Draft Heaven: Liquor in the Morning

We'll keep the conversation down to a minimum on this post. Here is the first of a few posts bringing you my loot from Cardboard Heaven's trade bait draft! I could run a whole bunch of awesome drafts like this with all the cards I have in Georgia, and perhaps in a few years I'll have the time and ability to do so. In the meantime I'll probably just keep participating in everyone else's drafts!

I picked up more liquor than I can bring to Japan without paying taxes! Towards the end of the draft, I ran out of cards that could benefit my collection, so I told Cameron to just grab the liquorfractors he had to fill my stack. What am I doing with them? I'm just going to pass them on! Hopefully I can remember to get these packaged up tomorrow for someone who told me he's trying to build the set. I might need a couple cards, but the rest are all (hopefully) headed your way!

 Oops. Scanned that the wrong way.

And that is all! Not a bad selection of players!

There's so much liquor here, you might have alcohol poisoning! Do you feel a bit ... tipsy?

Are you spacing out?

Stay tuned! I have some really cool cards coming up later!

It took a month, but this card is COOL!

Over the past few weeks I've been trying to collect the cards I need to finish my 2011 sets.

 Kimball minis: DONE!

 Gypsy Queen The Great Ones: two left!

 60

 Years

 Of

 Reprints: DONE!

But the last card is a story of perserverance. Remember last month when I told the story of the eBay seller who totally sucked? This is a story of a different seller. I found a card I wanted included in a lot of Delmon Young cards on eBay, and the Buy-It-Now price was right, so I jumped on it. In a few days, the lot arrived - missing about 1/3 of the cards. I really didn't care about any of the other cards in the lot. The card I wanted was one of the cards missing.

I emailed the dealer, he apologized, and in a few more days, another package arrived. But instead of the Delmon Young cards I was due, I received a small lot of Delwyn Young cards. Hm. Close, but still, not the card I needed!

Emailing the dealer again, he was greatly apologetic and said he'd ship the correct cards. Off to Georgia I went, and when I returned, a now-familiar envelope was waiting!

And inside was the card I wanted!

Ain't it a beaut? Numbered 4/10, it's my first (and most likely only) stamp card from Gypsy Queen.

Of course, I now have about a dozen Delwyn Young cards available (anyone? anyone? Bueller? Bueller?) and a couple dozen Delmon Young cards as well (I repeat - anyone? anyone? Bueller? Bueller?).

While not every 2011 set I attempted is complete, I did pretty good last year. I'm ready for 2012! Let the insanity begin!

Now does this card scream Christmas or what?

 Look at that red and green all over the place! It's the perfect card to be the angel on my baseball card Christmas tree... if I had one. Instead, it sits here at the top of the post, being all merry and happy!

It's numbered 2/5 and is a red refractor from Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects. I bought this and a bunch of other cards for the type collection from Community Gum recently. While I'd love to show you every single card I bought (there's a gold refractor /50, two blue refractors /199, and a regular refractor), my little sheet-fed scanner hates Chrome cards. And most Upper Deck, Finest, and Donruss high-gloss issues as well. It just doesn't want to feed them. So instead I'll show you the non-Chromeys.

 Black borders = extra cropping by the scanner. That's the regular refractor of Bryan Shaw.

 Blue prospect /499

Blue rookie /499

And that's about it for Bowman DPP for me! Thanks to Andy at Community Gum, I don't need to think much about this set anymore! And I rarely see red when it comes to Bowman, so that's a super bonus!

If you don't follow Community Gum, you probably should. They break cases and sell off the extras pretty cheap. They also do case breaks of various products - I participated in a Lineage break that went fairly well.

Lots of Sportlots Lots!

I'm exhausted. Yet again I'm writing at midnight. I've come to accept that midnight is when I'm most inspired to write. The problem stems from the day's activities, which were strenuous and I will be quite sore in the upper body after my muscles decide to start complaining. Top that off with a lack of food until 10:30 tonight. Yes, I didn't eat - or drink - anything all day. I should have took a break and had some lunch, but I was on a mission and stuck with it until the end.

So, with another dozen emails to reply to and about 40 posts to catch up on from this morning, I'm about to go to bed. (You're reading this at 3pm Pacific time, but remember, it's midnight as I type this.) I hereby provide you with a bunch of cards I picked up on Sportlots toward set building.

 Card #402: done. All that remains is card #1001, which better be here today or tomorrow!

 I love these cards. I'll save the commentary for a full post sometime in the future.

 60...

 Years...

 of...

 Topps Reprints. Nearly done with this set, too!

 I like these cards. I think they're pretty cool. You may not, because you don't like non-sport political cartoons in your baseball cards. I don't blame you for your beliefs, and if I didn't like non-sport cards I probably would have nothing to do with them either. But I want the set, and I want it cheap! So here's a McCain/Clinton card that gets me just a little closer to the complete set.

One of the dealers used the last two cards as bookends for my order, which is fine by me! They both fit into my World Series awards collection.

 Smiling pirates should never be trusted. See also: Pirates of the Caribbean.

I don't think the Cubs logo has ever changed. Okay, I take that back. It's changed plenty over time - the current logo arrived in 1979. But regardless of the font or what's inside, the C in Cubs has always been a large circular or oval shape surrounding whatever might be inside.

Now, I'm tired! Goodnight! Or good afternoon! ... I can't end on that. Here's a video to play me out.

Merry Christmas Colbey!

Colbey sent out Christmas cards to many of us bloggers and tossed in a few cards as a present. It seems from what I've been hearing that Colbey's local post office likes to eat Christmas cards, and my envelope was damaged. However, both the card and the cards were intact! Colbey knows I'm a Lincecum fan, so here's what he sent:

 Tim Lincecum, reclining pitcher.

 First Liners? When did we start referring to pitchers as liners? And for crying out loud, DON'T CALL IT FRISCO.

 Look, two Giants pitchers who throw right handed and are wearing home jerseys, black caps, and black sleeves while wearing black gloves! And they both have "beatnik" hair styles! (It's a stretch, just go with it.) And they're both captured at the end of their delivery! Way to go, Topps!

This turkey is black and orange!

A nice Christmas surprise! Thanks Colbey!

Mail Day: Binge drinking, Kimball style!

29 Kimballs in packs in the box, 29 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 28 Kimballs in packs in the box!

28 Kimballs in packs in the box, 28 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 27 Kimballs in packs in the box!

27 Kimballs in packs in the box, 27 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 26 Kimballs in packs in the box!

26 Kimballs in packs in the box, 26 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 25 Kimballs in packs in the box!

25 Kimballs in packs in the box, 25 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 24 Kimballs in packs in the box!

24 Kimballs in packs in the box, 24 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 23 Kimballs in packs in the box!

23 Kimballs in packs in the box, 23 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 22 Kimballs in packs in the box!

22 Kimballs in packs in the box, 22 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 21 Kimballs in packs in the box!

21 Kimballs in packs in the box, 21 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 20 Kimballs in packs in the box!

20 Kimballs in packs in the box, 20 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 19 Kimballs in packs in the box!

19 Kimballs in packs in the box, 19 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 18 Kimballs in packs in the box!

18 Kimballs in packs in the box, 18 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 17 Kimballs in packs in the box!

17 Kimballs in packs in the box, 17 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 16 Kimballs in packs in the box!

16 Kimballs in packs in the box, 16 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 15 Kimballs in packs in the box!

15 Kimballs in packs in the box, 15 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 14 Kimballs in packs in the box!

14 Kimballs in packs in the box, 14 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 13 Kimballs in packs in the box!

13 Kimballs in packs in the box, 13 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 12 Kimballs in packs in the box!

12 Kimballs in packs in the box, 12 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 11 Kimballs in packs in the box!

11 Kimballs in packs in the box, 11 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 10 Kimballs in packs in the box!

10 Kimballs in packs in the box, 10 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 9 Kimballs in packs in the box!

9 Kimballs in packs in the box, 9 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 8 Kimballs in packs in the box!

8 Kimballs in packs in the box, 8 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 7 Kimballs in packs in the box!

7 Kimballs in packs in the box, 7 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 6 Kimballs in packs in the box!

6 Kimballs in packs in the box, 6 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 5 Kimballs in packs in the box!

5 Kimballs in packs in the box, 5 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 4 Kimballs in packs in the box!

4 Kimballs in packs in the box, 4 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 3 Kimballs in packs in the box!

3 Kimballs in packs in the box, 3 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 2 Kimballs in packs in the box!

2 Kimballs in packs in the box, 2 Kimballs in packs...

 Take one down, pass it around, 1 Kimball in packs in the box!

1 Kimball in packs in the box, 1 Kimball in packs...

Take it down, pass it around, no more Kimballs in packs in the box!

Now wasn't that fun? You bet your mother's annual salary in Euros it was!