If you’re muttering Judas Priest lyrics after reading the title, you’re alright in my book. Breaking the law, that’s exactly what I did this past weekend when it comes to the Giveaway. No, I didn’t break the law, I broke my law. I finally had enough of people offering me vintage goodness for 1987 wood grain horror. And not just any 70s vintagey goodness, but pre ’74 goodness, series goodness.
Last Friday, after a long day of working in the yard, prepping the old house so it looks good to someone with deeper pockets than mine, I hit the Giveaway. Opened up my offers and there it was, a ’73 Rico Petrocelli for my ’87 Ryan. In the past, good old Thoughts and Sox has crossed my path several times in the Mine. T&S is always on the lookout for Red Sox, and there it was, Rico Suave starring me in the eye. Boom! I pulled that trigger.
I immediately emailed T&S and told him I landed a ’73 BoSox if he wanted it. Within minutes, I had an offer for a ’72 Kranepool In Action, done deal. I next traded that Kranepool for a ’71 Nate Colbert (Go Padres!) and then immediately turned that into a ’70 Colbert. So, in a matter of minutes, I’d gone from a run of the mill ’87 Nolan Ryan to some 1970 grey glory goodness card of Nate Colbert, a Padre at that. Don't believe me, check out the now massive Diamond Mine Diagram!
But why did I break my rule of going one year back at a time? I’ll rant why, because traders on the Diamond Giveaway are the stingiest freaks I’ve ever tried to trade with. Sure, they’ll throw a 1992 Archie Cianfroco at you for your Tony Gwynn DDC, but as soon as you offer an ’87 Ryan for an ’86 Ryan, it’s like you b-slapped their mother. So, after three weeks of no bites for my ’87 Ryan and my waning interest in the giveaway, I took that old cardboard.
And then I traded my way down to another ’87 Ryan, and turned that into a ’72 Chris Spier In Action. psychedelic vintage, psyweet. Two ’87s for a ’73 and a ’72 without the headache, methinks I’ve developed a new plan…
But, we’ll see if that plan works though because the DG is painfully slow at the moment. I’ve been sitting on 108 trades for a while now, and it looks like the Trade Nazis are out in force. Until next time, WAIT, I failed to mention I broke into the 60s. Turned my ’74 Freddie Patek into a ’68 Tommy Davis. If all I end up with is '68 Burlap, this experiment will be a success.
Last Friday, after a long day of working in the yard, prepping the old house so it looks good to someone with deeper pockets than mine, I hit the Giveaway. Opened up my offers and there it was, a ’73 Rico Petrocelli for my ’87 Ryan. In the past, good old Thoughts and Sox has crossed my path several times in the Mine. T&S is always on the lookout for Red Sox, and there it was, Rico Suave starring me in the eye. Boom! I pulled that trigger.
I immediately emailed T&S and told him I landed a ’73 BoSox if he wanted it. Within minutes, I had an offer for a ’72 Kranepool In Action, done deal. I next traded that Kranepool for a ’71 Nate Colbert (Go Padres!) and then immediately turned that into a ’70 Colbert. So, in a matter of minutes, I’d gone from a run of the mill ’87 Nolan Ryan to some 1970 grey glory goodness card of Nate Colbert, a Padre at that. Don't believe me, check out the now massive Diamond Mine Diagram!
But why did I break my rule of going one year back at a time? I’ll rant why, because traders on the Diamond Giveaway are the stingiest freaks I’ve ever tried to trade with. Sure, they’ll throw a 1992 Archie Cianfroco at you for your Tony Gwynn DDC, but as soon as you offer an ’87 Ryan for an ’86 Ryan, it’s like you b-slapped their mother. So, after three weeks of no bites for my ’87 Ryan and my waning interest in the giveaway, I took that old cardboard.
And then I traded my way down to another ’87 Ryan, and turned that into a ’72 Chris Spier In Action. psychedelic vintage, psyweet. Two ’87s for a ’73 and a ’72 without the headache, methinks I’ve developed a new plan…
But, we’ll see if that plan works though because the DG is painfully slow at the moment. I’ve been sitting on 108 trades for a while now, and it looks like the Trade Nazis are out in force. Until next time, WAIT, I failed to mention I broke into the 60s. Turned my ’74 Freddie Patek into a ’68 Tommy Davis. If all I end up with is '68 Burlap, this experiment will be a success.
2 comments:
Awesome. Good work.
nice call...I was totally thinking Judas Priest before the page even loaded...and now it is stuck in my head.
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