Happy Birthday - Lucas Giolito

Lucas was born on this day in 1994, making him 29 today.

MLB Debut - June 28th, 2016 (Nationals)

Years Active - 

• 2016 (Nationals)
• 2017-current (White Sox)

Nationals

White Sox

Cards on TCDB - 3515 cards (up 394 from last year)

Cards I have - 188 cards (up 27 from last year)

PC Rank - #16 (#19 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (119 cards)
• Sluggos (27 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (16 cards)
• Ebay (9 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (7 cards)
• Padrographs (5 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (2 cards)
• Man Cave (2 cards)
• Box Break (2 card)
• Card Show-Plymouth (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Lucas!

Pitcher and Catchers report

I got off work early today so I worked on my cards for part of the day. I'm a long way from being caught up but it's a start. Tomorrow we are setting up in Michigan City. I'm not sure about this show as there hasn't been much advertisement online and that makes a big difference but it's the only show around and we try to do one every weekend.

Sox were finally on TV today but I couldn't watch it since I ditched cable. It was hard knowing I could be watching and couldn't. The random felt my pain and gave me some former and current Sox players and they are all battery position players from 3 different eras.

These were both freebies for sorting for the LCS. Great photography and vintage look-a-like, can't get much better than that.

These were both freebies for sorting for Sluggo. He gave me a bunch of 1974's for my Vintage Collection and this one was in there. A great action shot in that set. That is my oldest base card with Fisk.

These 4 give me 363 cards of the original Pudge.

All those were more freebies from my LCS, are you starting to see why I do all the sorting. Each scan were at different times. The last card was one that I just scanned today. It was nice to get 2 different parallels of the Aces card from 2 different years. You can see the 2023 up there in the first scan, I actually completed the team set for series 1 already as I sorted a ton of 2023 for them.

These all came from Sluggo, you can see another parallel of the Aces card along with the Prism refractor above it.

These 9 cards give me 178 of our hopeful return to an Ace of Lucas.

I only got 1 card of AJ but I don't come across too many of his these days. Nothing too flashy here but you see him in the Giants uniform where they claim to not like him. I'm happy for that because that's how we got him.

This is my 259th card of AJ.

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving all!

I figured I'd pop out a post real quick while I'm killing time before going to my mom's for lunch and my sister-in-laws for dinner. I just finished watching the Michigan basketball game from yesterday. It went better than their last one but I'm still not sure how good they are going to be.

Today's post, however, doesn't have anything to do with Michigan which is rare these days.

Again, you know the story behind the 582 Montgomery's that I picked up at my LCS.

These 5 however, came from Sportlots, all with the Nationals. I don't think it really even looks like him, he looks so young.

These 6 cards give me 169 cards of Lucas which keeps me in 1st place on TCDB by 30 cards.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

Lucas is Aces

Just a quick post because I'm sleepy. Some Friday night party animal I am. Looking forward to watching Michigan play tomorrow. Maybe even watch the ND/Ohio game. Before that happens though, I've got to get some sleep.

So we'll just get into today's post.

I picked this Lucas up at my LCS awhile back. It was in their quarter box so I'm definitely not passing that up.

Fred brought me these 3 card at 3 different times which is why they are all scanned seperately. He's brought a few of those Big League which was nice because I had none.

Sluggo also hooked me up with this Green version of the Mosaic Aces insert. It's a pretty busy card but it is shiny.

These 5 cards give me 163 cards of Giolito which puts me at #1 on TCDB.

Happy Birthday - Lucas Giolito

Lucas was born on this day in 1994, making him 28 today.

MLB Debut - June 28th, 2016 (Nationals)

Years Active - 

• 2016 (Nationals)
• 2017-current (White Sox)

Nationals rookie

White Sox

Cards on TCDB - 3121 cards (up 623 from last year)

Cards I have - 161 cards (up 11 from last year)

PC Rank - #17 (#19 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (114 cards)
• Sluggo (22 cards)
• Ebay (9 cards)
• Fred (5 cards)
• Padrographs (5 cards)
• F&G Sportscards (3 cards)
• 2x3 Heroes (2 cards)
• Box Break (2 cards)
• Card Show-Plymouth (1 card)
• Packs (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

I have 1 relic of Lucas

and 3 autographs.

Happy Birthday Lucas!

Losing the window

Win 2 of 3 against the Blue Jays (a good team) and then lose 3 straight against the Orioles (a bad team). I feel like the White Sox are just wasting their "window" with this really talented team. I know injuries are a part of it but they are still fielding a decent team with the injuries. I'm over our manager too, not that I was ever really a supporter. I'm hoping they fire him and that sparks the Sox that I know they can be.

Today's post is one of our studs who is struggling as of late. I'm not too worried, I think he'll figure it out being as horrible as he was when we got him and the way he turned it around. I just hope it's before we're completely out of a chance at anything.

I got this out of the dime box at my LCS which means I basically got it for free because they usually get tossed in with my cousins bigger purchases.

Fred brought me this Optic of Lucas that I didn't have.

I picked up this green parallel of the Aces inserts from Mosaic at my cousin's, he received it in a shipment of cards that he bought from a guy in NC.

These 3 give me 161 cards of Giolito.

Please come back

I guess it's fitting that this guy pop up on the random as he definitely need him to stop the bleeding. We just got swept by Cleveland and we're going into Minnesota this weekend. This guy has been out so far for the year but he's saying that he's going to pitch on Sunday but I haven't seen anything official. Oh yeah, to go along with all of our other injuries, Robert left with a groin injury today too. We apparently don't do well on short spring training when it comes to injuries. 

I picked this up in the dime box at my LCS. It's a gold minted insert from Topps Fire. I'd say a pretty good pick up for a dime.

Fred brought me this 2022 at work. All my 2022 cards so far have come from Fred or Sluggo which I can't complain about since I don't pay for either.

These 2 cards give me 158 of Lucas Giolito. Hopefully he comes back this weekend and hopefully he's already in mid-season form because we may need it.

One for the road

Just a quick post tonight. I got up for work at 4 and had my mom's birthday party when I finished there so I'm beat and heading to bed soon. You can tell my age, I'm partying up on a Saturday night by crashing early.

Luckily the random gave me a 1 card post.

Dennis sent me this yellow Giolito in his Christmas package. I already have the base and the Holo Pink so this is my 3rd of this card out of probably 50 variations, I didn't count but we know how they do.

This is my 156th card of Lucas.

Sox Sunday

Another weekend has flown by with no football. I'm not a huge fan of watching NFL (or NBA) so I'll be waiting a week or so before I can watch some again. I have been catching up with the Baseball Seasons on MLB Network. Those have been pretty great! I've gone through most of the 60's, we'll see if they keep playing them up into the 70's next week.

Speaking of baseball, how about a baseball post for today.

I picked up the top 2 cards at the Plymouth card show a couple of weekends ago and the bottom card came from Sluggo. The top 2 are green parallels. Those 3 cards put my TA collection at 142 cards.

Same thing as above, first card from the Plymouth card show, second card from Sluggo. The left one again, is a green parallel. Both of the above A&G's came from packs that Sluggo and I ripped one weekend because we got bored. These 2 give me 155 cards of Gio.

The top Kopech, the Orange Donut, came from the LCS while the bottom card came from the Plymouth card show. I only paid a buck at the LCS and I don't normally drop too much on a relic card but a triple relic for $4, I couldn't pass up. These 2 cards put the Kopech Collection at 75 cards.

 All the cards in the top scan came from Plymouth, the bottom, again, from packs at Sluggos. These 6 put that collection at 48 cards. That's a lot further than I though it would be at the beginning of the year, considering his prices.

You'll notice that all the cards from Plymouth on this post were parallels or inserts. They all came from the guy selling right next to us but the main reason I grabbed them was because I didn't feel like checking my lists so I went with parallels to keep from getting dupes. It worked for the most part, I did end up with a dupe color parallel of Eloy.