Acting accordingly

 

When faced with the decision of watching the so-called "World Series rematch" between the Dodgers and Blue Jays or the Sabres' showdown with the Lightning last night on the TV, I chose the Buffaloes in their goat-head jerseys.

 

Rather easy choice actually. My wife's a Buffalo gal and back on the hockey bandwagon, the baseball game was No. 10 out of 162 and not worth the hype and, finally, have you seen the conditions outside? Does not look like baseball season to me!

 

It snowed last night and this morning. April 7th. I had to clear off the vehicle like it was February. And the wind hasn't stopped since February, too. That is nothing-to-do-but-watch-hockey-inside weather. 

 

It turned out to be a great game (the Dodgers took care of business, too). The Sabres beat those annoying Lightning 4-2. Jack Quinn (see above) scored the empty-net clincher. The Sabres have been doing just about everything right since January and they're hanging onto their players, too. That Quinn card is from 2023-24 and he's still on the team!

 

That is one of the cards that arrived recenty from Sportscards From The Dollar Store. I'm suspicious that the package from Canada opened up a winter portal. Either than, or I did when I took the Christmas lights off the bushes the other day.

 

There was other hockey in the package, too. Per usual the envelope included my favorite overproduction era hockey set:

 

These were the only needs this time. They're all from the French set. I should just combine what I have from the English set with the French set and make a hybrid set, but so far this set cannot gain my attention beyond putting them sorted into a box.

 

 

Any arrival from SFTDS includes Bills content. This time it was 2025 Score football. It's still weird that retired and college draft pick guys are always a part of the modern football sets. I'd be more interested in new football cards if they weren't.

 

 

A few Dodgers in the package connected. Here is a 2020 Topps Gold Label Kershaw card, the "base"/Class 1 variety.

 

 

This is a 2024 Tek Hanley Ramirez and I've already forgotten which parallel it is.

 

 

The best card in the entire package. This Chan Ho Park card was the last one I needed to finish the 1999 Upper Deck Victory set! Wooo!

 

 

 Doug is all about cards of players who share his birthday and he sent another batch that correspond with mine! I admit I know very few of these 7-16ers. The only familiar ones for me are Roscoe Parrish, Ginger Rogers (nice) and Zach Randolph. It's cool to get a couple autographed 7-16 people.

 

This will probably spur me on to dedicate a couple of pages to 7-16 athletes/others.

 

Those weren't all he sent either, I separated two to discuss more.

 

 

My first wrestling dude 7-16er. Excalibur is a former wrestler and current wrestling commentator. I know nothing more. Don't plan to learn anything else. Maybe if he takes off his mask.

 

 

This is officially the fanciest card of a player born on 7-16 in my collection. I've got other cards of the longtime Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith but nothing like this! It also might be the most Canadian card in my collection.

 

Yes, hockey is still here, and now that the Sabres have ended their playoff drought, I'll be watching them more often (we've got the Gotham Sports app now, too). I don't see them going all the way -- the Avalanche and Stars, and heck, the Wild, look tough -- but they could get back to the Stanley Cup Final, which is nothing I would have believed back in November.

 

But then I didn't think it'd be snowing in April back then either.