If Delegates Were Baseball Cards...
Abby Tonsing
Abby Tonsing received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002 from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. She majored in creative writing and minored in philosophy and classical studies. Prior to graduating, she won the Chad Kostel Memorial Writing Award, an honor given to one senior each year. The award is presented to the student most likely to pursue a career in writing and journalism. Abby is now on a fellowship and working on a master’s degree in journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Posted:
03/11/08
...Hillary Clinton would be in the money with the nomination, so to speak.
Now, I have a toy chest full of baseball cards from my youth, and I can assure that my collection is sorely lacking without this valuable gem:
The Hillary Clinton 2008 Upper Deck Presidential Predictor error card.
This afternoon, the Clinton card goes for upwards of $1,400 on eBay. Meanwhile, bids for the Obama and McCain 2008 UD Presidential Predictor cards start out at 99 cents each.
Afterall, John McCain's card likens him to Ted Williams. Barack Obama's 2005 World Series MVP Jermaine Dye, of Obama's beloved Chicago White Sox.
Why the disparity in price? See for yourself after the jump.
Clinton's portrayed as Morganna The Kissing Bandit, who is famous for running onto the field and accosting major leaguers with her kisses. Also known for her bodacious ta-tas, Morganna has appeared in Playboy three times.
It gets worse. In my eyes, it appears that Hillary/Morganna's smooching the most hated man to ever play the game, Pete Rose.
So, why is this blatantly sexist baseball card worth so much mulah? Why, because it was an "error" that the card left the factory.
According to an article from Beckett Media (which publishes sport-card collection magazines for you cardboard collectible illiterates out there), the folks at Upper Deck had second thoughts about unleashing the card on the masses.
Upper Deck Vice President of Marketing Louise Curcio is quoted as calling the card "...somewhat controversial, and could possibly be deemed inappropriate..."
Stopping the presses didn't exactly work in this instance: "We literally had to go back to the hoppers on the floor and start pulling the Hillary cards out manually," says one UD official. "We thought we got them all."
It's unknown how many of the Hillary/Morganna baseball cards are still out there, either in the hands of collectors or still tightly wrapped in their tin-foil packaging.
Let's recap.
McCain and Obama are portrayed as heroes in baseball. As are all of the collection's other candidate cards.
Clinton is portrayed as a ho in baseball.
Is it reprehensible that Upper Deck's artists even inked their sexism? Let alone the cards got printed and accidentally released to the public? Absolutely.
Do I want one for my collection? Absolutely.
Does that make me a sell-out? Probably.
But $1,400's a helluva lot more than the $300 I'm getting from Bushie's tax credit. I'm poor and I've got health-related bills to pay. Times are tough.
Now, I have a toy chest full of baseball cards from my youth, and I can assure that my collection is sorely lacking without this valuable gem:
The Hillary Clinton 2008 Upper Deck Presidential Predictor error card.
This afternoon, the Clinton card goes for upwards of $1,400 on eBay. Meanwhile, bids for the Obama and McCain 2008 UD Presidential Predictor cards start out at 99 cents each.
Afterall, John McCain's card likens him to Ted Williams. Barack Obama's 2005 World Series MVP Jermaine Dye, of Obama's beloved Chicago White Sox.
Why the disparity in price? See for yourself after the jump.
Clinton's portrayed as Morganna The Kissing Bandit, who is famous for running onto the field and accosting major leaguers with her kisses. Also known for her bodacious ta-tas, Morganna has appeared in Playboy three times.
It gets worse. In my eyes, it appears that Hillary/Morganna's smooching the most hated man to ever play the game, Pete Rose.
So, why is this blatantly sexist baseball card worth so much mulah? Why, because it was an "error" that the card left the factory.
According to an article from Beckett Media (which publishes sport-card collection magazines for you cardboard collectible illiterates out there), the folks at Upper Deck had second thoughts about unleashing the card on the masses.
Upper Deck Vice President of Marketing Louise Curcio is quoted as calling the card "...somewhat controversial, and could possibly be deemed inappropriate..."
Stopping the presses didn't exactly work in this instance: "We literally had to go back to the hoppers on the floor and start pulling the Hillary cards out manually," says one UD official. "We thought we got them all."
It's unknown how many of the Hillary/Morganna baseball cards are still out there, either in the hands of collectors or still tightly wrapped in their tin-foil packaging.
Let's recap.
McCain and Obama are portrayed as heroes in baseball. As are all of the collection's other candidate cards.
Clinton is portrayed as a ho in baseball.
Is it reprehensible that Upper Deck's artists even inked their sexism? Let alone the cards got printed and accidentally released to the public? Absolutely.
Do I want one for my collection? Absolutely.
Does that make me a sell-out? Probably.
But $1,400's a helluva lot more than the $300 I'm getting from Bushie's tax credit. I'm poor and I've got health-related bills to pay. Times are tough.