Night Owl Cards

  Upon opening my first packs of 2023 Heritage on Saturday, I felt a little bad about the rant that I posted on everything that's become wrong with Heritage the last few years. Heritage is still Heritage and it still does try to get some things right, paying accurate tribute to the set that featured the design the first time. Also, this was my first experience with opening Heritage that is showcasing the design that I knew as a kid, cards I opened with that design . What a rush. Now I know what all the older collectors were feeling when Heritage was trotting out designs from the '50s, '60s and early '70s. Sure, I liked some of those sets, but the first-hand knowledge wasn't there. With '74, those are cards I opened, and that's the way Heritage will be for the next 15 years or so. I adore '74 Topps because it comes straight from my childhood and the design and colors and photographs -- the LOOK of the cards -- is etched in my brain, so my goodness, those...

  I had another Target gift card to spend and my patience is not good when it comes to those things. I am mystified when I hear stories of people giving their folks gift cards and then they put them in a drawer and forget about them.   So, in a yank to spend it quickly -- and on cards -- I had basically three choices. Two of them didn't interest me.    I could spend it on another blaster of 2022 Topps, but one of those was enough. Nothing more to be gained there, except for a bland Dodger insert. Or I could wait a little longer and spend it on a blaster of 2022 Heritage. But I didn't want to wait and, honestly, I've seen Heritage's take on the '73 design and I'm just not feeling it.  That left Opening Day. And that's where the gift card went. Heck, I could get a few more Dodger cards and maybe a couple decent inserts. Also, Opening Day was packing even more cards than ever into those boxes! Instead of $9.99 for 77 cards as Opening Day blasters have contained...