The Bad Baseball Card Tournament: Sweeter 16

Upheaval continued in the first half of the Sweet 16 of the BBCT yesterday, as a one-seed fell and an eight-seed advanced, while 1995 Fleer held serve. Below you'll find a scarcely legible bracket that you can click to download a slightly more readable bracket:

Here's what's ahead, or, if you DVRed the tournament and want to catch up on prior matchups first, what was behind:

Sweet 16 - Base Cards	Monday, January 19
Sweet 16 - Inserts and Subsets	Tuesday, January 20
Elite Eight	Wednesday, January 21
Final Four	Thursday, January 22
The Ultimate Showdown	Friday, January 23

Fun fact: if Thunder Dial 1 wins and Scott makes me carry out that threat of buying one for him to put in his cubicle or corner office or underground laboratory or wherever he works, it will cost me actual real money. Economics are a sham.

#1: 1995 Fleer ProVisions vs. #5: 1994 Ultra All-Rookie Team

	Tale of the Tape
ProVisions		94 All-Rookie Team
Expressionism	Art Style	Post-post-modernism
Oil on Canvas	Medium	Spray paint on Van
20%	Probability of satire	5%
Spinoza	Ethical Foundations	Nietzsche

#6: 1993 Ultra All-Rookie Team vs. #2: 1999 Thunder Dial 1

	Tale of the Tape
93 All-Rookie Team		Thunder Dial 1
Shouting	Method of Communication	Shouting in Post Offices
None	Rollover Minutes	(check with your provider)
None	Data Plan	None
No	Carcinogenic	Probably Not

#8: 1991 Topps Micro vs. #5: 1998 Ultra Pizzazz

	Tale of the Tape
Topps Micro		Ultra Pizzazz
Saves	Favorite statistic	RBI
No	Considers hot dog a sandwich	Yes
Nautilus	Favorite submarine	The Merrimack
Strong	Knowledge of submarines	Poor

#3: Collector's Choice What's The Call vs. #2: 1986 Topps 3-D Stars

	Tale of the Tape
CC What's the Call		Topps 3-D Stars
2.5" x 3.5"	Dimensions	4.25" x 6"
2	Dimensions	3
0	Forbidden Dimensions	1
No	Does card contain phenylalamines?	Results Inconclusive
Probably Not	Does card contain a ghost?	Probably

Tomorrow, we begin to make some difficult choices. Also, you will log in to a baseball website and pick between some old, worthless cards that one person felt were funny enough to spend two weeks writing about.