What do you get when you have a lot of time on your hands and lots of baseball cards?

 

You get the American Flag made entirely out of baseball cards!

 

 

I used  2013 topps walmart blue cards for the blue, topps 2013 cards for the white stripes, and Donruss 1990 cards for the red strips.  Plus one Target Jonny Venters  card to make up a red stripe.

Also. a baseball card firework!

 

 

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULLY EVERYONE!

The Braves made me do the unthinkable!

They..












They...


Oh, it is to horrible to type!


*Deep breath*  I can do this. 








 THEY MADE ME LEAVE MY MACARONI AND CHEESE BEHIND!

There!  I said it!  I told you it was horrible!


It started out innocent enough.  I had gotten a Buffalo Chicken sandwich at Ruby Tuesdays and it came with two sides.  Not one,  but two!   I got fries and  after some debate, mac and cheese.

  Before I could enjoy much of the cheesy awsomenes though, I took the first step down the road of despair.  I.  Got.  Full.  FULL!

Thankfully a styrofoam box was there to save  the day.  Not only could I take my meal home, but I could led to the death of the environment!  Two birds, one stone!


  That was when it happened.   I looked and the braves game was on one of the TV's.   I got distracted by the awsoemness that was BJ upton and Dan Uggla and left the box sitting on the table.   I walked right out  the door with my thoughts on the game.

It is only now, hours later and at home that I remembered the mac and cheese.

The kicker?  They lost.

Do/Would you confront a packsearcher?

I'm just curious.   I've seen my third pack searcher so far and thus far have not confronted any of them.  

Last week I saw a guy in Target going through every single pack of Topps Football cards.  He would take one out of the card box,  examine it and then put it in another pile.  He must have had been through twenty packs or so when I first saw him.  I stood and watched for a few seconds, debating if I should say anything.  but ended up just walking away.   When I came back a few minutes later though, he was still at it.    I really wanted to say something at this point but was to afraid to.  I'm not good at confrontation.  Hell,  sometimes I  cry when ordering at Mcdonald's on my own.

I wish I would have said something though.  Or gotten the manager, which I also debated about.  I don't know if they would do anything though.  Plus that would be a strange conversation to have with someone that doesn't know cards.

"Sir there is a guy feeling up the packs."

I just feel bad for kids that  buy cards or even adult who don't pack search.   They ruin it for everyone else.   There is nothing quite like ripping open a pack to find an auto or even a jersey card.  At least for me.   Or even if people don't care about the over produced jersey card going for 1.99 on e-bay, sometimes the cards wind up getting bent or messed up by over zealous pack searchers who make a TSA enhanced  pat down look tame.

So far all the pack searchers have been middle aged men that are slightly obese.  Or more than slightly.  Nothing against, slightly obese middle ages men, it is just what I've seen thus far.

So just wondering if anyone with more balls than me has ever said anything to one.  If so, how did it go?  What did you say? What was their reaction?  Or if you didnt, why not?  Or would you if you had the chance?

Chipper jones speech and number unveiling videos

We were on the exact opposite side of that section.  ...If only our seats had been for there.   Sorry for the shakey camera.  I was  just so excited.

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I got Chipper's entire speech.   Other people spoke, including Bobby. I wanted to get it all but was worried it was use all the memory up.

Game pictures 6/28/2013

 I made it to my first Brave game of the year last night.   It was Chipper Jones Jersey retirement night, which was the whole reason for going.   It was also a plus they were playing the diamondbacks and I got to see Prado play.  I miss him as a Brave.

We were pretty high up (third level) so we didn't get great pics but we had a great time.  I just wanted to be there to see my favorite Brave get his number retired.  I was there for the game last year when they honored him and his bobble head night and wantned to be here for this.

The ceremony was great.  So many people were there.  Ted Turner and Bobby and lots of others.  It was great seeing them talk about Chipper.  I almost cried at one point during it.  It was great seeing his kids there and his parents.

The game was also great.  We won 3-0.   Julio kicked some ass.  I am also proud to say Prado got a standing ovation when he first came up to bat.

I wanted to upload a video but blogger is being an ass.  Here are some pics instead.

Those are some big balls you got there...

Big number 10. They had that there when they honored him last year.

 

huggla!

Notice it yet?

Hey there, good looking!

My favorite shirt

purrrty sky

 

I caught a fish and it was thiiiiiiiiiiis big

I see a cloud shaped like a turtle!

Sun set

PLAYER OF THE GAME!

BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!

My nephew on card blogs... (and poinies)

Or, well card blog names anyway.  He is seven and about to turn eight in may.   Sadly not a baseball fan,although I tried my best.



We were looking at (or I was) dayf's  blog when he asked me why I was calling Chipper junk...  (I talk about Chipper a lot.)

and he also loved the pony video..

What are the odds?

 So, I picked up two packs of Topps 2013 from k-mart the other day.  As I was going through the second pack, I noticed something awfully familar...

and again..

 and again..

 

and again..

and again...

 

 

 

 

 

Turns out I ended up with doubles of ten cards.



The  only original cards were the inserts and two others.

I am curious as to if this is common to cards sent to the same store or what. I never noticed it before with any of the packs. How about with you guys?