Night Owl Cards

Today is National Left Handers Day. As a proud lefty, I feel it's my duty to post something leftyish on this day. Two of the last three years, I have. One was well-received. Another , which I might add involved a fair amount of time-consuming research, was not. Today there is no time for research. But there is time for something that I noticed that was interesting -- to me, anyway. Pat from Hot Corner Cards sent me some Dodgers in an effort to coerce a card out of me. This is always an acceptable procedure. As I often do, I separate the cards out of the envelope into ones I need and ones I don't. ("Need" is a subjective word in the hobby and sometimes I "need" cards I have already). The cards I needed were 1974 Topps Billy Buck up there -- a lefty through and through ... ... and this 2015 Archives card of Adrian Gonzalez, also a full-time lefty ... ... and this 2015 Allen and Ginter card of Hyun-Jin Ryu, who is actually showing you tha...

I'm getting oh so close to finishing series 1 of 2015 Topps, and, yes, I hear the people who completed it in the first week of release snickering. Three more people sent 2015 Topps, all in close proximity, just like the last time . So let's see if I can get the same card sent to me in all three packages once again. The first cards I have came from Jeff at One Man's Junk (Wax) . Let's get a look at them assembled in puzzle-like form: Can I say that I'm still not tired of the design? Wonderful set. I wasn't able to keep the horizontal cards horizontal and fit them on my tiny scanner, so that's why some are tilted on their side. Jeff also sent a couple non-2015 Topps: Yes. Still collecting 2014 Topps base-set Dodgers in April 2015. Thank you very much, inserts and parallels. OK, next up is Pat from Hot Corner Cards . Lots of horizontal cards there. But the only duplicate from the previous group of cards is Braun. Freeman, though,...

I'll let you in on how it's been going the last couple of weeks around here: (*Work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*eat dinner*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*greet neglected dog*) (*blog*) (*look at neglected card packages on desk*) (*sleep*) (*work out*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*greet neglected family*) (*eat dinner*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*blog*) (*sleep*) (*check bank account*) (*decide I can mail some card packages*) (*work out*) (*scramble to get to post office in 5 minutes I have*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*eat dinner*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*great neglected dog*) (*blog*) (*sleep*) (*YAY! DAY OFF!*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*work out*) (*work, work, work, work, work, work, work*) (*greet neglected fam ...*) (*WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK*) (*day off again!*) (*WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK*) You get the...

I am a participant in one of those team dump trades -- what I like to call an "everything must go" trade -- with Pat at Hot Corner Cards . He is offering team lots in exchange for all the Tigers one can muster. I'm still mustering Tigers, but Pat sent the Dodgers a long time ago, so it's about time I acknowledge something about this deal. Whenever I receive a whole mess of Dodgers sight unseen, there is always a weeding out process. With an abundant number of Dodgers already in my inventory, I need to take the time to figure out what cards I really need. All of this usually happens behind the scenes. So, I figured this time, why not put it in front of the scenes? I'll let everyone in on determining which card I need from the piles of Dodgers I received! It can be one big What You Need party! Sound like fun? No? Sorry, I've drafted you anyway. So what I'm going to do here is show six cards each and let you determine which one I need. Let t...

I've been doing this long enough to know that the average trade post doesn't interest the masses. I've also been doing this long enough to know that I like a clean desk. I have zero room for any additional card packages and when that happens, I have to clear things out. Comments be damned. So settle down and load up for a combined trade post. Bring your finest meats and cheeses and a bottle of ale. You're going to see some cool cards from a variety of people. Behold: Here are some cards from reader Joe. What would you say at this time last year if I told you that Dee Gordon might be the most productive position player on the Dodgers? You would laugh derisively. It would be ugly. There would be insults back and forth. And we would not be on speaking terms. That's why I'm waiting until now to tell you this. I was going to mention Kemp's slow start, but right now all that comes to mind about Kemp is the weird conversations that billion...