Wicked Ortega has some giveaways going on.

How do you win? No clue.

What is he giving away? At least a set of 2008 Masterpieces - anything else, he hasn't said.

What's the deadline for entering? I have no idea.

All I know is that he said his readers should pimp the contest on their blogs. And when the Don says to pimp something, you better pimp.

Over at Community Gum, Jon is running a contest with two boxes of Topps Moments and Milestones. Since the odds of pulling a card you want out of that set is similar to winning the lottery, he's created a lottery-style contest.

I highly suggest that you check out his page and enter. He does a pretty good job of explaining the rules, much better than I could ever do. Of course, since he came up with the rules, I should hope so.

This post gets me an extra entry in the contest. Since three of the players I collect are in the Topps M&M set, I need all the entries I can get. Off to Twitter to follow Jon's account...

No, not mine. Someday I hope to have a contest, but right now I just hope to have my card collection all ready for when the movers get here.

The contest I am referring to is over at All About Cards. Earlier, Ian asked for nominations for three categories for the end of year awards. Now, the polls are open and it's time to vote. And vote you shall, simply by clicking on the link above.

Since I like to have people know my opinions on things (it's kinda why I have a blog), I will share my votes with you:

"Sickest" card of 2010 - The Bowman Stephen Strasburg 1/1 Red Auto. Four 1/1 Strasburg cards drove the whole market for a time this spring, then the last one to be found kept the bubble going all by itself. Even months after it was found, I was still able to sell a hobby box of Bowman on eBay for $150+

You telling me that's not sick, by any definition of sick that you choose?

Fan Favorite Set - Allen & Ginter. As I said before, any set that inspires its own annual month-long, net-wide contest has got to be pretty damn popular. It was a fairly easy choice for me, although Obak is getting more and more popular every year and was a close second. If someone ever starts an "Obak-palooza" contest, I may have to revisit my vote.

Box Most Likely to Contain "Mojo" - Topps Triple Threads. It was the only baseball set that was nominated, and I collect baseball cards. But it is a very nice set. Someday, when I grow up, I'll be able to afford a box of Triple Threads.

Over at the Daily Dimwit is one of the more imaginative contests I've seen in a while. The Dimwit has bought and busted a bunch of discounted blasters. If you watch the video, and post which five cards you'd like, then he'll send them to you if your number comes up. Just so long as you don't ask for the Nolan Ryan card. But you wouldn't do that to him, would you?

The deadline is Friday (that's tomorrow) so head over there now and enter.

All About Cards. Yearly Awards Contest. Go here and vote. Here's my ballot:

Sickest card - for me, it's the Mariners franchise history card in the Topps base set because that has two of the four players I collect in it. If I look closely, I think I just might be able to pick out King Felix lurking in the background, too.

Fan Favorite - Well it's Ginter, isn't it? The only set I know of to inspire a yearly contest for box breaking.

Mojo Box - 2010 Bowman, at least until the four Strasburg 1/1 cards were all found. The market for that was just plain crazy.

Drew, who I have traded with in the past, is running a contest at his blog. You could win some Obak cards. This is a shameless plug because I want to win the cards. So by all means, visit his site. But don't feel like you have to enter the contest. Unless you really want to.

As one of the 50 authors on A Pack to Be Named Later, I should let you know about a contest that's going on over there. But first, you should click on the link and look at the banner. Go ahead, I'll wait...


Have you done it yet?


Good.


So what did you think? That's a lot of junk wax, right? Well guess what - it can all be yours. All you need to do is enter The Great Junk Wax Giveaway. There's 95 packs on that table, but the question is - how many cards and stickers are in those packs? The person who guesses the closest wins all the packs.

Full details are available at the giveaway link in the previous paragraph, but you have until 7:00 pm Central time (8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific) on Tuesday the 13th to enter. In other words, if you're watching the All-Star game, and you haven't entered yet, you're too late.

But what are you waiting for? Enter today!