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ssarily in that order pages home phillies want list friday october 18 2013 cards from the dark side and nebraska well hey there strangers it s been awhile but don t fret i m still here when i first started trading cards on the internet many moons ago i quickly found out that there are tons of amazing generous traders out there in the world when i started blogging about cards four ish years ago i found out that there is an even amazinger generouser sub group of people out there the card bloggers thanks to the internet i ve met some great traders and cool people when i decided to reenter the blogosphere part of the reason was because i missed interacting and trading with the other awesome bloggers one of the blogs i was super excited to see was still around is none other than that of night owl he likes the dodgers but we can forgive him for that right anyway i sent him a bunch of dodgers i had laying around including a manufactured jackie robinson patch card seriously though i don t understand the purpose of the manu patches but that s a story for another day and guess what he sent me a nice stack of phillies so let s get to the show and tell 2013 triple play 63 ryan howard this is the very first triple play card i own well outside of the ones from the early to mid 90 s i m very happy to add it to my collection however i m not sure how i feel about these cards it s a nice looking card and a creative way to get around the lack of mlb licensing it s just it s hard for me to think of it as a ryan howard card since it doesn t really have him on it i don t know maybe i m just weird i did learn that he became the fastest player to reach 200 home runs so there s that moving on 2013 topps archives 47 ryan howard 2012 topps heritage 56 cliff lee have i ever told you how much i love retro cards no well i do i absolutely adore this year s archives set so much that i decided to try to put the set together now i am not a set collector by nature so we ll see how far i actually get again a post for another day getting back on track the addition of the howard card above leaves me with 3 cards left to complete the team set 28 schmidt 213 samuel sp and 240 daulton sp the 2012 heritage set is another great looking set in my opinion nice thick cardboard too which is always appreciated 2012 topps opening day 108 roy oswalt 2013 topps opening day 57 cliff lee i don t think i ve bought a single pack of opening day since 2003 it s nice to get a couple every now and then to fill in the holes 2013 topps chasing history ch 39 jim thome in addition to a bunch of 2013 topps base that fit nicely into my team set there was also this beautiful specimen commemorating thome s left handed hr record in 2003 he won the league hr title and also beat chuck klein s 1929 single season record for lefties by four 2013 topps target red border 625 dom brown sometimes parallels work really well and sometimes they are really awful luckily the target red border parallels that topps have been doing work at least for phillies cards i really love the look of the red borders 2008 upper deck masterpieces 69 chase utley upper deck masterpieces is another set that i ve always admired i mean come on that s a damn nice looking card more retro goodness this time from 2004 fan favorites another set near and dear to my heart thanks again night owl and keep an eye on the mailbox i may have found a couple more interesting items for you i recently set up a trade on sports card forum with a user named shadowking86 well it turns out he runs a blog called red sox fan in nebraska and he is you guessed it a red sox fan in nebraska another offense that can be forgiven since he sent me some phillies cards 2013 topps allen ginter mini a g back 143 mike schmidt the man the myth the moustache in mini format no less while my lack of ginter love is pretty well know even i have to admit that this is a pretty snazzy card 2013 topps gypsy queen 189 cliff lee gypsy queen is a set i like considerably more than allen ginter however i refuse to buy any more packs of it since i ve had terrible luck pulling phillies cards out of it seriously i think i ve bought two blasters a bunch of rack packs and a ton of single packs and only pulled two ryan howard cards actually i ve had terrible phillies pulling luck in general lately don t even get me started thanks again for the trade brad hopefully we can do it again soon go check out his blog i m in a group break that he s doing right now so fingers crossed i ll have some more sweet cards to show off soon posted by amy at 7 12 pm 1 comment labels bob dernier chase utley cliff lee dale murphy dom brown jim thome mike schmidt mitch williams roy oswalt ryan howard steve carlton trading goodness sunday october 6 2013 recently acquired phillies for your aesthetic enjoyment sadly i sit here all hope for the post season lost sifting through cards that s almost a lie i couldn t tell you the exact moment i lost hope in a postseason but it sure as heck wasn t too recent anyway after two days of being sick i think i ve successfully infected every other person in the house at this moment all other humans in the vicinity are taking a nap or watching cartoons which means i should have about 15 minutes to update this poor excuse for a blog before someone needs something a few new cards have recently fallen into my possession really you d think it would be impossible to impulse buy via the internet i mean there is plenty of time with which to rethink a purchase that being said i am the queen of internet impulse buying that s how these cards came into my possession 2013 topps 26b chase utley sp 2013 topps 6b ryan howard sp can i just say that i hate this short print variation garbage as a collector on a budget it usually means more cards that won t see the light of my collection as i typically don t have the money to buy a bajillion boxes and packs of cards sometimes i am lucky enough to find a person who is willing to trade these cards for one of my sad stacks of 1990 donruss other times i have to resort to trade sad stacks of money for these cards that s what i did here which means if anyone is still interested in 1990 donruss just let me know on a lighter note i love to see pictures of players signing for kids it hits me right in the feels ya know maybe because i know from my own kids how happy it makes them when someone takes the time to sign for them moving on 2013 topps commemorative patch another fad i just don t understand is commemorative patches yeah it s cool looking i like the retro patch but really what s the point oh well any schmidt s a good schmidt as they say i don t think anyone has ever really said that but they should 2012 topps black 259 michael stutes i don t have the same disregard for serial numbered cards as i do for sps and commemorative patches i adore numbered cards i can t explain it really anyway stutes is one of the aforementioned players that signed stuff for my kids when he was with reading back in 2009 if i remember i ll try to dig one of those things up and add it to my ever growing to scan stack 2012 topps tribute tribute to the stars tsr rho 2012 topps tier one relic the last two cards are fancy cards from fancy packs i e packs i can t afford so don t buy i ll be honest with you for a minute even though game used cards and i use that term loosely are over produced and a dime a dozen i still get excited every time one falls into my possession these two also happen to be low numbered which makes me sqee a little inside however i don t understand why the howard is encapsulated in 3 inches of plastic oh yeah and if anyone s interested i guess i ll root for the pirates because pennsylvania and all that posted by amy at 11 01 am no comments labels chase utley impulse buys michael stutes mike schmidt new cards roy oswalt ryan howard wednesday september 25 2013 in honor of the marlin s 100th loss 1996 pacific prisms gold p52 lenny dykstra i ve come to terms with the fact that the phils have clinched their first losing season since 2002 i m okay with it i swear honestly i m a pretty optimistic person glass half full and all that so while i might be crying into my wheaties about the losing season i do have at least one thing to smile about at least we didn t lose 100 games last night we served those fish faces their 100th loss i ll admit that it s a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing september so while i was planning what to write about in this post planning what is that i did a little research research way back in the dark ages of 1997 when the marlins were from plain old florida and not all fancy and from miami we traded some guy named darren daulton to them for billy mcmillon 1994 ultra phillies finest 3 darren daulton i wish i had a billy mcmillon card to show you but alas he seems to be missing from my collection instead i included good ol lenny because in my mind daulton and dykstra go together like peanut butter and ladies so far i ve catalogued 1 324 phillies cards and not one single one of them is poor old billy this lead me to do a little more research seriously i must be sick or something apparently billy has 13 cards from 97 98 that picture him as a phillie i still have a lot more cards to go through but i somehow can predict that nary a one will show me mr mcmillon s smiling mug full disclosure i have no idea whether or not he smiles on his cards i ve never seen one i may have to break down and buy one just to say i have it otherwise how can i sleep at night knowing my collection will never be complete until i obtain a 1998 donruss billy mcmillon card posted by amy at 7 18 pm 1 comment labels at least we re not the marlins billy mcmillon darren daulton lenny dykstra optimism friday september 13 2013 updates mail and poorly scanned pictures well happy friday today is my friday off so i thought it would be a good time to actually update the blog with some of the things that have been going on around these parts let s jump right into the good stuff before i start off on some unrelated tangent 2008 bowman draft picks prospects signs of the future fg freddy galvis this lovely specimen came to me via sports card forum i think i bought it for 5 50 dlvd a steal i tell ya this scan does the card no justice it is nice and shiny in real life i love autographs i love it even more when a player has nice penmanship must be the former teacher in me freddy here is definitely not the worst i ve seen and not the best i can make out actual letters which is a plus i imagine when you are signing pages and pages of stickers it gets a little tiring it would be interesting to compare how the signature deteriorates from the first sticker signed to the last at least i think it would be maybe i m just weird anyway i enjoy that he added the little 13 at the end it s the little things 1981 topps 540 1985 topps glossy all star 4 1982 donruss 585 1994 ted williams mike schmidt ms4 the promised land moving on here are four mike schmidt cards i picked up at the card show last weekend the first 3 are pretty standard you ve all probably seen them a million and one times before the last one is one that i had never come across before so i used my awesome powers of google fu and looked it up turns out that this comes from a 9 card set highlighting schmidt s career they were inserted 1 per in 1994 ted williams jumbo packs if anyone has any more of these cards let me know above are the random vintage cards i picked up at the aforementioned card show i didn t pay more than a dollar for any of them in fact most were a quarter or fifty cents thank goodness that is over with now i can finally move these cards from my desk into their respective homes as i get back into the swing of blogging hopefully posts will happen more than once a week i can t promise anything though there is a lot of behind the scenes action going on here at them moment i m in the middle of reorganizing the cards to make it easier to see what i need and what i have i m working on wantlists and tradelists that will hopefully be at least partially posted this weekend you know all the normal stuff as always if you have anything you think i might like feel free to drop me a line at amster82 yahoo com also before i forget i think i fixed whatever was wrong with the comments so if you tried to comment and couldn t i apologize posted by amy at 10 31 am no comments labels autographs card show swag freddy galvis incoming mail mike schmidt pete rose vintage goodness monday september 9 2013 so a girl walks into a card show ok girl might be pushing it these days but anyway i mean i am of the female persuasion however i think i am fast encroaching on lady territory now stop getting me off track or i ll never get this post written where was i ah yes card show i did in fact walk into a card show this past weekend and walked out with a nice stack of cards nobody else wanted first you have to understand that i avoid any and all high dollar items and by high dollar i obviously mean anything over a literal dollar i sniff out quarter bins like a dog sniffs out stuff that dogs like to sniff i ll gladly peruse through boxes of other people s junk to get straight to the point here s some of the junk i found i ll have to do a part deux of this post because i am too lazy to finish scanning tonight a lovely trifecta of 1981 donruss cards featuring mr pete rose i had no idea that pete had this many cards in the ol 81 set i also have no idea what my scanner did to these cards but the edges don t look so wonky in real life i know you were probably worried and as an added bonus for you a casual observation it s a good thing that pete has all that beautiful flowing hair because that batting helmet doesn t look like it would protect him in a pillow fight moving on say hello to howard halladay and hamels oh my first up is ryan howard on a 2007 topps stars card even though i was still collecting back in 2007 this is the first one of these cards i ve seen eh let s leave it at that even i queen of all cards shiny and gaudy can t find it in me to think this card is all that aesthetically pleasing next up is a double shot of the doctor a 2013 base card for my team set and my very first gypsy queen now i ve been pretty vocal in the past about my dislike of the ginter sets but the gypsy queen stuff is growing on me full disclosure i have opened exactly zero packs of it and am basing my opinion solely on this one card i also really enjoy that roy is immortalized in a chicken esque dance pose being from pa dutch country and all the chicken dance holds a special place in my heart rounding out the post is cole hamels on a starquest card a gold rare something something no less i don t know what that means geez i ve been saying that a lot lately but it s slightly shiny and that could be a goldish background is it actually rare do i care enough to look up any information about this card not so much and it cost me a quarter stay tuned for an ...