Congrats Princy!

Congrats to Prince Fielder taking home the  82nd All Star Game MVP honors, and screw all you Arizona dicks for acting like douches during the game.  Too bad the Brewers won't be able to afford the slugger in free agency but Prince is set for a huge payday next year to who ever he ends up playing for.

cb out.

Joy!!!

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Ryan Braun signed a 5 year, $105 million, extension to put him in a Milwaukee uniform till 2020.   After reading the article it made me make up my mind and decide to add Ryan Braun to the list of Players I actively collect. Sure I already collect Brauns cards as a matter of course being a Brewers fan and collection Brewers team sets and cards, but now it's official and he might even get his own album and box.  Such an honor has only been bestowed to a few greats.  My 3 HOF Player collections, Rollie Fingers, Robin Yount, and Reggie Jackson, my other two favorite baseball players growing up, Frank Thomas and Bo Jackson, my only "current" football player, Brett Favre, and I'm probably soon going to announce that Jordy Nelson and Aaron Rodgers get the official nod too, although Rodgers cards are currently hella expensive.  I had been toying with adding Prince Fielder to that list but seeing as he probably will be with another team next year I'm holding off. 

So welcome Ryan to Cynicalbuddha's hallowed halls of collectingdom!  I'm hoping that this card will be the next in my collection as well.

Prince Fielder 2004 E topps in hand

Continuing my mail bag postings across my microblogoverse I found this little gem on ebay a few weeks ago.

A 2004 Prince Fielder eTopps Rookie in hand!

I actually have one of these in my online account but I couldn't resist picking this us for so cheap.

Sorry about the scans.  The plastic case really diminishes the look of this card.  It's really nice.  This is my first eTopps have had in my hands, except for the Reggie Jackson Allen & Ginter Yankee Legacy card I have in my Reggie collection.  That card originally could only be bought as part of a $100+ set on eTopps so there was no way I was going to buy in but I ended up picking up the Reggie for pretty cheap.

Here's the back.

And the Cert of Authenticity, notice the id serial numbers match up, good, good. 

cb out.