Night Owl Cards

I'm an idea guy. It's not that I come up with great ones all the time, I just like there to be some thought behind whatever someone is trying to get you to read/view/buy. In the sportswriting business, you are constantly watching a game you've seen a 100 times before or writing a feature you've done a 100 times before. It's your job to find something different in that game or person and write about that. That's what I tell the people on my staff. If you mail it in, you're going to be bored, the readers are going to be bored, and nobody's going to be happy. And that brings me to the 2008 "Infield Power" Upper Deck insert here, which, by the way, was part of nice, unexpected card package sent by Ed of Roll Out the Barrel . The card looks nice, but the thought process? Meh . I guess they were going for a subset of infielders who could hit for power. Thrilling. That was a big deal when Cal Ripken was playing, but does anyone care anymore? ...