Night Owl Cards

Over the last year or so -- probably even the last 3 or 4 years -- I've been refining my collecting focus, becoming a bit less of a team collector and concentrating on what really sets off the bells and whistles, which is set-collecting and a few other special interests. That doesn't mean I have stopped collecting Dodgers cards. No, in fact, I still do really dumb things related to team collecting that I've told myself to quit doing. It's a difficult habit to break. I'm still hooked. I'm still addicted. I still have the disease. For example, Marc of Remember the Astrodome recently offered up the 2019 All-Star Game team sets for a nominal fee, including the Dodgers. Now, by "All-Star Game team set," I mean with the most tenuous link possible to the All-Star Game. In fact, how could Topps get away with as little work as possible and still call it an "All-Star Game set"? The answer to that, of course, is take every flagship card in t...

I'm feeling nothing in terms of a post, so why not discuss something for which I feel nothing: Foil parallels. Nobody who read this blog yesterday knew it, but I actually received two cards from Texas Dave. The second card that he sent along with the Jhonny Peralta Perspectives night card was this Chase Utley foil parallel ... oh, excuse me, rainbow foil parallel. I decided not to show it yesterday because I had nothing to say about it. That's what I feel when I pull one of these parallels (which by the way are not numbered, which I can't decide whether that's a good or bad thing). Nothing. It's taking up space. It's one of those card blockers except with a photograph and some words and letters, you know, like a base card. These cards are so inconsequential, so boring -- existing in that depressing purgatory between a useful base card and a super shiny chrome card -- that I've decided I'm just not going to acknowledge these cards anymore. Th...