While I was at the card store yesterday, look what arrived! 2011 Topps! Canadian Edition! People were lined up outside his door!
(okay, everybody waiting, 3 people, were waiting for 2010/11 UD SPx Hockey, but that's not important.)I managed to grab the first pack in the onslaught. Let's crack her wide open and see the difference from the U.S. edition.
The next Yankee DH, Albert Pujols.
Hey! My first Brave! Omar Infante! Wait. Omar was traded at the beginning of November. Seriously, when were these printed?
In fact, a closer look at the
checklist, thanks tungaska, shows that 4 out of 12 Braves in the set were cut or traded months ago. 4 out of 12! That's, uh... 1 carry the 2... 33% of the team set!!! Way to stay current Topps! Don't rest on that monopoly. Keep on the cutting edge!
A Rod....
History of Topps insert. Seriously? Keep this crap out of my pack.
The closest thing I got to a real Brave, the back of Brian McCann on a Brett Wallace card.
Topps 60 Felix Hernandez insert crap thingie that no one cares about.
A Cory Luebke rookie. I know it's a rookie because it says so three times on the card. Me smrt like dumptruck.
and a really cool shiny card! It must be a hit! It's.... a Matt Garza of the Rays Toppstown decoy waste of cardboard. Wait. Matt Garza of the Rays? Ain't he a Cub? Good job again Topps.
All in all, I could like the base set. After all, it's the Topps base set. And if I were to collect a baseball set this year, it would be Topps. Wait. What choice would I have? Nevermind. My problems with this set are the antiquated checklist and the overabundance of useless inane inserts. What worries me is that I know there are more, but I just didn't get any in my pack.
My grade of the day, a C+
Oh, yeah, you were wondering about the whole Canadian/U.S. differences.... well there aren't any. I just made that up so you'd actually read this among the 33,265 different 2011 Topps blog posts out there.
Hey, it worked, didn't it?
