2008 Upper Deck Update

Both Stale Gum and Hand Collated have mentioned an update set for 2008 Upper Deck so there has to be something to this. It's being sold as a factory set, and comes with a box that can hold the entire 1000 card set. And it will only cost 20 bucks.

No.

Freaking.

Way.

Upper Deck's not doing this. This is a cruel joke meant to torment set builders. UD is going to have two game used and an auto card in every box as 'added value' and charge $60 for it. There will be another Predictor set with the nominees and their potential running mates reenacting famous movie love scenes, and there will be a super short printed card of John McCain and Mitt Romney in an homage to Last Tango In Paris that is 'pulled' at the last minute due to its inappropriateness. There will be a reverse negative error card of ecurB yaJ. One in every 20 boxes will have a rare Gold Foil parallel set. One in 1000 will have a super rare Platinum set. One box in every million will include spores of deadly Anthrax, causing death and carnage to whatever hobby shop opens it. One of One MoJo Spores. This is 2008. There has to be a stupid gimmick designed to get idiots to buy a bunch of boxes in order to chase a piece of cardboard that will depreciate 75% in value in two years. I'm not going to believe this until I see some Pre-Sells.

TFAW.com - Upper Deck 2008 Mlb Update Trading Card Set - Pre-sell $15.99

The Card Kid - 2008 Upper Deck MLB Update Set - 200 Cards - Pre-sell $11.88

Freakin' eBay - 2008 Upper Deck MLB Update Set - 200 Cards - Pre-sell $12.00

Ok, it's only August but I'm calling it now. 2008 Upper Deck is the base set of the year. The design is better than Topps, the photos look better than Topps, there are more cards for the money than are in Topps packs, there's a real life Fukudome rookie in the set already, they saved their gimmick super short prints for insert sets and a variation card instead of fucking up the base set with an imaginary no-hitter card, and now they have a simple factory update set with a box to hold the entire set instead of this monstrocity. If Topps were to give every collector in America a free Kosuke Fukudome #645 and a free "Johan Santana watches the game on the bench because he's not scheduled to pitch" #661 card along with a handwritten apology, they might be able to scrape out a tie. Or, would have been able to if it weren't for the First Lady inserts in Updates & Highlights. After 56 years of dominating the base set, Topps got cute and was completely pwned by Upper Deck. I tried like hell not to like this year's UD set too, but I know when I'm beat. 2008 Upper Deck is better than 2008 Topps. It remains to be seen if Topps will bounce back in 2009.