Night Owl Cards

  For the second straight year, and the fourth time in five years, the Dodgers have reached the League Championship Series.   Many fans -- I have been made very aware -- don't like this. But that comes with the territory when as a fan you're part of an exclusive club for more than one or two years in a row. The Dodgers are the villain.   I know that relatively few on social media will be rooting for the Dodgers. (A lot are rooting for a World Series between the Mariners-Brewers, who are practically the same team). I have tried to add known Dodgers fans to my following list in hopes of balancing out the anti-Dodger content, but the best-case scenario is to avoid social media as much as possible. We'll see how that goes. Social media is great for getting immediate info on plays during the course of a game, nothing else compares.   A lot of the people who comment on this blog aren't part of social media sites, so I'll move on to the card part of the post.   The two...

(Today is "No Beard Day," which I think explains why Dallas Keuchel is no longer in the postseason. Think about that ball players, when you grow a playoff beard. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 233rd in a series): I have almost no time for the other half of this blog -- namely sending out card packages. I keep meaning to send out cards and actually set aside space in my mind for when the next day off arrives, but something always comes up on that day off -- an unexpected work call, the increasing demands of a teenager with a job, technological breakdowns, and, now, the postseason. I think maybe everyone else is the same way, because I can't remember the last time I went an entire week without cards arriving in the mail, which is what happened this past week. Who has time for the post office? There's a game on at noon! And then one at 4! And then one at 8! It's work, baseball, sleep, and maybe fit a meal in there somewhere. Then there's ...