I went to Target and met some pack searchers.

I had to go to the Big City on Friday, so I stopped at a Target on the way with the specific hopes of picking up some Target throwback Topps cards.

I march over to the card aisle, and what do I see but a pair of dudes pack searching. One was old and sort of scruffy, the other probably mid-to-late 20s.

I said "oh, pack searchers!" and they turned and looked at me. The old guy mumbled something. I watched them for a minute. The older guy was pulling packs of Topps '11 out of the gravity feeder and squeezing the top corners of the pack. He would search a few and then set them down wherever. There were stacks of Topps '11 packs in boxes of Bowman and football, neat piles of 5 or 6 packs.

"Seriously." I said. "What are you searching for?"

The older guy said he was looking for Diamonds, and asked what I was searching for. I told him a blaster of Topps '10 series II. (for a Jon Lester throwback, I hoped.) He went on to say that the gravity feeders were fair game and you have to get there early.

I let him go. What could I say? Fuck you and die? What about the kids? What about ME?

They left, with a couple of packs. I wanted to follow them out and find out if they got a diamond cut card, but I didn't. The younger guy didn't say a word the whole time.

So I picked up a blaster of '11 and a few single packs in hopes of proving the searchers wrong.

Well, there were no diamond die cuts in the five packs (maybe six, I can't remember) that I picked, but I don't know what the odds for the die cuts are anyway. But I did pull a Halladay and Robinson not die cut Target diamond cards. These are for trade, if anyone wants them. I think I know a "fun" collector who might want that Halladay. I will have to ask.

There were a pair of Kimballs though, which I would have thought would have been easier to find than diamonds, and maybe even set off a false positive, so to speak. I don't remember which two, the other two came from the blaster.