Saturday, January 2, 2010

Special K Edition

This morning I decided to rip a couple more packs of Authentic and test out the pack searching technique as presented by Joe. I gently squeezed all remaining 21 packs and I can now openly confirm that I would make a terrible pack searcher. They all felt the same to me, BUT I did pull two prospect packs that I MAY have felt a little divot, but it was most likely my imagination. Turns out the packs did contain some K related cards...

Started out in pack #1 by pulling a Dice-K serial numbered "gold" card. Apparently the scanner interprets shiny gold as dark black instead. I hope Dice comes into camp ready to do some big things because I suspect he and chien-ming wang trained together last season.

Thought I would through in this K as in KRAP! STOP PUTTING THESE IN PACKS! They are a huge waste of space, nobody likes them, and they also count as one of my five cards??
The second pack held the gem...


Nick Markakis #/30 Letterman Patch auto. I have been looking for a Markakis patch to add to JD's box for months and finally gave up. Every time I would be in the chase on Ebay, some phantom bidder would swoop in with a ridiculous max bid that would top anybody with some sanity. Same guy too, without a doubt looking to spell out the full name. I really wanted the K also, so one hit in I already feel like the lucky card shop has struck again. More rips to come.

4 comments:

  1. Nice!

    The same thing kept happening to me while attempting to win one of those suckers on eBay too. I would check the completed listings, and see that a few sold for around $12, so I would max bid like $15 or so, thinking that would be sufficient. It wasn't. Luckily someone traded me one a little while back, or I'd still be on the hunt.

    You'd better tell the little guy to chill out on the Markakis collection. I'm bigger than him, and I was here first ;)

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  2. Nice card. But let me clear the air: I'm NOT a pack searcher! It's something I try some times with my own boxes just to see what all the fuss is about.

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  3. Great Markakis pull!

    I wanted to spells Orioles a few years back. And I ran into the same thing. I eventually accomplished the task. Unfortunately Brian Burres makes up most of the letters. At least it didn't cost a ton.

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  4. Great Pull. Gotta love those Letterman Patchs. No Sticker auto's here. And your zen like card opening is impressive. I don't think I could take my time. I tend to have to open all the packs at once. Keep it up can't wait to see what you get next.

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