Night Owl Cards

Hello, everyone. It's Night Owl. This incredible likeness of me, featured on my favorite card design, was created by Doc T of Baseball Card Recollections . Whoooo-boy, what a great card! It will be taking a spot on the sidebar soon, as all great works of art must. But first, I'd like you to harken back, back to the days when the Dodgers were good. Remember those days? Remember when the bullpen wasn't a misused disaster? Remember when the left fielder wasn't falling apart? Remember when the owner wasn't a narcissistic fool? I do. But what I am starting to forget is true Dodger greatness. World Series greatness. Championship greatness. Hell, I was still in college in 1988. You know what happened in 1988, right? The right team won. Won it all. Ever since then it's been the wrong team. There have been the usual suspects. And then there have been the Diamondbacks and the Angels and the Marlins (twice). That really makes a proud Dodger fan weary. So I tho...

You remember this guy, don't you? It's been quite a while since I wrote about him. When last we visited young Bowman Strasburg, he had been sent on a journey, shipped off in the U.S. mail after being sold for almost 100 bucks. Meanwhile, I was looking forward to turning the 20 dollars I spent on the blaster that yielded the Strasburg into a 1950s card, preferably Jackie Robinson or Koufax. And that's when the Strasburg hit the fan. The guy who bought the card said he never received it and filed a claim. I was furious. Never once, out of all the packages that I have sent out in nearly two years, has anyone said that they didn't receive their cards. I called bullshit. Rob, of VOTC , who proxy-sold the card for me, called bullshit. A week later, as Paypal looked into the matter, the buyer said everything was cool. I don't know what happened that made him suddenly change his mind, but I'm hoping a guilty conscience had something to do with it. After vowin...