Night Owl Cards

You probably think I am ecstatic over the news that Melky Cabrera has been caught using PEDs and is now suspended for 50 games. You're right. I am ecstatic. What could be more wonderful than a too-good-to-be-true player on my least favorite team being exposed for the lazy-ass that he is in the midst of a pennant race also involving my favorite team? Oh, and did I mention that he used to be a member of my runner-up least favorite team? I am elated. But ... I am also disgusted. I've been through this before , so I apologize if I'm repeating myself. It's just that news like this makes me sick. It doesn't have to do with "cheating" or the "integrity of the game" or money, or anything like that. Or maybe it does a little. But I know that no one can prove that PEDs affect performance the way they're insinuating that it did for Cabrera. The part that makes me ill is the reaction. The "yup, I KNEW he was doing something . Nobody...

That's right, you're going to READ it. All. I'm a little full of myself right now, as High Heat Stats and Rob Neyer (yeah, that Rob Neyer) tweeted and retweeted a link to my last post. It's probably going to be in the top eight of my highest trafficked posts ever in about another three hours. And I thought web bots just had a fixation with the number 99. Anyway, as mentioned in the last post, a single pack of this year's edition of Ginter found its way into my home even though I'm out of cash for the next few hours. The card fairies continue to do good work. Especially that one fantastic-looking one. I will be opening this pack right here. It's sure to be boring, full of the same exact cards you've been viewing for the last two days, and packed with non-ballplayers. But you're going to read it anyway. Oh, you'll claim that you only looked at the pictures, but I write for a living. I've heard that line of B.S. for like 20 years. It...