Back in Black: Box Break Part 2, The Mourning

Tonight marked the end of a really frustrating Cardinals season. I think I'm more angry than disappointed, which surprises me a little. Here is the rest of the box break that I started last week. It's fitting that Griffey as a Red leads off this post.

Pack 13 was posted here.

Pack 14:

145 - Craig Biggio

119 - Mark Buehrle

108 - Doug Mientkiewicz

82 - Trot Nixon

56 - Edgar Martinez (He should be in the Hall.)

151 - Greg Maddux

125 - Carlos Lee

99 - Dean Palmer

Pack 15:

16 - Mark Mulder

67 - Jerry Hairston Jr. (Ugh, he cost the Cardinals multiple games this year.)

18 - Terrence Long

277 - Austin Kearns

251 - Ben Howard

293 - Todd Zeile

214 - Orlando Cabrera

188 - Randy Johnson (What can you say about the Diamondbacks uniforms? Past or present...)

Pack 16:

37 - Aubrey Huff

11 - Scott Hatteberg

71 - Ivan Rodriguez (Pudge is on his 6th team in the past decade after spending all of the '90s with Texas.)

45 - Matt Lawton

19 - Carlos Pena (The Rays clinched tonight. I wonder if anyone was at the game.)

109 - Cristian Guzman

83 - Manny Ramirez

57 - Matt Thornton

Pack 17:

263 - Doug Glanville

237 - Al Leiter

211 - Brad Wilkerson

244 - Armando Benitez

218 - Robb Nen

257 - Jimmy Rollins

231 - Josh Beckett (No playoffs for this guy.)

205 - Eric Karros

Pack 18:

93 - Chuck Knoblauch

92 - Joe Randa

41 - Chuck Finley

30 - Vernon Wells (Weird to think that Wells was still considered a prospect back then.)

4 - Jarrod Washburn (Caption, anyone?)

73 - Mark Teixeira

47 - Bartolo Colon

21 - Jeremy Giambi (Not as bad as Ozzie Canseco, but not extremely memorable either.)

Pack 19:

275 - Sean Casey (Sean Casey seems like a nice guy. I'm not sure I could say the same about the Reds' current first baseman.)

42 - Jim Thome

190 - Matt Williams

225 - Barry Bonds

199 - Paul Lo Duca

162 - Ben Sheets (Hard luck story.)

136 - Mariano Rivera (Pretty much the opposite of a hard luck story.)

110 - Brad Radke

Pack 20:

242 - Mo Vaughn

216 - Jeff Kent (The back of the card says that Kent and Bonds provide a lethal 1-2 punch for the Giants, although Kent hit 51 fewer runs than Bonds in 2001. Seriously. 51 fewer.)

276 - Juan Encarnacion

278 - Danny Graves (So many Reds in this post! You're killin' me!)

252 - Mark Kotsay

228 - Mike Lowell

202 - Darren Dreifort

176 - Tino Martinez (Finally, something to balance things out a bit.)

Pack 21:

185 - Mark Prior (Another hard luck story, except he's a Cub and a Trojan so I won't shed any tears.)

159 - Geoff Jenkins

169 - Jim Edmonds (Nice!)

192 - Curt Schilling

166 - Albert Pujols (This is my kind of pack! Pujols once again has MVP-type numbers this season, but likely will lose out to a playoff player.)

140 - Richard Hidalgo

179 - Kerry Wood (Wood and Prior in the same pack?)

15 - Ichiro Suzuki A Season to Remember (Crazy pack! This is a 1:12 pack insert. I'm running out of time, but I should get two of these Ichiro tribute cards in an "average" box.)

Pack 22:

15 - Jermaine Dye

274 - Rob Mackowiak

248 - Ramon Vazquez

287 - Juan Uribe

261 - Travis Lee

235 - Charles Johnson

288 - Mike Hampton

262 - Mike Lieberthal (The less said about this pack, the better.)

Pack 23:

180 - Delino DeShields

138 - Jeff Bagwell

173 - Bud Smith (I'm not sure what happened to this guy. My first Cards game seen in person was a 10-0 loss at his hands.)

147 - John Smoltz

299 - Barry Bonds Checklist

84 - Josh Hancock (R.I.P.)

58 - Mike Cameron

18 - Ichiro Suzuki A Season to Remember

Pack 24:

250 - Trevor Hoffman

224 - Reggie Sanders

198 - Kevin Brown

226 - Brad Penny (If only Penny had been able to stay healthy.)

149 - Gary Sheffield

174 - Edgar Renteria (Overall, I did pretty well with Cardinals cards.)

150 - Rafael Furcal

124 - Edwin Almonte

And, in a nod to Night Owl's game show theming...

Now let us never speak of this season again.