You know what's cool...?

2008 Stadium Club, that's what. Seems like a lot of people don't like it. I've only acquired two cards via trades, and they were really cool cards. So when I saw discounted packs at Target I had to get a couple.

Here is the first pack that I opened. The second pack was a little lame, so I'm not posting that one up.


Out of the 5 cards, I'd consider 4 of them as good cards. 3 out of 5 of the cards were horizontal action shot cards which is pretty cool.


First card out of the pack was a Chase Utley which is a player I like.


A play at the play card.


Pretty cool. This will probably be put in a stack for Mr. Play at the Plate himself unless he doesn't want it, or he already has it.




A cool Matt Holiday back when he was playing for the Rockies. This'll go into the Holiday binder.



... and a Matt Joyce autograph rookie card. According to the checklist that was included in both packs this is a real auto. It looks a little different than the other autos that I've seen online. The other ones were sticker autos and were off more popular players. He no longer plays for Detriot. He's a Ray now.

If anybody out their likes this card, let me know. I could be pursued to trade it away.

Lastly an Armando Galarraga 1st day issue card.

It wasn't serial numbered though, so maybe it's not like the hobby version. I'm not sure.

I looked these cards up online and they used to be astronomically priced. They're nice cards, but that seems a little expensive to me.

After opening these, I wish I would have gotten more. Instead I picked up some 2010 Topps Baseball. That was my original intent on going to Target anyway. I didn't pull any Million Card Giveaway cards, but I did pull some cool cards in my two packs.

I pulled a Mantle CYMTO based on the 1968 design.


I pulled the base Mantle as well. These two cards are going straight to the Mickey M binder page.



Pretty nice card. I don't really like the slanted horizon line, but I do like the Manhattan Shirts billboard and the out of focus, over exposed water tower in the background though.


I pulled another Matt Holiday for the Holliday binder page.


A pretty good Holiday day of pulling Holi... oh whatever.


A cool Cal Ripken Turkey Red.


This is number 19 in the set. I also pulled a number 27 Edwin Jacson .




I'm not collecting the entire TR this time out, I just want a few players that I like. So these two are up for trade if anybody wants them.


I really like the Legendary Lineage the best. I have two now. The Lincecum/Gibson card and this one:



I like Reggie. I'm not that knowledgeable about Adam Dunn. The design of these cards are the best.

I'm doing pretty good at pulling these Tales of the Game cards and not getting any duplicates.


Out of 9 packs I've pulled like 5 of these. Pretty good odds so far since they are seeded 1-6 packs.

I can't say the same for the CYMTO though. I still have these two for trade if anybody is interested.



These are my duplicates. They're the CYMTO backs and the numbers are 24 and 46. I think the Robin Yount card is the most common of the CYMTO cards. I've seen this card all over the place.

Anyway, that's it for me for now. I'm going to spend the rest of the night avoiding the urge to go back to Target for more Stadium Club packs.


Thanks for reading!

million card giveaway

So, I guess like everybody else I'll post up my virtual pulls from the Topps Million Card Giveaway.

I'm a little late with showing off the cards. I didn't really get much. After 7 retail packs I pulled 3 code cards, which seems like pretty decent odds.

My first card was a 1993 Edgar Martinez.

I don't have any cards from this year, so that's something I guess.

My second card was a 2007 Brandon McCarthy.

I'm glad i didn't pick up that discount 2007 blaster when I was out buying these packs, haha. I still got one indirectly though. Oh well.

and lastly a cool vintage card.



A 1971 Skip Pitlock card. He looks a little surprised to be a part of the million card giveaway. Also, his auto looks like it came from the hand of a psychopath.

The card looks a little miscut. Hopefully that's from the scan and not a miscut card. I'm definitely getting these cards sent to me at some point.

I'm glad I went out and picked up some more packs, and I'm hoping that I get more vintage cards like the Pitlock card.

Honestly I don't know much about the players on these cards. I really like the fact that I got a 1971 card. I haven't seen many of these around here and I'm sure that this one is going to be in pretty good shape. I can't imagine Topps sending out cards in crappy condition.

Hopefully I can pull some more old cards.

I had to buy a few packs - Topps Baseball 2010

I couldn't help myself when I saw the cards being posted online. I just knew that I had to check out some of the new cards. I wanted to buy something new and I'm not so excited about the extra Updates and Highlight cards included in packs of Heritage so this is what I picked up instead.

It's always nice to get to pick up something new.

I posted the first of the two packs I picked up over at A Pack to Be Named Later.

I thought I wouldn't like the swoosh thing on the side and the overall layout when I saw the previews. Actually the cards look pretty cool. As it turns out I was more turned off of the cards mainly because of the photography. I'm only judging the photos from like 18 cards so it's probably not that accurate of a representation of the photos, but so far I'm not that impressed.

Here's what I'm talking about. Three examples of action shots, but it's more like after the action shots and you can't really see the player's faces.






And when the do show the players face he's either out of focus...



... or they are just standing there. Kind of lame.



Here is a posed shot.

A little awkward.



The insert cards are kind of cool. Here is a skinny Pedro.


This is from the Cards Your Mom Threw Out set. They show Pedro with the Expos in a 1997 card design.

Here is the back of the Robin Yount card I pulled in the first pack. I'm too lazy to scan both backs.




I don't know what card this is.



I looked at the back to find out the odds.


Of course it doesn't say anything except to check out the website. Crap!


This is what I see when I look to the website.


So I guess it's not like real cards, but sort of like a vintage toppstown card maybe? I guess I'll find out in 3 weeks.
Any of these cards on this post or the one I posted up to A Pack to Be Named Later. that anybody wants they can have. I'll trade for any of these, except the Josh Thole card and the Million Card Giveaway card.