Night Owl Cards

Some card blogs, for whatever reason, do not show up on my Blogger reading list. To find them, I must go to the blog roll on my sidebar. This causes me to miss some posts from blogs that show up solely on my sidebar, only because I've been in the habit of checking my Blogger reading list since 2008. So apologies to Cardpocalypse,  Diamond Jesters, CrazieJoe's Card Corner, Collecting Cutch, Wrigley Roster Jenga, A Cracked Bat and a few others. I do get to ya, but often it's only after I discover I haven't seen ya lately. (I think it comes down to whether you have the Followers option on your sidebar, but that doesn't explain why wordpress blogs show up in my Blogger reader). Anyway, one of those blogs that appears only on my blog roll is Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary . This becomes an issue during Brian's weekly Friday contests. Not only does HSACA not show up on my reader, but it does this weird thing where it won't be listed with an up...

(This is the last week in a four-week winter sports season frenzy that is annually the busiest time of the work schedule for me. Appropriately, the first day of spring is Friday. And I'm appreciating March 20, because it means the end of the busy season, better weather, and BASEBALL. Here's another edition of Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 22nd in a series): Yes, it's an Opening Day card. No I am not kidding. I am actually featuring a Topps Opening Day card on Cardboard Appreciation. I do not appreciate the Opening Day set. I don't know many collectors that do. The release date for 2009 Opening Day was March 11. Do you hear any anguish from collectors because they can't find Opening Day packs? Nope. Opening Day is one of those sets that arrived during a period when I wasn't collecting cards. I believe the first year that I saw them was with the 2005 set. I didn't know what they were at first glance because they looked similar to the flagship set, with ...