Night Owl Cards

  Trading Card Database trade offers have come pretty fast-and-furious for me in the last month-plus. None of these are big trades, but there's been eight of them since early February and that adds up when you're trying to conserve space on your card desk. So I'm finishing off what I have to show here and providing a little countdown as well. I've noted that certain cards have been popular sends from my TCDB partners. They definitely revolve around sets. I think a main reason for that is because I have noted my wants for sets, but haven't done a lot of other want-listing for stuff like Dodgers and such. That's the next project. TCDB is full of projects. It's practically like my mom was -- always finding me another task to do. But I certainly appreciate getting set-fillers, more than almost any other kind of card really. I'm on this planet to fill sets -- if you're defining existence by hobby missions anyway.   So let's see what the most popular c...

  (5,000-card giveaway update: I have mailed out the first 7 giveaways of 250 cards each. The 8th is waiting for a post office trip, the 9th is waiting to be packaged and the 10th is being selected. I should be halfway through sending by next week!)   I bought a pack of 2022 Bowman yesterday. I'll explain. Yes, I don't like Bowman. Yes, I haven't bought a pack of it in at least four years. I find the cards as disposable as cards can get, good for maybe hitting a hot card that I can sell, but that's not ever why I buy packs. So, why'd I buy it? Uh, I was at the Target card aisle and the stockers had reloaded. But the only baseball was a lot of Series 1 and -- what's this? -- Bowman fat packs? I'm a bit discombobulated this week after losing our dog -- it's so quiet in the house -- so maybe I'll blame that for picking up one Bowman pack. I also grabbed a Series 1 fat pack if it makes you feel better about me. I knew even before opening it that none of ...