20 Pack Mixer

[TheGinterGodfather]

Long story short, I bought some cards.

I debated a looooong time at the Wally World since they had JUST restocked because I wanted a Topps Series 2 blaster for awhile, but my love for Ginter took over. They had some fresh 20 packers for $20, usually a terrible deal because they stuff them full of rack packs of like 2006 Topps that have nothing but base cards in them. But they managed to suck me in again... here's what was showing:

2010 Topps Series 1
2010 Topps Heritage
2009 Topps Series 1 (I thought this was Upper Deck to be honest...)
2009 Topps Update and Highlights
2009 Upper Deck Icons

... and ...

2010 TOPPS ALLEN AND GINTER!!!

Yes, that little brown pack compelled me to buy this bad boy. So, lets see what else the magical green box contained:

2010 Topps Series 1
2011 Topps Series 1
2009 Topps Series 1
2011 Topps Series 2
2009 Upper Deck Icons
2009 Bowman Chrome
2009 O-Pee-Chee
2008 Upper Deck Series 2
2010 Topps Update
2008 Upper Deck Timeline
2009 Upper Deck X (I love the Upper Deck X sets... 2008 and 2009)
2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes

wait for it...

2010 Topps Allen and Ginter
2011 Topps Allen and Ginter

Yes! 3 packs of Ginter, and the only really lame pack in there was O-Pee-Chee! Solid box, even if it's all base!

I won't crack every single pack right now, in fact I'm going to post this, break a few and post them maybe 4 packs at a time. One of those live breaks or whatever. I'll also use these as motivation to study for an upcoming exam. Bwahahaha! This is going to be a great break, I can feel it!

[TheGinterGodfather]

Alright, here we go.

Pack 1: 2009 O-Pee-Chee (get the garbage out of the way first)

Luis Castillo
Jon Rauch
Scott Elbert Black Bordered Rookie (insert? I don't even know...)
George Kottaras Rookie
Carlos Zambrano
Ty Wigginton

Yep. About what I expected. I've got nowhere to go but up from here!

Pack 2: 2008 Upper Deck Series 2

Chipper Jones
Aaron Cook
Josh Fields
Orlando Hudson
Hideki Matsui
Jeff Suppan
Hong-Chih Kuo
Brendan Harris (Twins)
Jacque Jones (Former Twin?)
Gavin Floyd
Tom Gordon
Troy Percival
Dmitri Young
Season Highlights - C.C. Sabathia
Season Highlights - Jose Reyes
Brian Bocok Rookie Card
Hit Brigade Insert - Freddy Sanchez
Star Quest Rare - Paul Konerko

See? Moving on up!

Next!

Pack 3: 2008 Upper Deck Timeline (Never opened any of this before...)

Randy Johnson
Roy Halladay
Ken Griffey Jr.
Jose Reyes
Clete Thomas RC
Alex Rodriguez (This one is black and white, has his little floating head and is different from the rest... Number 145)

Alright, final pack for this section of the mini-break!

Pack 4: 2010 Topps Update

Dan Haren
Brendan Harris (Twins... popular guy in this break)
Jody Gerut
Trvor Plouffe RC
Bengie Molina
Ronnie Belliard
Brennan Boesch RC
Brad Ziegler
Lance Berkman
Rod Carew Turkey Red (In Twins Uni!)
Ernie Banks CMT130
Andrew McCutchen Topps Attax

Booyah! A pack that is 25% Twins? I'll TAKE IT!

So far so good! Now, time for some studying or some sort of physical exercise... not sure which. More later!

[spuds1961]

Pretty good so far,slaughter the rest of it.

[Puntown]

geeez this is a hell of a way to keep me reading this thread...your worse then a season finale cliffhanger of my favorite tv show!!! lol...Good luck with the rest...sigh...ill be back to check how your doing.

[TheGinterGodfather]

Alright, I'm back. Here's what we've got for Round 2 of our quintouple-header pack ripping box break thingy!

Pack 5: 2009 Topps Updates & Highlights

Matt Diaz
Gerardo Parra RC
Tyler Greene RC
Ted Lilly All Star
Matt "Perfect Game" Cain All Star
Michael Young All Star
C.C. Sabathia Prominent Baseball Players
Justin Verlander ToppsTown
Casey McGehee
Mark DeRosa
Ross Detwiler
Ryan Franklin

Clearly not every pack can be like Pack #4.

Pack 6: 2009 Topps Series 1

Chris Young
Saltalamacchia & Hamilton Brothers in Arms
Santana/Lincecum/Peavy - NL ERA Leaders
Torri Hunter Prominent Ball Players
Alex Rodriguez ToppsTown
Chris Lambert RC
Brad Hawpe
Cody Ransom

Also, all of these cards are black. Is this a random Black Parallel pack from a blaster? Are they ripping open old blasters for packs now? I suppose, it was only 8 cards... COOL! That makes the whole pack a winner!

Pack 7: 2009 Topps Series 1 (Blaster Pack #2!)

Mark Sweeney
Aaron Cook
Fredi Gonzalez
Geovany Soto Prominent Ball Players
Josh Hamilton ToppsTown
Miguel Montero
Hideki Okajima
Joe Torre

More black parallels. Sweet. Feel free to correct me if all of Topps Series 1 was printed in black. Don't know why they went back to white borders and backgrounds for Update and Highlights tho...

OK!

Pack 8: 2008 Upper Deck Baseball Heroes

Derrek Lee
Chipper Jones/Ryan Braun/Miguel Cabbera
Bob Gibson
Dan Haren
Ken Griffey Jr./Roberto Clemente/Vladimir Guerrero/Joe DiMaggio
$1.49 off MLB Upper Deck Heroes blaster box at Target. Expired 4 years ago.

Nice. I'm very, very pleased thus far. The black parallels are a nice surprise. We've still got some more Topps due up, a Bowman Chrome pack, and of course... GINTER... which will be last.

[bryanATX]

Doooo eeeeeet!!!! :)

[andrewhoya]

The black parallels may be the Wal-Mart Exclusive cards?

http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Cards...opps+black,p85

[TheGinterGodfather]

Hah! Looks like we're due up for Section 3! Thanks for sticking with us... it's the only way to go. Doing one go at it with 20 packs? That would be NUTS!

Pack 9: 2011 Topps Series 2 (Joe Mauer!)

Leo Nunez
Jason Donald
Brandon Phillips
Kendrys Morales
Ivan DeJesus RC
Maicer Izturis
Derek Holland
Michael Kohn RC Gold Bordered #/2011
Before There Was Tops Bowman 1948-1955
Jacoby Ellsbury Topps 60
Adam Moore
Travis Ishikawa

Not bad, a little serialized action going on...

Pack 10: 2011 Topps Series 1

Jon Lester
Brian Fuentes
Jeremy Guthrie
New York Mets
Neil Walker
Hunter Pence
Tim Hudson
David Price/Matt Garza Diamond Duos
Duke Snider The Lost Cards
C.C. Sabathia ToppsTown (CC has been pretty popular in this box!)
Xavier Nady
Alcides Escobar

Hrm. Got a Twin! So that counts for something, right?

Pack 11: 2010 Topps Series 1

Jason Kendall
Joe Blanton (This picture is awesome...)
Darin Erstad
Vernon Wells
Scott Kazmir
Houston Astros
Dustin Pedroia 2007 Reprint (It was only 3 years guys... necessary?)
Lou Gehrig History of the Game
Adam Jones ToppsTown
Roy Halladay
Dexter Fowler
Kevin Millwood

Looking hard to this last pack to save this segment!

Pack 12: 2010 Topps Series 1 (Blaster Box pack!)

John Smoltz
Marco Scutaro
Henry Rodriguez RC
Pedro Martinez The Cards Your Mom Threw Out
Frank Robinson 1957 Reprint
Frank Thomas/Prince Fielder Legendary Lineage
Miguel Tejada Topps Town
Vladimir Guerrero

And the half of the pack that WASN'T inserts (and they were pretty good inserts if you ask me!) were once again black background/border parallels. So sweet, that pack did pretty much save this segment!

We're getting down to the good stuff here... or at least the really good packs! Stay tuned and we'll rip into those very shortly!

[TheGinterGodfather]

I think you're right, Andrew. Also. I have another Andrew Bailey for you. You may or may not have it. PM sent.

[andrewhoya]

I think you're right, Andrew. Also. I have another Andrew Bailey for you. You may or may not have it. PM sent.

PM replied

Those black parallels usually fetch about a dollar each, at least the Bailey's do, so you did pretty well with 3 packs of them!