Бейсбол Лучника 2007 (2007 Bowman Baseball)

Here is a product I passed by last year. The cheapness of this Target pack was enough to seduce me into buying one.

Let's tear in.

Top to Bottom:
107 Grady Sizemore
205 Hector Gimenez RC
81 Brandon Webb
29 Brandon Phillips
218 Micheal Bourn RC
184 Troy Glaus Gold Parallel
BC63 1st Bowman Chrome Bandon Mann
BC96 1st Bowman Chrome Vincent Blue
BP94 Leo Daigle
BP4 Robert Alcombrack

Bowman is a lot like Communism. In theory, it works. Its problem is that it tries to please everybody while actually pleasing nobody. Let's take a look at the parallels the typical Bowman set has to the Russian class system.
Base set: These are like the proletariat. Keep your mouth shut, stay in line, and there's a place for you at the dinner trough.

Gold (and Orange, and Blue) Parallels: These are the business owners in post-Gorbachev Russia. Not too many around, rose to prominence through nefarious means, but the potential payoffs are great (i.e. low serial numeration).

1st Bowman Card Rookies: Post-revolution whiz kids. The fall of the Soviet machinery makes it possible you might rise above the masses. But how possible...? That's debatable.

Chrome: These are your glue-sniffing orphans and child slaves. The allure of a quick high is too tempting for many to pass up, but it ultimately amounts to very little.

I hope you enjoyed my total butchering of the contemporary Russian socioeconomic climate through a quick glance at an unwanted 2007 baseball card set. Just don't quote me on those Summer Term Political Science papers you kids are so crazy about writing...your grade might slip to a B if grade inflation trends hold steady.

2007 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects -- PA Primary Edition

Today is the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, so I'll rip a pack to see if I can pull some Jimmy "The Greek" magic and prognosticate the results. Here's how it will work. The player's home state will count as 1 Thorzul "The Prussian" vote. If Obama already won the state, he gets a point; if Hillary won the state, she gets a point. If the state hasn't had a primary yet, or if one of the candidates was not on the ballot in a state, neither candidate gets a point. If the player was not born in the U.S., Vampires, Witches, and Pagans Party candidate Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey and perennial last-place candidate Lyndon LaRouche split the point.

Let's tear in.

BDP4 Chase Wright (TX, Clinton)
BDP10 Glen Perkins (MN, Obama)
BDPP50 Sean Doolittle Chrome (VA, Obama)

BDPP58 Jarrod Parker Chrome (IN, primary to be held on May 6, Sharkey and LaRouche split)
BDPP53 Mike Moustakas Gold (CA, Clinton)

BDPP66 Pedro Beato (D.R., another outsider split)
BDPP71 Joba Chamberlain (NE, Obama)

Grade: B+
I haven't seen the Joba "pajamas" card yet, so that's cool. Plus, his corn-belt brethren helped put Obama over the top with the last delegate. Look for history to repeat itself tonight. Obama will triumph, prompting Clinton to throw in the towel. Lyndon and "The Impaler" follow suit and help throw their massive bases' support behind Obama which will carry him all the way to the White House in November.

Then again, I could be wrong.