No need to spend time sugar coating it and leading in. You know what you’re here for. Let’s Cuff this Gint!
Pack #9
59 Ivory Crockett – 9-second 100-yard dash – The back says he used to go to our school, SIU!
12 Jesus Flores
41 Daniel Hudson
204 Russell Martin
198 A.J. Pierzynski (-1 for getting in the way of Michael Barrett’s fist)
65 Andre Ethier
God of Stand-Up Comedy
LO6 Apollo (+3)
Broxton looks like he's going to fistbump the kid. Bad. Bad Broxie!
TDH43 Jonathan Broxton This Day in History (+1) – The first rollercoaster opens, which unfortunately ultimately led to this…
Pack Total: +3
Pack #10
Now Press it. Press it Wood.
283 Hank Presswood (+2)
16 Carl Pavano
183 Tommy Manzella
175 Tim Lincecum
164 Kyle Blanks
I normally scan the backs of the SPs, but I forgot this time. You all know I'm not making it up anyway.
348 Asdrubal Cabrera SP (+2)
Awww, look at how surprisingly deadly he is!
NA15 Giant Panda – People’s Republic of China (+2)
About damn time we get some Cubs cards up in this piece.
TDH54 Derrek Lee This Day in History (+1 +1 FT = +2) – MLB plays it’s 100,000th game. Oooh, baseball related. How quaint.
Ginter code promo card (forgot to mention this in a couple packs – please don’t hold it against me)
Pack Total: +8
Pack #11
Liam Neeson?
110 Sherlock Holmes – Detective – This looks nothing like Robert Downey Jr. And where’s Pepper Potts?
279 Curtis Granderson (-1 Black Pinstripes)
69 Clay Buchholz
296 Barry Zito
Look! You can just barely make out a hint of blue pinstripe on the right edge!
AGR-CM Carlos Marmol Jersey Relic (+8 X 1.2 FT =9.6) – Two Cubs relics in the same box! And neither of them were that hack Samardzija! By the way, I’ve already decided that if Ryan Theriot gets traded (and many think he will), that I will replace collecting him with Carlos Marmol. More on that later if it happens.
Uncle O Dog Wants You!
66 Orlando Hudson Black Border Mini (+3)
Guys, I think that picture of Butler can be a little smaller. Work on that.
TDH71 Billy Butler This Day in History (+1) – Old Yankee Stadium opens. This doesn’t count against me, does it? I assume there is no active Yankee with this birthday.
Pack Total: +12.6
Pack #12
He's Betel. He's bad as can and he knows he's the best.
68 Betelgeuse – Heavenly body (+1) – We were going to send this out to Michael Keaton for a TTM, but then we found him on a list of celebrities that don’t sign.
57 Jacoby Ellsbury
188 Jason Bartlett
118 Eric Young Jr.
1 Adam Lind
Back to scanning backs of SPs
321 Carlos Gomez SP (+2)
Are we sure the odds of getting an A&G back aren't much much better than getting a regular mini?
69 Clay Buchholz A&G Back mini (+2)
My Grandma, what tiny hands you have!
MM1 Tyrannosaurus Rex (+3) – Yeah, buddy. Two minis. And a T-Rex Dino card to boot! That makes up for the missing mini from before, I guess.
Peavy's season went down like the Titanic: With a detached muscle
TDH40 Jake Peavy This Day in History (+1) – The Titanic sets sail. Some time later, little girls paid lots of money to see it sink over and over again.
Pack Total: +9
Pack #13
105 Nicolaus Copernicus – Astronomer
262 Zack Greinke
90 Kevin Kouzmanoff
178 Josh Hamilton
Doing what he does best - holding the bat like a tea cup.
157 Kevin Youkilis (+2 FP)
Did you really have to sketch that dude's arm? There wasn't an unobstructed photo you could use?
AGHS4 Mariano Rivera Baseball Highlights Sketch (+3 -1 Creepy Smile = +2)
Another injured player. Curse of the TDIH cards
TDH34 Troy Tulowitzki This Day in History (+1) – The US Naval Academy opens. Can’t think of a comment for that one. Consider yourselves lucky.
Pack Total: +5 (and no mini once again….)
Pack #14
201 Pablo Sandoval – But I already got the Giant Panda card…
Holliday ro-O-o-O-o-oad
51 Matt Holliday (+2 FP)
44 Chris Coghlan
13 B.J. Upton
196 Scott Baker
Boy, this SP checklist ain't so hot. I guess that's better than punishing player collectors by putting all the Longorias, etc in there.
307 Akinori Iwamura SP (+2)
1 Adam Lind mini
A modern day Eric Gagne
TDH26 Francisco Rodriguez This Day in History (+1) – Galileo observes 3 of Jupiter’s moons. What have you ever discovered?
Pack Total: +5
Pack #15
199 Summer Sanders – Champion Swimmer
25 Max Scherzer
210 Chris Johnson
217 James Shields
186 Jose Reyes
5 Edwin Jackson
60 Chris Davis mini
I don't follow AL. Is he good again this year?
TDH10 David Ortiz This Day in History (+1 +2 FP = +3) – Time Zones established. One lousy card to give me points. We’re going to win with that! Good thing it wasn’t a Yankee or else we’d be sitting with zero.
Pack Total: +3 – Couldn’t even count on the mini to give us any points. At least there WAS one.
Pack #16
78 Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist & Scientist – I believe we all know what he did, besides fighting off Shredder and Krang
80 Will Venable
194 Nyjer Morgan
Beautiful shot of a check swing strike.
274 Nick Markakis (+2 FP)
132 David Price
240 Aaron Hill
Shocker! Another A&G back
218 Todd Helton A&G Back mini (+2)
You already got your song.
TDH48 Matt Holliday This Day in History (+1 +2 FP = +3) – Elizabeth I is crowned queen. Enh.
Pack Total: +7
Grand Total so far: +70.6 +52.6 = +125.2
I’d say we’re making a respectable showing at the 2/3rds mark. And we couldn’t do much better than snagging TWO cubs relic cards in the same box! We still haven’t uncovered every hit, so the hope is alive. It may be a lost cause unless there are 4 more hits, a wood mini, printing plate, the entire mythical creatures and celestial stars sets, some Topps employee autos, and a Strasburg pie in the face SP made from actual pie crust…or two, but we’ll see. Maybe Beardy will accidentally lose a couple of hits between now and posting.
You’ll just have to wait and see. I won’t post the last 8 packs until next week. I’ll be over at the Pitchfork Music Festival most of the weekend, so you’re stuck biting your nails for a little while longer. I can feel the tension from here.
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