Baseball cards will get me to Target or Walmart under only three circumstances. 1. The first cards of the year have arrived. 2. Heritage has arrived. 3. Allen & Ginter has arrived. That's it. For purchases of any other baseball card product, I am in the store already, either buying something else or being dragged through it by significant others. But today, for some stupid reason, I went to Target/Walmart because I thought there might be some 2012 Heritage there. I knew very well there wouldn't. This is the first week that Heritage hit select store shelves but my area of residence is never a "select area." So, there I was, in the card aisle that I shouldn't have been in in the first place, ready to spend money. I spied one lonely blaster of 2012 Opening Day. Unlike last year -- when OD featured those cool Stadium Lights cards and I actually had a reason to buy it -- there is no reason for me to buy OD. But the blaster was only $10.48 and I can...
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