I had gone out of my way to avoid Gypsy Queen this year, walking by it on numerous passes through the card aisle. I've made it well-known over the last three years that I find GQ the ugliest card product that's available today. But last night I was grocery shopping at 2 in the morning. Yes, 2 in the morning. I'm not the Night Owl for nothing. About the only place around here where you can shop at that hour for serious groceries (i.e.: not Slim Jims and Monster Energy Drink) is Walmart. And I'm not subjecting myself to Walmart at no place no time without a trip to the card aisle. Now if this was Target, I'd find me some of those black border Heritage blister packs or some repack goodness. But my Walmart has none of that. You either get Topps base or Opening Day, pointless nonbaseball products (really, why are they on the shelves?) or GQ. (*sigh*) I grabbed a rack pack of GQ -- there were no loose packs -- for the outrageous price of 10 bucks. To get the...
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