Night Owl Cards

It appears that card bloggers have stepped up their package-sending recently. After week-after-week without cards in the mail, the metaphorical "dry spell," I have officially entered a wet spell. You never hear the term "wet spell" used outside of a meteorologists convention, so let's take care of that. This is the first part of my wet spell, a package from Tony's Sports Pub , who has a very wet blog name. The only thing dry in a sports pub is the pretzels. Tony did something that makes me very happy -- he swam through my want lists. Shucks, it makes me teary eyed just thinking about it. Let's see some cards he washed off those lists: This is a blue shiny from 2003 Topps Chrome Update, before Topps started putting them in boxes and sparkling up the backgrounds. The only sparkly here is coming off Burnitz's balding head. He looks like he needs a wet towel for that dome. It's 1994 Bowman's Best, '90s kids -- time to get all...

Since this is the one day out of the year when I get to decide things that I want to decide, I decided I didn't want to write much on the blog today. But before I leave for the day, remember the quandary I presented a couple posts ago about those Bazooka sticker cards? Well, with a little help from the comments on that post, it occurred to me -- duh! -- they're stickers! So, I added one other version of these cards that was in the binder, looking very awkward with Phillies and Padres and Braves on it ... ... and then I did this: I feel much better now. To all the dads out there, I hope your Father's Day is also filled with righting wrongs and sticking stickers. Enjoy!

I'm a team collector. And that means I do things like this to myself. I put cards like this in my binders, which are supposed to be devoted to Dodgers and nothing else. I reconcile the sight of Tigers and Braves and Cardinals appearing in my binder by blaming the card companies for their diabolical schemes in which they put players from opposing teams on the SAME CARD. It places the guilt on their shoulders and absolves me of my own guilt for having non-Dodgers enclosed in a binder of such honor. But team collectors know this scenario well, and both I and they have written many posts about this particular predicament. And that's why, in a matter of days, I received the above card from Max of Starting Nine , as well as this card ... ... and then these two cards from Paul of Paul's Random Stuff ...    I'm telling you, Bazooka was evil. But both Max and Paul know that being the completist that I am, I'm required to have these cards. Even if a Dodge...