Night Owl Cards

Baseball in Buffalo is having a moment tonight. If you haven't heard, the Blue Jays are playing a "home game" tonight against the Marlins in Buffalo's Sahlen Field, traditionally the home of the Triple A Buffalo Bisons. It's very fitting for Buffalo that the city finally gets to host major league baseball but nobody gets to see it in person, seeing as that Buffalo always wants very good sports things to happen to their city but they very rarely do (see Bills, Sabres). One of those "good things" for years was the hope that a Major League Baseball team would call Buffalo home. The Blue Jays playing their home games this season in Buffalo isn't exactly what Buffalo fans had in mind while it was waiting more than 100 years for MLB to come to town, but they'll take it. We'll take it. This is the biggest MLB moment for Buffalo since the days when it was actively campaigning to land an expansion MLB team back in the late 1980s/early 1990s...

A few bloggers are showing their tix. I might as well, too. Certainly, chemgod is welcome to any of these scans. I hope he's not doing a Ticket to Stardom set. We don't need another one of those. Unfortunately, I am a VERY sporadic ticket saver. I don't think I have saved tickets from even a quarter of the events I have attended. In fact, I didn't save the ticket from the minor league game I went to last summer, the most recent pro sporting event I viewed in person. Just didn't think of it, I guess. Of the tickets I am going to show, some are from games I didn't even attend. That's how messed up this collection is. For instance, I don't have a ticket from Eric Gagne's not-so-triumphant return to Montreal when the Dodgers played the Expos in 2002. Gagne blew the game in the 8th inning as Troy O'Leary hit a go-ahead home run. I was there to cover the game, and they gave me a ticket to go with my press pass (I also save press passes), bu...

This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won't be any picnic either. That means I don't have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post. I know. That's dull. But I've had to stare at 2010 Topps Heritage posts all week. So now it's my turn to dish out a bit of boring. Fortunately, it hasn't been boring on the trade front at all. A couple weeks ago, transactions had trickled down to nothing. Then, in an instant, I'm scrambling to keep up. I'm starting to lose track of who needs cards from me. On Sunday, I hope to narrow that down. Also, this weekend, I hope to put up a poll on what I should call the 2010 Topps design. I liked the suggestions in the last post and it's time to settle on a name. 2010 Upper Deck may take some more time. Meanwhile, I've got a lot of transactions to show. I'll keep them to a few cards per trader to accommo...