Showing posts with label Topps Ticket to Stardom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topps Ticket to Stardom. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

A couple great cards

I opened a couple packs recently, and pulled some nice stuff: Pretty sweet JOHNNY Cueto card. SWEEP THE LEG!!! Oh wait. We did that already. Anyway, yeah, got me another 'Johnny' card. That makes my third Johnny Cueto auto. Not bad. Too bad Im not a Reds fan.

Ah, Ron Santo. I really like the jersey swatch here. Nice colors. Santo was a damn fine ballplayer. He is also fun to listen to on the Cubs broadcasts as he lives and dies by each and every event in the game. Its nice to hear that kind of passion from a team's announcer and not have to sit through a bunch of awful catchphrases.

I don't think I can stand any more 'Tex Messages,' 'Abombs from Arod,' 'Cano Doncha Know,' Yeah I hope John Sterling can go back to calling tractor pulls. He is awful. Whenever the Orioles play the Yankees, I make sure I am listening to the Os announcers, or I just don't listen because the Yankees announcers SUCK!

Two words: VIN SCULLY!!!!! He is how a game should be called. Or Bob Uecker.

Whew, got a little off topic right there. Have a good night guys. I got one more card scanned that I want to blog this weekend. Will get to it tomorrow night or Sunday morning.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Card Shop Success

Saturday, while hanging at the shop, I picked up a pack of SP Legendary Cuts (which, in my opinion, is the best product UD has put out this year). Insode the pack was this awesome Cal Ripken that I knew, for sure, I didn't have in my collection. It is so hard, now, trying to figure out which Cal's I have and which I do not; seeing as I have 400+ of them... 400+ DIFFERENT Ripkens... Crazy, huh? I also picked up a pack of Topps Ticket to Stardam and pulled this WBC Ticket/Relic. I have no idea who the player is, but its a cool card nonetheless. Be sure to keep an eye on Pete's blog to see his awesome pull...Speaking of Pete, he hooked me up with the following UD Goodwin O's cards. I, for one, like the Goodwins, even though they are eerily similar to Topps' Allen & Ginter. I have seen a few really cool retired player cards (including Bo Jackson).