Pickups from Frank and Son - (03/08/14)

It's finally Saturday.  I can't tell you how slow this week went by.  It was that typical waiting game where you just can't wait for the weekend to roll by because you wanted to go somewhere.  For me it was one of those weeks.  I wanted to head by to Frank and Son in order to look and buy baseball cards.  However, my dad and I hit heavy traffic on the 60 freeway as there was only two lanes open as we drove to Frank and Son.  Thankfully, we left a little after 8 and got there at 8:40.  When it opened, I took my time to look for any cards that intrigued me and boy I bought almost $6 worth of baseball cards.

Shawn Green and Gary Sheffield.

New Dodgers coach Jack McDowell and Mo Vaughn.

Andy Van Slyke, Scott Van Slyke's father.

Jim Thome.

Robin Ventura and Jim Thome

Raul Mondesi, Joe Carter, and John Smoltz.

Todd Hollandsworth.

Power player Paul Goldschmidt and Upper Class Giancarlo Stanton.

 Bowman card of Drew Pomerantz and

Ryan Zimmerman patch card, Matt Kemp, and Chipper Jones.

Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson

Eric Karros rookie card and Joc Pederson.

 Dustin Pedroia.

 Here's some 2014 cards.

Notice the blue bordered card and Adrian Beltre Super Veteran.

I got a Bryce Harper Upper Class card.

I got excited when I got the Koufax card.

That's about it.  Overall, I had a good time at Frank and Son and was glad to be back after a one month absence.  I can't wait for the season to come and hope that Frank and Son have some interesting events in the year.

2014 Topps Baseball - 72 Card Box from Target (03/07/14)

With two weeks of spring training being wrapped up, I thought I would take the time to buy a box of topps cards from Target.  The box costed $9.99.  I also bought a new binder and pocket pages for my baseball cards.  The binder costed another $9.99 while the binder was a measly $1.74 bringing my total to over $22.  Enough wasting time here are the pictures of a few cards that I thought looked interesting.

The back of the box with all the odds of winning a specific card.

 Here's the inside with all the cards.

I decided to open it from the bottom since there was something in the way.

David Freese's card was in the very front.

The Brewers had their own Chris Davis, spelled with a K.

Looks like a Howie Kendrick celebration card.

2013 N.L. pitching leaders and a Jon Lester World Series card.

 Todd Helton.

Josh Beckett.

2013 A.L. R.B.I. Leaders.

Mariano Rivera retirement card.

What! Joe Blanton is the power player.

 Zack Greinke.

Two yellow bordered cards of Billy Butler and Gregor Blanco.

Red bordered card of the 2013 N.L. R.B.I. leaders.

Yu Darvish Die Cut, don't know what kind of card is Mike Leake's.

Upper class card of Ryan Howard, Hyun Jin Ryu (The Future is Now), and Jonathan Broxton red border.

Will Myers and Jeff Keppinger red border.

Yes! I Have SportsNet LA!

The title says it all.  I literally just found out from my mother that we have SportsNet LA as of today.  Last night at 7:00, I was expecting to get SportsNet LA since we've been customers of Time Warner Cable for as long as I can remember, probably 7 years or so.  That didn't happen.  I figured we might had to have contacted them about it.  So, my parents contacted Time Warner and my parents told me we had to pay about $12 for it.  The channel was part of a package that would give us 100 additional channels.  I guess you can say that it's pricey, but I'll go through the year before I can give my opinion.