Topps' flagship set this year was my biggest card disappointment. I won't say that it was a major disappointment because I really didn't want to try to complete another flagship set after putting my all into 2015. But 2016 Topps was not even close to my style and the disappointing part is that this set probably indicates the direction in which Topps is headed. So I bought very little Series 1 from this year's set and even less Series 2. I thought about ignoring Update altogether because: 1) I don't want to keep seeing those smokey photos. 2) I know half of the cards will show players in the pukey retro Padres All-Star uniforms. But, in the end, I had to get at least one hanger box to see if I could find some Dodgers and a couple other items that I could salvage from the burning wreckage of the 2016 Topps collecting season. I'm showing these cards approximately two weeks after Update arrived. Today was the first day I even looked for it. It appeared t...
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