2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 19.2 - Repacks in the Mail

 These 2 repacks had even less variety than the first two. While the packs were the same there, at least the loose cards were from different sets. Here, everything was from the same source. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing, right?

First card out, just like the last one, ends up being a sketchy Photoshop special.

I did land a nice base Ohtani among the flagship packs, though.

And a card I can add to my Mischief 7/12 slider box. While I don't want to make an effort to acquire cards for it (Don't send me any!), I will happily add ones I pack-pull. Such as this one.

3 Big League packs. Dupes. Yay!

But there was one shiny SP in the mix. And a guy named Bubba.

The 9 loose cards in both repacks were 2022s. Even with Vlad Jr appearing, I can't get that card of Wander Franco into the trash fast enough.

And your purple card. At least it doesn't feature a creeper (to put it politely).

This time, the flagship content provided a Mets card, a Jays card, and the best team card any team could ever hope to get.

The Big League packs wins the pack wars via these horizontal entries.

Also, each pack had a shiny SP.

Nothing that interesting among the misc. cards, but at least no Wander Franco!

Finally, the purple entry. I can appreciate getting a card featuring the Chicago White Sox celebrating a win in a 2024 set.

So, it looks like the final one, based on Big League, is the winner among these 4 repacks. 

But the repacks in the mail post will continue, with some football ones.

For the time being, there you have it!

Better Than a Kicker Card?

 

What's better than a foil-y rookie card of a kicker?

How about a classic cardboard appearance of a kicker? 

Then throw in a punter card, especially from a Super Bowl release, and everything is even better. Some  might even remember Gardocki from all his early appearances in releases as a member of the Chicago Bears.

And there you have it!

2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 18.6 - Cubism

 

Back to the cube. There seems like there have been a lot of Jets cards in this. Including the Curtis Martin experience, I believe there have been 18 so far.

Er...19. Sabby Piscitelli is definitely going to end up as the greatest name in this repack. To show how delusional years and years of playoff-free football made Bills fans, I was excited when Benjamin joined the Bills. I wasn't alone in my foolishness. 

I remember Bryan Cox for his (justified) flipping off of Bills fans. (Warning: Article contains hard-r). 2014 R&S had a solid design for one that removed the background. But I am a sucker for the team colour being used as a replacement. 

CFL card! YES! 

That Egnew is the final hit of the cube. Of both cards I got that included, neither player played a single down in the NFL. They still got Rookie Premiere entries throughout the season, though. I got a John Bosa card earlier, so I did get a father-son combo in this repack. Nose Tackle mojo! It just so happened that the last two cards I show off in this post have the best design ('57 throwback) and the best photo (Smith looking for the gap) of this group.

There you have it!

Kozlov Krazy

 

Nothing too major today, just a bunch of Viktor Kozlov entries that were part of a sportlots order that I added to my 2/14 collection.

I'm sorting these by teams. That Leaf Limited card in the top row seems excessively bright for a mid 90s entry. The Pinnacle below it doesn't  have the most flattering main photo and it was good for him that he'd get other cards. 

And some Panthers cards. Vintage, UD's Heritage-y set, wins here. I'm not sure what set they were trying to salute. The design seems 1975-ish, but that didn't delete the background in favour of a solid colour. Maybe a mix of it and 1971 or 1972. I guess the retro parallels in O-Pee-Chee have rendered Vintage useless as a standalone set.

With these, I'm now at 98 total cards of his.

There you have it!

2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 19.1 - Repacks in the Mail

 I'll be doing two larger repacks-in-progress posts simultaneously, as this one starts my working through the repacks from the Too Many Verlanders mailer. There were 4 baseball and 4 football ones in there, all of the lower end variety. But it was still a lot of fun to bust them.  Since I'm working through a football one in the other series, I'll start with the baseball version.

This was the contents of the baseball repacks.

The packs were the same in each of the 4.

Repack #1:

First card out of the packs was a Jays card, but a really sketchy photoshop job. 

I won't show off all the card contents of the pack, but will hit some of my personal highlights. Such as another Jays card, a look at the reverse of the Colorado City Connect jersey, or the Phillies retro blues.

As for stuff from flagship, there's another alternate uniform, a happy pitcher, and the sibling of someone who has yet to get a Toronto Blue Jays card. Maybe his move to a closer role will help that. As for Brewer Hicklen, I just scanned that since the name seems on par with Bobson Dugnutt and Sleve McDichael.

But the 9 random cards are perfect for a scanner bed, no matter how bland everything about them ends up being this time.

And the purple card. Nothing too special, but this was the only one of the 4 purples that was a 2023 issue vs the 2024s in the other repacks.

Repack #2:

The Big League stuff is more interesting this time. Mets content. A horrible photoshop job,. A couple SPs, including a really nice colour match for Bobby Witt. A nice photo of a former Jay. An Ohtani. At least looking for notable cards here is a lot less forced.

Picking interesting cards among the flagship was a lot harder. So, here's a Mets card and a bunch of rookies.

A couple nice photos (Ozuna, Toglia) and a City Connect jersey rank these over the loose cards from the first repack.

To nicely complete the Ryan McMahon City Connect jersey from the first batch of Big League, the purple provides a look at the jersey front. Despite it not being the regular Rockies jersey, I still consider this a colour match parallel. Why? My collection means my rules. Simple.

Two more of these to come in a later post. 

There you have it!

Great Logo Alert!

 

That is one seriously demented looking penguin.

Sadly, the logo on their wikipedia page has a far more noble looking bird.

Blah.

Give me something that looks two degrees of separation away from the Looney Tunes weasel over 'noble'.

The Perils of Binge-Watching

 

Is the inability to resist the urge to pick up a film cel card of one of the show's regulars while browsing around COMC.

I wasn't binging Wandavision.  It was Crossing Jordan.

2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 18.5 - Cubism

 Keep on going!

Usually the single card that ends up opening these posts, as opposed to going to a scanner tray worth, is just the one at the front of the cube at the time, and there's nothing too special about it. This time, I get an interesting one in that position. Not only a Bills card (probably a dupe) but one that features a defensive player with the ball.

Bearsh. Ditka. Bearsh. Ditka.  And another Curtis Martin appearance, plus Bills content. Plus, Quincy Enunwa is a member of my penmanship binder.

While I do like the angle on that  Chris Miller picture, and the team colours really make the Bradshaw, there is nothing I could type that could surpass this portion of Mark Malone's wiki entry.

A 46.7 QB rating in 1987 probably would have driven me mad as well. At least it is better than Peterman's Buffalo rating.

If you thought I was exaggerating when I said that there was going to be a lot of Curtis Martin content in this repack, here's two more of his cards. Also, that McDaniel is a pretty nice get from a repack. A rookie card from an update set of a HOFer. Yes!

That's probably the final Randy Moss appearance of the repack, and it does seem perfect that it wasn't a Vikings card to end his run. Ka'Deem Carey's NFL career was short, but he went on to a solid career in the CFL, and he's still up here, now on the coaching staff of the Toronto Argonauts. The 1983 Chargers leaders/Chuck Mucnie 

There you have it!

And the Rest (Almost)

Time to put the loose card portion of the TMV mailer away.

I usually work my way to the most frequent member of the particular portion of the mailer, but this time, I'll lead with it, and the Vladdy Sr content.

It is just a coincidence that the non-hit content ended up with the single Angels entry separate from the Expos one when I scanned everything. 

But they do re-unite, with these two relics. In something I find interesting, the picture on the Expos one shows a white jersey in the picture, but has a grey swatch, with the vice-versa being true for the other one.

Mike Piazza did make an impressive challenge for the lead with these 7 entries. 

I guess since I'm going in reverse order, these two Daniel Alfredssons are next. The Bee Hive card is the one in this post that I was certain would be a dupe, but I had just confused this year's Matted Materials relics with the previous year's.

And the only other Senator card in this is a at least a gold parallel. And red is the least possible relic colour for a relic. 

One final relic ends it, and it is my first Kitchener Rangers alumni hit since their Memorial Cup victory. 

I'd say "And there you have it", but there were a bunch of repacks included as well. So, I'll be recapping those as well over the next month or so. 4 baseball, 4 football. This bubbler recap isn't quite done, so I'll thank Dennis for all the stuff so far, and promise more to come!

Everything Else 2/14 Basketball

 The COMC shipment wasn't just Ian Jackson additions. I did have a few more on their way in.

I guess I could have added these to the end of the previous post, but then such a wonderful trophy would be hidden away at the back of a post. I couldn't do that. It is certainly the only appearance of any sort of trophy in the basketball portion of the collection. As for the rest, I do have a manu-patch of Bernie Geoffrion among the hockey cards in there.

If a card /99 isn't low-numbered enough for you, here's on /10. This particular parallel is quite the mouthful. It is an Autographs Holo-Lux Purple Kaleidoscope version. Whew.

Unlike with the Ian Jackson Platinum cards posted yesterday, there's no possibility of a nine-pocket rainbow out of this Hoops card. There are only 7 cards in it, one of which is a 1/1. But 6 is a possibility, with none of the others being numbered. At least it would be of an interesting photo. And it makes it a lot harder to determine that it is a Charlotte Bobcats jersey in the photo as opposed to a Clippers one.

There you have it!