What to do when you team sucks?

The Padres are so far gone this that I think they might be mathematically eliminated the day after the All Star break.  I don't even know all the players on this years team they have gone through so many players.  I am recycling the Dodgers meme of old "Wait til next year".  Now the Padres are the only team left in the majors without a no hitter, they had a no hitter thrown against them by a pitcher high on LSD, but they can't throw one.  I wish that they would get an owner who really cared about the team and was willing to spend money to make the team and the park better.   Thank you for letting me vent.  What do you do when you team sucks this bad?

New additions

I recently picked up 11 padrographs that I didn't have off of ebay.  Everyone in the first picture I had tried TTM but never heard back from.  Bryan Altman, Jace Peterson, Vince Belnome, Kyle Gaedele and Kevin Quackenbush are all still in the minors.  Miguel Tejada, Jorge Cantu and Brad Hawpe are all gone from San Diego.  Jason Bartlett is on the DL and I don't really expect to see him playing for the Padres anymore.

Austin Hedges and Joe Ross were the padrographs available in this years Bowman release.  I picked them both relatively cheap. These new Padrographs bring me to 811 unique padrographs.  Still a few on the wantlist,   Randy Myers keep going for more than I am willing to spend.

An update and a giveway or trade offer (read all the way to the end)

I haven't really gone anywhere.  My wife lost her job last month (that's really a good thing) so I have been spending more time with her and she has been finding things for me to do every weekend.  Last weekend my son and I hauled 6000 lbs of hardwoods, dunnage from cargo ships, home for firewood.  Friday and yesterday we hauled several loads of rocks to someone who was looking for fill.  Today I started my day with two aleve and feel okay now.  Also every Sunday afternoon for two hours I teach a class for resident aliens on how to pass the citizenship test.  Two more sessions of that.  Also we have been spending time with our first grandchild, she and her Dad are asleep in the next room.  He is really tired cause he took part in the naked bike ride here in Portland last night.  I have been reading all your blogs and have packages ready to go to some of you.  I also have some packages ready to go but no one to send them to.  I have Yankees, Mets, Tigers and Reds ready to go but no one to send them to.  I will trade you for one Padres card any one you want to send me.  The first person to email me at padrographs at live dot com will get them.  I hope to have another post with some new padrographs up tomorrow.

Testing 1,2,3 Is this thing on?

I have gotten very few responses to my last couple of posts, ever since blogger changed.  I was wondering if anyone is seeing these.  I am trying to give some TONY GWYNN cards away and have had no response. If you read this will you please let me know.

Trade bait for Player collectors and a few other things

I sorted through all of my Padres cards and kept what I wanted to.  I have been working on a Frankenset of Padres cards.  It has been fun to put together with cards going back to 1952.  I recently purchased a big Padres lot and it had Topps team sets from 1969 to 1993, missing three cards, one from 1969, a 1973 John Hilton rookie, and a 1974 Willie McCovey, Washington National League.  I picked up the '69 card at the LCS and found the 1974 McCovey card in my stuff.  So I started working on Topps team sets from 1994 to now.  I also decided to do Heritage Team sets from 2001 to now.  I have posted my want list of cards for those along with some autographed cards I am still looking for on the want list page.  So I have some Padres cards to get rid of.  I have packaged them up and am offering them to you in trade.  If you want some of them just indicate in the comments which packages you want and what you want to trade.  I would ask that you only ask for one of the Gwynns and Hoffman packages and a total of 5 to begin with.  So here we go;

#1 50 different Trevor Hoffman cards
#2 50 different Trevor Hoffman cards
#3 50 different Trevor Hoffman cards
#4 50 different Tony Gwynn cards
#5 50 different Tony Gwynn cards
#6 50 different Tony Gwynn cards
#7 50 different Tony Gwynn cards
#8 50 different Tony Gwynn cards

the following groupings unless noted have some duplicates in them and all the cards are in Padres uniforms.
#9 45 Greg Maddux cards
#10 74 Ryan Klesko cards
#11 250 Andy Benes cards
#12 174 Jake Peavy cards
#13 24 Goose Gossage cards
#14 142 Adrian Gonzalez cards
#15 64 Chris Young cards
#16 90 Wally Joyner cards
#17 44 Joe Carter cards
#18 93 Fred McGriff cards
#19 275 Benito Santiago cards
#20 35 Bip Roberts cards (many teams)
#21 108 Ken Caminiti cards
#22 24 Steve Garvey cards
#23 14 Dave Winfield cards
#24 5 Ozzie Smith cards
#25 4 Joey Cora cards
#26 48 John Kruk cards
#27 131 Alomar cards (mostly Roberto)
#28 17 Mat Latos cards
#29 64 Khalil Greene cards
#30 19 David Wells cards
#31 3 Kevin Mitchell cards
#32 11 Mike Piazza cards
#33 13 Heath Bell cards
#34 23 Fernando Valenzuela
#35 6 Matt Antonelli cards
#36 8 Rickey Henderson cards (all different)
#37 6 Dave Dravecky cards
#38 3 Gaylord Perry cards

These are from one of the American Heritage sets
#39 9 Abraham Lincoln/Barack Obama cards (all different)
#40 Complete Heroes of Sports set
#41 Complete A Hero's Journey set
#42 19 Medal of Freedom cards (all different)

Looking Forward to hearing from you.  I will have some other teams up in the next few days.

TTM and New Padres sigs

 Last October during the Wordstock book festival I started typing up passages from books I read and asking the authors to sign them.  I have sent passages out to some authors and received them back signed.  This is the most recent, I read Jerry Wests' autobiography and chose this passage and sent it to him care of the Warriors and after about three weeks I got it back, it will go into my authorgraphs scrapbook.

 I picked up three Padrographs from ebay that I didn't have, Brad  Brach, Dustin Moseley and Chris Denorfia. I have these cards out in the mail to Dustin and Chris, but it has been over a month now.  These 3 cards give me 801 different Padrographs.

Those of you who live in Oregon may recognize this man.  I started making a set of cards for my granddaughter covering her life.  She is almost six months old and I have started making a set for her when she gets older.  Mr. Adams took less than a week to sign this.  This is the second card in the set that I have gotten signed.  Kenny Sears a NBA player from the 50's and 60's signed card number 2.  Kenny is from Watsonville, CA and played high school basketball with my Dad.  I will do a post on the set soon.  Eventually I will get back to the Padrographs.

More Spring Training TTM

 I already had an O'Dog autograph but it was on a Padrographs card from last year.  Now I have an officially licensed card signed by him.  He is always very quick in returning cards.

 I sent this to Erik Davis care of the Nationals in Florida and it came back in less than a week.  I got this purple bordered card and a printing plate signed.  I have one more printing plate that I would like to get signed but it is Adrian Gonzalez.  I don't know if it is even worth trying to send it to him.

I am working on a Padres Frankenset and have just finished going through all of my Padres cards to get the set.  The next step is to sort all my left over cards by brand and year and pull out the people that I think others might be interested.  Who would you like cards of?

Spring Training TTM Successes

I sent these two to Kyle for my one per year collection.  Kyle will be the representative of the 2012 Padres.  I haven't been able to decide which one to use.  I got these back in just about a week from spring training.

I already had a signed card of Luke Gregerson, but I wanted to get this card with no name on it signed.  It took about 8 days to go to Peoria and come back.

Nate Freiman is card number 798 in my signed Padres collection.  I sent him this printing plate and another card for him to sign.  I also sent him a bunch of cards to keep and a pen to use and keep.

PunkRock Paint made this card for me so I could get it signed at a recent event that I attended.  Darcy never actually played for the Padres, but he had a 1972 Padres rookie card, with a couple of other people.

I sent Heath Bell two cards to sign, one was his SP from 2012 Topps and his sliding All Star Game card from the update set.  I also sent him an 8X10 and a bunch of cards for him to keep.  Well he signed the 8X10 and the sliding card, and kept the SP and signed everything else I sent him and included a few copies of his testimony card.  If you want an autographed Heath Bell card, let me know and we can make arrangements.  Specify which card you are interested in.  You can email me at padrographs at live dot com.

Another Brand comeback

Someone sent me this, asking if I had seen if before or had one.  In doing some research I found out that someone is going to resurrect the fleer brand.  I just wish that they would match the uniform patch to the uniform pictured on the card.  I would like to see the back of the card to see what provence they give to the relic, for all we know it could be from Tim Flannery, the gift shop or from some fanatic.  I hope that this is real though cause some competition is needed for Topps before all their cards look like Panini designed them.

50/50 Trade? & Frankenset

As I collect now I have 50 count boxes set up for every team, except the Padres, as I fill them I will be posting on here to see if anyone wants to do a 50 card of their team for 50 Padres.  I will be posting a want list in the next year until then everything San Diego Baseball is fair game.  Right now the only team is the Diamondbacks, mostly from the last couple of years.  I also have some nice cards I got in a recent group break.  Some nice Flair Showcase from a couple of years ago.  If you are interested in trading let me know.  I am going to try and trade with collectors who collect the other 29 teams.  Mariner and Pirates fans are out of luck as those go to two friends here in town.

I started working on a frankenset recently.  I used a whole box of 9 pocket sheets starting my Padres frankenset.  Older always wins, Gwynn Sr, Flannery, Garvey, Gossage, Bip and Bevacqua also always win.  Jack Clark, Adrian Gonzalez and Mat Latos can always be beat.  In a while I will have extras of Padres to give away also.  If you collect a particular guy who played for the Padres or are looking from Padres from a certain year or set let me know and I will set them aside.  I am going to try and be here more often but life seems to be winning out.  I still read your guys blogs.  Night Owl caused me to laugh out loud today, Troll might Rule, highlighted a good book today (I already read it) and JayBee expressed an opinon I agree with.

2012 Topps Gold Rush

There were 30 of these cards for sale on the bay the other day, no one bid on them, so I did.  It was three lots of 10 each for $2.50 plus $2.50 s&h.  I won all three lots and got them today.  30 cards no duplicates, ranging in numbers from 20 to 306.  The Gold Rush logo is in the upper right or left corner, always directly beneath the Topps logo.  Sometimes it intrudes on the picture obscuring faces and such.  There were no huge stars in the bunch, Mariano Rivera being the biggest, two cards with the RC logo and two checklist cards which feature season highlights on the front. The one Marlin card I got does feature the new Marlins logo and colors on it, but thankfully Topps did not airbrush the new uniform on the player.

In the bottom right hand corner of every card is the Topps website address followed by a code number.  The code number is the same on all 30 cards.  Does anyone have any idea what I got.

No More Pie for me, thank you!

Saturday afternoon I dropped by the LCS and picked up six packs of American Pie, 4 to open and 2 to put away for Christmas and my birthday.  Out of the 4 packs that I opened these are the best cards I got.  Many of the cards were of no one and celebrated nothing.  I got a card for the date that some computer determined was the most boring day ever, sorry if you were born April 11, 1954. 

Bing Crosby is a distant cousin on my Dad's side of the family so I am always looking for things of him.  I remember someone saying their wife really liked Lucille Ball.  Who doesn't like Rudolph (other than all the other reindeer.  The Hitchcock (you can see him if you squint, use a microscope and look at the lower right corner) manu patch is numbered 4/25.  I will probably put it on eBay unless one of you wants to trade for it.    The Johnny Cash and Richard Pryor Walk of Fame cards are pretty cool.  I am going to keep Johnny, but Mr. Pryor is available for trade.  Also if you are trying to build the set let me know and I will send you my singles.  

General and His Troops

 General Manager Josh Byrnes returned this 2011 Padrographs card in just about a week and a half.  Josh is the ninth General Manager the Padres have had since 1969 and I realized that I have signed cards of three of them, Buzzie Bavasi, Jed Hoyer and Josh Byrnes.  I went to wikipedia and I actually have signatures on cards of five of the GM's, cause I also have Jack McKeon and Keving Towers.  I am going to see if I can get signatures of the other four, Peter Bavasi, Bob Fontaine, Joe McIlvaine and Randy Smith. 

 I bought this Cory Spangenberg card from this years Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects off of eBay.  He was the first round draft pick of the Padres, 10th overall, of the Padres this in 2011.  He was playing at a college where they used wooden bats, so he has that year of experience.  I wouldn't be surprised to see him in Petco Park this year, as bad as I think the Padres will be. 

I bought this Jason Hagerty over at eBay.  Jason was picked in the fifth round of the 2009 draft.  He has worked up to AA San Antonio. 

Miscellaneous Giveaway #19

The last of the commemorative lithographs, this one is from Toy Story.  Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. It was written by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, and featured music by Randy Newman. Its executive producer was Steve Jobs. Toy Story follows a group of toys who pretend to be lifeless whenever humans are present, and focuses on Woody, a pullstring Cowboy doll (Hanks), and Buzz Lightyear, an astronaut action figure (Allen).

 RULES AND TERMS OF AGREEMENT
1.  The first person to respond that they want the item will be awarded possession of the item.  
2. You agree that you will not return said item to Padrographs (or any of any his known or unknown aliases.) under any conditions.
3.  I do not need any thing in trade for you to take possession.  I am trying to move things that don't fit my collecting goals, or items that I have duplicates of.
4.  It may take me a few days to ship the item due to my and my wifes work schedules but I will get them out as soon as possible.  
5.  After one week of being available said items will probably end up going to the Salvation Army. 
6.  New items will be posted each evening at 6 PM, Pacific Standard Time
7.  email me your address at Padrographs at live dot com

Miscellaneous Giveaway #18

A Commemorative lithograph from Disneys Aladdin.   Aladdin is a 1992 American animated family film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Aladdin was the 31st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and was part of the Disney film era known as the Disney Renaissance. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, and is based on the Arab folktale of Aladdin and the magic lamp from One Thousand and One Nights. The voice cast features Scott Weinger, Jonathan Freeman, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, and Douglas Seale.
 RULES AND TERMS OF AGREEMENT
1.  The first person to respond that they want the item will be awarded possession of the item.  
2. You agree that you will not return said item to Padrographs (or any of any his known or unknown aliases.) under any conditions.
3.  I do not need any thing in trade for you to take possession.  I am trying to move things that don't fit my collecting goals, or items that I have duplicates of.
4.  It may take me a few days to ship the item due to my and my wifes work schedules but I will get them out as soon as possible.  
5.  After one week of being available said items will probably end up going to the Salvation Army. 
6.  New items will be posted each evening at 6 PM, Pacific Standard Time
7.  email me your address at Padrographs at live dot com