Showing posts with label Gregory Polanco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gregory Polanco. Show all posts

Friday, September 04, 2015

Featured autograph - Gregory Polanco

I picked up a 2013 Bowman Inception certified autograph of the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder because he might be a future star - Polanco was slow to put things together in the first half of the season, hitting only .237 with a lowly on-base percentage [.315] and an equally subpar slugging percentage [.338].

While still a work in progress, Polanco started to finally put up numbers at the plate during the past two months [especially in August] - with still about a month in the 2015 MLB regular season left, hopefully Polanco can build upon the ups and downs of his year and be a better baseball player in 2016.

Friday, September 20, 2013

An evolution - finding and buying up cardboard on the Internet

While I've used online sources as my personal swap meet over the last 15 years - it has gotten to the point where I don't even bother leaving the house to see if I'd be able to go find the cards I need in-person at a card shop / card show.

I can lazily lounge around with my laptop, browsing and making purchases left and right - when before I HAD to get out of the house, maybe go 30-40 miles somewhere to spend some fruitless hours at a card shop/card show.

I usually wouldn't be able to find what I want but still be compelled to spend $20 on something - just to say my trip wasn't a waste, when I'd mostly end up with redundant extra cards I already had but nothing like 'unique' cards [i.e. minor league cards or parallels from the mainstream sets] that I was really looking for.

When I'm on a 'shiny card' kick, there are more options online for me to find a card - like a 2013 Bowman Silver Ice parallel of Gregory Polanco.

Or perhaps an obscure 2012 Bowman Chrome Blue Wave parallel of Cam Maron - a catcher in the New York Mets system ticketed for the Arizona Fall League.

Besides the variety of cards I can find online, maybe the reason I'm more active was learning how to finally work a Paypal account - for several years my online purchases were slowed down because I'm a luddite who had Paypal but still tried to pay for cards using money orders or even cash.

I had to go back to the drawing board and figure out what I exactly had to do such as link my bank account, so I would be able to use Paypal as a payment option - over the last year, I've been ramping up purchases using Paypal, not having to worry about not following through on purchases made.

Stuff does cost actual money and at times, I maybe I have to slow down - to make sure I'm not going overboard with any online purchases.

Friday, August 09, 2013

2013 Bowman Platinum Value Pack recap

I guess I'll buy my share of unopened packs / blasters but I hate paying retail to the tune of $10-$20 for so little cards - ideally I'd prefer hand collated sets or even lots I can find on eBay perhaps.

Purple Refractor pack
#BPCP 74 Lucas Giolito
#BPCP 85 Trevor Story
#BPCP 11 Mike Zunino

Pack one

#BPP 48 Kaleb Cowart
#64 Joey Votto
#DIR-BV Breyvic Valera - Diamonds in the Rough insert
#BPP 76 Austin Hedges

Pack two
#BPP 77 Matt Davidson
#CES-FH Felix Hernandez - Cutting Edge Stars insert
#91 Darin Ruf
#BPP 68 Hak-Ju Lee

Pack three
#BPP 28 Jorge Soler
#BPCP 75 Daniel Vogelbach - Green parallel serial #'d 222/399

#TP-GP Gregory Polanco - Top Prospects insert
#54 Josh Hamilton