Night Owl Cards

(Y'all know what an appreciation letter is, don't you? It's one of those letters you write after going on a job interview to express gratitude for the  honor of being interviewed. It's basically a "please, please, please, PLEASE hire me" letter. I recently came across an old appreciation letter from an employee who doesn't work for me anymore. If I'm being accurate, though, it was more bullshit than appreciation. In the end, I was the one doing the appreciating when this employee got a new job. Anyway, that's a long way to go to say: cards never BS you. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 54th in a series): Ladies and gentlemen, Topps 2010, Series I is complete. Georgie-Porgie here was the last card I needed to finish off the set. I actually landed two Posada cards on Monday. One was pulled from a pack. Then the mail arrived and Jorge showed up again, wagging his enormous ears at me. A big thanks to Mr. Dog Faced Gremlin for bein...

I am almost certain that the Yankees are going to win the World Series. I've been certain for quite awhile. During this postseason, I have always rooted for the other team, and felt real disgust when they didn't succeed, or -- like the Angels -- make dumb mistake after dumb mistake. But I always knew that the Yankees would prevail. I'm not the greatest evaluator of talent, but I can see what the Yankees have and how they are playing. I don't think the Phillies have a real shot of winning the Series. It could go six games. But I don't see a seven-game series or a Phillies win. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE a Phillies win and I would love to be wrong, but my gut says it ain't gonna happen. Given that, what I'm saying here shouldn't annoy any Yankees fans, too much. Your team is going to win the World Series, so who cares about what some blogger thinks? It's well-established that I do not like the Yankees. I come from a family of Yankee...

I really do not want to write about 2008 Heritage anymore. I just want to be done with it. Yet every time I complete a little more of the set, it seems like such an achievement that I feel required to write about it. Maybe this will give you an idea of what the Heritage journey feels like: You know how much long car rides sucked when you were a kid? We hated them. We would take regular trips to my grandmother's in Buffalo and they would last five hours. That was before they put in an interstate connection and cut the drive down to 3 1/2. So we drove through back roads and country towns. Over the river and through the woods. All of that. One town we would drive through is called Avon. Arriving in the town basically signaled that we were two-thirds of the way through our trip. By that time we were practically mad with boredom. How mad? My brother and I spontaneously created a bizarre game involving Avon ladies (remember the Avon lady? I don't think the town Avon and the ...