Not gonna scan every pack's contents, but I'll put up images of key pulls (Editor's note: The images are not my scans, but are identical images I quickly downloaded). Here is my list. Legal pad would have worked better. Last couple packs were on the back.
My Favorites are the Orioles and Bo Jackson. I was considering my second team, the Nationals, since they probably have more guys in the checklist, so I marked an N next to packs with Nats. Will go back and see if I lost points on that or not.
Box Loader - BL11 - Don Mattingly. Wasn't sure if box loaders count half when they're Yankees, only because it's not specifically listed. So this is either +4 or only +2.
I'll list the first few packs with the full titles of the different things, then just run with the abbreviations (in parentheses).
Pack 1: Fantasy Goldmine (FG) Rickey +2. "Rickey says you got off to a slow start."
Pack 2: Flag Of Lost Nations (flag) East Germany +2, Equipment (Equip) Shin Guards +2, New York Yankee (NYY) Capt. Cheeseburger -1. Yanks strike early.
Pack 3: A&G back mini (A&G) - Stugotz +2/-1, World's Greatest Beaches (Beach) Venice +2. Diluted mini. Mark my first Nat here.
Pack 4: Indigenous Heroes (Ind) Crazy Horse +2, Magnificent Moons (Moon) The Moon +2, NYY Gehrig -1. That's a shame, Gehrig is one of the good ones. It would be funny if the Solar Eclipse card #222 that showed up here would negate all points in a pack.
Pack 6: FG Cobb +2, NYY Severino mini & Torres -2. Ouch, dud pack. Yanks killed it. Having so many Yankees in the checklist this year really ramps up the damage that they do. Coulda had a Nat point in this one.
Pack 7: A&G Alonso +2, FG Foxx +2, Champ Pederson +1. Also pulled Dustin Pedroia, for whom I would penalize two points in my special rules.
Pack 8: A&G Clemente +2, Moon Titan +2,
Current Total = 26 points. That's counting the box loader as two.
Pack 9: Black border mini (BBM) Marwin Gonzalez +4, Equip Batting Helmet +2, NYY Tanaka -1. I would definitely have to add a bonus for pulling the Babe of the Set. Got her here - #287 Paige Spirinac. +3, put it on the board....yes! The basketball gal is cute, but Paige is just plain smoking hotness. As usual, they picked a really conservative photo for the card.
I could forget about the rest of the box break after this one, but here's a collage of some of her images. Click for larger image. I'll wait here.
Ok, shall we continue?
Pack 10: Beach Trunk Bay +2, The World's Hottest Peppers (Pepper) 7 Pot +3, and a Nat.
Pack 11: FT mini Brooks Rob. +1, World Talent (WT) Abreu +2, NYY Severino -1. First World Talent. I always work across a box, layer by layer, instead of a stack at a time. The inserts seem to fall in clumps. Three or four FG's or Equips, then Beaches and WT's together.
Pack 12: WT Neverauskas (who?) +2, NYY Stanton and Bird. Another dud from Yankees.
Pack 13: FT mini CDavis +1, WT Ngoepe +2, NYY Didi -1. See how they repeat pack to pack?
Pack 14: BBM Cryptocurrency +4, Beach Paradise Island +2. Great score on a rather lame mini. But I'll take it.
Pack 15: FT CDavis +1, SP mini Clark (#316) +3, Moon Io +2. A Rendon to swap with Davis just in case.
Pack 16: KBryant A&G mini +4 (2+2), Equip Vintage Bat +2, FT Schoop +1.
Two thirds of the way in and I stand at an even 60 points. Good pace. And no hits yet!
Pack 17: FG JackieR +2, Framed mini auto Troy Scribner (who?) +7. First hit of the box. Dang rookies. Who wants the Angel kid? Trade ya for a Nat or an Oriole.
Pack 18: A&G Trout +2, FG Nomar +2, NYY Gray -1, Framed mini relic Jim Thome +9 (3+6) Back to back hits. I was getting worried. But more about that later.
Pack 19: BBM Clevenger +4, Gallo +2, Moon Triton +2, Stugotz -1. Now we're getting some decent numbers!
Pack 20: SP mini Urena +2, Equip Catcher's mask +2, Ohtani +2, NYY Montgomery -1.
Pack 21: Mystery mini Dennis The Rash +4, Beach Roatan +2, NYY Jeter & Betances -2. One of three unannounced minis of made up characters. And they're not that rare. Topps is just weird.
Coming down the home stretch....
Pack 22: WT Didi +1 (2-1), Riley -1, Home Run Challenge Trout +1. Net plus one on a Trout game insert. Yeesh, this box is flaming out.
Pack 23: A&G Bour +2, WT Gohara +2, Dozier +2. One pack left and I'm only at about 105.
Pack 24: WT Ohtani +2. Rules don't say anything about inserts of Favorites. No third hit?
Final Tally - 109 if box loader is only two and Ohtani insert is only two. Max 113. That's pathetic compared to the top four boxes listed on the GAC site. And my other box landed at about an even 100. Geez.
The Nats vs. Orioles was just about a wash. Difference was only about one point, so that's not a factor.
The wrappers say Hobby, but I didn't get any Baseball Superstitions - the best insert set of all of them - or either of the SP Folio Of Fears or Postage Required in either box. The Exotic Sports minis are retail only, so I didn't expect those. Would have been nice to get at least one of the others though. I can't find any definitive list that says if any of the others are retail only.
No other third hit except maybe the silly mystery mini? I hope they don't think those count, that would be a joke. I swore I pulled three hits from each box when I actually ripped the packs. But I've looked all over and can't find another full size jersey card. Guess I got gypped.
Well, looks like my luck at GAC is about the same as it usually is pulling great stuff from packs or fantasy football - about zilch. Maybe next year.
I've been checking out Gint-A-Cuffs posts for years, but never really understood what was going on. Just enjoyed seeing what people were pulling. Anyways... I finally clicked on the link you shared, which led me to the scoring. Wow. That's a detailed scoring system. Makes me appreciate the dedication people put into their posts a little more.
ReplyDeleteGint-A-Cuffs is a fun contest to follow. I participated once, but there are so many non-baseball cards in a box that the set really isn't for me.
ReplyDeleteNice pull on the Thome relic!