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By the graciousness of my nanny, whom I excused from being on time to check at a QT for me, was she able to procure a reprint of the November 3rd commemorative Braves World Series victory edition.\u00a0 <\/span>This, was the highlight of my day.<\/span><\/p>\n So, I\u2019m happy that I got the one thing that I had really wanted to commemorate the joyous occasion of the Braves reaching the top of the mountain and getting to be World Series champions, a sight and notion that is still hard to digest two days later, but I\u2019m still peeved at just how hard it was to get a small piece of history to remember it by.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m pretty sure there\u2019s something in the Constitution that says something along the lines of that news shouldn\u2019t not be available to those who seek it, and it\u2019s a stretch, but the AJC, whether it was deliberate or stupidity, suppressing production of the one and only obviously high-demand edition of their shitty paper, I would interpret as being fucking unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As relieved as I am to have my own edition, predictably, the well-publicized high demand for these editions has created the dreaded and insufferable secondary market for them, and I\u2019ve seen them on Facebook Marketplace going for at least $10 a pop, and mythical wife, after hearing me bitch and moan about it the night prior, spied some on eBay, going for around $27 a pop.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to be a hypocrite about it, because I\u2019ve definitely purchased extras of things before, with the intent of trying to flip them.\u00a0 <\/span>But whenever I\u2019ve done that, that makes me an asshole, and what people are doing with these fucking AJCs, are making them assholes too.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m just glad that I didn\u2019t have to pay a second-hand price for this, although I would have done so in order to get one.<\/span><\/p>\n The irony is that, it\u2019s not even that good of a commemorative edition.\u00a0 <\/span>The AJC\u2019s aesthetics and design has always been sixth-rate as far as major market newspapers go, and this commemorative edition doesn\u2019t do the Braves justice.<\/span><\/p>\n The newspaper industry took a lot of flack over the last few decades over many publications taking cost-cutting measures and eliminating photographers, and instead tasking reporters to take pictures on iPhones.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t know whether or not the AJC was one of those publications, but based on the shitty photo quality of my collector\u2019s edition, I\u2019m inclined to believe they are.<\/span><\/p>\n The photos are out of focus and have been enlarged way past the original resolution, and whatever staffers they have pretending to be graphic artists apply a bunch of high-pass filters to try and sharpen them, but instead make them look all posterized and pixelated.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d almost be embarrassed to actually display it after I frame it, but it will eventually become artwork for lack of a better term.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m just glad I got my copy regardless of all the bullshit and hoops that had to be done in order for it to happen.\u00a0 <\/span>I just wish what seemed like a simple thing didn\u2019t have to become such a joy-suppressing ordeal.<\/span><\/p>\n Fuck the AJC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By the graciousness of my nanny, whom I excused from being on time to check at a QT for me, was she able to procure a reprint of the November 3rd commemorative Braves World Series victory edition.\u00a0 This, was the highlight of my day. 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