Summer is flying by!

Summer is flying by! The Rangers have hit the halfway point of their season and the All-Star game is right around the corner. Last year there were a ton of Rangers on the All-Star team. This year when it's at home we're going to be lucky to have one on the team. Oh well, at least for a few more months we can still say we're the reigning World Series Champions. 

Not only is summer flying by, I don't feel as if I'm getting as much done on my card collection as I wanted to. I've spent most of my time organizing and putting my player collection in TCDB. 

There have been a few lightbulbs go off concerning my player collection.

First, I didn't have as many different cards of each player as I thought I did. I have a bunch of cards of my players, but more dupes than I thought I had. That tells me I"ve got to do a better job of keeping up with what I have. 

Second, putting player collections into TCDB is not a fast process. I can put a year's cards into TCDB pretty fast, especially compared to a player collection. Putting newer cards in is way harder with all of the parallels for each card. 

Third, I'm trying to figure out the best way to store my player collection. Currently, they are all in top loaders and in boxes. I kind of like it because, I can look through the cards pretty easy and if I add a card, I can put in year order and not have to make a lot of movement. I'm still considering binders, but I just don't know. I'm open for suggestions guys. 

I did pick up some cards that finally came in. All of these were Ebay or Facebook claim sales. 

 

The two Father's Day patch cards move me a little closer, not much, but a little closer on that subset. The other two cards were more throw in cards to the deal. I will probably list them on buysportscards.com unless someone on here wants to trade for them.

All of these go into the player collections. My player collections are pretty lopsided in that I've got way more cards of Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout and Bobby Witt Jr than I do of Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper, just to name a couple. I guess I might need to rethink and decide if I really want to collect these other non-Rangers. I am a big fan of the guys I do collect, that's why I started their collection in the first place. 

I've finally opened a couple of hanger boxes and a couple of blasters of 2024 Topps, but I haven't really gone through them yet. That will be for another post. That's it for this week. 

Peace, 

Michael

Isaiah 40:31