A couple of days ago, I wrote about how my decision not to collect any 2012 set would be fairly easy if it wasn't for this summer and Allen & Ginter . Today, with the help of some cards from madding at Cards on Cards , I am going in the opposite direction. There is a card brand that I am positively giddy about avoiding. I can't wait to avoid it. I do a good job of avoiding it now. But now I get to COMPLETELY avoid it. Forever. Yeah, I think it might be forever. I may never buy another pack of Bowman ever again. The only reason I've picked up packs of Bowman in the past was to see what the hysteria was about. Every year there was some prospect everyone was going bat-poo over. I figured I'd check it out. But with the exception of Strasmania , I always struck out. Bowman packs left me cold. Card after card of players I had never heard of and probably would never hear of again. This was no way to collect. The designs rarely impressed (yikes, I didn...
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