Night Owl Cards

What you see before you, the bloated reality of Ned Colletti's dream of a more powerful Dodger lineup, is the last Dodger I needed to complete the team set for this year's Topps Series I. The card came to me along with a number of other Series I needs from Steve of a Baseball State of Mind . Steve has proven to be a great trading partner several times now. But for Andruw Jones, this is a first. He finally made himself useful wearing a Dodger uniform. Jones is now hitting .340 as a role player for the Rangers. I guess someone finally woke him up. Star power hitters who didn't come up in the Dodgers' system just don't seem to fair well in L.A. Manny was on his way to breaking that trend before dabbling in fertility drugs. And before that there was Darryl Strawberry and Eric Davis. I guess you could make a case for Gary Sheffield adapting well to L.A. Eddie Murray was a force, briefly. And Shawn Green, although he wasn't known as a power hitter until coming to...

Thanks to the talented and thoughtful Chris of Nachos Grande and Patricia and Lucy of Dinged Corners , I am excruciatingly close to putting the 2008 Topps Allen and Ginter base set to bed. Here is what those generous folks sent me over the last few days: #76- Jim Thome #241-Ryan Garko #307 - Pat Neshek #330 - Luke Hochevar #331 - Luis Castillo #336 - Allen Fisher That can mean only ONE thing: WANTED #313 - Harriet Beecher Stowe and #321 - Wily Mo Pena The two were last seen together, driving a 1973 El Camino south toward Mexico. If you spot either of them, approach cautiously . They are not armed (OK, Stowe might be packing heat), but they ARE dangerous (just look at all the presidential assassins who had three names!). If you happen to apprehend either or both, contact me at the appropriate email address. Your reward will be a trade that is beneficial to both of us. And Stowe and Pena will be locked up in their plastic nine-pocket prison where they so rightfully belong. (Full di...