This card highlight's Greg Maddux pitching his 5,000 inning. That is certainly a notable milestone which deserves to be commemorated. So why is Manny Ramirez on the card? This is the type of foolishness for which this set is well known. But this card takes foolishness one step further into dishonesty. Manny is wearing a Dodgers away uni when this game was played in LA. And even worse, do you see the guy sitting in the background behind Manny's knee. He may be a bit blurry, but he is surely wearing a Cardinals uniform. The catcher is wearing a red wrist band. There are a lot of people in the stands wearing red. This picture is not from the game highlighted, it is not even from a Giants-Dodgers game.Why am I so worked up about this, over 2 years after the set came out? When this set was announced, I thought it was a great idea. I looked forward to trying to collect a card from each of the Phillies games in 2008 (the year they won the World Series). What a great collection that would have been. What a disappointment.
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oops... meant great eye... couldn't agree with you more!
well it is not like the Giants and Dodgers play each other that often. how were they supposed to get a picture from a Dodgers Giants game.
Here was my take on "Flopumentary." The pictures on the card have nothing to do with the game. There are 10 pictures for cards 1-100, rotated in order. The rest of the set rotates six more pictures. It was the absolute worst execution of a pretty interesting idea.
I have stolen Wrigley Wax's appropriate naming Flopumentory... I don't know if it is the worst, but it was a HUGE flop. My card shop doesn't sell much wax, but the two boxes he bought have a thick layer of dust on them. I like to ask how the documentory is selling every time I go in there...
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