After busting a few hobby boxes earlier in August, my internal card budget will only allow for a few small purchases until September. At Target tonight, discouraged by the offerings, I decided to take a stupid chance. Yes, I bought a Fairfield 100-card jumbo pack.
The odds stated on the package tell me I have a 1:8 chance of hitting a memorabilia card. A sticker on the back also tells me to "look for" vintage cards (defined on the sticker as those from the '50s, '60s, and '70s), but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Here's the contest. Similar to one I held last year, to enter this contest, the first thing you have to do is pick a specific baseball player whom you think will appear in this pack. This has the potential for a multi-guesser tie, so here's how the tie will be broken. In addition to guessing a player, you also need to guess a team along with the number of cards you think that team will get.
Edit: You may not guess that a team has zero cards.
An example guess would look like this:
Steve Garvey
Pirates 6
If this pack contains a Steve Garvey card, then, and only then, will their tiebreaker guess of 6 Pirates cards be considered. If there's no Garvey, then the Pirates guess is meaningless.
The winning guesser will receive... all of the cards in this pack that I don't want. Yeah, not a great prize, but it's not a great pack. At least, it probably isn't. I will open it as soon as this publishes. You have until this time tomorrow to make your guess. Good luck!

43 comments:
Bret Saberhagen
Rays/Devil Rays 0
Tony Gwynn
Giants 5
Don Mattingly
Astros 4
I'll let Josh D.'s slide, but no more team guesses of zero.
Dante Bichette
Orioles 4
Wade Boggs
Cubs 3
Ken Caminiti
Rangers 3
Les Straker
Padres 6
Tim Salmon
Mariners 5
Will Clark
Tigers 7
Eric Davis
Brewers 4
Rickey Henderson
Mets 4
Paul Molitor
Royals 3
Dave Winfield
Twins 1
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Rangers
5
Bo Jackson
Dodgers 8
Steve Carlton and the Phillies by 9
Tom Henke
Rangers 6 cards.
Buddy Biancalana
Mariners 8
Ozzie Smith
Yankees 12
Bob Forsch Cubs 3
Frank Thomas--Jays 1
Jim Thome
Red Sox - 6
BS
I'll change mine up.
Bret Saberhagen
Pirates - 4
Barry larkin
dodgers 3
Robin Yount
Dodgers 7
Jim Rice
Twins 3
Orel Hershiser
Yankees 5
Dwight Evans
Red Sox 7
Damn, Matt took my guess of Jim Rice. I guess I'll have to go with
Ruben Sierra
Indians 4
George Brett
Astros 3
BJ Surhoff
Cardinals 4
Jamie Moyer
Tigers 3
Wade Boggs
Yankees 4
Eddie Murray
Philadelphia Phillies 3
Wow, 34 guesses for a repack rack pack. We've got problems.
Vinny Castilla
Padres 4
Sandy Alomar
Blue Jays 10
Dave Parker
Phillies 5
DQ my entry if I didn't follow the rules correctly - I have very bad adult ADD issues right now and have issues doing almost any reading at all.
Tim Raines (if it's "Rock" does my one guess count? lol)
Angels 3
John Smoltz
Mariners 4
Kazi beat me to Frank Thomas so I'll go with:
Greg Maddux
White Sox 3
The contest is closed. Preliminary results to follow.
I see we've already got Orel and BJ, so I'll guess someone whose glasses turns everyone on:
Vance Law
A's - 7
P.S. Missed deadline reprieve?
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