June 1st - 2011 MLB Tuesday err Wednesday Tournament Update

I've been sick.  Forgive the delay and terseness.

Donruss for the Taking

CLOSED - No more takers, please.  Sorry!

I'm planning on doing some spring cleaning this weekend, and hope to cull all of the singles out of my Donruss collection.  I'm sitting on three 3,200 count boxes, and probably three quarters of that is heading out the door.

Soooooo, if you for some unknown God-forsaken reason need any Donruss cards from 1981 until 1996, leave a link to your blog or want list in the comment section.  I'll gladly set aside anything that I have to help complete your collection. 

The sheer amount of cards in my house is beginning to make me nauseous.  Time to clutter someone else's closet!

I'm looking at you...

I'll eventually, GASP, put up want lists for some serious junk.

Everything is Frosting Now

Pure dumb luck landed me the only card in the Giveaway that I had to have.  

Somehow, this guy...

Magically became this guy...

AND this guy...

And then both of those guys became the greatest hitter to ever play the game........... CAPTAIN VIDEO!

MINE

MINE

MINE

MINE

 MINE   

Everything at the Diamond Giveaway is Frosting Now

Diamond Mining - Part V - THE SHEER AGONY!

The frustration is setting in.  Not because I am unable to pull of any trades, but because people are offering me ridiculous cards for wood grain junk wax.  This morning I "had" to turn down two, count them, two '67s for a 1987 Nolan Ryan.  What, that Ryan is "worth" about a buck?  Judging by the sheer mass of '87 Topps I have at home, I am likely to have at least five of that Ryan card.

I almost accepted that trade this morning, but then I remembered my little quest.  One year backwards at a time.  I know I wrote the rules, but damn, this is insane.  I guess part of me is being weak and wanted someone to say, "Go ahead, break your own rules!  Don't be a fool and pass on vintage 60s goodness for 1987 WOOD GRAIN MASS PRODUCED TOPPS!"

What to do...

Back on track, the mining adventure has gone relatively well.  I think every "shaft" had a trade since the last update.  I even managed to trade an '88 Ryan for an '87 Carlton and an '89 Maddux.  The Carlton is floundering, but the '89 Maddux became the aforementioned '87 Ryan, so in the long run, I got what I wanted plus an extra card.

Here's the diagram.  Ooooh, all the pretty cards...

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I even traded away my Jair Jurrjens DDC for TWO DDCs.  Gaby Sanchez and Andrew Bailey.  Never heard of any of those three guys, but the Bailey card has been getting lots of offers.  I've put those two DDCs up for a Gwynn DDC.  I can dream, right?

Well, I'm still fretting as I type this post in notepad, so I can post it at work with "minimum" online big-brother supervised time.  I'll just come straight out and ask (if anyone cares), should I stick with my one year backwards at a time rule or just go for the oldest cards possible?

May 24th - 2011 MLB Tuesday Tournament Update

Today is a day of reckoning.  A day that has nothing to do with baseball, however, everyone here is on the edge of their seats.  It's the bottom of the ninth.  Two out, two on.  Two strikes and down by one. 

We're waiting for the next pitch.  Sweat hanging precariously on our brow.  We're anticipating the sting in our eyes, thus blurring our vision.  What will the pitch be?  Were will the ball come from?  Over the top?  Three quarters?  Fastball or curve?  Look for the seams, dammit.

In about 15 minutes the Senate releases their budget.  Some of us have already been notified we're being released.  Some of us are just plain waiting.  I wonder who will be the lucky ones?  Those going home or those left to shoulder the load?

Time will tell.

But while we wait, here's this weeks standings.  Almost every match-up is a dead heat at the halfway point of the second round, save for the Ginas who are making pebbles out of the Rocks.



Until next time, which will either be a lot of time, or none at all.