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This blog is about sports cards. I tend to only purchase cheap items so don't come hear expecting to see big money cards. My teams collections are Chicago White Sox and Michigan Wolverines. I also have a bunch of player collections.

Showing posts with label Syla Swords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syla Swords. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Incoming ONIT

I got my 5th (I think) package from ONIT Athlete. I signed up for their monthly box mainly because they had other sports that I don't get often so I was annoyed when the first 3 packages were all football. Do I want the football, of course, but I only keep 1 of each card so when you keep sending packs of the same product, my cost per card goes up because I only account for the cards I keep. I'm ok with dupes because they get sent off to Dennis but that doesn't mean I want a ton of them. I emailed them after the last box and told them exactly that and I will be dropping it if I don't start seeing some other sports.

Let's see if they listened. You get 5 packs per box. Only 1 pack was football which was nice to see. There are 79 cards in the team set, I'm now at 47 so I definitely need some more.

2 more for the team set and a couple of inserts. I like the inserts but I have no idea what they are called so I can't add them in on TCDB. I have a few from the other packages scanned and ready if I could figure out what they are. The Mikey Keene auto (#'d to /10) was in a magnetic holder in the package as well. I generally get the autos in a separate package which tells me they are at least making sure I get autos as well. I've received a #1/1 auto of Fredrick Moore late last year.

I also got 2 packs of men's basketball, there is only 16 cards in this set so I'm over half on it. I'm happy to have the Yaxel already as he is crushing it.

Also happy to get a card of Morez as I have been impressed by his play as well. This is one of those inserts that I have no idea what they are called.

This is what I really wanted because you can't find woman's basketball cards anywhere. You can occasionally find WNBA cards but how many actually make it there? There were 4 that I wanted, I believe all are Sophmores, Olson, Swords and Delfosse were 3 of them so I got all but Holloway. There are only 14 in this team set so it's over half as well.


I also got this unnamed insert of Olson who is crushing it. Her and Swords are my 2 favorite on the team but they are a really good team and I hope they start broadcasting more since they are doing so well. I've been watching them when I can.

I don't know how long I'll stick with the box service with ONIT because eventually I'll just be getting a ton of duplicates. I'm also waiting to see if they do other sports (that would be awesome) but I think that might be it.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Happy Birthday - Syla Swords

Syla was born on this day in 2006, making her 20 today.

WNBA Debut - N/A

Years Active - N/A

Cards on TCDB - 293 cards (2026)

Cards I have - 4 cards (2026)

PC Rank - #137 (#1775 overall)

TCDB Rank - #9

Where they come from -

  • F&G Sportscards (2 cards)
  • ONIT Athlete (1 card)
  • Sluggos (1 card)

Happy Birthday Syla!

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Cards from Carolina

You all may remember Sluggo who I used to set up with at shows. He moved back to North Carolina but we still trade via the mail (although I've been slacking at getting his package out). He sent me a bunch of cards for my PC's last week.

Let's get started.

As you can see, I keep getting a ton of Robert cards from everybody. That tends to happen when he gets a ton printed in every set. Kevin knows I tend to have most of the base so he always pulls shiny and insert cards for me.

I'm closing in on 50 cards of Colson Montgomery who I have high hopes for (if we don't trade him). I had hopes for Colas as well but he's gone now.

4 more shiny Sheets, all of the Sox variety which is all the better.

The top 3 are all base Chrome, the Darboh is the Green (#'d to /150) and the red Lazer of Ojabo. All 5 of these players are PC except for Swords but that's only a technicality because she's still playing for Michigan. I'm sure I'll end up PCing her as well.

Roman Wilson is probably the least popular of the next 3 but I keep getting a ton of his cards. These 3 give me 37.

Blake is the second most popular and with these 9, I'm up to 47 of him.

The most popular is JJ, now if he could stay healthy long enough to showcase what he can do. Sooner or later, Minnesota is going to give up and go another route and I want him to succeed. Him and Corum were my favorites of that 2023 Championship team and they are both really good humans. These 2 give me 41 of JJ.

Kevin even managed to hit a couple of my Tier 1 collections that I don't add to a whole lot. I only added 4 of each player last year. The Refractor Konerko puts his PC at 801 cards and the Prism parallel of Aparcio puts him at 148.

He's already started my next box as he's been picking up a couple of collections and is busy sorting them to start doing shows down there. I'm sure he won't do as well as up here because he won't have my pretty face and sparkling personality with him but he's going to take a shot. (Yes, that was sarcastic).