(Warning: This post is incredibily dorky and intended only for fans of baseball cards, ebay, or poker. Mostly baseball cards and ebay.)

People have different types of hobbies. One of my hobbies is collecting baseball cards. Hobbies are supposed to be relaxing and fun, but I have managed to make an enemy while collecting cards. His name is mistman.

We battle quite often at a forum known as eBay. This mistman character also collects baseball cards, and seems to be trying to collect the same set of game-used insert cards I am after. It's like a chess match with this guy. How much do I think he is willing to pay for this one card and am I willing to pay $0.50 more? Who will get the last bid in before time runs out? Why am I spending all my expendable income on pieces of cardboard with pictures of baseball players? Will I still have enough to cover this month's rent? All these questions must be answered every time I see a card I need for my set.

He won our latest battle, but I believe my record against him is 4-2-1, including a pivotal victory for a triple game used Yankees card.

As for the poker, take a look some of the cards I already have. Kings over jacks isn't too bad. But nothing beats 5 aces.

I'm sure someday, when I'm old and broke from buying baseball cards (probably sometime in July), mistman and i will probably have a good laugh looking back at how foolish we were. Until then, thank God for DSL.