Josh Willingham is giving away my thoughts, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to display the look on my face after I opened a rack pack of 2013 Triple Play. "Why did I buy this?" Well, you'll just have to find out at the end of this post. That's how we play this game. 2013 Triple Play is a slight upgrade over 2012 Triple Play. It's been on the shelves for awhile and dissected by enough people so I'm not going to enlighten anyone here. But it's the first pack of this stuff that I've purchased, so I must give a half-assed accounting of it as is my practice. First, what I like about the set. As I wrote when I grabbed a pack of last year's debut version, it's a decent effort by Panini. I like cartoony stuff and it's a good way to get around the "no license" deal. The addition of faux-wood borders this year gives the impression that the cards are thicker than last year, although I believe they're about the same...
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