Sunday, June 17, 2018
are you not embarrassed, topps?
last year i noted that i was embarassed to be buying topps product that seemed to lack basic quality control when it came to the copy on the cards. then there was the legal battle over an erroneous topps now card that was corrected between the purchase and the shipping of the card, not to mention a number of textual errors that have been identified on other topps now cards. wrigley wax recently pointed out the crappy job topps did with the back of brandon morrow's living set card, and then i found this in a pack of 2018 topps series 2:
that's the back of scott kazmir's card. i don't mind that he has a card even though he hasn't thrown a pitch since 2016, but i just wish topps would review their writing. i don't know exactly how card backs are created, but i would imagine that should be a standard text cell for when a player misses a season. what exactly does "did not player - injured" mean, anyway?
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Wow, good catch, and yes shame on Topps for not proofreading.
ReplyDeleteSeems like there's more errors in Topps than usual this year. Even some of their "exclusive" cards have been nightmares (right, Brandon "Marrow"?).
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I would just like to say I edit for a living. Topps: I am for sale.
ReplyDeleteA couple of years back Panini thought that Charlotte, North Carolina was part of the Western conference in an NBA set.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Topps created this error on purpose... so it can release a very short printed "corrected" version of this card.
ReplyDeleteTopps is at the "we don't care anymore" stage. With their renewed licensing, I doubt there will be any improvements.
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