Please Topps

Earlier this year I purchased a couple of packs of 2019 Topps Now Future World Series through their web site. One of the cards that I pulled, Patrick Corbin, didn’t include the prize information on the back that stated what I would receive if the Washington Nationals won the World Series. I sent a message to Topps customer support in May to ask about the error. It took them 2 months to respond, but they said to return the card to be replaced so I sent the card back in early August.

This was my PWE to Topps

Again, 2 months with no response from Topps and the MLB Playoffs in full swing so I send another email to find out what is going on, this one on 10/13. I got a response on 10/25 with the rep saying she would check the mail room and get back to me. Since then the Nats won the World Series and I should be submitting a code to request my prize, instead I am sitting here without the replacement card I was promised, and Topps has my card missing the prize information.

I am in frustration mode here, do I keep pestering Topps or allow the rep time to get things fixed? I worry that if I push then I will end up with nothing, a replacement card of a player who isn’t on the Nationals team (so no prize) or some random over-produced insert as a booby prize. I also worry that if I don’t push, then they will never follow up and end up with nothing. Arggghhh

Dodgers-Astros... Game 7

So Long Goat

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs and their fans for an amazing season and the World Series win.

 

I went to bed at the top of the 9^th inning with the score tied 6-6 after the Indians came back strong. The rain had started and the game went to a commercial, I figured they was going to be a rain delay so I headed to bed. It was 3:15 am when I got up to let the dog out when I checked my phone and saw that the Cubbies have finally put an end to the Curse of the Goat.

 

To complete the celebration Budweiser released a commercial this morning with beloved Cubs announcer Harry Caray calling the final out. He may not be alive to celebrate but you can be certain that Harry Caray is celebrating up above.

Who Takes It All?

Tonight begins the 110th World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants. The underdog Royals are back to the Fall Classic after a 29 year absence while the Giants are looking to add another championship banner to the rafters, which would be their 3rd title in five years.

I have never been a collector of either team and the best card I have ever pulled between the two teams has been a 2007 Ultra Alex Gordon Lucky 13 autograph so I am not pulling either way but just watching for the entertainment of the top two teams clashing for the title.

The World Series Moment?

Top of the 9th, two outs and Johnny Damon comes to bat. Lidge ends up sitting at 3-2 and Damon tips one that Catcher Carlos Ruiz drops which should have been the final out for the Yankees. Is this the fateful situation that changes the fates for the Yankees? Will these events go down in history like Steve Bartman, the bloody sock and Bill Buckner?

To make things worse, Damon ends up stealing Second and Third on the same pitch… note to Phillies pitching staff, cover Third Base when a shift is on.

Burnett steps up to the mound tonight to try and clinch the series for the Yankees but I think that Game 4 will probably be the topic of discussion for years to come.

What Would You Do?

I understand that when your team is in the champion game you some times feel like you would be willing to do anything to get tickets for the game. Apparently there are some people who just ignore all moral judgments and just go straight for the gutter in attempts to earn those tickets. Is the World Series worth a threesome?

Susan Finkelstein of Philadelphia was arrested Tuesday after taking out a Craiglist ad offering sex in exchange for tickets. Her lawyer, in typical fashion, pointed out that while she might have “dropped double entendres in her ad, she never explicitly offered sex”. You have to love lawyers the way they can make the most offensive situation seem less lewd.

What is more obscene, the ad being posted in the first place or that the poster is a 43-year old Univ. of Penn Graduate student who wanted to take her husband to a game?