Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:32 pm EDT
Card Bored: Previewing Upper Deck's spiffy new set
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Upper Deck: The card company that was supposed to pay for our kids' colleges with factory-sealed baseball sets featuring Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie cards. Stupid no good lousy baseball card market crash ...
Anyhoo, The Becket Blog (via Japers' Rink) has some details about the 2009-10 Upper Deck hockey set, which includes this Alexander Ovechkin(notes) card that looks like Tony Stark is targeting Ovie's kidneys with wrist missiles. "Top Guns?" Somebody better Photoshop an image of Goose into this thing by end of business on Monday.
From The Becket Blog:
The set arrives in November with two UD Game Jersey cards, two All-World Team cards and six Superstar insert cards per 24-pack box. Each 12-box case will include one Big Playmakers oversized-swatch jersey card one Clearly Canadian or Clear Cut Trios card (both printed on acetate), one Signature Sensations card and as many as seven more inserts.
Among the big playmakers is Jonathan Toews(notes), and a big patch of Blackhawks home jersey can be yours.
Leahy's all smart about this card stuff, and he said Upper Deck puts out "quality cards." I asked him if that meant they were better than my 1990 Score factory set, and he said "absolutely." As if Upper Deck's 2009 set would have anything as glorious as this. Can't believe he ever shaved.
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Good to know he's doing all the work for you!
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Whatever happened to just posing in a studio with a stick in your hands?
Also, cardboard at 10c per 10-pack is one thing. At $3.99 a 5-pack is quite another.
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2) Think the GBF would make a reasonable substitute for Goose?
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Cards are more expensive now for two reasons : 1. Inflation... look it up, I'm not going to explain why milk only cost $.05 forty years ago. 2. Back when you last bought a pack of cards, the most exciting thing you got was a stick of gum. Nowadays card manufactuers put in game-used jerseys and autographs. Obviously its not for everyone but there's a lot of excitement in opening a pack and pulling a Bobby Orr or an Alexander Ovechkin autograph.
In the end, its a hobby and some people will get into it and others won't.
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Merlin: "You're gonna do what?"
see http://twitpic.com/btv9m
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