Night Owl Cards

So, the Million Card Giveaway cards that I ordered arrived on Wednesday. I ordered the three that I said I would, paid the four bucks in shipping, and waited. I know most people are going to accumulate a bunch of cards before they order, but I wanted to see what the process was like. Honestly, I expected them to take forever to get here. They took two weeks. I can't argue with that. The cards arrived in a padded envelope. Each of the three cards was secured in a penny sleeve inside of a top loader. The three top loaders were sitting inside my folded shipping order. Unlike the Wax Wombat, I did not encounter any cards  trying to escape their top loader pouches . They were safely secure. As for my expectations of card condition, I had none. Well, I had slightly more than "none." I did expect something more than a card folded in half 25 times. But other than that, I figured they're buybacks. They're probably in relatively respectable condition, but not mint o...

Yesterday, Brian of Play at the Plate issued a frantic comment on my blog. It had nothing to do with what I had just written about, but given the news that he wanted to get out I couldn't blame him. It seems that Topps' Million Card Giveaway had suddenly started spitting out nothing but '60s and '70s cards the last couple of days, like a jammed slot machine coughing up coins. Unfortunately, I was deep in the middle of work at the time of that urgent message and could do nothing about it. But others reported having some success redeeming '60s/70s cards. So today, I hit Wal-Mart to get myself a code card because I had plumb run out of them by redeeming overproduced garbage from the '80s and '90s. Now, I HATE going to Wal-Mart on a Sunday. All it means is I'm going to stand in line mentally criticizing the crap the nine people in front of me are purchasing, as if my card purchase is a matter of life and death. But the opportunity to break my junk...