Hollywood42's Rolling Pickups Thread- 2019 edition

Hollywood42 · 01-02-2019, 07:03 PM

This is one of my favorite threads to create each year, so I'm definitely back for 2019! If you'd like to check out some of my previous years, here's some links-

2018
2017
2016
2015

I like to start off this thread each year with some goals I have for myself and my collection for the next 12 months. I'm feeling a little introspective at this time, so this section might be a bit deeper than it usually is. Here's what I've come up with for my 2019 goals-

1. Release my website to the public

About 2 full years ago, I started working on creating my own website entirely from scratch to host my want lists for my collection and display my PC digitally. The development of the website itself has taken far less than 2 years in total to get working, but I've wanted to hold this back while I finished up taking pictures of each individual card in my Twins PC, editing the photo, and then uploading it and its information to a database my website accesses. I'm super close to finally being happy enough with the website itself as well as having enough of my collection entered into my database to be ready to release the site to the public. At this point, there's just a few minor fixes/improvements I need to make to the website before I'm ready to purchase a domain name and share a link with you all. My hope is to get that finished some time this month, as I'm finally just about ready to do it. Finishing this thing off has been a goal of mine for the last 2 years, and I'm excited to be very close to finally checking it off.

2. Completely finish inventorying my entire Twins PC

Perhaps this is a bit of a cheap goal- This was a goal of mine to complete in 2018, and I came within about 100 cards of being able to say I completed that goal. A year ago I probably had about 1,000 cards to inventory (photograph, edit/crop, upload to my database), so with finishing school, starting a job, and life in general, it's been a long process. But, I only have about 100 more cards to go before I'm finally completely caught up. This goal goes hand in hand with my website goal, as I don't want to release my site until all my cards are displayed there. I'm really excited to finally be able to check this one off too, and expect to complete it later on this month.

3. No more group breaks or impulse buys of things I don't actually want that badly

Here's where I'll start to get a little bit more thoughtful. I don't have a group break addition by any means, I've only been in a handful. But a pattern that I've started seeing already is that I'm starting to do it just for the sake of doing it. This gets especially true in the auction format, where you have to submit your bids for a player by a certain time and are competing with others to win spots. In the past few months, I've bought Trevor Larnach's chrome base and parallels spot from houdini's 12 and 24 case 2018 Draft breaks, which I'm actually not too upset with. I knew I wanted him in at least one, so the 12 caser is fine. The 24 caser got a little bit more expensive, though, and got me wondering if I really actually wanted it.

Then in his 10-caser, I ended up buying Sam Carlson, Pavin Smith, and Mitch Keller. Why, exactly? I really don't know. Carlson is at least from a school nearby where I grew up, so that's kinda cool, but Smith and Keller? They were cheap-ish, but beyond that, I don't really know why I bought them. Same kind of idea the other night when I stumbled upon an eBay listing for a damaged 2011 Update Trout RC and impulsively put in a solid bid and ended up winning it. Did I actually want to win it? Not really, honestly. But for some reason I did it anyways.

Now, none of this is that big a deal at this point. After graduating college and finding a job with a pretty good salary, I finally have some solid disposable income to mess around with cards, whereas I've had very little to throw away while going through school. But in the group breaks I mentioned above, I think I spent around $250, and the Trout RC set me back about $130. I'm nowhere close to going broke or anything with that, but looking back, why did I do that? I'd much rather have a couple hundred dollars back than what I ended up getting. At the very least, $250 could have bought me a really cool Twins card for my PC. Yet I've found that I can get a little bit impulsive, and that's something I'm going to try to put a stop to early on.

I'll add here that I don't mind group breaks if they make sense. Back when 2018 HHN came out, I was able to grab 10 cases worth of Mitch Garver for like 10 bucks. That's a good deal for me and is a player that was worth buying (to me, at least, probs not a whole lot of others

). I didn't mind Larnach in the 12-caser either, the price seemed fair and I also got some utility from following along with the breaks. But as the spots started costing more money, it got less and less enjoyable. Even the $10 or so slots I got in the 10 caser added up to like $50 after fees and shipping. And I didn't really get anyone I even cared about. So being more conscious about what I really want and actively trying to avoid impulse purchases is one of my goals for 2019.

4. Track my spending and figure out how much I'm comfortable spending on cards

Two parts here. First, tracking the spending. This is the easy part. Motivated in part by goal #3, this year I want to do a better job of knowing how much I spend on the hobby. This isn't difficult at all, I just have to do it. I'll keep a spreadsheet going of all my purchases from 2019, plus a section for how much I make from selling things throughout the year. Not a whole lot to it, just something I want to do to actually know how much I'm spending. Which leads into the second part-

I don't really know yet how much I'm comfortable spending on the hobby. This hasn't really been a problem for me in the past as I've been doing the college thing and never had a whole lot to toss around anyways. I was able to pick up some pretty cool stuff here and there, but the more expensive stuff was far from a common occurrence. Since graduating and starting my job, I've had more money to do whatever I want with than I ever have before. So naturally, I've blown more on cards than I ever have before. But even just a few months into this, I can tell it's a LOT more than I ever have before. How much exactly, I'm not quite sure, that's part of the reason I'm going to start keeping track this year. But looking back at the card bills from the past few months, I'm a little bit unsettled with how much I spent before I even realized it. Part of this is just budgeting, finding out what you can afford, what you're comfortable with, yadda yadda yadda. But this is a new experience to me, and with some new bills starting recently (student loans, rent, etc etc), I've become much more conscious about money I waste on cards. I've always been pretty aware of my expenses, but I've never really spent much, so it hasn't been an issue. Now that I have a solid paycheck, as well as a lot more financial responsibilities, I need to do some working out how much I'm willing to spend on cards.

I'm by no means overdoing it or anything quite yet. It's not at all to the point of me being like "I have a problem and need to do something about it", it's just new territory to me, and being fairly conservative with financial stuff, I want to make sure I'm aware of what I'm doing with my money and not spending more than I'm comfortable spending. Wasn't a big deal to spend 100 bucks on a card before, because I would only do it every so often. But now that I could do it every week if I wanted to, paired with my other financial responsibilities, if I don't track this, all of a sudden I could have spent like $500 on cards in a few weeks, and that, at least at this point, sounds like more than I want to be doing. I just want to get out ahead of this and make sure it doesn't evolve into a problem, and ensure that I'm building smart habits early on. I don't really know how much I'm comfortable spending yet, but it's something that I want to figure out so I know it and can stick to it. All this kinda leads me into my next vague goal-

5. Figure out what exactly I want to do with the hobby

This has been on my mind for a little while, but splitrockgamer's recent thread has made me think about this even more- What exactly do I want to do in this hobby? So far, the Twins have been my PC focus. But within that, there hasn't really been a focus. I enjoy base sets, vintage, superfractors, common autos, rare autos, patches, and so on. I've really enjoyed the variety of it all. But at the same time, that makes it harder to figure out what exactly it is I want to do. Linking back to goal #4, having such a wide range of interests makes it more difficult for me to feel like I'm ever really accomplishing anything. If I was purely a base set collector, finishing off a new set would be a mini-accomplishment, something to enjoy and be proud of. But I don't only collect base sets, I collect parallels, autos, patches, 1/1s, commons, etc etc of the Twins. So it's gotten a little bit difficult for me to figure out what exactly I want to do. Not having these mini accomplishments contributes to the feeling of just tossing money away. Yeah, I'm adding some cool stuff, but one day it'll be a cool refractor, the next day it's a some random base set needs, the next day it's a patch- it's hard to see any progress if you don't really know what you're progressing towards. I know I'm never going to come close to having all the Twins cards in the world. So without these mini-goals and accomplishments, it increasingly feels like just tossing money away, especially if I'm spending more than I really want to. So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense.

It's just a little strange, this hasn't been on my mind until having decent money to spend on cards, but now that I do, suddenly I'm feeling a little bit like I don't really have a direction and I'm not sure where I want to go from here. My hopes are that figuring out what I'm spending and how much I want to spend will help me figure this out. If I only want to spend, for example, 10 bucks each week, then I can pretty much cross off focusing on high end stuff. Whereas if my budget turns out to be much higher, than there's more options on the table. I feel like I'm basically going in circles around this topic now, so I'll leave it at that. I'd love to discuss this more with anyone that's interested in chatting about it, so shoot me a PM or leave a comment below if you have any thoughts on the matter or know what I'm getting at here.

6. Apply 50% of what I spend on cards each month as an extra payment towards my student loans

I've referenced graduating college this year a few times in this post, and it's been a lot of fun transitioning through that. But one of the not-so-fun aspects of it is entering repayment on my student loans. I won't get into the details of how much or how long, but I'll say while they're not ridiculous, it's more than just a little bit, and taking care of those payments each is definitely something that's contributing to my sense of spending money on cards being wasteful. I have a payment plan and everything, and it's manageable, but a personal financial goal of mine is also to get rid of those sooner than my payment plan would have me finishing up. Especially considering some of the impulsive purchases I mentioned, it's annoying to realize I didn't truly want some of that stuff and realize those couple hundred bucks could have gone towards my loans instead. So, what I've come up with as something to test out this year is trying to take half of what I spend on cards each month and force myself to pay that amount as an extra payment to my student loans.

So quick example. My monthly loan payment is $X. Let's say I spend $100 on cards this month. So at the end of January, in addition to my $X payment towards my loans, I'll also contribute another $50. My hopes are that this will help provide some guidance and balance, help me continue to make progress at paying off my loans ahead of schedule, while still allowing me to have a bit of fun with cards each month (I do think there's some value in not getting too focused on the financials and falling into the idea of having to spend everything on loans/rent/etc and nothing for your own enjoyment). I'm open to adjusting this throughout the year if I find that my spending habits don't align well with these numbers, or if I want to be more aggressive and match an extra loan payment dollar for dollar with what I spend on cards, for example, but I think 50% is a good starting point.

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So there's my goals for the year. These ended up being much more introspective and less tangible than they usually are, but I think now is a good time to do that. It's an exciting new part of my life, but also going to take some exploration and getting used to, figuring out what exactly I'm comfortable with and what exactly I want to do. I don't want to abandon the hobby by any means, but I do want to figure out how much involvement and purchasing I should target. Posting these up as goals might not be interesting to anyone else, and I don't blame you if you're thinking something along the lines of "aw cute, youngster realizes there's a real world out there", but it is something I'm going to be thinking about this year, and posting these goals somewhat publicly helps me keep myself accountable, in a way.

Anyways, enough of that! From this point on, my posts will be sharing my pickups from 2019! Unless, of course, there's some discussion that gets started about my goals, happy to talk about it and pick your brains on your thoughts about it all and how you balance things. But for now, let's get to some cards!

Just 2 things to share today. First is a pair of Jose Ramirez Topps Chrome RCs. You could argue this was an impulse buy, but they came off eBay with a 15% coupon and I think I got them at a pretty good price (less than $10 bucks total, delivered). I'm never going to be someone that can completely support their purchasing just by finding deals and flipping cards, but if I can spend a few bucks here and there to make a few bucks here and there, I'll be happy to do so. Anyways, the cards-

And lastly, for today, I got my results from houdini's 12-case 2018 Draft break. Again, I had the Trevor Larnach chrome base and refractors slot. Haven't gotten anything too exciting in the breaks, but I'm not doing terrible, I think. The 12 caser was pretty tame, I ended with 45 base cards, 14 refractors, and 1 purple refractor /250. The odds said I should have expected about 50 base cards and 13 refractors including color, so that's fairly close. If you're interested in following along with some more in depth details about my Draft group break results, check out a thread I made specifically to track my results. These Larnachs are my first ones in for the year, here's a look at a copy of each version I have so far-

That's all I have for now! Thanks for reading/skimming/maybe ignoring my long ramblings above

I think it'll be a good year. Some things to adjust to, but things are looking up

One thing to look forward to, over the next month or so I'll be adding perhaps one of the biggest additions to my Twins PC to date. It's coming over to me in several rounds, and I'm going to wait to share until I have all the pieces in. I have 1 of the 3-4 rounds in already, and it's been super fun for me already! Can't wait to finish them off and share them with you all.

Here's to a great 2019 to all!

Hollywood42 · 01-05-2019, 10:23 AM

Just a couple new things. First, I got my Larnachs in from houdini's 24 case Draft break. I ended with:

83 base
29 refractors
1 sky blue refractor /402
1 sparkles refractor

The odds said I should have expected 100 base and 26 refractors including color, so I did pretty poorly with base cards but beat the odds a little bit with the refractors. Not too much luck with color, though. Best one across the 36 cases I had Larnach in was the sparkles refractor, which is unnumbered but rumored to be limited to around 200. Here's the new refractors-

Next up was a pretty random cheap lot from a seller here on BO. Not really anything I'm in love with, but should be able to make a few bucks off this to help fund the addiction

Really was a pretty random selection, here's some of it-

Plus, the seller include a couple low end Twins for my PC that I didn't have yet!

Lastly, in the OP I mentioned buying a Trout RC that I didn't truly want. Well, it came in the mail. I have to say, now that it's in hand, I'm a little less upset with myself. It's a cool card, and my first Trout RC-

The thing with this one is that it's damaged a little bit. Which was very clear in the listing, so no worries there. Was able to get it significantly cheaper than a clean version. But on either side near the bottom, there's some smashed edges-

It'll definitely prevent this card from grading very well, but to be honest, I'm not too low about that. It's not as bad as I was expecting it to be, not as noticeable either. I might keep this one in the PC for awhile, but perhaps move on and upgrade to a cleaner copy later on. I do think it'd be fun to own a nice Trout RC just because of the player he is, but I haven't wanted to buy in at the prices he's been at. Of course, it's likely that they're only going to continue to go up, so it's kinda a catch 22. But for now, I'm cool with this imperfect card

RookerCollector · 01-05-2019, 10:58 AM

I feel very similar things towards the hobby at this point as well.
I haven’t been going as long as you, but I think it’s admirable to be able to face those questions, and acknowledge a possible “problem.”
I hope you find what makes you really happy!

Hollywood42 · 01-07-2019, 09:27 PM

So this isn't going to help the goal of less group breaks... Houdini just hit me a superfractor!

Hollywood42 · 01-09-2019, 06:37 PM

Just a couple to show, from a deal with dash! Originally I wasn't too fond of Clearly Authentic as it kinda seemed like a dumb "what's the point?" type of product, but I changed my mind a little bit after getting something in hand. The clear/acetate design looks better in person than it does scanned, and since they're not super popular cards, prices are pretty low. Allows me to get some solid players for pretty reasonable prices. The Kluber is my first non-Twins CA auto, but I may look into getting autographs of some other upper tier players in the set. Nice opportunity to get autos of great names at good prices

Also got a cool Mejia RPA in the package as well, nothing too special but a nice looking card for cheap. Mejia has a chance to quietly put up some good numbers in the rotation this year, he had a short stretch before getting hurt last year where he pitched great-

That's all for now, but hoping to get some more cool stuff in soon!

I'll put together a more thoughtful response to this later tonight. I've been thinking about my feelings about this topic since I posted the thread and think I have a little more insight on some stuff now

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Originally Posted by RookerCollector

I feel very similar things towards the hobby at this point as well.
I haven’t been going as long as you, but I think it’s admirable to be able to face those questions, and acknowledge a possible “problem.”
I hope you find what makes you really happy!

Hollywood42 · 01-19-2019, 10:38 AM

Let's get caught up a little bit, I've had some nice cards come in lately! First off, I finally put another rainbow to rest! I got a 2012 Bowman Chrome Brian Dozier Purple Refractor RC to to finish off the rainbow! This is my best and favorite completed rainbow to date. Really happy to finally have it checked off!

Couple closer scans of the gold and better-

Next are a couple autographs. Each one cost me less than 5 bucks, I think. Kinda crazy how cheap Dozier's stuff is right now. I haven't entirely taken advantage, but plan on picking up several more before the season. In particular, he has framed autos in the latest Museum Collection set that are really nice, that's something that's on my list for sure

Then there's a gold and 2 oranges. Buxton /50, Dozier and Morneau each /25. Love finding nice, cheap color-

And finally, I got this awesome dual auto for less than 15 bucks. Found it a few minutes before it ended and brought it home. I'm a buyer all day at that price, this is a super nice looking card. Obviously both haven't exactly lived up to expectations yet, but the ceiling is still sky high for both. Hopefully this is the year!

Hollywood42 · 02-02-2019, 02:42 PM

Let's get caught up. Not a whole lot came in lately, but a handful of things from a couple different deals

Lower end stuff (thanks to a Twins buddy for a trade after some group breaks)

Enjoy picking up Kyle Gibson RC stuff when I can, here's a meh pick of a cheap gold refractor /50

Got a little caught up on some autographs. Was hoping to have more Graterol by now, but this is my first. Also shown is a Romero RC, Littell base and atomic /100, and Jax refractor /499

And lastly for now, my group break results from houdini's 10 case Draft break came in. Only one notable card, really, across all of my slots, but it was a pretty good one!

Sam Carlson superfractor! Kinda funny, the only reason I bought his slot was because it was cheap and he pitched for a rival high school in my area. He unfortunately had TJ and missed all of 2018, but he started throwing again in November and should be back in action this year. He's got some nasty stuff, hoping to see him make some noise!

Gonna try to post some more thoughts on my reflective statements earlier on in this thread. Things have kinda calmed down since then, but wanted to follow up at some point

Hollywood42 · 02-02-2019, 05:25 PM

Gonna revisit this a month ish later. I'm just going to start typing and see where it takes me. Probably going to be most helpful for me just to get my thoughts together, but if anything strikes a chord with you or you have any thoughts/ideas/similar feelings, I'd love to hear em

Since the year started, I've done a pretty good job tracking my hobby purchases. I haven't done it religiously and I don't obsess over it, but I do keep an eye on things and go in to update my spreadsheet every couple of days. As 2018 wound down, my purchases were ramping up to levels they had never been before. Still not all that much in the grand scheme of things, but I had typically only pulled the trigger on $25+ cards maybe once per month, and for whatever reason I was buying a bunch of them. That carried over a little bit to 2019 and as I started tracking things, but eventually that slowed down and right now, I feel much more like I used to, in terms of purchasing habits. Which I like, at this point. I wasn't bankrupting myself or skirting responsibilities or anything, but it was more than I'm used to spending and I wasn't quite ready for that yet. In the past 2ish weeks, I've only bought a handful of things, and most of them were under 10 bucks, so I was able to tone things down a bit

I do think this has helped me a bit with #4-5 below. Writing things down and tracking the actual dollar amounts I'm spending is really helpful to me. Plus I added a section to mark up things as they come in, which is something I really should have been doing all along to make sure I get everything I order, but I hadn't done so before. Overall for the month of January, my purchases have been pretty reasonable. The final total looks worse than it really is, but that's because I had the opportunity to make a big PC purchase and finally had the means of doing so, that'll be a special occasion (keep an eye on this thread for the reveal of what that is in a few weeks, probs). So we're doing good!

At the same time, I'm not quite sure if I've made a ton of progress in figuring out what exactly I want to do in the hobby. Still Twins stuff, but what exactly? I don't know. I like so many things, it's kinda hard to set goals of what it is I want to do. I have realized that while in the past I've said I want to focus more on base sets, that's not actually going to turn out to be a big goal of mine. I don't want to get away from them entirely, but I don't want to spend a majority of my time and efforts doing just those. Yet, I don't want to do the other direction and do only, for example, $25+ Twins cards moving forward. So I don't feel like I've made a ton of progress in figuring out what it is I want to do

At the same time, maybe I actually have- those points are telling me that I don't want to go completely low end, but I don't want to go high end either. I like the variety and don't want to get too focused to a certain thing. Perhaps that'll just be what I like and I'll have to deal with the consequences/side effects of not feeling like I'm ever making tons of progress since I'll be so sporadic in what I set up, plus it's hard to set goals when you collect such a wide range of things in the first place. Bottom line, even if I were to focus on one specific thing, there's always going to be something I don't have, always going to be something more that I want. So in that sense, it's not actually all that different. I'll just have to accept that and do what I can

All in all, I'm feeling better than I did when I typed up the quoted stuff. I wasn't on a track to derail my life or anything, but it was getting to a point where I needed to take a step back and figure out if I really wanted to do what I was doing. I don't know everything quite yet, but I'm feeling more comfortable than I was before

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Originally Posted by Hollywood42

4. Track my spending and figure out how much I'm comfortable spending on cards

Two parts here. First, tracking the spending. This is the easy part. Motivated in part by goal #3, this year I want to do a better job of knowing how much I spend on the hobby. This isn't difficult at all, I just have to do it. I'll keep a spreadsheet going of all my purchases from 2019, plus a section for how much I make from selling things throughout the year. Not a whole lot to it, just something I want to do to actually know how much I'm spending. Which leads into the second part-

I don't really know yet how much I'm comfortable spending on the hobby. This hasn't really been a problem for me in the past as I've been doing the college thing and never had a whole lot to toss around anyways. I was able to pick up some pretty cool stuff here and there, but the more expensive stuff was far from a common occurrence. Since graduating and starting my job, I've had more money to do whatever I want with than I ever have before. So naturally, I've blown more on cards than I ever have before. But even just a few months into this, I can tell it's a LOT more than I ever have before. How much exactly, I'm not quite sure, that's part of the reason I'm going to start keeping track this year. But looking back at the card bills from the past few months, I'm a little bit unsettled with how much I spent before I even realized it. Part of this is just budgeting, finding out what you can afford, what you're comfortable with, yadda yadda yadda. But this is a new experience to me, and with some new bills starting recently (student loans, rent, etc etc), I've become much more conscious about money I waste on cards. I've always been pretty aware of my expenses, but I've never really spent much, so it hasn't been an issue. Now that I have a solid paycheck, as well as a lot more financial responsibilities, I need to do some working out how much I'm willing to spend on cards.

I'm by no means overdoing it or anything quite yet. It's not at all to the point of me being like "I have a problem and need to do something about it", it's just new territory to me, and being fairly conservative with financial stuff, I want to make sure I'm aware of what I'm doing with my money and not spending more than I'm comfortable spending. Wasn't a big deal to spend 100 bucks on a card before, because I would only do it every so often. But now that I could do it every week if I wanted to, paired with my other financial responsibilities, if I don't track this, all of a sudden I could have spent like $500 on cards in a few weeks, and that, at least at this point, sounds like more than I want to be doing. I just want to get out ahead of this and make sure it doesn't evolve into a problem, and ensure that I'm building smart habits early on. I don't really know how much I'm comfortable spending yet, but it's something that I want to figure out so I know it and can stick to it. All this kinda leads me into my next vague goal-

5. Figure out what exactly I want to do with the hobby

This has been on my mind for a little while, but splitrockgamer's recent thread has made me think about this even more- What exactly do I want to do in this hobby? So far, the Twins have been my PC focus. But within that, there hasn't really been a focus. I enjoy base sets, vintage, superfractors, common autos, rare autos, patches, and so on. I've really enjoyed the variety of it all. But at the same time, that makes it harder to figure out what exactly it is I want to do. Linking back to goal #4, having such a wide range of interests makes it more difficult for me to feel like I'm ever really accomplishing anything. If I was purely a base set collector, finishing off a new set would be a mini-accomplishment, something to enjoy and be proud of. But I don't only collect base sets, I collect parallels, autos, patches, 1/1s, commons, etc etc of the Twins. So it's gotten a little bit difficult for me to figure out what exactly I want to do. Not having these mini accomplishments contributes to the feeling of just tossing money away. Yeah, I'm adding some cool stuff, but one day it'll be a cool refractor, the next day it's a some random base set needs, the next day it's a patch- it's hard to see any progress if you don't really know what you're progressing towards. I know I'm never going to come close to having all the Twins cards in the world. So without these mini-goals and accomplishments, it increasingly feels like just tossing money away, especially if I'm spending more than I really want to. So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense.

It's just a little strange, this hasn't been on my mind until having decent money to spend on cards, but now that I do, suddenly I'm feeling a little bit like I don't really have a direction and I'm not sure where I want to go from here. My hopes are that figuring out what I'm spending and how much I want to spend will help me figure this out. If I only want to spend, for example, 10 bucks each week, then I can pretty much cross off focusing on high end stuff. Whereas if my budget turns out to be much higher, than there's more options on the table. I feel like I'm basically going in circles around this topic now, so I'll leave it at that. I'd love to discuss this more with anyone that's interested in chatting about it, so shoot me a PM or leave a comment below if you have any thoughts on the matter or know what I'm getting at here.

Hollywood42 · 02-10-2019, 04:58 PM

Just one from the past couple days, but one I've been looking forward to getting for awhile- 2015 BC Buxton RC auto!

Wanted to pick one up as there's really nowhere but up for these to go. I don't care about value of my PC cards, generally speaking, more about what I like and what's fun. But if I can get a card before it jumps in price and costs me more, obviously I like that! Hoping for a good year from Buck. Might try to pick up a Topps Chrome RC auto yet this offseason as well

gonygo · 02-10-2019, 05:42 PM

very impressive stash....Keep rollin...

dashcol · 02-10-2019, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Hollywood42

Just a couple to show, from a deal with dash! Originally I wasn't too fond of Clearly Authentic as it kinda seemed like a dumb "what's the point?" type of product, but I changed my mind a little bit after getting something in hand. The clear/acetate design looks better in person than it does scanned, and since they're not super popular cards, prices are pretty low. Allows me to get some solid players for pretty reasonable prices. The Kluber is my first non-Twins CA auto, but I may look into getting autographs of some other upper tier players in the set. Nice opportunity to get autos of great names at good prices

Also got a cool Mejia RPA in the package as well, nothing too special but a nice looking card for cheap. Mejia has a chance to quietly put up some good numbers in the rotation this year, he had a short stretch before getting hurt last year where he pitched great-

That's all for now, but hoping to get some more cool stuff in soon!

I'll put together a more thoughtful response to this later tonight. I've been thinking about my feelings about this topic since I posted the thread and think I have a little more insight on some stuff now

Glad you liked them and that they could go to a collector who truly enjoys them, the Twins and the hobby! Love the additions so far!

Hollywood42 · 02-14-2019, 03:56 PM

Thanks fellas!

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Originally Posted by dashcol

Glad you liked them and that they could go to a collector who truly enjoys them, the Twins and the hobby! Love the additions so far!

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Originally Posted by gonygo

very impressive stash....Keep rollin...

Just one more of late, I was inspired to grab a nice Berrios rookie after starting a thread for him. Gold refractor RC /50, this one was really difficult to get a decent picture of for some reason. Going to have to try again later to get a better one. But this helps bump up my little stash of him a bit

Homerun · 02-14-2019, 04:37 PM

Great collection Hollywood! Love seeing another team collector. I collect a lot of the same types of cards, just White Sox ones.

Hollywood42 · 02-16-2019, 12:46 PM

Just 2 new ones this week. First is a Luis Arraez BC auto. Nothing too exciting, but he has some promise-

I also took a step outside my typical Twins PC and nabbed a Bellinger RC, this one a Heritage Chrome PSA 10. I'm a big fan of Bellinger, and I think he's in for a huge year. Kid hasn't even turned 24 yet and already has 64 homers in the MLB in just over 1,000 ABs. Looking forward to watching him

Thanks brother! Really looking forward to having my new site all done so I can share every Twins card I have with everyone. Stalled a bit lately with the project, just gotta sit down and spend a few days doing it

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Great collection Hollywood! Love seeing another team collector. I collect a lot of the same types of cards, just White Sox ones.

Hollywood42 · 02-24-2019, 12:18 PM

Just a couple from the past few days. First off are 4 Altuve RCs- 2 base, 1 missing logo/foil, and 1 gold /2011. I haven't really been too into star RCs, honestly, but I got these at a nice price and couldn't pass them up. Not sure what I'll do with them yet, I wouldn't mind starting to build a decent side PC of rookies of top tier guys, but at this point at least, it's hard for me to justify spending so much on that when the money could be put towards pretty nice Twins cards. But we'll see!

Only other card of note lately is another Buxton RC auto- grabbed my first BC RC of him 2ish weeks ago, and then I couldn't pass up a blue refractor at a fairly similar price. Really no downside here- prices are low, I've been wanting a few anyways, and the only place for him to go (both performance and prices) is up. After a 2-2 ST debut with a 3-run homer and 5 RBI, I'm starting to get my hopes up yet again

OC22 · 02-24-2019, 01:30 PM

Good stuff! Still have that 2018 TSC Jose Berrios Superfractor if you’re interested!

Hollywood42 · 03-02-2019, 08:55 PM

Just 2 cards in the past 2 days, but they're 2 pretty cool ones!

First up, happened to be browsing eBay fairly soon after this one was listed. Probably should have just hit the BIN, but I made an offer and a half hour later it was headed my way. Really difficult for scans to do this justice, this thing is sweet! 2011 Bowman Chrome Canary Anniversary Refractor 1/1 of Michael Cuddyer

One 1/1 in a weekend would have been sweet, but as it turns out, this weekend brought me two! After working on the Tyler Duffey 2016 TC RC auto rainbow, I'm stoked to have added a pretty big one!

Very glad I noticed it on eBay as it was just a 24-hour auction. Knew I couldn't let this one slip by. Duffey's not the greatest player out there, but I've been chasing these for several years now so it has a special place in my collection. Somehow, I haven't added a refractor auto yet, but other than that (+3 plates), this rainbow is just about wrapped up!

Not a bad 2 days at all

blaze · 03-03-2019, 03:00 AM

Whoever originally pulled Duffey turned down $350 from me. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Brewers3 · 03-03-2019, 04:52 AM

That Dozier rainbow is AWESOME. The super really pops on that one!

dashcol · 03-03-2019, 11:58 AM

Nice! Glad you could grab the Duffy super! That complete rainbow is awesome, love it!

Hollywood42 · 03-03-2019, 12:42 PM

Thanks dash, was surprised to see it hit eBay and knew I needed to land it! Not the craziest thing out there, but you build up an attachment to things that you spend a long time looking for

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Nice! Glad you could grab the Duffey super! That complete rainbow is awesome, love it!

Thank you! Definitely one of my favorite pieces in my collection

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That Dozier rainbow is AWESOME. The super really pops on that one!

Oops. For every person that sold Trout RCs for 10 bucks...

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Whoever originally pulled Duffey turned down $350 from me. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Hollywood42 · 03-04-2019, 09:04 PM

Had a couple packages for me waiting in today's mail when I got home. First up was a couple freebies from Blowout's friendliest dashcol- thanks so much! Favorites were 2 Trevor May RCs. I've build up a decent stash of May rookies, but didn't have either of these yet-

Then, there was a trio of autographs. Happy to add a clean Buxton, another Romero, and my first Jeffers. Hoping we're in for good years from all 3 of them! Much has been said about Buck already so I'll leave it at that, and while I'm not at all a fan of the Twins' decision to have Romero pitch out of the bullpen this year, I do think he could be really good there. And I'm still holding out hope that he'll return to the rotation next year. So much potential. As for Jeffers, the guy hit extremely well in his first year in professional baseball, and while I'm hoping Mitch Garver locks down catcher for the next 5 years, maybe Jeffers can continue to hit as he progresses through the minors and give us another nice option in the pipeline

That does it for the cards for now, but I do have to tease a pretty crazy mailday that's coming soon... You'll want to keep your eyes out. Hopefully will have it in the next week or so. It's worthy of it's own thread, but I'll definitely post it up in here as well. Looking forward to it!

As an aside, I really haven't done much of anything on my site lately. I rarely feel like grinding through inventorying when I get home from work, and I've had things going on each of the past few weekends and didn't get time to sit down and get through even a small stack. So I'm still exactly where I was at start of the year in terms of getting 100% of my Twins cards inventoried. But, I always keep up with it as new cards come in, so I'm not falling behind ever

Along the same lines, I really haven't touched my site at all lately other than, again, updating new cards as they come in. But, I was able to spend a few minutes tonight writing a script to display all my autographs/relics/etc cards, rather than me having to maintain a list manually as I've done for years. Should have made the switch a long time ago, it's going to be super nice to not have to do anything other than enter a card into my database!

As for the site's progress as a whole, really haven't made any progress there at all. Need to set aside some time and look through everything pretty closely to make sure it all looks good. I've definitely been kicking the can down the road for quite some time now, though, so hopefully I can work up the motivation to finally sit down and finish it off soon

Hollywood42 · 03-04-2019, 09:05 PM

These scans come out so blurry nowadays when I upload through SCA... Really a bummer. Don't know what it does, but it's really been decreasing the quality of my scans lately. Well, when my site is finally finished, it'll be a non-issue!

dashcol · 03-04-2019, 09:59 PM

Again, I am glad you liked the Mays!

The 2018 Heritage Buxton ROA, is a nice card Ipicked up as well during the off season. I think I will be adding a 2015 and 2017 ROA before his prices skyrocket as well. I just love the looks of them over any others.

Still think the Purple Romero would have looked good next to yours!

Big35Hurt · 03-04-2019, 10:01 PM

Awesome start for the year!

01-02-2019, 07:03 PM	#1
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Hollywood42's Rolling Pickups Thread- 2019 edition This is one of my favorite threads to create each year, so I'm definitely back for 2019! If you'd like to check out some of my previous years, here's some links- 2018 2017 2016 2015 I like to start off this thread each year with some goals I have for myself and my collection for the next 12 months. I'm feeling a little introspective at this time, so this section might be a bit deeper than it usually is. Here's what I've come up with for my 2019 goals- 1. Release my website to the public About 2 full years ago, I started working on creating my own website entirely from scratch to host my want lists for my collection and display my PC digitally. The development of the website itself has taken far less than 2 years in total to get working, but I've wanted to hold this back while I finished up taking pictures of each individual card in my Twins PC, editing the photo, and then uploading it and its information to a database my website accesses. I'm super close to finally being happy enough with the website itself as well as having enough of my collection entered into my database to be ready to release the site to the public. At this point, there's just a few minor fixes/improvements I need to make to the website before I'm ready to purchase a domain name and share a link with you all. My hope is to get that finished some time this month, as I'm finally just about ready to do it. Finishing this thing off has been a goal of mine for the last 2 years, and I'm excited to be very close to finally checking it off. 2. Completely finish inventorying my entire Twins PC Perhaps this is a bit of a cheap goal- This was a goal of mine to complete in 2018, and I came within about 100 cards of being able to say I completed that goal. A year ago I probably had about 1,000 cards to inventory (photograph, edit/crop, upload to my database), so with finishing school, starting a job, and life in general, it's been a long process. But, I only have about 100 more cards to go before I'm finally completely caught up. This goal goes hand in hand with my website goal, as I don't want to release my site until all my cards are displayed there. I'm really excited to finally be able to check this one off too, and expect to complete it later on this month. 3. No more group breaks or impulse buys of things I don't actually want that badly Here's where I'll start to get a little bit more thoughtful. I don't have a group break addition by any means, I've only been in a handful. But a pattern that I've started seeing already is that I'm starting to do it just for the sake of doing it. This gets especially true in the auction format, where you have to submit your bids for a player by a certain time and are competing with others to win spots. In the past few months, I've bought Trevor Larnach's chrome base and parallels spot from houdini's 12 and 24 case 2018 Draft breaks, which I'm actually not too upset with. I knew I wanted him in at least one, so the 12 caser is fine. The 24 caser got a little bit more expensive, though, and got me wondering if I really actually wanted it. Then in his 10-caser, I ended up buying Sam Carlson, Pavin Smith, and Mitch Keller. Why, exactly? I really don't know. Carlson is at least from a school nearby where I grew up, so that's kinda cool, but Smith and Keller? They were cheap-ish, but beyond that, I don't really know why I bought them. Same kind of idea the other night when I stumbled upon an eBay listing for a damaged 2011 Update Trout RC and impulsively put in a solid bid and ended up winning it. Did I actually want to win it? Not really, honestly. But for some reason I did it anyways. Now, none of this is that big a deal at this point. After graduating college and finding a job with a pretty good salary, I finally have some solid disposable income to mess around with cards, whereas I've had very little to throw away while going through school. But in the group breaks I mentioned above, I think I spent around $250, and the Trout RC set me back about $130. I'm nowhere close to going broke or anything with that, but looking back, why did I do that? I'd much rather have a couple hundred dollars back than what I ended up getting. At the very least, $250 could have bought me a really cool Twins card for my PC. Yet I've found that I can get a little bit impulsive, and that's something I'm going to try to put a stop to early on. I'll add here that I don't mind group breaks if they make sense. Back when 2018 HHN came out, I was able to grab 10 cases worth of Mitch Garver for like 10 bucks. That's a good deal for me and is a player that was worth buying (to me, at least, probs not a whole lot of others ). I didn't mind Larnach in the 12-caser either, the price seemed fair and I also got some utility from following along with the breaks. But as the spots started costing more money, it got less and less enjoyable. Even the $10 or so slots I got in the 10 caser added up to like $50 after fees and shipping. And I didn't really get anyone I even cared about. So being more conscious about what I really want and actively trying to avoid impulse purchases is one of my goals for 2019. 4. Track my spending and figure out how much I'm comfortable spending on cards Two parts here. First, tracking the spending. This is the easy part. Motivated in part by goal #3, this year I want to do a better job of knowing how much I spend on the hobby. This isn't difficult at all, I just have to do it. I'll keep a spreadsheet going of all my purchases from 2019, plus a section for how much I make from selling things throughout the year. Not a whole lot to it, just something I want to do to actually know how much I'm spending. Which leads into the second part- I don't really know yet how much I'm comfortable spending on the hobby. This hasn't really been a problem for me in the past as I've been doing the college thing and never had a whole lot to toss around anyways. I was able to pick up some pretty cool stuff here and there, but the more expensive stuff was far from a common occurrence. Since graduating and starting my job, I've had more money to do whatever I want with than I ever have before. So naturally, I've blown more on cards than I ever have before. But even just a few months into this, I can tell it's a LOT more than I ever have before. How much exactly, I'm not quite sure, that's part of the reason I'm going to start keeping track this year. But looking back at the card bills from the past few months, I'm a little bit unsettled with how much I spent before I even realized it. Part of this is just budgeting, finding out what you can afford, what you're comfortable with, yadda yadda yadda. But this is a new experience to me, and with some new bills starting recently (student loans, rent, etc etc), I've become much more conscious about money I waste on cards. I've always been pretty aware of my expenses, but I've never really spent much, so it hasn't been an issue. Now that I have a solid paycheck, as well as a lot more financial responsibilities, I need to do some working out how much I'm willing to spend on cards. I'm by no means overdoing it or anything quite yet. It's not at all to the point of me being like "I have a problem and need to do something about it", it's just new territory to me, and being fairly conservative with financial stuff, I want to make sure I'm aware of what I'm doing with my money and not spending more than I'm comfortable spending. Wasn't a big deal to spend 100 bucks on a card before, because I would only do it every so often. But now that I could do it every week if I wanted to, paired with my other financial responsibilities, if I don't track this, all of a sudden I could have spent like $500 on cards in a few weeks, and that, at least at this point, sounds like more than I want to be doing. I just want to get out ahead of this and make sure it doesn't evolve into a problem, and ensure that I'm building smart habits early on. I don't really know how much I'm comfortable spending yet, but it's something that I want to figure out so I know it and can stick to it. All this kinda leads me into my next vague goal- 5. Figure out what exactly I want to do with the hobby This has been on my mind for a little while, but splitrockgamer's recent thread has made me think about this even more- What exactly do I want to do in this hobby? So far, the Twins have been my PC focus. But within that, there hasn't really been a focus. I enjoy base sets, vintage, superfractors, common autos, rare autos, patches, and so on. I've really enjoyed the variety of it all. But at the same time, that makes it harder to figure out what exactly it is I want to do. Linking back to goal #4, having such a wide range of interests makes it more difficult for me to feel like I'm ever really accomplishing anything. If I was purely a base set collector, finishing off a new set would be a mini-accomplishment, something to enjoy and be proud of. But I don't only collect base sets, I collect parallels, autos, patches, 1/1s, commons, etc etc of the Twins. So it's gotten a little bit difficult for me to figure out what exactly I want to do. Not having these mini accomplishments contributes to the feeling of just tossing money away. Yeah, I'm adding some cool stuff, but one day it'll be a cool refractor, the next day it's a some random base set needs, the next day it's a patch- it's hard to see any progress if you don't really know what you're progressing towards. I know I'm never going to come close to having all the Twins cards in the world. So without these mini-goals and accomplishments, it increasingly feels like just tossing money away, especially if I'm spending more than I really want to. So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense. It's just a little strange, this hasn't been on my mind until having decent money to spend on cards, but now that I do, suddenly I'm feeling a little bit like I don't really have a direction and I'm not sure where I want to go from here. My hopes are that figuring out what I'm spending and how much I want to spend will help me figure this out. If I only want to spend, for example, 10 bucks each week, then I can pretty much cross off focusing on high end stuff. Whereas if my budget turns out to be much higher, than there's more options on the table. I feel like I'm basically going in circles around this topic now, so I'll leave it at that. I'd love to discuss this more with anyone that's interested in chatting about it, so shoot me a PM or leave a comment below if you have any thoughts on the matter or know what I'm getting at here. 6. Apply 50% of what I spend on cards each month as an extra payment towards my student loans I've referenced graduating college this year a few times in this post, and it's been a lot of fun transitioning through that. But one of the not-so-fun aspects of it is entering repayment on my student loans. I won't get into the details of how much or how long, but I'll say while they're not ridiculous, it's more than just a little bit, and taking care of those payments each is definitely something that's contributing to my sense of spending money on cards being wasteful. I have a payment plan and everything, and it's manageable, but a personal financial goal of mine is also to get rid of those sooner than my payment plan would have me finishing up. Especially considering some of the impulsive purchases I mentioned, it's annoying to realize I didn't truly want some of that stuff and realize those couple hundred bucks could have gone towards my loans instead. So, what I've come up with as something to test out this year is trying to take half of what I spend on cards each month and force myself to pay that amount as an extra payment to my student loans. So quick example. My monthly loan payment is $X. Let's say I spend $100 on cards this month. So at the end of January, in addition to my $X payment towards my loans, I'll also contribute another $50. My hopes are that this will help provide some guidance and balance, help me continue to make progress at paying off my loans ahead of schedule, while still allowing me to have a bit of fun with cards each month (I do think there's some value in not getting too focused on the financials and falling into the idea of having to spend everything on loans/rent/etc and nothing for your own enjoyment). I'm open to adjusting this throughout the year if I find that my spending habits don't align well with these numbers, or if I want to be more aggressive and match an extra loan payment dollar for dollar with what I spend on cards, for example, but I think 50% is a good starting point. ------------------------------------------ So there's my goals for the year. These ended up being much more introspective and less tangible than they usually are, but I think now is a good time to do that. It's an exciting new part of my life, but also going to take some exploration and getting used to, figuring out what exactly I'm comfortable with and what exactly I want to do. I don't want to abandon the hobby by any means, but I do want to figure out how much involvement and purchasing I should target. Posting these up as goals might not be interesting to anyone else, and I don't blame you if you're thinking something along the lines of "aw cute, youngster realizes there's a real world out there", but it is something I'm going to be thinking about this year, and posting these goals somewhat publicly helps me keep myself accountable, in a way. Anyways, enough of that! From this point on, my posts will be sharing my pickups from 2019! Unless, of course, there's some discussion that gets started about my goals, happy to talk about it and pick your brains on your thoughts about it all and how you balance things. But for now, let's get to some cards! Just 2 things to share today. First is a pair of Jose Ramirez Topps Chrome RCs. You could argue this was an impulse buy, but they came off eBay with a 15% coupon and I think I got them at a pretty good price (less than $10 bucks total, delivered). I'm never going to be someone that can completely support their purchasing just by finding deals and flipping cards, but if I can spend a few bucks here and there to make a few bucks here and there, I'll be happy to do so. Anyways, the cards- And lastly, for today, I got my results from houdini's 12-case 2018 Draft break. Again, I had the Trevor Larnach chrome base and refractors slot. Haven't gotten anything too exciting in the breaks, but I'm not doing terrible, I think. The 12 caser was pretty tame, I ended with 45 base cards, 14 refractors, and 1 purple refractor /250. The odds said I should have expected about 50 base cards and 13 refractors including color, so that's fairly close. If you're interested in following along with some more in depth details about my Draft group break results, check out a thread I made specifically to track my results. These Larnachs are my first ones in for the year, here's a look at a copy of each version I have so far- That's all I have for now! Thanks for reading/skimming/maybe ignoring my long ramblings above I think it'll be a good year. Some things to adjust to, but things are looking up One thing to look forward to, over the next month or so I'll be adding perhaps one of the biggest additions to my Twins PC to date. It's coming over to me in several rounds, and I'm going to wait to share until I have all the pieces in. I have 1 of the 3-4 rounds in already, and it's been super fun for me already! Can't wait to finish them off and share them with you all. Here's to a great 2019 to all! __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

01-05-2019, 10:23 AM	#2
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Just a couple new things. First, I got my Larnachs in from houdini's 24 case Draft break. I ended with: 83 base 29 refractors 1 sky blue refractor /402 1 sparkles refractor The odds said I should have expected 100 base and 26 refractors including color, so I did pretty poorly with base cards but beat the odds a little bit with the refractors. Not too much luck with color, though. Best one across the 36 cases I had Larnach in was the sparkles refractor, which is unnumbered but rumored to be limited to around 200. Here's the new refractors- Next up was a pretty random cheap lot from a seller here on BO. Not really anything I'm in love with, but should be able to make a few bucks off this to help fund the addiction Really was a pretty random selection, here's some of it- Plus, the seller include a couple low end Twins for my PC that I didn't have yet! Lastly, in the OP I mentioned buying a Trout RC that I didn't truly want. Well, it came in the mail. I have to say, now that it's in hand, I'm a little less upset with myself. It's a cool card, and my first Trout RC- The thing with this one is that it's damaged a little bit. Which was very clear in the listing, so no worries there. Was able to get it significantly cheaper than a clean version. But on either side near the bottom, there's some smashed edges- It'll definitely prevent this card from grading very well, but to be honest, I'm not too low about that. It's not as bad as I was expecting it to be, not as noticeable either. I might keep this one in the PC for awhile, but perhaps move on and upgrade to a cleaner copy later on. I do think it'd be fun to own a nice Trout RC just because of the player he is, but I haven't wanted to buy in at the prices he's been at. Of course, it's likely that they're only going to continue to go up, so it's kinda a catch 22. But for now, I'm cool with this imperfect card __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

01-19-2019, 10:38 AM	#6
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Let's get caught up a little bit, I've had some nice cards come in lately! First off, I finally put another rainbow to rest! I got a 2012 Bowman Chrome Brian Dozier Purple Refractor RC to to finish off the rainbow! This is my best and favorite completed rainbow to date. Really happy to finally have it checked off! Couple closer scans of the gold and better- Next are a couple autographs. Each one cost me less than 5 bucks, I think. Kinda crazy how cheap Dozier's stuff is right now. I haven't entirely taken advantage, but plan on picking up several more before the season. In particular, he has framed autos in the latest Museum Collection set that are really nice, that's something that's on my list for sure Then there's a gold and 2 oranges. Buxton /50, Dozier and Morneau each /25. Love finding nice, cheap color- And finally, I got this awesome dual auto for less than 15 bucks. Found it a few minutes before it ended and brought it home. I'm a buyer all day at that price, this is a super nice looking card. Obviously both haven't exactly lived up to expectations yet, but the ceiling is still sky high for both. Hopefully this is the year! __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

02-02-2019, 02:42 PM	#7
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Let's get caught up. Not a whole lot came in lately, but a handful of things from a couple different deals Lower end stuff (thanks to a Twins buddy for a trade after some group breaks) Enjoy picking up Kyle Gibson RC stuff when I can, here's a meh pick of a cheap gold refractor /50 Got a little caught up on some autographs. Was hoping to have more Graterol by now, but this is my first. Also shown is a Romero RC, Littell base and atomic /100, and Jax refractor /499 And lastly for now, my group break results from houdini's 10 case Draft break came in. Only one notable card, really, across all of my slots, but it was a pretty good one! Sam Carlson superfractor! Kinda funny, the only reason I bought his slot was because it was cheap and he pitched for a rival high school in my area. He unfortunately had TJ and missed all of 2018, but he started throwing again in November and should be back in action this year. He's got some nasty stuff, hoping to see him make some noise! Gonna try to post some more thoughts on my reflective statements earlier on in this thread. Things have kinda calmed down since then, but wanted to follow up at some point __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

02-10-2019, 04:58 PM	#9
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Just one from the past couple days, but one I've been looking forward to getting for awhile- 2015 BC Buxton RC auto! Wanted to pick one up as there's really nowhere but up for these to go. I don't care about value of my PC cards, generally speaking, more about what I like and what's fun. But if I can get a card before it jumps in price and costs me more, obviously I like that! Hoping for a good year from Buck. Might try to pick up a Topps Chrome RC auto yet this offseason as well __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

01-05-2019, 10:58 AM	#3
RookerCollector Member Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: United States Posts: 617 packerbacker12 RookerCollector	I feel very similar things towards the hobby at this point as well. I haven’t been going as long as you, but I think it’s admirable to be able to face those questions, and acknowledge a possible “problem.” I hope you find what makes you really happy!

01-07-2019, 09:27 PM	#4
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	So this isn't going to help the goal of less group breaks... Houdini just hit me a superfractor! __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

02-10-2019, 05:42 PM	#10
gonygo Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: U.S./east coast Posts: 9,350	very impressive stash....Keep rollin... __________________ To prevent potential problems-I will be more selective with whom I choose to sell to and/or trade with. **Cards posted in the BST section may be listed on Ebay and may be sold before you claim to buy via post or pm. As always-PM works best.

02-14-2019, 04:37 PM	#13
Homerun Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Illinois Posts: 12,798 perfectgamesportscards1 Homerunsportscards	Great collection Hollywood! Love seeing another team collector. I collect a lot of the same types of cards, just White Sox ones. __________________ Collector of White Sox autographs and blue refractors. Blowout Redrafter's Dynasty Fantasy League Inaugural World Series Champion!

02-24-2019, 12:18 PM	#15
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Just a couple from the past few days. First off are 4 Altuve RCs- 2 base, 1 missing logo/foil, and 1 gold /2011. I haven't really been too into star RCs, honestly, but I got these at a nice price and couldn't pass them up. Not sure what I'll do with them yet, I wouldn't mind starting to build a decent side PC of rookies of top tier guys, but at this point at least, it's hard for me to justify spending so much on that when the money could be put towards pretty nice Twins cards. But we'll see! Only other card of note lately is another Buxton RC auto- grabbed my first BC RC of him 2ish weeks ago, and then I couldn't pass up a blue refractor at a fairly similar price. Really no downside here- prices are low, I've been wanting a few anyways, and the only place for him to go (both performance and prices) is up. After a 2-2 ST debut with a 3-run homer and 5 RBI, I'm starting to get my hopes up yet again __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

02-24-2019, 01:30 PM	#16
OC22 Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Milwaukee Posts: 1,500 jimmyz86	Good stuff! Still have that 2018 TSC Jose Berrios Superfractor if you’re interested! __________________ Most Wanted: 2019 Stadium Club Jose Berrios Gold Foil 1/1 2018 Stadium Club Archie Bradley Gold Foil 1/1 www.ZelePhotography.com

03-02-2019, 08:55 PM	#17
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Just 2 cards in the past 2 days, but they're 2 pretty cool ones! First up, happened to be browsing eBay fairly soon after this one was listed. Probably should have just hit the BIN, but I made an offer and a half hour later it was headed my way. Really difficult for scans to do this justice, this thing is sweet! 2011 Bowman Chrome Canary Anniversary Refractor 1/1 of Michael Cuddyer One 1/1 in a weekend would have been sweet, but as it turns out, this weekend brought me two! After working on the Tyler Duffey 2016 TC RC auto rainbow, I'm stoked to have added a pretty big one! Very glad I noticed it on eBay as it was just a 24-hour auction. Knew I couldn't let this one slip by. Duffey's not the greatest player out there, but I've been chasing these for several years now so it has a special place in my collection. Somehow, I haven't added a refractor auto yet, but other than that (+3 plates), this rainbow is just about wrapped up! Not a bad 2 days at all __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

03-03-2019, 03:00 AM	#18
blaze Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Minnesota Posts: 938	Whoever originally pulled Duffey turned down $350 from me. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! __________________ Always looking for high end Twins cards, especially MLB Logo Patches!

03-03-2019, 04:52 AM	#19
Brewers3 Banned Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 2,561	That Dozier rainbow is AWESOME. The super really pops on that one!

03-03-2019, 11:58 AM	#20
dashcol Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: It's complicated Posts: 7,739	Nice! Glad you could grab the Duffy super! That complete rainbow is awesome, love it! __________________ “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” Satchel Paige.

03-04-2019, 09:04 PM	#22
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	Had a couple packages for me waiting in today's mail when I got home. First up was a couple freebies from Blowout's friendliest dashcol- thanks so much! Favorites were 2 Trevor May RCs. I've build up a decent stash of May rookies, but didn't have either of these yet- Then, there was a trio of autographs. Happy to add a clean Buxton, another Romero, and my first Jeffers. Hoping we're in for good years from all 3 of them! Much has been said about Buck already so I'll leave it at that, and while I'm not at all a fan of the Twins' decision to have Romero pitch out of the bullpen this year, I do think he could be really good there. And I'm still holding out hope that he'll return to the rotation next year. So much potential. As for Jeffers, the guy hit extremely well in his first year in professional baseball, and while I'm hoping Mitch Garver locks down catcher for the next 5 years, maybe Jeffers can continue to hit as he progresses through the minors and give us another nice option in the pipeline That does it for the cards for now, but I do have to tease a pretty crazy mailday that's coming soon... You'll want to keep your eyes out. Hopefully will have it in the next week or so. It's worthy of it's own thread, but I'll definitely post it up in here as well. Looking forward to it! As an aside, I really haven't done much of anything on my site lately. I rarely feel like grinding through inventorying when I get home from work, and I've had things going on each of the past few weekends and didn't get time to sit down and get through even a small stack. So I'm still exactly where I was at start of the year in terms of getting 100% of my Twins cards inventoried. But, I always keep up with it as new cards come in, so I'm not falling behind ever Along the same lines, I really haven't touched my site at all lately other than, again, updating new cards as they come in. But, I was able to spend a few minutes tonight writing a script to display all my autographs/relics/etc cards, rather than me having to maintain a list manually as I've done for years. Should have made the switch a long time ago, it's going to be super nice to not have to do anything other than enter a card into my database! As for the site's progress as a whole, really haven't made any progress there at all. Need to set aside some time and look through everything pretty closely to make sure it all looks good. I've definitely been kicking the can down the road for quite some time now, though, so hopefully I can work up the motivation to finally sit down and finish it off soon __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

03-04-2019, 09:05 PM	#23
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,505 Hollywood42	These scans come out so blurry nowadays when I upload through SCA... Really a bummer. Don't know what it does, but it's really been decreasing the quality of my scans lately. Well, when my site is finally finished, it'll be a non-issue! __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

03-04-2019, 09:59 PM	#24
dashcol Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: It's complicated Posts: 7,739	Again, I am glad you liked the Mays! The 2018 Heritage Buxton ROA, is a nice card Ipicked up as well during the off season. I think I will be adding a 2015 and 2017 ROA before his prices skyrocket as well. I just love the looks of them over any others. Still think the Purple Romero would have looked good next to yours! __________________ “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” Satchel Paige.

03-04-2019, 10:01 PM	#25
Big35Hurt Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 9,633	Awesome start for the year!