A Smaller Trade From A Giant Fan

When I say “small,” I don’t mean insignificant.  Not by any means.  Quite the opposite, actually.  And when I say “Giant fan,” I don’t mean of us.  No, no, no. I simply mean that a fan of the Baseball team from San Francisco, ARPsmith from ARPSmith’s Sportscard Obsession, sent over some smaller sized items in [...]

One Last Post Before The Breakin’ Begins

I actually have a little time to write up a post tonight!  Before the ghost of Community Break Present sweeps us off on our journey tomorrow, the ghost of Community Break Past is here.  This ghost isn’t going to tell us what things would be like if gimmicks and SPs never existed.  He’s not smart [...]

What Ryan Dempster’s Trade Means For My Collection

Finally, the answer to the question that’s been burning a whole in your unrelenting hearts is here.

When you heard the news that Ryan Dempster was traded to the Braves Dodgers Yankees??? Rangers, I’m sure the first thing that popped into your head was “What’s this going to mean for Jon’s Ryan Dempster collection?  Doesn’t [...]

End Of An Era: Kerry Wood Retires – A Cardboard Retrospective

Reflections – fitting name for the set

The card you see above is the last Kerry Wood card I acquired while he was still an active player, and quite an appropriate one at that.

You see, it’s tough to tell the story of Kerry Wood’s career without touching on the expectations and the subsequent [...]

Feast Or Famine

Hey look! There are two people who post on this blog! My name’s Andy. We may have met. I’m the one who annoys you with Royals autograph posts and less funny captions than Jon. I’m also the one prone to fits of months without posts, one of which just ended. It’s a shame, really, because [...]

I Got Kobe Money

Actually, I had Kobe Money.

For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, I sold the second greatest card I’ve ever found in a pack of cards (the first has not been revealed, and would not go for as much money) about a year ago.  It was a 1997/98 Kobe Bryant Skybox [...]

Stick(er) and Move

Don’t forget to sign-up for our Absolutely Free 2003 Leaf Baseball Box Group Break, if you haven’t already.  Teams are filling up quickly and you don’t want to miss out on some 100% free cards!

The 2012 Topps MLB Sticker album will be coming out soon.  I haven’t had a reason to buy any packs [...]

Employee Appreciation Day

So, how did you all do in your office cubicle mini-golf tournament?

What’s that?  You mean you guys didn’t have an in-the-office putt-putt course set up for Employee Appreciation Day a couple Friday’s ago?  What?? You haven’t heard of Employee Appreciation Day?

Truthfully, neither had I.  I’ve been with that company for 7 years now, [...]

Working to Lift the Ban

Self-imposed bans are tough.  Quite a while back, I mentioned that I was in desperate need of cleaning up my trade posts.  In an effort to facilitate that, I decided that I wasn’t going to trade anything until I was all caught up.

Well, with my two month absence from the blog due to computer [...]

Beltransmogrifier

I have very few card collections given my limited resources and space, but I did decide some time ago to begin collecting on-card Royals autographs. It’s been a blast so far trying to track these things down and this is the latest addition to my collection. To view the cards currently in the collection, take [...]