(Greetings on National App day. I can recall the carefree days when I didn't know what an app was. Now I am wondering if there is a National Delete Your App day. I would like to celebrate that. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 360th in a series):
It came. My one card to recognize and remember the Dodgers' World Series title in 2025.
Sure, there will likely be a Heritage card or two to remember it next year (1977 Topps had three World Series cards). But this is it for something immediate. Topps isn't producing any blaster with a commemorative set anymore, and I refuse to throw cash at any of the other Topps Now cards.
I was prepared for this after last year. I looked and looked for a nice World Series set to remember the 2024 Series victory but just ended up being horrified by the price of the online-only set of 15 ugly cards.
I decided one card would do and I got something appropriate.
I think I like this way of approaching it. It saves me a bunch of money and it makes me focus on which card would be perfect to sum up the Series.
I struggled in the immediate after glow of the Dodgers' win over the Blue Jays to figure out which card. With such an exciting Game 7, there were a few possibilities -- Will Smith, Miguel Rojas, the Will Smith force out at the plate, the team celebration on the field. Which one? Which one?
This one.
Never in my life as a fan has a live-or-die play in baseball game made me laugh out loud the minute it happened. That is some kind of accomplishment, especially when you're on the edge of your seat expecting the worst.
So this is it, the card that celebrates the Dodgers' victory for me. Topps isn't going to do anything different -- it'll just keep charging those suckers -- so this is my tradition.
I'll do it again if it happens next year.
Yeah, I know, you don't want it to happen next year. Your team hasn't won since before you were born. Your team hasn't won ever. Thanks for making me sad now.
Comments
I wonder what I'll do with Topps Now if the Mets manage to win a Series. I suppose it depends on what they're going for on eBay but I'd probably grab a couple at least.
A World Series Champion set could easily retail for $99.99 if they included all the Dodgers on the playoff roster as well as the playoff and World Series highlights since Ohtani would be a part of the set.