2022 Bowman Platinum blaster #4

 Well, sure enough, I organized all of my loose cards needing to be put into binders on Friday afternoon, and I got some new cards to put in the boxes that evening. 

4 or 5 days ago, we went to our local Wally-World. They have been remodeling for a few months and they switched the aisles the last 2 or 3 times we were there. The cards haven’t been anywhere for a few trips, but this time, they were restocking them when we were there. Basically in the same spot, might I add. I see some ladies putting the blasters and packs on the aisle and I quickly spot 2023 Chrome, and asked them if they were available to purchase. The lady said no because they were restocking the aisle and it would be a few hours. I don’t get it. They are in the store. They are most likely in the system as the product has been out for a while. Kind of like that episode of Futurama where Fry was like ‘Please take my money!’ We left and I figured we would go back in a week or so, and I knew what would happen. 

So Friday was closer to 3 days since then, and Karen calls me on her way home from work and she stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some things we needed. She went to the card aisle, and my prediction was true and the flipper assholes purchased all of the Chrome. They had ‘22 Chrome, ‘23 Allen & Ginter, ‘23 Prizm, and a few others. Out of everything, I had enough ‘22 Chrome, ‘23 Prizm doesn’t have a really nice looking design in my opinion, and I quit Allen & Ginter years ago. They had more blasters of ‘22 Bowman Platinum, so I asked Karen to get me one. 

The blaster was a decent one. I pulled a Matt Manning (which I believe I have a dupe of, so I can put it in my Rookie Card binder). I had an ice parallel of Rays prospect Cooper Kinney. Max Scherzer was the lone favorite player. The Ohtani ice parallel was a nice pull, but I was bummed to pull one of Rat-Bird Ryan Mountcastle. That team is starting to become one of my least favorites. Glad the Rays took the first 2 of the series and there is still a chance for them to take 3/4 and give us a decent chance to win the division. They just can’t finish with a tied record cause the Rat-Birds will get the East title because of the head to head record. 

There were a decent amount of rookies, including 2 Hunter Greene’s. I’ve continued my run of getting nice parallels in Bowman Platinum by pulling a Blue parallel of Nick Lodolo. Hopefully he can do some good things in 2024. 

There are the other guys from the box. Any of them are up for trade, including Yankees and Yadier Molina- a guy on my Dirty Dudes list. 

A better look at the Lodolo. 

Those are the 3 numbered parallels I pulled out of 4 blasters. I wish the companies would just have normal color names for these parallels because while I would call these Green Ice, Red, and Blue from L-R, I believe they are called Green Ice Foil, Pink, and Aqua. 

That’s all I have for today. Thanks for checking out my latest post. 

-Jeremy