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Mighty Bombjack
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There's a bit of history with Topps airbrushing jerseys onto players after they have changed teams, and I actually tend to like the examples of this from the 80s (pretty common in the traded sets). But while opening a box of 2019 series 1 flagship, several cards jumped out at me as looking fake as hell. I've scanned two examples here:
Both of these players played all of 2018 on their respective teams, with Gray pitching for the Yankees for a year and a half. In this day and age, with an abundance of digital photography available, why can't Topps get real photos? Sonny Gray is currently in ST with the Reds, and if this were a Reds jersey that they put on him in anticiation of that, then I would forgive the airbrushing (I'm probably dating myself by using the term - this is more likely a photoshop or some other digital job). I guess it's cost-cutting by Topps, but I think it's unnecessarily ugly.
Rant over.
Both of these players played all of 2018 on their respective teams, with Gray pitching for the Yankees for a year and a half. In this day and age, with an abundance of digital photography available, why can't Topps get real photos? Sonny Gray is currently in ST with the Reds, and if this were a Reds jersey that they put on him in anticiation of that, then I would forgive the airbrushing (I'm probably dating myself by using the term - this is more likely a photoshop or some other digital job). I guess it's cost-cutting by Topps, but I think it's unnecessarily ugly.
Rant over.