This weekend my brother and I went up to Roseville to spend some time with our oldest brother who recently retired there. As luck would have it... there's a card shop two miles away. So while we were out and about, they dropped me off so I could check it out.
I only had ten minutes there while the rest of the family hit up the post office, so I quickly checked out their display cases and pack selection. They had some really nice singles, but there weren't any great deals to be had. However in an effort to support them, I grabbed a jumbo pack of 2025 Topps Series 1:
Forty cards for twenty-five bucks. Yeah this was an out-of-character purchase, but at least I have some of the new stuff to show off on the blog:
Not much to say about the base set. It's not my favorite flagship design... but it's not my least favorite either. I pulled a pair of Sacramento Athletics and the Padres team card for my PC's:
2025 Topps #39
In addition to the thirty-seven base cards, I pulled three parallel/inserts:
2025 Topps Rainbow Foilboard #101
2025 Topps 1990 Baseball #T90-47
2025 Topps 2024 Greatest Hits #GH-8
Nothing too special about the parallel and two inserts I pulled. Topps continues to utilize past designs and uninspiring inserts that flood today's dollar bins. At least these three cards found homes specific pages of my binders.
In hindsight, I would have been much better off purchasing a blaster from Target, but like I said... I wanted to support the shop.
Right after I ripped open the pack and put away the singles, I opened a PWE from Tom over at The Angels, In Order. He sent me this Masahiro Tanaka for my collection:
2018 Triple Threads Emerald #22 (#'d 107/259)
As for the rest of you...
Happy Monday and sayonara!
2 comments:
Good on you for supporting a local hobby shop. If I had to describe 2025 Topps, I'd probably just say unfinished and uninspired. The base design isn't terrible, just looks unfinished with the hollow team name and colored foil bands leading to nowhere. The inserts have been boring for a long time now. Just do the design from 35 years ago and start planning next year's throwback. I thought about making a post on my blog about the release but I already put the cards away and can't be bothered to pull them out again. That in itself tells you about all you need to know about 2025 Topps. Plus, showing some comment love to someone who is a true commenting All-Star, just seems right to me.
Arenado wins it.
The Athletics are dead to me.
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