I'm Ballsy

Men of color

2011-07-06T00:34:00.000-07:00

Gray and Braun, in fact: Sonny Gray, A's 1st round / 18th overall pick, RHP. On card too! You don't see many nicely-designed on-card autographs lately. I finally have you! 2009 T-206 Ryan Braun Piedmont framed mini auto. I literally don't need another Ryan Braun card ever again. Braun's on-card autographs always seemed to be bid-sniped from me on eBay (or became way too overpriced).

Some Doyers autographs (featuring Dee and Gagné)

2011-06-28T00:47:00.000-07:00

These are some recent Dodgers pickups of mine. Enjoy! 2010 Donruss Elite Extra Edition, Shawn Tolleson autograph, #'d 499/815. Twinsies! Josh Lindblom autos, 2010 Bowman Platinum, green refractors #'d to 199. These were two for the price of one. Score! Some Giants rookies for a 2011 Bowman Dee Gordon refractor autograph? Yes, sir. Unfortunately this trade occurred the day after I

I am hungry. (Sketch card.)

2011-06-22T12:02:00.000-07:00

Hom om nom. Sketch card of the Blob and a sammich is from Marvel Beginnings. I am not a fan of the Blob, but this sketch was so unique and awesome that I had to get it. About to go bowling for a company outing.

I'll cut you! (Razor cards!)

2011-06-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

These are some very recent 2008 Razor Signature Series autograph cards I picked up. I like these Razor cards... reminds me of Just Minors. I enjoy getting signatures of dudes who are on my fantasy teams, and all four of these guys are on one or both of my teams (except Stanton, but he was on my team last year). I have not seen the exciting younger Weeks in action yet, though I will next week.

I'm back... again!

2011-06-21T00:32:00.000-07:00

I've been in the hobby doldrums. Still buying cards and what not, but not much motivation to blog. I will post some new cards tomorrow. For now here's a few photos from the Hong-Chih Kuo bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium! (I totally forgot to hit up my fellow Dodger bloggers about the game, but Dodgerbobble emailed me afterwards.) The gentleman in the suit standing is Don Newcombe. Newk!

A pair of Billingsleys

2011-05-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

Same seller, won both. These are my first 2007 Sweet Spot autographs (though I have quite a few from '07 Sweet Spot Classic): Black ink, brown leather. Silver stitch, silver ink. This is the one I really, really wanted. Dodgers just won! Go Blue!

What else comes in packs? (Mega Bloks!)

2011-04-27T00:23:00.000-07:00

My girlfriend and I were at Target, walking around the toys and games section, when I happened upon this: WHAT!? I had to get a pack of this. I am not a big action figure collector by any means, but I will buy anything that appeals to me enough. I like the Halo games and having toys on my desk, so this was a fit. I was hoping to get a Spartan. Especially the EVA helmet one because that is

BA Benny's Group Break Haul (Dodgers and Packers)

2011-04-25T23:40:00.000-07:00

I participated in BA Benny's first ever group break. It was a very long break, and was the second one I've ever been in. Each slot was for one baseball and one football team. Naturally, I had the Dodgers and Packers. I think I did pretty well in the break... got a fat stack of cards (161, I believe). You can check out BA Benny's here. I forgot to take pictures of the two hits I received.

Christmas tree in July! (Featuring "Mean Joe" Greene.)

2011-04-23T18:05:00.000-07:00

Or rather, football cards in April! Keeps things fresh. Minimal commentary on this one because I'm watching baseball. I purchased two hobby boxes of 2010 Panini Crown Royale Football from Blowout Cards a month or two ago. They arrived utterly crushed and decimated. Chris at Blowout was cool enough to send me new boxes and reimbursed me for the return shipping on the smashed ones. I forgot

Card set wants

2011-04-21T20:59:00.000-07:00

I do not think I have ever posted one of these before. Thought I might as well post my set wants, though, as I try to phase out certain aspects of collecting (such as large-scale, flagship-release set building). Thus, I'd like to finish the current sets I have going. *2010 Upper Deck Baseball: 25 110 111 134 270 340 386 399 437 446 478 555 572 581 *2010 UFC Series 4: Pride and Glory 3

Trade with Nomo's Sushi Platter

2011-04-19T17:27:00.000-07:00

Here's what Spiegel sent me. (I mailed your cards earlier today, bro.) You can check out his blog here. Now, for cards! Here are some great Eric Karros cards. Karros was/is one of my favorite Dodgers. I will have to start a new Karros page in my binders now. You can see a sweet Karros patch I have on this post. I love Flair cards. They always look awesome and are substantially thicker

Trade with Plaschke: Pugilists and a Bear

2011-04-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

I received these cards right before I left on vacation (I love Taiwan). So here they are, some weeks later. You can see my part of the trade at the fantastic Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle. Here we are: A pair of professional pugilists. On top: Mike Swick. On bottom: Rich Clementi. Swick is still in the UFC, while Clementi is not. These are the first and only Upper Deck "World of Sports

Back from Taiwan

2011-04-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

Sup fools. I've been in Taipei the past week. Time to get caught up on stuff... might take a few days to put up some recent trades. I enjoyed reading your blogs when I could, abroad.

2010 Gridiron Gear box break

2011-04-04T19:30:00.000-07:00

Another recent (in the past month) box break. I'm kind of buzzed right now, so hopefully this goes well. Warm weather = beers. Just the hits: Fuck. Drunker than I thought. This is going to be difficult. Uh, Morgan Burnett, gold X parallel rookie autograph #'d... (looking it up) 134/299. Second Burnett rookie auto I've pulled this year. The first was from some random pack I got at one of

2010 UFC box break

2011-04-03T19:48:00.000-07:00

I've been at Wondercon all weekend. Looking forward to catch up on other people's posts. Here's a recent box break of 2010 UFC Series 4: Minotauro Nogueira, silver thick parallel #'d to 188. On top: Mike "Quick" Swick fighter-worn gear relic. On bottom: Jake Ellenberger event-used mat relic. Probably going to sell the Swick card. Ellenberger's been on a roll, while Swick has been injured

Some recent non-baseball pickups

2011-03-31T17:35:00.000-07:00

Opening Day! So here's some not-baseball pickups from the past month or so. (I know, it doesn't really make sense.) Currently listening to the Dodgers-Giants game because of MLB.tv's stupid blackout shite. 2007-08 Upper Deck ICE, Ryan Miller, Glacial Graphs autograph. Clear acetate... looks so cool. 2010 Gridiron Gear, Jermain Gresham, Rookie Orientation auto-relic #'d 10/50. This was a

Some recent Dodgers pickups

2011-03-30T22:25:00.000-07:00

Opening Day! Is tomorrow. I've got MLB.tv ready to go. Here are some sort of recent Dodgers pickups (again, like the last post, cards from before and after the old computer broke): 2010 Bowman Platinum, Jerry Sands refractor autograph. Sands is pretty awesome. Also, he made some sweet catches tonight. I hope he and Dee Gordon break the bigs. 2010 Topps Chrome, Jon Link rookie refractor

Some recent Oakland A's pickups

2011-03-30T00:01:00.000-07:00

And by recent I mean since my old computer broke. At least a month has passed since I obtained some of these: 2007 Exquisite Rookies, Ryan Sweeney quad jersey-rookie autograph, #'d 137/199. There is a little bit of stripe on the "7." Yes, it is technically a White Sox card, but he's on the A's now. 2008 SPx, Jerry Blevins rookie auto. There are both gold and silver versions, but there's

Package from Dodgerbobble

2011-03-29T01:11:00.000-07:00

Got some Dodgerbobble action going on here. Mr. Dodgerbobble was kind enough to let me poach two cards from his recent box breaks. Here's what he sent me: 2003 UD Sweet Spot, Alfonso Soriano, Yankees manufactured patch #'d 40/75. Nice looking card. Soriano's cool. Hope he does well this year. 10-11 UD Artifacts, Thomas Vanek dual jersey relic, #'d 04/50. I am not a regular follower of

Trade with Night Owl ('bout time!)

2011-03-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry and thanks, Mr. Night Owl. The new laptop and Adobe Photoshop are up and running, so I can finally put up some long-simmering posts. You can see my half of the trade at Night Owl's blog: here. The crown jewel of the trade, so to speak. 2011 Topps, Hong-Chih Kuo diamond parallel. Greg also threw in some other 2011 Dodgers as well. I really like the old Finest cards with the protective

It's my burfday today

2011-03-25T00:45:00.000-07:00

I shall wish for the Dodgers to win the World Series this year (among other things). If not that, then at least for the Giants to lose a lot in humiliating ways. Boo yah.

Ball sack

2011-03-22T23:51:00.000-07:00

Breaking my balls, man. Video box... um, bag break this time! I am opening a 2010 Tristar Hidden Treasures Autographed Baseballs Series 4 pouch: Not too shabby! I love autos. (Doesn't everyone?) I would like to collect more autographed baseballs, but most of the player appearances and signings in my area are usually stupid Giants. Also, what are the odds of getting two Mike's/two Orioles?

2009 SP Signature Edition football box break

2011-03-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

This will likely be short and sweet. You may have noticed that I've been collecting and purchasing more football cards recently (I also bought my very first hockey card, which I will post up some other time). Collecting NFL cards, for me, is new and refreshing. I was becoming super bored with new baseball sets (minus prospects for some reason). As well, the new UFC Knockout set from Topps

I'm back! (With a 2010 Gridiron Gear box break)

2011-03-11T22:52:00.000-08:00

I am typing this post on my new computer... and it is about damn time. Boo Dell! Yay HP! I might have written this post sooner had I not been busy playing Torchlight. Also, I was going to put up the vintage cards from my last COMC purchase (and pick up where I left off), but these photos are already good to go. I will preface this break by saying that Panini did a great job with Gridiron

Gonna be a little while...

2011-02-21T13:26:00.000-08:00

...until I post more. Probably a few weeks. Laptop is broken, among other annoying things. In the meantime, I am enjoying everyone else's blogs! : )