Hooooooooooooooooo! It's your favorite cardboard-collecting owl's designated holiday! Who decided I'd rather scare kiddies from tree tops instead of page binders inside a well-lit card rooooooooooooom? Who? Who? Was it the same person who decided airing Game 6 of the World Series on a major holiday was a good idea? Who? Who?
When you think about it, Halloween is trooooooooooly the oddball holiday on the calendar when it comes to major U.S. holidays. Almost every other holiday has to do with family, country or religion. Halloween covers a couple of those elements but only tangentially and only if you have little tykes trudging outside in the rain and wind and cold while they beg for gooooooooooooodies.
So on this oddball holiday I have some gooooooooodies of my own -- the cardboard kind -- that arrived on this festive day. They happen to be oddballs, tooooooooooooo! In keeping with the season.
Ooooooooooooo. One of the last remaining 1971 Fleer World Series cards I need to finish the set. Look at that mooooooooooooon. That's not the sun. Batters who faced Cy Young in 1903 swear they played night games. Cy turned out the lights on them. The Pirates were doooooooooomed.
Wooooooooooooooo! It's a sweet, sweet 1975 Hostess need. Fooooooooood issue! The Nettles card slipped through my fingers, once. But not this time, duuuuuuuuuuuude!!! Nettles was spoooooooooky good against my Dodgers in the 1978 World Series. He was also nicknamed "Puff" for starting practical jokes and disappearing before he was caught, but I think that should have been "Poooooooooof".
So cooooooooooooool! This wrinkled oddie is actually an upgrade over the Montanez I already owned, which was featuring a major rip and getting a new version has been loooooooooooming over me for a long time. Montanez was nicknamed "Hot Dog" for how he performed in the field. Willie was just too coooooooool for schooooooooool.
Booooooooooooom!!!! A titan of the set secured! Look, Schmidty was so early into his career still that his position is "Infield". Maybe the best part of this card is the back, which says "Michael Jack Schmidt" at the top.
And that's all the oddballs for today! It may be an owl's holiday, but this owl has to work, and since he can't return for dinner like usual at the risk of running over little urchins zooooooooooming in the streets, he'll eat it at the office and try to catch the game on the internets. Boooooooooooooooooooo!
Hoping for a Game 7, because if baseball ends today, that really is scary.
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