Thursday, June 14, 2018

I'm Bad At Gambling

With sports betting now being legal in NJ, I think I should come clean with something.

I am bad at gambling.

I have incorrectly used 9 Home Run challenges cards of Andrew McCutchen on days he failed to hit a homerun including all 3 games he played in his return to Pittsburgh.

The cards cost me $3 to $5 each so that was roughly $40 wasted.


Fortunately, there was still hope.  I negotiated and over paid to get one of only 7 of the cards that people correctly guessed when Cutch hit one of his three homers in April.
These cards are incredibly sharp looking in hand.


The seller provided the card in the Topps Now packaging.

So after having a feeling that Cutch would hit a HR in his last 3 games played and missing on each one, what do you think happened yesterday?
Cutch went yard of course. 

7 comments:

  1. Oh I haven't seen these yet! The prize cards look nice.

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  2. Interesting that the back mentions the specific month the HR was hit. Does that mean there's a unique card (or at least card back) for each month he hits a homer?

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    1. Im really impressed by these as prize cards. I think each month will feature a different photo.

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  3. Nice. I had seen somewhere these would be done month by month, with a possibility of 8 different ones (March-October). Doubt I'll add the Cubs unless I win one myself.

    Have you noticed an increase in price of unscratched ones now that the prizes have been revealed?

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    1. Yes. I used to be able to pick them up for 3 to 5 bucks delivered and now a lot of them are in the 8 to 10 range. I didnt play Cutch today even though I loved the matchup of him facing Dan Strailey because it is a day game and I thought Bochy might give him the day off with Pence Hansen Hernandez all being able to play RF. So of course Cutch gets the start and goes yard again today. I cant win!!!!

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  4. I went 0 for 4 on my Cruz attempts. I just picked his cold stretch

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  5. Don't know anything about these cards... but kudos to Topps for their creativity. From what I can gather... it kinda reminds me of the You Crash the Game cards of the 90's.

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