Night Owl Cards

I received my Dodger card out of the Topps Million Card Giveaway. No, it's not poor Leron Lee. Didn't you hear? I have three of them already. Besides, dayf pulled his offer. I think he got the sense that I wasn't too enthused about another Lee card. He mentioned something about GMs and a team that got spanked by Willie McGee in the 1982 NLCS and took someone else's offer. That's OK. Because I am enthused about this: In the name of all that is sweet, beautiful and tasty, that's a freakin' 1960 Rip Repulski card!!! And it came to me over the Million Card Giveway trade waves. You may not know Rip Repulski, but I do. That's the same man that is on this card: I babbled about that card here . And here's part of the terrific back to that piece of '56 fantasticness. Gritz76 of Project '62 offered me the 1960 Repulski card through the Million Card Giveaway. I thought he might offer me something, after I redeemed this card: I had po...

I'm not the first one to say this, but I can't believe how excited people are getting over unredeemed codes in the Topps' Million Card Giveaway. I know what you're saying: Night owl, I thought you loved the Giveaway. I do. I love it dearly. But I am collecting the entire set. The Giveaway is just a fantastic side effect. But I don't understand why anyone would pay a bunch of cash on ebay solely for some codes when the chances of you landing a 1988 Mike Loynd or 1984 Steve Lubratich are extremely good. Sure, you could wait until the way-back machine returns to the '50s cards, but code-hoarders don't strike me as the patient type. The other day I received an email from somone looking to hammer out a deal and send me a 1971 Thurman Munson card. And I don't mean the "Yo Mama" card pictured here. I mean, the actual 1971 card, one of the big cards I need to complete the '71 set. The person was willing to trade it to me for nothing more ...