About a month ago I wrote about "my greatest collecting fear," which was thinking that I had an easy-to-complete set completed, only to realize months or even years later that I didn't. I resolved in that post to stop worrying about such nonsense, that there was no time limit on completing any set, and to simply enjoy the process. Then the card you see here that came from Cards On Cards showed up ... and I almost flipped out on the spot. "Chris Perez? CHRIS PEREZ? CHRIS & %%#@!* PEREZ????? That piece-of-dog-poo reliever the Dodgers forced onto their roster????? ... I DON'T HAVE THIS BASE CARD!!!!!!! " Yeah, removing yourself from "the fear" is a process. The Chris Perez card is from last year's Topps Update set. I thought I had all the Dodgers from that set last winter, because the want list told me so. But I am sure that somewhere in compiling that want list, I skipped right over Chris Perez because -- snort! -- the Dodgers do...
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