Sunday, March 3, 2013

2013 Topps Baseball Pack Break with Arbitrary Scoring

Recently I sold the hit (Chipper Jones silk) from my disappointing 2013 Topps Baseball blaster.  I reinvested some of the meager profits in two retail packs of the same.  I thought it might be fun, at least for me, to do a couple of complete pack breaks and give them my own personal scores.

Here's pack one in the exact order I pulled the cards:

I looked for my relic and autograph cards.  I didn't find them. :(  
 All-Star -5 points, Gold Glove 5 points, from a team I like 5 points (15 points)
 I like the name Edwin 2 points, born in Neu-Ulm, Germany 3 points, threw a no-hitter 3 points, current Cubs player 10 points, wearing the stupid 4th of July uniform -5 points, (13 points)
 He took a ball away from a meddling Hollywood star (see below) 10 points, I like the photo with determined look and the blurred background 5 points, not fond of the name Howie -3 points (sorry anyone out there named Howie) Topps calls him Howard on the back, (is "Howard is movin' on up" a reference I'm missing?) 3 points (15 points)

 Guess I don't follow the D-backs enough cause I really don't know who this guy is.  0 points, quoting a cliche on the back (I'll play anywhere as long as I get to play) -5 points (-5 points)

 All Star 5 points, very fast 5 points, why do I want to know what douchebag ARod says about him? -5 points (5 points)
Won a game as a relief pitcher 5 points, love the cartoon bird 5 points, like celebration pictures 5 points (15 points)
 Injured rookie I never heard of  0 points
 5 time Gold Glover 5 points,  Looks like Jeff Durham's, Walter in this picture 10 points (15 points)

 Eh! 0 points  like the baby blues 3 points, like the use of the word "whitewash" 5 points (8 points)
The Swashbuckler! 25 points, it's an emerald variation 10 points (35 points)
 
Former Cub I liked 5 points, pretty good photo 3 points, the Reds --not so much -3 points  (5 points)
 My favorite current Cub 30 points, great photo of Darwin having just hit a game winning HR, 10 points (40 points)
So this pack gets 161 points which I realize is in comparison to nothing.  We'll see how the second pack stacks up.  Obviously, the two Cubs made the pack for me. The entire blaster I bought I had none at all.

4 comments:

  1. Glad that you had better luck in your retail pack than in your blaster! I'm predicting the second pack won't top that one.

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  2. What about the guy in the #10 jersey in the Barney photo? No points for that?

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    1. Hey now, who's in charge here? Ok, honorary 10 points for the Ron Santo jersey. I actually almost gave points for the woman in the blue shirt since she's pretty much mirroring Barney's arm gesture.

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  3. A-Rod is a total douchebag. Weird, I've never heard "whitewash" in baseball terms.

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