Gint A Cuffs Part 2!

Let's continue the counting madness!

Pack 7

Kyle Seager SP -- +2

Martial Mastery Knights -- +3

Bob Feller Black Mini -- +3

Pack Total: 8

Running Total: 54

Pack 8

One Little Corner -- +3

Robin Yount SP -- +2

Cliff Lee Mini -- +1

Pack Total: 6

Running Total: 60

Pack 9

Jim Bunning -- +1

Justin Verlander Across the Years -- +2

Jason Dufner Mini Regular Back SP -- +3

Pack Total: 6

Running Total: 66

Pack 10

Maury Wills Auto (yay auto!) -- +10

Adrian Beltre Across the Years -- +2

Inquiring Minds Thomas Aquinas Mini -- +3

Pack Total: 15

Running Total: 81

Pack 11 

Nick Saban -- -1

Adam Richman -- -1

Pope Francis -- +1

Civilizations of Ages Past -- +3

Wily Peralta SP -- +2

Pack Total:4

Running Total: 85

Pack 12

The Bastille -- +3

Rickey Henderson SP -- +2

Pack Total: 5

Running Total: 90

Twelve Packs in, on pace for 180 but only one hit left so who knows if I will get there. Mike Trout says hi! 

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Can you feel it?! Gint a Cuffs V is here! Part 1

I opened this box for Gint a Cuffs over a week ago! I scanned all of the cards pack by pack (my first ever Ginter box) I will say I enjoyed breaking this box but I have no desire to collect them all. There was one insert set that was of interest so we just bought those real quick off ebay.

Sooo... I will post all of these cards and if you want to trade for any of the non phillies, offer me some phillies and we got a deal!

Also, sorry I did not scan the back of the mini's. I will post them as they are and scan them all in one big shot at the end to prove their point worthiness.

Pack 1

Yoenis Cespedes Across the Years -- +2

Pack total: 2

Running Total: 2

Pack 2

Ryan Howard Fav Player/Fav team -- +5

Alex Rodriguez Yankee/SP -- +1 

Mini Mo Rivera -- -1

Andy Pettite -- -1

Pack Total: 4

Running Total: 6

Pack 3

Jon Jay Fav Player -- +2

Jim Rice Across the years -- +2

Prince William Heavy Hangs the Head -- +3

Pack Total: 7

Running Total: 13

Pack 4

Olivia Culpo -- +1

One Little Corner Pluto -- +3

Freddie Freeman SP -- +2

Codes Ciphers Cryptographs Indus Script -- +3

RA Dickey -- +2 

Pack Total: 11

Running Total: 24

Pack 5

Joey Votto Across the Years Fav player -- +4

John Axford Mini Relic -- +10

Nick Swisher A&G Back Mini -- +2

Pack Total: 16

Running Total: 40

Pack 6

Tim Lincecum Across the Years Fav Player -- +4

Aroldis Chapman A&G Back -- +2

Pack Total:6

Running Total: 46

As you can see I at least hit a Puig base card in the first 6 packs! Not a bad start (I actually have no idea what a good score is). If you see any scoring errors please let me know and I will update. Stay tuned later when I type it up for Gint A Cuffs Part 2!

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The Big Hurt!

I recently was contacted by one of my cool readers out there George. Like me, he is a fellow Frank Thomas collector. We chatted some back and forth and he kindly offered to shoot me some of his doubles.. he failed to mentioned that he would send me about 100 different cards!

Check out this awesomeness!

 

 

 

The mix is great! All the 90s shininess is always appreciated. It has fueled my love of chrome. I added all of these cards to my master list and I now have over 500 different Thomas cards! It's quite fun to look through them all in the binder I have. I keep the autos and relics and the Finest refractor separate. Its tough to pick a favorite card but I am partial to the Score summit parallel. Brings back memories of opening packs with my brother. I think I may have a few parallels of that set buried in the basement somewhere (have to dig those ole cards out one day!)

Thanks for the kindness George!

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A Quick Hello!

I think I'll just sign some autographs!

This was back when the Phillies were winning and fans showed up! Hopefully next year they get a bullpen and learn how to hit again!

I will be back later with a longer post, told you just signing some autographs!

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A Pair of PWEs!

Last week I received 2 PWEs from 2 fine gentleman. My man Wes over at Jay Barker's Fan! He runs all kinds of crazy contests and is a easy guy to swap cardboard with! Also, always be on the lookout for those rare Gary Redus's he is the one and only supercollector that I know of!

He sent me 2 awesome inserts from last year's Topps Archives! I'm slowly but surely putting this master set together. I'm probably only 20 or so cards away minus all the autos (but I have all the Phillies autos so thats something)

The photoshop jobs on these are quite interesting to look at. Almost seems like I could've copy and pasted but hey its cool.

The next PWE came from Marcus (Happy Birthday today as well!) over at Yellow Cardboard! He has 2 blogs but I wanted to highlight his newest one. His ode to Fleer 91 the set that shines.. darn I could've been on Fleers marketing team with that slogan.

 I like the Mr Krukker and its a fitting card for the blog he just started! Always appreciate a shiny Jimmy, one I don't think I had either. Mariano Duncan was always a favorite in the 90s!

Thanks both of you guys!

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Trade with Blog reader Scott!

I recently complete my second trade with one of my readers, Scott! I appreciate that he keeps me in mind when he runs across any cool Frank Thomas or Phillies cards. He offered a really fair deal in my opinion and the trade was completed rather fast!

Check it out!

 

The Schmidt is pretty cool, looking regal. Mr Big Hurt is obviously deep in concentration. Utley learned how to hit again this year. He's done well, unfortunately the other Phillies have not followed in his footsteps. 

These 2 cards look deceptively small on the screen. They are actually quite large, big and oversized! I like the big plastic covering that it came in. I will definitely use that for my oversized card needs!

Thanks for the trade and thanks for reading!

Unplanned Blog Haitus Mostly Over!

I am sure my 10s of readers out there noticed I did not post this past week. Nothing is wrong in Brad's Blog real world just work was kicking my butt and didn't have time to devote to my main hobby. I have a few cards to scan from some trades and a pretty awesome PWE! I forgot the cards were coming and then bam in the mailbox! I plan on doing the scanning tomorrow so I will get those posted and commentated shortly.

I decided to join Gint A Cuffs this year. Very excited to join in on the fun! I personally don't love A&G (more of a Shiny kind of guy) but I do love opening packs and having the shot at winning some free stuff! I hope I pull one of those DNA relic cards. They freak my girlfriend out so I'd probably sell it but it would be worth the reaction alone. (And Yes she reads this blog, hi honey!)

My last trading effort was very successful (Four trades, one post) (that's a good name for a rap song). Anyways, I am looking to unload some of my non baseball cards for baseball cards or Eagles/Sixers/Flyers cards. I don't have any interest in holding onto non Philly sports cards other then baseball. Look for that post in the next week or so!

Gint A Cuffs Here we go! (soon!)

And cause no post is complete without a picture here is one:

I put my deposit down last week on my one case of Topps Chrome! Can't wait to bust it in September! I plan on semi live blogging it like last time cause that was a lot of fun! I hope I can find the Howard super in my case that would make it much easier to go after the rainbow again!

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