2023 Topps Sell Sheets are live!

 Well, it looks like the 2023 Topps sell sheets are live. I don't know about you, but I don't know what to think. I'll just let the pictures do the talking and then give my thoughts.

All base cards are SPs?!  DraftKings promos?! Cards of breakers and flipper brahs?!  I don't know if I'm going to buy a pack. I was going to probably get a few packs and get the complete set at the end of the year, but if all of the freaking base cards are SPs, I don't even know if a complete boxes set will be in the game for Topps, or if anyone who really wants a complete base set will have to spend a few hundred on eBay to get one. I'm no math wizard, but if packs have 8 cards with the base cards only falling 1 in 75 or so packs, I figure I could put together a complete set from the parallel cards quicker than I could from pulling a base card from a pack. It wouldn't be the same color, but at least I could put together a 1-330 complete set. I guess at the very least I'll try to put together a mixed parallel set of the Rays and Tigers. The getting a pack thing might be out of the question for me and many people too, as I don't know where a freaking 'Lids Outlet' is, and I figure the flippers would buy out the supply at my Local Card shop before I get a chance to head by after work whenever the cards come out. It might drive down insert prices if they are being pulled 8 of 8 cards in 74 of 75 packs. I just don't get the inserts. I liked some of the first pitch cards they had in the 2015-2017 sets, but I'm just not a celebrity fanboy, so the Fanatics Fans cards really aren't for me. I have nothing but disgust for flippers, and breakers are helping the products not stay on shelves for me to find and are probably driving up prices, so I don't care for them either and don't feel like they deserve an insert devoted to them. I don't gamble, and feel that can be a slippery slope for many people, so I think that's my least favorite insert of all. The '52/'87 insert doesn't really appeal to me as I feel like both of those are overdone and I don't see the point of combining the two sets. With that being said, it is probably the insert that I would actually put in my binders and not just throw in my Allen & Ginter oddball box. The parallels might actually be the most interesting things out there. I would love to pull a Draft Pick card (the most likely chance of that happening would be if I pulled a parallel insert), but I just don't want to bust pack after pack of nothing I want in order to get one. With the looks of the names on the partial checklist, I might just try to buy a 3-5 Tigers and Rays partial parallel team set and call it a day. Maybe we'll just have to wait for a kid-themed set like Opening Day or something later in the 2023 card season if we want to see the roster of our favorite teams if we aren't Yankees/Padres/Dodgers fans. I'm really worried and I hope that this isn't the way cards are going to go, because I really don't know if I want to participate in collecting cards if I can't build a nice team set of my favorite team and easily buy a complete set. 

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-Jeremy