Pack A Day #14

Happy Valentines Day!  or as I currently call it, Happy Appreciating Being Single Day!  Being single can suck, especially on Valentines day, but there are some good things.  Like I don't have to buy flowers or candy or anything for someone special!  Would rather I did, but oh well.  Maybe next year.

Oh well.  I have some cards to open.  This is the last day of Old Stock Week and I have a pack of Upper Deck 2010 Series 1 Baseball cards to open!

On To The Cards!

Ryan Sweeney (A's)
Russell Branyan (Mariners)
Tyler Flowers (White Sox )
Mike Cameron (Brewers)
Aaron Miles (Cubs)
Joe Nathan (Twins)
Kazuo Matsui (Astros)
Ron Villone (Nationals)
Skip Shcumaker (Cardinals)
Mike Aviles (Royals)
Kenshin Kawakami (Braves)
J.J. Hardy (Twins)
Pedro Feliciano (Mets)
Bronson Arroyo (Reds)
Jose Cuillien (Royals)
Land Shark Stadum
          Insert
2009 Biography--Mark Teixeira
Supreme--Chipper Jones

Not a bad set.  I like the design but I do have 2 problems.  1.) the foil makes the names really hard to read.  This is a problem I have with most cards with foil names, but this time it is worse then usual.  and 2.) since Upper Deck doesn't have the rights to use the team names, they just list the city (or state in Minnesota's case) which gets kind of confusing when you have New York or Chicago listed.  You either have to remember which team they were on or figure it out from their uniform.  Although they were able to use the team names n the back of one card for some reason.

On the bright side, I like the inserts.  the Supreme card looks cool, and I like the idea of a sort of "Year In Review" set.  I also like the idea of Ball Park cards, although I am surprised that they are part of the regular set and not an insert.  I also like the fact that I got 2 Twins.  J.J. Hardy is wearing a Brewers uniform on the card, but he is listed as Minnesota, and that is good enough for me :)

Tomorrow, Topps 2012 Football!