Completely Red: 2004 Topps Total

I love, love, love cards of the bench guys. I can only handle so many Griffeys, Larkins, and Vottos before I just need me some Jung Bong. Topps Total did an okay job with this, but they definitely could've gone deeper. I'm sure the sales would indicate this expanded-checklist experiment was a failure, but dangit, I want more. I want a card of every single player who suited up in a given year. This will never happen.

I'm guessing the card design wasn't very helpful for the set's success. Dull gray. No pronounced design elements. I get that this was supposed to be a cheap offering, but making a good design shouldn't cost a lot of money, right? I mean, you have designers on staff already. Ah well. At least they used new photos. Mostly.

STATS:

Cards - 28

RC's - 2 (Ben Himes, Kevin Howard)

All Stars - 6 (Danny Graves, Ken Griffey, Jr., Felipe Lopez, Barry Larkin, Adam Dunn, Sean Casey)

Hall of Famers - 1 (Barry Larkin)

Reds Hall of Famers - 3 (Barry Larkin, Sean Casey, Ken Griffey Jr.)

Corky Alert - High

Checklist:

 33 Wily Mo Pena 

 42 Jason LaRue 

 61 Luke Hudson 

 79 Danny Graves 

 123 Juan Castro 

 145 Ken Griffey Jr. 

 184 John Riedling 

 260 Austin Kearns 

 272 Felipe Lopez 

 296 Barry Larkin 

 329 Jose Acevedo 

 343 D'Angelo Jimenez 

 394 Paul Wilson 

 407 Ryan Freel 

 448 Jimmy Haynes 

 514 Josh Hall 

 517 Corky Miller 

 520 Adam Dunn 

 579 Cory Lidle 

 611 Ryan Wagner 

 613 Jung Bong 

 665 Sean Casey 

 683 Brian Reith 

 727 Brandon Larson PROS 

 734 Joe Valentine PROS 

 736 Brandon Claussen PROS 

 792 Ben Himes FY RC 

 829 Kevin Howard FY RC 
Go Reds.