Winning Idea for Opening Day Cards

After an excessive deliberation, Chris and I have chosen the winner of our latest contest where you were asked to submit your ideas for what we should do next at Opening Day Cards.

Without any more delay, the winner is Josh Hudgens! Even though Josh is a St. Louis Cardinals fan, we wish him a hearty congratulations!

In a nutshell, here is Josh's idea:

Viewers comb through their collection and form an All-Star team from their cards, including a player at each position. Then you take a picture and submit it to us. We will post all submissions and YOU the viewers will vote on our site to decide the winning submission for the best All-Star team of baseball cards.

Why we LOVE this idea:

1. It gives us all an excuse to rummage through our collection again, and that is always a good time.
2. We love it when viewers submit pictures of their cards.
3. We REALLY love it when viewers get to vote so we don't have the hard job of deciding who wins
4. This idea is really cool because the winning submission will include both the best all-time greats, including a mix of retired and current MLB stars, and the quality of the cards, for example, rookie cards, relics, autos, etc.
5. It's a contest, and we obviously love contests because they allow us to give away free awesome cards to you all!

We will be using Josh's awesome idea in an upcoming episode, so start combing through your cards now. More contest details, including the announcement of the sweet prize is coming soon!

Thanks to all of you who submitted ideas, we received a TON of great ideas. Don't be surprised if we use your idea even if you didn't win. We are in the business of giving you what you want. You want free baseball cards? You got 'em!

1st Fantasy Power Week Results

Two weeks ago we launched our first ever Fantasy Power Week with some simple rules and some pretty cool prizes. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Special congratulations to a few winners:


1st Place: Bennett, 12 points (Albert Pujols, Rick Ankiel, Tim Lincecum)

2nd Place: Travis, 11 points (Rafael Furcal, Nick Markakis, Tim Lincecum)

Bennett wins 2 packs from our Fantasy Power Week episode, and Travis wins the other pack we opened up. We will also include a special mystery card from their favorite teams.

We kept track of the results each day, and you can check the full standings by visiting our Google Spreadhseet. For those of you wondering what the best team would have looked like, it was a combination of Bennett and Travis' teams: Rafael Furcal (5 points), Rick Ankiel (5 points) and Tim Lincecum (4 points).

Since this was our first time offering the Fantasy Power Week, we would love your ideas on how to make it even better next time. We have already received the suggestion to include strikeouts for the pitchers to make up for the fact that they may only pitch once a week. What other great ideas do you have to make this contest even better?

Thanks for your feedback and congrats again to Bennett and Travis!

Winner of the Nolan Ryan Card!

So we had some great "best/worst strikeout" stories submitted throughout the last week but we had to choose just one winner. That winner will receive the Nolan Ryan "mother's cookies" limited edition baseball card. This thing is one of a kind and we know we're sending it to a good home.

The winner is.... Drumroll... CHRIS GULDRY! Take a chance to read his story below and feel free to comment with a congratulation. Now come on everybody, be good sports no hate :) only love. Congratulations Chris!

Here's my story: 10 yrs old (Bronco League back in the 70's). I had not struck out once all season. Much like never mentioning a no-hitter during a game, Dad and I never talked about the streak, but he did point to the "0" in the column in the stats after each game. So, last game of the reg season, 2nd at bat and the pitcher is the only girl in the league. She got 2 strikes on me and lobbed a "change-up" toward the plate. No need to spell out the outcome. Dad never let me forget that lone "K".

Watch out for those change-ups and enjoy the MLB season!