Trades Are Funner Here.

I suppose if I had a National League rooting interest, it would be the Phillies. They seem intertwined with my favourite team in a lot of ways. There's the Joe Carter walk off WS home run, the Roy Halladay trade, the teams spring training facilities are 10 minutes apart & I dunno...Pat Gillick has left pretty substantial marks on both teams. I guess since the Expos are gone Major League Baseball has deemed the Phils & Blue Jays 'rivals' since they get paired up in interleague play so often. But with Roy Halladay on the roster, I end up cheering for them more often than not. And full disclosure - this week I've been sporting my 70's / 80's throwback Phillies cap. Oh, sweet burgundy!

Awhile back I contacted Julie at Things Are Funner Here. I'd accumulated enough Hunter Pence & Cliff Lee cards that something had to be done. She was kind enough to send some of her excess Blue Jays to Canada where the bird is viewed in a...more positive light.

George Bell as painted by Vernon Wells' dad...Vernon Sr. You can check out more of Vernon Sr's work HERE.

Sweet black bordered refractor of a jerk that was once our jerk. With baseball's winter meetings about ramp up, I'm reminded of the 2005 winter meetings when AJ signed as a free agent with the Blue Jays. December 7th of that year was when he signed - the very same day the Jays traded for Lyle Overbay. A few days earlier the team had signed B.J. Ryan. The moral of the story? Buyer beware!!!

Check out the uhh...child-like rendering of the Blue Jays logo on this C. Hartenstein card. Well done Topps, you nailed it!

He was only here three years but I still see plenty of Molitor jersey's around town.


Considering the impact he had, it's fairly shocking that you don't see more 'Delgado 25' jerseys. I guess the Jays uniforms from Big Carlos' era were fairly hideous.


Julie's package contained a healthy amount of early 2000's chrome, which was great because I had basically none of that stuff. The scans came out kind of bunk but these Stadium Club cards look terrific.

There were also a number of 2010 Upper Deck cards...which I had none of either. Good stuff! This card, capturing a shattering bat is awesome.

Thanks so much for the trade Julie!