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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

I'm drunk and opening 71 packs of 1990 Donruss, welcome to jackass

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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

RC and Moon Pie posted:

Donruss was the absolute worst about patterns in its packs. Normally, you'd expect with 36 packs and 12 or whatever it was per pack, you'll get roughly 1/3 of that set out of a single box.

Nope. With Donruss, you're gonna get 20 of about six players in each box and a scattering of others. Looking forward to the report of 20 Von Hayes, 20 Carney Lansford and 1 Bobby Bonilla.

I now have several Rance Mullineks but it's cool because his facial hair is outstanding

I did get two of the Bo Jackson Diamond King #1 in mint condition

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Sunk Dunk posted:

Allen and Ginter comes out next month. I'm such a sucker for that set. Will prolly buy a couple of hobby boxes

hell yea

I got an A&G Ohtani rookie that looks 9.5+

It's my baby

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Lester Shy posted:

IIRC there's a really early debut deadline, and if you make your first appearance after that, your RCs get held over to the next year. Which is why none of Rutschman's 2022 cards have the rookie logo, even though he appeared in 113 games last year.

Yeah this is one reason why the brands used to do the series 1/series 2 thing

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Shrecknet posted:

To review: Arguably the biggest bust in Jays history, a letter that isn't even in his name that is a color that doesn't match anything the team wears

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I'd still keep it, I love those drat things

If I got an Ohtani one I'd probably sleep with it

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Is there a decently-priced line anymore that has some cool inserts but is also, I emphasize, not too expensive?

I like the inserts because that's part of the fun of breaking, for me, but then again I haven't broken in thirty years.

edit: used to be the regular lines would still have inserts that weren't super rare, so you could count on getting a few in each hobby box

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

I think this might help me get back into knowing all the players in the league, used to be a time when I did, but I lost track of MLB around 2008 until Shohei brought me back.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Topps Heritage looks really cool. drat them for knowing what I want in a card.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Bank posted:

That's a lot of cards! I was heavy on collecting Ohtani but my brain reminded me that they are probably going to be worthless in 10 years so I stopped at around 80 cards in toploaders and maybe another 10 slabbed.

I was mostly collecting base cards but man they release too many. The Topps Now lineup doesn't help.

I still have like $25 in COMC credit to rid myself of.

if you have any Ohtani extras, or just want to offload some, I would be a good customer at a fair price.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Me walking out of the store with a Heritage hobby box: hahaha yes! gently caress yes!

Me pulling a relic game-used jersey card but it's Anthony Volpe: well this loving sucks

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Okay, I just completed a huge review & pull of rookie cards from all my old 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s sets, along with the ones I had already stashed at the Old Goon Home.

I have a massive number of somewhat-valuable cards in top-loaders. Griffey, Bonds, Maddux rookies, sort of thing -- if you can name a star from that era, I have several RCs probably. (A lot of McGwire and Sosa but nobody seems to care...?) Should I just feed them into COMC a little bit at a time, and see what happens? I don't really have any emotional attachment to these, and if I can get a bit of value then it might be fun.

Couple of auto-ed baseballs (Griffey and Nolan Ryan) but I have no idea how to begin selling those for a fair price.

edit: I've never used COMC and I'm just now getting started

mdemone fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 18, 2024

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

And then there are these guys:

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

ScooterMcTiny posted:

That’s a cool Griffey set. Are all your cards baseball? Or other sports too?

I have a bunch of Kevin Garnett rookie cards but most of the basketball is trash. There's a cool Rodman Topps Finest, maybe a few Jordans of varying kinds.

It's amazing how much bullshit you pull from wax packs and keep forever. I probably have 100k baseball cards of absolutely zero value, spanning the last five decades.

I did find a USA Basketball complete set from the 1992 Dream Team, Skybox production

mdemone fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Aug 18, 2024

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Also I may have the world's largest collection of Tom Glavine rookies. Me and my dad were really high on him back in the day

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Chief McHeath posted:

Is there a story or any paperwork to go with the autos?

Unmarked as far as who obtained the signatures, all with the same #/500 has my alarm bells ringing

It's got a lil authentication thing, it came as a set back in probably 1999 or so

mdemone fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Aug 19, 2024

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Okay I got this too

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

mp5 posted:


If you've got Rickey Henderson cards from that era I would buy them, I'm a Rickey Henderson Guy. I'm also curious about the Griffey stuff of course but probably can't afford it

Here's a 1981 Topps Rickey. The top-loader is scuffed up but the card is in good shape. Bottom right corner maybe a bit touched.



I have a ton of Griffeys that I'm probably going to submit to COMC. Will post when they're available.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

pseudodragon posted:

Did the Apprentice ever do a baseball related task with the Yanks/Mets? If any that's probably the era where he'd be mainstream enough that he'd be worth adding as a chase card and not toxic enough to drive off a huge portion of the customer base.

I don't remember them doing anything like that -- very likely that the TV rights holder for those MLB teams would not have wanted them to appear on NBC.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

i can still taste him posted:

I *mostly* collect Bo Bichette, but I don't *only* collect Bo.

Here are some classics I got today that I am excited about - especially the gently caress Face Ripken, even if that bottom right corner is rough.



Yessss that's my jam, great post

I have several copies of literally every one of those, except the Bo Jackson. Probably submitting about a hundred cards soon to COMC and I'll post here when my inventory is ready to look at

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Bank posted:

So uh, I think I want to sell some of my Ohtani cards now. Is there a good place to sell without getting screwed on fees or scammed? I'm down to do the legwork on my end (listing, packing, shipping). I'm thinking about posting them up on Blowout forums but really want to make sure I don't get screwed by some unscrupulous buyer.

I would be happy to buy some of them. Do you have a list?

Edit: vvvv that works out because I am mostly into Angels-era cards 🥴

mdemone fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Sep 20, 2024

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

I really want that auto but I doubt I can afford the price. Still I am interested in several of the other slabs. Can I PM you?

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

PM sent.

Edit: yay I love Bank

mdemone fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 21, 2024

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Should I do the direct-to-grading option for submitting about 25 cards to COMC, or should I have them graded first by PSA and then submit the ones to COMC that I want to sell?

I'm only looking to keep five of them for my private collection so I don't know which option makes more sense, or if it doesn't matter.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Just scored this beauty:




Not a bad start for my collection!

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Bank posted:

I will never chase a rainbow because I PC Ohtani and need to feed my family

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Newest addition to the family:

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Might as well post this too, just to celebrate my progress

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Newest additions to the family:



I really love both of these cards. My first Dodgers-era card too

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

AAGGHHHHHHHH

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

OKAY I FIXED IT

had to transfer sleeves and it took me a bit

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Newest members of the family:

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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Skoora posted:

A fun one


:vince:

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