Reds Ox

I couldn't decide if I wanted to do something special for my 396th post - something that would tie in to the size of certain sports card sets. The post I wanted to write would have been another long one, and I already had a backlog of new cards to discuss so I scrapped the epic "396" idea in favor of an old fashioned "lookit my new cards" post.

It's been a long time since I opened a pack of cards, and an unlikely source surprised me with not one but two packs of 2020 baseball cards. My mother in-law gave me the cards included with her Utz potato chip purchase.

In the first pack I pulled Joey Votto, Yoan Moncada, and Mike Soroka. My daughter watched and asked if I got any Red Sox. I told her "not quite".. and then decided to make my own Red Sox card:

Close enough.. right?

As a result the last card in the second pack made me laugh out loud:

It's an actual Red Sox card! Probably the most excitement this team has brought me all year. This poor excuse of a baseball season was such a disappointment that I found myself rooting for the Red Sox to lose so that they could land the #1 pick in next year's draft and (hopefully) take Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker. The Red Sox have never had a #1 overall pick, and haven't drafted higher than #7 overall since the first three years of the amateur draft.

Anyway, as soon as I started to imagine a pitching staff of Chris Sale, Eddie Rodriguez, and Rocker.. Boston started winning. Figures. :/

I made a handful of trades on TCDB including one with Nate (The Bucs Stop Here) and one with Robert ($30 A Week Habit). Unfortunately I put those cards away before scanning them. Nate finished off my Stranger Things set (season 1) while Robert sent some Red Sox, a pair of Brett Fave cards I didn't have, and a Topps Game insert from 2017 Topps Heritage. Both bloggers boosted my 2016 Donruss Football set build.

This would be a good time to mention that my want list tabs have been updated and returned to the top of the blog :)

One of the cards I traded to Nate was this Francisco Liriano pink refractor card. Even though it's no longer in my possession I'm using it to promote Collecting Cutch's Save Second Base event because I don't have any other pink cards scanned. 

I made a trade with a female collector of Detroit Tigers cards.. and it wasn't Julie.

Rebecca (Tgrs_4_me on TCDB) sent me a dozen cards in exchange for a dozen Motor City men and dupes from my Leaf and Ultra sets.

Setfillers_4_me, hah.  I'm down to just two needs for the 2019 Opening Day set (Yusei Kikuchi is making the slooow journey from COMC.) I also received two 1990 Pro Set Packers cards and a half-dozen hockey singles.

I don't think anyone mentioned the Tampa Bay Lightning winning the Stanley Cup earlier this week. Maybe I missed it. (I could swear there was a Lightning fan on the blogs somewhere?) I was happy to see the Bolts win; Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman are two of my favorite non-Devils. 

 

This is getting long so I'll save the rest of the care packages and trades for another post. 

 

Thanks for reading!


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