Night Owl Cards

I received a healthy smattering of these Upper Deck Looney Tunes cards from madding at Cards on Cards recently. Although I have some of the Looney Tunes cards already, I recognized many of the ones I received as cards that I didn't have. I know this because Bugs and company happen to be sitting in one of my Dodgers binders and I leaf past them all the time. I don't exactly feel comfortable about this. I grew up on Bugs -- before all the Space Jam nonsense -- so I am proud to own some of his cards. But putting him in a binder with Sandy Koufax, Mike Piazza and Reggie Smith? Just because Bugs is wearing a Dodger cap? Is this what I've become? Could an artist somewhere draw a Dodger cap on an orange, slap it on a card and -- BOOM -- it would be in my Dodger binders? What am I doing? Well, what I'm doing now is wondering how many of these cards there are. There seems to be a lot, with scary large numbers like "451" on them. Plus, the only cards I have...

As I mentioned in the last post, a blogger was trying to make me jealous while I was on vacation. This is a little bit like holding up a 100 dollar bill to LeBron James and saying, "lookie what I got!" He's going to laugh in your face. And then his bikinied groupies are going to laugh in your face. But I understand it was a timing issue. How was Greg Z. supposed to know I was happily sunning myself when he was baiting me? But I suppose I should return the favor, because that's what us guys do. So here are some Clayton Kershaw cards I obtained just before I went on vacation. Kershaw is the lone Dodger who will get playing time in the All-Star Game tomorrow (because Dodger fans aren't ballot-stuffing losers like fans of another team I know). He's my favorite current player, and he's also one of Greg Z.'s two favorite players. So, let's turn on the Jealous Meter and see how high we can get that baby to go. I obtained eight Kershaw card...