Night Owl Cards

(Y'all know what an appreciation letter is, don't you? It's one of those letters you write after going on a job interview to express gratitude for the  honor of being interviewed. It's basically a "please, please, please, PLEASE hire me" letter. I recently came across an old appreciation letter from an employee who doesn't work for me anymore. If I'm being accurate, though, it was more bullshit than appreciation. In the end, I was the one doing the appreciating when this employee got a new job. Anyway, that's a long way to go to say: cards never BS you. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 54th in a series): Ladies and gentlemen, Topps 2010, Series I is complete. Georgie-Porgie here was the last card I needed to finish off the set. I actually landed two Posada cards on Monday. One was pulled from a pack. Then the mail arrived and Jorge showed up again, wagging his enormous ears at me. A big thanks to Mr. Dog Faced Gremlin for bein...

First off, I would like to say, a hearty, long-overdue, much-deserved congratulations to ... Heh, heh. Don't worry. I'm not congratulating them . They'll be patting themselves on the back long into next year. They don't need me. So, instead, I've decided to ignore them. And it may last all the way through 2010. (However, if I happen to hear one more Yankee say, "it's been a long time," I am going to set out to play every lottery and visit every casino in the country for the REST OF MY LIFE until I win enough to buy a baseball team. Then I'm going to pool my vast cash-laden resources with a few richy-rich Cubs fans who r eally know what "a long time" means, rename my club the Antiyankees , and make the team's mission statement as follows: "We will do everything possible to make sure the Yankees don't win again until every other team has won 27 World Series titles.") No, my congratulations are going to the 2008 Topps se...