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After buying a pack of 2008 TriStar (which had some awesome players in it...Mets prospects Bobby Parnell and Scott Moviel plus top 'spects David Price and Matt LaPorta), I got three packs of 2008 Topps Finest, from which I did get a blue refractor card of Carlos Zambrano, a nice card of Mets ace Johan Santana, one of the highly desirable rookie redemption cards (I got number 9), and...what is THIS?
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In case anyone doesn't get the reference, go to youtube and search for "Topps box rip." Turns out that's Topps' idea of a joke for the 2008 Finest set. I was told it doesn't count against the odds of other autographs in the box, but what if I'd gotten a common card of David Wright or Jose Reyes here? If Topps stuck Wright's image in a Yankee uniform or put Jose Reyes' head on the Roadrunner's (from Looney Tunes') body with the caption "Beep! Beep! BHOOM!," I could deal with it. I mean, at least it would be a BASEBALL-related prank.
If the card had been seeded with the rest of the autograph cards/took the place of a baseball player's autograph (like 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum), then I would be out and out furious as opposed to just plain annoyed. But it would seem my feelings about Topps' jokes have spread.
Search for "Rachel Tinsley" on eBay. Several cards, not one single bid, not one single buyer. However, I'm very lucky to have already traded this one away (though it's to someone I promised a Steve Dalkowski auto to when I visit him [probably this month], so that's REALLY what I'm trading) for a player's auto!
ToppsJoke-1.JPG
ToppsJoke-2.JPG
In case anyone doesn't get the reference, go to youtube and search for "Topps box rip." Turns out that's Topps' idea of a joke for the 2008 Finest set. I was told it doesn't count against the odds of other autographs in the box, but what if I'd gotten a common card of David Wright or Jose Reyes here? If Topps stuck Wright's image in a Yankee uniform or put Jose Reyes' head on the Roadrunner's (from Looney Tunes') body with the caption "Beep! Beep! BHOOM!," I could deal with it. I mean, at least it would be a BASEBALL-related prank.
If the card had been seeded with the rest of the autograph cards/took the place of a baseball player's autograph (like 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum), then I would be out and out furious as opposed to just plain annoyed. But it would seem my feelings about Topps' jokes have spread.
Search for "Rachel Tinsley" on eBay. Several cards, not one single bid, not one single buyer. However, I'm very lucky to have already traded this one away (though it's to someone I promised a Steve Dalkowski auto to when I visit him [probably this month], so that's REALLY what I'm trading) for a player's auto!
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