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Interesting card

Here's the back.

Uhh..that's not Turner Field. Looks like old Yankee Stadium. Nice job Fleer..

Also I don't think I've ever seen a stats line on a card that showed a player's percentage of the team's total. Interesting stat to see.

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Photoshop Phail Upper Deck! You can get Glavine, Smoltz and Avery to sit for the shoot but not Maddux. So what do you do? Stick him in there after the fact and make it look bad. Good job UD...good job...

Trade with CHunter

Recently James from CHunter sent me a trade proposal. Well...by "recently" I mean July. I was very busy at the time then was out of the country for awhile so I put things on hold. And then I forgot about it. My bad!! Well a few weeks ago James contacted me again to see if I was still interested. Of course I was! So we put together a large trade with close to a hundred cards going each way. I filled a bunch of his team needs and a few PC needs and he sent me a whole bunch of Braves goodies. Here are a few of my favorites.

Nice pair of CJ cards from UD 93

Pacific always had some really cool inserts BITD.

Obviously Goodwin Champions was a much better set before Upper Deck lost MLB rights.

Don't see many players rockin the high waters anymore.

Ahhh MLB Showdown. I still have the full starter kit from my childhood. 

Really cool 3D card. I'd never seen one of these before. Reminds me of the Sportflix cards from the 90's except better.

Prado was a good utility player for the Braves but I'm glad they included him in the J-Up deal. We definitely got the better end of that trade!

Huddy is gone now, off to San Fran. A lot of fans seem upset that he's gone but I'm not. He was great for the Braves but at 38 and coming off a major injury, there's no guarantee he will still be able to contribute at a high level. Plus the Braves have such great young pitching the rotation should be as good if not better. I wish Huddy the best.

Johnson was never one of my favorite Braves. But it's a Braves auto of a player I didn't have before so I'll take it!

Thanks again to James for the trade and my apologies on being so delayed with it. If any of you are looking to trade with him he's a great trading partner and very generous!

The worst sportscard product ever created

At the end of my post about the Fairfield repack I mentioned that there was one more pack that needed it's own post. That pack was 2012 Leaf The Living Legend - Pete Rose

I've seen hobby boxes of this product on sale for less than $15 and each box guarantees a Pete Rose auto. That should tell you right away how awful this stuff is. Here's some proof.

Talk about an unflattering photo.

Because this is totally a shot that should go on a baseball card.

Leaf doesn't have MLB rights just like everyone that isn't Topps. So I don't get why they airbrushed out the Expos logos on Rose but not the guy sitting in the dugout behind them. They also refer to the teams by name on the cards and not just the city. They use "Reds", "Phillies" and "Expos". How has Leaf not been sued for this? They deserve to be.

This is the absolute worst pack of cards I have ever opened. There are no color photos. No stats on the back. The writing on the back doesn't even say anything interesting about Rose's career. It just sums up what the photo on the front is like, "Photo shows Rose waiting on deck while leaning on his bat." Literally, that is what every card is like. I can't believe anyone actually spent money on this product. I was fine with there being junk wax in the repack but this trumps it all. It is the full embodiment of JUNK WAX. I feel sorry for the trees that died to make this terrible product. What a load of shit.

Leaf made some good sets back in the day but this is the best, or worst, example of what a sad company it is now. I hate to say this but Leaf deserves to go out of business if they're going to try to foist this kind of horseshit on collectors. Before even getting this pack I had lost respect for Leaf because of the guy who runs their Twitter account. Rather than promoting his company he spends all his time trashing the other card companies and arguing with people who call him out on it. If they were struggling simply because of not having rights then I could feel sorry for them. But the fact that they put out such shitty ass products like this rather than making halfway decent stuff like Panini really ruins the company in my eyes.

Sorry for the rant. =)

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