Night Owl Cards

  Don't get alarmed. No real snake pictures here. Nor is it about door draft snakes, although it'd be interesting to see what a door draft snake draft looked like. No, I'm just the latest one to show off my gits from The Diamond King's recent card draft! I love card drafts! But I think the most recent one for me was nine years ago . The problem is most card drafts want your money and I don't participate in risky card ventures for cash. I want my money to go to cards I will like for sure (this does not explain why I buy random blasters tho).   My favorite card drafting style is the snake kind. It's the most fair and the least complex.    So, The Diamond King requested nine cards from the eight participants to put into the card draft pot. Then people took turns selecting the cards available. The problem for me is my schedule doesn't match up with anyone else's. People seem to think Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday night are convenient for such things, and ...

A few weeks ago, I participated in a card draft put on by Scott Crawford on Cards . I love card drafts. If I wasn't so broke, I'd try to get in as many as I could. But to date, I think I've participated in maybe three. I'll have to work on that. What made this draft so cool was the wide, wide, wide array of cards available. All sports. And nonsports, too. And if baseball is your thing, there was vintage, current cards, parallels and hit mojo booyah, too. Another cool part was that it was held in a Google + live chat room thing so you could talk about cards while you're drafting them. Unfortunately, the draft was held at the same time as one of the busier Sundays in my work world, so I couldn't be there to talk or even pick. Scott acted as my proxy selector. And he did a damn fine job of it. The draft was 20 rounds. But good guy that he is, Scott added on a few more rounds. And then when he sent out the cards, he tacked on a few more rounds, too. So I co...

I was involved in Cardboard Heaven's Rose Bowl draft a few weeks ago. It my first card draft and a lot of fun. I quickly figured out that the objective, after finding a few cards you want, was to get cards that could be used in future trades. And that's what I did. Some of the cards are already in packages waiting for All Work And No Play to get his dull ass to the post office. Some of the other cards you'll see here are posted in a pathetic effort to jump-start some trades -- not that I have any time for that. The Prince Fielder bat card was obtained to work out a deal with a Brewers fan. Heh. That worked out spectacularly. Fielder will be making his imprint in Detroit for the next nine years. I don't even know if a Tigers fan wants a relic card of a guy in a Brewer uniform. I know, personally, I wouldn't. It's not like I'm clamoring for Angels cards of Juan Rivera. ... OK, bad example. But you know what I mean. So, Prince may or may not stay with...