Monday, January 5, 2009

Catching up on gifts *TO* Tribecards!

During the holiday break, well, actually, some of these came before I went to Phoenix and fell off the face of the blogging world, I received bubble envelopes filled with goodies!!

These are not in the order I received them, but you really wouldn't have known that if I hadn't told you, so just pretend I hadn't said anything, okay? Too late, you say? Aw, dang... Well, enjoy the show anyway!


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This card is the prize I received as a result of a late-minute response and last-minute trade during a contest over at Fielder's Choice a bit ago:

This is a great card that will most likely go into my 'scratch card prize pool.' Though, Soriano is one of the players I collect outside of the Tribe, so ya just never know with me... Thanks a bunch, Dave!!


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Tradercrack put together a wonderful collection of cool Tribe cards! We have red-letter Topps, Topps gold, a V-Mart game-used jersey (wahoo!), cracker jack Sizemore, chromes and rookies!

These will make very nice additions to my card collection, for sure! Thanks a TON!


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BaseballDad, who also happens to sell HEMIS thank you very much, sent me a stack of cards that he gleaned from my need list. In addition to the Tiffany cards and others, he also threw in a 2009 Indians schedule!! That is awesome!

There are Leaf, Classic, Biggies, Sportflics and more in there! Thank you so much, BaseballDad! I can't wait to add these to my collection and get my need list updated!


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Sox-and-Thoughts sent me two wrapped gifts before Christmas, and I debated whether or not to open them before the big day. Well, not only did I wait until Christmas, I actually ended up waiting until after NEW YEAR'S! AUGH! Well, it was worth the wait!

There are complete (or at least well-along-the-way-to-being-complete) team sets in here from various years! This first group features Topps and Leaf - shiny certified kind! It's funny, but I am pretty sure that I can find that shot of Lawton sprawled out and the crowd is not in the picture... Is there some photo-shopping going on here?

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I love the thick Bowman cards. I don't know why. Something about the fact they FEEL like nice, heavy cards... Broussard appears to be doing his best Man-Ram imitation...

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I am also a fan of the Studio and Diamond Kings cards, though seeing the players in action always ranks higher on the 'coolness' chart for me. :-) The Wright Diamond Kings Rookie is SUH-WEET! And, the 40-man cards are great-looking, too. Of course, as far as I'm concerned, every one of these cards is excellent!

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Gotta love the Ultra Gold Medallions and the UD vintage (that's Lou friggin Boudreau in there!). The Portraits cards have that cool 'painted-on-canvas' feel to them. It's funny, but I thought the '03 Ultra was a Stadium Club when I first saw it...

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Man, SweetSpot, ProSigs, and more here! This is a really great selection of Tribe cards you sent, Sox-n-Thoughts!! I don't remember seeing too many of the 'Play Ball' cards before, so that was also a nice treat!

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Love the Bowman Gold card here! Man, and that Invincible 2000 Man-Ram is incredible! LOL, with the 3-d effect, it reminds me of the cards my daughter and I assembled not long ago by hand. :-) I am a big Jacoby fan, and the motion card was a nice find for my waxing nostalgia... :-)

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Gotta love Thome on the Gold Label! I also think the Authentix design was one of the better ones. The Murray Finest Moments is a great card where that green jumps off the card! Cabrera's Future Watch card is one I don't believe I have seen before! Of course, all that shiny chrome is great! :-)

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This 'last' scan is actually the first set of cards I spotted when I opened the packs. Blogger's new 'reverse-order-uploading' made this one end up at the bottom of the post. Yeesh. Well, it was worth it, for sure! SPX, Playoffs, 205's, and more! These cards are super! There's even a McDowell fan fave in there, too!

Sox and Thoughts put together a wonderful Christmas, er post New Year's, surprise for sure!! Thank you so much for these great cards!!


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Thank you to everyone for sending me some wonderful additions to my collection of Tribe cards! I have got a lot of work to do ahead of me in getting these entered into the database, and it is going to be a blast going through them again!!

6 comments:

  1. We are glad you're back. Your absence was very much noticed!

    Wow. Our word verification is thillymup.

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  2. Aaaah! I echo Dinged Corners sentiments exactly.

    My word verification is the rather mundane lehup.

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  3. Just in case you were wondering, they don't ALL end in "-up"

    surthe

    Better than lehup, but still not thillymup. That sounds like a creature from Harry Potter...

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  4. Okay, enough with the word verification... BUT this one is too cool to pass up.

    vivexam

    vivexam- (vehv-ig-zam) noun: A test of knowledge regarding the disection of live subjects.

    Good one, eh? I think I will define all future word verifications.

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  5. insur - (in-shur) verb: to gaurantee against loss of the letter "E" key on keyboards.

    Derived from the late Middle English word PROTEC, and Germanic SAV.

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  6. You guys are nuts! :-)

    Mine is "tatisti" - An adjective which describes something edible as being extremely pleasing...

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