[ryanmo5]

Hey nice goldschmidt!

[rjcj2017]

Hey nice goldschmidt!

Thank you ... he was one of the better players that I didn't have a really solid card of yet.

[ryanmo5]

Love the color of the patch, looks like a sharp card!

[minitracer]

Yes sir, very nice hit!

Again, men, like I said ... I know the Puig gold doesn't book/sell for that much.

But look at it this way ... there are 330 cards in the update set, and you get exactly ONE gold/2013 in each hanger pack.

I bought a total of four, so if you look at it that way, I had a 4:330 chance of pulling that card, assuming there were no dupes.

The math works out to a 1.2 percent chance of pulling the Puig.

Personally, I like the emeralds better, as the golds tend to get a little chippy, but I am definitely not complaining.

And obviously, hobby is always a better deal than retail, but then again, go back and look at ALL the Update breaks on the boards so far ... I haven't seen any other gold Puigs from hobby OR retail.

Just to illustrate a point, my other three golds out of the hanger packs were Bryan Petersen, Mike Carp and Aaron Harang.

So yeah, Pweeg tends to stand out just a wee bit there, LOL.

RJ I wasn't down playing the Puig. I meant in general golds don't seem to be as valuable as I think they should be. In the words of Borat "Veery Nice Veery Nice" !

[DrMitchJ]

Congrats, RJ!
Gold Puig! Awesome! And the Goldschmidt All Star card makes for a great few retail boxes.
Not sure if it reinstates you to the Retail Throne quite yet, but it's a step in the right direction

[rjcj2017]

RJ I wasn't down playing the Puig. I meant in general golds don't seem to be as valuable as I think they should be. In the words of Borat "Veery Nice Veery Nice" !

It's all good, man. Basically, I spent a ridiculous amount of money on Bowman/Topps Chrome retail stuff and the best pull I had a was a purple Puig out of a Topps Chrome hot box ... very, very frustrating when I relaized I could have just bought a Puig auto online, basically.

So to hit this caliber of a Puig on a relatively small amount of Update breakage, I was completely elated — more of a relief than gloating about a relatively inexpensive pull.

Now that my Tigers are done, too, I think I'm done with baseball for the year.

Funny thing is, I really wasn't even going to do much baseball at all this year — I was like, what can they do for an encore after the Trout-Harper fest from last year — and then, well, Puig happened out of nowhere.

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Congrats, RJ!
Gold Puig! Awesome! And the Goldschmidt All Star card makes for a great few retail boxes.
Not sure if it reinstates you to the Retail Throne quite yet, but it's a step in the right direction

Uneasy is the head that wears the crown.

But, it's good to be back on the throne, LOL

[uvaspina]

Never really noticed it before, but why are the Nationals "trademarked" ("TM") and the Angels are "registered" ("R")? Just curious.

-In any event, those are some nice pick-ups!

[rjcj2017]

Never really noticed it before, but why are the Nationals "trademarked" ("TM") and the Angels are "registered" ("R")? Just curious.

-In any event, those are some nice pick-ups!

Great question sir. I have no idea. Maybe it had to do with when they came into the league? 1960 something vs. 2005 or whatever?

[Phillies_Joe]

Never really noticed it before, but why are the Nationals "trademarked" ("TM") and the Angels are "registered" ("R")? Just curious.

-In any event, those are some nice pick-ups!

Trademark may be because the "W" looks like the Walgreens "W".

RJ...nice break. I pulled the gold Puig out of my break. Also, I got his mini and not sure if you have picked that up or not so I'll pm you.