I am Joe Collector

Many people talk a big game but check out Robert McNally. I’m not trying to make light of the situation, my point is that some people fold under pressure and Mr. McNally is not one of those people. You have a 64 year old man, awoke by scream from his daughters room, who rushes in and kills the bastard that was trying to assault his her. Not with a weapon, this was a man v. slime ball fight. If there were more people like Mr. McNally, the world would be a better place. Read the story:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/17576601/detail.html

You know I considered doing these as a video break and now wish that I would have. A bit of a back story on these boxes. I was trolling on ebay last week when I happened upon a 2 box lot of 2008 Upper Deck Icons. Opening bid was 99 and a BIN for 109 with free shipping. First I checked to see if these were retail, hobby, or god forbid a blaster. The pic showed Hobby and the description said 2 jersey and 1 auto per box. So I hit the BIN and shuffled the 109 by paypal over to the seller.

Today I received and immediately opened them. I like this issue and have so since I paid way too much for 4 packs at the local shop. First packs I had bought from a shop in a long time.

First pack was an Auto Movie letter redemption of Kurt Russell. Not too shabby as I think these are kind of cool because they are auto’d

Third pack was a redemption for the non auto’d version of the Kurt Russell letter.

Nothing too exciting about the next couple of packs, but in the seventh pack I noticed a Raiders logo where the rookie is. So I was hoping for McFadden, of course. When I got one card a way, I realized the card was a die cut. It turned out to be a McFadden Die cut, but not a normal one:

No this is not my actual card, I lifted it from ebay. This guy has an auction for the one numbered 11/25.

That’s right its an auto 17/25. I don’t care what Gelman says. HIT! This is my first big card I have gotten from a pack. Pretty nice card too. Anyway, I am pretty psyched about it and this puppy is going into my collection. It may be smart to sell it now because it could be a $5 card in 2-5 years, but I am a collector and I like it. I ended up getting two one more jersey out of the first box.

The second box didn’t have any redemptions in it but it had 2 auto rookies, a Webb Eubank Letter, and one more jersey card.

Over all I am very happy with the boxes. I realize the mcfadden isnt a pull of a lifetime or whatever and no I am not going to have it graded.

So yesterday I bought 6 boxes of 06-07 Finest basketball boxes. I’ll let you know what i come up with. In addition, I bought 2 2008 UD Icons football boxes last friday. Those should be interesting. The Icons were 109 for both, the 6 boxes of Finest were 232 shipped.

Seriously, 25 cents, a quarter. Some things I will never understand. Anyway, picked this up for .25 plus too much shipping 3.25.

It’s Charlie freakin Hough man!! Ugh! Well, its worth more than a quarter to me. Of course I don’t sell cards.

Check out this card. It is super. You have an all time great, in a Dodger’s Uniform with the “Dodgers” airbrushed out. The great thing is that they left the blue line underneath where Dodgers should be. Good lord Topps, couldn’t you find a decent head shot so you can do that voo doo that you do so well on his hat. This card is just a shame. Not even a “now with Angels” text or something. There are just some cards that aren’t collectable. This one is so bad that it inadvertantly became a classic.

I bought this card some time ago because I couldn’t stop laughing. This has to be the worst choice of photo for a card ever, except for maybe some of the 1981 Donruss cards, where the photo was fine but the lighting was all screwed up.

Contrast the 73 Garvey with the 74. The 74, in my opinion, is one of the best cards ever.

Without further junk:

and the sweet 74

Any suggestions for a case, under 600 to bust? I know I said I don’t bust wax, but, I can change my mind. I am looking for something with 8 or more boxes. I am really considering a case of Football Heroes when the drop to that.

First off Ron Cey. How can you not like this guy? He has one of the best nicknames of all time Penguin, has two of the most sought after RC’s ever 72 topps High Number and 73 topps with Mike Schmidt, and was just fun to watch.

Next up is George Foster. Much like Jim Rice, you did not want to face this guy. Didn’t he hit 50 one year?

I know these are numbered to 100, but they don’t come up on The Bay very often. These are the Gridiron Badges Pro Bowl Jerseys.

Next is a Saturday Stars John David Booty. I just like these cards. Plus since very few of these will ever pan out in the pros, we can see them in the glory days.

Again, a card series I like. I remember when you could send away and get these. You had to include so many UPC’s and a few dollars. They had these in 93 and 94 and I think Jimmy Dean had the Football version in 95. Nice little COA they sent with them.

Then we have a Jimmy Piersall auto. Sure they are sticker autos, but from a collector’s standpoint, you cant beat these. The important thing to remember is that for the first 10 years I collected, an autograph or card of these old timers were impossible to get. Topps, Upper Deck, and Donruss have done a fine job on most of these cards.

Yes Pedro Guererro is/was my favorite player. Let us not forget that Pedro was the Co-World Series MVP when I was 5. Pedro was a feared hitter. He once held the record for most homeruns in the month of June until it was broken by Sammy “Say It Ain’t” Sosa. Anyway, Pedro was a 5 time All Star a career .300 hitter. He had a damn fine career and played during that dead ball era in the early 80′s. Anybody that claims there was no dead ball era, I have a retort. The Dodgers were at home on an afternoon. It was the bottom of the 9th and Guererro hit a fast ball to dead center. He hit that ball as solid as he could but alas only to the warning track.

FYI: When I was a kid I named our jet black Wiener Dog, you guessed it, Pedro.

Ah yes. Hopefully ohio state people do not confuse disdain for respect. I hold a special place in my sould for the dislike of a few college football programs. ohio state, Florida State, and Nebraska. Below is the comment section thus far over at Achiever Card Blog in regard to the post lamenting this guy’s feelings about The most overrated football program being blown out by USC.

stusigpi said…
Does this mean you guys will stop referring to yourselves as “The” Ohio State University. I’m sure you know by now that everyone just rolls their eyes when they hear that and not in a jealousy sort of way.

September 14, 2008 2:34 PM

Motherscratcher said…
Yes, absolutely. Because we lost a game to the USC Trojans we’ve collectively decided to stop using “The”. Until you brought it up we were completely unaware that other people think it’s dumb. Really, thank you, we had no idea.

Next time try to come up with something even more original like: “You guys in the big ten can’t count. Don’t you know there are 11 teams?” That stuff is comedy gold.

September 14, 2008 2:53 PM

stusigpi said…
Ah, the Dick Cheney defense. Calling me unoriginal because you have this undeserved sense of superiority.

How about this? I stay unoriginal, Ohio State continues to be irrelevant? I suppose you don’t have to worry about being blown out in the title game this year. See, things are looking up.

September 14, 2008 5:14 PM