All Stars Dealers

After seeing countless auction and picker shows there is finally a reality show I can call my own. "All Star Dealers" is based solely on sports memorabilia. Although the show is lacking in detail. I would have preferred more insight on the sellers parting with their collectables, rather then seeing how much Grey Flannel Collectables are making. Still an interesting show for a memorabilia junkie such as myself. Take a look....

Carey Price 1st Shutout + P.K Subban Rookie Cards

Today I got a chance to go to the Canadiens practice facility to try and get Carey Price on the photo bellow. I have the ticket stub from Carey's 1st NHL shutout and wanted it framed with a photo. Waited about 15 minutes or so and Carey Price came out after practice and had no problem signing this for me and even included the "1st NHL shutout" inscription to the photo. Once I got it done I went straight to the framers to complete the piece.

Other players come out as well and felt it would be rude to send them off without wanting their auto so I also got this done.

On Photo-Rene Bourque,PK Subban,Chris Campoli,Erik Cole,Raph Diaz,Andreas Enqvist,Mike Blunden,Yan Weber,Alex Emelin,Josh Gorges

A week after my encounter with Carey Price I got to get PK Subann Rookie Cards autographed. I don't usually do cards, this was a first. Given the size of my collection I have decided to downsize. The facility was surprisingly packed today about 50+ people waiting after practice. When I see a crowd of this size I usually leave but PK came out as I got there. Luckily my girlfriend was able to obtain these for me (She's much better looking then me which has helped my collection a lot). I didn't try for anyone else as the place was a zoo.

As a bonus while organizing some stuff in my house I found some old ticket stubs from the Canadiens Stanley Cup playoffs of 09-10. I thought the tickets had a pretty original design I thought you guys might want to take a look. Sadly none of these games where attended by me. A friend was nice enough to keep the stubs for me. For the most part I use old stubs as bookmarks and things of that sort but given the history behind these ones I guess I'll just keep them stored away.

Bluejays Winter Tour

In all honesty one of the best run events I have ever attended. I arrived at the venue approximately 45 minutes prior to the event; to my surprise I was alone about five people back in the line which was great. Closer to the time of the event it started to fill up to around 75 people. Montreal isn't a big on baseball or Toronto (lol) but the turnout was decent. 

View from my spot in line as I arrived. Hardly a packed event.

Bluejays GM Alex Anthopoulos was just hanging out prior to the event, I got to chat with him for a few minutes. Extremely approachable even talked a little baseball with me. Most interestingly he mentioned that Prince Fielder was asking for Pujols money and he wasn't a option for the Jays. He was also nice enough to shoutout the rantingrocket for me.

 When the event got started it was run very smoothly (which is a change from most public signings) I was able to get two autographed baseballs  from Ace Ricky Romero and up and coming youngster Brett Lawrie. Both guys were really great and also took the time out to shout out Rantingrocket.com(will post later). Overall a great success happing with what I managed to get. 

Baseballs I got signed from the event.
To recap: Two Ricky Romero, Two Brett Lawrie, One Alex Anthopoulos all on baseballs.

Russel Martin IP

Russell Martin held a baseball clinic in Montreal today. I was only able to get to the clinic as it ended. In fact when I pulled up I could see kids leaving the building (Bad Sign). When I entered  I saw Martin taking photos with kids but explained to everyone that due to the amount of people he would not be signing anymore autographs.  Quite disappointed I stayed around just in case. He did a interview with a local sports station as the building cleared out. I was left with a one on one chance. Russell gladly agreed to sign my baseball however my pen died as he started to sign (Terrible Luck!). One of the older security people offerd me his pen and Russell was nice enough to go over his previous attempt. All and all very happy with the auto.