Night Owl Cards

This trophy grabbed my attention right away and although it might be difficult to find space in the home for something that size, I prefer that to the MVP trophies the All-Star Game is giving out these days. If you are like me, you were unaware that the look of the MVP trophy has changed over time. It didn't even dawn on me until I saw this card and I automatically recognized that All-Star MVPs of recent years weren't hauling around things like this immediately after the game. No, the All-Star MVP trophy now looks like this: It's a glass baseball bat. Sturdy, appropriate and easy to store, but not what I think of when I think of a trophy. The baseball bat MVP trophy has been around at least since 2009. Here Carl Crawford displays his All-Star award. It's a bit odd that he's showing a bat when he received the award for a leaping catch that kept the Rockies' Brad Hawpe from a home run and saved the game for the American League. But the bat award...

I really don't want to start another series on this blog. But at the same time I am addicted to countdown shows. I am also addicted to "worst lists" just because "best lists" are so played out. So why not do a list of the "best worst" just to mix things up a little bit? Yeah, and why not find 100 of them? And then why not do a countdown show with that list of the very best worst 100 cards in my collection? Sure, why not? So that's what I'm going to do. Coming soon: the 100 best worst cards in my collection. And not those usual cards that you've seen 1,000 times over and over again. First, that's boring. Second, I probably don't have those cards. So stay tuned ... For whenever I get around to it. You can bet this 1991 Donruss Sandy Alomar Award Winner card will be somewhere on there. It's tremendously awful.

I am about as horribly inefficient as I have been in months. Woefully behind with holiday stuff. Slacking on the job. Lazily avoiding any blog posts of substance. I don't know what it is. During my daily downtime, I end up plopping in the recliner and catching up on Parks and Recreation episodes on Netflix. That's been my ritual pretty much for the last week or two. If it's late morning or late night after work, it's time for Ron Swanson and the gang. I know doing nothing is Swanson's style. But I don't have a government job, and this isn't good. I've periodically viewed people's addictions to weekly episodic TV as depressing and a sign that they're in a funk. Well, I'm in a funk. There's no doubt about it. I'm not being productive at all. I feel stagnant. But I figure I might as well laugh at 11 a.m. and 1 a.m. each day. More TV viewing also means not much time for blog stuff. Plus, I've got to get ready for a long-a...

(The list of appreciation days continues: hairstyle appreciation day - April 30, boss appreciation day - Oct. 16, national meatloaf appreciation day - Oct. 18. I still think we can squeeze a baseball collectors appreciation day in there somewhere. It's time for cardboard appreciation and another one of my all-time favorites. This is the 12th in a series): A lot of people like this card. But find me a person who doesn't like it. You can't. Because it's amazing. It's a play at the plate, with Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk waiting for the throw as Cecil Fielder barrels down on him, and some other Tiger (Travis Fryman, maybe?) tells Big Daddy to GET DOWN! Throw in the fact that it all takes place in old Comiskey Park, with its yellow police tape seat railings, and you have a card worthy of appreciation. But the reason I'm pulling this card out again is because I'm noticing how much 1991 Topps has grown on collectors over time. If you went back in time 18 ye...