I've reached a realization that's been coming for awhile now. Over the past six or seven years, the quest to pursue every Dodgers card has grown more and more ludicrous to me. I've known that it's an impossible quest and I've known that probably since the early days of this blog. But even then, even after everything that happened in the 1990s, "collecting them all" still seemed like something I could rationalize. Things hadn't gotten quite so ridiculous. Then, around 10 years ago or so, we started seeing stuff like inserts being paralleled in earnest. Then, around the same time, card companies got into online exclusives and then those exclusives started being issued weekly. Then Panini issued Chronicles, which is sets within a set with multiple parallels of parallels. Then Topps started creating parallel sets, things like Allen & Ginter Chrome. Then Topps started issuing multiple chrome brands, cosmic and sonic and bionic and moronic. It'
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