Discounted Blasters and stuff

[TheGinterGodfather]

On a business trip to the good 'ole heartland. I try and stop every hour and a half or so when I'm driving, so I get to visit several Wally Worlds and Targets. I also hit up a KMart which had the best gems of all that I could find. Most of the places I went to were really rummaged through and some of them were so bad that 60-70% of the stuff was already open. I cried a little inside at that Target.

Picked up a 2008 UD Artefacts blaster and a 2010 A&G blaster for $11.99 each, plus tax. Came out to $25.83, for which I had a $25 traveler's cheque and two quarters, two dimes, a nickel, and three pennies to pay for. I am awesome.

At one of the Targets I grabbed one of those 4 packs + an autograph and a 2012 Gypsy Queen rack pack to add some recent stuff. I'll list what I feel is relevant!

The "Bad" stuff first:

4 Packer had the follow packs and cards:

2007 Fleer Ultra:
Tim Hudson
Brad Lidge
Bobby Abreu
Carlos Delgado
Ultra Iron Man #10 - Cal Ripken Jr. cycles around the bases

2007 Upper Deck Series One:
Nick Markakis
Todd Linden
Manny Ramirez
Yuniesky Betancourt
Richie Sexson
Ronnie Belliard
Juan Cruz
Milton Bradley

...

2008 Upper Deck First Edition Update:
J.D. Drew
Kenny Rogers
Paul Byrd
Jason Kendall
a 1/2" x 2 1/2" strip of white cardboard with green stripes on either side
Michael Bourn
Ray Durham
Chris Carpenter
Wily Mo Pena
Delmon Young (Twins Uniform so... PC?)
Ken Griffey Jr. Starquest (Common)

BLISTER Pack of 2008 UD Spectrum:
Richie Sexson
David Wright
Jason Bay
Chris Carpenter

AND THE AUTOGRAPH IS...

2003 Donruss The Rookies Ian Ferguson #0624/1000

About what I expected. Glad to see he didn't even make it through 2003. I just wanted to make sure I got some ink because I like pulling ink, even if it's of Ian Ferguson. LOL!

2012 Gypsy Queen:

Retail Framed Cards:
#80 Ryan Braun
#150 CC Sabathia
#57 Michael Young

ZERO Idea on Short Prints or whatever, so here it goes. I collated wrong, so we'll count down:
#299 Mike Carp
#298 Brandon Marrow
#284 Todd Helton
#205 Devin Mesoraco
#196 Adam Wainwright
#142 Carlos Gonzalez
#129 Scott Rolen
#123 Geovany Soto
#122 Casey McGhee
#115 Kurt Suzuki
#89 Bud Norris
#73 Ben Revere
#17 Trevor Cahill

Inserts:
Future Stars - Jeremy Hellickson
Hallmark Heroes - Mickey Mantle

MINIS NEXT!:
#25 Doug Fister
#38 James Loney
#148 Dan Haren

Pretty unsatisfying... two inserts and that's it. Yuck.

2010 Allen and Ginter Next:

MINIS:
#78 Da Vinci
#79 Ad Back James Loney
#88 Black Border Kosuke Fukudome
#329 Troy Glaus SP!
NA18 Canada - Beaver
LO24 The Muses
WB4 General Sherman
SSS9 Pizarro

Inserts:
TDH49 Justin Morneau
AGHS11 Andre Ethier

SPs:
#305 Kelly Johnson
#325 Brett Gardner
#331 Huston Street
#346 Ryan Theriot

Regular Cards:
#23 Joe Mauer
#61 Michael Cuddyer (Twins PC?)
#66 Orlando Hudson (Who? Twins PC?)

Last But Not Least 2008 Artefacts:

#165 Historical Moments - Woodstock
#165 Historical Moments - Woodstock ...
#184 Historical Moments - Pope John Paul II
YSL5194 - Don Mattingly
YSL3154 - Yogi Berra

... and the guaranteed "hit" ...

BSM-31 - Jeff Kent - Kent cracks 18th career two-homer game

At least I can say Mr. Kent has a nice 'stache for his mug shot.

Also, I have a #109 Donny Lucy RC that is way more silver/grey than the other cards... is that just a printing oddity, or intentional? Ditto with a #99 Chad Cordero. And a #73 Ryan Howard.

Thanks for the read!

[Deckard7]

Thanks for the play-by-play on the break, it was a good read. You picked some great smilies to use with the cards you pulled.

Well played, good sir!

[TheGinterGodfather]

Thanks! Been wanting to really sit down and do one of these complete with smilies for awhile. Trying to emulate my buddy Steve (a.k.a. spuds) and since I love reading HIS breaks, I would imagine others do too, so why wouldn't they enjoy reading mine? Cheers!

[bryanATX]

Nice!!! What do u want for the green-striped cardboard??? Is it #ed?! :) I have various cardboard FT.

[spuds1961]

Awesome stuff,loved reading the break,has anybody ever pulled a decent auto out of those 4 pack things bought one yesterday and got a Scott thorman spx young stars.Hopefully your next break will be more satisfying,take care Steve

[frizzzlecake]

Nice minis!!!