Night Owl Cards

I've finally reached the portion of my trading backlog where I address the massive collection of goodies sent by Smed during his spring cleaning fiesta. I've paid the postage, and started looking for some cards to send in return, but unfortunately, there's no time for anything else. Normally, with a collection of cards like this, I'd do a What's the Best Card in the Package post and force you to view the whole thing until your eyes bled and you were humming '70s commercials for the next two months. I can't do that this week. So, instead, I'm merely splitting the cards into two different posts. The first post is my 12 favorite Dodgers cards from the package. The second post -- who knows when you'll see that. There won't be anything too creative with either of these posts. It's a trade. Here are some cards. Deal with it. Oh, and thanks, Smed. Commence countdown: 12. 2010 Bowman Draft Leon Landry gold parallel: "Neon Leon...

If you've been following this blog since the beginning, you may have noticed a pattern through the years. On Night Owl Cards, the spring/summer is a happy time of baseball viewing and baseball card buying. The early fall is a time of fretting over my favorite team. The late fall is a time of being broke. And March is a time of having no time to do a damn thing. In other words, I repeat myself. A lot. So, while I'm in this endless time loop, I might as well do what the time loop says to do and tell you how far behind I am. I'm way behind in getting cards together for certain people. Nachos Grande, Cardboard Collections, All Your Base Cards Belong To Us, My Past Time ... I Love It, Mark's Ephemera, and several others, your cards are in assembly and whenever I get a chance to hit the store, I'll grab some packaging material. Then, another waiting period will commence until I can get to a post office. I'm way behind in figuring out if I have trade materia...

This is how desperate the Dodgers have become regarding their starting pitching: They signed Vicente Padilla yesterday. I'm trying to figure out how this helps the Dodgers. Is it the swine flu part? Is it the head-hunting part? Is it the rumors of alcoholism part? Is it the multiple auto accidents part? The not talking to the press part? The not talking to his teammates part? The laughing at his teammates part? The arguing with the manager part? The walking the pitcher part? OK, the swine flu isn't his fault. And I don't know the details of the offseason auto accidents. But I know his reputation. The Dodgers certainly know his reputation. They know how insanely inconsistent he can be (almost as inconsistent as this Rangers/Phillies card). They've seen his earned-run averages over the last six years. Nothing under 4.5 in there. Even when he was in Philly. And they've got to know that his teammates grew tired of getting hit in retaliation after Padilla would throw a...