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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- April 8, 2026 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on, everybody? It's Wednesday and it's
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Wednesday of Strongsville Week. I've got a lot in store for the
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channel this week. Tomorrow, Darren and I have an
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Off Topic episode we're gonna be talking about.
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We're gonna be reminiscing about past Strongsville shows.
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We're going to be looking forward to our plans and some
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kind of ideas of how we think this will play out this week.
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And then over the weekend, I will have at least a couple of
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episodes. I'm trying to get into the the
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the room into the show on Thursday before the show opens
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so that I can get some footage and I can kind of show a lay of
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the land, show some of the cards in the cases, show where some of
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the key dealers are AT and to just kind of give an idea of
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what to expect if you're on the way.
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Will that happen? I don't know.
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So if that happens, that episode would either go up late Thursday
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or early Friday. But I'll definitely have at
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least an episode on Friday and then something else over the
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weekend, Saturday or Sunday to be determined.
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But there will be plenty of content all over the place, and
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I'll do my best to give a little bit of insight in case you can't
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make it, or if you are there something to keep you
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entertained on the way home. Now, I've had several times over
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the course of this channel that I have felt an outpouring of
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love. One of the times I felt an
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outpouring of love, I did my first live stream.
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I didn't even know how to do a live stream.
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And I did a live stream. This must have been three years
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ago, 2 1/2 years ago. And I didn't know if three
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people would show up or eight people would show up, but I was
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pretty sure it would be somewhere between 3:00 and 8:00.
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And I had like 90 people show up for my first ever live stream
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and it, it caught me so off guard that I literally almost, I
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should go back and find the clip or something.
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I literally almost started crying on camera because it
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meant so much to me that so many people showed up for that live
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stream to support me and I had no clue what I was doing.
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I still have no clue what I'm doing.
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I'm just trying to have fun. That was a moment that I really
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felt the love. Another moment that I really
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have felt the love is when I announced that my book was alive
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and the number of people that reached out and the number of
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people who bought it on Amazon. Oh my goodness.
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That was a very special memory for me as well.
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That meant a lot to me. Thank you to everybody who has
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purchased the book. I'm really looking forward to
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being able to hand it to so many of you over the next few days at
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the Strongsville show. I mentioned this on the Off
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Topic episode that airs tomorrow.
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I'm, I'm recording everything in advance.
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I'm, I'm not going to lie, this is Monday, but I've packing, I
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have travel, I have work, I have a work meeting, a bunch of
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stuff. So this is being recorded on
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Monday. What, what?
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I don't even know what the date is today, the 6th, maybe, maybe
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the 6th. I've recorded so many things
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over the last 48 hours to try to prepare for this trip.
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It's crazy. And and a thing that really
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stood out to me and and shared the love most recently is last
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week. Last week I said I ran out of
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Q&A questions. I guess I just will.
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Do 4 questions. This week, because I don't have
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any more and the overwhelming number of Q&A questions that
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came in over the past few days has been unbelievable, which
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tells me that you all want Q&A to continue.
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So I do too. I love it.
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So thank you to everybody who submitted a question over the
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last few days because there were a lot.
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It's going to be, there will be a little bit of a backup.
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That doesn't mean don't submit more questions.
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Please continue submitting questions so that we don't run
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out again. But that really meant a lot to
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me. So thank you to those of you who
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submitted a question. Those three things in the
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history of this channel, that first live stream, the number of
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people who went to Amazon and bought my book, midlife card,
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collecting stories, and then the number of Q&A questions that
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were submitted last week means a lot.
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Means a lot. I'll just say that.
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OK, five questions this week. As always, if you have one for
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an upcoming episode, please ask it down below in the comments.
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Let's take a look at my very first question, which actually
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came in via text. Let's check it out.
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My good buddy. Brent of Brent Richardson
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Baseball. Card said.
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Is there a car that? You would buy that you don't
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care at all if it was trimmed, color added, altered, or Kurtz
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card cared. I had one answer until tonight,
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I just. Bought a car that I.
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Literally don't care, this thing defies all logic and reality.
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Don't answer now, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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I'll send you a picture now. So here is a picture of the
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card, a 71 tops Nolan Ryan. And it is.
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Stunning we've been in this period of eye appeal of grading
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of 10s are better than nines, which are better than eights.
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And then all of a sudden is it will the centered 1 is better
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than the non centered 1. There's there's been so much
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attention to grades, to values to I appeal to, I appeal
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stickers that sometimes I think that there are times that we
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lose track of the actual point of the hobby portion of this
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hobby, which is collecting things that we like to look at.
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Maybe because of the player, maybe because of the image,
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maybe because of the condition. It's possible, but there are
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times where we see a card and we just like, I have to have that
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card. And I love, first of all, my
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buddy Brent, Brent Richardson baseball cards subscribe to his
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channel, A 10 out of 10 person. He has an extreme passion for
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cards, which is so evident in his episodes.
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He he collects a lot of modern stuff, but not just modern
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stuff. He just collects stuff that
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makes him happy and and he's got a great channel.
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And so he texted this to me the other day and he said, man, I
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want to know this, but I want you to tell me in an episode, I
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don't want you to text me the answer.
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I said, OK, OK. And then he sent me the picture
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of the card. Now, let me first start by
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saying the 71 tops Nolan Ryan, I think is my favorite Nolan Ryan
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card. It's not.
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And it's weird for me because I tend to like portrait cards.
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I tend to like pictures where you can see the player's face.
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But there's something about that card, the, the color match with
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the black, you know, the orange pops, the action shot when it
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was just the very beginning really of action photos.
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There's something very special about that card.
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And I do believe it's my favorite Nolan Ryan card.
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And when you look at the example that he purchased that he said,
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I just have to have this one, You look at the centering, you
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look at the edges, you look at the corners, you look at the
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image, you look at it and you're just like, I can.
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Absolutely. And he's a huge Nolan Ryan
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collector. He loves Nolan Ryan.
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He's a big Astros fan. Him and with some other guys are
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showing their Nolan Ryan pickups and doing Nolan Ryan
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collaborations. I can totally see why you'd be
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drawn to that card. And that card was calling your
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name, Brent, and I think you did the right thing by buying it and
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not caring about how it would grade if it's trimmed, if
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there's something that was done to it.
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I understand that. I do understand that.
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And there's something pure about seeing something, seeing a card,
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and not caring about anything except for I don't know why, but
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I need that card. For me, a lot of the times it's
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the look of the card, it's the image itself.
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It's the beauty of the card. And sometimes that beauty is
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centering, Sometimes that beauty is the image, it's the player,
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it's the story behind the card. So to answer the question, yeah,
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I've had that happen. I've absolutely had that happen.
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See, I have learned so much about so many different cards,
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so many different athletes, so many different historical
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figures. By the the time that I've spent
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this, the hours and hours and hours that I've spent mostly
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listening to YouTube videos about cards, I mostly listen.
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And that's one of the reasons I don't.
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I don't comment a ton, but I listen to a lot.
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I go on walks and I listen. I go do yard work and I listen.
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I am driving and I listen. And, and one of the one of the
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stories, one of the figures that really made an impact on me and
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one of the one of the channels that's made a huge impact on me
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is my buddy Orlando of A Collector's Dream, who I can't
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wait to see here later this week.
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And he shows and shares his love of Goodwin Champions cards.
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And I'll be honest, I can't think of a set that's more
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beautiful than that. There's a couple that I like a
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lot, but I don't, I don't think, I think I'd be hard pressed to
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say any set is more beautiful than the Goodwin Champions scar
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set. And the passion that he speaks
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from when he talks about that set and he shares his incredible
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collection from that set is I will watch it from start to
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finish every time he does a video about those carts.
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And the card that he has spoken in depth about, about as much as
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any card in his collection is the Isaac Murphy card from that
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set. And so after watching and
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watching and watching his episodes, I've been like, I have
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to have one of those. And I, I knew that the next time
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one came up, it didn't matter the price, it didn't matter how
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it looked. But then one showed up in a
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glorious SGC 1, and sometimes you'll see a one and it's not
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that nice of a looking card, and sometimes it's a one, but it's
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still perfect. And this one was perfect.
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See, it looked like a card that's 135 years old.
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But the image was sharp and crisp and perfect and the
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centering was fantastic and you could read all of it and you can
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see the beauty on the card. And it had a pinhole, which my
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good pal Mookie has taught me that a pinhole is not actually
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the death sentence for the card. It's actually a sign of
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admiration for the card. It means somebody had that card
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and liked it so much they wanted it displayed.
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They didn't want it tucked away in a shoe box.
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They wanted it out and so they pinned it up.
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It the the impact that so many people have had on my collection
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in this community is unbelievable.
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And and so this card right here, this Isaac Murphy, let's see if
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I can get the focus on the card instead of me.
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I mean, that card is perfect. Yes, it has a pinhole.
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See the pinhole right there Yes, it has a pinhole Yes, it looks
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its age. Yes, it has issues and it is the
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perfect copy of that card for me.
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It is the perfect card. It I, I don't remember what I
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paid for this. I, I want to say I paid about
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$375 for this. I'd have paid 800.
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I might have paid 1000 this card.
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So the answer to your question, Brent, I don't care if this was
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soaked. I don't care if this was
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trimmed. I don't care that it is a
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pinhole. I don't care any.
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I just know this card belongs in my collection.
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This next one says this is my first question ever for Q&A.
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My question is, do you think that mid to lower graded modern
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cards are going to be just as treasured and sought after as
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the low to mid graded vintage cards are now?
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I'm curious about your thoughts because the vintage cards were
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less produced and the modern cards are overproduced so it
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could have a different turn of events.
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I'd love to hear your opinion, Greg.
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PS Keep Q and AQ and A going, I really enjoy it.
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I mean it. I wish.
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I wish that my answer on this was more open minded, but with
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all due respect, I don't think that that 87 tops Mark Mcgwire's
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will be heavily sought after in the future.
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I don't think 87 mid grade fours, 5 sixes of 87 tops Barry
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Bonds cards will be revered in the future and there's a few
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reasons. See the the reason that old
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vintage cards from the 20s, thirties, 40s, fifties, in any
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condition have like a character to them, even the the Isaac
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Murphy that I just showed. Part of the reason that that has
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character, that it's in a lesser condition from its original
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state is because, number one, there, there weren't many of
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them and #2 most of the ones that there were were destroyed
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and #3 they were never meant to be collectible.
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There weren't sleeves, there weren't pages, there weren't
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semi rigids, there weren't top loaders, there weren't screw
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down cases, there was nothing to protect a card Way back when the
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1888 Goodwin Champion set was released or the 1952 Tops set
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was released. Nobody thought that those were
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things that you should hang on to.
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And that's why their existence in mid grade is special.
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It their mere existence makes them special.
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The fact that this card even exists still makes this card a
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special card. But they printed 87 TOPS cards
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to the moon. They they printed 89 Donruss to
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the moon. There's just, I mean, you would
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go into Sam's Club, but what did they call it at the time?
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Price club. I think it was price club out
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here. I don't know.
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It's probably similar to Costco, right?
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They go into Price Club and they would literally have pallets and
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pallets and pallets and pallets of 1990 Fleer cards for 5 bucks
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a box. Just pallets of them.
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So because of that there are and when people got them, they said,
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oh, I got to hang on to these. These are going to be valuable.
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So everybody held on to them. There's so many of those.
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I don't think that the ones that are still out there that are
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fours and fives, I don't think that there will be collectors
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lining up for them Now. The ones from your own
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collection, the ones where you opened the pack, the ones where
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you bought the team set when you went to the game, those should
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be appreciated. Those should be special to you.
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But do I think that on the open market cards from 1980, five,
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1986 to 1991 in mid grade are going to be highly sought after
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in the future? Unfortunately, the only ones
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that will be highly sought after for the most part.
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There are a couple of rare exceptions like rare errors or
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variations like a few cards and 10 grades, which apparently
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makes them extra special to. There are some rare exceptions
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like And I'm sure some people are yelling at the screen going
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well, like the you know, the tops Tiffany in A10 are special.
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That's true, but there are a handful of outliers.
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But for the overwhelming majority of them, the majority
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of the value would be sentimental and not financial.
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That's at least my prediction. I guess it could be wrong.
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Again, whenever I give an opinion, I'm not saying I'm
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right. I'm just giving my opinion my
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opinion. If you think I'm crazy and you
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think PSA fives of 87 tops Barry Bonds are going to be highly
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sought after in the future, let me know down below.
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I would. I am.
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I'm always open minded, but I'm not particularly optimistic
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about the future of those, this one says.
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Hi Greg, first time to ask you a question.
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I want my cards to look nice on display and that includes the
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condition of the slabs. In other words, I do not want to
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have slabs with scratches on them.
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Since I live outside the US. EBay is my only source.
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When buying cards. So actual pics of the slabs, not
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the PSA scanned images are important to me when deciding to
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buy. Also, buying a raw copy is risky
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as I have been burned by getting cards with surface issues that
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are not visible in the images. I wish I can go to shows where I
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can actually see the cards before I purchase them.
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I still want to purchase a card with a grade as it will be an
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insurance that the card itself will not have a major defect.
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What do you do if you see a card that you want to buy but is in a
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poor condition slab? I do not want to pay PSA to
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reholder the card nor crack it out because it will not justify
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the cost including the international shipping to
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acquire the card with a good grade.
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Thank you for the amazing videos.
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You are not alone my friend. The majority of us collectors,
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one of the worst parts of having our cards in slabs is that the
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slabs can get scratched. And one of the things that I've
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noticed personally is a lot of dealers, they don't, they don't
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fall in love. They don't fall in love to the
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cards because they're coming and then they're going.
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They seem to care. OK, I'm being, I'm using
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generalizations. A lot of dealers don't seem to
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put a lot of care into protecting the slabs themselves
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because it's a commodity to them.
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They're not attached to the item.
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And So what happens is is, you know, they're kind of tossing
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them around the case and you go back and forth and stacking them
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and, you know, making that noise, you know, that noise
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where there's two slabs that are shuffling together.
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I mean, I'm like, Oh my gosh, put some care into how you're
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handling it. It makes it makes me a little
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twingy. It's one of the reasons that,
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you know, most of the time my cards have a protective sleeve
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over there. There are a few good brands.
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I do believe that the Penny Sleever, again, not a sponsor of
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the channel. I think Isaac makes a really
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good product. The Penny Sleever has great
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protective sleeves for slabs. There are a lot of companies
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that do, but I would, I, I take pride in taking care of the
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slabs so that the card will continue to look nice.
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But I haven't answered your question.
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I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying.
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And, and, and I will respond with a couple of ideas.
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First, if it's an expensive card, for example, I'm
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anticipating I have a, a tentative deal in place for a
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card that I think that I'm going to come home with at
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Strongsville. It's a big deal.
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I have a tentative deal in place and and the slab job by PSA is
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atrocious. And I mean atrocious.
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But I like the card and I want to buy the card.
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Not the slab, not the grade, not the slab, but the card which is
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inside of the slab. I, I have a few slabs that have
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scratches and scuffs and when a card reaches a certain value,
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you say, I don't want to spend, I don't want to spend $30 to re
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slab a $50 card that that is, that's hard to deal with.
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But then there are some cards where the value is high enough
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that it meets the threshold and you're like, I think it's worth
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it. In fact, I am seriously
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considering bringing with me two or three cards to get re slabbed
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at the National this year. And the immediate turn around,
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you know, where you, you drop it off and then you pick it up in a
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couple of days at the National is not cheap at all.
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Even to put just new plastic around it, not including getting
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the card graded. It's, it's expensive, but when
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the card is expensive enough, I think that it's probably worth
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it. But I'm not helping you because
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it sounds like what you're saying is I don't want to send
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them in. I live in a different country.
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I have to deal with customs going in and out.
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I have to deal with shipping them long distances.
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So what do I do now? I'm going to speak from the
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perspective of being fairly ignorant to what I'm about to
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share with you and I'll explain why.
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There are a lot of my friends who use some polishes and the
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Polish helps remove and buff out some scratches and it can make
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an old nasty looking slab look nice.
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So I heard Dylan talk of Dylan double D vintage baseball cards
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talking about him and I said to him one time, Dylan, what a what
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Polish do you use? And I'm pretty sure it was Dylan
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Dylan. If I'm wrong, tell me down below
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in the comments. This is Novus NOVUS Novus.
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There's a heavy scratch remover, a clean shine and protect and a
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fine scratch remover. And it comes with these little
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polishing clothes and I've not even opened it.
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I bought this probably two years ago, I think off of Amazon.
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I think there's the information right there.
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What's it say? Novus 2 plastic mates pack 2
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ounce bottles new. I have a lot of friends that
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swear by buffing out scratches. So if I'm in your shoes, given
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the situation that you're suggesting, I'm going to
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probably try that first. I'm going to try probably try
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some of these polishes, these scratch removers.
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If you used a scratch remover, a Polish and it's not Novus down
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below in the comments share which one you swear by to help
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each other out here because I think you're not alone and I
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think that a lot of people don't want to get stuff re slabbed.
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What have I done historically? Honestly I've sent them in and
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gotten re slapped which is a huge waste of money which sucks
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but but I don't do it for cheap cards.
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I do it for cards where it meets that threshold.
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What is that threshold? That's up to each individual
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person, but consider the polishes first.
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Again, Novus, hold it up there so you guys can get a good look
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at it. If this is helpful.
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If it's not helpful. I tried this one says hi good
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Sir. What do you think will be a
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better investment going forward? PSA 10s from 1980 to 1990
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baseball cards or 2012 to 2025 Prism Gold cards?
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Both seem to be steadily going up and I'd love to hear your
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thoughts. All right, again, not an
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investment channel, just a dude who talks to his phone every
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once in a while and then post it on the Internet for people to
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see. So don't go out and spend your
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life savings based on what I'm about to say.
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But here's my take. I think that there are thousands
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and thousands and thousands and 10s of thousands of cards from
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the 1980s that still haven't been graded, that are sitting in
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binders, that are sitting in sleeves, that are sitting in top
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loaders. And the reason that they've not
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been graded is because they haven't been worth grading.
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Because if the card gets an 8, maybe it's a $20 card, but if
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the card gets a 10, it's $1000 card.
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If it gets a nine, it's a $60.00 card.
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I think that with the way that they're grading, and I think
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that the fact that it has to be a 10 to make it worth it makes
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it where it's still not worth it to grade a lot of those cards,
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1984 tops. Don Mattingly I had a perfect
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one and I mean perfect. And I never even considered
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sending it in to PSA to be graded.
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I didn't even consider it because I'm like, even though
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it's perfect, it's probably going to get an 8 and then it's
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worth 30 bucks. And I paid $30 to get it graded.
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But if it gets a 10, I don't know what it is.
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I'll, I'll make it up 500 bucks. If it gets a 10, it's not worth
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grading. So half of the cards that you're
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asking me about the the 1980s PSA 10 Hall of Farmers, I guess
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I used Don Mattingly and he's not in the Hall of Fame yet.
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A lot of those guys, you know, Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, you
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know, you know, we know, we all know the list.
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There are so many of those that will become 10s if the price
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continues to rise because a bunch will get submitted.
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But the gold prisms, I don't, I think most of those cards that
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are worthy of being graded have been graded.
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I don't think that there are pallets of gold prism cards that
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haven't yet been sent to PSA. So I think that the supply of
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the Gold Prism cards is probably fairly close to what it's going
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to continue to be versus the 1980s Hall of Fame cards where I
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still think there are a ton to be graded.
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And I know what some of you are thinking they're saying, but
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Greg, they don't give 10s anymore of anything that's old
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at all. Yeah, But I do believe if you
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sent in 20 perfect top suede, Boggs, rookie cards and I mean
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perfect, there are going to be some 10s in there.
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I do think that. So I think the supply is much
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more likely to go up from the 1980s cards of Hall of Farmers
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than it is for those gold prisms.
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So because of that, I think that that's a big part of why I would
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say the gold prisms have the most.
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The second reason is I think that there are a lot of younger
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people who are now in maybe their 20s that collected during
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the Prism era, which is ending as Panini has lost all licenses
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now, now that football, basketball and baseball are all
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under fanatics and tops. I do think that a lot of kids,
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you know, teens, early 20s that collected during the era of Gold
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Prism being like the card when they get older are going to get
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nostalgic and they're going to come back.
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What's happening right now is a lot of the people who are
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nostalgic and are buying the PSA 10s of the, I don't know, 87
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rated rookie Greg Maddox card. It though that's already
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happened that those people that are nostalgic for those cards, a
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lot of them have already come back.
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But right now we're we're still a ways away before the nostalgia
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for the Gold Prism begins. So I think the Gold Prism is
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closest to its eventual supply versus the 80s Hall of Farmers.
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And I think that the nostalgia era is currently happened and
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happening for the 80s cards and is not yet happened but will
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happen for the Gold Prisms. That's just a random dude me his
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random opinion about that topic, but those are my reasons for it.
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And my good buddy Theo of Clemente Collector says I never
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want Q&A to end question. Why don't you have more Clemente
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cards? OK, real question.
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What card did you sell or trade that you wish you could have?
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Back. Oh, Theo, it's like ripping off
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an old scab. What's the biggest mistake
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you've ever made, Greg? Well, it's a good question, and
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I have. As soon as you asked it, I
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immediately knew my answer. So let me start by saying I love
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Aaron Judge. I love Aaron Judge.
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Aaron Judge's rookie year, we went to the A's game, we watched
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Aaron Judge. And this, this is one reason why
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I loved Aaron Judge is because at the end of every half, at the
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end of every half inning, when he would warm up out in right
34:05
field for the Yankees at the Oakland Coliseum, he'd play
34:11
catch. He'd warm up before they threw
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the first pitch. He would jog over to the first
34:18
baseline, he would find a kid and he would hand the kid the
34:24
ball that he had just warmed up with.
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And I went, my goodness, this guy gets it.
34:30
He gets it. How much effort did that take
34:35
for Aaron Judge to jog over to the sidelines, pick out a kid
34:39
and hand the ball directly to a kid?
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And every time he did that, he made a lifelong fan.
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And that is a treasured item in that fans collection for the
34:52
rest of their life. And and that doesn't take much
34:56
effort. And there's so many people who
34:59
don't take any effort, and he took effort to do that.
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I said he's, he gets it #2 he's an insane talent.
35:11
So early in 2022, like maybe even before the season started,
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I bought an Aaron Judge first Bowman Chrome refractor and I
35:26
bought the card in a lot. I bought 3 cards in the lot.
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It was the Aaron Judge Bowman Chrome first refractor in apsa
35:36
10 and it was apsa 10 of the regular Bowman Aaron Judge.
35:46
Not the Chrome, not the refractor, just the same year
35:51
card in just the paper version. Intense and all three cards I
35:58
paid like 400 bucks. So I immediately I didn't want
36:03
the other cards, but I said, oh, I could sell those two Bowman,
36:06
those two Bowman, the regular Bowman one, not the Chrome
36:10
refractor. I could, I could sell those for
36:13
at the time it was like, I don't know, 80 bucks each.
36:16
So I immediately got those, sold those, it's 160 bucks out.
36:20
And now I've got this Aaron Judge Bowman Chrome refractor
36:25
that I've got like 240 bucks in. Well, I loved the card.
36:34
I mean, it's a the 10 is a beautiful card and it's it's my
36:39
favorite Aaron Judge card. And he had a good season.
36:45
Not an all time great season. We had a really good season.
36:49
He's a really good player. And at the end of the season, I
36:53
was afraid that they weren't going to resign him.
36:56
And I said the Yankees aren't going to resign him.
36:58
Hal Steinbrenner. I mean, heck, the guy keeps
37:01
putting Aaron Boone out there. What are we doing?
37:05
Aaron Boone is still our manager.
37:08
And people say, well, they're starting off the season with a
37:10
good record. Well, yeah, if I was the
37:12
manager, they'd also have a good record.
37:14
If I had that pitching staff, they'd also have a good record.
37:20
So I was afraid they weren't going to resign them.
37:22
I figured how Steinbrenner was going to not pony up the money,
37:26
what he was going to ask. And I was just I was afraid they
37:29
were going to get rid of him. And I said I don't need a 10.
37:32
And the card had really worked its way up in value.
37:35
It was like over $700.00. And I said I don't need a 10.
37:40
I just bought a 10 because I got a good deal on it.
37:44
It's now I bought it. I basically had like 240 bucks
37:47
into it. I'm like this is now like a $750
37:50
card. I'm going to sell the 10 and
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then if the Yankees re sign him, which I hope that they will but
37:56
they probably won't, I'll buy a nine because I don't need a 10A9
38:02
is fine. So I sold the 10 for around 750
38:10
bucks. Again, I had about $204.00 into
38:13
it and and I started looking for a nine and I started looking for
38:17
a nine and the prices just weren't quite at the point I
38:22
wanted to pay. They were, they just seemed like
38:27
it's like I would like, I would bid and I was like the under
38:30
bidder and then I'd go on the next one.
38:33
I was the under bidder and then the Yankees resigned him and the
38:42
price wasn't falling. So I kept bidding and I kept
38:48
being like the under bidder and I was bidding on the card.
38:50
I wanted the 9:00, so I was going to take the money for the
38:55
10, buy a nine and then pocket the rest.
39:03
And then in 2023, he had a pretty good season and the card
39:09
has gone up and I'm like, well, as soon as he gets hurt, maybe
39:12
he'll pull an oblique. Maybe he'll roll his ankle and
39:15
miss two months and the card will go way down in value.
39:19
And all he has done is win MVPS over and over and over and over
39:25
and hit home runs over and over and win batting titles over and
39:28
over. And I still don't have one.
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The 10 that I sold right now sells for over $3000.
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The one that I bought for 240 bucks, one that I sold for 750
39:47
bucks is over $3000. Not the auto one, just the
39:54
refractor hurts man it hurts. I love Aaron, Judge put.
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The prices of his stuff have gotten so high.
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I'm, I, I can't get myself to spend $3400 on a card that I
40:20
bought for 240 bucks. It's painful.
40:28
And, and Theo, he just reopened the wound.
40:36
Man, it's brutal. What am I going to do?
40:41
I don't know, because I still want the card on my goals card
40:45
on my goals video with with Darren at the beginning of the
40:48
year, it was one of my goals cards.
40:51
I just want a nice 9A centered 9, but a centered 9 is like over
40:58
$1000. I can't do that.
41:02
It hurts, man. Theo, Theo, it hurts, buddy.
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I, I guess that happens to everybody, I guess.
41:26
All right, guys, tomorrow, if you're traveling to
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Strongsville, tomorrow morning early, we will have my preview
41:36
with Darren. I'll have a couple of videos
41:39
coming out over the weekend. I really don't know when.
41:42
It's going to depend on when I get footage, what I get footage
41:46
of, when the deals go down, when the shenanigans happen.
41:50
I'm going to try to get some behind the scenes stuff of, you
41:54
know, Hangouts and all that kind of stuff.
41:57
I'll put out a couple of videos, just keep an eye out.
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Probably Friday night or Saturday morning, maybe Friday
42:06
morning, maybe Sunday, maybe Monday, I really don't know, but
42:12
I'll put out at least 2 videos. And then remember April 20th,
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mark your calendars. My next Midlife Live will be
42:21
April 20th and we will share all the stories, all the pickups,
42:27
all the fun, myself, Darren, Tony and Petty.
42:33
So mark your calendars for April 20th, Monday.
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Man, that judge, that's the one that's the one that got away.
42:46
I. Wonder if there are any?
42:47
Gals out there that are saying, yeah, that great guy, he's the
42:50
one that got away. I don't think.
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I don't think so either.