This is my 5,000th post on Night Owl Cards. I've been aware that this moment was coming for months, yet I'm not prepared at all. I've kind of run out of things to say on milestone posts. I'll always know when a milestone is near, I'm not one to forget stuff like that. But the risk of acknowledging them all is they start to lose some meaning. Still, 5,000 is a lot, and like Nolan Ryan's 5,000-plus strikeouts, I don't know many others who have reached such a total when it comes to writing about sports cards on a blog. This is the only blog that I know that wrote as many (way more in fact). Perhaps there are others. I've reached 5,000 because, as I've said many times before, I enjoy writing and I enjoy baseball cards. There is almost nothing to me that is more interesting or worthwhile than this. If that wasn't the case, I would've wrapped up the blog by now. In fact, I'd think you'd be a fool to throw something like this away. ...
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