After all of the earthquake hullaballoo at work today I get home and got a bubble mailer from Topps. You know most everybody has seen one of these in their mailbox:
Not everybody is as lucky to get boxes from Topps with unopened semi-vintage packs and diamond rings like you-know-who!
I thought this might be my Alexei Ramirez autograph from last year's Allen & Ginter or maybe my Manny Machado autograph from this years Bowman.
No such luck. Just a Rockie with a blown out elbow:
It's a shortprint from this year's Heritage set. This is what I got for my 44 cent stamp in the NPN's. With all the Rockie-ing and rolling that the earth's crust did today, fate sent me this Jorge De La Rosa card. I was about 50 miles away from the epicenter of the quake, there was a good amount of shaking going on but there was no damage to the building I was in. It was evacuated as a precaution and the all clear was given about a half hour later. It was definitely an interesting experience that I won't soon forget!
Back on track here though, I always do these since I got a pretty nice return from the 2004 Bowman Product. Check it out:
Grady Sizemore Autographed game base relic card. Sorry the scan is blurry but apparently Screwdowns scan worse than chrome cards! The funny thing about this is that I had already pulled one of these out of the packs that I got the NPN address off of. I don't remember the odds of getting the card out of the packs but the odds of getting the same card as an NPN have got to be astronomical!