Pre Gint-A-Cuff Box Break Warmup

My box of Ginter for Gint-A-Cuffs 2 should be here this week. I didn't pre-order and wanted to wait until the initial hysteria that drove boxes up to $110+ died down. I could NOT resist the lure of the retail packs/blaster however. I decided a little warmup was in order to prepare for busting my GAC box and to get used to the scoring system.

I've been hearing how loaded 2010 A&G retail is and I have to say I've had far better luck with loose packs than blasters. Here, for your viewing/reading pleasure, is a mini-GintaCuffication of a blaster and 8 loose packs. You'll have to forgive me for any scoring errors and feel free to point them out.

Let's go with the blaster first.

Standard Blaster with 7 packs plus the ever popular "bonus pack" for a total of 8 packs.

Pack 1
Luis Durango
Adrian Gonzalez--someone's favorite player +2
Jon Lester
Jimmy Rollins Sketch card +3


World's Wordsmiths Mini Washington Irving +4
Jay Bruce TDIH +1

TOTAL=10 points

Pack 2
Rickie Weeks
Kelvim Escobar
Adam Dunn--another favorite player +2

Christian Guzman black bordered mini +3

Jonathan Papelbon SP +2

Curtis Granderson TDIH Yankee -1

Points=6

Total=16

Pack 3

Tyler Colvin

Troy Tulowitzki

Wandy Rodriguez

World's Biggest Castle Mini (these are retail only, but fall 1:12 like Lords of Olympus) +3

Brandon Webb

Ryan Braun TDIH +3 (Favorite Player and TDIH) I think that's how that should be scored.

Points=6

Total=22

Pack 4

Clayton Kershaw favorite player +2

Magglio Ordonez

Daniel Hudson

Hiroki Kuroda SP +2

Aaron Hill TDIH +1

I was shorted a mini in this Dodger friendly pack.

Points=5

Total=27

Pack 5

Russell Martin

Tommy Manzella

Joakim Soria favorite player +2

National Animals Ostrich mini +2

Delmon Young A&G back mini +2

Shawn Johnson

Jason Heyward TDIH (Favorite and TDIH) +3

I got my missing mini from the last pack here.

Points=9

Total=36

Pack 6

Chase Utley favorite player +2

Judson Laipply

Shin-Soo Choo

Tony Hawk mini

Randy Winn Yankee -1

Carlos Gonzalez TDIH +1

Points=2

Total=38

Pack 7

Luke Hochevar

Tim Lincecum

Curtis Granderson Yankee -1

Lords of Olympus Hades mini +3

Dustin Richardson

Alex Rodriguez TDIH Yankee -1

Points=1

Total=39

Pack 8

Della Vega

Rick Porcello

Kendry Morales favorite player +2
Miguel Tejada mini

Placido Polanco SP +2

Mark Teixeira TDIH Yankee -1

Points=3

Total=42

That was pretty pathetic.

I'll be back shortly with the 8 loose packs for comparison.