Broken Down By Baseball Cards

Prior to yesterday I had roughly nine scheduled posts ready to go. Then I got a PWE from Gavin over at Baseball Card Breakdown, which threw a monkey wrench into the whole operation and made me move all of them back by having one of those cards that you need to just drop everything and blog about right away inside.

BOOM!!!
Okay I was wrong, there wasn't just ONE card inside that I dropped the other posts for, there were two.

BOOM x2!!!

Man, Gavin's really outdone himself here. When I first saw these I got super excited. So excited that I only noticed one (the Padres one) and tweeted about that before opening the rest of the envelope and seeing that there was another Yankees one too lmao.

These are magnificent. My favorite player on one my favorite sets/product lines ever. If I ever meet Torrens again you bet I'm going to get these signed. These are just so amazing. Only "issue" I have is that Gavin only gave Luis five/six stars. He's clearly an eight star player and deserves his rare foil parallel too.

Luckily the backs (which are based on the 2009 SCG motif) rectify that minor error by listing him at eight stars there. Except for speed and power (LUIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS has 10 speed and 11 power), those other statistics are fairly accurate.

You know, I used to joke that Gavin's customs are better than Panini/Donruss' post-Topps-license-exclusivity cards, but after getting these I think that's more of an insult to Gavin's work than a complement. I mean, these cards are fabulous. Panini ain't got shit on these. Heck, not even Topps can compete.

Especially not against this one. You all know how much I talked shit about the rookie card Topps dished out for Topps last year. Well Gavin won't make the mistakes that the people at Topps made. He knows what's up. He knows that an exciting play at the plate (even if it is the post-Buster Posey type) makes for better cards. He also knows that these are exactly the types of quirky unique photographs the real Sega Card Gens would've opted for too (RIP SCG).

There were other cards in the PWE too but they're of the prospect variety and have been added to the huge Yankees prospect post I mentioned I started working on a while ago. This post is/was all about the Card Genified Torrens.

This is so fucking cool. I owe Gavin big time. I'll start by not calling him Garvin to tease him anymore.

As always thanks for stopping by and take care :).