Purple Rocks in the Emerald City

Have you ever noticed when you made deals, you are surprised that people are nowhere near their teams? I've seen it quite often with many of the bloggers that I've made deals with. While some of us are near where our teams call home, some are halfway across the country, some are on opposite coasts, and some are on totally different continents. Is it because they grew up with a team and moved, or is it just a love affair with a team that started at a young age?  I recently found another who is removed from his team. Johnny(aka hiflew) of the great Cards from the Quarry is a big Rockies fan. He is based nowhere near Denver, which is cool to find a Purple fan. I sent some assorted Rockies, and I got a package all over the map to help many needs.

How about some cards from a side project that has been taking a nap? Johnny sent me about 10 cards to add to my Angels in the Desert project. Do you have some 70's and 80's Angels laying around that might fit the criteria for the collection?

What is a trade with a Mariner fan without some Mariners? A '92 Score for the Super Set, and some Canadian Mariners. Also some nice Laser cut Topps. While I'm not a big fan of this overkill kind of cards from the 90's, I will definitely add them to the great pile of Mariners.

As you may have seen recently, I have been working on trying to bump up the few player collections I really want to make look like collections. One of those players is the should be HOF'er Dale Murphy. Johnny was nice enough to send some Atlanta Murph love to add to the binder. Why can't he get more of the vote to get in?

The last few cards I'm sure made him happy to get rid of. As a Rockies fan, I'm sure he's not too high on players from other NL West teams. As you may have seen, my son has become a big fan of Tim Lincecum. Johnny was also nice enough to send along a few cards of the Freak for him. Big thanks again to hiflew for helping me along with many collections. It is too bad that his team wasn't around for the 1979 Topps set. It would have been fun to see the colors and how they would have fit in back then.

Feeling like a FREAK on a leash

Time again to put up one last wantlist for a player collection. This one belongs to my 13 year old son. Ever since he was a phenom at the UW for the Huskies, my son know his name. He couldn't understand why he didn't play for the Mariners since he grew up here. He knows he can't duplicate Tim's mechanics, but would love to have the awards and the ring that he has. My son is realistic and isn't expecting to find or buy all the relics and autos of him, but any base, subsets, and inserts will suit him fine.

2007 Bowman Chrome 217
2007 Bowman Draft BDP11
2007 Bowman Heritage 202
2007 Fleer 428
2007 Topps 52 130
2007 Allen&Ginter 274
2007 Turkey Red 88
2007 Upper Deck 918
2008 Bowman 44
2008 Stadium Club 2
2008 Topps 165
2008 Allen&Ginter 201
2008 Topps Heritage 303
2008 Upper Deck 362 CL
2008 Upper Deck 634
2009 Bowman 100
2009 OPC 300
2009 OPC 542
2009 Topps 206 286
2009 Topps Heritage 7
2009 Topps Heritage 165
2009 Allen&Ginter 224
2009 Turkey Red TR9
2009 Upper Deck 323
2009 Upper Deck 485
2009 Upper Deck 851
2010 Bowman 175
2010 Topps 106
2010 Topps 206 255
2010 Topps 206 333
2010 Topps 206 344
2010 Allen&Ginter 175
2010 Topps Heritage 45
2010 Topps Heritage 49
2010 Topps Heritage 383
2010 Topps Heritage 429
2010 Topps Heritage 496
2010 Turkey Red TR22
2010 Upper Deck 440
2011 Bowman 141
2011 Topps 590
2011 Allen&Ginter 170
2011 Topps Heritage 60
2011 Topps Heritage 237
2011 Topps Heritage 319
2011 Topps Heritage 429
2011 Topps Update US58

Big Time Timmy Jim

First off, I would like to congratulate my son on being only 1 of 2 boys in the 7th grade to made the varsity squad of his middle school baseball team. It is quite an accomplishment considering the talent of the other guys on the team. Secondly, since our trip to San Francisco and doing more pitching for his school team he has been studying pitchers. While he is a fan of Nolan Ryan, Felix Hernandez, and Jonathan Papelbon, he has found his new favorite. He wants to pitch like a local kid, The Freak.

Tim Lincecum

While I haven't gone through my cards yet to see what I have of Tim for him, I will try to make a list soon of cards needed to make him a happy fan.