A&G Group Break

Maildays are always fun days. 

I was a part of the Allen & Ginter group break on Carl Crawford's Blog and I had the Nationals and Twins. No, I did not pulled any Strasburgh and yes, I do not care all that much since I'm an Expos fan and don't really care for the Nationals but I'm still picking them in breaks in case there is some retro thing. 

So, long story short I got my cards today and beside a ton of bases (If you need any of those 2 teams in base cards, I have them in quadruple for sure) here are the main hits in my package. 

Jason Kubel is a decent slugger and the Silk Cards looks really, really good. Plus the low numbering makes it a great hit. It's probably going on Ebay since the Silk Cards are hot right now and I don't really care all that much about Kubel (I'm more into Morneau since we share a last name). But still, pretty decent break.

EDIT - Here's a link for the Kubel's auction : CLICK HERE

Brian Duensing is no Cy Young but it's a crisp looking auto. I don't like the fact that the card moves inside of it's frame but still, it's going with the tradebaits as a sweet auto.

And some Minis. Seriously, how do you store those? They are so tiny and my hands so large, it's not a perfect match, oh god no. They're sleeping in a box right now until I find better use for them.

All in all, I'm not a huge A&G fan. Too many random cards, too many sizes and too many 'facts of the world' that I don't really care about.

But, the base cards that are sports related look really good. So I'm torned.

Fun product, no doubt, but not a keeper for me. 

Anyway, keep an eye on the blog, they do a great job with the Monthly Break. 

SPA Hockey Group Break

Hey y'all, Jeremy over at BLOG FOR HOCKEY CARDS is trying to gather around a group break for this year SPA Product.

These looks great and for 3-4 boxes, we can have decent prices on individual teams.

Go check it out ... - CLICK HERE - and subscribe. The more the merrier. 

Group Break - Hockey

I just received my cards from the Monthly break over at Joe Collector and it's always fun to receive new cards at home.

It was a team based break and I had my Habs and the Rangers (random choices). The break was for 4 boxes of UD Champs, 1 OPC Premier and some loose packs of UD Series 2. I did very well just because I had my Habs but then again, I'm not a huge fan of the Champs serie, except for the base cards cards that simply looks awesome. Take a look.

Yes, that is 3 Patrick Roy just for me. My favorite player of all time growing up an still one of my all-time greats, I can't be mad about duplicates of this guy, never. I have piles of junk commons of Patrick Roy and I still want more. MORE ! 

Other than the bases (pulled some nice Gretskys and Messier as well) here's an overview of my share of the hits. 

It's our former captain with a serial number. Not bad but I never really was into Saku. The guy is soft even tough he recovered from Cancer. Go figure...

Great on card auto of Artem Anisimov but I don't like the ''Minis'' card, I just don't know what to do with it. Don't know how to store them and I don't really want to start buying special stuff for these. They remind me of the oversized sets in the 90's that had specially design 6 cards pages for binders. Those were weird and so are these ones. But still, on card autos, my favorite thing about the hobby. 

HABS legend with a piece of Jersey. Still a mini card but hey, that was the break so I'm not complaining. Steve Shutt is, after all, a great player. 

A trio of Mini Cards. I had more (Like Scotty Bowman and some rookies) but those are my three favorites. Of crouse there is Patrick Roy (again) and then these weird oddities. A dinosaur cards and Sir John Thompson. I don't know if I'm keeping these but for the time being, they look cool on my desk. We will see. 

These breaks are always a good time and you should check out Joe's place for more of these. It's a monthly thing and the guy is an ace with the pricing and the shipping. Great collector, trustwhorthy and hobby fanatic. My type of guy. 

I'm still wondering if any of you would like to do an SPA Break soon, reply or email, these look fantastic. 

Enjoy

Stéphane

Sewing Box Break...

Cool friday, it was a bit rainy in Montreal but I received my share of the Group Break set by The Sewing Machine Dude. Altough it wasen't my luckiest break it is still cool to receive new cards. 

The Harmon Killebrew and Frank Thomas dual jersey was the Highlight of my break featuring the Twins and the Nationals. 

But my favorite two cards are the Joe Mauer Starquest from the 2008 UD Series. I pulled one 'Common' and one 'Rare' variation and they look really nice side by side. And you can't really go wrong with the best catcher of his generation.

A 2009 Bowman Chrome 'World' of Kyuji Fujikawa (Who?) is also a sweet looking cards, numbered out of 250. 

But anyway, check the guys website. The breaks are always fun. 

Thanks mate!

2009-10 SP Authentic Hockey is Coming.

One of my favorite Hockey set each year is coming soon and Upper-Deck released the Checklist for this year’s SP Authentic and seriously, WOW !

I love everything about it. The low numbered on-card auto of ‘’Immortals’’, the Rookie Patch Review Auto (like Patrick Roy in a Habs jersey) and of course every goodies from this year's rookie class.

The down part of this set is that the base sets and the inserts keep no value whatsoever in the secondary market and even among traders, a few weeks after the product’s release they tend to vanish somewhere in shoeboxes at home. But they look great, seriously, and I usually gather at least one base set to put in a binder for my collection. The hobby is not about value, if you like something you should keep it and store it properly, period.

UD is pulling a great design almost every year and the 2010 one seems right on the money from what I’ve seen.

Quick question here, woule there be interest in a Group Break here ? With Random Teams or Chosen Teams, I don’t know, we could do 4—6 boxes, maybe a full case and it would come to below 50$ per team, which is a great value for the potential hits.

Let me know what you guys think, it would be a great way to jumpstart my blog with my first group break being with a loaded product like this.

I'll buy some for myself, that's a given. Just how much is the real question. Anyway, release is somewhere next week. 

FULL CHECKLIST HERE