Jung Ho, Jung Ho...it's off to work we go....

With the Pirates Opening Day SS and 3B both out for 5+ more weeks, it's a great thing that the Pirates acquired Jung-Ho Kang (pronounced Gong) in the offseason.

In only 78 games, he has already produced 2.2 WAR according to his baseball-reference page.  That's incredible!!! In a half season produced enough for his entire contract (4 years/$11M)

The Pirates are continuing to battle the Red Birds for top place in the NL Central and currently have the 3rd best record in baseball.

Hopefully between Kang at SS and recently acquired former Bucco Aramis Ramirez, the Pirates can continue to gain some ground on the Cardinals.

Jung-Hoooooooo!!!!!

I bought the above Prism Fresh Faces auto the day Prizm went live. With Topps putting Kang's auto in several product releases since then, I should have waited.

King Kang is Coming!!!!!

When it was announced that the Pirates had won the exclusive right to negotiate contract terms wtih Korean baseball megastar, Jun Ho Kang, I immediately started my research into the card industry to see what was out there.

Wouldn't you know that 30 minutes from my house, a seller was selling some cards of the Korean star in lots for around $8 each.  I thought hell yeah!!!! I'm gonna add me some of these even if they aren't official.   I wanted to be one of the first to show them off.

Well, here they are!!!!

Baseball is literally just around the corner this week.