Better shoppers than I

All of my Christmas shopping is done. Even more impressively, all of my Christmas wrapping is done. The latter is a four-hour marathon of in...

In light of what just transpired ... Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers

OK, I know how you feel. You're bummed about how the baseball season ended. That horrible team with the awful taste in clothing attire w...

Game-used ball = Road-used car

This is my first "Game-Used Ball" card. It amuses me for reasons that I don't think I can explain. You see, "game-used ba...

Hi, I'm Night Owl, and I'm a snob

I may talk a good game -- glorifying the base card, writing weekly tributes to cardboard worth appreciating, ripping mojo patch hunters -- b...

C.A.: 2002 Upper Deck ... uh, something ... Shawn Green

(About a year ago, I made a grand announcement that my hours were changing. That, for the first time in decades, I would have weekends off. ...

The ideal time for a massive trade rundown

It occurred to me that I haven't done one of those giant trade posts that everyone loves so much in quite awhile. It also occurred to me...

Direct from the Twitterverse

As you might know, I used to be on Twitter. But like salmon swimming upstream, I got out of there while everyone else in the world was getti...