2011 Phillies Phestival Successes

[philliesman]

This is for anybody to show off whatever they managed to pull away from the great charity event. It was my first year going and I was 100% impressed with the efficiency that it was run at.

[TTMcardMaster]

You can't post this and not share your spoils!!!

[philliesman]

Oh I will haha, I'm in the process of scanning and photographing it. I only got home like 3 hours ago

[TTMcardMaster]

Can't wait. Saw that some other guys we're getting Cliff Lee for a $10 donation!?!?!?

[philliesman]

I RAN OUT OF MONEY =(((((((((( a highschooler only has so much money. So when Oswalt and Lee began signing for donations I was heart broken.

[philliesman]

First Auto of the night David Herndon on sweet spot of a ROMLB[ATTACH]Attachment 42866[/ATTACH]

Second of the night was Michael Stutes on ROMLB SS[ATTACH]Attachment 42867[/ATTACH]

[philliesman]

I then got Kyle Kendrick and Michael Martinez on the same ROMLB that Herndon is on. Attachment 42869
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At the same time my friend got (Top to Bottom) Baez, Contrereas, Perlozzo. And I added Rich Dubee to the Bottom when I got Blanton Attachment 42872

[philliesman]

My Friend also got Antonio ™™™™™™™o on a ROMLB SS. Unfortunately he is not a grapher so I was not there to tell him to specifically get him to sign with a pen not a sharpie.
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We paid cash to each get Polanco on a mini bat
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Also pulled a Charlie Manual signed hat, our only significant pull from 3 grab backs Attachment 42875

Finally I am hoping to have this be the first of a new adventure to get the Phab Fives autographs so I got Joe Blanton to get the ball rolling
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[philliesman]

HAHAHAHAHAH I just saw that they bleeped out the B-a-s-tard part of Antonio ™™™™™™™o's name

[cyberer]

Just saw this thread- we've all been talking in a different thread on the homepage that I started. We must have miscommunicated last night I thought you told me to start it.

anyways here is my stuff:

I'll get things started! This is copied from my success thread.

Tonight was a great but CRAZY night at the Phils Phestival. Druce on these forums was AWESOME enough to give me a FREE admission ticket to get into the phestival- this thread is made possible all because of him.

However, admission tickets don't come with autograph tickets, so I knew I would have to get down there and wheel and deal. I decided to bring 30 or 40 autographs from my collection, hoping to trade an autograph for a ticket or something similar.

I got there and got in line with a buddy. However I soon left our spot in line and started walking around the massive crowd trying to buy and trade.

Very soon after I got there I bought a Joe Blanton ticket for 5 dollars, because I needed him for my Sports Illustrated cover.

Very shortly after that, MY BEST LUCK OF THE NIGHT HAPPENED. I told people that I needed Hamels, and a lady asked me what I had to trade for it. I handed her my list of autographs from home.

She and her kids really love Carlos Ruiz, and he wasn't signing at the Phestival today- he was in the photo booth. So she saw a certified Ruiz auto on my list, AND TRADED ME A HAMELS TICKET FOR IT STRAIGHT UP!!!

So now I'm packing Hamels and Blanton. I was pretty content because I needed both for my SI cover and I didn't have any extras to trade. I thought that this would be it.

However soon a guy came up to me and asked me about Wilson Valdez- he had a ticket for him and attended the game where he was the winning pitcher. Well I just so happened to have an 8x10 of Valdez standing on the mound and he really wanted it. He traded me tickets for Gload and JC Romero for the 8x10. AMAZING!

I then made an epic series of trades:

-Romero for Contreras
-Contreras for Madson
-Madson Sold Madson for 15 bucks cash (-5 dollars earlier that I used to buy Blanton put me ahead 10 bucks net)

-Gload for Blanton
-Blanton for Polanco
-Polanco for Hamels
-Hamels for Rollins

I then sold the Rollins for 50 and used the profit from the Madson transaction (10 net dollars) to buy an Utley for 60.

Enough wheeling and dealing for you? I was like a man possessed!

So then I got in the lines when the gates opened. I did the Hamels line first because I figured (correctly) that I could get in and out in 10 minutes. I got him to sign the Sports Illustrated cover and got a handshake.



Next, I got in the Utley line. It was the longest line in the place I think. I waited over 50 minutes in a 2 hour event for it. But it was worth it. While in line, I saw him sidepaneling all the balls. "Oh great," I thought to myself why even bother.

However when I got up there, I asked him to sweetspot and he was very nice about it and did it without batting an eye. THE SIG LOOKS AMAZING!







I then got in the Blanton line to sign my sports illustrated. It moved fast and he was really nice about it. He got me on my SI cover, and then he hit duplicates for me. Rich Dubee was also in his booth, and he signed for me as well:







I was now fresh out of tickets, and it was now 7:20. The event was over at 7:45. I heard at the end of the night that they open certain lines up for a 10 dollar donation. I went to the Cliff Lee line and the guy running it said that they were taking donations but there was no guarantee you'll get an auto b/c it was 7:25 when I got there and they said he was out of there at 7:45. I waited in a really long line, I didn't think I was going to get him.

I was lucky, though, as right after I got in line about 50 more people showed up with the same idea. I wound up getting to the front of the line at 7:47, so he stayed a bit over his scheduled time, and signed my SI cover!

Here is a pic of him signing, AND a pic of the SI itself (which I had been conveniently holding back for suspense ).





I got Oswalt in May, and I got Hamels, Lee and Blanton tonight.

But my night wasn't over- I decided to go for the complete package. I heard last year that a few lucky people got Roy Halladay to sign as he was coming out of the photo booth. So at about 7:55 I waited by the photo booth for him. Also around me was a guy with a big Halladay poster and a little girl holding a baseball.

I think to myself "This is great! He will sign for this little girl and we'll all get him!"

So he comes out surrounded by security, and they literally push the little girl out of the way and say he's not signing today. The security guard steps out of the way and lets Halladay get on the little golf cart thing. This created a small gap for me to step in. I stepped into this gap and stood right in front of the cart inches from Halladay. I said:

"Mr. Halladay, please? You are the last one I need on this!"

He said "Sorry not today!" and the golf cart pulled away. UGH! Still, I got close as close can be, and I'm sure I'll get him eventually. They probably won't put him on the photo booth 3 years in a row (he was on it this year and last year).

So yeah, I cleaned up today, and the only thing I paid net was 10 dollars and a Carlos Ruiz certified autograph and I got Lee, Hamels, Blanton and Utley. UNBELIEVABLE!

I don't know if I can expect to get that lucky with trades every year, but I'll definitely be going back every year I can from now on. It was awesome!