I have to tell you, I felt pretty stupid yesterday. I know, I know, I should probably feel stupid everyday, but I'm just not intelligent enough to realize it most of the time. I was duped into believing an interview with Steve Bartman over at Bugs & Cranks was real, completely oblivious to the fact that yesterday was April Fool's Day until it was too late. I wrote up the entire post and posted it here at FanHouse before my wonderful colleagues informed me that I was a dumbass. (Thanks, guys!)There were a lot of April Fool's posts littered throughout the blogosphere yesterday, but practical jokes aren't limited to just us opinionated blowhards from our mom's basements. Nope, even baseball card companies get into the "holiday."
Got a Kazuo Uzuki baseball card? April Fools!Well that's just great, and after I spent a 20th round pick on Uzuki in my keeper league. Now what am I going to do!?
Topps announced on Tuesday an April Fools joke it had been playing on baseball card collectors: Uzuki never really existed.
The 2008 Topps Baseball Series 1, which was released on Feb. 6, included a card for a Japanese high school pitching phenom named Kazuo "The Uzi" Uzuki.
Some of the clues that the card was a fake were there for anybody who understands the Japanese language. The name itself, Kazuo Uzuki, translates to "first son of April" in English. Not to mention that the card says that "The Uzi" is still in high school and already hitting 104MPH on the radar gun.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. Pfft. That's minor league.
In the 70's the Buffalo Sabres DRAFTED a fictional hockey player from Japan named Taro Tsujimoto from the "Tokyo Katanas".
It took a while for the other GM's and the league to figure out he wasn't real.
Posted at 1:17PM on Apr 2nd 2008 by Matt
2. Really? That's hysterical.
Posted at 1:35PM on Apr 2nd 2008 by Fornelli
3. Also, note the number on his uniform: 41 (as in 4/1, or April 1st)
Posted at 2:52PM on Apr 2nd 2008 by T-Mo