Night Owl Cards

So, where have I been all week?   Fair question. It is March, but I'm usually more consistent than this. A week ago Thursday I was getting a workout in during the early afternoon when I heard an unbelievable crash out in the driveway. From the kitchen windows, I could see ice falling and I knew it wasn't good immediately.   A giant sheet of ice slid off the roof and dropped two stories onto my vehicle. Windshield shattered, tail light gone, huge dents everywhere and $3,300-plus in damage. God love ya, March. I've lived in this house close to 30 years and nothing even close to that has happened.   For the past week, every single day, I've been chatting up either the insurance company, body shops, the tow-truck operator or whoever else deals in vehicle mayhem. Also, I've been working on a story for my newspaper. Every time I do one of those in-person, multi-person interview stories, it eliminates any other kind of writing (i.e. blog writing) from my schedule. That...

  For the first time since debuting this series here 17 years ago, I considered not running it this year.   Ranking MLB's teams in order of how I like them seems like something who's time has past. There are people on social media -- baseball fans -- who don't root for any team (and I assume that means they don't root against any team). They just root for good games. That's a pretty foreign concept to me. Part of sports for me is rooting for and against, having a favorite, and because of that, having certain non-favorites.   It may be silly -- players have been jumping ship for money for as long as I have been a fan, they have no allegiance -- but I need an attachment to the game that goes beyond "hey, baseball is fun, you guys."   There are still a lot of fans who think like me though. The Dodgers have won one World Series title in a row and so many are outraged. What would current fans be doing if social media was around during the Yankees' run of ti...