My flight home leaves in about nine hours and I need to finish packing up. It's been an amazing trip, filled with great baseball and interesting experiences. I hit 10 different card shops and managed to reduce my single card want list from around 200 cards to 16! I also managed to pick up a number of sets that I'd been looking for on the super cheap side. And of course, I bought a lot of cool cards that weren't officially on my want list, but once I saw them, I had to have them.
I'll be writing up stuff about the trip in the next few weeks, but I did want to post a couple quick pictures for something that I did yesterday. I went to Yokohama for a Baystars-Dragons match up and discovered that this year's Calbees were on sale at the ballpark. So of course, I bought a bag (only 100 yen) and opened it:
The best part is that in the distance above the card of Motonobu Tanishige, you can see the real Motonobu Tanishige.
4 comments:
can't wait to learn more about your trip. That's a cool last shot with the real Motonobu Tanishige in the background behind his card.
Wish I could find those Calbee packs at AT&T or the Oakland Coliseum ;-)
@P-town Tom - thanks. I got lucky with what was in the pack. @Fuji - yeah, me too. Hell, I spent part of the morning looking for them around Tokyo station and couldn't find them anywhere. Not even at the Calbee+ store.
Sounds like you had a great trip, I'm also looking forward to hearing more details.
Since Calbee does sell some products in the US (I always see the shrimp flavored chips at WalMart), I wish there were a way to encourage them to export their potato chips to the US as well. I think they might be surprised at how well they'd sell in certain markets, unless import tariffs would jack up the prices to far.
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