Night Owl Cards

People always look at me askance when I root against local sports teams. They behave as if I just insulted their heritage or told them they bore ugly children. I tell them not to take it so personally. There is a very simple reason why I do this, and others will never understand unless they are in my profession. Here is the most recent example of that reason: No. 1-seeded Syracuse was just upset in the first-round of the Big East Conference tournament. That pleases me immensely. That's because SU's loss means I might get a shot at a second day off this week. If they had won, I would have no idea when I would get another day off. I'm serious. Not a clue when my next day off would occur. It'd probably land in the middle of next week sometime. When I was a youngster out of college this didn't bother me. It do now. So, yeah. March Madness sucks. It always has and it always will. The month has a defect. Send it back to the factory and try again. This madnes...

Sometimes it's best to keep memories repressed. I don't ever want to recall that Orel Hershiser pitched for the Giants, let alone get a cardboard reminder in the mail. However, in one way I am glad that this Hershiser card is featured here. Because that means the trade deadline is over, I can exhale, and this is a harmless baseball card trade post, rather than a "why, oh, why did the Dodgers trade half their team for Roy Halladay " post. Halladay is still spending his Loonies in Toronto. As it should be. (Meanwhile, I just read that the Dodgers were supposedly close to a deal with the Padres in which they would have acquired Adrian Gonzalez and Heath Bell for James Loney , Russell Martin, Blake DeWitt , James McDonald and Ivan DeJesus Jr. Holy Smokey! Do people who run the Dodgers know the team has had the best record in baseball for almost the entire season?) The Hershiser nightmare card came to me from Mark of Stats on the Back . He's been giving...