I received my yearly set of Albuquerque Isotopes cards from Kris yesterday.
They're always great fun.
So after another lengthy work day-night, I pulled the cards out of their team bag, shuffled past the cards of coaches and trainers, and eyed the very first player card.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bastardo??!!!!!!!
There is a Bastardo with the Dodgers?
(Insert too obvious Frank McCourt joke here).
I rolled my chair over to my rolltop desk (what? You think I walk like a commoner?). I grabbed the cards I had just scanned from that Heritage windfall and leafed through them.
Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Ah ... here it is!
Antonio. From the Dominican.
Alberto. From Venezuela.
After a couple more moments of review, I deduced:
Yup, they are two different guys!
Wow.
I don't know how I didn't know this before.
Two Bastardos?
Two?
Topps, I sense a combo card opportunity.
If you won't do it, maybe we can resurrect Fleer for one last Superstar Special:
Two crazy Bastardos
Two lucky Bastardos
Two sick Bastardos
Or, in true Fleer SS fashion (picture Ozzie Smith and Lonnie Smith together on an '83 card):
Hermanos Bastardos.
I suppose Alberto needs to do his job and get the majors first.
More cards from Kris on the way. There might be some bastardos in those, too. I'm not sure. I don't know them that well.
They're always great fun.
So after another lengthy work day-night, I pulled the cards out of their team bag, shuffled past the cards of coaches and trainers, and eyed the very first player card.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bastardo??!!!!!!!
There is a Bastardo with the Dodgers?
(Insert too obvious Frank McCourt joke here).
I rolled my chair over to my rolltop desk (what? You think I walk like a commoner?). I grabbed the cards I had just scanned from that Heritage windfall and leafed through them.
Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Bastardo. Ah ... here it is!
Antonio. From the Dominican.
Alberto. From Venezuela.
After a couple more moments of review, I deduced:
Yup, they are two different guys!
Wow.
I don't know how I didn't know this before.
Two Bastardos?
Two?
Topps, I sense a combo card opportunity.
If you won't do it, maybe we can resurrect Fleer for one last Superstar Special:
Two crazy Bastardos
Two lucky Bastardos
Two sick Bastardos
Or, in true Fleer SS fashion (picture Ozzie Smith and Lonnie Smith together on an '83 card):
Hermanos Bastardos.
I suppose Alberto needs to do his job and get the majors first.
More cards from Kris on the way. There might be some bastardos in those, too. I'm not sure. I don't know them that well.
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