Night Owl Cards

I don't have very many thoughts about Panini's advancement into the baseball card market. After all, I'm not moaning in a fetal position about the Topps monopoly, although I certainly welcome more cards to view. Also, Panini, to this point, has operated in areas that don't interest me. I don't care at all about collecting other sports. When someone posts about hockey cards, I try really hard to pay attention, but it's almost like trying to learn a foreign language. I know it's good for me, but please, please, please make it stop. It's even worse for football or basketball or, god forbid, auto racing or wrestling. I simply change the channel without reading a word. So, Panini has been a non-entity so far. That is, until Josh Hamilton started popping up everywhere yesterday wearing his gold chain and T-shirt on a sample Panini baseball card. The card, I will say, is ok. "OK" in lower-case letters on purpose. If all the other cards look lik...

(*measure, measure, measure, trace, trace, trace*) (*snip, snip, snip, snip*) ... Oh, hi there. You've caught me in the middle of making my own brand of baseball cards! With the recent news that Panini has acquired the license to produce NBA cards, and the fact that Topps' MLB license expires in a year, I figured, why not? I'll try my hand at some cards. I could win the lottery, um, three times, and buy an exclusive deal, right? So I have to start planning. I'm going to call my card company "Lower Level," and I'll be starting with the kids' market. We have to get those kids hooked first! My first product is going to be called "Letters." As in, "Lower Level Letters," or "LLL" for short. Catchy, no? Here is an example of one of the cards: That's right! All of the cards are die-cuts! This is the "U" card. It is my homage to Upper Deck. Because Upper Deck X was my inspiration. Here is the "T" card an...