Today's The Day!

Yes, this is a Birth Years card of Conan O'Brien. Yes, I probably do need help. Help that I'll get tonight at 10PM Central on TBS.

Goodbye Conan

May you find much success on another network.

You now have a cooler card than Leno.

I hope to see you in September.

The Future Of Upper Deck

Maybe all the lawsuits will be a blessing from Upper Deck. Word has it that Upper Deck will release product this year with MLB logos, despite not having a license to do so. Good for them. I think that the people who hand out licenses for MLB logo rights are a little uptight.

Upper Deck is already facing a lawsuit for counterfeiting Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. The company faced legal action regarding the stealing of designs from Topps last year through O-Pee-Chee. At this rate, Upper Deck will be bankrupt due to all the litigation.

Why not partner up with another failing company (NBC) and produce a Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien card set?

Conan apparently won't be using any of the intellectual property rights to anything that ever appeared on the show. Maybe NBC can make a little money back to cover their Winter Olympic expenses. I've certainly heard of worse ideas for a card set.

As for the Masturbating Bear, he made a surprise appearance on last night's Tonight Show, after being spotted in the back row of the studio audience a few months ago. It was brief, but stupidly funny at the same time. The same could be said for a Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien card set. Somehow, I think Upper Deck would jump all over this opportunity.

So Long Conan

I was skeptical when you took over for Letterman, but you proved yourself with every show. You found your own way and developed your own sense of humor. Letterman even bridged the gap by publicly approving you. That was enough to put me on board.

I always thought that Letterman should have gotten the Tonight Show gig. I never found Leno funny. There used to be this show that would run in the mornings on Comedy Central. I don't remember the name, but the object of the game was to not laugh while a comedian was going through a routine a foot from the contestant's face. I managed to always crack a smile or laugh with every comedian except Jay Leno. I was always able to hold a stone face when he would go through his routine. I still think of Doritos when I see Leno. Neither his act or Doritos are funny, in my opinion. The only thing that makes me smile on Leno is the Headlines bit. Any chimp can hold newspaper clippings for a laugh.

I am a huge SNL supporter, but I rarely found Jimmy Fallon funny. There's just something about a performer who can't keep it together in any live sketch that annoys the hell out of me. I'm ashamed to admit that I own the "best of" Jimmy Fallon SNL on DVD. It is the SNL disc that gets the least amount of playing time. I think I'll be switching over to Craig Ferguson at that hour.

I was glad to hear that Conan won't be changing much. I'm hoping that he brings the same type of humor along with him to California. There should be room at that hour for the masturbating bear and other blue material key to Conan's late night success.

Good luck to Conan at the Tonight Show. While this really has nothing to do with baseball or baseball cards, at least I was able to dig up a photo of "1864 baseball" Conan.

Conan's Tour Of Chicago

I ran across this video on YouTube. It features a tour of Chicago ending with a stop at U.S. Cellular Field. What happens when Conan O'Brien is unleashed on Chicago with a local tour guide and ends up getting batting advice from Jermaine Dye? Watch and find out.

Am I desperate for White Sox baseball to start in Chicago? You bet!