Topps, the preeminent baseball card manufacturer, has created a 1/1 Paul Skenes card and the Pittsburgh Pirates want it bad enough that they’re offering 30 years worth of tickets to their games.
Earlier this week, Topps, a trading card company, released a baseball card of Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skenes.
And whoever comes into possession of that card has a chance to exchange it for a haul of goodies courtesy of the Pirates.
Though it is nowhere near the trade deadline, the Pirates want to wheel and deal so they can display the card for the fans at PNC Park.
Basically you get tickets behind home plate for 30 years… which is worth quite a bit of money. I mean, a lot of money really. There are a couple of other perks but the tickets are the main thing.
Of course this is a nation wide manhunt. People all over the country are trying to find this card. Which is slightly problematic because if you’re in Washington State and you pull this card, what are you supposed to do? Fly there every time there’s a game? No, you’re going to sell the tickets. And you have to do that for 30 years.
It’s just silly to think about.
What will hopefully happen is that the card will go to auction and a local Pittsburgh Pirates fan will buy the card and actually use the seats. Maybe there’s a cash option instead of just a tickets option that I haven’t heard about. That also would be ideal.
Anyway, people are ripping Chrome packs like crazy trying to find this card. Topps has probably made more money off of this card than any card in recent memory. What’s interesting to think about is a $50 lotto scratcher definitely has better odds of being a winner compared to the odds of pulling a Paul Skenes 1/1 card. A lotto scratcher may be a better investment than a box of Chrome packs… that’s interesting to think about.
I think people need to be careful though. You can’t let your cardboard addiction destroy your wallet. And you have to remember that is what we’re talking about here, cardboard. The value of the Paul Skenes card is large, but is that enough justification to buy $3000 worth of Chrome boxes? I don’t think so.