Another pack of 2025 Stadium Club, for some reason

 I have to stop buying this nonsense because I pull nothing I want.

I don't understand the theme of this insert set. In case of emergency break glass? Is he like a guy who comes off the bench to pinch hit a lot, or something? There are so many insert sets in the hobby that make so little sense to me. Like, if my job was to come up with baseball card set themes, this one would never have crossed my mind. It's also really ugly. Who collects these?

Ohtani base card. Canada is probably the only country that loathes Ohtani. I wish him nothing but the worst. I find the hype around Ohtani and the Dodgers amusing. It's fun to be a fan of baseball when baseball feels relevant again, if only briefly. But the Dodgers are just the west coast Yankees, and I mean that in the worst way possible. Every sport needs villains, though.

Some pink cards. I like pink cards. It makes me want to make a binder of Blue Jays parallels based around colour themes, like all pink, red, blue, etc. I like pink because it feels about as countercultural as baseball cards can get, unless they started doing LQBTQ or Trans flag coloured parallels. Which I wish they would do, because the fuck I want with camo coloured Jays cards?

Based on this card, too, Corbin Carroll hasn't quite figured baseball out yet. But really, who has?

 And this is the stack of base. I didn't get much in this pack. Whatever. I keep saying this, but I think I am done with opening new stuff because the hobby boxes and packs are unaffordable and retail is just filler nonsense. If it was easy to trade with people, it would be fine because I could trade all of this stuff for Jays cards. But it's impossible to do that these days because of international shipping costs, and everyone in Canada collects Jays. So into the junk box this stuff goes.

 Sometimes I feel like I ought to just be collecting cards from the 20th century. I collect comic books, and I don't buy nor do I read anything from after about the early 90s. My preference is for stuff from the 60s through the 80s. I also collect old video games, but again just stuff from the 80s and 90s. I also collect wrestling stuff, but again just 80s and 90s.

I guess the only reason I don't do that with sports cards is that I follow modern sports, so it's fun to collect modern players on my favourite teams. But often I get the itch to just get rid of all my cards from 2000 and on and just focus on vintage and early modern. 

I guess the other reason I don't do that is that most of the Toronto teams are modern expansion teams. Like, I would love to collect Jays cards from the 50s, except the Jays didn't exist then. Or 80s Raptors cards. Non existent. People who are fans of classic baseball or basketball teams can go back many decades and collect amazing vintage stuff. But unless you collect hockey cards (don't get me started), if you collect Toronto sports teams you end up collecting modern. Maybe I should just bandwagon the Dodgers or the Yankees, I dunno. Actually, I would love to have a collection of Brooklyn Dodgers cards, truth be told.

 Anyway, that was Stadium Club. God save us from Stadium Club.