On Friday night, after a particularly stressful end of the
week of work, I skipped out to Target after the kids went to bed. Saturday was
the first day of tee ball, and I hadn’t bought my little guy an aluminum bat.
I went straight to sporting goods, which is basically an
aisle near, but not in, the toy section and found a bat. No sense going to
Dick’s and spending at least $30 for tee ball. Nope, a Rawlings at $14.99 will
do. He had a few good rips during batting practice the next day and kept talking about how
powerful his bat is. Pretty cool.
As one might expect, after I found the bat I just happened
to take the long way to cash register and just happened to pass the card aisle.
Quite a coincidence.
There really wasn’t much there except loose packs of Opening
Day and two blasters of Gypsy Queen. I figured there wouldn’t be any Heritage,
and I was right. Still, I hadn’t bought any retail since flagship, so snagged
one of the blasters of GQ.
For someone with next to no luck within retail, I think I
did ok! The first pack I opened was the back of parallels, which I guess are
purplish? I’m not really sure. The best of the group was this Goldy.
In pack #2, these two cards were back to back.
I was really happy to get an Ohtani, of course. I’ll probably
hang onto it, although it probably would have paid for the blaster.
As for the Devers, of course I get a Red Sox. But as many
have noted, these cards are very awesome. Does anyone want to swap this for a
Yankees tarot? If not, I’m sure this will end up with one of my Red Sox
friends.
The next pack had this (odds 1:68), which is cool because I
NEVER pull autographs. This is going to Zippy Zappy. The card was backwards in
the pack, and I really hoped for Ohtani when I turned it around. Still cool to
get some ink though.
In the next pack was my lone Yankees, Mr. Sanchez.
Lastly, I didn’t notice either of these until I was scanning
the cards above. The codes are the same so they didn’t stick out when I did a code-check.
Not bad pulls with the no nameplate Giolito and the logo swap Kimbrel.
Overall, I gotta say it was a decent blaster, and a pretty
fun rip. These cards are really nice, and I definitely think are one of the
best products I’ve seen in a while between the base card design and attractive
inserts.
