If you were staying in a hotel, and they handed you a pack of baseball cards, wouldn't you be extremely confused? Now, just think about how someone who doesn't even collect cards (and that's most people, folks) would think. They had a stack of these weird promotional packs at a card show I went to a couple of months ago for only a quarter a piece, so I grabbed the whole stack. Here's one of the packs.
3 of 4 - Cal Ripken Jr. Free High-Speed Internet (Each pack contains a Ripken "insert"/sweepstakes card that is pure comedy gold. Along with this internet one, there's one with awkward bald Cal and his Priority Club card, one with dreamy bald Cal bumpin' CCR on his new iPod and one with creepy bald Cal holding a bunch of pillows.)
17 of 60 - Alex Rodriguez (60 cards in the main set.)
30 of 60 - Adam Dunn (They look more or less like a generic small peripheral set that Upper Deck could have released just about any time in the mid-'00s.)
56 of 60 - Albert Pujols (The game's best player has gotten off to a bit of a slow start so far this year.)
If you were staying in a hotel, and they handed you a pack of baseball cards, wouldn't you be extremely confused? Now, just think about how someone who doesn't even collect cards (and that's most people, folks) would think. They had a stack of these weird promotional packs at a card show I went to a couple of months ago for only a quarter a piece, so I grabbed the whole stack. Here's one of the packs.
3 of 4 - Cal Ripken Jr. Free High-Speed Internet (Each pack contains a Ripken "insert"/sweepstakes card that is pure comedy gold. Along with this internet one, there's one with awkward bald Cal and his Priority Club card, one with dreamy bald Cal bumpin' CCR on his new iPod and one with creepy bald Cal holding a bunch of pillows.)
17 of 60 - Alex Rodriguez (60 cards in the main set.)
30 of 60 - Adam Dunn (They look more or less like a generic small peripheral set that Upper Deck could have released just about any time in the mid-'00s.)
56 of 60 - Albert Pujols (The game's best player has gotten off to a bit of a slow start so far this year.)
