Times are clearly tough in the trading card industry, and Topps, one of America's most recognized baseball card producers is trying out a new gimmick to sell a few extra packs: Celebrity endorsements!
Consumers now have an added "incentive" in collecting this season's series of cards, because aside from the players on the 32 professional clubs, children and grown nerds alike will have the chance to collect a set of fifteen celebrity first pitch trading cards.
Look, while I understand that it is becoming more challenging for trading card producers Topps to come up with new and innovative concepts, I don't believe that this latest effort is worth the paper it's printed on. There is absolutely no intrinsic value to owning a Biz Markie Oakland Athletics card or a Tom Morello Chicago Cubs card, even for the sake of novelty. This idea is trash and it makes me wary of buying Topps cards because I don't want to spend my money only to find out that three of the twelve cards out of my pack are celebrities making awkward throwing motions.
My message to Topps is simple: Thanks for trying, but don't cheat your customers out of real cards.
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