Heading in The Right Direction

So today I was tooling around UD's website and I saw that starting as early as July, people will be able to choose their redemption replacements electronically on the site. I didnt believe my eyes at first, but I think this is a step in the right direction. Of course the right thing would be to have no redemptions at all, but hey, better than nothing, right?

At least now you wont get one of the 5000 Dallas McPhereson 2005 Reflections autos when you redeem your favorite player. Thats good. What's bad is that UD will be assigning values to each card so that you cant get a Jordan for your Kurt Rambis redemption that was never made, and I know which of our favorite magazines they will use. Either way, hopefully this turns out well.

I also saw something that was equally as shocking on the sell sheet for Superlative Hockey from In The Game. On the sheet it mentions that all cards from the set are signed on card, no redemptions, and all jerseys are game used (not from photo shoots, events, or old timer games). I couldnt help but doing a classic Mr. Burns, "Excellent." They even came up with the lame, "Off the back, not off the rack" tag line. I like it, but it is a very, very pricey set.

It just goes to show that it IS possible to put out a collector dream set. If only we could get it for Baseball and Football now!

Pray...for...MOJO

I swear to God, every time I see a thread with the word "MOJO" in it, I throw up a little in my mouth. In fact, it has its own sliding scale of barf:

- Plain "MOJO" = Mouth puke
- "MOJO!!!" = Brush your teeth its bad mouth puke (+1 second of brushing for each exclamation point)
- "Peterson-jo, Jordan-jo, Kurt Rambis-jo" = Full on Family Guy on ipicac puke


Superman wears Kurt Rambis pajamas to bed.

Yeah, its gotten that bad people. My normal person brain just cant function when I see "OMFG PETERSON-JO X8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" as someone's title to their break. Have we gotten that uncreative? I mean, titling the thread "A pull that has me jumping up and down ALL DAY" is really lame, but for god's sake I would take it any day of the week over the other. In my opinion, unless you are talking about Homer Simpson's helper monkey - lets let it die people!


OH MY GOD! Mojo! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU!

One of my other gripes is that people use the exclamation point like it is the button that gives you more morphine in the hospital after surgery. Like more people will come into the thread the more exclamation points. Then, when you do go in, just to see if he did pull the Payton cut signature you think he did, its only a card that doesnt even cover the cost of the box! I know, Im a nitpicker. Listen, if you do pull a Payton Cut that cool, ill let it slide - ONCE.

Just to give you a better example of why this term needs to go faster than "drop it like its hot," ill cite an experience with my dear old mom a few days ago. I told her I busted a box of SPA as the last UD box I would ever break, after explaining the whole debacle with Beckett. Immediately, as if on cue, she asked, "Well, did you at least pull any MOJO?" My jaw hit the fucking floor.

Lets put this into perspective. You can either sound like an experienced collector and name your break what it should be "(Box Title) (Year) (Sport) - Great Pull!" or you can sound like a thirteen year old with a keyboard and a cell phone in each hand.

Choose wisely - ill be lurking!