Twitter, just like the blogs and ebay, suckers me into buying a card when I'm least expecting it. It doesn't happen often -- because, lordy, the weird stuff people are interested in on there -- but when it does, dammit, why do I have to press a key to get ebay to appear??? Such a thing happened when somebody, maybe Ryan Fagan of the Sporting News, was showing a card from 1997 Topps Screen Plays. I don't remember who the player was, probably because it wasn't a Dodger, but it looked magnificent. I ran to ebay immediately and found a Hideo Nomo Screen Plays card for like 10 bucks less than anyone else was selling it for and sat in a chair and waited for it to arrive so I could play with it. That is the thing with card gadgets like these. You're required to play with it. I don't really mind that most of the time -- 1970s Kellogg's cards were the precursor to these Screen Plays cards and you know I love those Kellogg's cards. But sometimes I'm sick o...
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