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!
Glad you made it through the quake too!
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