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Possibly the worst set for inserts ever

I have purchased exactly one blaster in 2011 so far. It wasn't even a blaster of 2011 product. It was a blaster marked down to $5.99. How can you pass up a blaster for $5.99? It was a box of 2007 Topps Updates & Highlights. I bought a few packs of those, but not a lot. So I thought this would be a nice nostalgia trip, combined with grabbing a few cards that I had never seen. The base cards were fun. Eric Gagne as a Red Sox, a rookie Kevin Slowey, somebody named Rocky Cherry. You can't beat 10 packs for 6 bucks. But the inserts? Let's just say I don't ever want to hear anyone complain about Topps' 2011 inserts again. Here is what passed for inserts in 2007: Goody. Swell. Yippee. Joy. I also pulled the Bonds card at the top of the post, which I suppose if you were brainless enough to collect the entire Bonds HR set is the card to get since it commemorates the downfall of baseball as we know ... er, I mean the crowning of a new home run leade...