Ryan Dempster Exercises Player Option, Stays With Cubs

Still want to punch that smug face

Extry! Extry! Read all about it!

Breaking news! Chicago Cubs opening day starter Ryan Dempster exercises his player option and will be back with the team next year!

Okay, it’s not exactly breaking news. This happened a couple weeks ago. I was still in the middle […]

2011 Topps Finest Baseball Case Breakdown & For Sale List

Thanks to the select few that joined us for the live UStream Finest Break. I know it was a very last minute announcement on our part, so it’s amazing anyone came into the chat room at all. It was a lot of fun chatting with The Daily Dimwit and the newly titled Life and Baseball […]

My First Code Unlocked Die Cut Card

The posts just keep on coming. What can I say, when “breaking” news happens, you gotta post it, right? If you missed it earlier, check out the post below this one for details on all kinds of box breaking goodness coming up.

Thank you, Update.

Really the only reason I’m buying update is for trade […]

Them’s The (Box) Breaks – Coming This Week

Are you ready for some box breaks?

Are you sick of trade posts?

If you answered yes to either of those two questions, then you’ll be happy to know that we will be busting open some boxes very very shortly here on “the Gum.” This upcoming onslaught is one of the reasons I’ve been trying […]

Gentleman’s Quarterly

What’s that? GQ stands for something else? Gypsy Queen, you say? Hmmm, I guess that means this is another GQ trade post… and another half-assed introductory paragraph.

Brian over at the prolific Play at the Plate (over 1000 posts? Really? We’re almost at 350…in a year and a half of writing), contacted me about a […]

Sporadic Posts, But Still Making Progress

Alright, I’m now into June for my scans. We’re getting somewhere! I might be able to make it into July before the end of the month if I’m lucky. We’ll see. Fingers are crossed.

Next on the list is this trade with Sam of “The Daily Dimwit” fame. Here we begin a trio of trades […]

2011 Bowman Platinum Baseball Review

Okay, let’s see if I remember how to do this whole “reviewing” thing. The last time I personally reviewed a baseball product was last December. I’ve done other Panini reviews since, but since I don’t think they like us anymore it’s back to the things we buy.

In this particular instance, I’m referring to our […]

Going Out of Order. Sort of.

My normal M.O. is to post the trades and group break hauls in the order in which they were received. As I’ve mentioned time and time again, I’m ridiculously far behind in this type of thing.

Still, I wanted to break that system up to acknowledge and appreciate this card.

This is the […]

Chopping Away, Bit By Bit

The website has been lacking updates for a few days, and I apologize for that. Unfortunately for us, it’s just something that’s going to happen every once in a while. We both lead rather frantic lifestyles, and then when life should have a little bit of a slow down, a wrench gets thrown at you […]

The For Sale List – 2011 Topps Lineage Edition

Our Lineage Group Break went off without a hitch a couple weeks ago. All of the cards for claimed teams were packaged up the same night and shipped next day. A couple people have even posted their hauls on their blogs, which is great to see.

Now, it’s time to show what’s left over. We […]