Upper Deck, you still make me sad

I have been feeling like crap lately. If there was a way to surgically remove my throat without there being the corresponding eating and drinking issues, I'd do it. It has not been pleasant the last three days.

I've been in a continuous state of fluctuating between "should I call in at work?" and "nah, I'm OK." After a trip to the doc's today, I'm fairly certain it is allergy related because it hasn't stopped raining for TWO DAMN WEEKS and my neighborhood looks like a Northeastern jungle freshly bombed by pollen.

In a haze yesterday, I stopped at Walmart to grab a care package of cards. Cards are medicinal you know. You saw the Bowman and Topps value box results earlier. But I also grabbed a discounted O-Pee-Chee blaster.

I've done very well on staying away from blasters this year. I have not bought a single full-price blaster. Because it is truly heartache in a box.

However, a marked-down blaster is much more happy. Even with a product like OPC, in which I need only six cards to finish off the set, it can be fun. I know I'll pick up a few black-border cards, some inserts and maybe a hit.

So, good for Upper Deck for continuing to throw out those discounted blasters.

Except this time.

Oh, I got my black-border cards. I got some inserts, too. Didn't get a hit, but that's OK.

I wasn't shorted a pack either. Got all 15 packs.

So, what's the big deal?

Well, when I got to packs 14 and 15, I noticed there were extremely thin. In fact, by merely touching them, it was obvious that each contained only 1 card, instead of the six advertised on the wrapper.

"Hmmm, maybe it's some weird hit," I thought.

Well it wasn't.

Here is what the first SEALED pack contained:

A single card of Jason Bartlett. Yup, just a solitary base card.

Did I mention that the pack was sealed? And enclosed in a box? With shrink wrap?

Here is what the second scrawny pack yielded:

One card of Jonathan Broxton? That's the definition of insult to injury.

Now, I know that this blaster was discounted, but I figured it was because the product is two years old, not because two of the packs in the box were "defective."

So, do I have any recourse here?

Upper Deck, you may not have a baseball license anymore, but you still make me sad.

You made a sick person sad. I hope you're happy with yourself.