Night Owl Cards

(There are only two more days left in the high school sports season. And then life gets so much easier. This is the No. 1 argument against a year-round school year as far as I'm concerned. Here's to summer vacation!  Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 117th in a series): It's been a fairly cranky week in collecting. As you know, Topps Series 2 is out, and while that's a generally happy occasion, the news was dominated -- at least on the hobby connections that I have -- by how many twinkle variation cards there are, and the fact that there are now double twinkle variation cards, and that some cards look like twinkle variation cards and really are not twinkle variation cards, oh, twinkle, twinkle, little card, twinkle, twinkle, twirkle, twunkle, twooooo. Bleh. You know what I want to say. Some of you are thinking it already: Why the hell does anybody care about twinkle variation cards? I can understand some of the criticism of the cards, but honestly I ...