Night Owl Cards

This is Topps Update's super short-print card of Matt Kemp. For the second consecutive set, Kemp is the subject of an SSP. (No. I still haven't acquired his "Beast Mode" SSP. Yes, I still want it). So far, the Dodgers have FIVE super short-printed cards in Topps Update. The other four are the players involved in the big trade with the Red Sox -- Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto. That's five cards I'll likely never see in my collection. If I get lucky, I'll end up with one or two ...eventually. So, how do I feel about that? Well, the super short print falls under that heading of: "if you let it bother you, it will." When I learned of the ever growing number of short-prints in this year's Update, and how many of them were Dodgers, I started to feel myself cramp up and begin to get cranky inside. My mind started forming sentences with the words "boycott" and "monopoly" and "schemi...