Mets Make A Statement

Wow! 

Francisco Lindor and Cookie Carrasco just got traded to the Mets.  With a rotation of Degrom, Syndergaard, Carrasco, and Stroman and an improving offense built around Pete Alonso, the Mets are looking to win the NL East next year.

I have a sticker of Andrew McCutchen with The Polar Bear Pete Alonso on the front.  

The Mets are eyeing up being above just a  competitive team now.

What's your thoughts on the trade? 

T206 Is Back

Topps t206 is coming back this year.  The set hasn't been produced since 2010.  I have always liked this set mainly for the ties it has to the infamous Honus Wagner card.

I have a few of Cutch's 2009 Topps t206 cards including the gold mini you see above.

Above are 3 of the different backs I have for the standard minis from Cutch's 2009 rookie year.

I also have 3 different backs from the 2010 minis.  I will show all my different 2010 parallel colors and chromed and such in a future post.

These are the 3 different standard size cards I have of Cutch for 2009.
Base, Photo Variant, Bronze parallel.

I think Topps should do similar relaunches of Gypsy Queen where it is only available once every couple years. 

Happy International Polar Bear Day!!!

Today is International Polar Bear Day

To those of you that forgot to mark your calendars, don't fret.  Hallmark hasn't popularized this day nearly as much as Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.  No one will be expecting a greeting card or friendly phone call to celebrate this day.

It is still pretty important though as we should all think about the dangers that global warming has on the arctic animal and do our due diligence to prevent future generations of this awesome creature from going extinct.

What better way to celebrate than with a Polar Bear back (Topps Mini)?

This SP mini is from 2009 Topps 206 series. It is a very tough to find rookie of Cutch.  The Polar Bear minis were inserted only two per hobby box.  There was a 300 card set of these to collect, making this very difficult to obtain.  The Cycle backs were numbered to 99 copies and were inserted on average 1 per hobby box.  It is suspected that these, although not numbered, had a production run of only 200 copies per player.

The Piedmont Mini is the much more plentiful and common back.

Anyone else have any polar bear cards to show off today? Post em up!