Night owl in million card giveaway wonderland

I’m not the first one to say this, but I can’t believe how excited people are getting over unredeemed codes in the Topps’ Million Card Giveaway.I know what you’re saying: Night owl, I thought you loved the Giveaway.I do. I love it dearly. But I am coll…

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(Y’all know what an appreciation letter is, don’t you? It’s one of those letters you write after going on a job interview to express gratitude for the  honor of being interviewed. It’s basically a “please, please, please, PLEASE hire me”…

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A couple of weeks ago, when the Topps Million Card Giveaway was in full “Must Have Tickle-Me-Elmo” mode, I would pingpong between blogs that were featuring their million card “winnings” and salivate.The cards I redeemed sucked, but the ones others rede…

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I’ve been told that it’s a good idea to take stock once a year. Evaluate your financial situation. Your health situation. Your family situation. All of your situations.For me, that includes examining which teams I like and which teams I don’t…

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After three rather intense days of work, I’m ready for a mindless Sunday.I don’t want to spend any more time thinking than I have to, hence the rambling, short nature of this post. And, yes, I did just say, “hence.” No, I do not know where that ca…

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I can’t get too excited about photoshopping on baseball cards. As long as you’re not rubbing out umpires or transforming an entire ballpark, I think it’s harmless fun. It’s been going on for decades, first with a simple paint brush and now with a compu…

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This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won’t be any picnic either.That means I don’t have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post.I know. Th…

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Dayf pretty much obliterated my 2010 Topps want list today. If I can believe that want list, I am down to needing just two cards to finish series 1 of the base set.One card, No.183, which features the very low-key Jonathan Papelbon, is being sent …

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(I’m tired, it’s late. This is Cardboard Appreciation. The 53rd in a series):Everyone knows this card, right? It’s an airbrushed masterpiece. And by masterpiece, I mean something so ineptly awful that it is worthy of a standing ovation. There have been…

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I realize this will annoy avid followers of football, just as it does college basketball folks when someone who doesn’t know a Cameron Crazy from a Zag wins the March Madness pool:I recently won a football card contest. Twice.Let me clarify someth…

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This is a pre-emptive strike to anyone who asks: No, I am not collecting 2010 Heritage. I’ll take your Dodgers, but that’s it.This is not a new concept around here. I said last year that I’ve had it with Heritage. And I re-emphasized the point whe…

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Thanks to the Wax Wombat and I Don’t Know, I am very close to finishing off series 1 of the 2010 Topps set, which is pretty good considering I decided to complete the set less than two weeks ago.WW and IDK brought my set wants to 16 cards, if you …

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Even though I am a word person, that doesn’t mean I don’t get along with numbers. I was one of the better students in math through much of school and even got through calculus until they started talking about imaginary numbers. Then things got shaky. I…

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Whenever more than one person sends me the same night card, that can mean only one thing: it’s automatically an awesome night card.I received this Upper Deck card of Dante Bichette recently, several months after it was sent to me by someone else. …

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Yesterday, Brian of Play at the Plate issued a frantic comment on my blog. It had nothing to do with what I had just written about, but given the news that he wanted to get out I couldn’t blame him.It seems that Topps’ Million Card Giveaway had su…

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One of my favorite blogs, Dinged Corners, hasn’t posted in a week. It’s my hope that they’re doing something delightful: vacationing, obsessing over the Olympics, or journeying to their favorite spring training site.But, like dayf, I’m going to try to …

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First of all, if you traded with me recently, and I didn’t share it on here, I’m sorry. Just as of last month, I didn’t have internet or a scanner that worked more than 10% of the time, so cards were not posted and cards were assimilated into my collec…

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