Not My Score

 Baseball or hockey and these would be great, but football just leaves these all as trade bait.

Warren Moon sighting - amazing how much we still see of the man since he playing days were decades ago. Goes well with the use of the 90s colour scheme vibe for the lower end Score set.

Similarly can't complain about a Barry Sanders card coming out of the bunch - nice!

The 2022 design is much better than the 2023 design, but the few 2023 cards here are pretty darn solid with McNabb, Purdy in duplicate and Favre. Still, a pass for the cards today from me, but maybe some baseball tomorrow will help change up my luck.

The Word

 Basketball cards from the 2026 Lot today, and all from the 2020-21 Panini Mosaic set. Have had a few cards from the set previously, but about another 40 to add today.

I don't actually have a lot to say about this set - I mean, it's Mosaic, and keeps with the look and feel. The design isn't significantly different from other years of Mosaic. Not a great or underwhelming card or design, just there.

Some throwback stars in the set is fine, and I appreciate that they are trying to spread the word....and what is the word, well the Larry Bird is the word.

Any time I see Larry, I am reminded of two games. I remember playing Dr. J. Vs. Larry Bird as a young child in the 80s. It was released in 1983, and there was a sequel of sorts in 1988 when it became Jordan vs. Bird. These were amount my first video games to have played and were the tip of the iceberg when it came to what video games were to me as a kid. These games were the gateway games, like Atari or Commodore 64 to what became years of Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and on from there.

Fun times. Horrible graphics (great for the time), but fun gameplay regardless.

Rough Timmies

 The condition of the cards through the 2026 Lot has been great, usually there is a bit more "rough around the edges" cards which end up just being packaging material. I am guessing it may be how these cards were received, but the Timmies cards here are generally in rough shape, though a few good enough to keep.

Hard to tell with some of the cards, but some have creases or rough enough corners that the card is splitting, and for me, I know there are many much better quality out there, so I am not going to bother keeping filler cards and will just reuse them as packing material.

At least the Bruin will be passed along elsewhere.

The Laine, Linus and Brock cards were good enough condition and needs, so I did get a few cards out of the ones today, but the last ones were too rough...

Grinding on all corners on all cards for whatever reason so - nothing to keep on these, and a bump in our packing material numbers from the lot. Still, this has been the vast minority of cards, so not complaining as there are bound to be some cards like this in a larger lot purchase.

Face The Rainbow

 Happy October to everyone - the months are flying by this year. Three months left in 2026, and I'm am thinking about how we might just get this 2026 Lot done and cataloged in the year, which would be great. I have a bunch of other things in line for the blog, and am having fun with it still (otherwise, I wouldn't be doing it), but curious to see how the rest wraps up.

Today - we get a nice batch of 2023 Panini Illusions which have a nice psychedelic look.

Well, the scans are a lot rougher than how they look in hand, so in hand, definitely better. The real base set is only 100 cards, so a decent number here for share and trade. I will say, the foiling for the name isn't easy to read in scan and isn't too much better in hand.

Classic Panini with the big background photo being a close up of the full smaller photo on the front - not sure if this is a good idea or not. In some ways it works and the images don't fight each other for attention the same way, but I do like variety.

Nice enough cards that have a higher end feel, just not going to be on the higher end of my keepers....any takers?

Back 2 B Ball

Another 2026 Lot day and another day back to shiny basketball cards. Will there be anything of interest or intrugue? Let's see!

Sweet - Demar AND Kule, together again. Well, atleast pulled side by side in this bunch, though past their days playing in Toronto. The off season Lowry signing by the Raptors.

No actual current Raptors in the bunch today, but many of these are new for trade, and actually move the set completion to about half way done - not that I am trying to collect it. At least with Prizm, you know what you are getting and the set is fine and solid.

Well, if I am going to get dupes Ewing is decent enough - though was never a guy I "liked". I wasnt big into basketball but was a Bulls fan from 1991-92 on through the 90s, so be default, not a Knicks fan.

Not a terrible bunch of cards today, even with the triple Ewing sighting. I need to find some good people who want some basketball cards to start moving them to better homes. I actually have done a couple trades "for future considerations" if that works for anyone else.

I do think we are getting down to the last dredge of basketball and football from the lot, though a 3200 count box which i believe is just hockey and baseball is left, after a couple more weeks of cleaning up this second to last box.

The Rest of Jeff

 A long showy post today as we go through the rest of the cards Jeff bestowed upon me, and honestly, a lot of inserts and a few awesome Leaf cards in the bunch.

The Sittler is going to win the day - I mean, pretty solid condition and a great card, amazing add for the collection, and for sure a new addition. The rest of the pre-90s Leafs are dupes, but love having these additional copies, they are all solid condition too. Newer Tims work for me too.

I still have my own packs of 2025-26 Tim Hortons to open yet, but have, I think, all the base Leaf cards already.

A Sizzle Reel insert from flagship Upper Deck....oh and there are other non-Leaf inserts too...

Gold parallels and StarQuest from the 90s - love it, and ones I have others of, so adding to those collections. I don't think I will even finish a gold parallel set, but I'm gonna passively try!

Must have had a bunch of late 90s, early 2000s Pacific because we get a bunch of inserts from the sets here too. The inserts were ahead of their time in many ways, and a lot would probably fit in just fine with the product today....though we'd have to update the players....

I may not be the biggest fan of foil colour parallels, but we have some of those for keeping too. Green on blue is an ugly combo that's hard to read though.

Timmies cards always work for me - though I'd rather there just be a single set each year. We don't need multiple releases for the money grab, thank you.

Recent inserts too! I like the Bee Hive and the Dazzlers look great when they match the team colour.

The playing card look is pretty sweet too. We also pick up a nice start to my 2025-26 binder.

The rest are all up for grabs...

A dabbling of 90s cards...

Thrn to more recent years including Timmies...

The special team sets for the original six are great sets, that's why I love the Leaf one from a few years ago. I don't plan on collecting any, but a great set for respective team collectors, and the last of the cards from Jeff. As always, a big thank you, and let's see what I can turn around for you.

Scott's Flagship

 So much hockey today, we get to split it over a couple days with the cards from Jeff. Today, let's keep it Upper Deck flagship set, I gather because Jeff ended up with a lot from collecting newer sets, though there are a few keepers in the bunch, so let's start with those.

I like some of the 2010 sets better than our more recent ones from 2020 - maybe it's time making them sit a bit better, I don't know. Regardless, I still love the ice level looking up camera angle on cards like the McQuaid.

Leafs and errors - not many, but I'll take a handful any day! I will say that there is one thing that bugs me about the 2025-26 Upper Deck set design - I hate the foil name just on the photo. I have a very hard time reading it on a number of the cards, and it would be much better if it was put on a white background, or something to help contrast it - sorry Oliver and Leaf company from the year - it's definitely not going to be a set I go to collect.

Now, for the main purpose of the share - if you need any of the below, let me know and let's get some Bruins for Jeff....

Plenty of Upper Deck flagship...

Even some 2025-26 if anyone likes newer sets, but just designs and sets that aren't on my list to work on, or dupes because I have them, either way, looking forward to finding homes for some of these.

It wasn't just flagship Upper Deck sets from Jeff though, and the rest of the cards are up for share tomorrow.