I was fortunate enough to be picked to participate in a clever game at
Royals and Randoms a few weeks ago. It was a hybrid draft/yankee swap game with hundreds of cards to choose from. I'm not sure how Josh kept up with everything, but he did a great job and is building himself a nice blog over there. My winnings came in this week, and it was fun to dig through:
These Flair cards were the main thing I was targeting. I've got a decent handful of these in my own collection, and it's one of those sets I may decide to back my way into completing if I can get enough to get started.
I also picked up a few Rangers.
... and some non- Rangers I collect. The Biggio card is pretty slick.
To round out my winnings, a have a few misc cards I liked. The Larkin card is part of a Fleer Tradition set I was building, but scrapped, but may decide to start up again.
Josh also had a "Mystery Pick" wrinkle in the game. You could, or could choose not to, choose a mystery card as part of your winnings. Of course I had to take a chance on it. This is what I got:
It's a pretty cool looking Jeff Gordon card that apparently used to play some sort of audio. I guess Josh wore it out before sending to me, because when I pushed the play button, all I heard for the next ten minutes were scratchy pained screeches coming out of the card. It went on and on and I couldn't make it stop. Josh is now on the lovely wife's sh*t list. But I still think it's a cool card though.
Thanks for the great contest Josh! Be sure to check out his blog, it's a lot of fun!
