Do we Dare To Tear? Help us decide what to do with our 2010 11 Panini Zenith Hockey Box Topper.

We've told you about Panini's Hat Trick of Hockey releases.  Number two in the series is here, 2010-11 Panini Zenith Hockey.  One of the really fun aspects of this box is a 5 X 7 Box Topper card, the return of Dare To Tear.   Here is what we pulled.

It's big... no?   To give you an idea of just how big this card is, here is a size comparison with the base cards.

 So inside this Jeremy Roenick Dare To Tear card is another regular size card that you won't find anywhere else.   It could be an Epix card, a Donruss Elite Rookie card or a National Treasure card.  But to get to the card you have to tear into the Roenick.

To tear or not?   We are going to let you decide.
Use the poll to vote and then use the comments to tell us what you would do and why.  We will leave this open for a few days to let everyone cast their vote.  Then we will reveal the rest of the box break along with the results of the rip if we are dared by enough of you.

UPDATE- Poll is closed.  Here are the final results.

Yes!  I Double Dog Dare You!  - 84.21%
No! That would be barbaric! - 15.79%

2011 Topps Rising Rookies Football, another All About Cards SPEED-break™

For Topps, 2011 Rising Rookies NFL Trading Cards is their first football release this year.   It’s a really nice mix of returning star players and the incoming rookie class. 

SPOILER – One of our autos is #/25, a really nice hit.

Here is our video box break.

2011 Topps Baseball Series 2, another All About Cards SPEED-break™

Topps continues their 60th Anniversary Celebration with Baseball Series 2.   We ripped into a 36 pack hobby box.   Here is our video box break.

Hey Check Out My Cards, what kind of Mickey Mouse operation are you running?

Most of you are probably aware of Check Out My Cards.  I've used the site often to pick up some great deals on singles.  It's also a good gauge of how real world prices are trending on cards.  Though, from a casual check last night, things may be a bit off in some instances.  At the start of my search for some baseball cards I noticed this on the first page.

This was supposed to be a listing in highest price order.  I couldn't understand why the $2.50 2010 Topps Update Atlanta Braves Mickey Mouse All-Stars was listed ahead of the 2005 Upper Deck Trilogy Babe Ruth Cut Auto Front, Don Mattingly & Derek Jeter Auto Back card with an asking price of $11,000.  So I clicked on the Mickey Mouse card and here is what I found.

One of these things is not like the others.

Which one is different?  Do you know?

Can you tell me which thing is not like the others?

And I'll tell you if it is so.

OK, so for the price of 45 Ruth/Mattingly/Jeter autos you can have your very own Atlanta Braves Mickey Mouse All-Star.  Of course you could pay $2.99 but keep in mind, you get what you pay for, so clearly the last one is 166,666 and 2/3 times better than the cheap one.

So, of course, I thought the $500,000 might have been a computer glitch until I looked at the front page again and saw this.

For the same price as the most expensive Mickey, (not Mantle) you can own a 2009 Bowman Sterling WBC Relics Black Refractors of Kosuke Fukudome.   By the way, there were only 25 of these made so this just might be the steal of the century.  Upon further inpsection I noticed something else.

The astute seller of this card is "ziggyz129" who is also the seller offering the Atlanta Braves Mickey Mouse card for the same price.

This poses a real dilemma for those who can only spend a half a million dollars.  Which card do you get?

I wonder if Ziggy is willing to negotiate.

The Complete List of 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball Autograph Cards

We gave you the complete list of Non-Baseball autographs in 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter, so how about the complete list of BASEBALL autographs?   Sound reasonable.   Here is our list.

Adrian Gonzalez

Albert Pujols

Andres Torres

Angel Pagan

Aroldis Chapman

Brent Morel

Brett Wallace

CC Sabathia

Chase Utley

Chone Figgins

Chris Sale

Daniel Hudson
David DeJesus

Freddy Sanchez

Gio Gonzalez

Jason Heyward

Jose Bautista

Josh Hamilton

Josh Johnson

Joe Mauer

Jose Tabata

Miguel Cabrera

Michael Morse

Nelson Cruz

Randy Wells

Roy Halladay

Sergio Mitre

Starlin Castro

Ubaldo Jimenez

Derek Jeter gets 3000 hits

Congratulations to Derek Jeter, the first player in a Yankee Uniform to reach the 3,000 hit mark.   He reached the milestone on a Home Run.


Lots of Pinstripe Pride today!

2011 Panini Score Football NFL Trading Cards Box Break Recap and Review

2011 Panini Score Football is an extensive collection of cards with a healthy sized checklist.  At $0.99 a pack, it’s hard to deny the appeal of these cards.

Score Football could easily be mistaken for fun cards because of their price point, but there is some real collecting to be done here so we classify this set as trading cards. You can find them at retail outlets and your local card shop.   Boxes come with 36 – 7 card packs.

Lets take a look at some of the cards we pulled from our box.

From the Base set

 Aaron Rodgers, front and back

Here are some other star players we pulled

Tom Brady, Adrian Peterson, Darrelle Revis, Ndamukong Suh

Dez Bryant, Sam Bradford, Antonio Gates, Adrian Foster

From the Rookie Cards

 Mark Ingram Rookie Card, front and back

Here are some more Rookies

Von Miller, Julio Jones

Jake Locker, A.J. Green

The base cards also come paralleled in Glossy but in the scans they look the same.  In personal, they are very nice.  Other parallels include the following

 Scorecard -  Ryan Mallet, Brandon Harris, Niles Paul and Tyron Smith

 Gold Zone - Ryan Mallett, Adrian Clayborn, Colin McCarthy, Martez Wilson

Red Zone - Greg Olsen, Justin Tuck

End Zone - Ryan Mathews

Here are cards from the insert sets

In The Zone

Millennium Men

 Hot Rookies

 Complete Players

 And our big hit for the box

Titus Young Rookie Card Autograph

Overall Look

Score Football has a classic, almost retro feel that is simple and solid.  These cards are attractive looking regardless of the price point. 

Quality and Variety of Players and Subsets.

300 star players, 100 rookies.  This makes for a really nice checklist.   Insert cards work well.

Do the hits hold up?

If you can pull an autograph, yeah, there are some great hits to be had, but this is more about building the set at a reasonable price point.  Trying to find parallel variations of the rookie cards and ‘zone” cards are the real chase here. 

Will you want to collect them all? 

That really is the whole point of Score.   This is intended for people new to collecting and veteran set builders.  

Rating

4 out of 5

2011 Panini Score Football is a great group of cards geared towards set builders.