I'm not the sharpest guy in the world but sometimes even I notice a trend...
Ok, so all of his cards up to this point feature photos taken either in the last half of 2014 and the first part of 2015. Surely for his 2016 cards BBM will have been able to get a different pose...
OK, maybe it's just BBM. Let's go check the Calbee sets...oops!
In 2017 Despaigne moved to the Hawks. Maybe BBM'll have better luck finding a new pose there...
OK, maybe not...
I have 31 Japanese cards of Despaigne, 25 from BBM, four from Calbee and two from Epoch. A whooping 21 of these cards feature this pose or a close variant of it. 20 of these are from BBM so 80% of the BBM cards I have of him show him this way.
Ridiculous doesn't seem like a strong enough word for this.
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| 2014 SCM #280/BBM 2nd Version #705 |
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| 2015 BBM 1st Version #098 |
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| 2015 BBM 2nd Version Cross Plasma #CP60 |
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| 2015 BBM 2nd Version #443 |
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| 2015 BBM Marines #M62 |
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| 2016 BBM The Ballpark Stories #120 |
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| 2016 BBM 1st Version Cross Freeze #CF09 |
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| 2016 BBM 2nd Version #424 |
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| 2016 BBM Marines #M59 |
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| 2016 Calbee #090 |
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| 2017 BBM 2nd Version #342 |
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| 2017 BBM Hawks #H81 |
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| 2017 BBM Genesis #018 |
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| 2017 BBM Fusion #107 |
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| 2018 BBM 1st Version #022 |
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| 2018 BBM Hawks 80th Anniversary #81 |
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| 2018 BBM Hawks #H67 |
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| 2018 BBM 2nd Version #390 |
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| 2018 BBM Hawks 80th Anniversary Celebration #18 |
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| 2018 BBM Genesis #009 |
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| 2019 BBM 1sr Version #047 |
Ridiculous doesn't seem like a strong enough word for this.