Triplicate

Some notes. 

I have a few projects going on at home right now, the largest of which is to add my entire Cardinals collection to Zistle so I can finally get a handle on my want lists. The want lists I have up on this blog are 99% accurate, but they are lacking because I am missing many, many sets and haven't taken a second pass to almost any of the sets to double-check if I'm still missing anything. This is a crucial thing to do for someone who mostly squints at baseball cards in dim light late at night.

I'll leave you with a few cards recently purchased from COMC as I ponder another stupid Cardinals loss. Defensive wizard/offensive dunce Brendan Ryan remains as one of my key players to collect, and I recently snagged three versions of his Bowman's Best rookie card from 2005.

Green, blue, whatever. Three more cards added to the list. Click, click, click. Numbers, numbers, numbers.

When I am through with this project (I'm up to "Slaughter" now in the alphabet), I will start finding things to pawn off on you all again. You've been warned.

Words Fail, So I'm Showin' Off

The Blazers won and I don't have much to say, so let's look at some baseball cards.

I bought some more cards from COMC recently as I mentioned the other day, and I figured this was as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the stuff I snagged for my various player collections (PCs as the kids say).

This just looks like your ordinary old base Heritage card that I probably have five of, but you'd be a fool to think I'd need another one of those.

Huzzah! It's a black one. It has the cartoon all inked out for you in red, too. Now that this set has been out for awhile, I should probably go after more of the Venezuelan parallels since the prices have calmed down.

This card is ugly. I'm not even going to lie.

This is a little better, but I feel like there were a lot of plain white dominated Upper Deck designs from 10 or so years ago. The white jersey swatch makes for a bit of a boring card. I should mention that most of these memorabilia cards cost me around $2 or so.

This ended up being one of the more interesting jersey acquisitions. The card is a little smaller than normal and has a faux-perforated edge that didn't come out in the scan at all. Oh well.

This was probably my favorite of the Edmonds purchases, mostly because of my affinity for bat cards (and not so much because of Jimmy's frost-tipped hair.)

There's a base, and a ball, and some metallic background stuff going on. Okay.

Somehow I didn't already own the Gold parallel version of Edmonds' Topps rookie card. Now I do. And it was really cheap. I should probably buy singles more often.

Pujols and Holliday, Back to Back

Some critique: that appears to be a very fake 2008 Topps card that Skip is holding. I'm guessing they decided to mock up something that would be extremely recognizable as Pujols for people with smaller TVs. But what about the rest of the cards? Clearly at least some of them are 2009 Topps cards, as the backs are very recognizable. I think there might be a few regular (or fake?) 2008 cards near the end of the stack as well.

Also, this goes without saying, but... Go Cardinals!