Night Owl Cards

I had to do a little bit of research for this post, only because I am so clueless about cards that others of a certain age treat with such reverence. I recently received a supertrader package from P-town Tom of Waiting 'til Next Year . The package was filled with super variety, everything from oddballs to junk wax to shiny stuff to a couple of autographs. But when I trimmed it down to the cards I needed, a lot of what was left were cards I am not familiar with at all. Included in that were several Panini Donruss cards and the brand's tributes to the exclusive cards that Donruss made back in the '90s, when I wasn't collecting. The above card is Panini's recognition of the 1992 Donruss Elite Series (again, I'm not an expert on this '90s stuff, so if I mess something up, let me kn ... oh, who am I kidding? You'll let me know). You can see how shiny and refractory it is with squares going off everywhere. Looking up a few Donruss Elite Series cards...

Sometimes I feel guilty about my blog titles. Like this one. Have people clicked on this because they expect me to provide a list of tips on how to complete a set you don't like? Fine, I'll play along. Here are some tips for completing a set you don't like: 1. Get somebody to send you the cards for free. 2. Ummmmm ... there is no other tip. Get somebody to send you the cards for free! Preferably a Super Trader! One who doesn't have issues with purchasing crappy sets I don't like! Thank you, Tony L., from Off-Hiatus Baseball , I have now completed the Dodgers team set for that horrible 2014 Panini Donruss set that spawns a new one every year, just as ugly and just as forgettable. In fact, this set was so not on my mind that I didn't realize which cards I needed. And I didn't bother putting up a want list, so I could have gone on blissfully into the next decade without knowing which ugly card with too much border and too large of a logo I was mis...

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but wearing the same shirt five days in a row just because your favorite team won the first time you wore it, isn't going to cause the team to keep winning. Neither is turning the TV off when your team isn't doing well and then turning it on again hoping that their fortunes have magically changed. You can sit in the same place in the living room to watch the game for 14 straight days and it's still not going to yield 14 straight victories for your team. No matter what you do, no matter how much you believe it, no matter how often it appears to work, there is one thing for certain: You have no effect on your favorite sports team. I know, because I've done most of the above and several other tactics, including drinking "magical" potions and watching the game upside down (I've probably done both at the same time). And it doesn't work. Your favorite team is going to screw up ... eventually. Yet, we p...

Wilton Guerrero is expressing the way I feel today. I'm really beginning to question whether I have the time to write a once-a-day blog anymore. June used to be a carefree month. Outside of July, the absolute best. But now, it's overloaded with projects and obligations and work on my days off. I have a notebook of blog ideas, and it taunts me even more than ever. There is no way I can formulate one of those ideas into a post. There is one thing that makes me continue to keep up the facade. People are still sending me cards. As long as they send them, I'll keep posting them. Whether it's in a format that's readable, well, I make no guarantees anymore. So, here are some cards from Max of Starting Nine . I think they're pretty cool. Maybe you will, too Max sent several of these '96 Pinnacle Aficianado Dodgers cards. I've called this set one of the most grotesque of all-time. Fortunately, I need to show only one of them here as I had all th...