The Clean-Up

 

-  I claimed three victims this year with my April Fools' Day post.  Not counting the people who commented the next day.  I liked last year's post more, but it wasn't card-related.  Or sports-related, even. 

-  Working on a 42 page, thanks to that Mahler pick-up in the card draft.  And doing a baseball frankenset, because apparently I'm a glutton for punishment.  

-  Been doing some organizing of my boxes.    

-  Saw a lady driving a pink car with no hub caps.

-  Scored some free CDs:  Journey, Jackson Browne, Bread, Ozzy Osbourne.

-  Glad the USMNT qualified, but pissed it's in Qatar.  

-  Reading a Longmire mystery:  Death Without Company.

-  Finished 12th of 28 in an NCAA basketball bracket contest.  Meh. 

-  Got this in a recent trade:

Scoring from My Dealer

 

I have completed the smallest custom set in my collection.  Let's look at the previous members of the set:

 

Let's feast our eyes on the new member:

What I gave up:

Troy Aikman RC

Emmit Smith RC 

Marshall Faulk RC

John Randle swatch card

Warren Moon double swatch card

Patrick Mahomes swatch card

Trae Young RC

Time Traveling

 

I sent some cards to Virginia and got these back:

-  1955 Bowman Bucko Kilroy - now my oldest football card

-  1977 Harvey Martin - upgrade for the Martin in my Cowboys team page

-  1977 Vince Papale

-  1979 Tommy John - might use this for my trivia page, might stick with a Yankees card

-  1983 Fleer Ted Simmons

-  1992 -93 Ultra Jaromir Jagr

Diamond Jesters (diamond-jesters.blogspot.com)

Contest Update

Lost Collector - 10

John Sharp - 9

John still has Villanova.  

LC is done.

The Draft Lives of Others

So I missed the latest card draft because Diamond King's posts stopped showing up in my feed.  Then when I figured out what was wrong, it was over.  But I always have opinions.

I identified 15 cards that stood out from the rest.  Let's see where they went.

Round One

4 of the 15

Best Pick (Crocodile):  Ozzie Smith

Round Two

1 of the 15

Best Pick (Chris):  Skip Schumaker

Round Three

0 of the 15

Best Pick (Diamond King):  Bill Buckner

Round Four

1 of the 15

Best Pick (gcrl):  Takahito Nomura

Round Five

2 of the 15

Best Pick (Crocodile):  Kobe Bryant

Round Six

3 of the 15

Best Pick (Chris):  TraeYoung

Round Seven

2 of the 15

Best Pick (gcrl):  Steve Carlton

Round Eight

1 of the 15

Best Pick (Diamond King):  Derek Jeter

 

Round Nine

1 of the 15

Best Pick (Nick):  Jose Abreu

Crocodile and Chris each landed 4 of my top 15.

Best Value:  DK's Derek Jeter in Round Eight

(photography by Diamond King)

The Diamond King

TCDB Trade

Sent some Bears cards to Hawk King and got these in return:

       

-  Currently in my Giants team page.  Not sure for how long though.

-  Phillies legend

-  Like me some Tony.

-  Rip is oddly tough to get on Cardbarrel.  

-  The Arch is one of the landmarks I've kind of visited.  Drove past the Arch, was in the parking lot of the Astrodome, and in the gift shop of the Alamo. 

Contest Standings After Round Two

Lost Collector - 9

Fuji - 7

John Sharp - 7  

Jafronius - 5