Goodwin box break, and an I Told You So...

First off, let me preface this break of Goodwin Champions by Upper Deck by saying I told you so. In at least 8 other blogs, I posted a comment when that respective blogger posted a pack/blaster/box break of this product. Every time, each blogger showed off a Chipper Jones card. Every time, I responded by saying if I did not get a Chipper Jones card, I was a gonna lose it.

Guess what? Yeah. No Chipper. No McCann either. Not in auto, jersey, base, mini, black bordered mini, shiny foil mini, or easter egg night background versions.
Nada.
Colour me peeved. (that would be a shade of magenta I believe. Or maybe puce.)

Onto the break. But be warned Upper Deck! (I know you read this humble blog) When we get deeper into the review, you will not like what I have to say. The first part is really good. The latter, is really, really bad.

The hits. (everyone has seen the base cards, yes?)
Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk. Game Used Somethingorother. (for trade btw)

Curtis Granderson Game Used Somethingorother. (for trade btw)

an auto of Evelyn Ng, pro poker player. (for trade btw)

Not bad.

Black bordered Gypsy Queen mini's - 5 in the box

(all but Mr Howe are up for trade)

Shiny foil mini of Justin Morneau - 1 in box

Citizen of the Day Grigori Rasputin - 1 in the box

48 base cards - no doubles

8 SP's (White, Hafner, Purcey, Perez, Carroll, Willingham, Hughes, Carmona)
2 Super Short Prints

Roy Halladay

and Jermaine Dye

20 mini's (with a catch)

the first 10

the next 10 or should I say 5???

Yeah. Five doubles out of twenty mini's.

Not happy. A deeper shade of magenta. Raspberry even.

And don't even get me started on the b.s. waste of space UD 20th Anniversary Crapserts.

10 of them!!!! 10!!! And they take the place of a base card!

So here it is, my two cents worth. 2009 UD goodwin Champions could have been the set of the year. It is better than Allen & Ginter in almost every way, save a couple. But these shortcomings are HUGE.

Autographs - even

Jersey cards - Ginter

Checklist - Champions (only because of the smaller set)

Card design/artwork - Champions

Inserts - Ginter (the 20th Anniversary killed Champions here)

Packs per box/Cards per pack - Ginter

If UD had upped the number of cards per pack to 8, or the packs in a box to 24, OR even just done away with the 20th Anniversary Crapserts, Champions would have won, easy.

I would have even overlooked the mini doubles. But no. you screwed up, upper deck.

The way I look at it is this, $70 for the box (98 cards) = .71.4 cents per card.

5 doubles, and 10 Crapserts is 15x.71.4= $10.71

Upper Deck, you owe me $10.71

the trading gates are open.

2009 OPC math...

I know you've been in a panic to know how the collation went in the two boxes of OPC baseball I just broke. I hope that you got a little sleep at least.
No Marie, I have not yet mailed the black border Pujolies. Settle down.
If you're late, and haven't seen the breaks, scroll down. I'll wait.

Okay, here we go. I'm sure you're all familiar with the cards and subsets, so no pics for now. Just the facts ma'am. These are numbers for the two boxes combined. No calculators were harmed in the computation of these statistics.

Base Cards - 249 - no doubles. SWEEEEET!
Black border inserts - 72 - no doubles
'79/80 retro - 2 - no doubles
New York New York - 2 - no doubles
Walk Off - 2 - no doubles
Midsummer Memories - 3 - no doubles
Highlights and Milestones - 3 - no doubles
Award Winner - 3 - no doubles
20th Anniversary BS Waste of Space - 12 - no doubles
All Rookie Team - 1
Mini Black Border - 2 - no doubles
Autographs - 1
Faces of the Franchise - 6 - no doubles - however, the collation was a little weird. Box One had #'s 16 / 17/ 18 and Box two had #'s 24 / 25 / 26 That could lead to odd duplication if busting multiple boxes

Double Prints. You've heard my arguement over these NOT being SP's.... here we go.
I got 72 of these, one per pack. 28 DOUBLES!!!! Short print my ass.

Let the trading begin.

Mickey Fickey Upper Deck!!!

I can't.. I just can't.. I don't have the words... I pre-ordered two boxes of this stuff....

Sonofabitches

Cocknobbers

Bastards.... that's it... I've had it...

Really?

“Unfortunately, this is a major manufacturing error.”


Ya think!?!??! Dumbass. What the hell, man? I can't even finish base sets, and people get these with regularity.
I hate Topps. I hate Upper Deck. I hate Beckett. You are all ruining this damn hobby that I love so much.

Fix it. Now.