Setting The Pace

I set a few goals for my hobby regarding CollectingCutch in 2021, which you can revisit here. 

One of the goals I am looking forward to the most is seeing what Pirates playing days cards (2005-2017) of Cutch I can acquire this year.  I set a goal of only 50 cards from his Pirates playing days because of a few reasons.  

It's a nice even number.

It's basically one a week for an entire calendar year.

A lot of cards from those days have either "dried up" or are not available for reasonable sale prices.  

There are also a lot of his minor league uncirculated autographs available, but I want these cards acquired to feature a Pirates logo or in Panini's case state that it is a Pittsburgh card.  I could easily go to stonersports on eBay and add 25+ dual player printing plates of Cutch with guys that never made it in the majors to star levels or even have meaningful careers.  I'm going to pass on those.

This is going to be fun because there are a lot of tough gems to get for the collection still and many of them are from 2009-2017.

To kick things off here is a card that I haven't seen pop up for sale very often since it's 2017 release.

2017 Topps Inception blue

I owned the black 1/1 and the magenta printing plate 1/1, but hadn't gotten the blue to 25 copies.  

It's funny how sometimes the semi rare cards (/25) become tougher to acquire than the rarest card in the rainbow.

More exciting than the fact it popped up, is the price I paid for it.

$11 for a single modern card of a guy who has fallen off track of his HOF trajectory might seem like a lot, but I can now cross off this card from the wants list and put it into the haves list.

And for $11, that is perfectly fine with me.

This is my first pickup of 2021 of Cutch's Pirates playing days cards I added to the collection.  I do have 2 more coming and they were both ahipped without tracking and it's been two weeks since they were dropped off at the post office.  If they arrive this week, I am on pace to hit the goal of 50 new Pirates playing days cards this year.  If they don't arrive, I have some ground to make up as we head into February.

Scripture Sunday

It's a Scripture Sunday on the blog, but I am continuing to show off red and green cards as we get closer to Christmas

Today's card is a 2017 Topps Inception red parallel numbered to 75 copies and a green parallel (not numbered)

The inception of Christmas colors being red and green is the Reason we celebrate the holiday in the first place.  

It is because of Jesus Christ that we "deck the halls" with red and green.

The green represents Christ's eternal life just as the evergreen trees remain green all winter long.  The red represents his blood shed during the crucifixion.

Romans 8:18

For I consider the sufferings at this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

A Legendary Debut

Orange parallels make for interesting looking cards.

 The black parallel numbered 1/1 would be my top choice, but I liked this 2019 Inception orange parallel numbered to 10 copies enough to pick it up last year.

This is 1 of about 40+ autographs of Cutch that I haven't catalogued or shown off yet.  Yup, you read that correctly.

 I am considering making a YouTube collection channel to show off because I think it would be easier to say words and show cards under a light instead of scanning and typing.  Would you follow me on YouTube to view my collection?

Boomo Delivers a Super Rare Auto

2019 Inception just came out about two weeks ago and I joined a couple of player breaks and team breaks.  Boomo99 has provided me with entertaining group breaks in the past.

He delivered for me again, hitting an on card autograph numbered to only 20 copies.  He pulled this from the first case of a 4 case player break which was 11 minutes into the break.

I joined a few other group breaks held by other breakers for the Pirates because I wanted to get some Nick Burdi autographs.  Unfortunately I didn't get any huge hits, netting just a pair of Kevin Newman green parallels and a single each for Newman, Kramer, and Burdi base.

Is it Pink, is it Purple, who cares?

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Visit the official site here.

Breast Cancer will be detected in one of eight women in the US each year.
It is the second leading cause of cancer death among women each year.
On average every 2 minutes a woman will be diagnosed with breast cancer and every 13 minutes one person will die from breast cancer.
There are currently 33 million breast cancer survivors in the USA.

It's important to support the research for cancer.  Breast Cancer is often associated with the color pink so I will be showing off some pink Cutch cards.

In addition, you can expect to see some boobs with each post.  Who doesn't love boobs?

So let's start with what we're hoping to save!

Kat Dennings is awesomely funny in the sitcom 2 Broke Girls.  She's also awesomely hot in this fan colored photo of her with pink/purple hair.  The hair color might be fake and photoshopped, but the curves aren't.

Love that actress.
Here's a "regular" picture of her.

Speaking of regular, there's a baseball card to be found somewhere in this post.

This pink parallel is from 2017 Inception.  Normally, Inception was used as a Bowman prospect series of cards.  This year Topps used it to actually feature major leaguers.

Did you actually view the card?

Daniel delivers

Daniel from It's like having my own card shop hooked me up with two high end base cards.

Thanks so much for sending these my way Daniel.

It's fitting that I received the cards the same day I posted my other Inception cards I currently have.

Another Mind F&$# by Inception

I am about a decade late with this post.  I finally got around to watching the movie Inception.  What a mind fuck that was.


Here's another mind F&#@

A nearing completion rainbow from Topps Inception (minus the base which Dan from It's Like Having my Own Card Shop) is sending me.

The 1/1 Black is such a great looking parallel