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ond job all just to sustain sustain sustain for many it s become a job the past year has forced many out of work into the relative danger of the public to buy children s play things and flip them online for a 5 profit an unspeakable risk riding this wave with will eventually crash and disperse across the beach of human interest like every other wave that came before it and every one that will follow yet through this ongoing slog of the current human condition there s something else an additional appreciation of the way things used to be the reason many of us ended up in this space in the beginning the chase the rookies this isn t my card as a bowman prospects 1st bowman 1st edition firsty firsty lasty lasty a lowly civil servant like myself cannot possess such a piece of cardboard this would first require a reduction in amount of groceries three less tanks of gas for my truck five legs from selected pairs of jeans which seem impractical enough as it is or i can just wait it out a few days weeks months however long the current fad lasts austin martin was the toronto blue jays first overall pick in the 2020 mlb draft or what symbolized it this past june many expected am to go 1 2 after he of the arizona sun devil power spencer torkelson who went to the tigers but martin slipped with some concerns for his defense or whatever nonsense the orioles and others managed to cough up in defending their own picks and my favorite college player to watch ended up on my favorite professional team and that just floats right by me since june i ve tracked down austin martin cards here and there mostly through panini prizm draft and leaf metal draft the first a sign of just how much panini could do with or without the license and the later a crime against nature but appreciated nonetheless bowman draft proceeded without the young floridian in late 2020 but word broke recently that he ll make his licensed debut in 2021 bowman first edition which is i don t know extra first or some other nonsense i ve been looking forward to this one for many months and to be frank i don t care for it the card is busier than my wednesday meeting schedule despite this it s overwhelmingly colorless and devoid of heart typographically mediocre and thoughtlessly photoshopped it feels like a malfunctioning local news app set on bright mode like the endless concrete of an abandoned rust belt downtown it just sold for 125 read more posted by roy z at 9 28 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 11 march 2018 bowman break spoils from the iron lion earlier this week sam over at the iron lion breakers hosted a 2016 bowman draft bowman s best and topps high tek box break my randomly assigned pair of teams were the new york mets and oakland athletics definitely no acuna typed prospects abound with those teams but i was hopeful for a colored refractor from chrome and some aj puk or amed roasario cards we ll start with bowman s best as there were just a few from that break to fall to my teams yes this will be a colorful post conforto has a sneaky good year in 2017 and he s generating some legitimate fantasy buzz these inserts though seem unnecessary in typical bowman s best style there s some dual player cards good try bb but aside from both being lefities matz and lester aren t terribly similar that was it for the bowman s best which was pretty disappointing for my mets a s draw on to the high tek hopefully you re all familiar with the gaudy tek designs varying background patters and so on i did some damage in terms of card count here hauling in a jacob degrom yoenis cepedes and this david wright from the backside these acetate plastic cards have the see through element which forces topps to get uh creative with the text okay on to something less gaudy and finally some athletics there s the puk i was hoping for modeling the front of a decent enough looking bowman set not one i would chase but certainly better looking than it s topps counterpart and there s rosario the backside of 2016 bowman was certainly a treat to look at since the bowman draft box was a jumbo i think most of the break entrants wound up with refractors most of mine were uninteresting like this grant holmes but i will never turn down a refractor of course it s bowman so all of the draft inserts are chromed up and refracting light as well here s ex blue jays great franklin barreto modeling the fantasy impact insert blue jays got a decent 3b for him i think nolan ryan as a pup on this mlb draft history insert which is the perfect way to mix legends and retired players into modern sets rather than stuffing a 2018 donruss checklist with mickey mantle cards from old to young as bowman does so well these horizontal cards depict a player s rise in draft selection as dalton jeffries went from 1162nd in 2013 to 37th in 2016 go to college kids finally though i was shut out on relics yawn or autographs duds i managed to wind up with the rarest card in the group break while both orange and gold this is an orange refractor of mets 1b prospect pete alonso a second round pick in 2016 numbered just 12 25 so there s that i hope you enjoyed this blue jays free post posted by roy z at 2 05 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bowman group break iron lion breakers no blue jays 28 february 2018 february nue jays leafs and a good reason for a lack of posts february was a light month for trading cards in this household with just topps flagship available in stores for baseball products there was no need to visit the stores and rip cards with only heritage out now in addition the lack of urgency to rip has plateaued this is just the third post here this month there s a good reason for that but i ll get into it at the end with the maple leafs playing quite well this month playing nine games without a regulation time loss i decided to look out for an auto of one of the team s young stars kasperi kapanen turns out it wasn t too difficult this nice little gold auto from fleer showcase the fleer name was purchased by upper deck recently hardly set me back much which is surprising considering the love that the hobby gives the maple leafs i also added an o pee chee auto on comc from kapanen but we ll see that later on when it is finally in hand but that was it for maple leafs that craving was easy to quell so on to some blue jays and we ll start with an oldie but goodie this would have been a painful purchase back in 2008 when it first came out but jpa is now retired and his card values have plummeted this is great for me as this orange refractor auto 25 was have for under 10 a complete steal the following cardboard which was almost offensively thick and must be stored in a snapcase was even less and also numbered under 100 at 99 there s no reason that this needs to be the thickness of 15 cards by itself but it is a new lourdes gurriel came in this month as well this one being a monochrome refractor from 2017 bowman s best it s one of the prettier autos i have just today another bowman s best auto came this one for the minimum bid of 0 99 warmoth was toronto s no 1 draft pick in 2017 so anytime i can grab an auto of his for under 10 i am very pleased this one is limited to 250 with the writing on the wall this spring about the blue jays not extending josh donaldson s contract any time soon i decided to cast away my previous apprehension for chasing his cards and decided to add some for memories alone somehow i ended up with a pair of patches the first coming from the stunning topps definitive collection from a mother s day jersey in theory and the second in a less pleasing to the eye design but with an incredible patch featuring the maple leaf from the blue jays logo and limited to just 10 now on to the reason for the quiet here of late around the turn of 2018 my fellow writers at jays from the couch decided to take on a little endeavor we were going to write a book and we did it took many late nights and headaches and an incredible amount of editing fact checking and sore typing muscles but we did it we finished about a week ago and are pleased to announce that it will be released through amazon tomorrow if interested you can purchase a copy here for less than the price of those donaldson patches what you see above it the paperback available from amazon com the digital ebook is available from both amazon com and amazon ca hopefully this means more time to write here but we ll see how that goes posted by roy z at 7 31 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anthony alford in the kitchen with jp a josh donaldson kasperi kapanen logan warmoth lourdes gurriel jr nue jays 16 february 2018 a career in the stadium club jim thome in august i will once again be making the pilgrimage to cooperstown ny for the baseball hall of fame induction weekend it s always a joy to see the motley of jerseys in the closed streets in the small otsego lake town and every year one of mlb s many cities will be well represented last year it was houston texas and montreal quebec the latter of which is no longer an mlb city i m assuming we ll see plenty of québécois again this season with the induction of the ultra talented vladimir guerrero jr but also to be extremely well represented should be atlanta for chipper jones and a good mix of philadelphians and clevelanders while i plan to look at all of their lives through baseball cards in the coming months i ll start with big jim thome long known as one of the nicest guys in baseball and worthy of enshrinement on that alone jim thome also did one thing incredibly well mash taters thome was a fast riser in the cleveland farm system spending just four seasons down there hitting just 51 hr between rookie ball and aaa before earning a full time job in the strike shortened 1994 season 1992 believe it or not scouts thought early on that thome was undersized just 175 lbs when he was drafted as a shortstop out of high school while stadium club may have peaked as a base set in 1992 jim thome sure didn t 1993 but seeing as he made it into the set in both 1992 and 1993 topps probably knew he would be a mainstay for years to come it s still strange to look back on his early career and see him a fielding on the left side of the diamond as opposed to the right and b fielding at all seriously topps there s taters to be mashed 1994 still thin still playing a position other than 1b the card still one of tsc s top set designs in all of its mid 1990 s label maker glory 1995 the cleveland uniforms really took off in 1995 as did thome s career he would go on to mash 25 hr in 1995 and drive in 73 slashing 314 438 558 sadly cleveland came up short to the atlanta barves superpitchers in the 1995 world series 1996 tsc 96 is an underappreciated set topps stuck with the foil but got a little bit more ambitious than in previous years thirty eight more taters found themselves mashed 1997 let s just forget about 97 tsc goddamn though look at those forearms 1998 honestly i don t remember 1998 tsc but at least thome has found his way to 1b at this point he s also starting to thicken growing plump off that 1997 world series cut perhaps despite losing in seven games to the florida marlins in one of my favorite childhood world series matchups 1999 am i alone in my love of 1999 tsc that s about as classy as you can make holofoil on the front of a card and the semi transparent logos in the top left corner were spectacular and surprisingly never matched by another copycat product 2000 by 2000 there were whispers of a future hall of famer in jim thome he didn t slow down either blasting 37 49 and 52 hrs from 2000 2003 his final years in cleveland before his 2011 homecoming at age 40 2001 dirt 2002 and another year i don t remember 2002 despite that tsc found a real gem here with the alternate home uniform and pickoff play at first 2003 now you might be thinking jim thome played well after the 2003 season in fact he had 231 home runs after that season and you would be right but there s a very good reason this post stops at 2003 because topps stadium club did and that s a damn shame i also didn t think this post out as much as i had hoped and with the recent re vamp of stadium club i must have assumed there were some more to post but there isn t forgive me and jim if you see this come visit our campsite in cooperstown in august you can mash the ceremonial taters posted by roy z at 8 24 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2018 hof jim thome stadium club 06 february 2018 a trade with million cubs project usually i don t do many trade posts often it s because i lack the energy to physically scan crop and post the images other times it s because ya ll send so many great cards it s often overwhelming fot his very part time blog but when another blogger post their side i ll often reciprocate and that s why we re here right now a few weeks back i started corresponding with a million cubs project eager to downsize my collection i decided to propose sending beau a buttload of cubs that i had no use for hoping someone might enjoy my excess sammy sosa cards i mean i sure don t i didn t intend to get so much in return but when beau asked i answered some blue jays and why the hell not some expos so i guess i am an expos collector now as beau dropped some goodies but first the blue jays the oldest card in the box was this damaso garcia i had a friend names damaso in elementary school for about a year before he moved away i have no idea what happened to him i really like 1981 donruss especially this incredibly mis cut garcia 81 is colorful and simple these are good things also good is every kelly gruber card ever even 1991 fleer yellowness if the 1991 fleer is too much for you set your eyes on the gaudiest of all satdium club sets 1997 i secretly collect shawn green mostly because i m sad he left toronto so early for los angeles i should probably be over it by now but hell look at that swing and look at this 1993 leaf studio of blue jays legend and world series mvp pat borders there are few sets as perfect as this one spectrum from upper deck in inexplicably multiple years is not but i figured i had to show one shiny card from the evil black blue jays period he also happens to be the greatest blue jay of all time g boat more on him on another day i m not quite ready for that post yet i am however ready to start welcoming more expos into my collection beau did a great job facilitating that including soon to be hall of famer larry walker upper deck ruled the trading card world in the 1990s and it did so with cards like the walker s base card above it s a masterpiece they also took full advantage of subsets like the home field advantage card as well the trade also included this 1992 donruss depicting walker in his short term home at first base getting those powder blues a...