nowhere is my chrome

2024 topps chrome has been out for awhile, but i haven't seen any in the wild. i did pick up a blaster online from target, using some target circle credit to offset the ballooning cost of these things these days. i haven't been to a card show or shop since may, so i suppose i haven't been looking too hard - only quick peeks at the card aisle when i am in target from time to time.

team breaks have been hard to come by as well, as shohei ohtani is the assumed favorite for the national league mvp award and the presumed return of the mvp buyback program has prices pretty high. i did find an ohtani card in my blaster

but it is an insert and not his base or a refractor parallel. i am not complaining about that - it's just an obvservation. the only other dodger in the blaster was will smith's base card

i showed one non-dodger keeper from the blaster yesterday, and another keeper (for now) is this zack greinke

i continue to hold out hope that greinke will return and pitch for somebody, but if not at least we have some final tribute cards for him.

i've also not seen any 2023 topps chrome platinum anniversary out there either. with no ohtani dodger cards in that set, i was able to secure a team break pretty easily. here's clayton kershaw's card

the dodger checklist seems to be smaller this year which means that there aren't a lot of middle reliever or interesting checklist choices like there were a couple of years ago. no steve garvey cards, but gil hodges is back!

topps missed on his eye color, though.

jackie robinson is a given

as is roy campanella

and that's a refractor parallel of campy. the other refractor i received was kiké's

but i also got a michael grove green refractor parallel

there's a card show here in a couple of weeks that i will probably try to get to. if i make it, i am hoping to find some 2024 topps chrome for the picking.