Friday, March 18, 2022

Holiday Splurge Fail

 


So I took the trolley to Target, thinking I'd splurge on blaster boxes.  But it was not to be.  No baseball, basketball, or football on the shelf at all.  Just a few hockey products.  Not to be denied, I noticed a cart of random stuff waiting to be shelved and in it was a hanger box of basketball cards.  So I grabbed that and a fat pack of hockey cards.  Let's look at some highlights.   

2020 - 21 Panini Chronicles Basketball

-  The collation was horrible, with 3 Payton Pritchards and 4 guys with 2 each in a 30-card box.  But I'll take 2 Durants.

-  Several different designs, which probably aren't shown very well here.  

-  Not a fan of the Ball family, so I'll try to flip that LaMelo RC.  

-  Not a fan of LeBron either.  An all-time great though. 

-  Tyrese Maxey on that last card. 

-  It was very rookie-heavy.  Not sure if it's always that way, or just the one I got. 


2021 - 22 OPC Hockey


-  It was a 48-card pack.  A bit underwhelming, so I put most of them in my trader box. 

-  The Tkachuk is a Retro parallel.  


On a more positive note, Santa Patrick Claus treated me to some books from Barnes and Noble:


(Yes, I still had a gift card from Christmas.)


7 comments:

  1. If you're looking to trade Kirill or Edwards, maybe we can work something out.

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    1. Not right now. Maybe later.

      I do have some Vikings swatches I'd let go for a good return: 2 Dalvin Cooks and a John Randle.

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  2. Hope you make big $$$ on the Ball. I found some Opening Day on the Target website a few days ago. 22 packs for $20. Glad to see that from Topps.

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    1. Knowing me, I won't get much for it. Ha.

      Might have to check the Target website.

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  3. The Chronicles checklist is hilariously rookie focused (at least 90% of the checklist) and most of the key rookies have a card in almost every design imaginable. I might need one or more of the Pritchards for my Ducks collection, depending on which ones you pulled. I bought a couple of boxes of it from the Target website, but I avoided group breaks because out of a 725 (!) card checklist, there are just 7 Blazers cards and they are all Damian Lillard.

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    1. Ah. So it wasn't just this batch.

      81 Threads
      278 XR
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  4. Looks like there's already some interest in your cards... might not be as much of a fail as you originally thought?

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