Hoooooooooooooo! It’s your favorite cardboard collectible owl’s holiday! Who decided that I’d rather scare kids out of treetops instead of binders in a well-lit map, rooooooooooom? WHO? WHO? Was it the same person who decided it was a good idea to broadcast Game 6 of the World Series on a major holiday? WHO? WHO?
When you think about it, Halloween is troooooooooly the oddest holiday on the calendar when it comes to major American holidays. Almost every other holiday has to do with family, country or religion. Halloween includes some of those elements, but only tangentially and only if you have little boys trudging outside in the rain, wind and cold begging for gooooooooooooodies.
So on this strange holiday, I have a few gooooooooodies of my own – the cardboard kind – that arrived on this festive day. They just happen to be strange creatures, tooooooooo! Suitable for the season.
Ooooooooooooo. One of the last remaining 1971 Fleer World Series cards that I need to complete the set. Look moooooooooooooooood. That’s not the sun. Batters who faced Cy Young in 1903 swear they played night games. Cy turned off the light. The Pirates were dooooooooomed.
Woooooooooooo! It’s a sweet, sweet hostess from 1975. Foooooooood problem! The Nettles card slipped through my fingers once. But not this time, duuuuuuuuuuuude!!! Nettles was awfully good against my Dodgers in the 1978 World Series. He was also nicknamed “Puff” because he made jokes and disappeared before he got caught, but I think that should have been “Poooooooooof.”
So cooooooooool! This wrinkled oddball is actually an upgrade from the Montanez I already owned, which had a major crack in it and getting a new version has been on my eye for quite some time. Montanez was nicknamed “Hot Dog” for his performance in the field. Willie was just too cooooooooool for schoooooooool.
Booooooooooom!!!! A titan of the set secured! See, Schmidty was so early in his career that his position is “Infield.” Perhaps the best part of this card is the back, which reads “Michael Jack Schmidt” at the top.
And that’s all the weird stuff for today! It may be an owl’s holiday, but this owl has to work, and since he can’t come back for dinner as usual at the risk of soooooooo walking over little boys in the street, he eats it in the office and tries to watch the game on the Internet. Booooooooooooo!
Hoping for a Game 7, because if baseball ends today, that’s really scary.
(EDIT: WE HAVE GAME 7!)
#Strange #holiday