Night Owl Cards

So far, this is the baseball-related item that I have received for Valentine's Day. Yes, I'm one of those shallow types who doesn't read the book until I see the movie. I don't know how much success I'll have with this book. Like dayf , I have reader's block. Only I've been stuck on Chapter 2 of "The Catcher Was a Spy" for two months . I also have this thing about reading books in order. So Michael Lewis will have to get in line behind Nicholas Dawidoff. In the event that some new cards don't fall my way in the next 10 hours or so, I figured I'd recognize Valentine's Day with the illicit affair theme. I don't know why. Maybe it's just what you do when you've been happily married for 21 years. So, quick, what is the card set that you feel totally guilty about loving with all your heart? Time's up. Mine is 1982 Fleer. I know I've mentioned this at least a dozen times already. I even ranked '82 Fleer ...

Getting me to a movie theater is not easy. The last movie I ever watched in a movie theater was Kung Fu Panda. The first one. And the only reason I saw that movie is because there was only one person on the planet who could get me to sit in a movie theater for an hour and a half. My daughter. Between 2002-08, I sat in the theater for dozens of children's films. It's what you do as a young parent. Some of the movies bored me, some mildly amused me, but none truly interested me. I was there for my daughter. That was all. Nothing else could get me there. Why would I pay a crazy amount of money to stare at a screen for up to two hours, sometimes among ill-behaved fellow spectators for something that really didn't interest me? You name just about every big movie of the last decade. I haven't seen it. Even in the comfort of my own home, I can't be bothered to sit for that long and stare at the screen for a movie. Only one thing will get me to sit that lon...