Underestimating PK

So I've brought over all of my cousin's common cards and am in the process of putting them all into team order so I can make team bags for the kids at the shows we do. Specifically the Plymouth show as there are a ton of kids there. The problem is, when I was a kid, I collected one of everything and now that I'm going through all these cards, I want to keep one of everything. I'm probably going through more than 50,000 cards and I'm not exaggerating. I know there is 3 5,000 count boxes and 5 3,200 count boxes and then 6 milk crate boxes which I estimate at probably around 6,000 to 7,000 cards each (maybe more). It's a huge task but I do love to sort so it's a labor of love, but man do I want to keep 1 of everything. My collection would be huge but I can't start down that path. We've all been there and know what will happen. Other than my wife would kill me. 

Today's post is one I love to add too as he is my favorite player. It takes more than just being a good player for me to really like you. He turned down extra money to play in his hometown to stay in Chicago and he was here for almost his whole career but once he was here, he didn't want to leave. He was a good guy off the field and what I really liked is people underestimated how good he was. He was a quiet leader that would beat you more times than not. I can't tell you how many times I was saying you better walk him to get to the next batter and almost every time, they would pitch to him. More times than not, he made them pay for that underestimation.

See, I told you he didn't always play for the Sox.

The Topps portion of the White Sox cards. The 2002 Topps is a limited editon and the t206 is an Old Mill back.

The Upper Deck portion. The 2004 on the top right is a high glossy set, I didn't even know that existed. The green one on the bottom is a Holiday Inn set and finally a 1989 UD look-a-like Authentics.

Last but not least, I lumped all the shiny cards in one scan. The 2 Prizms are both color parallels and a Finest at the bottom.

The above 18 cards came from the last shipment from Sportlots and bumps the Konerko collection to 735 cards, that's according to TCDB where I'm in 1st place by over 300 cards.

I also picked up this pocket schedule with PK on it at the Stanton Man Cave when Sluggo and I went up there to check it out. We were buying for him but I looked through some oddball stuff and found a few Sox pocket schedules for a quarter a piece. This one is the year after our last World Series victory.

Happy Birthday - Zak Irvin

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

NBA Debut - n/a

Years Active - n/a

Cards on TCDB - 13 cards (same as last year)

Cards I have - 1 card (same as last year)

PC Rank - #95 (#2427 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• Ebay (1 card)

Happy Birthday Zak!

Grandparents house

The Sox lost today but not after a 13-0 1 hitter thrown by Dylan Cease last night. He went 8 2/3 before giving up a hit to Arraez. The commentators were saying he should have pitched around him since the perfect game was already by the wayside but he went after him and gave up a single. I saw in an interview today that he said he doesn't regret going after him and I believe it because even if in a few years, people are only going to remember the no-hitter but you'll know you went around a player to get to it. Either way, it was a great game by Dylan Cease on national TV so hopefully it will help his Cy Young push. Hopefully a start to a hall of fame career.

Today's post is already in the hall of fame and has been for a decade.

I picked up these oddballs from Sportlots. That top row starts off with a couple of Canadian cards. There's a few stickers in there along with a couple of cards from small manufacturers as well as small box sets. I love the Toys 'R' Us because I used to have it back in the day. I even remember picking it up at Toys 'R' Us, back when you could get cards in a lot of different places, including there.

These 9 cards push Larkin over 700 cards to 704 which is a memorable number for me as it was my grandparents house number growing up. That's what we called their house, 704.

New Daddy Robert

 Well the Sox have won 3 straight since LaRussa's departure and have gained 3 games on 1st place and Michigan football was back today so it's been a good day. Sox play tonight so we'll see if they keep playing well.

One of the players on the Sox who keeps playing well, when he's available, is today's post. Right now, he's on paternity leave as his wife is having their kid but he was injured before he left and has been injured a number of times this year.

I grabbed both of these from Sluggo when he got his latest package in. They are both Topps inserts of Luis Robert so I got them for free.

These 2 cards give me 76 of him now. Just for the hell of it, I looked to see where I ranked on TCDB. I was only 22nd which isn't bad but #1 has over 1000 cards so I'm not catching up with them anytime soon.

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.