Soooooo pretty

Picked up

Another Transcendent Party

1/1

Last night I lost the last remaining Transcendent 1/1 Card I needed from the 2018 Release Party.  It was the All Star Fest card from last year's 2017 flagship release.

Something Edgy

I was really looking forward to seeing Christina Hendricks in a new TV series and while she didn't disappoint, the show has a cancelled after one season feel to it.

That's ok.  I'm watching it for 1 reason, well two but the details are not worth talking about.

The show is off to an interesting start.

While watching, I was thinking "what could push me over the edge to break one of the golden commandments? "

I honestly can't think of anything unless my life was literally in danger.

I chose to show off one of my newest pickups, a die cut Chrome jersey relic from 2014 numbered to only 25 copies.  It's a great looking card with a refractor look and lots of edge.

So based on Good Girls theme, if you had an extra $30K what would you use it on?

I needed a reason...

It should be no secret that I am a big fan of Christina Hendricks' beauty.  Her new show, Good Girls, premieres tonight at 10pm on NBC.

I'm not sure if it's going to be any good, but Christina will likely steal the show.
Here is an image from the show.

Yup...

Oh and here's a pink baseball card, because well....

Yeah I just wanted to show some boobies like I do whenever I show pink cards.

Yay for boobies!

Get REDy

Something fun is going to happen tomorrow.

Are you REDy?

Here's my latest red pickup of Cutch.  It's a 2010 Bowman Chrome numbered to only 5 copies.

Super pumped about the card and seeing Christina Hendricks new TV show tomorrow.

It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat

Growing up in New Jersey as a kid whose most influential teen years were in the 90s, are you surprised that one of my favorite comedies is Kevin Smith's Mallrats?

You shouldn't be.
I used to be able to quote it easily.

I am a big comic fan so any time that Stan Lee makes a cameo is a good movie in my eyes.

Now why on Earth would a baseball card blog focusing on a single player need to make reference to Willem who couldn't see "the ______ sailboat"

Well in case you missed it during all the off-season hotstove news, John Jaso, former Pirates deadlocked 1B and Rightfielder selected to retire at season's end.  While Jaso wasn't a superstar, I thought he was an easy guy to root for and super friendly with the fans.

What's Jaso's retirement plan?
"I have a sailboat"

I couldn't pass up this Orange Mini Topps /25 For $8.

Such a cool image of the former Pirates.

Let The Games Begin!

Spring Training games officially start today. 

The Pirates have a few interesting guys on minor league deals this year including the recently signed Michael Saunders.  I'm curious to see how Austin Meadows and a few of the other younger guys do over the next month.

As an additional update I have the autographs on my new site about 90% scanned and catalogued by year.  I'm hoping to knock out a year of base cards each week.

Winner winner chicken dinner

I won an auction for a sick patch and on card autograph from 2017 Flawless

It arrived

I'm craving buffalo chicken.

That is all....

Have a blessed day!

Marvel Movie Time

It's Wednesday so it's movie day today.
I'm really looking forward to Black Panther.

Here's a card that talks about another Marvel character, Spider-Man.

I've shown another version of this card that looked superfractor like (/10), but this one is /25 and has an atomic refractor look to it.

Testing testing testing

Hey guys.  I am working on a website to fully show off my Cutch collection.   With his departure from Pittsburgh, I will not be as recklessly aggressive in purchasing cardboard of my favorite athlete. 

Besides a bunch of  Just Minors autos, overpriced 1/1s, and a few color chrome parallels there's not much I am missing. 

I will still be posting here daily as often as possible and at Chasing3000cards a few times a week.  However, I want something easy for me to view my cardboard digitally without going through and trying to find a picture from a post 2 years ago.  Thus I am creating my own website to act as a digital library. 

Here is a screenshot of a quick layout I put together.

You will be able to view the cards by year by selecting more.

I'm hoping to have it fully operational by the All-star break. There will be a brief history on main page about my collection and why I'm Collecting Cutch.  I will also add a link to this blog.

What are some things that you would like to see? 

Again this is all in the preliminary stages. 

Presidential Colors

Happy Presidents Day!

For those of you not working, enjoy the time off.

Here's another quick post as I have been busy (as usual).

Prizm gave us red, white, and blue parallels back in 2014 and 2015.

This Year's 2018 Topps release has an independence parallel to chase.  I've lost 4 of them so far.  I'm hoping to add one of the /76 red white and blue parallels soon.  They look great and all I have so far is the Felipe Rivero.

Ho Hum, Ho hum

Just another party favor

From the 2018 Transcendent Party

Numbered 1/1

Cardboard Cameos #7 : Unsolved Mysteries

When I saw the opportunity to purchase this gold /10 5x7 Topps Online card for under $8, I knew I had to act quick.

I don't buy many of the 5x7 cards except for a few of the Golds that I really like and any that are exclusive to the site like how Fire was in 2014.

Something about this card screams to me Unsolved Mysteries.

I can imagine Robert Stack's voice discussing how the Pittsburgh Pirates were celebrating another playoff berth and for 3 seasons (2013 - 2015) they had the second most wins in all of baseball.

It would go on to discuss how guys like Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran, and Matt Holiday regained their form to become pivotal players in the deaths of all Pirates fans dreams.  How a young man, Michael Wacha, would become a hero in a city the same day he became a villain in another.  It would discuss how two men single handily killed 80K Pirates fans (playoff hopes) in 2 years by shutting down the team (MadBum and Jake Arrieta).

It would talk about how these 3 Pittsburgh fan favorites would all but disappear shortly after this image was caught.

Yes the team who had just won 98 games in 2015 and had 4 prospects in the top 100 entering the 2016 season (Meadows, Taillon, Glasnow, Bell) would go on to have a pair of losing seasons before the face of the franchise, the man simply known as Cutch, would leave westward the same as the last Face of Franchise we had.

So this Unsolved Mystery ends with the simple question
WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED?

I think David Freese said it perfectly the other day. 

I will leave you with this image once more.

What once was Lost (Collector's)

The always awesome AJ, author of the Lost Collector sent me a bodacious gnarly package that really was fresh.

You might have read that first sentence and thought you entered a time loop back to the 80s.

Well, AJ being the bomb dope fresh friend that he is sent me this 1983 Andrew McCutchen insert using the 1983 design.

It's bad to the bone.

Well the back is actually bad...

You see there's a tiny little lie on the back.

Andrew didn't hit a Grand Slam against the Giants on July 24th.  He hit a 3 run homer and drove in another run. No Grand Salami tho.

AJ didn't stop with the 80s theme with just Cutch though, he sent Clemente cards from 1982

And 2 from 1987

That's 3 pieces of cardboard over 30 years old!!!  The dude has lost his mind.  I about had a cow when I saw those...

Ok, if you want to learn about all the fun words we said in the 80s, click here.  It's a fun trip down memory lane.

AJ also sent a smorgasbord of Tyler Glasgow cards.  If the Pirates are to be a respectable competitive franchise for the next few years, Glasnow must emerge as a top of rotation talent that he was predicted to be.

To wrap things up, AJ sent me some more Cutch cards I needed for the PC.  The Opening Day insert and Blue Legends in the Making are both new additions to go with the 1983 that he sent me.

AJ thank you so much.  You should be gettin a care package your way next week.

I F-ed up

I bought a card that I already had a copy of.

At least it's a nice looking patch.

Boppin With The Boys 1/1 style

I love adding multiple relics and/or multiple autographs featuring Cutch with other players.

Some players I wish that Cutch had either relics or autos with would include:
Barry Bonds (Pitt and San Francisco connection)
Aroldis Chapman (threw fastest recorded pitch to Cutch)
Russell Martin and Justin Morneau (combined to complete the final out to secure Pittsburgh's 1st Winning Season in 20 years.  A triple threads triple relic with 8-3-2 with a description of the play on back would have been awesome in 2013)

One player I always wanted a card of Cutch with was Dave "Cobra" Parker.  Both began their careers with Pittsburgh and won MVP awards while showing 5 tool talent skill sets.

Thanks to Hits Memorabilia "Throwbacks" release I can finally cross that dream card off my list.  Not only is it a card I always wanted to be made, but it's also a new 1/1 card for the collection.

The card features a warm up jacket worn by Parker during his California Angels years in addition to a Spring Training jersey worn by Cutch.

Now you may ask why I didn't show off a Valentine related card today.  Well...this Cobra (Commander) meme should answer that question.

Today, I'm boppin with the boys.  Being stuck at work and avoiding overpriced dinners and flowers.  It works out well.
Boppin with the boys...a phrase made popular by a Dave Parker t-shirt from the 70s.

Cutch's new teammate Evan Longoria is sportin the shirt

That said, the lady and I will be going out this weekend to enjoy each other's company.

Gold At End of The Rainbow

Rainbows in cardboard form are cool.

Recently I showed a red refractor for 2017 Bowman Best that I purchased a few months ago.  What I failed to mention at the time of that post was the rainbow I recently completed relating to that card.

The last card I needed to complete the rainbow was gold, how fitting right?  Needing gold for the end of the rainbow.  Well, that's how the delivery schedule from the post office turned things out.

Here's the 9 card rainbow I have for 2017 Bowman Best.

Top row:
Atomic, Refractor, Base

Middle row:
Purple/250, Green/99, Gold /50

Bottom row:
Orange /25, Red /10, Superfractor 1/1

And let's look closer at that Superfractor

Boom!!!!