The first 3 cards out of the pack were yawn inducing… Card #244 of Chone Figgins, #134 of Giants pitcher Matt Cain and card #203 of Aaron Hill…
Nothing exciting, nothing that earned me any points, until…
The 4th card out of the pack is card #325 of Marlins right fielder Mike Stanton.
This dude is still just 21 years old, he earns the league minimum, was a Topps All Rookie Team selection last year and has 30 homers already this year. Short prints rule and this one earned me 2 points! 
It also reminds me of a post by the Waxaholic discussing how horrible Marlins attendance has been this year. It is unbelievable that a big league team is drawing that little, BUT a team with amazing young talent like this? F-ing insane. 
Anyway, moving on to the 5th card out of the pack, it is card #FF 14, Solferino from the Floating Fortresses set. Nice.
This one earns me another 2 points, woo hoo!
The last card in this pack is a little, itty bitty one… Card #PP10 of the Cairn terrier known as Toto. Good for an additional 3 points! I have finished the Portraits of Penultimacy set, so I was a little disappointed with this being my mini, but I will take 3 points, ha!
That gives me 7 points for this pack which will be added to the 41 points I already had which give me 48 points (yes, I used a calculator) thus far…
Aside from the Mike Stanton SP, EVERYTHING is up for trade… Get in touch… More Gint-A-Cuffs pack ripping to come, stay tuned… Oh, in case anyone actually read this I am gonna end with a question. A simple yes or no. If you are part of the 2011 Gint-A-Cuffs rip-a-thon - do you still have packs left to rip or to post? Just wondering if I am the only one... Go Rays! Troll out.
I should lose a point for pulling a card of a dude with that name who spells it in that manner… Next is card #242 of a lady who dances, Cheryl Burke. Three cards in and I am down a point…
Card #309 of A’s catcher Kurt Suzuki!!! This may be one of my favorite base cards so far. A play at the plate and he is OUT!!! Very nice. Plus 2 cuz he is an SP. Is that John Lackey sliding in? 
Weird…
He is from Englishtown, New Jersey which has a big drag (racing, not queens…) strip in it. Big racing town, went there often as a kid. Plus 1 for Hometown Heroes. Plus 2 total for the pack…
I was hoping he might be PaTP’s fav players, I was hoping, but he went with Josh Hamilton and pulled a bunch of his cards and scored a lot of points. I score nothing for this. Pack 5, 2 points
I got a N43 pack and I had high hopes for it, I hoped I would yank a David Price or Carl Crawford or even a David Wright or Roy Halladay that I could trade away AND get some Gint-A-Cuffs points for it. Alas, I pulled a Yankee, and it was the most useless Yankee (other than A-Roid) aka Mark Teixeira. After I take the hit for pulling a Yankee, I come away with 5 points for my N43… 
Now onto my 3rd and 4th packs… Perhaps I will do a little better with these.
Then we have card #162 of Mat Latos. Meh. Followed by card #52 of pitcher Francisco Cordero. Meh. Next up is card #92 of Mariners super rookie 
I pulled a Minds That Made the Future card! It was #MMF27 of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur. Very cool and good for 3 points. Nice. I had one more card to go and I got a mini – a mini from the World’s Most Mysterious Figures subset, card #WMF7 of The Man in the Iron Mask, another card good for 3 points. 
Not too bad, I ended up with 8 points on this one, so with 3 packs and the N43 I have 25 points.
Beginning with card #223 of Chuck Woolery and look who came with him… Card #105 of Indians pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez (a male figure) and card #299 of super cute boxing champion Ana Julaton (a female figure) so I get a bonus point, woo hoo! 
Next up is a Hometown Heroes card, #HH29 of Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello… 
His ERA is a bit high, but this dude is a solid starting pitcher and he is only 22 AND he isn’t a Yankee, SO plus 1 point! The sixth card out of the pack is a little thicker than the rest… Yep, it’s a relic. Card #AGR-CQ of White Sox outfielder Carlos Quentin. Baseball Reference’s Fan EloRater ranks him 1,046th of All Time among hitters. 
He was an All Star this year. Dude can hit some homeruns and he isn’t a Yankee, so I am not completely disappointed. Plus I get 10 points for it, yay!!! I still have one card left, too. The last card in the pack is a mini, card #94 of the Pirates middle infielder of the future? 
Josh Rodriguez AND it is a Ginter ad back, good for an extra 2 points (crap, forgot to snap the back, gonna have to trust me on this one). That gives me a total of 14 points for this pack!!! Awesome, my best yet! 
#188 Geovany Soto. Meh.
My last card is #SPU8 of the Strongman. Good for 3 points.
We start off with #91 of Joel Pineiro.
Ascent of Man, #AOM 26. I really like this set. If you finish it you must put it in binder pages, it makes a really cool picture. This card on the other hand is supposed to show the epitome of human evolution, a dude peeing in the street. Still I get +3 for it…
Card #AGR-FC – A bat relic of Yankees 12th string catcher Francisco Cervelli. 10 points for a relic, divide by two cuz he is a stoopid Yankee. GRR.
Okay, got 4 points on my first pack, 8 on my second. The championship is mine!!! Two packs in and I sit at 12 points. There are 22 more packs to come. Stay tuned. Oh, by the way, EVERYTHING is up for trade.
This is what she came up with: “While starting a baseball card collection for his two-year-old son Jacoby, Mike learned about the Ginter Code Promotion and teamed up to co-champion the 2009 Ginter code-cracking effort. Mike and Jacoby enjoy rooting for the Red Sox and collecting cards from their home in Portland, Oregon. “
Oh, by the way, I wanted to show off my Mike Gellner 1/1 with this post. It rules! Thanks for reading! Go Rays! Troll out.
Okay, everything here (other than Toto, for now) is up for trade. I have several copies of some of these. Anyway, as y’all now, I am still trying to finish off the regular Topps sets from 2007 – 2011, PLUS Rays gold cards, PLUS Rays Ginter minis, plus 2008 Upper Deck Documentary, PLUS 2010 Allen and Ginter, plus some Vintage sets. In other words, I am pretty easy to trade with…
Here we go! Starting with card # PP1 of unaccredited telephone innovator Antonio Meucci. 
Wow, I have nothing to say about him, how often does that happen?
Card number PP4 of deranged blacksmith and Dr. Frankenstein’s assistant, Igor. 
I’m gonna guess that Igor is even shorter than Tim Collins, so I guess that makes him pretty cool. I guess.
Card number PP5 is my favorite of the set so far… It features the hype machine known as the Hare. 
The unbeatable speedster who lost a race in one of the great upsets of all time…
Card #PP6 features the Lone Rangers faithful sidekick Tonto…
I am quickly running out of time before I am expected to actually work while at work, so…
Card PP7 shows composer Antonio Salieri, 
while card PP8 features Sancho Panza, squire to Don Quixote…
The final card I have is of a little dog… 
Card #PP10 of Dorothy’s pooch Toto.
