Night Owl Cards

  ... but I had to. What a time to be on this earth for both times.

(Greetings on the first day of Daylight Spending Time. I don't know why we're still doing this time change thing, but I'll take the extra hour of sleep. As for all of the Facebook memes about how dark it's going to be now ... I think you know, the night owl doesn't mind at all. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 328th in a series): I checked to see if this "Pocket Profile" Corey Seager is listed on Trading Card Database. I couldn't find it. I suppose it's not "card enough" but it seems more card-like than some things that are listed on TCDB. It's not like I'm looking to pad my Seager collection on there. I have plenty of his cards (277) and now that he's with the Rangers, he won't be climbing up from his No. 16 ranking among the players with the most cards in my collection. I am happy though that his Rangers won the World Series. I haven't said anything about the Series here since it ended, mostly because, li

  I better get this post finished before the World Series is finished. I'm expecting that to happen today (not that I want it to).   I mentioned in an earlier post that this year's Series matchup between the Phillies and Astros is just an NLCS from 42 years ago. That 1980 National League championship will always be the foremost thing in my mind when these two teams meet.   Much like 42 years ago, I am rooting for the Phillies to win and it's not looking too good. Just like the 1980 NLCS, the Phillies are one win away from elimination (although the '80 series was just five games). The Phillies came back and won the last two games against the Astros back then. I want history to repeat. But I'm not confident.   Hoping to put out a little good mojo I have a Joy of a Team set post in which I'll review each of the teams from the 1980 NLCS, using the 1981 Topps set.   The design for '81 Topps is so prominent as far as colors that I tend to like a team's '8

  The World Series is about to start -- way later than it should -- and it's another odd matchup with the Phillies playing the Astros. Everyone of a certain age knows that can't happen -- the Phillies and Astros are in the same league! But ever since the Astros were transplanted into the American League and started cheating ... er, winning, there have been odd Series matchups all over the place. Last year's matchup, the Astros and Braves, was something I knew for years as a midseason get-together for two National League West teams going nowhere. The Astros-Dodgers World Series of 2017 began as, hey, this is a showdown for the 1980 NL West pennant, before turning into something more sinister. And the Astros-Nationals Series from three years ago was just plain odd, unless you turn the Nationals into the Expos and then that's a National League game I saw in Olympic Stadium in 1990. This season's World Series can be summed up in the card above. The Astros and the Philli