More Brewers Gold & Contest Update

Brew Crew Kockout!  Another fantastic card from the 2010 set, and it's in my hands.  I'd really really really really love the gold or black parallel of Prince's card #1 from the set.  Pleading with you readers out there ...

This card came as part of the aforementioned trade with Nachos Grande.  He's building quite the sweet set of 2010 Ginter relics, so see if you can help him out.

Code Challenge #2 is now a week old, and remains unbroken, although I can confirm some chips and cracks have been taken out of it.

Just remember, I have tried to take some common concepts and put them to use in my code.  Some that I learned from the Ginter Code challenges and some that I learned on my own.  Pattern recognition is key.  First Ginter Code had words that interlocked from card to card to set the order.  Second Ginter Code had a group of 9 cards in order 1-9 that paired with another group of 9 cards in order to give you your start.  Third Ginter Code gave you birthday hints throughout the set to figure out how to group the cards and start the de-transposing.  All great codes in their own way, all primarily based on transposition and finding which pieces of text to read.

Looking For Brewers Gold!

Ahoy-hoy!

So here's the deal. I skipped the 2010 Topps set, but I would love to have something to remember the season that was 2009 for your Milwaukee Brewers.

I like tradin, so let me know if you've got any of these little devils lying around. I promise to find something you need, want, like in return.

The Braun, pictured above, would be #1 on my list. It looks creepy and awesome with that huge head in the background. The Prince card, the notorious bowling-ball celebration would be very cool to have as well.

If there are other parallels (do they still do the black ones?) I'd be interested in those as well.

I'll go back to mourning my horribly wrong World Series prediction now.

Today's Ray: Ben Zobrist Auto

I swear to you that this hasn't turned into a Rays blog. I know there are enough of those out there.

However, today I present to you the 2010 Topps Ben Zobrist on card auto. Again, completely compliments of my friend Brian and his trip to Rays/Twins spring training last month.

Ben carried my middle of the pack fantasy team last season and I actually packaged him up in a deal for Evan Longoria. Yes, I covet all Rays players. They must all be mine. Wow, how did this happen? Although I think this obsession is allowing me to forget how the Brewers were almost swept by the Nats.

That is all for now, go Rays, er I mean Brewers!

2010 Topps Series 1 Pack Break

It was finally time for me to break down and purchase a pack of 2010 cards. I'd been doing my best to stick to finishing off the 2009 Topps Series 2, U&H, 2009 Goudey SPs, and continue my work toward finishing the 1992 Stadium Club set, but I broke down and needed to feel like I was part of the club again.

I was happy to get a Brewer even if it was Craig Counsell. Anyone else notice what I did about this pack? A theme of sorts . . . ?

And for those of you who like the inserts, I'll show those off as well.



I'm not sure I care much for the shots of Major Leaugers in Little League. Doesn't do anything for me. I feel like there's been enough "History of the Game" type of stuff in recent years and it's time to move on. Counting Topps Town as cards is just sick and wrong.