My overwhelming hatred of all things Topps Triple Threads comes from years of sheer befuddlement over how anyone can look at these cards and say, “THOSE ARE THE BESTEST EVAR!!” It’s the same thing, year after year, nothing really done any different, maybe add a four card booklet instead of a three card one. The worst part of the set is always the horribly lame and uncreative phrases and words they cut into the windows for the swatches, and each year I need to highlight some of the best.
This Hunter Pence card doesn’t make sense to me. You finally have something awesome you can cut into this, and instead they choose the one boring thing about the player. He was an All Star 2 years ago? Wow, awesome. Glad that was the only possible thing worth die cutting. Its not as bad as some of the others, but this is the best of the worst.
Elvis Andrus Triple Jersey Auto
To start, im not sure why Elvis Andrus is a box hit in a high end product. Secondly, who gives a fly on a pile of elephant turd that he was the sacrifice hit leader for the AL in 2010? Not only are sacrifice hits usually more counterproductive than they are productive in most cases, but it’s a stat that has ZERO need to be highlighted. Someone will buy this card, and I really don’t know why.
Jones/Murray/Texiera Triple Swatch
If you asked someone if they wanted a card that commemorated something about these three guys, Im sure it would not be that they are switch hitters. WHO CARES?
FINALLY! A card commemorating Pedroia’s love for a laser light show set to the music of Pink Floyd! Just what I have always wanted! Really, this is getting awful.
OOOOOOOHHHHH! I see what they did there. His name is Prince! Of course. Glad we have some great minds contiributing these epic plays on words.
Mike Stanton/Logan Morrison Book Jersey Auto
What are you? A gay fish? Need I say more?
Canadian heritage should never be celebrated, never. Kidding. This card takes a historic nickname for one of the best players ever and cheapens it.
Jason Heyward Triple Jersey Auto
See above.
Annnnnnnd the top of the mountain. Look at who is on the left. Look at who is on the right. Look at what is written below them. This is a stupid, stupid idea. I don’t even know where to start.
There are no doubt some other ones that I didn’t see, but its terrible all around. Some of the cards could have been amazing. Just great stuff. But, because triple threads is the same every year, there is nothing that people havent seen before. When that happens, the value drops. Excitement drops. My anger rises.
What that fffffffff….. That last card, the one with Gibson/Ryan/Koufax. Why does it need another side? Especially with those guys? That card needs chopped in half so one side can sell for $500 and the other side can maybe get 5 bucks.
ugh. Horrible. The way they force everything to be 3-ish is disgusting. The randomly sized letters and spaces with crappy sayings is just too weird.
I’m upset you picked up on the gay fish thing. I really wanted that to be my comment.
I really dont know why people like these things. Sad ……..
Elvis had 17 sac hits in 2010 all of which were sac bunts. Sac bunts are intentional, if they were counterproductive teams wouldn’t do them.
Didn’t see it here, but the weirdest one I’d seen thus far is a pujols jersey that spells out… Wait for it… Prince albert. And im not sure how the greatest hitter of our time would feel about being compared to a piercing on one’s doink. Just me saying….
You must not believe in sabremetrics, because it is rare that a sacrifice of giving up an out equates to having a better shot at scoring more runs. Baseball reference.com has a whole thing on it.
Hahahaha, awesome.
Proof that u don’t always praise topps
I only praise what I like, I trash what I dont like. People have short term memory problems, as I trashed on Topps for almost 3 years straight. They turned it around, and now its like that period of time never happened.
I have learned to tune it out, because there will always be haters.