Old School Barry

I planned on spending all weekend in the card room except Saturday evening because I was going to my mom's for her birthday party. I ended up having to work Saturday so between work and the party, I spent a couple hours working on getting my cards logged. 

We came back from the party and one of our dogs had a pretty bad cut above his lip. I ended up crashing early since I was up early for work. Then today, we spent 4 hours at the emergency vet to get him stitched up so by the time I got home, I had enough time to get everything else logged but I still have to scan everything. I don't usually work in there much during the week but I might have to try to get some time in there after work a couple of days this week. I do still have a couple more posts from the package Dennis sent me so I'm good for a few days.

Barry is one of those Michigan guys that I collected before I collected Michigan guys so you know I love when I get a Larkin in a Maize and Blue jersey. If I remember correctly, Dennis showed off this card on his blog and I said I had to get me one, he told me not to bother because he had one for me. That's how great of a guy he is, always thinking about others when he's buying stuff for himself. My Michigan collection is definitely thankful of him. I just went and checked, he's credited with 276 of my 681 cards of players in the Maize and Blue which is good for 40%. It might be higher as some of my cards are listed with unknown because they were before I kept a log. My collection definitely wouldn't be much with his generosity.

Elite Michigan

I got my Sportlots package yesterday. I was going to open it and sort it tomorrow but instead, I get to go to work. Another unnecessary Saturday wasted at work. Since I won't have all day to work on cards tomorrow, I decided to go ahead and open up my box and at least get them sorted. The wife was bored and asked if I wanted her to help open envelopes. Hell yes! I had 64 packages, 292 cards, in that box and I definitely welcomed the help. My favorite question was "Why did you get 2 of the same card?" My response was "Are they the same card?" to which she responded after really looking at it "Oh, I guess not." Welcome to the wonderful world of parallels. 

I still have to get through the cards Dennis sent me and I have a few more posts left so I got time to get the Sportlots package together plus I need to scan the cards from Fred (guy at work).

This is my 25th card of Darboh, I really need to search out more Elite cards. Dennis always shows off some great cards from Elite and they use college uni's which is right up my alley. I like this card because it has the block M on it, I always like seeing that on a card.

Thursdays Hurt

When Dennis sends me cards, he always hits multiple collections but I think he enjoys sending me cards for this collection the most. Mainly to get them out of his.

That's ok, because I enjoy receiving his White Sox cards just as much as I like getting rid of my Tigers cards.

 

These Topps Laser cards are pretty cool. I have 3 of the Sox cards out of 5 and this is my 544th card of the Big Hurt.

Dennis Getz it

This post came up at random on the perfect day. I'll explain why later. Even though this guy is a Michigan guy, I started his collection before I was collecting Michigan guys because I liked him on the Sox. Because he is a Michigan guy though, Dennis and I both share on this PC.

Dennis sent this lone Getz that I needed. I already had the base so he sent along this mini (Piedmont). This is only my 33rd card of Chris. He's one of those guys that I'm looking forward to getting to on Sportlots. It'll probably be a month or so before I get to him as the next guy I have a feeling will take that long to get through due to my weekly budget spending.

I say it was good timing because Chris Getz was just promoted to the Assistant General Manager of the White Sox. I believe he was in charge of player development before this.

Monday Maize

Well you know if Dennis gave me a package, that he's going to hit this collection.

We'll start out with the Jeremy LeSueur who I'm not sure I even know the name which explains why this is my first card of his.

This guy I have a few though. As you can see, the Elite is numbered /499 and the Press Pass on the right is the Blue version. I haven't put it together with the base PP but the pics on TCDB look the same except the card number has a B at the beginning. These 2 give me 13 cards of Marlin which is a lot because he is pre-Michigan PC's so I only collect him in a Michigan uniform.

Chad has been in the news lately as he came in and won the game for KC over Cleveland. He's been around in the league awhile now but he was originally a guy in the Maize and Blue. Once again, he was pre-Michigan PC guy but yet, I still have 20 cards of him.

Dennis also sent me one of the greatest defensive players ever. I love these Woodson cards when he has the Maize and Blue on. This is only my 5th of him in the uni, I would assume there are a lot more of them out there. I should get on that.

Last but definitely not least, Dennis hooked me up with this super Mario auto. I thought I already had this but when I opened up my Michigan collection book, on the front page was the Adrian Arrington auto from this very same set so I'm guessing I confused the two. This card gives me 16 of Manningham and is my 3rd autograph.

Another thanks to Dennis for providing this weeks content. My Sportlots package (292 cards) is supposed to be here on Friday plus I got a few cards from the guy at work to show off. Luckily I didn't ship Dennis' package off because yesterday, I added 10 or 12 to it and today, I pulled a couple of other cards from the guys box at work to add to it. I promise I'll get it to you, eventually.