Night Owl Cards

... it's every card blogger's favorite game show: HELLO! HELLO AND WELCOME!!! WE'RE BACK!!! That's right! They tried to keep us away!!!!! But the masses were too insistent! "BRING BACK 'BEST CARD'!" they cried. "BRING BACK 'BEST CARD'!" So, we're here and we're BACK! This is your host Night Owl, ready to deliver to you another episode of What's the Best Card in the Package!! You know the rules by now!!! We select 16 key cards from one card package and determine The Best Card!!! It's fun! It's zany! It's only boring to those who DON'T MATTER! All right! All right! Thank you folks for joining us! Tonight, we have a crazy card package from Too Many Grandersons ! Judging from what we received here tonight, he has too many of every other kind of card, too! But we're not complaining at WTBCITP! It makes for another classic edition of the game show that's sweeping the nation!!!! Is every...

People always look at me askance when I root against local sports teams. They behave as if I just insulted their heritage or told them they bore ugly children. I tell them not to take it so personally. There is a very simple reason why I do this, and others will never understand unless they are in my profession. Here is the most recent example of that reason: No. 1-seeded Syracuse was just upset in the first-round of the Big East Conference tournament. That pleases me immensely. That's because SU's loss means I might get a shot at a second day off this week. If they had won, I would have no idea when I would get another day off. I'm serious. Not a clue when my next day off would occur. It'd probably land in the middle of next week sometime. When I was a youngster out of college this didn't bother me. It do now. So, yeah. March Madness sucks. It always has and it always will. The month has a defect. Send it back to the factory and try again. This madnes...