2008 Upper Deck Timeline Baseball pack

Have heard varying comments about the 2008 Upper Deck Timeline Baseball series. However, was curious about the various card designs contained within the packs (basically a retro style design). As such, decided to get a couple of retail packs of the set. The retail packs contain 6 cards per pack and there are supposedly 2 insert cards in each pack (of course, with the caveat, "on average").



Ended up with the following in the first pack:

Commons
#88 - Burke Badenhop - Marlins rookie card
#36 - Jim Thome - White Sox
#9 - Mark Teixeira - Angels (yay, can add the card to my Teixeira PC collection)
#27 - Alex Rodriguez - Yankees

"Inserts"
#209 - Steve Holm - Giants - 2008 Top Prospects Rookie card
#172 - Max Scherzer - Diamondbacks - Rookie card

If going off the card designs, I have to say that I like the cards. The colours are good and the layout of the words/pictures works well. IMO, it's good to see some of the older style designs still working well (for example, the Scherzer card will the "floating head" in the bottom corner). However, I do see why many collectors have an issue with this series - there are just too many sets within the series.

Overall Score: 7/10 - designs and layouts are good but is building a set of this series really worth it?