February Contest Winner

After busting my prize box of 2010 Bowman Chrome (thank you Uncle Moe from My 2008 Topps Set Blog) I found that I had one orange refractor. These fall one every 284 packs. For the contest this month, you had to guess the team, player and serial number out of 25.

Easy, right?

Before we show off the orange refractor, lets look at the one auto from the box. It's Alex Liddi, Seattle Mariner Double A dude. The sig is terrible, but it's on card so I won't complain...too much.

Now, for the orange refractor. Here is the card I got.

J.A. Happ of the Houston Astros. Daily Dimwit gets one entry in the contest for guessing the team. The serial number on the back is next.

I have to apologize for the poor pics (from my Iphone) and the bad edit. Still, you see the numbering on the card is #21/25. Two people, Matt Hickes and Jeremy, guessed the serial number 21. They each get 5 entries into the contest.

Of course, I did a video of the randomization and here it is.

Congrats to Matt Hickes. Matt, you'll be getting all the Cubs from the box!

Thanks for entering everyone.

A 2011 Topps Substitute

I went to Target to get my 2011 Topps fix and they didn't have anything new and glorious on the shelf. I had to satisfy my pack-busting crave so I bought one of these.

You've probably seen these Fairfield repacks. This one has 4 packs for $4.99. I could see a 2009 Heritage and 2009 Goodwin pack on the front. The two packs I couldn't see were a 2007 Upper Deck Series 2 pack and a 2005 Pros and Prospects pack.

I didn't expect to get much, but I was very happy with what came out of the last pack.

A Joe Mauer Goodwin Jersey card. It's a nice feeling to pull someone you collect and anytime I get a Joe Mauer card, I'm happy. Getting a relic out of a repack is just icing on the cake.

Now, where is that 2011 Topps??

800

That is a nice round number. According to the Hall of Fame, Josh Gibson hit almost 800 homeruns. Well, I'm not Josh Gibson, but I just hit 800 posts.

I'm astonished by that number to be honest with you. I've had a rough time posting consistently in the last month or so, but I finally got here.

I just want to thank everyone for reading, commenting and giving me a reason to blog in the first place. The blog started out as a way to post trades and share funny stuff (usually only to me) and it has become a fun part of my day.

I've made a ton of trades, a bunch of friends and had more fun with this hobby than in all the years before I found the blogging community. I've held a lot of contests, won more than my share and joined more group breaks than I thought possible.

Most of all, thanks to my fellow bloggers and collectors, I've been able to enjoy a hobby with my son that goes beyond video games and Ipods. It's been a great journey and I look forward to many more posts, both mine and yours.

Tomorrow I'll have the winner of the February contest and a Fairfield repack that was a pleasant surprise.

Thanks again for your support and comments.

2011 Want List

Base: ALL

Inserts: I don't know yet.

Reason: I still haven't seen any of these things yet.

My local stores, at least the ones I frequent, still don't have any 2011 Topps yet.

Not to worry though, I'm sure they will soon and in 6 weeks or so, I'll be sick of it.

13 Months in the Making

No, I didn't start designing my own custom cards.

You do NOT want to see that. It would make you appreciate Topps, Panini, Upper Deck and a 2 year old's scribbles.

This is the 2010 End of the Year contest. This is only for the winners of the monthly contests (plus the two special ones). I thought of creating some diabolical quiz/puzzle for you to solve, but that's just not my style. I like to enter those types of contests, but easy is the name of the game when it comes to my contests. Since you all already did something to win, I decided to just randomize your names to come up with a winner.

Here are the 14 winners from last season:

Joe S.
Thorzul Will Rule
Roofgod
The Collective Troll
Night Owl
Dan (The Other World)
Zman (Autographed Cards)
Cards on Cards
Waxaholic
Dkwilson
BA Benny
Deal
Hackenbush
Smed’s Cards

I entered all 14 names on random.org and came up with a winner. Just to assure you of the validity of the contest, I had the winner's name hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since noon yesterday. I also did a little video which you can watch if you so desire.




So, congrats to our winner, Night Owl. I suppose you want to know what you've won. Well, I think you'll like it, but you have to wait for your package to find out.

Thanks for all your patience in getting the yearly winner posted and many, many thanks to everyone who has entered the contests the last year.

I'm not behind...

I'm just slow. If you were one of the winners of a monthly contest on this blog in 2010, I'll be doing the end of year contest tomorrow for you guys. It should have been done a month ago, but that's been my M.O. lately. Way, way, WAY behind on everything. I mean slow.

By the way, if you haven't yet entered the February contest, go here and get in while you can. I'll be closing that one tomorrow night.

February Contest...Come Get Some Shiny!

As I mentioned yesterday, I received my prize from a recent contest held by UncleMoe over at My 2008 Topps Set Blog. It was an unopened box of 2010 Bowman Chrome. Ooh Shiny!

Wow, that sounded dangerously close to "ooh Justin Bieber!" I won't go there.

Moving on...I pulled one orange refractor #ed out of 25. The orange refractors fall 1:284 packs (almost 1:16 boxes) so I felt like I was pretty fortunate to pull one.

So, here's the contest. You get to make three guesses related to the orange refractor. First, guess the team. Get that right and you get one entry. Second, guess the number out of 25. Get that right and you get 5 entries. Lastly, guess the player. Get that right and you get 25 entries.

You don't have to get all three things right. Maybe you only get the serial number. You'll end up with 5 entries. Maybe you get the team AND serial number. That's 6 entries. Maybe...just maybe, your dense and guess the Angels, but pick Josh Hamilton. Then you shall be severely reprimanded and made to stand in the corner.

If, by some miracle of miracles, you end up getting all three, I'll give you the contents of the entire box, including the auto. If more than one person does this, first there WILL be an investigation and then I'll split the box and add some goodies.

After I close the contest, I'll randomize all the entries and the winner will get all of his/her favorite team's cards from the box. The team you guess for the orange refractor doesn't necessarily have to be your favorite team.

Here is a sample entry:

Washington Senators #XX/25 Frank Howard (Fav Team: Texas Rangers)

Confused? Get your entries in...I won't be keeping this one open more than a day or so.

And yes, more than one person may pick the same team.

Good luck!