Huddy's still my buddy!

Hey guys!  Do you remember how I showed off a pretty cool triple relic card of Tim Hudson a few weeks ago, featured in this post?  Well this month my spending has been comparably light because I'm avoiding COMC until its catalog gets rebuilt and the backlog of submissions is taken care of.  Because of that, I was able to go after some wants on eBay, and that included a card I've wanted for quite a while.  The price for the one in this post has been all over the place, but about $9 and a few days later, I landed a great new pickup of Hudson, one of my all-time favorite non-Tigers:

Tim Hudson 2000 SPx auto (#0232/1500)

I've long admired the shiny holographic/gold look of the 2000 SPx set, and better yet, the on-card autos from the product.  Hudson has plenty of others out there, but this is the one I've been locked onto for years (with a Sweet Spot being choice #2).  I didn't think I'd be able to find one for under $15 plus shipping, but after checking out some completed listings I started to get more optimistic, and I ended up with surprisingly little competition in this particular auction.

Thanks to the beautiful Tools of the Trade card from last time, I'm in the perfect position to post a trifecta of Hudson soon since I also have a RC to add to that album, and that may inspire me to great a "trifectas and more" page on this blog since I have a few other good examples.

So hooray for a new PC addition that doesn't fall into my Tigers and Michigan Baseball collections but still makes me happy and was therefore totally a worthwhile purchase!  Also, hooray for the return of Huddy's health and effectiveness this season after his last one ended so painfully--it's great to see him back in business!