Gint-A-Cuffs II: Packs 17-24

It all comes down to this. Can we overcome the bearded one? Since the Code has already been cracked, this is the only hope we have left for this product. Sitting in 8 little powder blue packs. Cuff it up, muthacuffers!!!!

Pack #17

I don't know why, but I all of a sudden […]

Gint-A-Cuffs II: Packs 9-16

No need to spend time sugar coating it and leading in. You know what you’re here for. Let’s Cuff this Gint!

Pack #9 59 Ivory Crockett – 9-second 100-yard dash – The back says he used to go to our school, SIU! 12 Jesus Flores 41 Daniel Hudson 204 Russell Martin 198 A.J. Pierzynski (-1 […]

Gint-A-Cuffs II: Boxtopper and Packs 1-8

Alright, bitches and bitchettes. The gauntlet has been thrown and warrior needs food badly. Let’s cuff it up!

We got this box from the same case as Beardy’s monster box. Will lightning strike twice?

Cabinet Card Pack

Not pictured: The Crawford boxes which I'm sure aided this achievement.

NCCB4 – Baseball Highlights featuring […]

Hey, That’s My Prize!

A little while back, “Hey, That’s Mine!” held a contest where all you had to do was comment to enter. The winners (five in total) would get one of Big D’s world famous custom cards featuring the subject of his or her choice. Why would he do this? Well, because he likes making custom cards, […]

My Dad is Awesome!

The last time I went home to visit my parents, my dad surprised me with a little treat. You see, my parents are both antique dealers now that they’re retired and they frequent all kinds of stores and flea markets. I used to go with them as a child, but always against my will. Every […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Review

We never did a formal review for series 1, so this one is going to be double-y review-y. And a little behind the times.

Main Set/Quality Control

I had to modify the header of this section because quality control is such a key problem. If you suffered through our video box break, you saw how […]

2010 Topps Series 2 Video Box Break

Everybody loves box breaks! Everybody loves the Topps base set! Everybody loves us! Nobody loves miscut cards….

We opened 2, count ’em, 2, boxes of Topps Series 2 Jumbo. What can we say, we got suckered into the hat patch craze.

We walked in with virtually no expectations, and came away a little hurt, a […]

Trading with Reader Steve

Not too long ago, Reader Steve emailed me offering up some extra Maddux cards he had laying around. After probably the quickest agreement I can imagine making, his package to me was on the way. I had to raid my parents’ basement to put his together, so even though I got his mail over a […]

2010 Topps National Chicle Baseball Review

Baseball cards are steeped in nostalgia. Nostalgia for a simpler time yadda yadda yadda. Cornball as it sounds, nostalgia is what brought a lot of us back to the hobby after being seriously burned as youngsters during the junk wax era. It was the siren song of Heritage that brought this burnt collector back into […]

2010 Topps National Chicle video box break

Holy backburner! Jon and I got this box before my vacation in May and didn’t get around to breaking it until several days after my return. And I’ve just now gotten around to cutting the video of the break… hopefully I’ll have the full review up tomorrow. Unemployment is way busier than I expected and […]