As most of you know by now, I scan ebay daily for cards of my favorite players, and every so often, I come across some incredibly ridiculous ebay sales that I feel I must share with the rest of the world (or at least the 60 something people that read this blog) So without further delay, enjoy the latest instalment of the ridiculous ebay auctions!

I found this one while looking for Nomar 1/1s. This card has been up on the bay for over a month now, no offers or interest what-so-ever, which is easy to understand when you see that ridiculous asking price of $199.95 That price is even more insane when you take into cosideration that fact that the last 4 Nomar printing plates sold for under $20 dollars each, and no Nomar printing plate in the last 2 years that I’ve looked has ever even cracked $100 bucks.

With all that in mind, I would love to know what on earth posses this seller to think he can get around $200 dollars for this card? We know he didn’t do his research on previous sales, and we know he didn’t use the almighty and ever-binding, beckett book value, actually I don’ think even beckett is stupid enough to say a printing plate is worth $200 dollars (But then again, it’s beckett, you never know…different topic, different post though) My favorite part of this auction has to be the shipping charge though, I mean $10 dollars for shipping?!? Are you *^$#ing kidding me? Unless your going to hop a train and hand deliver it to my doorstep, then their is no way in hell I’m paying $10 bucks for you to ship one card in an envelope that will only cost you $2 bucks to mail to me. What a joke!

Anyone wanna make him a best offer and see what happens just for kicks?

On Saturday I recieved two awesome packages in the mail from trades. Check them out,

The first one was from The Collective Troll. We agreed to swap Rays for Cubs cards. Check out some of the highlights of his amazing generosity:

I love those SPX cards, so much better then the crap they made in 2009.

Thank you Troll, your blog is a daily must-read for me, keep up the amazing work!

Next up, I got a package from Dan, a reader who had a Kevin Hart and Dan Haren card I needed for my player collections, as well as a few other Cubs cards for me. In return I sent him some cards he wanted for TTMs. Check out the cards he sent me:

Check out that photo of Reed Johnson! That is why I loved Topps last year, amazing photos like that. And a Dan Haren All-Star card is always a good thing. Thanks Dan and I hope you have good success on your TTM quests!

Now that I have acquired both the 2010 Topps and Upper Deck flagship card of Jeff Samardzija, I thought I would match them up, head to head, and see which company produced the better flagship design for Jeff Samardzija fans like me. Here are scans of both cards:

Topps is on top (no pun intended)

And UD is on the bottom

I want to know from you guys which one you think looks the best. You can vote below or leave a comment with your reasoning.

My choice would be Topps. I feel the UD card is a step down from last years and it has nothing to do with the loss of logos because I really couldn’t care less about it. I just feel the Topps version has more eye apeal, as UD is kinda plain and boring.

I don’t understand it. I was always so careful when trading. I made sure not to trade with the wrong crowd…I always thought this wouldn’t happen to me…sure it could happen to any other guy, but not me. Well as it turns out, I was wrong….

I WAS BIPPED!!

Oh the humanity!

That’s right folks, I was bipped, I was bipped hard by Steve of White Sox Cards.

This means war now! I wasn’t going to get sucked into all this bipping nonsense but this is an outrage!

I blame Thorzul for all this insanity….

Oh yea, Steve also sent me some other cards, including this one…

Unfortunetely I cannot appreciate the beauty of this card because it is overshadowed by the chaos of the Haren bip.

Steve, all I can say to you is be carefull everytime you go to open that mailbox of yours…

Today, former Cubs closer thrower, Kevin Gregg, was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays. Kevin was lucky that Milton Bradley played the same time he did or the fans would have run Gregg out of town within the first few months. He was absoulutley horrible and couldn’t pitch to save his life. He had no movement on any of his pitches, and his curveball is flatter then mine! He would literally thorw it right down the middle and let the opposing hitters crush it. How he managed to get 20something saves is behond my comprehention. 

I have always liked the Blue Jays, theirs just something about them that makes me root for them. Maybe it’s because I like having a Canadian team in baseball or that they play in the AL East, but I’m not sure. I really hope Toronto can fix this mess that is Kevin Gregg.

Sometimes I don’t just don’t understand people. I mean, they have to know that the price of this card is going to go down drastically in a few months right? You can buy the 2008 version for less then $6.00 dollars with shipping on ebay nowadays so how come this card sold for a ridiculous amount a few days ago? Their are autographs of Samardzija that sell for less then that card did. I know it’s new and all, but you’d think people would be smarter then that right? They should realize that this card will be no where near the value the winning bidder payed for it in a month or two.

As for me, I already learned this lesson with 2009 Topps Chrome when I payed insane amounts of money for the different parallels of Samardzija cards when they first came out and now they can be had for a few bucks each.

The other day when I saw the huge pile of mail waiting for me when I got home the first thing I thought of was “how on earth did all this fit inside my mailbox?” Then I thought “Oh boy, cards!” And got to opening them.

First up, I got a package from Jason, a reader who emailed me and said he had both a Kerry Wood jersey and a Nomar bat card I didn’t have. In return I sent him some cards he needed for his Jose Canseco pc. Here are the cards he sent me:

I am building quite the impressive Kerry Wood collection from trading. This is like my 10th K Wood relic card. I also really love that Nomar card, it’s hard to see from the scan but it really pops out at you.

Next up, I got a package from Steve. We decided to swap Cubs for Nationals which I seemed to have an overwhelming amount of for some reason. Here is a small sample of some of the cards he sent me:

He sent me some awesome parallels that I needed. The Jacque Jones is numbered /57 and is only my second black parallel card.

He also sent me this amazing card…

Next up, I got a package from Ed over at Roll Out The Barrel. We have traded before, but this time we decided to swap Cubs for Brewers, which was easy for me to do, considering the Brewers are evil. Anyways, he sent me some really nice cards…

Ed really gave my Kosuke Fukudome collection a boost. I am only a few cards away from completing the 2008 and 2009 Topps rainbows of him.

Thanks for the trades everyone! I hope you all enjoy the cards I sent you. Thank and remember to check out my for trade section or send me an email if your interested in making a trade.

Last week, I recieved a HUGE box in the mail from Tom over at Lets Play 2. To my surprise, it was packed with Cubs cards! We agreed on an old Cubs for new Cubs swap, as I needed some of the older Cubs and he needed some of the newer ones. Man, was I surprised with what he sent me, I didn’t count them, but their had to be at least 800 cards in the box, almost 60%  of which I needed. Here are some of the highlights:

Tom hooked me up with some sweet 90’s goodness. I especially love the Mark Grace Finest card and the Sosa UD MVP card. I love these kinds of cards and always enjoy adding new ones to my collection.

Tom also sent me a bunch of Nomars I needed. He sent me a total of 16 Nomars cards that were missing from my collection.

Tom, thanks for the great package, I will mail yours out ASAP. Thanks!

Thier are currently a bunch of auctions for inserts, relics, and autos from the new 2010 UD cards on ebay. Some of them have bids and the jersey cards seem to be selling for an extremely high amount. I will be checking my local Target tonight to see if they have any packs.

My suggestion to those looking take a risk is to buy a bunch of this stuff and save it, you never know how this whole lawsuit thing with UD and MLB will go down and this may end up being the shortest printed set in Upper Deck history.

Here are some images of the new stuff:

 

While surfing ebay earlier today, I came across an interesting item. It’s a ticket from Jeff Samardzija’s first ever career save. The seller wants $25 dollars for it but has a best offer option so I may see how low I can get him to go on it. After comparing prices though to some other tickets from major league player’s events (i.e. first major league game) And the price point seems quite steep compared to other tickets of more popular players.

So the question I have is, to bid or not to bid? I may make the seller some kind of offer and see what he’s looking to get for it, but for $25 dollars, I could do much better.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?