Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Elusive Upper Deck

It's been almost impossible for me to find single packs of 2009 Upper Deck anywhere. I finally found some retail packs stashed away at a Fred Meyer's in Beaverton. I posted the first pack at APAD. Here are the other two that I bought.

Pack 1:
76 - Rich Harden
10 - Chris Young (The D-Backs guy, not the pitcher.)
87 - Mark Buehrle (I think it would be nice to see this guy in a Cardinals uniform one of these days. Hopefully before he turns 40, anyway...)
31 - Jeremy Guthrie (From Roseburg, Oregon. An exception, obviously.)
182 - Francisco Rodriguez (I put the over under on his saves in 2009 at about 28. It seems like big-time closers rarely have immediate success, if ever, after getting dealt.)
147 - Dan Uggla (I wonder if he'll decline any future All-Star Game invites.)
140 - Joel Zumaya (Ever since Rock Band 2 came out, Zumaya has felt guilty for ditching his first love.)

432 - Phillies Team Leaders (Yeah, these guys won a World Series. Weird.)
470 - J.D. Drew Season Highlights

301 - Politics - President of Russia 20th Anniversary Retrospective
480 - Nate McLouth Team Checklist
224 - Ray Durham
241 - Nick Evans (He's on my "never heard of this guy" list.)
207 - Juan Pierre (Any JP player collectors out there? AJ?)
258 - Ramon Castro

383 - Roy Halladay (Probably one of my favorite non-Cardinal starting pitchers, but probably mostly because of fantasy baseball.)
338 - Jeff Clement (Erin's new favorite player.)
318 - Kevin Kouzmanoff

Pack 2:
56 - Tim Wakefield (I can't believe he's still around.)
21 - John Smoltz (...)
84 - Jim Thome (Word Up Thome)
172 - Billy Butler
137 - Justin Verlander

102 - Joey Votto (Votto looks like a pitcher here.)

458 - LA Angels Team Leaders (I think I've mentioned this already, but I really like these team cards.)
474 - Cristian Guzman Team Checklist

USA-4 - Brian Duensing USA Baseball Retrospective (I haven't figured out Upper Deck's inserts at all, so I have no idea if this is supposed to be cool or not.)
466 - Derek Jeter Season Highlights
484 - Manny Ramirez Team Checklist
298 - Brad Lidge (Ugh.)
281 - Bobby Crosby
264 - Bobby Abreu (6 straight seasons with 100+ RBIs.)
337 - Jose Vidro
320 - Josh Bard

360 - Evan Longoria (He's ranked extremely high by Yahoo's fantasy league thing. Guess who I won't be drafting.)


343 - Albert Pujols (Best way to end a pack.)

4 comments :

  1. Longoria isn't your keeper? Who are you keeping instead? I forget ... your team(s) had slim pickins if I remember correctly ...

    Jeff Clement Auto card .. in my hand coming this JUNE! WOOO! heh.

    glordmo.

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  2. Where did we read this, perhaps Idiot by Johnny Damon, that it really hurts when players congratulatorily smack the batting helmet.

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