Yes.....I am Still Here and a Black Bears Game

I am still here reading and catching up on blogs. My time for posting however is cut short due to summer vacations and having 2 boys at home who occupy a bunch of my time. 

First off thanks Jeff for the PWE which that post will be appearing in the near future due to time constraints and not having snapped some photos of what he included. 

Well last Friday(7/24) was my birthday and what better way to celebrate it than at a baseball game with the family. I missed the series of the Brooklyn Cyclones due to it being a midweek game and I work overnights so it just didn't work out. I did however see them play the Staten Island Yankees. Which the Blackbears won. 

The best part of the night had to be for me seeing my 2 boys ages 3 and 5(2 weeks from 6) face and enjoyment they got out of the game. Plus they each ended up with a foul ball per say. The first one was from BP that was over in the grassy area that you'll see down below in a photo and the other one that's a story in itself. 

The second ball was thrown from the visitors dugout. Some of the opposing players were throwing balls to kids in the stands and my oldest wasn't seen so a very loud gentleman who was rooting for the Yankees a few rows back got the attention of the player and pointed to my son. Low and behold the player grabbed a ball and threw it to the said gentleman who walked it down to him and as my son said Thanks he asked my son if he was a Yankees fan and he said no I'm a Mets fan like my dad. The gentlemans  reaction was disbelief and kidded with my boy to give him the ball back. 

Here a few pictures. 

Me and the boys

The first ball

The first ball after being auto'd by the BlackBears mascot "Cooper" who has a tough time signing autos with bear paws for hand. 

LETS GO MOUNTAINEERS and LETS GO METS

Hopefully the Mets are playing some meaningful baseball from here on out and sweep the Nationals to tie them for first place this weekend. 

How bout WILMER FLORES going from thinking he's traded to WALKING IT OFF with a HR Friday night against the Nationals in the bottom of the 12th. 

1993

Let's see what happened and was popular in 1993 shall we. 

NAFTA became law

Blue Jays won the Series

Jurassic Park

Mrs Doubtfire

Bridget Fonda

Liv Tyler

Top 20 songs 

1	"I Will Always Love You"	Whitney Houston
2	"Whoomp! (There It Is)"	Tag Team
3	"Can't Help Falling in Love"	UB40
4	"That's the Way Love Goes"	Janet Jackson
5	"Freak Me"	Silk
6	"Weak"	SWV
7	"If I Ever Fall in Love"	Shai
8	"Dreamlover"	Mariah Carey
9	"Rump Shaker"	Wreckx-n-Effect
10	"Informer"	Snow
11	"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang"	Dr. Dre
12	"In the Still of the Nite"	Boyz II Men
13	"Don't Walk Away"	Jade
14	"Knockin' da Boots"	H-Town
15	"Lately"	Jodeci
16	"Dazzey Duks"	Duice
17	"Show Me Love"	Robin S.
18	"A Whole New World"	Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle
19	"If"	Janet Jackson
20	"I'm So Into You". SWV

Last time the Mets were NO HIT. Congratulations to Rookie Chris Heston on the first no no of the year and of his career. Hopefully it's another 20 plus years till the Mets have it happen to them again. I believe this is the 6 or 7th time they have been no hit. 

I know I've been lacking in the posting department but I have been reading and skimming the the posts and the boards almost daily. I'm hoping and wanting to post more often but life has been keeping me busy. No complaints here though

Since my last post I attended the shellacking Matt Harvey took at PNC against the Pirates with my wife and oldest son. He was into but didn't really like the drunk Yinzer a few rows behind us screaming an yelling the whole time his own made up Harvey polka song. But other than that it was good and the people around us were all pleasant and enjoyable and were perturbed by the same guy. Here are some pictures from that day. 

The 7 Line outing more on them in another post

A little cooling off by the little guy after the game

I've been keeping an eye on cards and have only purchased one recently from this years museum which was a beauty of a quad relic. 

I am hoping to add the Pedro piazza degrom darnaud one next. 

Hopefully the Mets can get healthy and stay neck and neck with the Nationals. Missing wright and darnaud has definitely hurt. I believe darnaud is due back today so at least that's one of plus now if we can get wright and or Murphy back I'd feel a lot better but pleased they are holding their own with the hand they've been dealt. 

LETS GO METS!!!

MJÖLNIR Debut

For some you probably knew what this title was about and for the rest it's the debut of Noah Syndergaard whose nickname is Thor and can understand why once you see him being he stands 6'6". I decided to use the Norwegian name for his hammer so that's where the title came from.  The Mets top pitching prospect that was part of the RA Dickey trade from Toronto along with Travis d'Arnaud. 

Hopefully he can have a stellar debut and become a big piece of the starting rotation with the likes of Harvey, deGrom, and Wheeler. He struggled a little bit last year in the Pacific Coast League but seems to have found a groove this year.  He has a1.82 era and a 34/8 k/b ratio over 29 2/3 innings. In his last start he struck out 8 in 8 innings and fell a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. He's also batting .455 this year. While I don't expect that average to be anywheres near that at this level it is nice to see a pitcher who can hit. 

Well Hopefull he can right the Mets ship after they dropped the first came if the series to the Cubs last night. Here is a picture I pulled off the MLB at bat app and an inception relic auto that I picked up some time ago and I'll let you decide for yourself if he resembles Thor. 

LETS GO METS and YA GOTTA BELIEVE!!!

Another eBay Pickup

Quick post today. 

Still working a ton and haven't had much time for cards. It'll probably continue like that for the foreseeable future too. I need to do some projects around the house being the weather has finally broke. In doing so and working so much that means I have to make a sacrifice somewhere and unfortunately that means my cards and acquisitions of cards will suffer. My days pretty much consist of sleep house projects work and tee ball games in no particular order.  I'll still read the blogs everyday and post when I have time. I also think a majority of this summer is spoken for with plans an vacations too. 

Now I still have a few cards in the pipeline from ebay to show and continually browse ebay very quickly when time allows to see if I can score any deals. Pretty much lately the deals have been pretty few and far between in the Mets stuff. The card that I chose for this post is an on card auto that I picked up shortly after the realse of this years Gypsy Queen. If I remember correctly this is the silver framed parrallel number out of 50.   I can say so far Juan Lagares is living up to his Gold Glove award for CF and has made some pretty sweet plays so far this year. Here's the card in all its glory and I think it only set me back about 10 bucks shipped and I believe this is only his second certified auto and the first being out of this years series 1. 

I like gypsy queen as a set but hate how the SPs are mixed in with the base set. I wish they would go along the likes of archives and put the SPs at the end of the base set. Jury is still out on this years set of ill chase it or not being I haven't seen a single base card in person. 

LETS GO METS and YA GOTTA BELIEVE

Well Well Well

Just got home from a few hours of work and flipped on what channel? MLB Network of course to catch some of the highlights from yesterday's games. 

How bout that video selfie by the Dodgers fan catching the HR ball. 

How bout 2 games ending via baserunners being struck by batted balls. Giants beat the Angels and Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks. Last time a game ended that way was 5 yrs ago.

Well the Mets loss to the Nationals 1-0 Saturday and it was the first time they've been shut out all year I believe. Well as I was typing this post it came across the ticker that the Mets were the last NL team this year to be shutout. At least they're scoring and hitting this year so far.   Kinda curious what they do with the middle infield situation. Flores definitely has had some issues and I expected some errors but not to the frequency he's making them. Same goes for Murphy. I do believe the Mets middle infielders have a combine error total of 16 which leads all of baseball. SMH. At least Juan Lagares is still flashing the gold glove leather still this year. 

Well hopefully the Mets can pull off a victory today and split the 4 game series with the Nationals and keep their lead in the NL east. 

Ok ok enough about crazy POV HR catching selfies and quirky stats. It's time to show off a card. The card I selected is this 2014 Fivestar silver signatures of Zack Wheeler. Picked this one up pretty cheap being he's another pitcher to undergo Tommy John surgery. Was expecting his continued success this year after last and hopefully this little detour/roadblock doesn't prohibit or hinder him. Well enough my my rambling and babbling here is the card. 

Lets go Mets and Ya Gotta Believe!!!

Lets Go Mountaineers!!

I Took it Easy on Them

Well today I had some free time and made it to the post office. So if you live in the following zip codes keep an eye on your mailboxes. 

79407

16933

85338

95119

06390

60856

I've been keeping an eye on ebay trying to acquire some new Mets stuff. I have been able to get some new stuff and have found sound deals on stuff that is a few years old. 

Here's a triple threads from last years set of David Wright that I was able to pick up a few weeks ago for pretty cheap. Curious to see how he performs once he comes back from the DL. I'm hoping his offensive performance can get back on track after two down years. 

LETS GO METS and YA GOTTA BELIEVE

Help it's the Attack of the PWE and a Group Break

Well as most of you can guess from the title that this post will feature some cards via a Plain White Envelope and the one that seems to keep bombing me is the gracious Jeff from over at 2 x 3 heroes. 

First let me pimp a Nachos Grande break. This break features a box of 2015 Gypsy Queen, Museum, Opening Day, Museum, Bowman Chrome, and Draft Kings. So head on over to here and check out the teams remaining. Still a bunch of good teams left Dodgers, Yankees, White Sox

Now we return to are regularly scheduled post. Jeff from over at 2x3 Heroes sent me 2 PWEs, one fairly recently and the other a few weeks back that I've been meaning to post.  Well life got into the way and I've combined the 2 into 1. He sent a bunch of nice stuff an color and below is just a small sample of what he sent. 

First up is a first career HR manu relic of David Wright from this years Series 1 and who looks to be coming off the DL in the very near future.

Next up is some shine of Matt Den Dekker with the Nationals and a prospect of Camarena who I don't know much about. 

Continuing with the shine is some beautiful purple Heritage of the 2 big arms of Harvey and deGrom which is out of 566 if my memory serves me correctly along with Cesar Puello who has cleared waivers an is still with the Mets. 

Thanks for the PWEs Jeff and be on the lookout for a envelope headed your way in the next few days. 

LETS GO METS