Goodbye Fransisco Cervelli

I was always a huge fan of Cervelli, and am sad to see him traded for Justin Wilson. He was always a "fun" player and always ran his hardest. Yes, he had a dozen injury's, but the Yankees have a couple great catchers in their system anyways! Gary Sanchez, John Ryan Murphy, and Peter O'Brien who got traded for Martin Prado. The 2015 season should bring some younger players to the Yankees which would be great for them. He did cheat, but who doesn't nowadays? He'll also see an old teammate over in Pittsburgh, Russell Martin!

I wish the best of luck to Cervelli in Pittsburgh!

!Russel!                   !Jorge!                   !Fransisco!

2014 Topps Finest Master Set

I Need All 2014 Topps Finest Cards!

I just got back from the hospital yesterday night! 

I decided I would work on a fun "little" project. It could be years before I finish, and I may never finish. Most likely I will be selling or trading for the cards that I need. I decided that going for the 2014 Topps Finest Master set would be really fun to do while I have some time off.

That Includes all of the following cards:

Base set (completed)

Finest Sterling Inserts (completed)

1994 Finest Inserts (completed)

Finest Warriors die cuts (completed)

Finest Greats autographs

Bo Jackson

Ernie Banks

Ken Griffey Jr.

Mark McGwire

Mariano Rivera 

Mike Schmidt 

Ozzie Smith

Randy Johnson

Robin Yount

Steve Carlton 

Sandy Koufax

Finest Vintage autographs

Duke Snider

Greg Maddux

Nolan Ryan

Ozzie Smith

Rickey Henderson

Finest Competitors autographs 

Adam Jones

Dustin Pedroia 

Miguel Cabrera 

Mike Trout

Troy Tulowitzki

Finest Warriors die cut autographs

Matt Davidson

Nick Castellanos

Travis D'arnaud 

Taijuan Walker

Rookie autographs

Finest competitors Inserts (only looking for the ones out of 50, but will trade for others)

Adam Jones 

Bryce Harper

Buster Posey

Clayton Kershaw

David Ortiz 

Dustin Pedroia 

David Wright

Evan Longoria

Jacoby Ellsbury 

Jose Fernandez 

Justin Verlander 

Miguel Cabrera 

Mike Trout

Paul Goldschmidt 

Robinson Cano

Troy Tulowitzki 

Wil Myers 

Yu Darvish 

Yasiel Puig

Rookie autographs

Andrew Lambo 

Chris Owings 

Erisbel Arruebarruena 

Enny Romero 

Josmil Pinto

Jose Ramirez 

Jonathan Schoop

Kolten Wong

Oscar Taveras 

Tommy Medica 

Taijuan Walker 

Xander Bogaerts 

I'm not sure whether the refractors or x-fractors count towards the set. Please let me know if you have any of the following cards!

Please Help Me

The little kid in the room next to me won't go to sleep and is crying and screaming and crying and is coughing and is waking me up every two minutes. And he's still crying. I can't get to sleep and it's 3 AM. I'm really tired and all I want to do is watch baseball. (hopefully) Goodnight...

My Surgery Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning I have my surgery, and I am very nervous. The doctors tell you all the things that

could go wrong, and everything that is not very exciting. The only reason why I am writing

about this is because I just need to let it all out. I wake up very early and go there and get it done. I

just want it done. I've been worrying about this the day and can't take it anymore. I feel like I failed

my math quiz, which I never do because it's my favorite subject. My plan is to wake up, sleep, get it

done, sleep, wake up, then go back to sleep.

Well I'm going to try and go to sleep, but probably won't be able to. I hope it nice and quick and

painless.

It could be a lot worse, but it's not.

My Trade Needs

I will trade almost anything for these players. Pretty much all of the 1996-2004 Yankee teams. I will be updating my trade list once I get more scans. 

I probably have at least one thing from each of the 30 teams. My Trade List is not all I have for trade.

-Reggie Jackson

-Pete Rose

-Paul O'Neil

-Tino Martinez

-Aaron Boone

-Jorge Posada

-Andy Pettitte

-Derek Jeter

-Mariano Rivera

-Hideki Matsui 

-Bernie Williams

Just tell me what your looking for and I will do my best!

For Trade List

I wanted to Scan some of my Lower end cards and got a chance because I barely had any homework which is always great. This is a list of cards for trade that I have (of course) and don't really want anymore.

I am Looking For The Following players:

Reggie Jackson

Pete Rose

Nolan Arenado 

Christian Yelich

Clayton Kershaw

Pablo Sandoval

Brett Gardner

Any Yankees and Hall Of Fame also!

The Domonic Brown is /199

The Wil Myers is /62

The Jose Fernandez (2013 Rookie) is /25

The Joel Hanrahan is /25 

The Allen Craig is /75

The Ryan Sandberg is /150

Dustin Ackley /99

Adam Lind /399

Travis D'arnaud is /70

Jason Grilli (bottom left) /50

Joey Votto /40

Yonder Alonso /99

The Jim Edmonds is 2/5

I never got to see him play, and don't really care for this card too much.

The Rangers quad is /75

Freddie Freeman /75

Tyler Skaggs (left) /100

Tyler Skaggs (middle) /50

Shelby Miller /9

All different kinds of numbering on these. I just know the Chris Taylor is /99

This Mickey Mantle is from 2008 Topps Chrome and is /25

I'd much rather have a 1967 Mantle instead!

All /99

All For Trade

Everything here is for trade except the Ellsbury, Swisher, and McCarthy

The Jose Abreu (bottom left) has already been redeemed.

Lou Bordeau is /99

Byron Buxton Button is 14/20

My (almost) FULL Collection Showcase with scans!

Okay, I've been wanting to do this ever since I've started blogging and I am finally getting to it! I thought this would be a good homework FREE project day! I want to show a couple "groups" of cards, and also go over a box break. I have collected for about 4 years now, but only got really interested last year. alright, here Is just part of my collection, but these are some of my higher end cards that are Yankees related... Most are, some aren't.

This was my single box of Immaculate. It seems REALLY bad by the picture, but I did get one card that I was very happy with. 

The Tony Gwynn Accolades is a cool card considering he is in the HOF and a very good player. Tony was a really big guy, but surprisingly, only hit 135 home runs.  Could you imagine if he ACTUALLY played all 162 games a year? Yep.

Taijuan Walker's autograph has gotten very sloppy. What's wrong Taijuan?

Prince Feilder was hurt....

Who the heck is Chad Bettis? It's a cool looking card, but ???

Madison Bumgarner = postseason Legend

I love the Griffey insert and all 90's inserts. I probably have a ton of the same Reggie Jackson cards, but a Reggie is a Reggie. I actually met him and had a great experience with him. He was very nice and was joking around with me. He is also on of my main PC's.

Hey look it's Reggie Jackson again! I pulled the Prizm card myself from a box which was one of my first and the others I had to buy. I got most of them at the National at a pretty good price. 

I also have a signed bat (inscribed to me) and a signed photo which is inscribed also to me except in more words... I guess that's the best way to explain it... Anyways, I'll move on.

Pete Rose WILL be inducted into the HOF one day, I am 100% sure of that. I love all his cards from the 2011 Pete Rose Legacy set. It's $40 a box which is a pretty good price and so far I have had pretty good luck. Why stop stop at one? Two? Three?    : )

The newest editions to my collection. Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in modern day baseball by a long shot. This is the first Kershaw autograph I have, and it's pretty sweet! 

Christian Yelich is part of the young Marlins outfield, and probably one of the best leadoff hitters in the league. At such a young age, he has a very bright future ahead of him!

Nolan Arenado is probably my favorite player. Back to back gold glove awards and a solid 2014 season, AND a 28 game hitting streak, Nolan is just beginning his major league career. 

I love 90's rookies. Derek Jeter and Chipper Jones were probably the best Shortstops in the MLB during their time period. Sadly, both had to retire, as all sports players have to do.

Please ignore the price tags, I needed some extra top loaders...

Sorry for the small scans, I got a little restless at the end of my scanning night.

I'll start at the top.

I pulled the Rivera myself (my first Rivera relic) and even though I don't generally like to collect game used stuff, I really like this one. The best closer in MLB history. What else?

Now the Pettitte! It's a long story how I got this card, but either way, he is part of the core four.

The Derek Jeter card is a pull of mine from 2014 Panini Immaculate 5/5. With Jeter's retirement, this card is one of my favorites.

Raaauuullllll!!!!! He saved the game in 2012. Game 3 of the ALDS!

Joe Girardi was a great New York catcher (and Chicago) so I had to have him in my collection. I overpaid for the card a little, but I couldn't turn it down!

John Ryan (J.R) Murphy will be a spectacular catcher for the Yankees in the future, and I have dreams that he will replace Brian McCann. One of my favorite players, John Ryan Murphy will be something special.

Brett Gardner (My favorite current Yankee) is a five tool player, with great speed, although he doesn't really use it when he steals bases... I have a game used AFL signed bat of his which I love, and hope to add to my collection. 

All the Yankee greats are in here: Don Mattingly, Rich (Goose) Gossage, Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra, Graig Nettles, Chris Chambliss... A mix of HOF players and stars!

Just a couple of random young Yankees players mostly current except John Flaherty over in the left bottom corner. 

I don't really collect game used cards, but These, I got at a pretty good price and couldn't really turn them down. The Chavez is my favorite out of the four, just because it's old(ish) Upper Deck.

Just a random mix of cards of some Yankees and non Yankees players. The Jose Abreu in the left corner was pulled by me and NO Please do not try and redeem it it has already been redeemed! The Buxton was also a pull of mine from the same box.

I'm hoping Brandon McCarthy will stay with the Yankees, which would be great!

The Ellsbury I got at a really good price

Lou Bordeau is a nice HOF cut signature although it is a LITTLE smudged on the left. I don't mind it too much.

I'm sure I will get to the south side of my collection another day (vintage, more HOF, etc.), but for now, I hoped you enjoyed seeing my Yankees Collection (and other) and have a Marvelous Monday night!