Dinged Corners CSI: where cut up jerseys go to die.

Yes, Bailey, there are much worse ways to spend money
than buying a blaster with nothing good inside.

For example. There's a whole new shipment of these sealed
cardboard envelopes at Kmart. Inside are exciting things like a
pack of 2007 Turkey Red stuck with industrial strength glue onto
white cardboard, perhaps leftover shirt cardboard from Macy's.



Also included are pre-searched-and-felt 2007 Topps and Upper
Deck packs!



This photo is what we call foreshadowing:



Peering down into the envelopean abyss, there's this:



Maybe we'll get a Mickey Mantle jersey bit! We are never naive
or hopeful!

Reality check: it is a bit of a Jeff Kent jersey.

Well, at least in the picture he's wearing a Mets uniform. But
what uniform is that jersey from?

Don't despair, though. In case there aren't enough tchotchkes
in the world, we can proudly display Jeff Kent's authentic jersey
bit on our desk using the EASEL.

We are intrigued by the text back here. The language says, "The
enclosed piece of jersey was cut from..." [ouch?] an Authentic
[capital A!] Jersey [capital J, unlike the previous mention] from
the player picture on the front. [The wording makes us
concerned, as we picture Jeff fighting off the cutters.] This
Authentic Jersey was obtained from the Upper Deck Company."
FROM the Upper Deck company.

So Upper Deck sells jersey tatters to redistributor Vintage in
Conroe, Texas.

Oddest thing of all: the jersey is not attached to anything the
size of a baseball card. So even if it was a Mickey jersey (um,
that is, Jersey), what would collectors do with this?

You know, if we bought enough of these, we could build our own
patchwork Jersey!