And a blaster of Heritage seems to be a fine way to start. Even though I guess you can say it started with the group break. But these were the first I've pulled from packs. They do look nice all stacked in numerical order after busting. My favourite card in the bunch? Based on the photo, this one. I love that Kimbrel seems to be crouched over to try and fit in the cramped space of the card that confines him within its borders. I did get one of those old-timey manager cards, even if seeing Berra in a '75 set as a Yankee really doesn't make sense. Although I do have a more accurate ..read more

  aka Part 2 of the Night Owl mailer. It really packed a Paup! *groans* OK. It was the most significant of the three teams represented in the mailer. Better? Best photos of the bunch go to a pair of horizontal photos. It looks like half of the offensive line is trying, and failing to prevent Cornelius Bennett from hurrying Joe Montana. That game vs KC was my first ever in-person Bills game, and it was a stomping. On the other side, you've got Pete Metzelaars just casually looking the ball into his hands, even with a defender draped over him. Aside from that, here's cards from a set I h ..read more

 After having two people pass away in the past couple weeks with their autographs sitting in my to-be-posted box, I intend to end that curse by posting all the remaining autos in that box, that I, for whatever reason, added to my COMC inventory at some point but haven't got around to posting until now. Here's one that I intended to add to my True Crime mini-set. Seeing as I really don't want it to salute people arrested multiple times, it has people in it like Orlando Bowen, Linda Sobek, and now, James Shaw Jr. I don't think I can elaborate beyond the write-up on the card. But it is an i ..read more

  While the Mets content has yet to show up from last weekend, featuring an autograph I can't wait to welcome to that team collection. But the Jays content has shown up, and let's check the content out. Here's some of the more basic of the base. Nothing too interesting here other than a real love for putting yellow on the bottom of the cards, a very licensing-friendly photo on Kirk, and Davis Schneider squatting out his autograph. The Jays got a grand total of one card among the SP portion of the set, which will be one of a handful to salute Jordan Hicks' partial season with Toronto ..read more

 It looks like that the Surprise Bag era of the Dollarama repacks is gone, and these are the replacements: So, a price increase up, but now there's four items per repack again.  And these are the four repacked items. A couple new header designs as well. As usual, clockwise from the top left. A Sens card in the first repacked pack? I'm happy with that. And a couple nice horizontal photos. That's perfectly fine.  2/3 pointing photos. The low-camera on the Forsberg almost gives it a 3-D look. Is the Superstar promised the one of the past or the one of the present? Either way ..read more

 Back to the mailbag this morning, and all of the baseball content from a recent bubbler that showed up from Watertown, NY.  The even more numerous Bills content will be in a future post. I can't go wrong opening up with some vintage, and some vintage with Dr. Ron Taylor. He could also double as an addition to the CanCon collection, even being with the Blue Jays as their team physician. That included during their World Series runs. It looks like the Mets have someone named Jett in their system. And a guy with 2 first names. That has to bode well for the team, right? I guess I shoul ..read more

 Yet, I end up with this out of a Heritage break earlier today.  My first Real One red auto and my first Alonso auto.  Keeper!  ..read more

 Others are doing it, so I'll do so as well. Let nobody say I won't follow the leaders! Honourable Mentions: This probably would have cracked the Top 5. But this was a redemption out of Optic that became a Status autograph. At least it ended up replaced with a Kobe, and I requested the replacement a couple months before his passing. These make honourable mention because I pulled them in back-to-back boxes that I picked up for Boxing Day in 2018. I don't think I could have made better pulls from two mid-range boxes opened in order. Two legends, swatches included, both /15. On-card ..read more

  The person on the downswing of their career. On one of their last days on the job, a colleague is murdered. They work to solve the case, and as the pilot episode ends, they ponder doing this full time. The last bit about the pondering is my artistic license.  But the rest sure seems like TV potential in the 70s and 80s ..read more

 You'd have to really enjoy the risk to go for it with a box of Bowman nowadays. Meanwhile, I'll just use a box of this to scratch the itch. And you get the fun of looking back on the cards from this and recognizing familiar names for whatever reason! Hey, that Michael Harris guy in Atlanta is pretty good! Hey, that DPL guy, Juarlin Soto, signed with the Jays. That means it is now a Jays card!  Let's see who I'll be looking back at cards of in a few years to see what happened to them! Pack 1: The packs seem to be structured in such a way to contain one base card, one insert, one ..read more