Yesterday it was 80. This morning it was 60. Now it's 33 and snowing. Because of course. But baseball's Spring Training is still churning down in Florida and over in Arizona and that's a nice thing to think about; and a great thing to listen to or watch in the post-lunch hours every afternoon. The real season starts in two weeks, too. I guess the WBC is happening too but I'm honestly not paying any more attention to than what I fleetingly see on either BlueSky or the MLB website. It's discussed, too, on the radio, but that's easy enough to tune out by changing the channel or, more responsibly, paying attention to the road.
Let's look at some new cards! The first up here is the 1993 Fleer Team Leaders John Kruk. He's called "Old Ironsides", which is new to me.
Then we have a few new Andrew McCutchen cards. These were trade cards. Made, kind of, just in a sort of desperation, for lack of a better word, to get rid of the cards I don't want for cards I wasn't really sure I wanted -- at least, they weren't originally on my McCutchen radar. They are inserts. And while my original goal with him was just to collect base cards, the inserts I guess were a bit inevitable.
First is 2018 Topps Legends in the Making. Sort of a weird card considering this was the year Pittsburgh traded him. But this was likely conceived of in 2017.
Next is 2016 Topps Bunt. So, it's own set and not an insert.
We seem to be going backwards in time because now it's 2010. This is 2020 Topps 2020. If, in 2010, they thought that the below is what cards would look like 10 years down the road then they were wrong. And it's likely that when 2020 came around Topps didn't remember putting out this card ten years earlier because the design they selected for 2020 looks nothing like this. It would have been capital-H Hysterical if this was the card design they actually put out in 2020. It's kind of 3-D in hand; the stars in the background, that is. And it looks a bit weird and trippy but this isn't really transferred to the scan.
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Next is 2016 Topps Bunt. So, it's own set and not an insert.
We seem to be going backwards in time because now it's 2010. This is 2020 Topps 2020. If, in 2010, they thought that the below is what cards would look like 10 years down the road then they were wrong. And it's likely that when 2020 came around Topps didn't remember putting out this card ten years earlier because the design they selected for 2020 looks nothing like this. It would have been capital-H Hysterical if this was the card design they actually put out in 2020. It's kind of 3-D in hand; the stars in the background, that is. And it looks a bit weird and trippy but this isn't really transferred to the scan.
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