Match the song title

This is a little game that I play where I try to find a card that matches with each song on an a particular music album. If you'd like to recommend an album for this series, feel free to email me. If I know and love the album, I'll try to add it here.

These are the Match the Song Title albums so far:

Back in Black - AC/DC
Candy-O - Cars
Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
El Camino - The Black Keys
Eliminator - ZZ Top
First Under the Wire - Little River Band
The Joshua Tree - U2
1984 - Van Halen
Out of the Blue - ELO
Pretenders - Pretenders
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Whipped Cream & Other Delights - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Wildflowers - Tom Petty

Special edition:

The Collector's Alt-Rock Mix

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Grim

I've been operating in a haze the last week or so, barely able to find joy in the pleasantries of everyday life. Conversation is difficult. Food isn't as interesting. Heck, I even have to boot myself in the butt to get blogging. I can only compare the feeling to the moments that follow heartbreak or some other emotional upheaval in life. That will seem over-dramatic when I say why I feel this way, but it's unmistakable -- that is just what it feels like. The Dodgers are in the middle of an all-out, beat-your-head-against-the-wall struggle with the Rays in the final stage of these very long -- longer than ever -- baseball playoffs. I've begun to think that this is just too much baseball for one postseason. It's OK for fans of postseason teams who didn't make it this far, but the Dodgers and Rays have been playing seemingly forever this October and I'm starting to wish it would stop. The agony and the worrying and all of Dave Roberts' pitching decisions have…

A new contender has emerged

Not even three weeks ago, I ranked the various early '90s Senior Professional Baseball Association sets in order of my preference and casually mentioned that I wasn't including the 1990 Elite Seniors set because I didn't have a card from that one. Shortly after that post, a box arrived on my porch with ... the entire 1990 Elite Senior Professional Baseball Association set.

Isn't that nifty packaging? That would certainly make me want to buy this.
The generous mailing arrived from reader Mike ("Mike the History Teacher" in the comments) and he obviously wanted me to experience the greatness within.

It is pretty great.
Not only is the design clean and obviously lifted off of an early 1990s Upper Deck set (I actually prefer this look to the "basepaths" look of 1989-91 UD), but there is an abundance of cool action shots in this set that really makes you aware that these Elite characters knew what they were doing.

Yes, there are horizontal shots mixed in with …

Tougher from here on out

(For those entered in the contest to win the 1989 Topps Big set, I'll announce it at the end of the post).
I've been a Dodgers fan since 1974.
I know a lot of readers know that but I just want to get it out there for any newcomers who arrive upon this blog in the next year or so and think, "another one, huh?"
Longtime fans have their radar turned up for bandwagoners. It's an ugly thing that we rooting veterans do, singling out the rising totals in Patriots or Braves fans over the years as the sign of some sort of mass personality flaw. It's actually none of our business. New fans can root for whoever they want.

But I do expect more Dodgers fans to show up now that the team has won the World Series. It's just the nature of things. Do you know how many Jets fans I saw on the playground in the early '70s? Where are they all now?
I do expect acquiring Dodgers cards to get tougher from here on out, too. Not that it isn't tough already. Aside from the Yanke…

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