It's GCRL week (or 2) at the Easy Life

So 2 days ago my wife comes upstairs with a 400 count box that came in the mail. I wonder - wow - this is sweet - who sent this. A look at the return address shows Jim from Garvey, Cey, Russell, and Lopes. (GCRL going forward). Now this is what I thought was from a simple UD Timelines trade. He gets simple yellow mailer - I get 400 count box. This is not acceptable - I will have to scour through old cards and find some dodgers for him one day - but now, I will just devote much of this and next week to digging through this gigantic and wonderful box of cards!

The first cards I will feature are the ones I knew were coming. Some UD Timelines!

Here are two base SPs Of Nick Adenhart and Micah Hoffpauir. These are a few guys with all the talent needed to play in the bigs, just really haven't put it together yet. Both got some PT last year and saw some success. Haffpauir did enough that I have seen some call him the heir apparent to Derrek Lee. Adenhard I feel still needs some AAA time until he is ready.

Next we have Hernan Iribarren. I know nothing about him except that he fills a need for me in my set. For that, I like him - for now.

Next up are my favorite cards from the set - the Black and White floating head subset (I know its a re print of something, but I don't really care/remember of what). Jim sent me over a future Hall of Famer and few All Stars to boot. Randy Johnson (sleeper pick for fantasy this year), Chien-Ming Wang (the most boring player on the Yankees), Derrek Lee (not what he once was, but still a nice player) and Alofonso Soriano (It must be frustrating to be a Cubs fan).

Finally, we have some of the die cut prospects (or guys who have been int he league for a few years and haven't become full time players yet). We got Glen Perkins (had him last year on my fantasy team at the end - seems like a capable lefty starter or long man), Jeff Baker (I see a lot of things stating this is the year he could see 400 ABs for Colorado) and Nyjer Morgan - this dude sucks and I always pull his auto from stuff.

so thank you Jim! This is the first of many posts from your box of awesomeness - tomorrow the Mets parade starts!

2008 Upper Deck Timelines Box Bust

So, in the spirit of getting this all done before the move so I can get everything put away properly - this is going to be just a quick show of the 2 shitty hits I got.

who wants them?

I will be getting a want list together - any doubles will be up for trade if there is anyone else out there building this set - lets get together!

2008 upper Deck Timeline Want List

, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 63, 64, 67, 73, 76, 77, 81, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 95, 96, 99, 109, 110, 112, 121, 123, 125, 127, 128, 130, 132, 135, 141, 144, 149, 150, 153, 156, 159, 167, 171, 172, 175, 176, 177, 181, 187, 188, 190, 197, 198, 199, 207, 208, 212, 213, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 224, 226, 227, 230, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 244, 146, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 284, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 298, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 317, 319, 321, 322, 323, 328. 329, 330, 331, 333, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 345, 347, 348, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 380, 381, 382, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400

goddamnit. I need alot more than I thought - Looks like this will be the 2008 product im still getting boxes from in 09.. so long as they stay @ around $35/each.

I do have plenty of doubles - so please - lets help each other out

Friends
3/12/09 - Chris from Nachos Grande sent me 13 more!
3/13/09 - Adam from Thoughts and Sox got me 2 more towards the set
3/28/09 - Jim from Garvey, Cey, Russell, Lopes got me about 10 closer!
5/21/09 - Steve from White Sox Cards sent me Jr Towles - 1 closer!

2 Blasters of 08 UD Timeline

Uh oh... I like it...

I might want to collect this set. This is quite foolish of me, but I feel like I just made a big mistake.

Here is what I got in 2 blasters worth of this stuff from the local K Mart.

First up we have a trio of the regular base cards. Nothing too fancy here - just a nice trio of All Stars and perennial MVP contenders. I was able to get doubles of all of these seen here so 1 for the set and 1 for the team sets. Very happy.

Next up is from the 92 Minors set - This is one of 3 Longoria rookie cards pulled in 2 blasters - not too bad - I like that these cards hold true to their originals in that they are not glossy.

These 2 cards come from my favorite set within a set. I think that these have such a classic look to them even though they come from a contemporary UD set. If I dont decided to collect the set as a whole, I would at minimum like to get all of this edition.
Cheeseburger. Thats all.

Here we have a couple of die cut rookies whos cards I am sick of getting.

Next up is a card of a rookie I am not sick of - In fact I have a bit of a man crush on Mr. Max Sherzer - if his arm doesn't fall off, lets just say his first name ain't baby - it's Max, Mr. Scherzer if you're nasty

Finally we have the 2 "Hits". A Game used Jim Edmonds bat (any cubbies fans out there?) and a Andrew Miller Jersey (already sent an email to Mario to see if he needs it)

So - I guess I know I will be picking up a few more blasters of this before I make my final decision - I have a strong feeling I am going to need to get most of this set on E-Bay and trades - not so much by packs unless I want 10 copies of each base card. But at least the look nice enough to send out for a signature or 2. Time will tell.