Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A Retail GQ Hit!

While at Target tonight, I bought bird seed, creamer, D batteries, and three packs of loose Gypsy Queen from a box on a shelf. They were out of the rack packs and blasters. The packs were $2.99 each.
The base cards:
90 Posey
94 Jeter
187 Berkman
137 Romero
36 Vlad
281 Pierre
171 ManRam
121 Cuddyer
172 Zimmerman
82 Starlin
Four inserts; SF10 Wright, FS6 Cahill, GO24 Cobb, and GO28 Ruth. Yeah! Cobb!
The three mini's are 178 Figgins, 232 Jhonny red back, and 68 Gary Carter
And lastly, a Nick Markakis auto! I absolutely LOVE beating the odds in retail. I don't know if Markakis is a Group A, B, or C, but at best the odds are 1:108. The other great thing about an auto hit in loosey retail packs... the douche-bag pack searcher that turned this box upside down, walked away with maybe a jersey card of some scrub like Brett Gardener. 

As always, I am up for trading anything you see on my blog. 

9 comments:

  1. Great hit. That is the best auto I have seen pop. I have seen multiples of two different Oakland A's pitchers and some guy on the Cubs, but Markakis is a bona fide star. Congrats.

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  2. According to my empty blaster box here Nick is part of Group B or 1:127 packs.

    I've bought 2 blasters thus far and got a hit in each box! 1 auto and one framed mini relic. Guess that's where the extra cards from the hobby boxes ended up...in retail!

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  3. Thanks for the info Colbey. I feel your pain with the scrub auto's. I pulled two Cashner auto's (that's the Cub scrub).

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  4. What do you need for that Markakis auto? We have some Tigers autos and relics if you want to trade.

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  5. Forgot to say that we've opened four GQ rack packs and pulled three relics.

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  6. Nice hit. Still haven't seen any around here.

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  7. @IC ~ A Tiger auto would be cool. Send an offer or two over.

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  8. oh man, you KILLED it! NIIIIIICE!

    i have to get to ripping my stash lol

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  9. I pulled that card out of a blaster a few weeks back as well! Great pick up

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