Thursday, March 29, 2018

A Blaster of Opening Day on Opening Day


I bought this when I picked up the two hanger boxes of Heritage a week or so back. I probably should've used better judgement and gotten a third box of Heritage for the same price but oh well. Since today is Opening Day, and the Reds Opening Day game got postponed until tomorrow for the first time since 1966 due to rain what better time that now to rip into this.


Keeping with my tradition this year, here's the first card from the first pack I opened. Not a bad start and I noticed the "future stars" heading is gone from the card.


Here's some cards of a few players I don't remember pulling cards for when I binged on Series 1. I really like the Alex Bregman card with the daylight and the orange uniform. It makes me long for nice spring and summer days where I can leave the snow and the cold behind.


A couple cool horizontal cards. Love the Green Monster in the background of the David Price card.


I got exactly one blue parallel, that being of Whit Merrifield. 


The Opening Day set is more based around inserts than anything else. Out of the eleven packs, four held these "Team Traditions and Celebrations" cards. I got the vaunted "The Freeze" card


I really like these team Opening Day inserts and the pictures are just amazing.


I guess these are supposed to be what players are up to in Spring Training? 


But here's my favorite thing of the Opening Day cards ... mascots!!! And I got three good ones, the Phillie Phanatic, the Rally Monkey, and our hometown mascot Mr. Redlegs.

As I mentioned though at the beginning, I think this ten dollar could've been better spent elsewhere, for example another hanger box of Heritage or a couple Gypsy Queen hanger packs. Oh well, lesson learned I suppose. Now, back to watching baseball that matters!

5 comments:

  1. Rally Monkey hot box?
    Thanks for point out the David Price card... that is a neat photo.

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  2. Good observation on "Future Stars" not being included.

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  3. Love watching The Freeze video.

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  4. Retail regret...I know it well. But you got some cool cards in there. The Green Monster always makes for a nice background. I like the Sox team card, too. And color-matching parallels like the Whit Merrifield.

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  5. I like these. I think I even like them more than last year's Topps design, plus they're a whole lot more appealing than 2018 Donruss.

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