Night Owl Cards

I was quietly wallowing in my puddle of life problems this afternoon, full of self-pity and resignation, when the following flashed across the Twitter wire: Wut. It was a sentence of gibberish peppered with entirely familiar names. Matt Kemp was a Dodger again. And the Braves were taking on most of the troublesome contracts that the Dodgers owned. Sure, Vin Scully Finale Hero Charlie Culberson was gone but, my goodness, we get to go back to 2006-14 and accumulate Matt Kemp Dodger cards again! However, in these days of instantaneous information, the happy little scenario I had painted for myself in the bubble above my head, vanished the second after I had processed the whole thing. Here came the "yes ... but" tweets. "You know ... they're probably not going to play Matt Kemp." "You know ... they'll probably just flip him." "You know ... he'll probably just be released." In fact, I feel a little silly even writin...