Well the All-Star Game is tonight in Atlanta. I'm sure at the time I am typing this post which is on the Thursday the 10th we'll already had the All-Star Game festivities like the Home Run Derby,The Celebrities Softball game with former players, Soon later tonight the red carpet parade etc..... & of course All-Star Fest where probably the Sportscard Investor's store which he boasts in his videos on YouTube got some exclusive stuff from Fanatics to Crack open for his store. Then get more money into his business & then get kids from the ages of 7 to 12 that don't know much about cards get happy if they pulled an Ohtani or Judge or Atlanta's own Ronald Acuña Jr exclusive 1/1 Game Used Autograph or something in that sort then kinda try to get the kid as well parents to sell to them for such a nice amount,then they get it slabbed ASAP then resell it for some astronomical amount cause it was an All-Star Game Exclusive. So whichever graded company he goes with gives him Presidential treatment by grading his stuff before some guy from Waynesboro, Virginia sends the same day & arrives the same day at that grading company only to wait 4+ months cause the graded company claims oh they're stuck with back orders from the New York Fanatics show,stuff from the All-Star Game festivities & then they're getting ready to focus on The National Sports Card Convention in Rosemont Illinois at the end of the month leaving the guy in Waynesboro wondering why they can't get their slabbed stuff sooner. My thoughts in the grading companies only want to cater to the case breakers on YouTube more then they do the regular guys like our friend in Waynesboro cause he's not overly hyped on newer products when it comes to the breakers & the same goes with the companies as well when they send the breakers cases way in advance especially when it comes to retail products. Heck I am still trying to figure out how a certain YouTube breaker can be acquired numerous cases of retail products before it hits the store shelves & everyone still applauds this Pyramid scammer by sending him $$$$ for his breaks for a guy who bashes Junk Wax products on his channel sure buys a lot of it & send it to his patrons instead of sending the better breaks of stuff that they get when they even get into those breaks for the deep pocket products stuff.
The reason I bring this up is the week Fanatics released the 2024 Topps Heritage High Numbers no retail boxes could be found I was lucky to find 3 the next week though & snatched them cause of the next week the 2025 Topps Heritage was released then when the 2025 Heritage release that's all I was able to find on the shelves. Now I started this years Heritage later then most due to the fact I blame a card shop giving me some freebies for my milestone birthday last month then I was on the fence in building it but I figure what the hell they have plenty on the shelves for me to get.....Survey says *BUZZER SOUND!!!!!* oohh were sorry thanks for playing the retail game enjoy this consultation prize of finding 2nd hand places that might have the Heritages boxes cause we released Series II of the flagship now & that's a better selling thing & oh yeah throw in the Bowman boxes as well so what was promising in finding Heritage is now an Easter Egg Hunt. Lucky for me I am down to a few cards of the set minus the SPs from 401-500 so far & this last week Friday I went to a shop that had 3 blasters still cause I didn't want to pay 4 times as much as I did with the blasters in getting a hobby box of the 2024 Heritage High Numbers so I snatched those 3 boxes without blinking an eye.
The late Jose Fernandez is shown on top cause I have been too busy working at my job to take a picture of the card I pulled from a pack from the same game. I actually pulled the Jose Bautista back in the day. Currently every year since 2004 when Topps decided to make All-Star Game Stitches cards I try to pull or get if I am not lucky to get in a pack a Game Used card from each of the Leagues & I am not fussy if I am pulling a white swatch of a card its still a thrill for me to get that card knowing I got a practice jersey card of that player 1 of 3 jerseys that player wears during the All-Star Game Festivities so Topps can cut it up & then place it on some cardboard for us collectors to get. Even though I don't have an exact list of what Leagues I still need from certain years I have them written down on a piece of paper that I can't locate at the moment so I need to find it again so I can see what All-Star Card I like to find.
In closing this post I want to say when this page is shown for you to comment on that were 15 days away from Opening Night at the National Sports Card Convention & am getting excited in hopes I am able to find some descent deals & not have any dealers try to dump something new to me that Ill have a long time trying to finish up I also hope that you my readers are looking at my lists cause I truly like to get my lists shortened up more with your help & my lists aren't just cards I have books I am looking for as well CDs from baseballvoices.com if still nothing well....we can figure out something when we reach that bump in the road. Until then I am reminded from Rogers Hornsby who once said about signing autographs "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, he's a Communist." Oh yeah I predicting an 7-5 American League Win in tonight's game what do you say the score will be even though I like to see the National League get back to winning the Mid-Summer Classics again like they did when I was younger.
I completely forgot it was tonight, thanks for the reminder.
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