Big Catch Up Mailday- foul bunt, Troll, and Tunguska!

Hey guys, Drew back here. I am very disappointed that not one person (other than William) has went out of their way to vote for me and try to win cards. I guess I won't win, which isn't a big deal I guess, I am happy I was nominated in the 1st place, but since we're still in March, I was hoping to be the Cinderella story of the awards, I guess that won't happen though. Well, moving on. Here are 3 recent packages I got in. The first one is my group break loot from the Troll. Marck almost forgot about mine, but since he included extras than I don't care, and I really enjoyed the package. Here is what came out of package #1:

Since I got in late in his group break, the Yankees were already taken by Nico (where are you by the way?), so I took the Twins and Angels. I've always sort of liked both of these teams plus they had some good players. In the picture above there are some of my favorite Twins in the package, 2 sweet Winfields, a Molitor, a Knoblauch, a Todd Walker rookie card, and a Marty Cordova.

Here are a few of the Angels I liked. There is a really cool looking Darin Erstad insert, a Chili Davis, a Bo Jackson, a Chad Curtis, Eddie Murray, Garret Anderson, and a very nice Jim Edmonds rookie. I never knew some of these guys even played for the Angels, so it's cool to see them in different uniforms.

Here are a few more recent-ish Angels (all except one) that he included. 3 2008 Heritages, Willits, Napoli, and Mathis. The colors in the 2008 set made the cards look very nice. Next is a 2007 Topps Heritage Juan Rivera. Juan is a very underrated player and should be good this year. My favorite one in this picture is the mini of Vlad, which looks nice with my similar Joba Chamberlain mini. Those are some cool looking cards!

Here are some Yankees he threw in. A few needed Mattinglys, a 2010 Peak Performace Rivera, and a Goodwin Damon. Awesome!

This last card completely took me by surprise. It's a 2010 Peak Performace jersey card with a small pinstripe sign of Nick Swisher! I've been close to buying these before and have gotten sniped, maybe by the Troll, haha! This is a very nice card and looks good in the Swisher collection. But, I am a little uncomfortable that these are part of his pants. I may not wanna touch it!

Thanks so much Troll! Everyone not only check out his regular blog, but also his new blog the Nitty Gritty! On to the next one, as Jay-Z says, this one from William of foul bunt. Yeah, he seems to make some sort of appearance on my blog every single week. He sends me so much stuff and I appreciate everything that he's done for me. He's trying to help me get some votes too, although we are a little too late. Here are the cards he sent me that I got on Saturday:

He put in some non Yankees stuff of guys that were/are Yankees, some old school Paul O'Neills, an Abreu, and a Sabathia all in different unis. The Al Leiter card is cool, haven't seen it before.

Next are some A&G National Prides. I have the complete set of those plus some of the extra Yankees too, so that's nice. I like the Mantle mini from 09 A&G, it's a very nice picture, one of the better ones I've seen.

And the best for last! Some 2010 Heritage, A-Rod SP and Damon, awesome! A 2010 Upper Deck Jonathan Albaledejo, someone I barely even know is on the team, and a 2009 Topps Updates and Highlights Grandy Gold /2009. I have big expectations for Curtis, and I hope he does well. Lastly, a card I actually needed for the Cano PC, a mini from 2009 Allen & Ginter! Just the regular one, which makes me only need the A&G back and the No Number mini. Are the no numbers extremely rare or something because I hardly ever see them out there?

Thanks again dude, I really appreciate it! On to the last one.... from Tunguska of Long Fly Ball to Because. I never traded with him before until I asked for some 2010 Topps inserts. We worked out a deal and he came through! Here are the inserts, although you've seen them all 100 times already:

I only need 3 more History of the Games now, with 1 more coming soon, numbers 9, 14, and 19 are needed. For Tales of the Game I need 8 more cards, numbers 4, 7, 10, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25. I really like the Reggie Jackson hitting the light tower card, that's a really cool story. I did pull the Roberts When They Were Young yesterday so I'm going to offer it up first to anybody that has any of these players from this set that I need: Aaron Poreda, David Wright, Gordon Beckham, Jason Berken, Justin Verlander, and Russell Martin. If nobody is interested than a certain O's fan may get it if he doesn't have it yet.

My Momma Never Threw Out these cards, but I do have 2 of the actual cards! I still need quite a few of these, check my wantlist on the sidebar and let me know if you have any I need.

2 base cards I needed at the time were Mets. I pulled the F-Mart yesterday so that's for trade, but I did need the Niese, so that's good. I am closing in on the base set, someone is trading me the rest of them so that'll be good. I can collect inserts for the next 2 months until Series 2 comes out and I start over again. Speaking of inserts, he sent 4 Legendary Lineages too. Pretty solid matchups I guess, although Longoria will never be Mike Schmidt, Andre Ethier will never be Duke Snider, Hanley will never be Honus Wagner, and Tommy Hanson will never be Warren Spahn. I'd be amazed if that happens.

Ugh, Peak Performance. What a bland set, and I still need 30 of them! I hope I can just get it done, but if I can't then I'll just not complete it. I do like the Yanks however so Tex and Johnny Mize are cool. He sent me a gold border of Michael Dunn too, numbered out of 2010. He's not even a Yankee anymore, but it's still cool. The last 3 cards he sent were 3 bronze parallels from 2009 Topps 206, Mark Melancon, Johnny Damon, and the Frankenstein at the bottom of the post.

Thanks Tunguska! Your cards will be out tomorrow or Thursday! See Ya!

I don't know why Topps chose a photo
of Lou Gehrig getting kicked in the crotch :(

The 2009 Rookie Blog of the Year Award goes to...

THE COLLECTIVE TROLL

Couldn't find a picture, but anyway,

Congratulations! How about that for a birthday present! You have won a trophy courtesy of me and Beardy, and you are the 2009 Rookie Blogger of the Year! Although your posts are semi (really) long, they are very interesting, and everyone loves them! Thanks so much for helping out and so much for being a great guy!


Thanks again Beardy for making these

Only a half hour till the year is over! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Only 1 Award stands, the blog of the year! Also stay tuned to see what the special bonus award is and who will receive it!!! Drew

More Clear Award Update

Hey guys, so this is how we will run these awards, check it out

We are NOT doing entertainment awards, it'd be too much of a pain and are any of us here for that sort of thing?

Instead, these are some confirmed awards for this year:

Sports Moment of the Year (panel chooses nominees, poll will be up on any blog)
Athlete of the Year ("" "")
Coach of the Year ("" "")
Card Company of the Year (Topps, Upper Deck, Panini, Tristar, Razor)
Baseball Product of the Year (panel chooses nominees, poll)
Football Product of the Year ("" "")
Insert Set of the Year ("" "")
Autographed Insert of the Year ("" "")

Blog of the Year (you will email me, yanks1996wsc@gmail.com, or wicked ortega, wicked4life20@hotmail.com, with your nominee when we tell you to do so)
Rookie Blogger of the Year ("" "")
Trader of the Year (email whatever member in the panel is running the award with your nomination)
Biggest Box Breaker ("" "")
Most Creative ("" "")
Coolest Blog Design ("" "")

Rules for blog voting:

1. YOU CAN NOT VOTE FOR YOURSELF
2. You can vote for whoever you like, but don't tell anyone who you voted for, this must be confidential.
3. It's between me & you, no one in between (other than wicked & I)
4. You can vote for us, but if you do, you cannot vote for the person running the award (example: if I am in control for blog of the year nobody can vote for me for that award, but, however, you can vote for me in the award let's say Captain Canuck is running, get it?)
5. The Panel's vote counts for 2 votes, yours counts for 1, so I suggest if you want your friend to win start voting (when we tell you to of course)

Got it?

Now, there could possibly be an exception for Rule #1, I had an idea that we could do a PC contest, Team or Player (maybe both), for a chance to win an award. If that comes true, email us with either a link to a photobucket or zistle or anything (must be a real PC, don't cheat), youtube, whatever. Let me know what you think on that too.

Beardy elected himself to make little banners that you can show off on your blogs if you win too, so you do get a semi prize

Alright, if you have any suggestions, questions or comments feel free to let me know, but for now, think with your dipstick!

Don't just watch the video READ!!!! Bye

Update on the Card Awards

Hey guys, Drew back here, nice to see some good feedback on the last few posts, now, there has been some chat going on lately between a bunch of us bloggaz, and we decided to make an ultimate blogging awards. Haven't heard back from the other commissioner of this thing, wicked ortega, but so far we've got a little panel and it's looking good so far. We do need a logo and other stuff to make this shin-dig big but this is the panel:
COMMISSIONERS:
- Wicked Ortega
- drewscards (Me)

CONFIRMED PANEL (including Wicked & I too):
- Beardy
- Priceless Pursuit
- Collective Troll
- Waxaholic
Mike Ryan (Ripken Pursuit) decided to step down yesterday, so Joe from the Priceless Pursuit joined! I've had some swirling thoughts about it lately, and I figured why not share them with you! So, I don't want any more than 30 awards, but 30 may work if all of us in the panel do 5 seperate awards on our respective blogs. My ideas on types of awards so far:

Product Awards:Company of the Year (Topps, Upper Deck, Panini, Razor, Tristar)
Baseball Product of the Year
Football Product of the semi-Year
Blog Awards:Blog of the Year
Rookie Blogger of the Year (started January 1 on)
Most Giving (as a trader)
Biggest Box Breaker
Most Creative
Coolest Blog Design
Most Giveaways
Sports Awards:Moment of the Year
Team of the Year
Athlete of the YearCoach of the Year

Lastly, wasn't sure if it would work or not (most of the panel doesn't like this idea), but I was thinking about Entertainment Awards, like CD of the year, Singer of the Year, Movie of the Year, TV Show of the Year, Actor/Actress of the Year, and Video Game of the Year. I sorta like the idea, mostly because I love that stuff, but not sure about you.

Also, voting has been brought up a good amount of times as well, and I wanted to let you know that voting goes like this:

- For Awards that don't involve any of you, polls will take place over all of the blogs
- For polls that involve you the bloggers and maybe readers, email me, wicked, Beardy, Pursuit, Canuck, or Troll with a nomination (for the panel, let us all know who voted so we can keep track)

Hopefully you guys follow me so far, be sure to see more of this on here soon,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COMMENT TO LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS!!!!!

See Ya!

PS somethings screwed up with the font size, please excuse me blowing your eyes out of your head while technical difficulties take place

Mail from the Troll!

Hey guys, got some stuff from the Troll, please remind me I've got to get him back some time. He earned 4 points on the Grandpa Roy Contest leader board and is in 1st place right now with 8 points! He sent me some Swishers and Canos, including a jersey card of Swisher, my 1st one that doesn't have an autograph on it! Here they are:

Thanks troll!

I know, you're sick of me posting about what's in my mailbox but...

You're gonna have to read (and or watch) it. Today I got 2 packages, both WERE expected, thank god. The first one was an eBay purchase I made of 3 2008 Goudey Short Prints that I got dirt cheap, here is a very mini list:

205- Carlton Fisk (I already have this one, if you want it and have a different Goudey short print I need, please please please tell me)
211- Al Kaline
223- Whitey Ford (This card got me into purchasing this lot, awesome card!)

The second package was a trade I made with the Collective Troll, one of our fellow great bloggers! We made an ENORMOUS trade, I sent him 50 Rays cards, a numbered B.J. Upton and a bat card for about 80 cards he sent me, either Allen & Ginter I needed or Yankees stuff, a great variety. Thanks dude! Here is my video of these cards:

Please don't mind the music, rap is a love/hate genre and I like it, but I do also like rock, some pop, and R&B/Soul (at least thats what iTunes calls it).

By the way, The Collective Troll gets a 1/2 point each for the contest for these cards:
- 2009 Allen & Ginter Nick Swisher SP (.5)
- 2009 O-Pee-Chee Cano (.5)
- 2007 Topps Opening Day Cano (.5)
- 2008 Topps Swisher (.5)
- 2007 Upper Deck Cano (.5)
- 2007 Fleer Cano (.5)
- 2009 Allen & Ginter Cano National Pride (.5)

3 and a half points on the scoreboard! Keep it up Troll! If you have any Cano or Swisher cards for trade, 1/2 a point will be awarded to each card for our contest!

Thank you Post

Thanks to the Collective Troll for becoming the 28th subscriber to the blog!

Thanks to everybody that wished me a happy birthday so far! I got a A-Rod pinstripe jersey, a Mark Sanchez jersey (too small, have to take back and get different size), a Dimaggio Cooperstown Collection shirt, $50.00 on iTunes, and of course, my iPod touch. Plus a lot of $, a party on Sunday too (more gifts). AWESOME

Thanks to William from foul bunt for trading with me. I received his card already, a 2007 Topps Co-Signers autographed Robinson Cano for a Brian Roberts 2007 UD Masterpieces jersey card. Great trade, thanks a lot to William and PLEASE check out his blog, foul bunt. The card I got looks something like this (too lazy to load my camera pictures):

Just like that!