Overall I think competition is great and leads to innovation.
From the 70's till 1988 Topps had a stranglehold on Football cards and basically kept putting out the same set every year.
Then 1989 happened and Pro Set and Score produced football cards and blew Topps out of the water. In 1990 Action Packed and Fleer entered the fray and yet Topps kept the same old boring set. It wasn't till 1991 Topps Stadium Club that Topps produced something truly monumental at the time. So competition to me is always better in the card market.
As far as everyone hoping Fanatics buys Upper Deck, Topps and Panini and brings back the favorite sets whose to say they won't water them down like Panini did? I mean look at National Treasures the first few years when Playoff owned it and look at it now.
The one cool thing if they bought Upper Deck would be getting Jordan cards/autos back in a Bulls uniform instead of the endless stream of Tar Heel cards.
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