We planned to stay in on New Year’s Eve this past Saturday.
With two kids ages 5 and 2, there isn’t a ton of options outside of getting a sitter, and after a week of
travel, we looked forward to a night at home. Our friends two streets over were
doing the same with their three kids, and before we knew it, we had plans to go
to their house for dinner, along with another couple who has two kids. The end
result was not a nice quiet evening, but listening to seven kids run around
like complete maniacs.
So at about 4pm, I hit up the liquor store so as to not show
up empty-handed. My wife asked me to grab sparkling cider for the kids as well.
Of course I forgot it, so instead of turning around and heading back, I
continued on to Walgreens, where I luckily found some sparkling grape juice. Close
enough!
While at Walgreens, I felt like I needed to treat myself to
a New Year’s present. 2016 was a good year for me, overall. Kids were happy and
healthy. We bought our first home. My first year at my new job went well. Sure,
why not splurge on a $4.99 gift to myself?
There were four of thew 100-card re-packs to choose from,
and the very last one on the rack had this as the first card:
Easy choice, right? Frazier cards have increased in price
since he became a Yankee, and I only have one or two, so I figured this was the
best choice.
There is a 1:4 chance of a hit. I didn’t get one. The pack
also guarantees 5 HOF cards. Cool, I’ll put them in Joey’s binder. How did my
five go?
Ok, ok. Not bad. I don’t think I’ve seen the blue bordered
Classic cards. I remember the yellow ones. The Winfield Score is ok, and Palmer
oddball is cool, although I definitely already have it. There were two
Winfields too (also had an '88 Topps), so I guess I ended up with six cards of five HOFers.
It would have been six HOFers if this guy didn’t cheat.
How was the rest of the pack?
I was surprised to see 2016 Topps already make an appearance
in these.
There were two 2015 Topps cards, but I was pleasantly
surprised when I turned it over to find that they were from team sets,
including Bryan Mitchell of the Yankees.
Not bad here, including an OPC.
A Scott Stahoviak hot pack!
Hey, I know this guy! I have about a hundred of these, but
funny to see in a re-pack.
All-in-all, not the worst way to spend $5 on the last day of
the year.
Happy New Year buddy! Your evening sounded insane. That is too many kids in one place. Was that bottle of liquor gone in 5 minutes?
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the solid repack. I would have picked that one because of the Frazier on the front too!
ReplyDeleteI got a Walgreens baseball repack over Christmas break just to have something to open. It was a lot like yours. Definitely better than the few I've found at Target.
ReplyDeleteI'm a card-carrying member of the grammar police (which no one would know from the looks of my blog - I never proofread haha), so the Palmer card drives me crazy. There is no such thing as "First Annual"....It can't be annual until the second year!
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for Stahoviak to fill Hrbek's shoes (you know there's no way he could fill the uniform, ba dum tiss)!
ReplyDeleteSame as Matt, I'm wondering if that bottle had anything left in it by the time everyone sat down for dinner.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the re-pack.