2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Tigers Taken

Only 3 new teams to post after today. I hope you didn't miss your favorite team. Teams are going fast but some I posted earlier are still available.   Look back for these:

A's
Rockies
Rays

Sorry it you're looking for Rangers or Red Sox cards. These went pre-clearance to long time trading partners.

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I have 64 Tigers cards Ready to go. Here's a few examples. Don't hesitate!

1989 Topps #770 Alan Trammel

2009 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions #30 Al Kaline

1998 Skybox Dugout Axcess Double Header #5 Tony Clark

2009 Upper Deck Icons #73 Magglio Ordonez

2008 Upper Deck Spectrum #35 Justin Verlander

2012 Topps A Cut Above #10 Miguel Cabrera

A die-cut insert in 2012 Topps Series 2. I haven't pulled many of these but I got two of Cabrera. You're welcome to this one.

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Royals

We're getting down to the wire on the big clearance. Only 5 new teams to post. I've posted 22 teams so far and all by 3 have been taken. Teams are going fast but some I posted earlier are still available.   Look back for these:

A's
Rockies
Rays

Sorry it you're looking for Rangers or Red Sox cards. These went pre-clearance to long time trading partners.

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I have 72 Royals cards available. For whatever reason I don't see many Royals down in Texas. Heres a small sample of what's available.


1987 Donruss #157 Danny Jackson

I had totally forgotten that Jackson pitched for the Royals.

1990  Topps 661 Dick Howser

2011 Topps Update #155 Eric Hosmer

1986 Topps #714 George Brett

The best Royal ever.

2012 Topps Heritage #316 Billy Butler

2012 Topps #51 Alcides Escobar

Movie Review - The Amazing Spiderman

We went to see The Amazing Spiderman today and we liked it.

I could leave it at that, but, of course, I won't. First off, Andrew Garfield, as Peter Parker/Spiderman, does a good job. He's not playing the character much differently than Toby McGuire did, but the later Spiderman movies were so dark, it was refreshing to see a lighter hearted attempt at the character.

Emma Stone is also good as Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's unattainable love object. I don't remember my Spiderman history as well as I should (really, I should remember Spiderman history?), but I seem to remember in the comic books, Gwen and Peter being in high school. The earlier series of movies featured Peter in college, with Mary Jane. Added note: I wasn't going to do this but I read the Wikipedia article. Peter met Gwen in college. If you want to know what happens to her you can read it here.

In a movie like this you don't let yourself get bothered by mutant spiders, radioactive spiders or the transference of 'spider strength' by a bite. You might as well stay home. By extension, a super-high tech genetics lab located in a New York skyscraper with a high schooler having some sort of authority there needs to just be accepted.  A serum that grows back a man's arm but then turns him into a giant lizard man? What's the problem.

My only real beef with the movie was the reboot concept. How many people have played James Bond over the years without any apparent need to reboot the series? Just because they have a new actor in the Peter Parker role, I don't think justifies a reboot. The problem is that the whole first half of the movie is a story you already know. Don't get too satisfied with Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben.

I have a little beef with the CG effects, as well, mainly the lizard man. It's hard to describe, but it just looks too much like CG.

There's also a human story going on here. Parker coming to grips with his father's disappearance long ago, dealing with getting to kiss the most beautiful girl in school, his Uncle's death (which you wll know was directly caused by Parker's non-action), and trying not to scare Aunt Mae to death. I thought all this was done pretty well.

Song of the Week - Wait For Me by Anais Mitchell

This is a song from an ambitious "folk opera" called Hadestown. I haven't spent a lot of time with the music but this song cycled up on iTunes and caught my attention.  There is a good Wikipedia article on the album here.



I believe the woman just to the left of the main singer is Anais Mitchell.

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Rockies Taken

Teams are going fast but some I posted earlier are still available.   Look back for these:

A's

Sorry it you're looking for Rangers or Red Sox cards. These went pre-clearance to long time trading partners.

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

The Rockies are another team that don't show up down here in southeast Texas for some reason. So I've only 52 but there are some good picks here.

2008 Upper Deck First Edition Update #348 Troy Tulowitzki

1993 Studio #212 Vinny Castilla

2006 Fleer Lumber Company #23 Todd Helton

2012 Topps Heritage #217 Dexter Fowler

2012 Topps Gypsy Queen #191 Mike Cuddyer

1992 Fleer Excel #32 Jason Bates

2010 Topps #238 Ian Stewart

2012 Summer Clearance Trade - Reds Taken

If you've been patiently waiting for the Rangers to show up, sorry but someone made me an offer for them before the 2012 Summer Clearance Trade even started. Teams are going fast but some I posted earlier are still available.   Look back for these:

A's

Brewers

Mariners

Marlins
Nationals/Expos

This will be my third, and maybe last Summer Clearance Trade. I'm going to feature each team in an individual post to give you an idea of the cards available. I have cards from each team, except Astros and Phillies. The deal is, I'll send you a bunch of cards of your favorite team, you send me some Phillies and/or Astros you don't want.

The cards I'm dealing are junk wax, no relics, autos or hard-to-get parallels. They are mostly base cards but from a wide variety of sets. Most teams are loaded with more recent years (2010-2012) but I have a lot of cards from the 1980s and later gotten from repacks.

 You can send me as many Phillies/Astros cards as you want. I'll be featuring each team in alphabetical order over the next few weeks. The first person to claim a team by making a comment in that team's post gets the team. This is hard to coordinate so I'm not taking any advance reservations.  Good Luck!

I've only got 85 Reds cards but you're welcome to them. Here's a sample.

2012 Topps Heritage #341 Ryan Madson

2011 Topps #211 Joey Votto

2011 Topps #191 Jay Bruce

2011 Topps 60 #118 Joe Morgan

1996 Score #126 Benito Santiago

1990 Starline #25 Chris Sabo

1991 Score #885 Randy Myers

2012 Topps Base Cards - Final Look

I always like to go through the current Topps set and pick out my favorites for a blog post. Here is the 2012 edition.

2012 Topps #15 Melky Cabrera

Melky apparently saves a home run. What a play! Let's look at that again.

2012 Topps Opening Day #49 Melky Cabrera

 I love it when I find Photoshop twins like this. I did not see too many of these this year.

2012 Topps #117 Carlos Ruiz

 Carlos is having such a great year and has been rewarded with an All-Star berth.

2012 Topps #57 Yuniesky Betancourt

Nice action shot. You don't often see a shot of an infielder throwing with the ball in mid-air.

2012 Topps #62 Ben Revere

Flying player shots are always a favorite.

2012 Topps #118 Miguel Olivo

 Two catchers track this pop up. Hank Conger hit it and Miguel Olivo wants to catch it.

2012 Topps #300 Josh Hamilton

Hamilton's having some kind of season with 25 home runs and 73 rbis. He also set a record in All-Star voting with over 11 million votes.

2012 Topps #368 Carl Crawford

 Your classic collision at the plate shot.

2012 Topps #371 Jim Thome

Good luck in Baltimore, Jim!

2012 Topps #376 Carlos Quentin

The classic bat across the shoulders shot.

2012 Topps #407 Torri Hunter

Here's a couple of happy fellows. And Hank Conger in the background again.

2012 Topps #494 Darwin Barney

Maybe the best flying baseball player card ever.

2012 Topps #585 Jimmy Paredes

I think this is the only bubble-gum bubble blowing card I have this year.