Night Owl Cards

I started thinking about the topic of this post even before I saw this image today on the Twitter page of @halocline_gg . I immediately breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the photo. This hobby disaster had nothing to do with me. To run into a sign like this -- if it involved baseball -- would be deflating. And that's why I was relieved that it was targeting a product -- and collectors -- that are so far removed from the way I collect. Here are the things that I don't care about concerning 2019-2020 Optic Mega Boxes: 1. It's Panini 2. It's basketball 3. It's basketball players on Panini cards. There are few cards that I know I will never buy, but current basketball cards are definitely in that category. And here's the exercise: since I have a wide variety of card interests and lots of things that I would buy, I tried to think of cards I would never buy. Ever. Not on a whim. Not on a dare. Never. I came up with a few. Let's start with the...

This is my first cut signature card. I suppose if I'm going to own a cut signature card it should be of my favorite player of all-time, right? This card came to me from Dan, who as you all know runs Saints of the Cheap Seats . He picked it up at The National. What a guy. One of the many great things about having a blog and collecting cards is you build connections like this. There was no way I was going to be able to go to The National. I didn't even ask anyone to get me anything there. Yet, I ended up with this card. Wow. This is a Fleer card from 2002. I was totally unaware that they were doing cut signatures back then. I do not follow cards like this. I've said before the concept of cut signatures baffles me. I do not believe in destroying other signed cards or historical documents to create cut signatures. And I do not understand why people go ga - ga over them. I'm trying to figure out what Ron Cey signed that Fleer then cut up and pasted into this card. It ha...