Night Owl Cards

I think I've mentioned this before, but there are six very large trees near my home. Two are directly in front of the house. Three others are across the street. The other is next door. At this time of year, I laugh at the idea of a gym membership, grab my horribly cheap lawn rake and rake, rake, rake my way to fitness by forming gigantic leaf piles over and over again. Where I live, you have the option of raking your leaves into the street. But the street cleaner shows up maybe once a month and with the amount of leaves that collect around here, you'd be creating a driving hazard. So I bag as many leaves as I can. And bag, and bag and bag. When I first moved into the house, I would count how many bags I put to the curb, but the novelty wore off. So now I just rake, bag, rake, bag, rake, bag ... Crap, I'm out of bags. Now, I could go down to the plaza a few blocks away where I could get bags at four different locations, maybe more. Or ... I could go across tow...

Before I get into this post, just take a moment to stare at this John Buck card. Have you ever stared at a word or a letter for so long that it doesn't make sense anymore? Sure you have. If you stare long enough at this Buck card, particularly his space-age catcher's mask, it doesn't even appear as if he's playing baseball anymore, or that's he's even human. OK, maybe it's me. Anyway, to continue the silliness, I've compiled a countdown of my favorite 2011 cards so far. I say it's silly because I'm not trying to complete any 2011 sets right now. That means I have just a starter's set worth of 2011 cards, and am probably missing some dandy ones. But tradition is tradition and this blog is nothing without traditions and old, moldy cardboard that the app-loving junkies just can't understand. In recognition of my relatively scant number of 2011 cards, I've trimmed the list to a mere top 10. I'll keep the commenting to a min...