Night Owl Cards

I lead a somewhat sheltered life way up here in the north country. Nobody wants to live here except for us white folk. The military base has provided us with a bit of "color," but basically the population base is as milky white as the sizable snowbanks still dominating every street in the area. If you want to go snowmobiling and talk English, well have I got a place for you. My collecting is basically the same though. My collection is overwhelmingly baseball. And that means my collection overwhelmingly speaks English. Thanks to O-Pee-Chee and Pacific I've been able to add some French- and Spanish-speaking cards to my collection. But that was about it until Zippy Zappy came along from Torren' Up Cards . He's added a number of Japanese-speaking cards to my collection, which are always cool. The most recent one arrived in a PWE. It's the Shawn Green card above. Perhaps you looked at that card askance. It doesn't seem quite right does it. Isn't ...

Even though I don't kill my own dinner, drive a pickup with the tailpipe cut off to wake up every last person, or punctuate each sentence with "what-not," I'm your basic red-blooded American male. I like meat. I like girls. I like baseball. Most of my tastes are fairly basic and mainstream, especially when it comes to baseball. I follow the major leagues. And I'll go to a minor league game. Everything else, well, it just muddies the situation. I don't have time for it. I collect the same way -- in other words, baseball players I've heard of, please. But there are those who try to take me out of my comfort zone. Sometimes I go along for the ride, sometimes I hide under the covers until they go away. Recently, the operator of Torren' Up Cards , dropped another Zippy Zapping on me. As you know, ZZ likes cards that fly off my radar. Some I am aware of but generally ignore. Others I've heard of, but only because there are blogs like Torren...