Night Owl Cards

  It's getting so that I'm running out of places to turn to find cards that I like that aren't stupidly expensive or unavailable.   Modern cards are out in that area. They're seeded with short-prints and often they prevent you from finishing a set. See: 2025 Topps Heritage.   Vintage in many cases is out. Thank goodness for card shows, I can still find them there. But looking for cheap vintage online is a old-fashioned practice that became fruitless a few years ago.   Even my dear '70s is filled with roadblocks. I'm at a stand-still with both Kellogg's and Hostess, either because of prices (Kellogg's) or unavailability (Hostess).   Sure, I like a whole bunch of different kinds of cards so I can always pivot, but the only reliable period to pivot is the 1980s. Heck, that's still a decade that makes people just give away whatever was manufactured during those 10 years. Thank goodness! There's a reason I've written so many odes to the 1980s.   R...

   The Dodgers are playing the Angels this weekend in another "Freeway Series"/interleague clash. This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I've lived on the east coast my whole life, and was a baseball fan for more than 20 years before interleague play started.   But the Angels have popped up a couple of times recently in my fan and hobby pursuits. I've been struggling for blog topics lately. It's not just lack of time that's caused me to slow down here -- inspiration's been elusive when life is one demoralizing incident after another.   Then I received a quick envelope in the mail the other day from Batting Out of Order . Tom was clearing out some duplicates of the Angels, his favorite team, and sent a few from the 2005 Topps Update set.     That's fun. Remember when the Angels were good enough to beat the Yankees in the playoffs?   I haven't done much with my 2005 Topps set needs the last year or so. I'm only 29 cards away from finishing the ...