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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- November 19, 2025 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on? Everybody All right, it's
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Wednesday crazy week again. I told you, hopefully you got a
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chance yesterday to watch the episode of myself and Joe Perot.
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You know Joe from Sports Cards Live Awesome.
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He's a he's a regular on the awesome live stream from Jeremy
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Lee on Saturday nights. Joe and I have become pretty
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good friends and I really enjoyed hearing what his take
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was on his current status and the of, of the, of the hobby of,
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of collecting of all this news that's been going on.
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And I think that it was important for me to not just
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share, well, this is what Greg thinks.
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And so since I think this certain way and I'm feeling a
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certain way, then everybody must feel that way.
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That is not how I operate. I thought it was important to
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hear from another long time collector, hear what he felt
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things are like right now, Some of his frustrations and he
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really has some frustrations with grading, with valuation,
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with potentially auction houses. And that was the discussion
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yesterday. So now the next two days, we're
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going to talk to some people in the industry to kind of hear
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where they're at and what sorts of changes they might be making
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or what sorts of things are in their systems to help us through
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the recovery process of some of the trauma that some of us have
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been going through. But today is Q&A day.
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And remember, if you have a question for an upcoming
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episode, simply ask it down below in the comments.
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Now I'm just going to say it. Next week I think I might be
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taking my first week off of Wednesday.
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Q&A for almost three years to well over 2 1/2 years.
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Closer to three years than 2 1/2 years every single Wednesday.
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But that doesn't mean I won't have an episode, it just won't
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be Q&A. Finally I will be posting this
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insane pre war collection, most of which of the cards are still
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ungraded. Some of the most expensive
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cards, Ruth Cobbs, Ruth Ruth cards ungraded, Ty Cobb cards
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ungraded, Shoeless Joe Jackson card ungraded, and I would say
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at least fifty other Hall of Farmers at least in ungraded
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condition. That episode is either going to
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post on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
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And just as a little tip also, a lot of these cards are going to
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be for sale. You'll have to tune in to see
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how you can get a piece of some of these cards, but that's going
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to be Wednesday. So I think next Wednesday I'm
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just going to enjoy Thanksgiving with my family and not do AQ and
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a episode next week. But if you have a question,
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still ask it. It'll just show up the following
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Wednesday. All right, lots of great
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questions. I'm sharing my thoughts.
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Again, just one guy's opinion about pretty much anything
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you're interested in regarding the hobby.
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First question right here, this week's first.
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Question says hi Greg, fellow teacher here.
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Thanks for taking my question. I'm an 80s kid who still enjoys
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junk wax. My question for you is if you
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had to pick three cards that haven't really caught fire from
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that era, IE the way the 89 Griffey upper deck where the
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Billy Ripken error card has, what 3 would you choose and have
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a chance of shooting up in value?
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Thanks again, Joe. OK.
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This is a good question. Now I I have to give my
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disclaimer, this is not an investment channel.
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I do not have investment liability insurance.
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So this is for entertainment purposes only.
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I will give you some things that I find to be a little bit
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intriguing that aren't completely unaffordable yet and
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are somewhat even available. When I think of, and I'm
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assuming again, that you're asking about cards from that
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kind of junk wax era, which a lot of people call it the high
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population era. We'll say the early to mid 80s
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to the mid 90s. So 82 ish to 97 ish is the era
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that I think that you're asking about.
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So what are some cards that I think have potential but haven't
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yet really gone bonkers? Some of the cards that are very
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popular from that era are Cal Ripken rookie cards.
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I guess that would be a little bit before the Cal Ripken rookie
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card would be a little bit before, let's just say from 1980
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to 2000, the Cal Ripken rookie card, very popular.
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Tony Gwynn cards, Don Mattingly cards, Ken Griffey junior cards.
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Those guys are very popular. We're the guys for us in our 40s
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and early 50s growing up and a lot of us want those cards.
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And one of the reasons we want those cards is for nostalgia's
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sake. But they're very, very high in
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population. So the question that you're
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asking is interesting because when you say what has a a chance
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of going way up, the only card that is really high population
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but is also really gone up is that Ken Griffey junior card and
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other cards haven't done that, that had that kind of
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population. In order for a card to really
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increase in value, it has to have either a low supply or a
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very high demand. And the Ken Griffey Junior card,
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I think there's a lot of nostalgia of people that are in
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their 40s and 50s saying that was the card as a kid and I want
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the card. So what's the next one?
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Well, hold on, let me look at my crystal ball.
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Oh no, that's a Magic 8 ball. I don't know.
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You don't know. None of us know.
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But I want to use those parameters that I was just
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talking about, those tools that I was just talking about to look
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at some possibilities. So if it's really, really high
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in population, it would have to have an insane demand.
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I don't really see that happening outside of a card like
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the 89 Upper deck. Ken Griffey Junior, because you
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could make the argument that might be the most iconic card in
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the history of the hobby. It's definitely in the top five.
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I think it's for sure in the top three.
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And you can make the argument that it's #1 there's not another
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card that is the most iconic card in the history of the
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hobby, let alone in that period of time.
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So there won't be a card that can reach that kind of demand
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and do this sort of thing. So then you have to look at the
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supply piece. What is something that I could
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see some people having some demand in, but right now there's
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not a ton of demand in it, but there could be future demand in
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it and the supply is lower than something like the Ken Griffey
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Junior or the, I don't know, Jose Canseco rookie card or
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whatever. I would lean towards.
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And I did a video on this like literally like 3 years ago.
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Minor league cards, some of the minor league cards like Kang
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Griffey Junior has a couple of minor league cards, and the
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population of those cards is so much less than the 89 upper
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deck. I think that those minor league
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cards of Kang Griffey Junior seem to be kind of overlooked.
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They're very affordable still. I think that has potential.
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I think Don Mattingly has a couple of minor league cards
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that are still very affordable. Ricky Henderson's minor league
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card is really, really low population compared to his
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rookie card and it's not cheap, but it's not crazy.
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Cal Ripken minor league cards, but but I think there's this
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sort of so I'm throwing a bunch of darts and that's all I feel
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like I'm doing right now is I'm just throwing darts because none
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of us know. But I think some of the minor
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league cards have a lot of potential.
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So let me go with this. When you look at what cards take
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off, like why has the Ken Griffey junior taken off over
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the last two 3-4 years? Even you could go back 567
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years. Part of the reason is the the
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jump in the hobby, but part of the reason is people in my
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generation have started to get to the point where they are
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starting to make a little bit more money.
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I mean, that must be nice. You guys will have to tell me
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all about it down below. What it what that would feel
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like. But they're starting to make
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more money. Kids are starting to get older.
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Maybe they're out of daycare, maybe they're even out of the
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house at this point. There's more time to get back
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into the hobby. So what tends to happen is when
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we get between about 45 and 55, we start to have time and we
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start to have more money. And because we have a little bit
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more time and money, then we get back into our hobbies.
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So a lot of the people from my childhood who grew up wanting
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that Kangaroo Junior card, those people are at that point.
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And so that card has jumped. So what I would say is go,
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what's the iconic player? What's the iconic card?
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What's the iconic interest in the hobby for the next 5 or 10
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years? So the people that right now are
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35 to early 40s, we'll say 35 to even 45, who did they grow up
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being enamored by? Because Ken Griffey junior is
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like the guy in baseball for people from 45 to 55.
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So who was the guy in baseball from that that are now 35 to 45?
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So now we're talking instead of the late 80s, early 90's, the
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late 90s, early 2000s. Now, I know the Red Sox fans
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aren't going to like this, but the guy that was on TV, the guy
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that was winning, the guy that was getting championships, the
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guy that was getting all the interviews and attention is
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Derek Jeter. And I think that Derek Jeter is
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the guy of that kind of group that's a little bit younger than
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me and those 35 year olds, you know, who would have been 10
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when Derek Jeter was winning championships after
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championships. Those guys are 35 and they're
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early in their kids situation. They're still fairly early in
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their career. But over the next 10 years,
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they'll have more money, they'll have more time.
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And I think that some of those sorts of guys like Derek Jeter
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and some of the rarer Derek Jeter cards, some of the rarer
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Derek Jeter inserts, maybe even some of Derek Jeter's hit his
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minor league cards. Sorry, I'm getting old.
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See, See all that white hair? See that white hair?
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See that white hair? It's proof.
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But I think Jeter is kind of the guy for that next group that's
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going to be coming up. Now he has an iconic card, the
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SP card, But I think that that card might have a little bit of
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a boost in it. But that card went so nuts
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during COVID. I think rare Derek Jeter minor
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league cards, insert cards, early pack pulled autograph
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cards I could see having some legs but don't go out and invest
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a bunch of money in them because I literally am just throwing
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darts. OK I am at the carnival I I
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bought 5 darts for what would it be now, 10 bucks and I'm finding
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the area, the cluster where there are the most balloons so I
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can just easily hit one. I'm not picking the area where
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there's a balloon here and a balloon here and a balloon here.
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I'm finding that one patch on the wall still at the carnival
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where there's lots of balloons so I could hopefully hit
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something so I can win myself a $0.50 little teddy bear with my
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$10 investment. This question says question for
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you good Sir. If sports didn't exist, do you
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think you would still be a collector?
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Personally I could see myself getting into stamps or coins but
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wondered how you felt. Thanks.
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I have always been kind of a tactile person.
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I remember as a kid going hiking, going to lakes and
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rivers and, and searching for rocks and, and coming home with
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a pocket full of rocks that I would put on my, my shelving
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unit and would sit there for years and years and years
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because those were the special rocks that I brought home from,
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you know, a hike or something going to the ocean.
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I would hunt for shells and I would hunt for sand dollars and
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things like that. And those would go up on the
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shelf too. I've always been a person who
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was intrigued by collecting things that caught my eye,
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things that looked unique and special.
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And it's not a surprise to you. I mean, you guys know that I
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collect non sport cards as well. Like in last month I bought a an
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autographed goonies card. I mean, who does that?
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Well, I did. I bought an autographed back to
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the future card a few months ago.
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So those aren't sports related. My pirate set, not sport
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related. I'm starting to work on a couple
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of other sets of of non sport cards that aren't sport related.
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So I absolutely would still be a collector.
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So what do I collect besides those non sport cards and
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besides those things that I mentioned to you all many times?
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Well, I have mentioned a couple of times that I have gotten into
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collecting video games. I mean, we all remember RBI
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baseball. I think I've shown this one
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before. I haven't stopped collecting
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video games. I just, I just don't talk about
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it a lot because the channel is about cards.
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So I don't know which of these I've shown in which I haven't.
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But here's the first year of Madden Football.
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John Madden football, by the way, alumni of Cal Poly San Luis
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Obispo like myself and Ozzy Smith.
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So this is for the Sega, the Sega Genesis, Madden, Football,
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I've got Mario Kart, got to have a Mario Kart and the first Mario
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Kart was on Super Nintendo, got to have the 1st edition of Mario
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Kart. You know, I had an Atari growing
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up, so I, I have to have a Donkey Kong for Atari.
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One of the big games for Atari as a kid was Asteroids.
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Got to have myself an Asteroids. I still need a Pitfall.
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I don't have a Pitfall yet. I like collecting.
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These aren't just the boxes inside is the game, the
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instructions. So they call these video games
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complete Inbox CIB that I like to collect.
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These are just a few of them. I have a few that I'm actually
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watching closely right now on a couple of auctions that are
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ending soon. So I like collecting video
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games. I also like I started over the
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last, I don't know, six months collecting old VHS movies.
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Like, I mean, if if you were to list every movie of all time,
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what movie have I seen the most Coming to America?
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Coming to America, I've seen more than any movie of all time.
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The only movie that would be a close second would be National
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Lampoon, Christmas Vacation. That movie, my goodness, I've
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seen that. That might be as much as coming
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to America. You know, I got Tommy Boy, so I
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got the VH s s of these Tommy Boy, right?
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That's I mean, that's a classic Top Gun.
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Got to have some Top Gun. Didn't ever watch the new one.
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I don't know. You know, this is cool back in
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the day and then the scariest movie of all time in the history
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of movies. Now I know my buddy Mike Junk
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wax hero loves horror movies. Well, the scariest horror movie
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in the history of horror movies is ET.
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Nothing gave me nightmares. Nothing.
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No movie in the history of movies caused me more mental
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health issues than ET. So yeah, I I would collect
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stuff. I do collect stuff besides
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cards. I just don't talk about it that
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much. But yeah, I'm kind of a
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degenerate collector and very proud of it.
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This one says when buying online how do you go about comparing
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cards, color, quality? It's not mentioned much like
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centering, but it can really vary in vintage and matters a
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lot to me. It makes it even harder though
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when the newly graded PSA cards have a better image quality on
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the search site than the older ones and SGC search site
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pictures have. Different image quality.
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Plus you never know if an older graded card has gotten something
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like too much sun. The last thing I want is a card
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with faded colors and going to be a big card show isn't
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feasible to me. Thanks.
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Keep up the great work. All right, this is a really,
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really good question. A lot of us care about color and
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when you're not physically looking at a card you don't
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have, you don't know if you have all of the information.
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And so when you when you looking at a card online was, was the
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color enhanced? Did they add saturation to the
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color to make it look brighter and deeper colors?
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We don't really know because we aren't there and we don't know
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if anything was adjusted. And I don't really know if
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there's a perfect answer to this.
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I would say the following. First, I've mentioned many times
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and you talk about it a little bit here.
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Look at the cert, look on the cert, up the card, look the card
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up on PSA, look it up on SGC because for the most part
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there's a consistency to their scanning.
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Unfortunately, PS AS seems to be a little bit too bright at
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times. I think SGC actually, at least
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historically, did a little bit of a better job with the the
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scans. But what you can do by looking
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at those scans is it gives you a consistent picture instead of a
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potentially enhanced picture like the seller might be doing
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with the image that they list. If it's a auction house, auction
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houses have the card in hand. Ideally the auction house would
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be taking pretty high quality pictures and you can get a bit
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of a consistency by looking at the other auction house images
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that would be an option. None of those are going to be
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perfect though, because like you said, what if the image was
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taken five years ago of this card by PSAI?
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Look up the cert. It's a 5 year old image and
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since then it's been sitting on somebody's windowsill just
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eating sun and fading it away. That's the reason that pictures
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are so important on these listings and that's the reason
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why it's kind of sketch because the pictures could be
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manipulated. So I, I think my response to you
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would be is if you're uncomfortable and you don't
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trust the images, they're not high quality images and there's
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not a recent image on PSA or SGC and so on and so on and so on.
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I would say ask the seller if it's on eBay, for example, for
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additional pictures, e-mail the seller.
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You know, you can contact the seller through eBay and ask them
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specifically. Can I get more pictures of this
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because I'm not confident in the color.
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I'm the color is really important to me.
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And if it looks like the red or the blue and that's one, I'll
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say it right now. That's one of the things that I
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think PSA is better about because in PS as flip there is
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blue and red. You can get a better idea if the
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color saturation has been changed.
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If it's really, really deep red, a deeper red on the flip then
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you see on a normal PSA flip, then you know that that has been
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messed with. So the the blue and the red on
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the flip from the pictures helps us.
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That's one of the negatives of the SGC.
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Current SGC flip, the black and the white because we don't know
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the color. We don't have a basis for the
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color because it's just black and white.
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So if they add color saturation and make the colors more vibrant
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of the card, we can't tell that that was done because the flip
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is black and white. That is definitely a limitation.
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That was definitely, in my opinion, a little bit of an
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oversight on SG CS part. What would have been ideal is if
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there was like a color spectrum, like a little color spectrum on
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the flip. But that's not going to happen.
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So I would say ask for additional pictures from the
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seller. If it's an auction house, you
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can e-mail the auction house and you can ask them specifics about
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the card. Hey, I'm interested in lot #112.
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Can you tell me, is the color weak at all?
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Is the color stronger than normal?
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They, they should be able to give you additional information.
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It looks like there's a little wrinkle up there in the top
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right hand corner. Is that a wrinkle?
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They will get back to you with information about that specific
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lot number and and that could be helpful for you for sure if you
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still don't trust the seller. So say it's an eBay seller, it's
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a big card. You're talking about spending a
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lot of money and you ask for additional pictures, maybe ask
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for additional pictures with some additional item in the
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picture that will help you know if the color saturation changed,
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for example. Hey, could you do me a favor?
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Take another picture of the card and in the picture, will you put
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a penny in the picture for me? Because we know the color that a
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penny is supposed to be. Now, a penny is probably not a
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good a good choice because if they choose an old penny, it's
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dulled, which is different than a brighter penny, but something
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where we know the color of that item, like a wood pencil.
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Hey, when you take the picture, could you put another item in
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there like a wood pencil or an eraser or something where it
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would allow you to say, I know the color that that item is
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supposed to be. And if that color in that eraser
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is bordering on red because there's so much color
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saturation. I know they've messed with it
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and adjusted it. But when it really boils down to
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it, here's my advice. If you're not confident in the
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card and you don't have what you feel is enough information with
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the pictures that are presented, then don't buy it.
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Don't buy it. You don't marry the gal that you
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think is probably the right one. You marry the gal that you know
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is the right one. And when you're buying a card
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and you're outlaying a huge amount of money for a big card,
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you don't go well. I think that the color is good.
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I think that the corners are good enough for me.
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For me, I would rather be safe than sorry.
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So whether it's who you're dating, potentially thinking
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about proposing, or it's a card that you're thinking about
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putting $500 into, I make sure that I am certain that it's the
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right card. Now, will we all have a surprise
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or two in our life? Absolutely.
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But personally, I tend to go on the conservative route and I
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tend to be a little bit safer than sorry.
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And if I'm not certain that the color is legit, then I'm
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probably going to pass. This next one says I believe the
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evolution of grading will eventually make the card grades
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assigned today irrelevant. Think about how technology has
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continued to improve. I believe most companies are now
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measuring centering with AI tools, and if they aren't they
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should be. I think in the relatively near
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future a card, whether slabbed or raw can easily be scanned
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where centering edges and corners will be evaluated with
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more precise measure than they are used today.
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Other factors and how they are evaluated will also improve,
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like measuring registration, the quality of.
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Color in the card and possibly. Technology to assess if a card
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has been materially altered, soaked at a molecular level.
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I am sure soaking changes the cardboard in a way that could be
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detected if that is desired. If I am correct, this will make
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PSA 10s irrelevant. If you have 100 PSA 10s, PSA
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nines, or any other grading company assessments of the same
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card, the ability to differentiate their quality will
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exponentially improve. This will put a premium on the.
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Highest quality. Versions.
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As there will always be people with tons of money who want the
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best version. This will change the way
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everybody thinks about quality. You will.
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Be able to weigh what? Is important to you and look for
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the cards that meet your standards, not an arbitrary
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grading company. Just like going to Starbucks
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where no one generally gets the same drink the same way.
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Question. What do you think about my
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grading evolution theory? I agree.
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I mean, I agree, I think every passing day, the grade on the
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slab matters less than it did the previous day for a variety
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of reasons. One of which is, as you
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mentioned, the technology advancements allow the grading
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companies, whether it be PSA or STC or Beckett or blah blah,
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blah, blah, blah. Whoever comes out next, they're
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able to see things now that before they didn't see.
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And by increasing that technology, there is no question
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that the standards have gotten harder.
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And in addition to that, I think that it at this point is fairly
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universally accepted that over the last year or two,
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especially, something happened at PSA where the grading got
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tougher. And now those cards with a 9th
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serial number instead of eight are absolutely, I believe,
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looked at differently. Look at eBay listings.
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It'll say new cert, freshly graded.
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Why would they say that if that didn't influence the sale?
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Now, I've said this 1000 times. I will say it at least 1000
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more. That doesn't mean every card
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that was graded 10 years ago, the grade doesn't hold up.
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That's not what that means. What that means is it might hold
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up, but it might not. But a card that gets a nine from
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PSA. Now, I mean, let's just think
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about this for a second. You've got a Pete Rose rookie
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card and you submit it to PSA and it comes back a nine today.
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And the serial number is A9 digit serial number.
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It's a brand new slab, brand new, freshly graded card.
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I mean, that card's imagine how nice that card is going to be.
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Do you just imagine it being like borderline flawless right
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now? We've all seen cards that are
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nines and we've even seen some cards that are 10s that kind of
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look a little bit not flawless. But if you got a card back today
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from PSA, especially a vintage card, and it came back a nine,
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just you got to be you. You'd be able to, you know, cut
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stakes with those corners and edges, right?
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We all agree at this point they're grading so tough that
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it's different than it used to be.
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So let's Fast forward 10 years. Will it be tougher, 100%?
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Will there be more technologies, 100% Will there be more tools at
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our disposal? 100%.
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Will we look back on slabs that are being graded right now and
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look at those differently than the cards that are being graded
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Then? Absolutely.
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Let's face it, this whole concept of grading a card and
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encapsulating it is from the early 1990s.
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I think it would be naive to think that there's not going to
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be continued advancements. I mean, remember payphones?
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Remember those? When was the last time you saw a
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payphone? When did you last see a
33:15
payphone? Why would anybody need a
33:19
payphone? I legitimately never see those.
33:25
Now, maybe California's different, maybe Sacramento is
33:27
different, but I never see pay phones because everybody has a
33:33
phone. So because of the technological
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advancements, the things of the past are extinct.
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I mean, you want to buy Avhs, this thing, not very expensive.
33:51
In fact, this exact one, this one, I got an estate sale this
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weekend. I went up and I said how much do
33:58
you want for the ETVHS? And they said you could just
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have it at one point. This was probably like a 12 or
34:07
$15 item. What am I talking about?
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No clue. Here's what I'll say.
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I think that there will continue to be advancements and every
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time there's an advancement, it makes the thing of the past less
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valuable. Buggies, Model TS are not quite
34:31
like the the the latest Porsche Cayenne that's come out right.
34:38
Things have advanced, and they will continue to be advanced,
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and whenever they're advanced, the things from the past will be
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less and less appreciated and less and less desired.
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So yes, I 100% agree. Your thoughts on buying cards of
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all time greats? Because they might die soon.
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I understand the question and I hear what you're suggesting.
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Sandy Koufax, right an all time great doesn't do a lot of
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autograph signing anymore. Sandy Koufax isn't young.
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His rookie year was 1955 and he was very young then.
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But Sandy Koufax is, he's over 90 years old I think, right?
35:38
Isn't he like 91 or something? So Sandy Kofax is likely won't
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be with us in, let's be, let's be +15 years, right?
35:52
It's safe to say that he won't be with us in 15 years.
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So if he won't be with us in 15 years, that means he's going to
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not be with us. So sometime between now and 15
36:03
years from now, unfortunately, we'll get some really difficult,
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unfortunate news that we've lost Sandy Kofax.
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Now, I'm assuming what you're saying is that if you buy cards
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of old players who are on the verge of dying, their cards will
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go up in value. And so shouldn't you go buy up
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all the cards of all the guys that are really old?
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I hear what you're saying. And I've talked about this topic
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before. I've done videos specifically on
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this topic. And I looked at Jim Brown.
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I was at a card show, literally at a card show, when the news
36:43
broke that Jim Brown had passed away.
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And I remember walking up to a dealer and he said, did you hear
36:49
about Jim Brown? I said, yeah.
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And he goes, yeah, I pulled all the cards.
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I said, what are you talking about?
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And he said, well, I mean, his cards are going to go up now.
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And, and so I, I don't want to have the cards out and sell them
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for the price that I had them out at.
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What happens when somebody passes away with their cards is
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there is a, a short term spike in them being talked about.
37:19
There will be videos and ESPN clips and articles and people
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go, oh, man, I really liked. I really liked Jim Brown.
37:29
I really liked Willie Mays. I really liked Orlando Cepeda.
37:32
I really liked, you know, Bill Walton.
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I'm Jerry West. I'm just naming people who have
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passed away in the last two or three years.
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And so because of that influx, it reminds us of our admiration
37:47
for some of these people. And then people will go buy
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their cards, but then those articles go away and those clips
37:56
go away and things kind of go back to normal.
38:00
I literally looked at charts of players right before they passed
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away, right when it came out that they passed away.
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And then a month later, Ricky Henderson was the latest Ricky
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Henderson cards. Like literally doubled in an
38:19
hour. I was sitting in a habit
38:21
hamburger place and the news broke and I looked and I was
38:26
just watching these cards on eBay of Ricky Henderson just
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selling like hotcakes. And the price was just
38:32
literally, it literally doubled. And now they're pretty close to
38:39
what they were before. So #1 the spike in demand and
38:48
the spike of reminding us of a retired athletes greatness is a
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temporary thing. Unfortunately, it's a temporary
38:59
thing. And, and so it's not a, it's not
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a long term buy situation, but quite frankly, I buy cards of
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players that I like. That's the way I operate.
39:13
I buy cards that I like the looks of, of players that I like
39:16
to collect from, sets that I look I like and projects that
39:20
I'm working on. I'm not looking at a card of
39:23
trying to time something where I get it right before the spike so
39:28
then I could sell it. That's just not me.
39:30
Now, I know there's a lot of people that that's part of the
39:33
fun is the speculation and trying to buy things low and
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then sell them high. I understand that and and that's
39:40
fine. But I'm the wrong guy to ask
39:43
about that because that's just not the way that I participate
39:48
in the hobby. But I can tell you from looking
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over it from lots and lots of athletes.
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I did a video about the Ricky Henderson one.
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I did a video about Willie Mays. I did a video about Jim Brown.
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And in fact, with Willie Mays, his cards actually went down
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right after his death. And I think that's because the
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market got flooded with his cards.
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I think people knew he was. Getting up in age and bought his
40:20
cards with this expectation and then what happened is as soon as
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he did pass away, they all put him up for sale at the same time
40:28
and the supply went up faster than the demand and the prices
40:33
actually dropped. What I would say is this,
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participate in the hobby by buying the cards that you like,
40:42
of the players that you like, from the sets that you like in
40:46
an era that you like, in the holders or not the holders that
40:50
you like. Make sure that what you're
40:53
buying are the things that you enjoy and bring you joy.
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And if you want to utilize the hobby as a way to speculate,
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hey, if that brings you joy, knock yourself out.
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I have no, no shade from me if that's what somebody else does.
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That's just not how I do it. So trying to give advice or
41:18
suggestions about that. I'm probably the wrong guy, but
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I will tell you based on looking over that from several athletes
41:28
over the last 3 1/2 years since I started my channel, the the
41:34
price bump is very, very temporary.
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With that said, if you have a question for an upcoming
41:43
episode, ask it down below in the comments.
41:45
Remember, I don't think we're going to have AQ and a next
41:49
week, but we're going to have a really special episode and I
41:55
hope that you check it out. My mind is still blown and it
42:02
was about 3 weeks ago that I got to see these cards.
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So next week, look for that. There will be an episode, but it
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won't be AQ and A for the first time in a really, really long
42:17
time.