Contest

There is a great contest going on right now over a Card Cache, If you haven't already checked it out you definitely should. Lots of great 09 A&G giveaways. Check it out!

Trade With Night Owl

When I got back into blogging after some months off I was very happy to see that everyone (for the most part) was still running great sites. One of my favorite reads has to be Night Owl. He always has good, long and interesting posts. I recently sent him some cards from his want lists and I just got a package back. The first thing I have to say is a big thank you. I got about 150 2006 Topps off my list, also some 08 A&G, 08 Topps, and 08 Heritage. But thats not all. Two days later I received an envelope in the mail saying he forgot to include these 2 cards.



This card is based on whats known as the "Surgeon's Photograph"




It was taken in 1934 and is probably the most famous picture of "Nessie" It was, at the time, considered good evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness Monster due to it showing the head and neck of the creature where as prior photographs only showed humps and water disturbances. It was supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson of London and published in The Daily Mail in April 21 1934. When it ran Wilson refused to have his name run with the picture and with him being a doctor came the name Surgeon's Photograph.

This card however could just as easily been in the Hoax sub-set as many years later it was revealed that the photo was a fake. A man by the name of Christian Spurling who formerly worked for The Daily Mail was the one who actually sent it in to the paper. It was actually a toy submarine with carved wood for the head and neck. He sent it in after his father-in-law was ridiculed by the publication.




Also from my favorite sub-set we have The Vampire. I love vampires. Always have. I love reading about them, and watching movies about them. All the way back to the silent movie classic Nosferatu, which at the time was considered so scary people actually fainted in the audience while watching it. Here's a picture.



The scene with him rising straight up out of his coffin stiff as a board is still one of my favorite cinematic moments ever. For any other Vamp fans out there I recommend Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series of books. They have been turned into the very popular HBO series True Blood which is also very good. It is a different take on the whole Vampire idea. In both the show and book the Vampires "Come out of the Coffin" and admit to the world they are real and try to live in modern society. Very Interesting.

Well I think i've gone on enough of a tangent here. Just wanna say thanks again to Night Owl. I will keep my eyes peeled for anything you need in the future. And between Night Owl, another package I got which I will mention in a future post, and a recent trip to the card store I am VERY close to completing the 2006 Topps Set. Please help me finish this one off.

2CW

2CW otherwise known as Squared Circle Wrestling is a local independent wrestling company run out of Syracuse, NY. They travel through the Upstate, NY region putting on shows in Syracuse, Binghamton, and Watertown amongst other places. They have recently started branching out and will begin doing shows in PA and MA.

Their slogan is "Where Wrestling is the Entertainment" And nothing could be more true. They work their storylines right into the matches and pre-match interviews. So when you go to their shows, instead of seeing two hours of soap operas you get 3 plus hours of wrestling.

They have their own group of local talent who live in Syracuse and work their shows on a regular basis but they also bring in talent from ROH and TNA as well. We have also gotten to see former WWE stars such as Scotty too Hottie, The Blue Meanie and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. From ROH we have gotten El Generico, Nigel McGuiness, Bryan Danielson, Die Hard Eddie Edwards and All Money is Legal. From TNA we have seen A.J. Styles, Homicide, The Motor City Machine Guns, and Samoa Joe.

The show has an old ECW feel to it. The fans really do become part of the show. They just had a show on my Birthday in Syracuse. Unfortunately I was unable to attend but I have included a video to hype up the show just so you can get a feel for the product. Steve at The Easy Life will definitely like this one. Definitely low budget but lots of fun. After the shows the wrestlers all come out and talk to you, sign autographs and just hang out. It's a great time. Check out 2CW.com for more details.

1991 Score

Went to the card shop again today. Bought myself some random packs as well as a box of 1991 Score. I still needed a ton of these so I thought this box would definitely help. Unfortunately I need to look a little closer next time. I didn't realize the 91 set was broken up into series 1 and series 2. This was a box of series 1.



Don't get me wrong I still needed a ton of series 1 but I need a whole lot more series 2. I made out pretty well though, eliminating 122 cards from my want list. Here's some notes on this set.



First we have a bunch of the Score All-star cards. I like the look of these. Then again I've always been a fan of the drawn look. Plus the big heads make me laugh. Canseco's is probably in proportion though. Which brings me to....


Body by Roids. Ha! This looks more like a cover of Playgirl than a baseball card. I think the only card that "topps" this one is the Upperdeck card that calls him the best "natural" athlete. I can't remember the year. I think that may have been their 91 set also.




I like these too. Score should have taken the K-Men, the All-stars, the Dream Team and rookie cards and made them into inserts instead of making this set an ungodly 893 cards big.

What are your thoughts on the set? Let me know and please check out my want lists to help me finish this one off.

Birthday Present

As I mentioned, yesterday was my birthday, and my mother knows how much I love the 2009 Topps A&G set. So get this, she bought me 4 boxes of A&G. The only issue was she got them on Ebay and thought she was getting 4 regular boxes. What we got we're 4 boxes you would find in Wal-mart or Target. Am I complaining? Hell no!!! So what if I didn't get 12 game used. I still made out like a bandit and got a big chunk of my favorite set out of the way. 96 packs/6 cards per pack. I'll take it. Check out my updated want list to see what I mean. I have added my mini want list as well since I now have a good enough amount to put a want list up. Here are just a few of the cards I got.

I got a bunch of the Hoaxes, Hoodwinks and Bamboozles cards. I got all of the following:



If only that one was real.



I think this one is hilarious. There was a guy in the machine the whole time



Who would actually believe they could buy The Eiffel Tower for scrap metal. Dumb Ass!!!



Great April Fool's prank!!!

I was also able to add 1, yes only 1, Creature to my collection. So unfortunately I still need 16 more of these. Too bad it wasn't a uh do I still call em "game used"?



Finally I also got what is now officially my favorite game used ever. Mr Yo-Yo Champion himself.



I got plenty other great cards, including a hand #'d Chad Billingsly. So I now have 2 hand numbered from the set. I also got a bunch of the National Hero's cards. I originally was not going to collect these but since I now have about 1/4 of them I figure I may as well. Again everyone please check out my want list for the update. Please help out if you can.

Happy Birthday to Me - Who's on first

Today is my birthday. I turn 29 today. Almost to the big 30. Scary stuff. Anyway I know we all have seen this a million times in the past but it's my day so I do what I want!!!

Random Pack of the Day - 1992 Donruss

This was a fat pack. 27 cards. Only got one off my want list though. I have a ton of doubles on this set so if anyone need any just let me know. Another set that's definitely not one of my favorites but there have been worse sets.


Got some good players here, even though they were all doubles. Here are just a few of them.


Always nice to have a good rookie. Kenny Lofton.....check!



You would think I was an Astro fan or something. I can assure you I am not. Don't even get me started about Scott scuffing balls.


Not a Yankee fan either. As a matter of fact I despise the Yankees. I bleed orange and blue but you can't deny the career that Mattingly had, that's for sure.

Also included in this pack was:

Dennis Eckersley
David Cone (would've put a pic up but couldn't find a photo)
Lenny Dykstra (Nails was playing for the evil Phillies at the time)
Tommy Greene Highlights card (no hitter) I actually have two of these autographed by Mr. Greene already
John Olerud (The boy in the helmet)
Roberto Alomar (Waste of a lot of NY money)
Joel Skinner
Rick Aguilera (should've held onto him for a couple more years)
Checklist 160 (WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO)
Chris James (I'm CHRIS James, Bitch)
Pat Combs
Walt Weiss
Ken Caminiti
Mike Pagliarulo
Joey Cora
Chuck Crim
Steve Olin
Eric Yelding
B.J. Surhoff (who names there son BJ?)
Kelly Gruber
Jay Buhner
Bud Black (Budweiser's new Stout)
Dan Pasqua
Robby Thompson