Saturday, February 4, 2012

A Quandary, A Dilemma, A Bind

I was going through some junk wax today and saw some old acquaintaces, some 2010 Topps Million Card Giveaway cards.This was before I was as connected with bloggers who use these codes, as I am now, and sadly these cards were useless to me or anyone else and then expired. Surely they have some purpose?





Hmmm...Let's experiment with this here card. This is a 2010 MCG card of Ichiro Suzuki. Incidentally, my good friend Wikipedia tells me that Ichiro's manager in 1994 was the one who convinced him to put "Ichiro" of the back of his jersey, instead of "Suzuki." Apparently it was part of some marketing deal. I dunno, it kind of annoys me that on all his cards he is referred to as "Ichiro." I mean, Albert Pujols has both names on his card. Should he have just his last name on there (or first?) Hm. (Does Ron Artest have "Metta World Peace on his basketball cards? By the way, I always read "Metta World Peace" with a deep voice.)




Using the awesome power of my (other) good friend scissors, I lopped and cropped Ichiro out of his tilted posture to this:


I know what you're thinking-I lopped the bottom part off. I didn't; it just scanned funny. It actually has "ked is not" slanted across the bottom, which is awesome.




In conclusion, I really don't know what to do with these. Still. What I'll probably end up doing with them is using them for 'dummy' support cards in trade packages...or something. I'll try to avoid cutting them up anymore. No promises though.




What about you-any similar situations like this?



2 comments:

Paul Hadsall said...

I know I put one of the ones that showed a Gary Carter card in my Carter collection... I'm not sure what I did with the others, to be honest.

pokey said...

I did the same thing when I was 9 with the 1982 K-Mart MVP boxed set. I liked the way they turned out. I was the only kid with a 1962 Mickey Mantle 'mini'. lol