Night Owl Cards

October is one of the busier months for me, right up there with March and June. It is almost entirely because of sports. October is one of those months in which sports overlap into a giant headache-inducing jumble. We're currently watching a summer sport while fall sports are in full swing and winter sports are beginning. There is barely enough room in my brain for all this. Then throw in the fact that it is playoff time for local high school and college sports. In most cases, when work is all-consuming, I put my personal interests aside to focus on the work. I know I'll be able to get to what I like soon enough. But when my personal interests involve my favorite team in the World Series that becomes the exception. I tried, I really tried to focus on work last night. There is a large TV above my desk at work that was tuned to Game 1 of the World Series. If I zero-in on my computer, I can ignore the TV for hours. But everyone there knows I'm a Dodger fan. And they...

This program will have to be mine at some point. I have tried to obtain a World Series program for each time the Dodgers have gone to the Series since I became aware of professional baseball. Obviously, I've been a bit out of practice, given the 29-year-gap between Series appearances by the Dodgers, and I had to look up whether MLB even made World Series programs anymore. Fortunately, they do. Because there is nothing more that I want to do when my team opens the World Series than have some reading material by my side. To mark tonight's start of the World Series, I pulled out the programs in my collection for the previous four World Series involving the Dodgers. To hammer home exactly how long it's been since I've been able to watch my team in the championship stage, here are the ads on the back cover of each of those programs: 1988 1981 1978 1977 What a wonderful wild world of wood paneling and nicotine. I was pleased to see that to...