round of PC updating. Speaking of which I am now updating and re-doing the Maddux binder. I had to pull all of the Braves cards out of the Maddux binder, and check them against my Braves team binders to see and most were needed there. You see, while I was up in Valdosta for those years I decided to not do the dupe thing with my Braves PC guys.....I regret that. So now I have pulled them all out and put them where they belong the numbers will be changing drastically on my PC player page for Braves guys. 

Have a great night!

Wacky Wednesday

 I am well enough to go to trivia tonight. My daughter Hunter and Jalen will stop by for 30 minutes or so before he has to go play football. Speaking of which, one of "The Gang" could use some prayers. Jared broke his leg at that first football game....broke it bad and after his surgery has to keep weight off of it for 8 weeks. He is a P.E. coach at one of our many local schools so he will be out for quite some time. Lift him up!  Lift him up!  Thanks.

Now for some interesting baseball cards.

More 1993 Upper Deck for Greg to talk about on his "other blog".

Have a great night everybody and maybe my brother and I can do better this go around (we stunk the last time out).

2024 Dream Order Pacific division.

 No since repeating the yesterday's post so here they are.

Pacific Division.

The inserts.

My guess is it won't be long before Kenny is dropping a few of these on some of you guys, that is if he hasn't already, lol.

Sayonara!

This is a first. 2024 Dream Order. Japanese baseball trading card game in the cheap boxes.

 Last week I posted about me dropping in my LCS for a quickie. I had mentioned that I found some interesting cards in the quarter boxes. Cutting straight to them. Well...The first half of them anyways. This is the 2024 NPB Dream Order....Central division cards. I will post the Pacific division tomorrow.

I had no idea what these cards were when I seen them, I just knew I had to grab them all and there was a good size handful.

All of the backs look the same. Now for the 2 scans below I guess these would be considered inserts of sort. At least that is how TCDB treats them.

I was very pleased to add these cards to my collection along with the other half you'll see tomorrow. There were a few dupes in the mix, but I've already earmarked them for Fuji. Mark there will be some of this stuff in your next package eventually in fact I actually scanned the dupes.

Sayonara!

Saturday Shadow Shots..... Giving credit where credit is due.

 Being sick has it's own problems, thank goodness I think I am better other than just like the last time now my sinuses are all tore up. Anyway while I was under the weather I went a little bit nutty online. Meaning I did some shopping that I otherwise would not have. 

1) Made several Ebay purchases one of which was missing the key card (at least to me) when it arrived. I immediately reached out to the seller, and the next day it was on it's way should be here Monday. Once it is here I'll drop the screen name.

2) I bought some Topps team sets and a box of 2011 Topps stickers from "The Baseball Card Shop" and one of the team sets was incorrect, and he promptly sent out the correct set and it arrived a couple of days ago. Now that is awesome. Total turn around from order, mishap and the correction about 6 days. Again...Awesome, www.baseballcardshop.net 

3) I bought several other hobby related things while sick, but I also got some other stuff too and one of 6 items I picked up from a shop was in my mind defective. They gave me store credit and told me to throw away the item. 

I made many other purchases too like I said I went nutty. 

Let's see what you see in the shadows.

1) tomahawk

2) dinosaur maybe a brontosaurus?

3) I see a skateboarder.  I do...

What do you see?

I stopped in the LCS again

Central Florida weather update :)

It was still pretty chilly when the sun came up today (upper 30's), but hey no frost or ice like yesterday morning. By days end we should should hit 75 degrees and back to 80 by this weekend.....yay!

Mark Zentkovich: I need your address please. Thank you    jfmjr1@aol.com

The week after Jeremy came over I was out and about and stopped in Grand Slam. I didn't get much per say. Everything came out of the quarter boxes (5 for a buck), except a few Braves cards.

These Braves were new to me.

I had added them to TCDB 2 weeks ago, so they were included in the numbers I posted yesterday. 

Now the rest of the "cheap" stuff is just more of the same ole same ole, so I will skip posting those. However, there was a handful of cards that do not fall into the aforementioned statement. In fact they deserve a post all on their own. Looks like that will Monday or at least that is the plan. I have a Tampa show haul to get posted, incoming from OCTers and fellow bloggers too. Lots to come and some of it will be fun...sort of   LOL.

Behave, be wise, and if you can't at least have fun!

 

Wacky Wednesday and a TCDB update (and ComC too)

 Burr.....it was so cold today(this morning).

Greg (NO) recently commented about Update here on this blog regarding whether or not Topps would be foregoing the Halloween theme because of it not being released before that holiday. Well.... the checklist is out, and yep Halloween themes/parallels are in there. 

Now that is WACKY.

TCDB Braves (ATL): me and the other guy.

on 10/30 he was at 33,092 and I was at 32, 547.

on 11/10 he was at 33,151 and I was at 32, 634.     I am -517 and it would be great if I could get the 80 or so Braves from my ComC inventory. 

Now for the monthly update on the rest of TCDB stuff.

Baseball unique: I held at #14 344, 985 (I have been pounding it this week though)

Total unique cards: I held at #27 with 381, 705 (I've added here too)

Gaming: I jumped 31 spots to #110 with 4,533 cards.

Non-Sports: I dropped 2 spots #27 with 25, 240 ( I didn't add any here before the update, but I have added a few this week thanks to a fellow blogger.

Yesterday, I got a reply back from my reply to the 1st e-mail I sent. (still nothing on the 2nd). Yesterday, Stacy (the staff) sent me an e-mail thanking me for reaching out (lol), and let me know she forwarded it to her supervisors. Then just before I went to bed last night, I get a comc survey request on how I felt about the service from the staff.... Seriously. Now I haven't filled it out yet. I think I'll wait.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Thank you to all of our Veterans!

 I wish the warmest wishes for all of our Veterans! Thank you for your service!

As tradition here at JohnnysTradingSpot here are some of the athletes that mark this day as their birthday.

Thank you again to all who have served and thank you to their families as well.

God Bless the USA!

Jeremy's visit and a SERIOUS rant on ComC and what should be their "F" rating with the BBB

I need addresses for Zentkovich and KCJays, thank  jfmjr1@aol.com 

Has anyone made a shipment request in the last couple of weeks? Well, I tried and shipping standard was $26.99. That is HIGHWAY robbery, and is a complete ripoff. My order was for 85 cards it should be MAX at $8.35 postage according to my post office to them. Of course they will eventually say handling, BS! I am done with them. Nobody is worth the extra 18 bucks for handling NOBODY! Especially with 1-2 month wait for them to actually ship. I complained last week and never heard back. I e-mailed them again Thursday night too, and I was not as nice. I filed a BBB complaint not that that will do anything to their A+ rating (BS) or change their "policies". No, all of us would have to file complaints about their untimely deliveries and shipping costs to make a difference, and by all means I encourage you too. I don't know how I am going to get my 85 cards but I am not paying that shipping cost. I certainly will not be buying anymore cards from them. It is a total shame that for about 6 months they were actually good. Remember I was praising them. Then the  last order I did was back to their same old stuff. If they can't handle their stuff quicker and more efficiently they need to hire more people to handle the volume they do. UPDATE: On Sunday night I finally got a response to the e-mail I sent them 9 days ago (the 1st one). 

Now for more positive aspect of our hobby.

Awhile back Jeremey had a made a facebook deal and grabbed my Braves Dbacks. He brought them over this visit.

He also brought over some new to me 2025 Braves.

I really appreciate all the help Jeremy provides me in my quest for that #1 spot.

We headed over to Grand slam so he could check out the shop. It is HUGE, and they are remodeling now for doubling the size.

I made some purchases whilst Jeremy dug through the quarter boxes. I found a few in the wooden bin. They are on the pricier side of what they should be, but hey that is why I negotiate which I did with Jeremey watching. Part of negotiating netted Jeremy's stack of 100-150 quarter cards for nothing. Which actually netted me a sweet card for my PC. I'll show that card at the end.

Of course I didn't need the Furcal auto, but snagged it anyways.

I picked up a few more autos and rookies too. I'm pretty sure Jeremy dug a few cards out the wooden bin too and grabbed the same Jeter.

Now here is the card Jeremy showed me first thing when we got in the van. I said ooh I collect him, and then he showed me the back of the card.

Topps Platinum 1/1, whoo hoo. He didn't have to let me have it but he did. Thank you Jeremy this card will sit nicely with Holliday family cards.

The winners

 Okay, I looked at the comments with my tired eyes and thought I was 2 commenters short so I added 2 of the regulars that hadn't commented to the post to the bottom of the list. I then did the random thing, go figure I oopsed. Apparently I was short 3 comments (one of the commenters had not did the follow button (not Brad-we worked that out) DrMustang. Now I have page 30 to award to someone that I haven't thought about yet. But, I will get it done. DrMustang please follow and send me your address and that left over spot is yours.

It made 85 degrees today, so wonderful, but by Monday night we'll be 26 degrees for a couple days. UGH   BURR!

Now the winners list (page numbers).

There were 29 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. derek
2. billk
3. evan
4. coffee matt
5. crocodile
6. mike mattson
7. fuji
8. rod
9. kc jays
10. bo
11. brad c
12. defgav
13. tom t
14. uncle charlie
15. sharp
16. angus
17. m. wilson
18. owl
19. diamond jesters
20. tdk
21. aj
22. rj
23. zentovich
24. ginko
25. jeremy
26. pederson
27. jafronius
28. gca
29. nachos

IP: 71.214.201.94
Timestamp: 2025-11-08 15:26:17 UTC

A couple of you guys still need to email me your addresses, thank you much for playing.

John

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Dang if I ain't done went and got myself sick again. UGH. Hopefully, this one will be over quick. Hitting the shadows first thing this morning. I post the "winners list" tonight in another post. If you haven't sent me your address and I need it....I need it.

I see a bad guy beating someone on the ground with a bat.

I see a turtle trying to catch the bunny (he was too fast and is off the card).

I am going with a carved wooden horse.

Enjoy the day.

Before Jeremy came over

Need 4 more for the giveaway! 

A couple of weeks ago Jeremy (Topps cards that never were) came over to the house. He brought me some cards and then we were heading over to my LCS (Grand Slam). I had just visited the shop the Sunday before and when he reached out on Monday about coming over on Thursday I suggested we visit the shop. I will have the Thursday post up probably Monday, but tonight is what I picked up on that Sunday before he came over.

As is my usual started my dig in the quarter boxes (5 for a buck). Found some more magazine cards.

I grabbed a FB relic and a BB auto out those cheap boxes, figured why not.

I was excited to find the cards below in the boxes for sure.

Many of you may know that I collect the DK puzzles and actual DK cards (They are complete up until the 96 or 97'. I forget at the moment. The serial numbered ones are lacking to say the least in my collection. Yet, I was unaware that the Ted Williams (above) existed. Now to complete it.

I typically grab a handful of non traditional set cards when they are all together like the ones above...... and below.

Those Mantles were nice finds too. So much that I didn't even mind grabbing the Arod's with them.

More cards that I couldn't leave in the boxes. The cards are usually added to every day keeping them full, so you never know what you can find.

Now let's go to the Braves I picked up.

Technically this isn't a Braves relic card, but it is a Braves card that I didn't have, in fact all of the Braves cards pictured tonight were new to my collection.

I didn't need this vintage, but for .20 I wasn't leaving them in the box either. You may recognize that 68' and the Seaver from the giveaway because that is where I put them.

More mag cards.

 I didn't get a bunch of cards on this trip but was content with the few bucks I spent.