A Whole Bunch of Names
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by Zippy Zappy
2d ago
  Despite how I've bombarded several mailboxes and yelled all of your ears off about how I'm downsizing, today's post is going to be the polar opposite. The cards I've accumulated in the time in which I'd been dumping hundreds of cards onto other people, or more specifically the cards I picked up in January before I went cold turkey in February. The theme for most of these is rather simple, these names were the first names I'd seen when I was wide-eyed and first getting into sports and sports cards. A lot were Tulo and CarGo from those early 2010's Rockies teams but those will get their o ..read more
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Goal Met
Torren' Up Cards Blog
by Zippy Zappy
1w ago
 When I made the New Years Resolution to get one non-certified autograph that was always intended for me, I put it up knowing full well I had a few that fit the bill on its way to me. Once again the assist came from the non-sports/cosplay realms. Cosplayer: しょこら (Chocolat) A lot of these came in at once when I had the proxy site consolidate them but I suppose the "first" to arrive was this polaroid from cosplayer しょこら (Chocolat). She's a cosplayer/voice actress/YouTuber(?) who tends to post cosplay pictures pretty much daily and they're impressive given her level of constant output ..read more
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First Case of Buyer's Remorse and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
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by Zippy Zappy
2w ago
 For most of my time in this hobby I had largely been able to avoid what you'd call "buyer's remorse". Even when you consider how much time and money I'd spent on collections I immediately just moved on from and dismantled, I can't say I ever really regretted it since in the moment I really wanted those cards. Like back when I'd go to minor league games a lot there were several impulse purchases for cards I could potentially get signed, and that potential was often realized so there was nothing to regret. The rest were usually random and rare like the time I bought a Don Mattingly photo v ..read more
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I Always Wanted One of These
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by Zippy Zappy
3w ago
 Wow, we're already in March. Time moves so fast. A couple of months ago I did my annual goals and grades post where I also showed off my best pick-ups of 2023. During that haul there was one really glaring omission that I really wanted to add but decided to save so it could get its own blogpost all to itself. I also wanted that blogpost to be after I made the "big" announcement. Even though I've been collecting since 2011 this is the FIRST ever jersey letter patch relic thing I'd ever held. On top of that I can now call it mine! In the time since I'd been collecting almost none of the ..read more
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A Fond Farewell to the Supercollection
Torren' Up Cards Blog
by Zippy Zappy
1M ago
 My Luis Torrens collection was the defining collection of mine throughout most of my time in this hobby. It gave me focus and something to collect and build in a hobby that's got enough options to make a lot of collectors feel lost. It was to a point where this blog was named after him. Torrens is still to this day my favorite player ever, he was the first ever prospect I followed to the big leagues, he will always be someone special and near and dear to my sports fan heart. But in the waning days of 2023 I took a really stern and honest look at my collection and I knew I had t ..read more
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Platinum Level Sparkles
Torren' Up Cards Blog
by Zippy Zappy
1M ago
 2011 Topps Update was one of the products I first opened a lot of when I was still new to the hobby. Nowadays the biggest draw in that set is the Mike Trout rookie card but for me I've tried to take a look back and see if there's more than just that to the set. To be clear the answer is no. But in spite of that I did pull the trigger on the Hunter Pence platinum parallel All Star Game jersey card. It's limited to 60 copies as a lot of serial numbered parallels from 2011 were. Considering how Houston Astros era Pence fits firmly in my wheelhouse for early baseball memories, this is very ..read more
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Disconnect
Torren' Up Cards Blog
by Zippy Zappy
1M ago
 One thing about me that I can't quite fix is how I always feel the need to keep different parts of my life separate. My personal life, my professional life, my hobby life, my online presences that vary depending on which social media site I'm using, etc... Anybody who still follows me on Twitter (if you do... why?) can probably tell but I've strayed far from my days of using it for sports and I've never used it too much for cards to begin with. Once upon a time I did talk about cards there but it was more in the context of "hey, look at this autograph I got" with the occasional "look at ..read more
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BREAKING: Tulo traded to #BlueJays.
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by Zippy Zappy
1M ago
The title of this post is a tweet Ken Rosenthal made back in 2015 announcing the trade of Troy Tulowitzki to the Toronto Blue Jays. Obviously Tulo's been on my mind and this blog a lot in recent times but there's another reason I bring up this tweet. BREAKING: Tulo traded to #BlueJays. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 28, 2015 This tweet has a good case to be the first ever of its kind to really dominate the earlier budding forms of MLB Twitter. That kind of insider "this just in!" type tweet about a blockbuster trade involving a superstar. That kind of tweet that gives everyone on t ..read more
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Diamonds, Gold and then a Million Dollars
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by Zippy Zappy
2M ago
 In the past I've spoken about the Diamond Giveaway Die-Cuts and the Golden Moments Die-Cuts. For those who missed those, the cliffnotes version is that they were exclusive thick cards you could potentially unlock using digital codes you'd redeem on websites Topps launched for the years those promos were going on. Today is going to be the third (and probably last) installment where I get a chance to talk about the forgotten Million Dollar Chase Die-Cuts. For those of you who don't know or remember, in 2013 the promotion that involved entering in codes was the "Million Dollar Chase". The ..read more
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Blast Off
Torren' Up Cards Blog
by Zippy Zappy
2M ago
 I've alluded to it before but one of the biggest benefits of collecting Colorado Rockies cards is that there's so little demand or interest for them that they're really really cheap and affordable, relative to what star players on teams that are actually worth caring about usually go for. Going back to last summer I'd been assembling a small but highly contained collection of notable Rockies players by getting both a certified autograph and a really nice memorabilia card too. The memorabilia cards have largely been patches because why not go for the nicer cards? The fact that the very na ..read more
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