Night Owl Cards

  Happy Canada Day to my Canadian readers.   I haven't written a Canada Day post in four years when once it was a semi-regular occurrence. This is no oversight, just someone writing a blog for two decades and running out of ideas.   For inspiration I went back to a post I wrote 10 years ago in which I researched a few MLBers who I didn't know were from Canada. I wondered if I could find some others. And I did.   This surprised me. I've lived near Canada for two-thirds of my life -- in three different places. I've attended baseball games in both Toronto and Montreal (and Welland, Ontario). And I've interviewed MLBers in one of them (Montreal). Maybe I should know more Canadians than Larry Walker, Joey Votto, Terry Puhl and Vlad Jr.   So here are a handful more of Canadian players I didn't know were Canadian. Although it's possible I did know at one time that they were. Facts are falling out of my brain all of the time these days.     JOHN AXFORD (Simco...

  I watched hardly any of the Super Bowl last night and I was trying to think of the last time I didn't watch it.   My first thought was maybe 2015, because the teams were the Seahawks and Patriots that year, too (I don't like either team). But this was when the Super Bowl was required viewing for my job. I was at the office and between 2002 and 2022, I was working during the Super Bowl. We'd watch the game at the office, then get the results in the paper.   So, my lowest-viewed Super Bowl had to occur before that, but it gets fuzzy. It's possible I didn't watch much of the Ravens-Giants in 2001 because zero interest in those teams, too. But it's also possible I haven't watched so little of the Super Bowl since the mid-1970s when I was just starting to get into football.   I began the Super Bowl last night in the kitchen washing the dishes (yes, that's how much I cared). Then I went to my card room and started a little reorganizing that is taking place t...