Showing posts with label Live from Basement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Live from Basement. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Tour of my Cardboard Temple

Hey guys, Drew back here. It's very hard to climb out of a hole when you don't have anything to write about, so when all else fails, show off your card cave or whatever you may call it. Here is a photo tour of mine:



Here's the best view of the whole area. My mom let me use this awesome shelf rack, and I use every level except the bottom which is used for a huge tub of cheapie toys I played with as a kid. I have a horrible "desk" (really a table thats at least 15-20 years old), and I put a few boxes on it. The box on the left is my Yankees box, every card being of a Yankee. On the right is my Hall of Fame player box, with all cards of Hall of Fames not in pinstripes.


To the far right are 2 crates, under them a bunch more toys and stuff, but in the right box u can tell what it is in it, and in the left crate is a bunch of base doubles and stuff.



Right below the crates is a stack of binder pages of some sets I don't have binders for yet, and a binder of 1992 Topps that isn't complete but a pain to organize since I probably have at least 10 sets of it lol. Under those is a tub full of complete sets and stuff.



The row you immediately see on my shelf is the display row filled with boxes and stuff. Most of those were opened by me, except the Topps Sterling box, which contains my 1956 Topps Yankees team card in it. I have a few stacks there of just stuff I need to put away and stuff like that.



Here's a side view of the display area. To the right is my bubble mailer stack (yep, only 1), and some Becketts under my sick Upper Deck hat. Still have no idea how I got that hat.



Under the display row is all my supplies, some team sets, and that's basically it.



And at the left end of the row are 4 binders, baseball rookies, a few sets, football rookies, and serial numbered cards. See how organized I am?



Above the display row is the boxes full of base rows, and some stacks in the middle of the bottom of the two rows. There's my nice little Core 4 piece that I made with all four's rookie cards, and right above it, that box is all non Yankees hits. A lot of sweet stuff is in there.



Here is a closer look at the stacks, nothing interesting, really just some for trade cards, and a little spot filled with good rookie cards! Including STRASBURG! (bam, more views right there)



Here's another look at the Yankees box. The first 2 rows from the left are mostly all base sorted in alphabetical order, with some special spots for specific players. The 3rd row has some Yankee Stadium Legacies at the beginning and then all hits the rest of the row. The fourth row is rookies, serial numbered stuff, 2010 cards, and just some other stuff, and the 5th and final row has all my Cano and Swisher cards.

What do you think? I try to keep it as organized as possible, and I try really hard to get it all displayed nicely. I hang my 8x10 pics up in my room, so maybe sometime I'll have to show you my room!

See Ya!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

3rd Quarter Spectacular- 2007 Bowman's Best

Hey guys, Drew back here with a box break review. I recently got the boxes in after paying free shipping and getting the boxes after 3 days. So, Joemama and I busted a box of 2007 Bowman's Best and had very good results. We opened the box in the brand new drewscards Basement Studio, after being worked on all day! In the video, the 1st picture is of us in the studio! Here is the review:



PRODUCT INFO:
3 Mini Boxes Per Box
5 Packs per Mini Box
5 Cards Per Pack
75 Cards Per Box
15 Packs per Box
1 Prospect Autograph in every mini-box
1 Rookie Autograph in every mini-box
1 Veteran Autograph in every mini-box
9 Autographs Total!
2 A-Rod Road To 500 Inserts Per Box
A Numbered Parallel in every pack without a hit!

MY BOX BREAK RESULTS:
3 Prospect Autographs (David Huff, Emmanuel Burris, & Cameron Maybin- all not #ed)
3 Rookie Autographs (Kevin Kouzmanoff, Ryan Sweeney, & Alejandro De Aza) (Aza- Blue Parallel #ed/99)
1 Rookie Relic! (Daisuke Matsusaka Rookie Card Relic)
3 Veterans Autographs (Jeremy Hermida, Hanley Ramirez, & Erik Bedard)
2 A-Rod Road To 500 Inserts (#'s 409 & 420)
7 Serial Numbered Cards
1 A-Rod 500 Career Home Run Insert

You can see everything in this video...



Talk About A Marlins Hot Box!

Product Review:

Design:
This is one of the best new card designed sets I own. The cards are unbelievably nice, and they fit the sticker autos in perfectly, so even they look good. I love the different color parallels, and I also like the prospect variations as well. The base cards are extremely thick, but I don't think that matters at all! Grade: A+

Price:
I would not have bought this product without Blowout's help. I bought the boxes on one of the weekend specials, and got it for $35 off! Talk about a great deal! I guess I paid up for what I bought with it, but if it was $35 more, I wouldn't have. Grade: B-
Discounted Price Grade: B+

Hits:
These hits are very nice. Finally I don't have to worry about relics, but then, I got one. It turns out that the only jersey card in the set is of Dice-K, and I got it. I'm wondering if it is from Japan or not, or maybe some stupid photo shoot. But, the Hanley is sweet, I really love the design of the blue parallel that they use, which I pulled one of Alejandro De Aza. The Hermida & Bedard autographs are nice too, but the crown jewels of the box is the autograph of Cameron Maybin, who isn't playing well this year, but is a big name prospect whose Bowmans Best Auto ranges from $15 to $40. Grade: A

Overall:
Overall, this box wasn't an A+, but it was around those lines. The Marlins are a good team to get young player autographs in, and I'm pleased. Hanley was rated #1 on Espn for fantasy in the pre-season, so I'm happy to have his autograph. As for Kevin Kouzmanoff (KKK Man), I don't want any more of him. I got some nice #ed cards too, especially the green parallels, and I again, was happy with the box. Overall Grade: A-

So guys, remember to tune for sometime in the next couple weeks for Mike & I to do our annual Split, this time of 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes. I will also post an idea of a rip card trick I thought of sometime soon as well. As for TTMs, I will soon send one out to Mr. Mike Mussina, and it would be sick to get this stuff signed! So, See Ya!