Saturday, September 18, 2010

New contest: FREE STUFF (no asterisk this time), plus trade stuff

Jefferson Burdick says TRAAAAAAAAAADE

Before I get to the contest below, I want to take a minute to solicit new people for trades.  I have a comprehensive wantlist, which you can see to your right.  That includes sets and teams/players.  If you have a favorite team or player, or you're also working on sets, please leave a comment below or hit my email link to your right.  I have a bunch of stuff that I can put into team or player lots, and a good amount of set fillers (also listed on my SCF wantlist page linked above and to your right).  Sets I'm working on that I'm ohsoclose to finishing:

1994 Topps: 64 87
1995 Topps: 391
1996 Sportflix: 69 90
1996 Ultra: 523
1996 Upper Deck Ripken Collection: 22
1997 Bowman's Best: 134
1997 Fleer: 108 212 685
1997 Score Premium Stock: 1 22 24 122 123 130 156 187 215 310 349
1998 Pinnacle Mint Bronze Cards: 25
1998 Score Rookie Traded: 181
1998 Studio Portraits: 7 10 13 16
1998 Upper Deck: 18 260 603 610 629
1999 Skybox Thunder: 265 281 290
1999 Stadium Club: 100 141
1999 Topps: 374 461 (Any Sosa)
1999 Upper Deck PowerDeck CDs: 3 10 23 25
2000 Bowman: 180 192 399
2000 Fleer: 129
2000 Ultra: 11 89 200
2000 Upper Deck MVP Set 2: 100
2001 Donruss Retro 2000: 15 23 24 58 63
2001 Fleer Platinum Rookie Reprints: 2 6 8 17
2001 Fleer Triple Crown: 65 92 298
2001 Stadium Club: 160 161 167 170 187 189 191 196 198
2001 Topps Archives: 180
2001 Upper Deck: 367 414
2002 Donruss: 3
2002 Donruss Rookies: 95 104
2002 Topps: 338 339
2002 Topps Archives: 10 113 125 136 139 157 174 189
2004 Bowman: 198
2004 Fleer Hot Prospects Draft Edition: 14 48
2004 Leaf Second Edition: 4 32 33 42 50 66 82 111 136 182 195
2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites: 5 15 21 25 34 38 50 82 97 112
2004 Topps Traded set 1: 7 13 15 18 24 76 78 82 89 102 130 170 198
2005 Flair: 7 24 30 36
2005 Fleer Patchworks: 4 13 15 29 55 61 68 69
2005 Skybox Autographics: 26 40 45 54 60
2005 Topps: 350
2006 Topps: 53 76 90 146 155 188 224 231 252 274 275 280 281 290 297 319
2006 Ultra: 37 75 95
2007 Topps Series 2: 530 618
2008 Donruss Elite Extra Edition (Set 2): 11 15 58 59 67 74 79 96 97
2008 Topps Co-Signers: 24 28 50 70 74 78 96 99
2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition (set 2): 26 30 31 33 41 45
2009 Topps Update: 18 24 30 39 46 100 145 147 167 224 238
2010 Bowman: 4 109
2010 Topps: 452

Help me out!  And get your favorite team/player in the process!

NEW CONTEST

Not included in the contest, so don't guess him

This one is totally altruistic this time, I promise--well, mostly.  I'm not bribing you guys to advertise me on your blogs this go round, I'm just killing two birds with one stone by giving away some packs that I don't need.

You might remember the box of 2007 Topps gravity packs I opened a few posts back.  You might also recall that while I completed a set from the box, I had leftover packs because I caught on to the sorting scheme they used.  These are the packs I'm passing on to one lucky winner.  Here's how it works:

-There are 8 total packs of 22 cards (plus 3+ year old gum!).  That's like, 172 cards or something, and they're probably mostly, if not entirely, different considering what I saw from opening the packs I did
-All packs are from Series I.  That would include anything from #1-#330 here
-All the packs are different, at least in terms of the players that show on the top and bottom
-All 8 packs have a different player showing on the front
-All of the topmost cards are of a single player (ie no subsets, multi-player cards, team cards, etc.)
-All of those cards are of actual players (ie no managers)
-The last names of the players on the eight cards start with a total of 6 different letters
-6 are of players pictured on AL teams, 2 NL.  The AL Central is well represented

That's all the hints you'll get.  Your job is to guess as many of those eight different players' names as you can.  Whoever gets the most correct by next Wednesday (the 22nd) at 7 pm EST (give or take a few minutes, I'll do my best) gets all eight packs (giving me a day or two to get their address and ship them off).  Should there be a tie, the tie-breaker will be the players on the back, but we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

Other rules:
-Only 1 entry per person--include something to uniquely identify you in your comment (blog URL, full email address (formatted however you'd like to avoid spam, such as "user @ gmail dot com"), or whatever else you can think of)
-You only get 1 entry but in case you change your mind, I'll use your final guess closest to the contest's end
-I'll only accept entries that include the names of  8 different players at most.  If you'd rather guess fewer, that's fine by me, though you'd be dumb to do that and decrease your odds
-If nobody's guessed more than 1 or 2 by Tuesday evening, I'll give some hints and everyone can amend their guesses.  However, I won't specifically mention which players, if any, have been correctly guessed.
-If I get 10 or more different entries, I'll throw in the following swag to the winner:
     2005 Topps Chrome A-Rod Throwbacks (4-card) set, an $8 value
     2002 Bowman Francisco Liriano RC ($8)
     1985 Topps Kirby Puckett RC (because I've got a bunch) ($12)

Sound good?  That's a buttload of free stuff!  Again, I'm not asking you to pimp me on your blog this time, but feel free to mention this contest to your friends to make it more interesting.

Good luck guessing!

Appropriate because of the question marks, plus I'm GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT SO CALL TODAY!  (Note:  Mattew Lesko is not affiliated with this blog in any way--there's no free money in it)

6 comments:

  1. Okay Trebek, I'll play your game, you rogue!

    Glen Perkins
    Joe Nathan
    Scott Podsednik
    Mark Teahen
    Jake Westbrook
    Jeremy Sowers
    Scott Rolen
    James Loney

    FTW!

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  2. I'm in, because why not?
    Magglio Ordonez
    Grady Sizemore
    J.J. Putz
    Jason Bartlett
    Gil Meche
    Johan Santana
    Brandon Webb
    Greg Maddux



    -6 are of players pictured on AL teams, 2 NL. The AL Central is well represented

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  3. No blog, but down to play.

    Travis Hafner
    Brandon Inge
    Randy Johnson
    Melvin Mora
    Joe Nathan
    Ivan Rodriguez
    Todd Helton
    Mark Mulder

    steven dot drennen at gmail dot com

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  4. In to win!

    Ian Kinsler
    Derek Jeter
    Pat Neshek
    Joey Gathright
    Paul Konerko
    CC Sabathia
    Edgar Renteria
    Jason Jennings

    Play at the Plate

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  5. Amending my guess:

    Rocco Baldelli
    Hank Blalock
    Alex Cintron
    Brent Clevlen
    Todd Helton
    Andy Pettitte
    CC Sabathia
    Daryle Ward

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  6. And we have a winnar! Nice job, Steve--I guess my hints were a little too helpful, but that still took some legwork getting them all. Hit my email up there on the right so I can get your address. If you've got a favorite player or team I'll see about throwing in a few other cards too.

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