Night Owl Cards

It's beautiful out today. I am mentioning it for posterity because it just might be the best weather day of the year. Then I can win some useless weather argument that always seems to spring up out of nowhere. But I also want to mention it because even though I have to work today, it's a nice way to end the week. And to get in the spirit of things, after showing almost nothing but vintage all week (a result of both circumstance and mind-set), I am going to show some sparkly cards. Joe M. is always good for some shiny items. This is part of the package that included the awesome Sandy Koufax Masterpieces box-topper. It's quite the shiny kick in the ass. And to show how pleasant I am trying to be this Friday, I put a shiny Andruw Jones Heritage card at the top of the post. No Stay Puft Marshmallow Man jokes for me today. I'm high-roading it. Shield your eyes. Shiny ahead. But I'll start you off slow. It's an unshiny 2006 Bowman Heritage Chad Billingsley card

It is appropriate that I am posting this after midnight because I received an ominous package in the mail earlier today. It was my Trick-or-Treat mailing from Dave of Tribe Cards . I'm sure you've seen other tricky Tribe packages popping up on various blogs lately. Frightening stuff. Checklists. Ugly heavy metal singers. Andruw Jones cards (*shiver*). The horror. But amid the gruesome carnage I noticed that a few good guys emerged unscathed: Harmon Killebrew , Greg Maddux . Guys like that. Maybe, just maybe, something unzombie-like would fall out of my package. I just prayed that whatever it was, it wasn't a Yankee. All hope is lost when one of those arrives in your mailbox. I carefully placed the envelope on the table, you know, so as to not upset it. But my daughter tipped me off that something might not be right. She pointed to the written return address and said, "that person needs to take care of that." I swear she said that. It pretty much creeped me out