Saturday, April 27, 2019

Kerry on my Cardboard Blog

Met up with Kerry downtown Friday afternoon for a quick swap of cards. He metaphorically dunked on me and the team bag of cards I handed off to him by giving me a very impressive box of cards.


The Vlad Jr. hype is intense! On mlb.com the other day, the top 7 or so news stories were about him and his debut. A bit over the top, but like most baseball fans, I'm interested to see how he turns out as a big leaguer.


The gold standard, Mike Trout!


More Trouty.


Reining NL MVP Christian Yelich. Good stuff here! The mini is /99.


Reigning AL MVP Mookie Betts. Sure, sometimes I feel like a "basic bitch" of a card collector, turning my head for any hot rookies and MVPs. But hey, I also collect guys like Travis Taijeron and Matt Ginter, so I feel I've got well-rounded wants.


Mookie's teammates Rafael Devers and Andrew Benintendi.


Rhys!


Alex Bregman!


More Astros. Love that Correa Heritage refractor.


I've lived in Portland for over a decade now, but have yet to really jump on the Blazers bandwagon. But after that epic playoff-advancing buzzerbeater the other night that had all of Portland bumping, I was like, "Damn! I need to collect Damian Lillard cards!" And Kerry, a big Blazers fan/collector, was kind enough to get that PC started with this lot of dupes he had.


As I add one new name to the short list of active b-ball guys I collect, I lose another, as Dirk retired after the regular season.


Most of the guys I collect in basketball are greats of the past, like Wilt and Dr. J.


...And Dikembe, Kareem, and Manute.


Back to baseball, with plenty of shine here.


And some old-timer favorites. Dave Henderson cards always make me smile. And I hope Bartolo gets an opportunity to pitch this year, but it's not looking likely at this point.


I just sorted out my George Brett PC the other day, seeing if I had hit the 100-card mark yet.. but fell short, around 90 cards. Keep creepin' up, though.


Current Padres representing. Almost May and we're still in contention!! LOL


JOY OF A COMPLETED SET!!!


I got a factory set of '90 Score for Xmas back when it was current-- that and a cheap '89 Topps from the Sears catalog were my first ever complete sets-- but never had a Rookie & Traded set to complement it. Some great cards in here!


Some nice Nats.


And a hit to take us home! Sweet!

Big thanks, Kerry! Great stuff. I'm in your debt and will try to balance the scales soon.


7 comments:

  1. 'Sure, sometimes I feel like a "basic bitch" of a card collector, turning my head for any hot rookies and MVPs. But hey, I also collect guys like Travis Taijeron and Matt Ginter, so I feel I've got well-rounded wants.'

    This basically means that you collect a little bit of everything, giving us all a loophole to exploit where we just dump everything we don't want onto you and leave you to sort everything on your own time. I know this because I've done this... every time I've Zapped you ;) lol.

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    1. Ha, that works for me. Cast a large net and fish out a few keepers.
      My nightmare is a prospective trade partner being like "I have nothing you'd want." Well, shit, buy a pack of something (baseball) from Target/Walmart/wherever, and chances are you'll pull at least one card I'd be happy to receive! Got a bunch of junk wax taking up space? Probably plenty of dudes like Dave Henderson I'd be into!

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  2. Cool meet up. Kerry always sends great card packages, and looks like his IP trades are pretty great too!

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  3. That was a very nice box dumping on you.

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  4. for there will be peace when you are done.

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  5. Great song! My brother and I listened to my Spotify 70's rock playlist on the drive home from Vegas last week and this was one of the songs that played. Anyways... that's cool that you had the opportunity to meet up with another blogger. Kerry hooked you up with some really nice stuff.

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  6. That was a great collection of cards from Kerry!

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