Top 10 reasons why Stephen Strasburg's baseball card is going for over $16,000 on eBay

No, seriously.

10) It's the only one of it's kind, and made out of real cardboard

9) Card will actually be worth more once its service time starts

8) San Diego State alumni just have money to blow

7) Now that the real estate market has cratered, the only sensible long-term investment is in the baseball cards of people who have never played in the big leagues

6) Card comes with a thin stick of extraordinarily regrettable chewing gum

5) Bidders "SStrass" and "SBoras" keep raising each other's bid

4) Over $16K sounds like a lot for a card, but Opening Day Nationals pitcher John Lannan's is going for $40K

3) Card comes in a very rare, one of a kind plastic cover

2) Only goes to show the kind of big money clientele that Strasburg has been working in front of in Harrisburg and Syracuse

1) It's the first time that any member of the Washington Nationals organization has been on a baseball card