So I decided to go and buy some inserts...

Well, no not really.  I decided to buy some Topps Update today, and we all know that the packs are "insert driven".  There was a lot of the standard stuff in the packs, blue/green/gold parallels, chasing history inserts and the like.

There was however some new stuff inside.   The '71 minis would have been worth it if they had been inserted in the 1st and 2nd series instead of just in update.

Night and day I like these better than the '72s.  It would have been outside of the box for me to collect these if they had been released in series 1/2, due to my overall aversion to anything mini.  These 5 cards will be made available to the masses.

Another new insert is the Franchise Forerunners, a kind of "then and now" insert set.

I wonder if the Mets card could have featured someone a little bit older than David Wright as the forerunner. There were a few decent players in the Mets past as I recall.  But I don't get paid the big bucks to make those decisions, so oh well.   These are also available to the masses...

Any card with a knee to the side of the head/shoulder automatically becomes part of the top 5.  Didi Gregorius has got it going on with this card...

I wonder how Brandon Crawford felt after this...

Gregorius was one of 4 emeralds that I pulled.  I also snagged 2 golds, but neither of them fit into the SNI set, so they'll be offered as trade bait as well.

I also pulled a blue parallel of some guy who wears Mario Lemieux's number 66.  I've heard rumors that this guy is OK...

I'm sure that I'll need the base card of this guy as one of the final cards to put the Update set together.  Kind of like I needed the Buster Posey RC as the final card to finish my 2010 set.  So you Dodger bloggers out there, before you buy the 25th copy of this card for your collection, remember that this poor set collector is going to need one....

The manupatch paid homage to the 1965 All-Star game in the twin cities...

The Twins were well represented in the game, they had 5 position players + Mudcat Grant on the mound.  It was interesting to look at the rosters and see that only 8 pitchers were chosen for each league, a far cry from the bloated rosters that attend today's contests.

Standard stuff...you may now return to your regularly scheduled sporting event...

Thanks for reading, Robert