Night Owl Cards

I do not drink as much beer as I once did. I would never call myself a beer connoisseur -- talk of making your own beer, the breweries you've discovered, or other esoteric ruminations about hops and barley bore me completely -- but I enjoy a good brew. Today, though, I can mostly confine beer-imbibing to one of two categories. 1) It's summertime and I'm off. 2) I'm exhausted and the world has decided "night owl is the enemy." Today it's in the high 70s, rather humid, and I've got a busy workload tonight. None of this really falls into category 1) or 2), but for some reason -- perhaps the nine zillion beer commercials that I've watched during all of my baseball viewing has finally gotten to me -- I can't stop thinking about a beverage. In short, I need a beer. Here's the problem. There's no beer in the house. And with the budget cutbacks continuing for another week, I can't be buying any without there being ... um ... r...

I took dayf up on his offer and traded my treasured 1987 Kevin Bass card for a 2001 Wendell Magee Jr. card on the Topps Million Card Giveaway site. I didn't particularly want the Magee card. Who does? But after dayf's vitrolic harangue against one of the most idiotic public relations statements in history, regarding the Upper Deck settlement with MLB, it was the least I could do. What's dayf going to do with a Kevin Bass card? I don't know. I'm sure it'll be interesting. I hope it doesn't involve quite as much cursing as his post last night. Anyway, I've already made the Magee card work for me. After completing three trades on the Giveaway site, all between bloggers, I offered a number of my lame cards up for trade for anyone, just to see what happened. Almost all of the offers are still pending and I don't have a lot of confidence in any of them, but one trade went through. It was the Magee card. Somebody agreed to the deal. In exchange,...