Paul Skenes and a Set Build

    If you wanna know who won the first annual blogoversary contest, you have to sit through this post and wait until the end :)

    A few weeks ago The Diamond King generously gave away 2024 Bowman Paul Skenes cards. So I claimed one. I got his PWE a little over a week ago and checked out the goodies inside. 

    This is the first Paul Skenes card I've ever owned. It's a sharp-looking card, and with my affinity for shininess, it doesn't disappoint. I wonder how Paul is going to fare in 2025; the league has already seen him once, but his stuff is other-worldly. What do y'all think?

    Now, in addition to this awesome card, The Diamond king also threw in a few cards for my extremely slowly progressing 2024 Topps Chrome Strokes build -- very generous.

    I now have five of the 25 cards, and all of them have come from The Diamond King. I'm trying to complete as much of the set as possible without buying cards online, and that proves to be an extremely slow process. But here I have received over 15% of the entire thing! Quite a nice and unexpected gift.

    So thank you to The Diamond King for the awesome cards! I feel like I've been thanking him a lot lately (this is the third post in a month where I've thanked him for cards). I still need to do my countdown the serial-numbered cards he gave me, but I keep forgetting. That'll be a project for the next week or two.

    Thank y'all for reading, have a great weekend, and happy collecting!

    Don't forget, I must announce the winner of my first Blogoversary's contest. I'm hoping to do a giveaway every year for the blog's birthday. Anyway, the winner, the first to have his name landed upon three times by the spinny wheel is.....

    Now John, if you could email me your shipping address, you can send it to doncardwellblog AT gmail DOT com, and I will get the cards sent out to you soon.