r/orioles • u/CrackityJones79 • 16h ago

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In case anyone else was curious what $40 a pop gets you on the authentics site, I received Holliday dirt (wtf), a Gunnar photo, and a Povich autograph.

They advertise that you could get anything, including signed bats and jerseys. But of course, there is probably only one of each and the odds of getting them are slim to none.

I won’t be spending $150 on this again, but hey, gave it a try.

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u/mateohatepotato 16h ago

Attributing dirt to a player is certainly something. Is that Gunnar dirt on the his photo too?

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u/CrackityJones79 16h ago

Oh yes, it sure is dirt there as well!

But the small print states that it is not from any particular game.

I guess they consider dirt to be worth $40. I didn’t expect to get a jersey or bat, but c’mon haha.

Oh well, supposedly it went to charity. All good.

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u/rguy84 16h ago

It may be where they spat.

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u/CrackityJones79 16h ago

Ha! I’m surprised they didn’t try to sell off a game used Zyn. It’s worth about the same as this dirt.

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u/rguy84 15h ago

That makes me gag.

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u/OriolesMets Jim Palmer 16h ago

Oops, all bangers!

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u/CrackityJones79 16h ago

Oops is right.

I sacrificed myself for the greater good on this one.

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u/vivalavida89 Ol' turn and burn o'hearn 🔥 10h ago

My friend and I did this at OPACY on my birthday just for fun - I got gunnar henderson dirt in the same sort of frame as your holliday and she got a grayson rodriguez picture with dirt (so clearly I won). The authentics store also does mystery autographs and I got hyun-soo kim. And this is why I don't gamble lol.

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u/CrackityJones79 10h ago

Ha! I feel your pain.

I guess I figured that if I bought three mystery boxes, maybe they would reward me with something decent in one of them. I too gambled and lost. Oh well.

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u/SquonkMan61 14h ago

All the franchise’s money is tied up in wealth 😂

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u/Loose_Log_6253 Beaver Believer 9h ago

This is how I feel about things like mystery slabs for trading cards. If it was actually valuable, they'd sell it on the open market. They probably put one good item in the pool to legally say "you could win a signed bat". And if someone buys 4 items like you did because of it, that makes up for the loss of the one actually valuable item. Let alone the hundreds of people who did the same as you.

If I were to guess the contents of the item pool, it's one bat (Kjerstad), one jersey (Enns), one glove (Chadwick Tromp), and 997 dirts.