You Complete Me- The Crazies

Today we go to the sets type of sets we all have on our wants. Those sets that you figure will never get completed, or people look at and think what the? These are the sets that you look at, and think how could he not have a complete set of those. A few of these fit into the category of  what the heck is that set? In honor of these either tough or easy sets I'm doing my third, and last 'You Complete Me'.

1992 Pinnacle Team 2000

16- Dave Hollins

24- Bernie Williams

79- Reggie Jefferson

This is one of those sets that I started due to my love of prospects. All the players in this subset were expected to be stars by the year 2000. Even though all the players were in the MLB it still felt like a set I wanted for the prospects.

2014 has been a great year in adding to this set, and getting close to completion. Hopefully throwing this set out there in this post it will join the list of completed subsets.

1993 Milk Bone Superstars

1- Paul Molitor
2- Tom Glavine
4- Mark McGwire
14- Ben McDonald
18- Joe Girardi
19- Brady Anderson
20- Craig Biggio

When this set came out I actually owned a dog, and bought these treats for her. The fact that there was a card contained within the box was an added bonus. In something that will seem crazy, I'm actually more of a dog lover than cat lover. While I love the big cats like tigers, panthers, and mountain lions, give me a dog any day over a simple house cat. The dogs are the real reason I love these cards, and have been committed to completing this set one day.

On one of those crazy side notes about this set. During my time away from cards I came across a box of a few hundred of these at Goodwill, and passed on it. That box will now forever haunt me until the day this set is completed. Despite adding six cards this year from a trade I'm still looking for those final seven cards.

2000 Twizzlers

1~2~3~4~6~8~9~10~11~12

These cards came in packages of Twizzlers licorice in 2000. This was during the time frame that my baseball cards laid dormant, and explains why I only have two cards from the set. With how much I like Twizzlers it is kind of surprising that I didn't somehow buy more, and end up with atleast half a set.

2002 Twizzlers 

1~2~4~5~6~7~8~10

This set was a little more exciting than the first set in 2000. Twizzlers went from a set of baseball players to stars from various sports. The set covered baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and NASCAR superstars in ten cards. As with the 2000 set I can't tell you why I don't have more than the two that I currently have. Hopefully that will change one day as I'd love to complete both sets eventually.

Thank you for checking out not just the four sets from today, but the previous sets that I put out there in hopes of completing. These are just a few of the sets, and subsets that I'm trying to finish.

Even if you couldn't help with any of these there are a ton more that I'd love to take any help you can offer with. Who knows, maybe this will lead to a new trade partner for both of us with future cards.

You Complete Me- 2013 Topps Opening Day

After not having any luck with the 2011 cards. I thought why not go to something much closer to current day. Using that thinking I came up with the various subsets from 2013 Opening Day.

Since getting back into baseball cards this was the first set that I decided to fully tackle. While I built the 2013 Topps sets, and completed them. I passed on all the subsets that were within the set. With Opening Day though I thought what the heck, and went for it. So help this cat out, and look through your extras for some of these cards. I know these are still fresh in the traders box as it was only a year ago that these came out.

Opening Day Stars

ODS4- Buster Posey

ODS18- Cole Hamels

ODS21- Joey Votto
ODS25- Yadier Molina

Ballpark Fun-

BF5- Matt Kemp

BF13- Albert Pujols

BF14- Jayson Werth

BF15- Derek Jeter

BF18- Darwin Barney

BF19- Brandon Phillips

BF20- Alfonso Soriano

BF24- Hanley Ramirez

Superstar Celebrations

SC4- Joey Votto
SC10- Joe Mauer
SC13- Cory Hart
SC16- Mike Olt
SC22-Miguel Cabrera

Play Hard

 PH2- Bryce Harper

PH10- Miguel Cabrera
PH13- Albert Pujols
PH14- David Wright
PH15- Andrew McCutchen
PH19- Prince Fielder
PH23- Hanley Ramirez

Mascots

M2

M3
M4
M5
M6
M21
M22
M23
M24
M25

So go through your traders, and look for these cards. Anything you can find I'd love to have.

You Complete Me- 2011 Topps Opening Day

As I've posted about a couple times recently. Doing the Christmas lights on the house got me in a mood to get some things done. While this hasn't been very helpful when it comes to blogging as the mind went south. It has been helpful in other areas of my life, and that includes collecting.

Due to all this the collector in me remembered that at the first of the year I set some goals for the blog. While some of those have been long completed. Others have fallen to the wayside, and odds are won't be completed. All this will be covered at the end of the year when I do my review of goals.

One thing that can go wither way is the completing sets. Thinking I might be able to either come closer, or atleast go down fighting. I have come up with the idea of posting some of my closer to being finished stuff. Hopefully posting them here will get them some views they wouldn't normally get, and in the end yield some sort of results. If you have just one card, and are willing to part with it let me know.

Spot the Error

Missing Card SE10 - (Derek Jeter)

This is one of those subsets that when I started seemed like it would be an easy one to knock off. Sometimes things don't go as planned, and here it sits still missing that one lone card. To be this close after a find this summer of a few cards for the subset has me excited. Being able to cross these off the wantlists would be a great way to finish 2014.

Stadium Lights

Missing Cards-

UL1- (Joe Mauer) 
UL5- (Matt Holliday)

 UL8- (Adrian Gonzalez)

UL9- (Felix Hernandez)

UL10- (Ryan Braun)

When I got back into collecting these cards caught my attention. I'm not going to say the kid in me wanted them, but odds are it contributed. Adding missing cards has been tough going, but I know someone out there has atleast one of these someplace taking up valuable space in their traders. So how about we clear that space, and add them into a collection where they are wanted?

Mascots

Missing Cards-

M3 ~ M6 ~ M8 ~ M15 ~ M17 ~ M18 ~ M20 ~ M25 

Out of all my mascot subsets this is the one closest to completion. I know these are toughies as quite a few people are like myself, and collect these cards. Sometimes it might just be their favorite teams mascot, and other times they are like me, and build the entire set. Hopefully with some luck I can finally cross something off this list.

Some Stuff From The Duff

Out of the blue the great Duff from the blog Bleedin Brown and Gold dropped a PWE on the cat. Contained within were two goodies, and an interesting note of information.

Being Duff lives in Iowa it wouldn't surprise me to find that he went, and watched a few games for the Chops.Throw in the interesting tidbit that Duff wrote about this schedule, and I'd bet he was atleast a fan of the team.

The Chops were an affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks. Not paying their bills to the Ducks, Anaheim pulled their affiliation from the team. Without an affiliate the league had no choice, but drop the team.

The Menace aren't as interesting of a story as the Chops. That would explain why Duff didn't add the cool story like he did with the Chops. So I had to do some research myself.

Founded in 1994, and playing in the United States Premier Development League. The Menace still play today, and according to Wikipedia list the following titles.

• USL PDL Regular Season Champions 2014
• USL PDL Heartland Division Champions 2014
• USL PDL Organization of the Year 2009
• USL PDL Heartland Division Champions 2009
• USL PDL Champions 2005
• USL PDL Central Conference Champions 2005
• USL PDL Regular Season Champions 2002
• USL PDL Heartland Division Champions 2002

Thank you for the goodies Duff they are much appreciated.