Sports Cards and Memories: Weekend Box Breaks: 4 Boxes of Bowman Platinum Collector's Boxes & 4 Boxes of 2018 Gold Standard Football

On the docket this weekend is 4 boxes of 2018 Bowman Platinum Baseball and 4 boxes of Gold Standard Football. First off, Bowman Platinum. A Wal Mart exclusive, last year I had a BLAST opening Bowman Platinum. I pulled two sweet Gleyber Torres autographs including one numbered to 25 along with some other good stuff. So initially I ordered two boxes from WalMart.com since this stuff came out last week and hadn't seen any at our Wal Mart. I ended up going to Wal Mart last night and it was FULLY STOCKED with 10 Collector Boxes and TONS of blasters and fat packs. I picked up two more collector boxes to rip. Here's how I did

Box 1
Ohtani Base RC

Platinum Presence
Nolan Arenado
Michael Kopech

Rookie Revelations
Willie Calhoun
Brandon Woodruff
Rhys Hoskins
Rafael Devers

Prismatic Prodigies
Fernando Tatis Jr.
Adam Haseley
Seth Romero
Carter Kieboom

Green Parallel
Giancarlo Stanton (#13/99)
Estevan Florial (#05/99)

Hunter Greene SP
HG8

Autographs
Shane Bieber

Rookie Auto Pieces
Francisco Mejia (#71/99)

Prismatic Prodigies Jeren Kendell
Eric Pardinho
Franklin Perez
Andres Gimenez

Rookie Revelations
Miguel Andujar
Harrison Bader
Nicky Delmonico
Walker Beuhler

Rookie Revelations Purple
Alex Verdugo (#239/250)

Platinum Presence
Amed Rosario
Brendan McKay

Blue Parallel
Chance Sisco (#6/150)

Green Parallel
Luis Robert (#64/99)

Autographs
Hans Crouse
Johan Mieses

Box 3
Prismatic Prodigies
Andres Gimenez
Jeren Kendall
Eric Pardinho
Franklin Perez

Rookie Revelations
Ozzie Albies
Andrew Stevenson
Nicky Delmonico
Clint Frazier

Platinum Presence
Brendan McKay
Mike Trout

Autographs
MJ Melendez
Nick Allen

Box 4
Ohtani Base RC

Prismatic Prodigies
Franklin Perez
Gleyber Torres
Eric Padrinho
Andres Gimenez

Rookie Revelations
Nicky Delmonico
Clint Frazier
Miguel Andjuar
Walker Buehler

Rookie Revelations Purple
Ozzie Albies (#188/250)

Plantium Presence
Brendan McKay
Mike Trout

Blue Parallel
Luiz Gohara RC (#14/150)

Autographs
Carter Kieboom

Autographs Orange Parallel
Brian Mundell (#5/25)

Overall Thoughts: Another absolute dogshit baseball break, in what has become the norm for me recently. A lot of people HATE the look of the cards, but I actually like them. Unfortunately a couple of things happened that completely sucked the fun out of this break (besides the mediocre autos I predictably pulled). Insert collation was THE WORST. Seriously..4 boxes I pulled doubles and TRIPLES of most of the inserts. That's inexcusable and crappy. So frustrating seeing the same inserts in every box. Also I completely got skunked on box 3 as far as numbered parallels go. It looked like there were two packs were the 3rd card was backwards in the pack (a indication of an insert/auto/parallel) but they were just basic base cards. A dry collectors box with zero parallels is unbelievable but of course it happens to me. I pull to tough auto hits but of crap players of course. A waste of money, and would've been candidate for bust of the year had it not been for the god awful Finest case I opened. Seriously, baseball has been ROUGH to me since Topps Tier as I'm paying back my good luck in SPADES now to dangerously shitty levels. Pics of the cards

Well...can Football save my ass again? It's going to have to, but this is a much riskier break than Elite was. I've always been a fan of Gold Standard and was disappointed when it was discontinued as a full brand in Basketball. I decided to take a gamble on 4 boxes for Football. Please Football....get me back in the groove of things. Here's what I got

Box 1
Base Cards
Ezekiel Elliott (#51/99)

Rose Gold Parallel
Tremaine Edmunds RC (#12/25)

Golden Jumbo Threads
Andy Dalton (#99/125)

Gridiron Gold
Earl Campbell (#25/125)

Gridiron Gold Patch
Len Dawson (#3/49)

Golden Rookies Auto
Marcus Davenport (#91/149)

Rookie Dual Jersey Auto
Ronald Jones II (#38/75)

Box 2
Base Cards
Justin Watson RC (#11/99)

Rose Gold Parallel
Kemoko Turay RC (#23/25)

Newly Minted Jersey
Royce Freeman (#166/199)

Gold Rush Prime Jersey Patch
Ezekiel Elliott (#41/49)

Good As Gold Auto/Jersey
Marshon Lattimore (#49/125)
Samaje Perine (#84/125)

Rookie Autograph Jumbo Jersey
Christian Kirk (#73/75)

Box 3
Base Cards
Charles Clay (#36/99)

Platinum Parallel
Matt Ryan (#19/49)

Newly Minted Jersey
Dante Pettis (#66/199)

Gold Rush Prime Jersey Patch
Marshawn Lynch (#15/49)

Gold Strike Auto
Alex Collins (#37/99)

Gold Strike Auto Platinum
Ryan Switzer (#33/49)

Rookie Dual Jersey Auto
Anthony Miller (#31/75)

Box 4

Base Cards
Corey Davis (#06/99)

Platinum Parallel
Josh McCown (#39/49)

Golden Rookies Auto Platinum
Lorenzo Carter (#46/49)

White Gold Jersey
Derek Carr (#95/125)

Gold Gear Jersey
Cris Carter (#28/125)

Rookie Auto Jersey
DJ Moore (#33/99)

Gold Rush Prime Jersey Patch
Dalvin Cook (#12/49)

Overall Thoughts: What else can I say? More of the same. Crap Luck As Usual. It's almost like the universe felt like my super luck streak was some kind of oversight and not only did they correct it, but they are making me pay in spades for it. It's been unbelievable how downright bad my luck is. So the cards..yes I love Gold Standard and how they look. It's hilarious what a trend I have as far as breaking goes. My 1st box is decent (not even "good" just eh decent start) and it descends as I open every box and the last box always happens to be the worst (Topps Tier 1 notwithstanding). That's what once again happened here. Decent start but the rookie auto got worse and worse as the breaks went on. The Zeke Patch is cool, especially as a Cowboys fan, but a)it's player worn (because that's all Panini uses for Football cards nowadays) so it probably has little value. The Ronald Jones Auto Jersey is good, it's not great, but it's good, but that was the best hit of the entire break and "good" isn't going to cut it. Man it's so frustrating that break after break isn't just bad..it's laughably 10% ROI bad. I have three more total breaks coming up (1 case of FOTL Optic Baseball, 2 boxes of Spectra Basketball, and a Box of 2018 WWE Undisputed). After that though, I seriously have to consider taking a break from busting wax. As fun as it is initially, it's not fun break after break pulling $30 worth of cards while spending $500. I'm not trying to be greedy and ask for monster hits everytime but damn, it'd be nice to have a balanced break every once in a while. Anyways, end of rant. Here's pics of the cards.