[The Third Eye]

Instead of waiting for my preorder case, I decided to crack one from the shop last night, big mistake.

Collation was normal, I made two master sets and was close to a third, missing only a few SPs. QC was mostly good, a few dinged corners here and there and some light scratches on some of the silver foil cards but nothing to get upset about. I was shorted a hit in one box and a handful of packs were missing the mini cards.

Minis: No numbered, 2 no number minis of Winn and Moreno, and a Black Kurtz was the best. Chrome minis were one per box, Jackie, Rickey, Banks and McGwire were the best ones. 15 Birds, 12 Fish, and around 10 each of the other insert minis in total.

Chromes and Refractors: 3 chromes and 1 refractor per box again, Jacob Wilson and Sasaki refractors were the better cards there. One Xfractor of DJ Mighty Mi, Green of Dylan Crews /99 and a Purple of Julio /75 were the parallels of the chromes.

Foil Filagree: 15 total with Mantle being the best one. Did well on the parallel filagrees, they look nice. Larkin Gold/50, Gwynn Orange jersey # 19/25 and David Ortiz Black /10.

Relics: Plain relics, 5 of one type and 4 of the other. Two parallel relics, a Sandberg Orange 12/25 and Alexis Ohanian Red Patch 2/5. Six framed relics, Julio and McGriff were the decent ones.

Autos: 4, Locklear, Conine, Greg Jones and Shay Whitcomb/99. Pretty stinky.

Rip cards, both /199: Warren Spahn and Gunnar, the Gunnar has a metal mini in it. Didn't rip it yet, I'm not over my original disappointment yet.

I've ripped Ginter every year and started doing cases in 2023. This one was hard to stomach at the elevated price and reduction of hits per box. Probably my last case for a long time. If anyone wants to see pics let me know. Be well!