Post-Holiday Pack Therapy

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the long weekend afforded me quite a bit of quality family time. All good things come to an end though and I anticipated today being a stressful day at the office and it definitely delivered. After 8 hours of craziness, I was able to slip out to grab a bite to eat and I decided that while I was out I needed some pack therapy. I rolled over to my local Target(not the same one where I found my blaster of Stadium Club last week) hoping that they had finally put some SC on the shelves or pegs. Fortunately, there were some jumbo packs hanging when I arrived. I grabbed two and went back to finish my workday. 

When I got to my car at the end of my shift, I ripped the packs. Photography-wise, the packs were underwhelming. Out of 24 cards, the following were the only really interesting cards.

I hadn't seen the Stargell pic before and I dig the old school uniform, especially the hat. The Cervelli in full gear is pretty slick and who doesn't love a good celebration shot? I'd like to think that Odor is celebrating his one punch knockdown of Joey Bats...

I'm loving these two RCs! The Shaffer is my favorite of his RCs as it shows him celebrating solo after his first career HR. He put on quite the act since his teammates were huddled in the dugout ignoring him. See the video below, it's quite entertaining. The Bird is a great shot taken on Jorge Posada Day(check the awesome patch on his sleeve).

This was an unexpected surprise!

The Instavision inserts are case hits exclusive to Hobby boxes according to Cardboard Connection but apparently that information isn't correct. I am a bit disappointed with seeing this in hand though. When I heard the name 'Instavision', I imagined something similar to to the SC inserts from years ago that actually contained a few seconds of game footage. Sadly, the card scans incredibly well and doesn't really do much of anything. Outside of being a little foil-y, it's just a nice insert, but nothing terribly special. Even with the vast majority of the remaining cards being fairly pedestrian, they were needs for my set build. I'm slowly chipping away. Thanks for reading.