Carryovering

I think I made up a new gerund! There is carryover, an acknowledged word. And there there is the act of the carryover, called carryovering. I do not believe in carryovering stats from one season to the next. As such, I deny Ohtani's current On-Base streak. And I deny any other streak that extended from one season into the next. 

Stats can and should obviously and only add up year by year as presented on the back of the baseball card, as above. But, no. No. Stats should not "count" as a single unit from one season into the next.  And that stance has nothing to do with the below post. But perhaps it might lead to some thoughtful conversation? Ripken's "streak"?  Not a streak in the same sense; just a guy who played every game in a season for a long while which can be added by simply adding up all the numbers in a column. 

The card back above is the Purple Hoil Foil back for Andrew McCutchen's 2026 Topps card. This one is SN to 250. Over the last couple of years, Topps has been increasing their production of "parallel" sets and trying all sorts of colors and technologies and while I am generally against all of it; curiosity got the better of me this late winter and early spring. I wanted to see these cards for myself; and not just scanned or generally very badly photographed examples such as you seen on eBay. 

And, because I really like the base McCutchen card this year, I thought: Screw it. I'm going to for a 9 Pocket partial Rainbow. To refresh your memory, here is the base of all base cards, because it feels like some of the parallels are parallels of parallels...

I picked the cards for my partial rainbow kind of on purpose, kind of based on price, and there was at least one where I said, You know what, why they heck not... I won't show them one by one, but I did make a composite for you:

Top left to top right: Base, Holo Foil, Sandglitter.
Middle row, left to right: Diamante, Purple Holo, Silver Crackle.
Bottom row, same, Holiday, Pink Holo, and Pink with Green dots. 

The last one was the "What they heck why not one". I was mostly interested in seeing and holding the Diamante, Silver Crackle, and Sandglitter cards. And while are cool to see, they do look better scanned and that solidifies my feeling Topps is really only interested in making cards that look better on a screen than in hand. The Holo Foil cards I think look the nicest scanned, but frankly the base card is the most attractive.

Another thing Topps is doing that's annoying, is creating parallel sets but only partial parallel sets. So, some of their stupid parallels they do for about 100 seemingly random cards out of the 350 in Series 1. There are 12 such "Partial Parallel" sets. STOOPID. 

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