A Target Problem

I went on a binge last week...  This was Thursday's haul.  Keep in mind I HATE Allen & Ginter.  H A T E.  Every year I buy a few packs just for the hell of it.  It's usually just to remind myself that I do not want or need a card of a ferris wheel.  Which I got coincidentally.  At any rate, here are the highlights from Thursday's catastrophe.  

Was there a catastrophe at Target Friday?  You bet your bippy.  I may have also gotten into a convo with Target on Twitter about their lack of vendor participation in moving the goods to shelves.  Stay tuned....

2009 Hall of Fame Candidate Tribute Part 2

Here is another card I have had in my collection for a few years. I miss Donruss, well the old Donruss. I hope in 2010 MLBPA re-thinks its licensing so that perhaps we can revive a product that many people miss.

This is from 2005 Donruss Zenith Rickey Henderson Game Used Bat card



Rickey Henderson may still be playing baseball somewhere right now as you read this. This guy just loves the game, and loves to stay in shape. At his age now he could run farther and faster than I can. (I hate running, though I love to work out.) Rickey was one of the fastest base runners, and best base stealers to play the game. For a brief moment on his resume he was also a Yankee. Let's get more of those pinstripes into the HOF, though I don't think he would be enshrined as a Yankee.

2005 is probably the time where I bought the most Donruss, I just loved their products that year. Especially the basic series, when you cracked a hobby box and it had hot packs of all inserts. Needless to say I have a ton of inserts of players that I don't collect from this year, but it was still fun to open.

Gimmicky or sincere? (Updated)

Donruss released a statement about its Razor product saying the company "inadvertently" released some copies of prospect Wade Miley's card. This was on Beckett's site.

"A limited number of Razor exclusive player Wade Miley, a pitching prospect in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, were inadvertantly released in 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts.
Donruss issued this statement Tuesday:

Due to a production error at the time of pack-out, some 31 copies of a Wade Miley card mistakenly were inserted into packs of 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts Baseball.

Donruss officials believed they had a deal with Miley during the production cycle of Prime Cuts, but when it became apparent Miley was exclusive property of another manufacturer, Donruss pulled Miley cards before pack-out.

“These few just slipped by,” a Donruss representative said. “It’s an honest mistake, and one we regret.”

There are no Miley autograph redemption cards."

Does anyone believe this was an actual mistake?

I'm on the fence about this one, although, I'm not someone who is going to get caught up in this type of hype. (Jeter/Mantle Topps, I was all over that).

This is seemingly one of the cards here on eBay. But how is this card /25 if 31 were released.

Update: The current listing is up to $88 with two days left. I just wanted to add to ended listings, so you see what "hysteria" can do these cards.

Here's one that is numbered to /25.

Here's the 1/1.

The current cards is going to sell for more than five times the amount of the 1/1. HURRY UP! Snatch up your boxes to get the other 28 of these cards.