Thursday, November 8, 2012

Trade #22: kind of an ironic number

Here's a hopefully quick post on a pretty quick trade. Adam, the World Series Champions Giants fan who runs ARPSmith's Sportscard Obsession, posted about a jumbo box break of Topps update. Lot of stuff for trade, but nothing that showed my boys. At the bottom, though, he commented that his only relic hit was of a Red and he would have preferred one of his beloved Giants swatches from the All Star game. Conveniently, about two hours prior, I had pulled a Sandoval relic card he sought. Easiest trade ever. After the standard emails, I pulled a few extra cards and got ready to pack it up. Good timing by Adam, though, in taking a day or so to get me his mailing address. I picked up a couple rack packs and damned if I didn't pull a Matt Cain relic for him as well. So the two relics, and a few Giants cards are off to Adam. Just received his package, and those two AS relics transformed into...


YUMMY! My only relic at this point of Thome is as a Phillie. No offense, Julie, but it sucks (in a sense). Now I have a Sox Thome, and the card looks better in hand than from the scan. Check out the pinstripe peeking out on the Quentin.

Thanks Adam. Pretty cool how a couple emails magically change relics from blue to white/gray.

2 comments:

  1. Glad you enjoyed the cards and I really appreciate the Giants you sent my way! Thanks.

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  2. I'm not sure I've ever seen one of those Thome cards. That style of relic that is. White Sox cards always look better in black.

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