David Wright Extended

So today Mets fans got what I consider good news as David Wright was extended and probably made a Met for life.  In addition, it made these cards which I picked up during COMC's Black Friday promo even more enjoyable when they arrived today.

They are all 2012 cards.  First, on the upper left, is an ice parallel of the 2012 Bowman base card.  Second, on upper right, is a Tier One single jersey relic numbered to 399.  Lower left is a die cut Bowman Platinum Cutting Edge Stars.  Finally, on the lower right is a Museum Collection.  They are all cool, but doesn't that Bowman Platinum card just the epitome of a picture of a Franchise Player?

Good times, now we will just have to wait and see what the Mets do with Dickey.

2012 Triple Threads Unity (and the return of the scanner)

So I picked up these two Met Triple Threads Cards off Ebay, each for a reasonable price (you have to love the sellers who offer free shipping!).

I have to say despite not usually buying into the higher priced products, last year I fell in love with the unity design of Triple Threads.  I successfully put together a three piece unity set of the Mets which depicted Citi Field in the background.  I even had two versions of the set since I had two different right sides of Citi.

This year, however, I'm not even sure why they term the cards "unity."  There is no interesting way in which they combine like they did last year.  I am still glad topps put out the set since it allows me to obtain relatively inexpensive autos of young Mets I like such as Duda and Tejada, but it is nowhere near as interesting to me as it was last year.  Couldn't topps have figured out some other way to make them work together?  It could have just been the team logo or name in the background, it did not even need to be excessively creative.  Oh well, at least now I don't need to go out and get a third Met from the set.

What does everyone else think of Triple Threads, especially this year compared to last?