What base?

I supposed I should put up a post. I haven't been on it as I am normally. I've been working a bunch of hours so I've been wore out when I get home. Haven't felt like taking the time to post.

Today's post is another team post but a few more cards than that last one.

Both of these came from Fred. The Abreu is the rainbow foil and the Mercedes is only my 7th. The way he started off his pro career with the Sox, I figured I'd have a ton but after a really good month, he dropped out of sight and isn't even with the Sox anymore.

These 7 cards came from Sluggo. I gave him $5 for all of these and a couple of Michigan PC's. None of them are base cards and you can see the the manu relic. Thick as hell like most of them but this has the Chicago city flag. Sheets played quite a bit for us this past year and did well. I'm hoping he stays on the team which would depend on if we make any signings or not. This is my 11th card of Sheets. The 2 Rodon's give me 64 of him and the 2 Abreu's and the 1 above that give me 184 of him, which is quite a bit for a non PC but only my 2nd highest non PC players.

Dennis did the same thing as Sluggo only earlier players, no base cards and even a couple with serial numbers Here's a rundown of the players numbers - Albert Belle is at 55 cards, Josh Fields is at 22 cards (1st on TCDB, surprised me as well), Alexei Ramirez is at 77 cards (1st on TCDB) and Adam Dunn with 62 cards. You may have noticed I skipped Frank Thomas, well he's at 585 cards. Yep, you guessed it, he's my highest non PC player. Even with that many cards, I just barely cracked the top 25 on TCDB. Good old 90's stars have a crap ton of cards.

Dennis almost always hooks me up with a relic or 2. The other was a player PC (Funchess) and you've already seen it. This is my 92nd card of Dye and my 8th relic of his.

These all came from people as I've been more active on player PC's than my Sox collection. I technically purchased the ones from Sluggo but they came in a lot he purchased and I get first dibs on all the lots.

1 Auto, 2 Relics, 3 Collections

I've been purchasing a lot more relic and autos lately because of the way I changed my searching on eBay. My Michigan collection has really been helped out but I did manage to land a few for some other collections.

I believe this is my 2nd autograph of Alexei. I liked him when he played for us even if his bat was very inconsistent. I picked this up for $3/shipped.

I also picked up this Chris Sale for that player collection as well as the White Sox collection. This wasn't really a huge surprise, I think now that he's on the Red Sox, his White Sox stuff has lost some of it's demand. I picked up this relic card for $2.99/shipped. It is my 135th card of Chris Sale.

I also managed to pick up a relic of Ryan Zimmerman. I do have a couple of his relics but I usually get outbid on them. I really don't pick many of his base cards up, let alone relics so this was a nice surprise. I picked this up for $2.50/shipped and it is my 90th card in the Zimmerman collection.

Alexei Sunday

Another Sunday post, well aren't you all lucky. As you can tell, the picking up of cards has picked up. Not to mention, Dennis at "Too Many Verlanders" and the better "Too Many Manninghams" sent me a package that I have to post. I've gotten the cards logged, just not scanned. Before all that though, I have a couple more posts, including todays.

I picked up this relic of Alexei Ramirez for only $1.25/shipped. I like that they use the Sox colors for the background but what I really like is that its a patch from a throwback jersey, and with a stripe.

A pair of shortstops

It's been a few days but that's because I hadn't gotten anything, not because of my usual slacker self not posting. I did get a couple of envelopes today, both of the manila kind but one came USPS, one UPS. Oddly enough, the real cheap one came UPS and the more expensive came USPS. Let's check out the UPS first.

I added another Ripken card to that player collection with this pick up for $.23/shipped. This is my 339th card of the Iron Man and my 28th card of his gotten this year.

I also picked up this Alexie relic card from 2014 Topps. It's kind of a busy design but it works. I grabbed this for $1.36/shipped which to me, is a great price for a relic of our starting shortstop for a 8 years. This is my 218th pick up for the White Sox collection so far this year.

21 card salute for the day after Independence Day

Apparently since there were 2 days off from the mail service, they bombed me with 6 envelopes today so let's just get to it. We'll start with the White Sox collection pick ups.

2011 Topps Cognac ($.54)

2009 Upper Deck Sweet Spot ($.10)

2004 Upper Deck Reflections ($.30)

2012 Bowman Chrome Prospects Blue Refractor #'d/250 ($.16)

2011 Bowman Prospects Blue #'d/500 ($.40)

2010 Bowman Chrome Blue Refractor #'d/150 ($.17)

The Peavy came from 1 seller, all the rest came from another. Great prices for some serial numbered Sox cards.

2016 Topps Heritage ($.40)

My first AJ as a brave but then again, I have no other 2016 cards, or 2015 of him.

2016 Topps Heritage ($.40)

2011 Bowman Blue ($.15)

2 more for the Ryan Zimmerman collection. The Heritage came from the seller of the AJ Heritage and the Blue card came from the seller with all the blue refractors for the Sox collection.

2016 Topps Heritage ($.40)

1 more Chris Sale and from the same guy from the other Heritage.

2016 Topps Heritage ($.40)

Another heritage from the same seller (last one), this one for the Steve Carlton collection.

2000 Upper Deck Powerdeck ($.36)

1996 Clear Assets Phone Card ($.38)

2 oddball Ripkens. The Powerdeck CD was cool back in the day but my laptop doesn't even have a disc drive anymore.

2001 Donruss Elite #'d/1000 ($.30)

Always happy to get more Crede and a numbered one at that. Also came from the same seller as the other numbered (blue) Sox cards.

1995 Upper Deck SP Salute ($.48)

I even managed to grab another Mike Schmidt card, a die cut from the same seller as most of the above (blue and numbered cards).

1993 Topps Pre-Production Sample ($.54)

I posted the back of this card so you could see the sample spot. One for the Fisk collection. I checked out the actual 1993 Topps and it's pretty much the same photo but it's cropped differently.

1993 Topps ($.30)

Another Gary Carter for that collection and it looks to be a great shot with who I'm guessing is the crime dog, Fred McGriff.

2001 Upper Deck Decade 70s Bellbottomed Bashers ($.16)

2002 Upper Deck World Series Heroes ($.17)

2 more Johnny Bench's for that collection. Both cards are post career cards but for $.33 total, you can pass that up.

2008 Upper Deck Draft Edition ($.46)

One more Mike Hart, that 2 in 2 weeks which is a rarity, I don't come across too many of his cards anymore.

2008 Razor Signature Series ($2.76)

Last but not least, a Zach Putnam autograph for the Michigan collection. I actually have one of these but I couldn't pass up another one for under $3. He is also currently on the Sox roster so there is that. Although I think he's on the DL. Since it's a dupe, I would send it to Dennis, but I'm pretty sure he sent me my first one so I'm pretty sure he has it. If not, Dennis, let me know.

A 3 card day

I got home later today because I went over to my brothers after work to help him with his garage. He's in the process of insulating it and putting up OSB board. His daughter's graduation party is next weekend and he's hoping to get it done before then.

When I got home, guess what was in the mailbox? Yup, one envelope containing 3 cards. This seller I have dealt with quite a bit and I'm sure I annoy him. When I first started buying from him, he asked me to wait to pay until all his auctions end so he doesn't get charged as much. That's cool, only problem is, he lists cards daily so I'm constantly bidding on cards. Generally, every day I get on Ebay, I go through all my saved searches and bid on cards, then I go to my bidding page and delete everything that I've been outbid on, then I go to my purchase page and pay for everything that I owe for. Now if I get on Ebay in the afternoon, before I pay for everything, I'll look and see if I'm winning anything that will end that night. If I am, then I wait until they end before I pay. Now, if I notice that I'm paying this guy, I try to remember to go look and see if I'm winning anything else of his, but I only look for another day because I'd like to have my cards and not wait for a week until everything ends, and by then, they'll be more I'm bidding on. So I try to combine my payments but I don't always. He's never said anything else since the first time but I figure I probably annoy him. I wouldn't even care if he waited a week and sent everything I won so he can save on postage but I like to pay for my things in a timely manner and it helps me keep track of who I owe. Anyways, I'm probably bitching for nothing because like I said, he hasn't said anything in awhile.

Let's take a look at what I got in today's envelope.

2010 Bowman Chrome Refractor

 This one goes to the White Sox collection. I picked it up mainly because it was a refractor and I only dropped a quarter for it. So think of it as a quarter box find.

2016 Topps Opening Day Superstar Celebrations

 Obviously, this one goes to the Ryan Zimmerman collection. He was on the 2015 version of this insert as well (I do have that one). This was also a quarter box find.

2015 Panini Contenders Old School Colors

I probably saw this first on Dennis' blog and really wanted it, I love the Barry Larkin cards in his Michigan uni's. I managed to grab it for my max bid of $.54.

February Additions - White Sox Collection (2009-2016)

This months pick-ups come from

1. Jimmy at S.Mack Talk
2. Ray at All Cardinals All the Time
3. Sluggo (my cousin)
4. JustCommons.com
5. COMC.com
6. LCS - Media Madhouse
7. LCS - Just Cards
8. Ebay
9. Packs

I've randomed and todays selection are going to the White Sox Collection (2009-2016)

http://talkingsmackcards.blogspot.com/

2009 Topps Update & Highlights

2014 Topps 

2014 Topps

2014 Topps

2014 Topps

2009 Topps

2009 Topps

2009 Topps

2014 Topps

Jimmy claimed some cards on one of my pack posts and I sent a PWE of the cards that he asked for and he was generous enough to send me some cards off my needs lists. He knocked the 2009 team set down to 3 cards and the 2014 Topps team set down to 1 card.

http://cardinalsfan16.blogspot.com/

2015 Topps

2014 Topps Update 

2015 Topps

Ray also claimed some cards from my pack posts and sent me some cards in return. I don't ask for cards in return but some people are just generous anyways and I appreciate it.

2014 Topps Stadium Club Autographs ($1.52)

2007 Bowman Sterling Autographs ($1.25)

These 2 autos were too cheap to pass up. Adam Eaton is our leadoff hitter and it's a Stadium Club so it's a great shot and John Danks is currently the longest tenured White Sox player on the roster.

2013 Topps Update ($.21) 

2014 Panini Prizm Refractor ($.25)

Picked up these 2 on Ebay as well. I picked up the Davidson not really knowing who he was but I have watched a number of spring training games and he's doing very well. He'll probably start in the minors because there are 2 spots left and 5 players fighting for it, including a couple of quite a bit of MLB experience already.

2016 Topps 

2016 Topps

2016 Topps

2016 Topps

I managed to get 4 White Sox cards in my packs. Although I bought the packs knowing that I already had a series 1 team set coming so basically, I bought the packs just to open packs. We've all been there.