It was finally time to open my first baseball card of the new year, and after reading another blogger's post about opening his pack to start the year with a Mickey Mantle card, I became excited for my own first moment. Who could it be? Perhaps one of my remaining Mets, to signal that anything is possible this season, a symbol to have hope in what has been the darkest offseason I can remember? Or maybe even the player I most respect on my hated rival, the Yankees, Derek Jeter - the classiest guy that I love to root against? Maybe the Albert Pujols World Series card, #108, to remind every fan that any team has a chance, even if your best pitcher is lost for the year before the season even begins? And that a great regular season record isn't necessary to hoist the trophy, as the Cardinals have proven twice now in the last half-dozen years...
And of course, as I cut open my Topps 2012 Baseball, Series One hanger box (purchased at Target, 10.49), who throws a ball seemingly right at me?
Mark Reynolds.
Eh, no symbolism to me.
Wait. Hanger boxes @ Target are $.50 more than @ Walmart?
ReplyDeleteno, funny story on that - sorry!
ReplyDeleteso, i THOUGHT i paid 9.99 at target, but then today, when i looked at the box, it said 10.49. hmm, strange, i thought. but then i looked at the plastic wrapper, and there was a 9.99 sticker on it - and it replaced (or i guess was placed directly over) the 10.49 number...
so, in the end, it is a 9.99 box. with strangely, the 10.49 price lurking ominously below it...