Musicfest

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Normally I'd be doing my usual post about Canada Day by pulling the Jays singing "This Land is Your Land" out of the mothballs, and probably the I Am Canadian rant, but not today.. 

Today I'm going to show some of the pics I took at Musicfest so far. I'm volunteering there this summer as a merch seller. 

The first concert was Gowan and as you can see, it was a beautiful evening. Lots of people showed up too. You can see the shirts we have for sale in this pic as well. 

The merch table is off to the side of the stage, so while I didn't see the show, I heard it. He did the Strange Animal album and a couple other songs from his catalogue. I believe this year is the 40th anniversary of the Strange Animal release. 

People were still milling about. It would fill soon enough. 

I believe it was around this time we were fighting with our payment machine. Couldn't get it to work, so we got a handheld unit and used that. 

And here's a picture of the weirdo who runs this blog showing off his volunteer badge. 

Tonight was supposed to be Neon Nostalgic. I'm not quite sure what that is, but yeah.. Those clouds? Ominous. Within 10 minutes of this picture, we had heavy winds, and the beginning of a lengthy heavy soaking rain.. The backstage area was trashed by the wind. There might have been equipment damage.. Just not a fun sight. The rain went on for about an hour. 

This was after the rain ended while I waited for my cab. The drowned rat I was.. The concert and the fireworks for Canada Day were cancelled. Our next concert is Saturday when the Good Lovelies take the stage at Del Crary Park. I'm not sure when the fireworks will happen. Maybe tomorrow.. Maybe Saturday on the next show. 

I also got some cards in a couple weeks ago that, I'll be honest, have been putting off posting. I'm trying to actually find more information about them and failing. 

It's the Toronto Blue Jays 50th Anniversary Hobby Box of cards. This is the box right from the website

And this is the box I received. Has no MLB or Fanatics logos. Has no manufacturing information at all.. I can't even find a checklist for it. 

This is the wrapper for the cards. Again, not really like what's shown in the photo above. 

I'll go in depth on them next post.

So, Happy Canada Day from the Great White North. Hope you all go out for a rip and give-r. Keep your stick on the ice and don't be a hoser, eh?

1979 Topps

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I'm at a time right now where I have all sorts of ideas, but can't get past the idea stage. I want to continue with my stadium profiles. I want to work on stadium cards again. I want to get organized in my collection. I just have functional paralysis when it comes to getting stuff done it seems. 

Honestly, it doesn't help that Chrome has made it impossible to save pictures from websites now. It saves as a full browser page. I may need to see if Edge will work for that portion of my ideas.. 

Anyway.. 

Recently I got some cards from JKatz. A group of 79 Topps.. Honestly, I got the stack for one card.. An Expos card to put towards the million. 

This one.. I'll be honest, the first time I saw the cap logo on both Fry and Sanderson, I was confused, because it looks like Detroit's. Turns out the Denver Bears used that for their caps for a while. 

The other cards are as follows: 

I honestly loved those uniforms and wish I was old enough to have seen them in their hayday (I was 1) 

So according to a quick search, this looks to be West Palm Beach Stadium. The Braves held Spring Training there for years. At the time the seats were... Red? (not sure.. Colour blind) but then they were switched to blue. 

The structure in the top right is the roof that covers the seats behind home plate. 

Dennis Martinez as an Oriole. 

I wonder if this could be considered a batting cage photo? 

So these are all available. As I mentioned, I only got the stack for one card lol 

Working on a New Set

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Well, today I have a set I'm working on that I ended up getting quite the chunk out of in 1993 Triple Play. 

I loved 93 and 94, though I never saw them much in the wild.. 92 is ok. The Panini TP is garbage that is bad and should feel bad.. But I digress...

Unlike the 92 Triple Play, the 93 set is a nice black bordered set with red lettering for the name on the bottom. The player's last name is kind of like the 1992 Donruss font for player names. 

A nice mix of vertical and horizontal cards. Here we have Eck throwing to the plate. 

One thing that was in Triple Play, since it was geared more to children, is Awesome Action cards. Some of these are really cool shots. 

The backs have the player name and their uniform number along with a photo and a year of stats. Fairly bare bones, but again, it's not a set for stat nerds. Sometimes you just want a set to look cool. 

Nice little trivia here. 

Wakefield as a Pirate. I wonder how many people remember that... 

Caminiti with the Dive!!!!

So the two above are interesting. 1993 the Marlins and the Rockies were added to the league. Companies dealt with the changes in different ways. Upper Deck had the players in their new uniforms in series 2.. Others just wrote the transaction on the card.. Much like these two with Chiamparino and Conine. 

The Express. 

And here are two Rockies. Nied, who was drafted by Colorado, and Bichette, who was traded to the Rock.. 

This is a rather unique idea. Cards showing the new additions in studio settings. 

Here are the new (for 93) Dodgers. 

Joe Robbie!! Interestingly enough, there are two copies of this card in the set. One was misnumbered. 

I still marvel at the fact this was the Marlins' home. .

Fun at the ballpark.. Milking competitions seem very... Double A, don't they? Do they even have milking competitions anymore? 

As for the second one here... I don't know.. Electro?? 

27 Wil Cordero

42 Larry Walker

68 Mark McGwire / Brian Harper AA

95 Fred McGriff

101b Andy Stankiewicz VAR

115 Ozzie Guillen

117 Tom Glavine

129b Joe Robbie Stadium STAD, ERR

139 John Kruk

160 Jack Morris

174 Ken Hill

190 Luis Polonia

213 Jeff Brantley

225 Bryan Harvey

234 Kevin Appier

249 David Justice

255 Derek Bell

259 Joe Robbie Stadium STAD, COR

Anyway, this is a list of what I still need for the base.. I have to look to see what of the inserts, if I want them.. 

Now.. On a personal note. Things have been going really well for me lately.. I don't get it.. I had my consult for bariatric surgery... I got rid of the queen sized bed I can't use.. I have a new hospital style bed coming to me that's fully paid.. I'm volunteering at Peterborough Musicfest this summer.. And I have a recliner coming.. 

On one hand I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.. On the other, I wish this ride of luck would help me with the groceries.. I'm stuck now till next Friday.. 

Anyway.. Have a wonderful day!