I was able to snag this Rip card of Hanley Ramirez for about fifty dollars and now I’m tempted to rip it open. I’ll be honest – the logical Chuck side is telling me to keep it intact since the last time I had a Rip card (2006 case), all I got was a high numbered mini of some schlub. The illogical side of me wants to open up a red auto or a 1/1 and make about twenty bucks profit. Still, do I really want to rip a Hanley card for a gamble?
All the gamble was soaked out of me from my recent Vegas jaunt, so I'll leave it up to you guys, the readers. Please vote and I'll carry out your wishes, dear reader. Also, in exchange, please leave a comment on this post and you'll be entered into a random drawing for the following prizes. One comment per person, please. Also, if you wouldn't mind, please advertise this post so that I can get a lot of votes and have a large sample size to make this decision. The more votes/comments, the more prizes.
5 commenters – one person gets 6 Hanley base cards (2010 Heritage #300, 2010 Topps #4 and #600, 2010 Update #150, 279, 329)
10 commenters - one person gets five (5) 2011 History of Topps cards (HOT 1, 3, 4, 9, 10) 15 commenters - one person gets a Rogers Hornsby SP #44 20 commenters - one person gets a black parallel card of Carlos Santana #209 (43/60) 25 commenters - one person gets a Topps 60 Brian McCann auto 30 commenters - one person gets three 2007 Allen & Ginter relic cards (Prince Fielder, Hank Blalock, Marcus Giles)50 or more commenters - one person gets the following 12 cards:
- 2000 Upper Deck Pro Sign Shareef Abdur-Rahim auto
- 2005 Donruss Champions #55 Doug Mientkiewicz bat relic
- 2006 Topps Triple Threads Gold Travis Hafner triple relic /9
- 2007 Fleer Ultra Faces of the Game Omar Vizquel bat relic
- 2007 Fleer Ultra Hit Machine Nick Swisher jersey relic
- 2007 Fleer Ultra Strikezone Johan Santana relic
- 2008 Topps 2007 Highlights Rafael Furcal jersey relic
- 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Rashard Mendenhall jersey
- 2008 Upper Deck X Sean Casey jersey relic
- 2008-9 Upper Deck Hockey Series 2 Alexander Ovechkin oversized card
- 2009 Upper Deck SP Authentic Football Patch Auto Glen Coffee /999
- 2010 Leaf Certified Raymond Berry jersey HOF /250
The end of this contest will be April 1, 2011.
Phew that was a long shill…no need to follow or anything, since I don’t post enough to demand a regular readership. Help this indecisive guy decide what to do with his rip card!
I’d rip it. The Hanley is for the pc and you’re not going to sell it, so you can ONLY win by ripping it.
Rip it… Rip it good. (Damn, now I have Devo’s “Whip it” stuck in my head.)
Man i was torn on this one (oh crap i just did a pun un intentionally). My girlfriend’s son is obsessed with getting a rip card and has even down loaded you tube clips of how to open one without damaging the cards as much. We discussed and for now we say wait save it for opening when you have had a really bad day.
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I voted rip it as well. On a side note, do you still need the following cards that I set aside for you awhile back as part of a trade that never panned out?
Target: 80 (Jennings), 183 (Strasburg), 188 (Sandoval), 324 (Red Sox)
Gold Parallel (#ed/2011)
171. Garrett Jones (#0062/2011)
180. Paul Maholm (#0106/2011)
If interested, shoot me an email. If not, let me know and I’ll re-add them to my trade bait page – thanks!
Crap. I voted, but did not comment. DO NOT RIP! I have ripped two of them now, and it’s not worth it.