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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- November 5, 2025 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on everybody? It is Wednesday, Wednesday's Q&A
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day. Remember, if you have a
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question, if you have a topic, if you want something brought up
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on the next episode, next Wednesday that is down below in
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the comments, simply type out your question.
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We got 5 great questions. Again, one took a lot of thought
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for me and I'm not 100% sure if I got it right.
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I think, I think I'm confident with what I'm going to say, but
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I am excited to share my thoughts nonetheless.
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By the way, my friends over at Auction Wire sent me this shirt.
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It's not just the card, it's the chase.
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I love the Chase. Thank you to Mark for sending
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this to me. Very cool shirt.
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All right, let's go ahead and take a look at our first
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question right here. This first question says Greg.
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What do you think of false comps being created from the house?
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Phantom seller protection bidding?
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Shell bidding versus using reserves?
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It seems to me to be a real problem to gauge the market on
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less common cards. An auction market consists of
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two or more buyers and a seller, not a single buyer, and a
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seller's desire for a specific price.
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These in house protection bids are skewing the market comps
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upward on less common cards at auction.
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Between that and repacks, I fear we might be in trouble if those
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go away and the market corrects. That said, I do understand the
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desire to have most lots no reserve as a lot.
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Of people just. Pass reserve auctions by in most
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cases. All right, what do I think of
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shield bidding? I think it's it's garbage.
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I think it's messed up. The problem is that, you know,
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one person might be willing to pay a ton, but how much is the
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second person willing to pay? See, and this is one of the
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things that I've I've mentioned for a long, long time is when
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I'm looking at comps, when I am looking at recent sales, is a
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best offer a good comp? Is the best offer a good comp?
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Because you know, I've bought cards from Golden, just not at
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auction. Just there, there are cards just
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straight up for sale on Golden. I've done that on Fanatics.
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I've done that on eBay. And those cards go into the
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database for comps. They go into the sales history.
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Now, was I the only person willing to pay that price?
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Possibly. Were there other people willing
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to pay that price or more possibly.
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But what an auction is supposed to do in theory, When I look at
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a sales history and I see one that says auction, what that
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should tell me what that should mean is two people were were
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were willing to pay that price. But there's no doubt that chill
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bidding is going on. There is absolutely no doubt.
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And I don't want to get in. I don't, I don't want to start
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getting too far into the weeds here, but there have been a
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couple of episodes, a couple of videos specifically that have
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come out in not just videos, news stories and episodes that
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I've heard where people have talked fairly openly about the
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shield bidding that has happened, that they've that
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they've done. That's definitely a problem.
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It is absolutely a problem that shill bidding is taking place
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because what it does is it throws out the theory that two
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people are willing to pay a certain price.
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Now my thought is this. If I am in an auction, I have to
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restrain myself. I have to find my Max and I have
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to set at my Max. And if that means I don't get
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the card, that means I don't get the card, Especially nowadays
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when it, I mean some of the rules of many of the auction
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houses allow in house bidding, they allow them to bid the card
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up. So what happens if it doesn't
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sell? Will they just pull it?
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I think what sales history of auctions used to mean.
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Versus what sales? History of auctions means now is
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probably not the same thing. Now I'm not naive enough to
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think that she'll bending is a more recent thing that's not
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like this just started. This has been happening for a
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long time, but I think now that the values are getting to where
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the values are at, I think that it's very likely that it is
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happening as much if not more than ever.
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The other thing is people are using auction houses more than
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they used to. So if somebody submits a card to
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an auction house and the card is like it's late in the auction
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and it's going low, I think people probably just call up
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their friends. They might sounds like they
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might even be using their own accounts to bid on the card.
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So what is my take away? Do I think it's wrong?
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I do think that it's wrong. I think that it's illegal.
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I think that it is manipulating the comp history and that's why
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a lot of the times if you see one card that went way out of
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bounds, it's possible that it got shilled up.
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So does that mean that auctions no longer are valuable?
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No. Does that mean that buy it nows
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are the only way to go? No.
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You have to remember if there is shilling going on, that means at
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least one person, I mean hypothetically, was willing to
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pay that price. In theory, it should be two
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people were willing to pay that price.
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It's really the amount that the second highest bidder is willing
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to pay. That's what it should mean.
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But it's getting to the point now where I think you have to
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just take it with a grain of salt.
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At the end of the day, I think one of the things that has
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happened in the hobby over the last few years is comps help.
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They do help. At least they help me.
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But comps aren't everything. What they are is they are a data
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point. You can see a trend in the
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comps. You can get an idea of what's
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happening. And for me they're very helpful,
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but I take them with a grain of salt.
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I don't say well the last one sold for 50,000 and before that
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they all sold for 500. I guess it's worth 50,000 now.
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That's not how I take it. So I think the take away here
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for me is don't get too caught up in the data point of a comp.
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It provides some information. It does not provide all of the
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information. And if shield bidding is
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happening and there are some auction houses that don't allow
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it, I mean, one of the reasons that I've been talking up and
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partnering with CIA is because and, and I got Theo coming on
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again in a couple of days to do an auction preview.
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And one of the things I like about CIA is they don't do shell
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bidding. They don't allow it.
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They don't allow in house shell bidding.
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And so that to me makes them a more reliable auction house.
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So that said, I'm not going to like quit the hobby or quit
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using auction houses. What I'm always going to do is
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I'm going to find my Max, and even if the comps are above my
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Max or below my Max, I have to find the price that I feel
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comfortable spending on the card.
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And then I have to set my price. I have to stick to it and I need
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to be willing to walk away. There are times that cards get
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shield up and there's still a good deal.
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There are times that cards get shield up and people end up
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overpaying. We've got to stay focused on
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what we think the right prices given all the data that we have,
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and stick to it and don't get caught up in the competition of
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the auction itself. To me, that's the biggest take
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away. But is it a problem?
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Absolutely. Does it make you think twice
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when you see certain comps in certain sales histories?
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100%. But we just have to stay
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disciplined. We have to continue to bid
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within our means and we have to not get carried away.
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I think that bid history still matters.
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I think that in most cases, there's probably not shell
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bidding, but does it happen occasionally?
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I do think it happens more than some people might think, and I
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also think that we have to take comps with a grain of salt and
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trust our gut. This one says As for AQ and a Do
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you feel as a collector in the hobby that all these different
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refractors is a in a new set or a good thing?
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For me, I think it's a waste of time and the different same card
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with different backdrop is a waste of time.
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I only collect Hall of Fame vintage players that I like from
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the 50s to the wax era and a few players today like Judge.
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All right, so I talked about this a little bit on Monday.
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On Monday I kind of went into, you know, my thoughts on modern
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cards and parallels and refractors and numbered cards.
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And I think to a certain extent they have, I, I think there is a
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cool factor to it. But I do think that some of the
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manufacturers and some of the lines have gotten carried away.
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I mean, the zebra print and tiger print and swirly ball, you
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know, it's gotten a little bit nuts.
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I think there are some refractors that have a long
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tradition of, of being somewhat consistent and, and, and
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they're, they've, they've been around for a while.
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So the red refractor out of five, I like it.
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The gold refractor out of 50 like it.
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I am even on board with, you know, the orange out of 25 and
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the Super refractor, but the newer ones that they're just
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kind of thrown in there that is kind of throwing everything off.
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I think that we've probably gotten a little bit carried
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away, but from the perspective of the manufacturers, they've
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got such high print runs. They're manufacturing so many
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cards that if they don't have more inserts, then when you open
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boxes there won't be anything. Because if there's only 50
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numbered cards or 100 number cards and and all of a sudden
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you don't get one, then you got a box that's just a brick.
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At least according to the modern hobby at this point, it feels
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that way. So I do see the dilemma.
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I think the insane number of factors has gotten carried away.
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I understand why they want to continue to print because
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there's money to be made, but I do think that it's gotten a
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little bit nuts with how many different refractors and
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variations there are that I don't take most of them serious.
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Personally, I don't take. Most of them seriously, but the
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Super factor out of five, out of 25, out of 50, out of 100 or 99,
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I think those are kind of mainstays.
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So that's how I see it now. Again, it doesn't matter what I
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think matters what you think. If you don't like it, I mean,
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you said in the question that you think it's a waste of time,
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then don't buy it. Then don't buy it.
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That's simple. If you see a camo print parallel
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and you think it's cool, then buy it.
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If you think it's dumb, then don't buy it.
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That's one of the things that I really hope that we can all come
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to a common ground on is other people love something in the
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hobby that you don't like, and that's normal.
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I don't like the Raiders. It's nothing against the
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Raiders. I just don't like the Raiders
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because I grew up in Northern California as a 49er fan and you
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can't be a 49er fan and like the Raiders.
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That doesn't mean people who like the Raiders.
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Are. Are wrong for their team.
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They're not doing anything wrong.
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They have their team and they probably hate the 49ers and
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that's OK. I've said this many times, if we
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all agreed on everything, this would be insanely boring.
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But we don't agree on everything, and that's what
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makes it fun. This next one says.
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What would be your? All time MLB team.
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Who would you want to be on your super team?
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One player per position, 5 starters, 2 relievers, 1 closer,
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one manager, 1 stadium and one mascot.
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All right, I put some thought into this.
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You guys are not going to like all of my picks, but.
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They're my picks, so. Down below in the comments you
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can tell me where I'm wrong and I'm OK with that.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put up on the.
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Screen a diamond and. I'm going to have all the slots
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you said. I want my lineup.
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Five starting pitchers, two relief pitchers, one closer, one
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manager and one mascot and. One stadium and.
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I'm going to tell you now the I want to point this out right off
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the bat. I'm not going to say who I think
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the best player is at every position.
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That's not what the question. I don't think that's what the
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question is. That what the question was.
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I think the question was what is your all time MLB lineup that's
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different then who's the best left fielder of all time, or
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center fielder of all time or right fielder of all time?
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That wasn't the question. That was if you could build a
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team, what would the team be? That changes the way that I put
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my team together and having only two relief pitchers, I got a
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little creative. So let's take a look at my all
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time MLB lineup, pitchers, bullpen, manager, mascot, and
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stadium. All time lineup so my lead off
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hitter is going to have to be someone that gets on base,
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scores, runs, steals bases. So I want.
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Someone that's going to. Terrorize the opposing starting
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pitcher. So who's the guy that could do
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that? Well, it's got.
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To be Ricky Henderson, my lead off hitter again.
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Is Ricky the best left? Fielder of all time.
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I'd probably go Bonds or Ted Williams, but Ricky is Ricky.
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Just ask him. So that's my lead off man,
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playing left second base. I want a guy that's going to
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make contact. I want a guy who's going to get
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hits. I'm going Rogers Hornsby.
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To set the. Table I need 2 guys getting on
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base for my sluggers to come in. So third.
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Oh, it's my starting pitcher. Babe Ruth.
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Now, you didn't say. If there was ADH.
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I'm assuming there's not. So Ruth was a great pitcher and
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then Ruth brings his bat into the lineup at the third spot.
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4th I'm going Hank Aaron. Hank Aaron batting clean up,
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playing right field, hidden in all the guys that have gotten on
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base. My lineup is absolutely dialed
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in right now. If you ask me. 5th I'm going Lou
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Gehrig. My first baseman is Lou Gehrig.
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He is a. Slugger he scores RBI.
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He has so many RBI bat behind Ruth that seems.
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Impossible, that guy. Produces Lou Gehrig is playing
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first base. Josh Gibson.
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I'm going Josh Gibson, a catcher.
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I know that Christian Missouri's pissed.
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I know that you know he. Loves his guy from.
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Johnny Bench, I thought. About Yogi.
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I'm going Josh Gibson, center field, got to go.
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Willie Mays, He's got the power, he's got the defense, he's got
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the speed. He's got.
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Everything. He's batting 7th, right behind
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Josh Gibson. I love this lineup #8 is going
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to be Ernie Banks batting 8th, Ernie Banks at shortstop.
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I mean, I know people are going to be yelling at me about a pic
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or two. I got to have Ernie Banks on my
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team. The guy is a stud.
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He's likable. He's going.
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To be good in. The clubhouse for US.
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Third Mike Schmidt. Great defensively, great
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offensively. This.
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Lineup is phenomenal so. What's going to round?
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Out my starting pitching stuff, I got Ruth in the one slot.
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I'm also for my other 4 pitchers.
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I'm going Walter Johnson, I'm going Walter Johnson.
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These are in no particular order except Ruth is starting 'cause I
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need his bat in the lineup. So we got Walter Johnson is one
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of my starting pitchers. I got three more picks.
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So Next up. I am going to.
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Go with Sandy Koufax got to have some left-handed arms and
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right-handed arms. So we got Sandy Koufax coming in
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if it's, you know, game. Three of the world.
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Series Sandy Koufax is going to be outstanding in there I I I
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mean what can you say Randy Johnson I need another lefty if
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there was any pitcher in the history of baseball that I would
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not want to face that I would not want to bat against is Randy
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Johnson I'm going Randy Johnson as another lefty so now I need a
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righty. I'm going with the greatest of
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all time, the. Greatest pitcher of all time.
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Rodger Clemens is rounding out my my 5 starters.
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So how about my bullpen? My.
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Bullpen I'm starting off. With Goose Gossage.
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Goose Gossage is a. Freak guy throws, hard guy is
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intimidating. But this leaves me in the
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situation I want to have a left-handed.
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Reliever as well, but I also need a guy who can run the be a
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long reliever if needed so. If I need a strikeout late in
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the game and I need a left-hander, I'm going Steve
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Carlton. So Steve Carlton is going.
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To be a relief pitcher. He's going to be.
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My long. Man if needed and if I need a.
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Strikeout late in the. Game I'm going Carlton.
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Who's the closer? Well, the best closer of all
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time Mariano Rivera. I mean, how does this lineup get
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any better than? Closing out the game with
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Mariano Rivera. This, this team is.
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Unbelievable. So who's my manager?
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Miller Huggins. The manager during the best team
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in the history of baseball. Miller Huggins Plus.
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The name Come on, Miller Huggins.
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That just screams awesome. My mascot.
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I'm sorry, Mr. Philly fanatic. It's the San Diego Chicken.
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The. San Diego chicken has.
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To be my mascot. Love the San Diego Chicken.
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So the stadium, where are we playing?
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This was tough. I thought about Wrigley, I
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thought. About Fenway.
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I thought about the old tiger. Stadium.
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I'm going the old Yankee Stadium.
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The House that Ruth built the. Only house that could suit this
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team. It's the old Yankee Stadium.
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Tell me this lineup isn't amazing.
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Tell me if you think I made a mistake.
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If I made a mistake, what was the mistake?
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Let's be honest though, there are no mistakes in this lineup.
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This lineup. Is.
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Amazing, this is a fun one and I look forward to you guys telling
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me how you think I messed up. Even though we all know deep
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down. That this is the team that
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anybody would want to take with them against anybody else.
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All time MLB team right there in front of you.
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That's the team. This next one says I ran into
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Sammy Thunder at the Hofstra show.
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Very nice and knowledgeable guy. Here's a question for your show.
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Do you think AI will bring down the prices of autographs if
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criminals get involved with creating fakes?
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I think this is a great. Question.
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I think that you might be on to something.
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If criminals can start utilizing AI to duplicate cards and all
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sorts of things and and they are, then it seems like
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autographs would be really easy. Now here's the thing.
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They autopen has been around for a while.
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Autopen has been able to duplicate an autograph fairly
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easily for a long time. And, and I'm not even going to
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get into the political part of it, but autopen has been used
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under the approval, or maybe not under the approval of people who
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were being autopenned. Now, again, I'm not wading into
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those waters, but I will say this, I think that you're on to
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something. It could make it easier and has
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made it easier to duplicate an autograph.
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I mean, there was the big scandal that came out of a bunch
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of Aaron Judge and Tom Brady. Autographs like.
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And I think Patrick Mahomes maybe 2, I can't remember for
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sure, but it is absolutely easier for criminals to
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duplicate autographs. But The thing is that pen
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pressure would be hard to duplicate.
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That would be much harder to duplicate than the actual
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design. The other thing is if you can
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use AI to duplicate an autograph, I would think you
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could use AI. To.
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Spot a fake autograph If if a if, if an auto is scanned into a
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database and it matches like 'cause every autograph is, I
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mean it's slightly different. It's like a fingerprint, it's
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slightly different. But if, if, if AI were to scan
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in an autograph, I would think that it could find any exact
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match. And if it's being auto penned,
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just photo after photo after photo after photo and it's
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exactly the same. I would think that though AI
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could maybe make it easy to duplicate an autograph, I would
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think AI could make it easy to catch a duplicated autograph.
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I mean, I'm not an AI expert by any means.
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I I I'm just throwing out there. It seems like every autograph
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would have a slight uniqueness and a a slight amount of pen
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pressure and stopping points that would be fairly difficult
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to duplicate. And if you did duplicate it, it
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seems like AI would be able to spot it, so I don't.
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Know is my answer. What do I think?
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'Cause that's all this is, right?
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I'm not giving any answers here. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just
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throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
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I'm just sharing my thoughts. Here's the question.
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What do you think doesn't make any of this right?
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I think that it's possible and likely it would make it easier
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to duplicate an autograph. I also think it would be easier
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to spot a fake autograph. And will it affect the prices?
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I don't know, But it's at least something to kind of keep in the
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back of your mind as you're making purchases that maybe it
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could, but it seems like it would be difficult, but maybe it
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could, I don't know. I.
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Don't. I don't know.
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I don't know. And I think maybe that's one of
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the things is like Tony, my buddy who's a big autograph
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collector, he likes the autographs that were playing day
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style because, you know, a lot of autographs change over time.
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So if you're going to start duplicating autographs and
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you're going to use a Sharpie, you're not going to use Mickey
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Mantle's rookie autograph with a Sharpie because they didn't have
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Sharpies then. So I think there are some things
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that people could do to help spot some of this stuff.
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But it's a good question and it's definitely something to
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think about. This one says love your videos.
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I have a question for you. What is your take on the current
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news about fake PSA slabs that are showing up at shows?
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Jeff from Sports Card Investor recently did a video about it
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and at one of the shows he was at they caught a vendor who
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marked the cards as fake but was selling them.
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Once the post it price came off, the buyer could sell it to the
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untrained person thinking they get a deal.
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This is happening a lot with TCG cards but making its way into
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sports cards. I believe that if fake items
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like these are discovered that the vendor should be reported
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and barred from the show. Thoughts.
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I mean, it kind of is depressing to me that the last couple of
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questions here are about like criminals doing criminal
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behavior. But that said, this is always
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been a thing. It is always been a thing.
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I mean, as a kid in the hobby, there were fake cards going
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around. There were fake autographs going
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around. This is not new, but it is
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definitely gotten more sophisticated than it used to.
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I will say this now, I know that a lot of you guys don't like
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PSAI, respect it. I think that a lot of the heat
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that PSA gets, they probably deserve.
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Sometimes they maybe catch some heat for some stuff that might
28:03
be a bit of a reach, but they deserve a lot of the heat that
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they get. But something that PSA has been
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really, really good about, Really good about his PSA has
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been good about continuing to add elements, making
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duplication, replication of their slabs more difficult.
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If you look at an and I know people are going to be pissed
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because I'm, it's going to sound like I'm taking a shot at SGC.
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I'm just being, I'm just being me.
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I'm I'm just telling you what I think SGC does not have.
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In their. Slabs and in their flip, the
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same level of sophistication and difficulty to duplicate that PSA
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slabs have. They just don't.
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And PSA has been doing working on this for a long time.
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They've constantly developed different hologram stickers on
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the back. They've got the lighthouse,
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which is hard to, to duplicate. They've got things in the flip
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itself. If you look in the flip, there's
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different designs and things making it harder to duplicate.
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They've got the serial number on the front and the back and the
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placement. The font is very specific in the
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front of the card in the plastic, starting in like
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generation early like. Generation 3 or 4.
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They, they started to actually have the PSA logo pressed into
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the plastic. So at the bottom right hand
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corner of APSA slab, if you run your finger over it, you'll feel
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like a bumpiness on it. That's the actual PSA logo which
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is pressed into the plastic. It's actually kind of raised out
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of the plastic and they've been doing a lot of that stuff for a
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long time, and it makes it, if you know what you're looking at
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and you know what you're looking for, it makes it pretty
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difficult to duplicate. Now, are there people trying to
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knock them off? Sure.
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Do some of them look pretty good?
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Probably. Will that continue to happen and
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get better? Probably.
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But I also think that PSA has done, again, I'm going to give
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credit where credit is due. Even if you don't like PSA, you
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have to admit that they've done more to prevent counterfeit
30:33
slabs than the other companies. They just have.
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Look at an STC slab, look at APSA slab.
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You cannot tell me they have the same level of sophistication.
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That does not mean that PSA is the best thing ever.
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It does not mean that SG CS awful.
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What it means is PSA has been aware of this, has been on it.
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Has been working on it. And they continue to do things
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behind the scenes to try to prevent counterfeit slaps.
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So what am I saying? What, is this a problem?
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Of course it's a problem. Yes, it's a problem.
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If somebody gets caught selling cards that are with counterfeit
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slabs, should everybody post pictures of them all over the
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place and never do business with them?
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100 percent, 100%, if we can catch things like this, just
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like if we know somebody's counterfeiting autographs or
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counterfeiting dollar bills, we should, we should call the
31:38
authorities for that too. We have to stick together as a
31:43
hobby. If you're at a show and you see
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somebody steal something from a table, you got to, you got to
31:50
alert people, you got to help them out.
31:52
We are the eyes and ears of the community.
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And if you see something or if you hear something or something
32:00
seems off, you should help prevent more of this.
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If somebody is breaking into the House of your neighbor across
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the street, assuming you don't hate them, but even if you hated
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them, you probably would say I should probably call the cops
32:20
because that person isn't supposed to be climbing out of
32:23
the window with their laptop and TV.
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You would probably do that. And you would hope that your
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neighbors would do that for you. As a card community, it's the
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same thing. There is a brotherhood in the
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card community. I don't care what you collect.
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I don't care what you like, what you don't like.
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What slab, what grader, what cards, modern, vintage, pre war,
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post war, what I don't care what.
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There is a common bond that we all have as card collectors and
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we have to look out for each other.
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And if you're at a show and you see somebody who has a
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counterfeit slab and there's a police officer there, if there's
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you, you should take pictures of it.
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You should call them out. You should with a group of
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people, come up and say you guys need to destroy those, get those
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out of here. You tell the card, promote the
33:17
promoter of the show to throw them out.
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We have to stick together because if we don't stick
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together, we're all screwed. We are all screwed if we don't
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stick together. Is it a problem?
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Yes. Is it going to always be a
33:31
problem? Yes.
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Will it become a harder thing to catch moving forward?
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Probably. It just makes me sick to my
33:38
stomach that these are the things that we have to talk
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about. But you know, we do have to be
33:44
aware of this stuff. It's not a world anymore where,
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you know, Ward Cleaver comes home and goes into the den and
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drinks his coffee while June does the dishes.
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That's not the world we. Live in anymore.
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It's a world that people are kind of out for themselves and
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that makes me sad, but it is what it is.
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So we've got to stick together, we've got to alert each other,
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we got to be teams in this brotherhood of card collecting.
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To make sure the. The next guy doesn't get
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screwed. If you have a question for an
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upcoming episode, please, seriously please take a second
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go down to the comments, type out your question.
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I'd love to hear what you're curious about.