Let's DO THIS! 2012 Ginter Retail Break!

[TheGinterGodfather]

YES! The world will stop coming to an end every night because 2012 GINTER IS LIVE!

Hit up Target on the way home from work. Grabbed a rack pack and a blaster. Sadly, no singletons. I hate rack packs because they have, in the past, only had 1 mini. I buy Ginter for the minis. This year? TWO MINIS PER VALUE PACK!


Here we go!

Rack Pack:

Evan Longoria
Jim Palmer
Mark Reynolds
Brandon Belt
Giancarlo Stanto
Carlos Ruiz

Historical Turning Points - Discovery of the New World
What's in a Name? - Duke Snider

Zach Greinke framed mini relic

MINIS!

BLACK BORDERED CRAIG KIMBREL!
A&G AD BACK RYAN VOGELSONG!

No SP's in this rack pack, just two awesome minis! YES!

Blaster Box next!

Pack 1:

Roger Maris
J.J. Putz
Jimmy Rollins
Addison Reed
Howie Kendrick SP!

and the hit...

Max Scherzer Regular Mini!

Pack 2: (ZOMFG, andrewhoya is gonna kill me...)

ANDREW BAILEY
Carlos Beltran
Mike Schmidt
Carlos Santana
Ryan Roberts SP!

JACKPOT DOUBLE HIT!

Ryan Howard SP Mini!
Colby Lewis SP Mini! (This one has two or three damaged corners... gonna send it back)


Pack 3:

Ryan Vogelsong
Jackie Robinson
Brandon Beachy
Murder in Willow Cove Insert
What's in a Name - Larry Wayne Jones

AND THE HIT!

Tony Gwynn Mini!

Pack 4:

What's in a Name - Ryan Wallace Zimmerman
Baseball Highlight Sketches - Ken Griffey Jr.
Pedro Alvarez
Dan Uggla
Hammerin' Hank Aaron!

And the HIT!

Jaime Garcia Mini!

Pack 5:

Matt Garza SP!
J.J. Hardy
Carl Yastrzemski
Lance Berkman
Josh Beckett

And the pseudo HIT!

Man's Best Friend Mini - Boxer

The wifey has the other 3 packs, will post them once she busts them!

[andrewhoya]

Pack 2: (ZOMFG, andrewhoya is gonna kill me...)

ANDREWBAILEY


<------ Ryan......Me------>

:fighting0049:

Per your wishes....

Could we add that to my running count? :D

[andrewhoya]

Woah. Not sure why my font is red.

Now it's black.... odd.

[TheGinterGodfather]

You got it boss, consider it added! I told you we should just keep a running tally!

Last 3 packs coming once my wife opens 'em!

[andrewhoya]

Hmm, now I am going to become impatient :(

I just checked eBay, and it looks like he has a GU this year, too! I know he is supposed to have an auto, too.

edit- Scratch the auto, looks like :(

[TheGinterGodfather]

Alright, last 3 packs... and my wife is strutting around like the Cat's Meow AND Pajamas, so you know its good!

Pack 6:

Tim Federowicz
Nick Swisher
Erick Aybar
What's In A Name - Mickey Mantle
World's Tallest Building - Sear's Tower

And the hit:

World' Greatest Military Leaders - Dwight "SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER" Eisenhower!!!

Pack 7:

Devin Morasco RC
Daniel Hudson
Hunter Pence
Brett "Don't Be A" Pill RC
Matt Holliday SP!

AND THE HIT!

Ian Desmond A&G AD BACK!

And the doozie...

Pack 8:

Ervin Santana
Phil Hughes
LIAM FREAKING HENDRICKS RC!
What's in a Name - Troy Trevor Tulowitzki
Historical Moments - Signing of the Magna Carta

And

The

Hit

That

My

Wife

Is

Most

Proud

Of

...

CURTIS GRANDERSON BAZOOKA BACK #5/25!!!!

Now, I do need to correct myself. A&G Ad Back is the nomenclature from last year's set. This year they are just "A&G Back". The Bazooka Back's have been renamed "A&G Ad Back" and no longer have a guy chewing gum. But they are red, and they are hand serialized (the best freaking part!!!). Man, what a great break! Thanks for the read and look forward to a lot more 2012 Ginter coming out of my hands into my keyboard and out of your screen to your very own man-cave or woman-cave of baseball awesomeness. Or maybe just your office or den.

Oh, for those wondering on odds! I'll list the blaster pack odds only because I can't find the Rack Pack odds:

Short Print - 1:2
What's in a Name - 1:2
World's Tallest Buildings/Baseball Highlight Sketches/Murder in Willow Cove - 1:8
Minis:
SP - 1:13
A&G Back - 1:5
A&G Back SP - 1:65
Black Bordered - 1:10
Black Bordered SP - 1:130
No Number - 1:148
*A&G Baseball Bat Ad Back - 1:296
Mini Inserts (all of them) - 1:5

What everyone else thinks of hits and I think of as trade bait for minis:

Mystery Redemption - 1:27,000
Colony in a Card - 1:744
Framed Autograph - 1:196
Cut Signature - 1:146,144
Framed Mini Relic - 1:28
DNA Relic - 1:292,000

So, just a quick glance at them and a quick recollection, the Ad Back's improved to 1:5 from 1:6, Black Borders fell equally from 1:12 to 1:10, don't recall if A&G Ad Back SP's had a stated insertion rate in last year's packaging, the Black Bordered SP went up from 1:120 to 1:130, and I'd have to look up the No Number and A&G Baseball Bat Ad Back, but I would imagine they're roughly the same.

For those who care about things other than minis, your odds of getting a Mini Relic have improved from either 1:32 or 1:34 (can't remember again which one exactly, sorry) to 1:28, but your odds of getting an auto have gone dramatically in the toilet from 1:96 to 1:196.

-Ryan

[andrewhoya]

Nice Bazooka back!!...err... AG Back?.......

Heck..

Nice granderson!

[adadas101]

Nice break man, I cannot wait to bust some of this, also I have a number of mini's from 2006 up, lmk if/what you need and maybe we can work something out for them.

[spuds1961]

Awesome break,It's always the Mrs that gets the best hit of the box when we share a break,I still can't persuade her to give me that Mia Hamm gu she pulled out of Ginter a couple of years ago.

[andrewhoya]

Steve, my mom makes great picks, too.