Just Another Maddux Monday

 I promised several weeks ago that once I ended the Shadow Shots that I would kick start the Maddux Mondays. Tonight is the first edition. The second edition will be in 2 weeks and most Monday after that. 

This is a GIVEAWAY post (all of the Maddux posts will be). Rules are simple. Be a follower of this blog and a US or Canadian resident. Just comment (once below on this post) by Friday midnight EST. I will randomize the entrants and the winner gets all 18 cards posted.

Here are tonight's cards:

I sorted the cards to give a good range of products and years. This one has a rookie! I scattered a few more Maddux rookies throughout the run of this theme. There should be a total of 30 of these Monday giveaways.

Later folks!

Saturday Shadow Shots: The last one

 Here we are the final shadow shots post.

1) I see a genie coming out of his bottle.

2) I see a moose head.

3) I see Pumba blowing a horn.

Shadow Shots getting dim

 Only a couple left to do counting today. That leaves just one more. 

I hit up the Tampa show yesterday, and today I hit The Villages show. That is two so far for the year and they were both good shows.

1) I'm reaching deep here: I see a lighthouse on a narrow strip of island.

2) A blue crab.....anyone hungry?

3) I'll go with a turkey.

Enjoy the weekend, stay warm as this storm is nasty.

Shadow Shots and a Postal update

 First let's get the latest postal service update. I hadn't heard a thing in several weeks. Until Friday morning. This it what was in the e-mail:

Hello John Miller,

The U.S. Postal Service has completed the review of your claim for (Tracking Number: 9500110374915276288624) and has approved your claim for payment. Payment for this claim will be sent to you in a mailing within 7 - 10 business days for this amount:

(Check Number: 324800735)
($100.00)

If the paid amount is less than the amount requested, the difference may be due to; the assessed value being lower than the amount claimed, depreciation, insurance coverage limits, etc.

Now to wait on the check I guess. I had reached out to one of my US Senators a couple of months ago regarding my issues with the P.O. I never heard anything (not even a form letter response) and that pisses me off a little too, especially as he was also my Governor for 8 years. Oh well, it appears to be all handled now after nearly 4 months. NUTS! 

Now for some shadows.

1) I really don't see anything particular in the shadow. However what I find interesting is it looks like a SQUARE that is tipping a ball cap.

2) I see the A Okay hand sign.

3) Either a Cheetah or a Puma can't really be sure.....I don't want to get too close

Enjoy the weekend everybody!

Shadow Shots

 Peeking into the shadows on baseball cards. Hoping to find something interesting.....will we?

1) I pulled this one because I like the shadow of the ball.

2) Godzilla

3) One of those Mahjong characters.

Your turn.

Shadow Shots and ComC news

 Welcome to the New Year! Before peeking into the shadows let's do the year end TCDB update.

Atlanta Braves: -485

Gaming: Up 13 spots to #98

Non-sports: Same spot #27

Baseball cards: Up 1 spot to #12

Total cards: Up 1 spot to #25

Now for the shadows.

1) Lots of choices here, could be a whale diving, but I'm going with a ship anchor dropping.

2) definitely a big of some sort

3) a bird.

Now last night at 9:47 pm I got an e-mail from ComC (mind you my original ship date was 12/26/25 which was 13 days ......as they advertise with their "new rates" , albeit I check every day and it states a 3/8/26 ship date).  With that said I copied and pasted the e-mail from last night.....  scroll the right arrow to see they sent this on 1/2/26.

COMC.com 

From:staff@comc.com

To:jfmjr1@aol.com

Fri, Jan 2 at 7:54 PM

Hello John,

  

Thank you for your purchase. Your order is being packaged and is expected to ship on with an expected shipping date of 12/26/2025.

 

It will be mailed to the following address:
John Miller
3 Pecan Radial Place
Ocala, FL 34472  

 

If this address is incorrect, please reply to this email and change the email's subject line to "Address Correction" so we can make that adjustment.

 

You can view the full details of your purchase #84911411 in the uploaded PDF or on our website.

 

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to better serve you!

~ The COMC Team

Buy & sell on COMC:
https://www.comc.com

Get support:
https://comc.zendesk.com/

Follow COMC on social media:
https://comc.com/rt/LinkTree

Yeah, they still expect to ship it on 12/26/25 (8 days ago) and they let me know on 1/2/26. I say we in the blogosphere start a 100 spot grid  to take bets (per square) on how much longer they will remain in business. 

Here is the revised current status (originally it was 12/26/25).

Status:
Tracking:	Not Shipped Yet
Date Requested:	12/13/2025
Estimated Ship Date:	3/6/2026
Items Ahead of My Order:	578,894

ANOTHER UPDATE TODAY WHEN I CHECKED STATUS, NOW SHOWS SHIP DATE OF 3/9/26.

THESE PEOPLE.....

Enjoy the weekend! Four more weeks of shadows.

Happy New Year!

 Hopefully, everyone is enjoying the start of 2026. I certainly appreciate waking up on this side of the dirt today (I do everyday too). Once again I am foregoing my typical usual January 1st post....Sort of. I'm not posting the birthday athletes, but I am doing a "State of the Blog" which is basically just what I have planned for the coming year in regards to our hobby and what I post. The goals if you will.

1) Because I failed to obtain at least 1 T206 cards for my collection, this year I plan on TWO. I hope the prices drop some.

2) POSTING:  I have several more weeks worth of scanned and ready to go Shadow Shots, but once those are posted that it is for the year. Readership and comments for those weekend posts just don't justify my time. I will probably replace Saturday posting with a Friday post instead. I have something in mind. I have also decided what to do with that boatload of duplicate Greg Maddux cards. At some point in the coming weeks I kickstart "Just Another Maddux Monday". I plan on posting a page (9 cards) each Monday and the followers of the blog comment for a chance to win those cards. Randomized of course. Many rookies scattered through out and once in a while throw in a surprise non Maddux card into the mix. 

3) My PC (player collections): With the major cutback I've done the last two years on super bulk buys, I believe I can get my updating done all within one year. Speaking of which it goes without saying that finishing this last update in 2026. I finished the M's on 12/31/25 which would be normal. I spent the day today going through the 21K PC cards in the garage (didn't get to all of them but will tomorrow) and pulling out the N's, O's, and P's. The P's have a lot of guys, but not nearly as much at the next round which will be the R's, S's, and T's which will actually take up much of the first half of this year. Leaving the W's as the last BIG one to knock out. Still plan on cutting out a lot of the guys I've been hoarding and hopefully that will all be dome in 2026.

4) I didn't get to many card shows in 2025, so I want to get to at least 7 shows this year, and I'd like to take a couple of road trips to south Florida and checkout some of those shows and LCS's. I was planning on two specific ones this month, but I'm thinking of doing one of the Tampa area shows instead. 

5)  Last but not least, get a lot more of what I have collected inputted into TCDB. I've been doing the PC guys as I go along and will continue to do so. I still have about 20-30K cards for set builds to get sorted and put in. That needs done this year for sure.

That's it. I wish all a fantastic 2026. Enjoy our hobby as much as you can. Greg knocked out a good bit of the bad crap within the industry the other day, so need for me to add to it other than to say this.....

FANATICS SUCKS!

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.

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.

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Christmas is right around the corner and I still need to get a few things handled. Our annual parade is tonight but I won't be attending. Next week reader Bill is coming for a visit. He plans on spending one day at Grand Slam (maybe 2), and then a day digging through my dupe boxes. After that he'll be off to his next Florida stop, I am guessing Jax, he likes hitting up Jax Sports Cards. Anyways, Looking forward to the visit.

Here are today's candidates to see what is in the shadows.

1) I see the old aol guy

2) not sure a gecko

3) I see a buck ( just 2 antlers) on a sprint to get out of my sights cause I want him for dinner. 

Enjoy the weekend!

Saturday Shadow Shots

 The weekend is upon us and it is time for another round of SHADOWS.

I see what I see and want to know what you see.

1) Pterodactyl

2) Alligator

3) I see a gymnast doing a full split (the hard way).

So....what do you see in the shadows?

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Hopefully by now everyone is beginning to get over the turkey lag. I finished bt leftovers yesterday, so today is a new beginning. Maybe some chili and grilled cheese sandwich, or maybe some fast food drive thru. LOL.

So here you are just aching to tell me what you see in the SHADOWS.

1) I see a cartoon horse or mule (some kind of animal) doing a run away from something while looking back.

2) I see Homer Simpson streaking full out running.

3) I think Rollie lost his mustache. I guess you could say he left everything on the field.

YOUR TURN.

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!

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?

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.

Saturday Shadow Shots

I hope everyone has survived their sugar crashes. My back is giving me a fit this morning so getting this done right quick.

I see a huge bug.

A goose.

 

I see a two batted Andre Dawson. And I see an Indian (with a feather) toking on a peace pipe. 

Enjoy the weekend.

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Some of you enjoyed the World Series game 1 last night, and I'm sure there are those who did not. Either way, you get to peer into the shadows and see if you see what I see.

BTW, before I get the shadows, I need to RANT. The checklist for Topps Holiday is out and although it looks like the set may look even better than last year they went and did it again with MORE and I mean MORE parallels. They added chrome plus 10 chrome parallels to the other additions totaling........ DRUM ROLL.......27 parallel to the base. I remember when this set started just a few short years ago, there was one just one parallel.  They also have added a parallel to the variations. UGH!

I see a one legged ghoul (Halloween is just around the corner).

I really can't come up with anything here, but it is definitely aweird shadow and no idea how it is what it is either.

I see a ping pong player getting ready to slam one over the net. Enjoy the weekend all!

Saturday Shadow Shots

Let's see what is in the shadows today.

The front of a baby elephant.

A vulture sitting on top of a dead animal it is about to commence eating.

 I see a soccer goalie diving after the ball.

Enjoy the weekend.

Saturday Shadow Shots

 I hope everyone has a great weekend. Here are this weeks' shadows. What do you see?

A skydiver.

A toucan.

An ostrich.

Later folks.