Night Owl Cards

  Last month I pulled this card after purchasing the first cards I had seen for sale in a full aisle display since the early days of the pandemic. It's stunning when you think of it, that out of all the chrome refractor parallels numbered to 673 -- hundreds of possibilities -- I would pick the Wander Franco card. It's just as stunning the price it went for after I put it up for sale. It sold for $258.07. That blows my mind. It also boggles my mind that there were 87 watchers and 463 page views. None of this makes sense. I would never pay that kind of money for a card unless I had invested a lot of time into that player (or that set) over a number of years -- not somebody who just burst onto the scene in the last year or two. But that's our hobby now and thank goodness in at least one way -- I got to spend almost $200 on cards I actually want! You're gonna see them. All told, I ended up with 65 cards for a single card. I won't show all of them, just the stuff that...

Here is a list of the Top 100 songs of 1982. It pains me to say this, because I was in high school at this time, but 1982 was not a good year for popular music. There were some decent groups back then but either they didn't release their best work that year or it was under the radar and radio didn't play it. And then there are songs that no one should ever, ever, ever, ever to infinity hear again. Horrible things like "Eye Of The Tiger," "Leader Of The Band," "Key Largo," "Abracadabra" -- I could go on and on. (Most of these you will hear played periodically even today, but there is one song that people across the earth apparently made a pact to never play again. It's called "I've Never Been To Me," by Charlene. DON'T LOOK IT UP! You will curse me for ever mentioning the song title. DON'T! It is vile and it deserves its eternal banishment. I'm probably getting in trouble even mentioning it right now)....

I received a package from The Collective Troll a week or two ago. And while my posting of its contents isn't terribly timely, the cards I received are -- especially this one. I burst with pride when a player on my favorite team leads the league in offense. I don't care if it is only the third day in May. It's been that way ever since Ron Cey set a then major league record of 29 RBIs in April of 1977. I remember back then mentioning Cey's feat in music class to a couple of my Yankee-brainwashed classmates and them looking at me in complete incomprehension. Dumb-asses. Knowledge is power muchachos. Anyway, I burst with pride because unlike the Yankees and Red Sox and a few other teams, the Dodgers don't get the chance to lead everybody in offensive categories very often. I mentioned that once long ago . The Dodgers have and always will be about pitching (the 2010 mess aside). Ethier, right now, is leading the National League in just about every power category:...