Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
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This is the last post in my last burst of wax busting that ended a few months ago. I put a bunch of posts together with the plan to slowly post them over a period of time. Of course, best laid plans always work out, right? Either way, I’m now all caught up on my past wax busts and it’s now time to move on to some actual current products. But before we can get to that one, let’s bust one more pack of 2008 Upper Deck Baseball.
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I’ve almost caught up with my pack busts. Here’s another 2007 SP Authentic Football bust. Another nice pick up on the cheap!
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Deadspin has up an excerpt of a new series of online “webisodes” coming to Topps featuring the Sklar Brothers called “Back on Topps.” It doesn’t look like I can embed the video Deadspin is showing, so you’ll have to go to their site to check it out, but here’s an excerpt from the post:
Enter the Sklars, whose Back on Topps follows the fictional Topps brothers, heirs to the Topps card fortune who are muscled to the sidelines at the last minute and are struggling to, well, get back on top. It’s one of several web series that Eisner has in production, this particular one an attempt to revitalize the card industry by reaching beyond sports.
I’m a fan of Sklar Bros. and their sports humor, so I’ll be interested to see how “Back on Topps” turns out. It may not be directed at us hobbyists, but who knows!?
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Usually during the summer, my interest in and the time I devote to my collection wanes. The time I spend with my collection is proportional to the how nice the weather is. When it’s cold, rainy or miserable, I’m more likely to be in the basement ripping packs, organizing cards and doing the blog thing (taking pictures, writing words). If the weather’s good, I’m usually in the back yard, playing with the kids or doing some kind of yard work. If I’m lucky, I’m golfing. I just never have enough time to get to my cards.
This summer, though, I’ve been given a break from the wife and kids (even though I’m missing them now) and a few extra bucks to spend, so I went to the hobby store and got myself a nice little stack of goodies:
This is the first hobby box I’ve purchased since I picked the hobby back up. I’ve already busted the entire thing, but this time I caught the whole ordeal on video. This is my first attempt to do a video box break. I’m still doing “post production.”
One thing I’m debating is putting the box break on Vimeo or YouTube. I know Mario does his videos on Vimeo and other bloggers use YT, but I’m not sure. I know I’d get more “exposure” on YouTube, but I’d also be exposed to the dregs of the internet there. Vimeo always seemed a like the high-rent district. Any suggestions?
I taped myself busting the other packs above as test runs, so we’ll see if any of those are worth putting up here, too. I’ve got a couple old pack breaks in the queue to post, and then I’ll be mostly caught up. I am without my camera right now, but once it gets back, I’ll get some higher quality pictures up of some of my recent pulls. And of course the pulls I got out of that 2008 Legendary Cuts. I am SUPER excited about that one.
So again I thank all of you who’ve stuck around to read my site. I know I haven’t been as prolific as other bloggers, but I appreciate all the comments and feedback I’ve got so far. I’m looking forward to a lot more!
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Dear Lazy Web,
Could you clear something up for me? I am confused about this year’s Upper Deck Artifacts line. I’ve purchased a couple blasters of 2008 UD Artifacts at the big boxes already, but just last week I was in one of the local Hobby stores that was hocking boxes and packs of 2008 UD A Piece of History. I was confused. They appear to be the same card. Are they? Have Artifacts gone the way of the dodo? Is “A Piece of History = Artifacts” the new math?
I’d investigate this further on Upper Deck’s website, but it’s so woefully unusable that I’d rather eat a handful of mulch than look for anything useful there. I’m counting on you, my smart, intelligent readers to clear things up. I haven’t been following this very closely, so I may have missed a glaringly obvious announcement. Any help is appreciated.
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Yes, I’m still around, and yes, I still have a backlog of older pack breaks. No need to throw them out, though. So on with another one: With pack-coverboy Brady Quinn, how can I pass up SP Authentic? This is the first pack of SP Authentic I’ve busted, so let’s dive right in
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