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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

It is the set that never ends.... 2008 UD Timelines

Four of five months ago at trade night for one of my local shops, they had some "Trade Night Specials."
I purchased a couple of boxes... one of which is this one. 2008 Upper Deck Timelines. They call it Timelines because it will take a person eons to complete it.
 
Let's see what $25 gets me. I've already busted a box of this...okay, maybe two, in a futile effort at completing the set.
 2 autos per box..... but only 18 packs per box. And according to the wrapper, 8 cards per pack, 6 of which are short prints.
 What??? 144 cards in a box and 108 of them are short prints??? My head hurts. Let's just look at the pictures from Pack One...

Ichiro Suzuki
 Tim Lincecum pre-hair
 Greg Smith (I have no idea who plays for the A's anymore.... not since Lansford, Weiss, Henderson, Henderson, etc...
 David Murphy... I pulled the auto version of this in one of my other boxes
 Joey Votto reminding me to clean my scanner AGAIN....
 Matt Holliday
 Jay Bruce - Reds Hot Pack!

 and finally Troy Tulowitzki
No idea which 6 of those are SP's... but even though I still need a 160 cards of a 385 card set, I only got two new cards. Something tells me no one will ever finish this set... least of all me.