Night Owl Cards

While waiting and waiting for last night's post to appear on everyone's blog rolls -- the post was inexplicably delayed by Blogger for three hours -- I went through the cards that I had featured, cataloged them, filed them ... and discovered I had five of them already. Heh. Then it hit me. No matter how well you prepare and research, something's going to go wrong. You're going to acquire a card you already had. Blogger's not going to publish the post at the time you scheduled. Despite your best efforts, you're screwed. Planning and preparation merely ensures that there are fewer issues, not no issues. This brings me to my long-ago announced Best 100 Cards of the 1970s countdown. Since I decided I was going to do this, I've kind of lost focus and I still don't know when I'm going to pull this off. But at least there are small spurts of effort interspersed with all of the uncaring. For example, I have researched the cards from one of the s...

First off, I decided I will be freeing my 1957 Topps "Dodgers Sluggers" card. But I have to say, y'all take the fun out of everything. Pliers? Razors? Consulting a "how-to" video? I want to SMASH things! But maybe, just this once, I'll be a little more careful and put the hammer aside. But only for Skoonj, Gil, Campy and Duke. Anyway, on to the post at hand. Seemingly a million years ago, everyone went great googily moogily for Topps' Million Card Giveaway. Yours truly included. But I haven't thought about it for months. I used to check it daily. For a long time. Then I'd check it weekly. Then monthly. I feel bad about this because I used to berate people who wouldn't check the site when I had a trade offer out for them. And then I go and do the same thing. I'm such a jerk. But I still think the site is cool, and I still think it's fun. And I'm not mad that Topps turned it into a Stephen Strasburg carnival game. And I s...