Night Owl Cards

I'm paraphrasing here, but dayf has declared February "If You Don't Like My Trade Post, You Can Stick It" Month. What a relief! At last, a mandate to get all my trade posts in order. I can plow through trade post after trade post and everyone will have to read them because that is the thing you DO during IYDLMTPYCSI Month! No guilt. No research. No loud snoring from Thorzul. It's the card blogging equivalent of  "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another." OK, it's not that bad. Nobody's going to be in their underpants. But I must ask you to sit down, shut up, and enjoy a trade post. As ordered by an arbitrarily named month. The latest trade post displays the cards delivered by Mark of Mark's Ephemera . These cards were sent before he recently declared that he has an overabundance of kettles . He's OK with that, but I'm glad I have my cards in hand nonetheless. You never know when someone will spill kettle contents on cards. Thi...

One of the curses/blessings about being a Dodger fan is that part of its history is considered what I would call collecting eminent domain. You can be a Twins fan, a Diamondbacks fan, whatever, and still be interested in collecting Dodger cards -- as long as they're Brooklyn Dodger cards. Personally, I don't get that. If I hate a team, I hate it for all of its history. I hate the Yankees from Jack Chesbro to Nick Swisher. They don't get time off for pleasant behavior in the '60s because Elston Howard played for them for a period. I dislike them from start to finish. But I constantly run into collectors who spit on current Dodger blue, but still collect Robinson or Reese or Koufax. I'm trying to embrace that and be happy that my team has some of the most collectible players in the game, as I still desperately try to get the same cards that others are also acquiring. Such is the case with Alfredo of My Past Time ... I Love it ! He has recently announced a decis...