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When New Cards Are Exciting!! Jake & Matt With Extra Innings Episode 15 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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  Welcome to Extra Innings on the sports Card clubhouse with the
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  hit list. I'm Jake.
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  That's Matt from Providence. Matt, how are you?
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  Hello, Jake. It's good to be back here.
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  That's what it's called Clubhouse.
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  I can't believe they keep letting us come.
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  Back Well, how I somehow, somehow they keep letting us
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  come back, you know? What I'm thinking, though, I'm
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  thinking. That's what I'm thinking, Greg
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  and Splendid. Yeah.
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  They're outvoting Mike. They're what?
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  They must be out voting. Mike, you got to think, yeah,
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  when they brought on Jeremy Lee, Mike's got to be thinking,
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  Matt's got to go. I mean, to be third, you want to
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  be third, That's tough. That's tough.
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  That's tough. And we're, I mean, that's tough.
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  But Greg, smart guy. Greg school teacher, smart guy.
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  He knows you don't get rid of talent and Jeremy Lee.
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  Knows with talent. Talent, talent.
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  What you make up for in hair you what you lack in hair, you make
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  up for in talent. Watch yourself.
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  All right, let's talk about a a fun topic.
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  So we got some feedback on the last episode and it was very
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  constructive feedback. I want to shout out commenter AF
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  Raker or a Fraker 1 who said left a comment on the last video
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  saying I'd love the to see the YouTube collector content
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  creator community make an effort to steer the discussion back
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  more to the actual cards themselves rather than more and
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  more talk about condition grading, centering, I appeal,
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  etcetera. And I followed up and had he had
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  some ideas and I wanted to ask this question.
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  There's a couple different ones here.
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  Some of these we've talked about like how you got into collecting
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  that kind of thing. I wanted to ask you this
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  question and I I have a couple of of thoughts on this but.
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  You know, let's talk. About.
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  Some people consider us historians when it comes.
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  To sports. And cards and sports cards.
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  Not Greg, even though I was just speaking so highly of him.
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  He didn't think that of me at least, but at least I'm the
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  talent. Go ahead, just back to where you
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  were, You know, just get the micro.
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  Get the micro. You know, we could talk about
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  it. You are a historian.
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  I give, I give you full credit on that one.
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  What else? Go on.
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  The topic was times you remember being the most excited about a
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  card, so I should have. Read the list this week.
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  You have a card coming. Well, why don't I?
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  I'll start. I'll mention one time for me.
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  I have a couple of ideas, but this story has been repeated a
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  few times by me. Oh, we got to hear it again.
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  The Smokey Joe would that one. No, go ahead.
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  Is that? No, you were going to think of a
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  different. You were thinking of a different
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  one for. Me.
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  No, I was just joking. I was just making fun of you.
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  It's. Another story that I have to
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  hear again, but no. Listen, not everybody.
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  You tell me. About SO not.
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  So not. If they're on your regular.
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  If it's on your regular channel, they don't hear it.
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  I'm going to sail, tell the story, and then maybe that will
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  jar something for you. And no, no, no, yeah.
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  OK, so I wanted a Cracker Jack Smokey Joe Wood for a long time
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  as a kid. I always heard so much about
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  Smokey Joe and his story and how he had, you know, was this had
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  this incredible year in 1912 and, you know, kind of blew out
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  his arm and had a second act as a as a hitter and was had this
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  great reputation. He coached at Yale for many
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  years and kind of stayed affiliated with the Red Sox in
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  certain way until very late in his life.
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  And, and, and then I read I regularly other times and learn
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  more about him. And so I really combed in on the
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  Cracker Jack because God, what an amazing image of, of, of a
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  ballplayer on a card. And the cracker Jacks, I've
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  mentioned this before also that growing up Cracker Jack baseball
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  card shop was the name of my LCS.
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  And you know, and I, I always loved the little replicas, the
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  93 replicas I had the whole set. So, you know, a couple of years
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  ago when I got back into doing this, I really wanted to get a
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  smoke, a Cracker Jack Smokey Joe.
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  And I scoured for one. It was always hard because
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  obviously Cracker Jacks are expensive.
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  The Smokey Joe's expensive. You got to pay just as much for
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  a Smokey Joe as you would for like any Hall of Famer basically
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  in that set doesn't have a doesn't have a lot of cards and
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  he especially doesn't have a lot of cards with the Red Sox.
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  So because he has more cards later on with the Indians, but
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  not with not with the Red Sox so much.
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  What the Guardians? Were they not called the No?
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  Were they not? What were they called in 1915,
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  Matt? Well, they the Indians, I think
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  they were just Cleveland. The Nats.
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  They were the Nats. You're right.
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  You know what? You're right.
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  Actually, they were the naps. So there you go.
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  Greg Cleveland. Greg, are you?
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  Look, Greg, God doesn't know nothing.
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  Historians right here, buddy. Historians right here.
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  Cleveland he went to go play for anyway, so I was scouring for
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  one trying to find the Redskins. Copy the poor Redskins of
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  Washington. I'm talking about the.
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  Red the wash. No, no, that road, they stink.
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  Go ahead. The so trying to find the right
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  one and obviously for me, I was going to need it was going to
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  need to be a 1950 and most likely it was going to need to
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  probably be a A1 or an authentic.
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  So Stanlock vintage dealer Ohio based.
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  He was set up at a show in Chicago.
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  He posted on Instagram that he and he posted a picture that I
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  didn't really get it couldn't see a clear picture of.
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  But he had just gotten a bunch of Cracker Jacks back from PSA
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  and I had talked to him at the previous Shriner show asking him
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  if he had a a Cracker Jack Smokey Joe.
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  He said no, but I should be getting one pretty soon.
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  So a few months later he's got he set up at a show in Chicago,
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  posted on Instagram, he's got the card there.
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  I emailed him and I couldn't make out what the grade was or
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  what the year was on the card from the picture.
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  So I emailed him. He didn't get back to me and he
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  was doing a show in White Plains the next weekend.
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  Well, I decided to, it was a Friday and I was between jobs
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  and I decided I'll just go. I definitely want to get this
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  card if I can. And if I get it, I get, if I
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  don't, I don't. Well, I, I get to the show, I, I
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  pay the extra money to get in early.
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  I go right to Stan's table. And I asked him about the I'd
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  done deals with Stan before, so he knew me.
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  And he was like, yeah, I got it right here.
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  And so I look at it and, you know, as we know with Stan, he
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  puts, he puts the prices on the back of his cards.
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  That was another reason why I, I didn't really know what the
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  price was going in. But so I, so I go, I look, he's
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  got a price on the back. Is it?
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  A 14 or a 15 by. The way it's a 15.
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  So, so that's the thing. I get there and I finally see
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  what the card is. It's a 15 and it's APSA one on
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  the front. And I'm like perfect 'cause if
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  it 'cause if I got there. And I saw that it was like a by
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  the way. When you say you mean price
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  point, like that's the cheapest way to get into a Joe Wood
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  Cracker Jack. Exactly.
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  Some people understand exactly what you mean by that.
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  Perfect. Like, yeah, yeah, it's the
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  lowest for like I get in as long as it looks good, but this is
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  going to be great. Yeah, exactly.
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  So he's got a price on the back and it's reasonable, but it's
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  more than the cash that I had with me.
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  And I didn't want to go to the ATM and take more money out
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  again. I was between jobs and I said to
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  him, you know, can you come down a little bit?
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  He's like, yeah, this is as far as I can go down.
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  I had a bunch of cards to sell. He wasn't interested in doing a
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  trade 'cause he Stan usually kind of just goes if he buys
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  stuff, it's usually pre war. He doesn't like he'll he'll get
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  like collections of like golden age stuff, but that's not really
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  what he buys at at a show. And it that's my experience with
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  him. So, so I was like, all right,
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  well. He doesn't trade.
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  What's that? I was under the impression he
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  doesn't trade. You're you're probably right
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  with that, but. I yeah.
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  So how I think is like, yeah, yeah, we can do this all.
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  But like those cards, I'm going to give you this much money.
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  Yeah. And then you can use that money
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  to buy this card from this at this price.
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  Like, yeah, he doesn't. Yeah, old school.
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  Yeah, that is old school, but keep it up.
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  So he said he. I said he's doing it forever,
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  just like that. Yeah, he he said to me, go
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  around with these cards because it was it was Hall of Fame
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  rookie cards. It was like Brooks Robinson
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  rookie, like a few other cards. He was like all around, you'll
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  buy, you'll find somebody to buy the cards.
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  So I go to right across the hall, right across the aisle to
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  Brian Roth. I made a deal with him.
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  I sold him a bunch of a bunch of those cards.
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  I had just enough money cash to go back over to Stan's table.
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  And I'm like, all right, Stan, we got a deal.
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  And I'm like shaking as I'm putting the bills out just cause
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  like this car, like it was this journey.
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  Like I drove 3 hours to go to go to the show and the the card
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  happened to still be in Stan's case and 'cause that thing
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  wasn't going to last. You may not not even lasted that
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  show and I got my card and Stan every time I see him, he always
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  brings that that up. But that was that was like on
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  the short list of the most excited I've been to buy a card
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  was. Just that's cool.
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  It was just this journey that like ended with me getting the
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  actually getting the card It's. Called an adventure.
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  It was an adventure, not a journey.
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  All right? So, so what's, what's the
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  experience that you've had where you were so super excited to get
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  a card? So you told that story did
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  nothing for me, triggered nothing for me.
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  I can't think of anything. No, I don't think.
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  I can't think of anything. Oh yeah, The Jack Johnson.
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  The Jack Johnson. OK.
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  Yeah, the Jack Johnson. So, yeah, Shriners, this the
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  last Shriners we've been talking.
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  I had just been talking about that card, the T 227 and the
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  first table that I stop at while I had five minutes to walk, I
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  walk into that card. Yeah, pumped to get that card
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  and the other guy gave me a decent enough deal where like
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  I'd buy, I don't remember. I I bought another car.
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  I bought the Joe Wood. No, I bought the No, I can't
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  remember. What it?
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  Was it's a Caribou Hooper 16 Hooper.
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  Somebody bought that this weekend, by the way.
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  Yeah, big card, nice card that knocked out the price for the me
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  to get to Johnson really pumped. Yeah, that was a great one.
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  I wasn't shaking or anything or something like that.
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  No. And I'm not against it like I I
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  hope I have. I have that experience.
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  But yeah, no, yeah, really cool card.
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  That was and I was. I was equally as mad that I
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  couldn't. I wasn't there that morning to
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  that you could. Drop the card from me.
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  The problem is with the how we have to buy big cards nowadays.
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  If you don't buy them at a show, you know, you, you'll win your
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  bid and then the card has to go to authenticity guarantee and
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  then into your vault and then to me.
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  And before I come, I get it, it's two months later, you know.
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  But you know, even if you're in the auction house, you know, you
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  wait a few days. But like at shows, I don't get
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  to buy a lot of cars at shows for the PC.
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  They just kind of stumble up. So like, yeah, good.
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  You got a good story. That's a good story.
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  Yeah, and I'll say like a couple other small ones, this, you
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  know, recently I bought Wilson, Fred Wilson, Frank, Ted
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  Williams. That was a huge moment when I, I
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  refreshed the, the eBay because it was like and it said I had
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  one and I, I, there was quite a, quite a bit of fist pumping and
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  yelling and screaming when that. Happened LFG?
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  Did you say LFG? I don't think so, no.
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  I, I, I, you know, but it was, it was.
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  More I'm a I'm a Westco guy. Yeah, OK.
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  And then? When I was a kid, I'll I'll
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  mention one other one. When I was a kid, I, you know,
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  I, I would, we had two local card shops in town, which was
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  great. We could go to card shows
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  occasionally. But I remember when we bought a
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  playing days Willie Mays, which was a 7272 tops.
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  I think this is the last card with the Giants, I'm pretty
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  sure. And that was really special.
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  I mean, it's a beautiful card. It's got like the yellow border
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  around it and he's wearing the Giant's uniform and that was
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  really special. I was always, you know, such a
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  big fan of I was AII was a historian at a young age and I
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  loved Willy. Willy, you know, I think he's, I
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  would still say probably the greatest all around baseball
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  player ever. And, and getting up and I
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  remember, you know, we didn't have a lot of money to spend on
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  cards. You know, I would say the most
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  expensive card we ever bought when I was a kid growing up was
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  maybe like 30 bucks on an individual card.
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  It was probably the most. And I remember going into, I
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  think we probably went into one of the shops and saw that card
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  and it's beautifully centered. And I have to imagine that we
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  probably, we must have paid only maybe 2025 bucks for it.
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  And I just, I cherish that thing.
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  And I sent it to PSA. It got APSA 6.
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  That's still, that's still probably my favorite card that
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  I've that I've ever owned. You still have it.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, it's yeah. Oh, I've never, I have no plans.
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  I don't think I'll ever sell anything out of my childhood PC.
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  Like I can't, I couldn't bring myself to do that.
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  The only thing from my childhood collecting wise that I've sold
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  was I sold you that Patriots ticket from the 9/11 the game
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  after 911 and I used the money from that to buy my 50 Bowman
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  Jackie at that same show that I sold you the sold you that
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  ticket at. Oh, nice.
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  Probably nice. I remember when I was a kid, I
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  went, I would, I rode my bike to this card shop.
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  It was across the Newport Creamery.
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  That's gone now and the card shop's gone too.
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  But so I went to the card shop and they had the guy had a
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  Curtis Martin rookie auto like in like pulled pack auto.
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  So that's like 19596. So I don't have the money.
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  I think it's like $15.00 for this car.
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  And that's like that's a lot of money.
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  I remember riding my bike back to the house, taking my father's
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  save change, putting it in something, logging it with my
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  bicycle back to the card shop and walking in with this bucket
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  of change. Oh, mostly pennies.
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  I'm not getting mostly pennies. And the guys, the guy said,
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  well, I guess you're lucky. I have a a change counter.
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  And looking back, what? You were lucky.
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  But anyways, yeah. So yeah, I paid all, all, all
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  change. Wow.
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  I was so excited to get that, that Curtis Martin rookie card.
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  And then he went to The Jets and yeah, that.
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  Was. That was the end of that that
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  sent to that. Do you still have that?
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  No, I hope some Jets fan has it piece of no no IO but that was a
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  good story it. Was a Curtis Martin.
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  I love that guy. It was such a bummer when he
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  left to go to The Jets Hall of Famer.
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  Great, great guy. Like just, yeah, big smile.
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  Like just. I loved watching Curtis Martin
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  running. Yeah, it was.
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  That was tough when he went to The Jets.
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  He was so good, man. He was so good.
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  Had some great. I want to give a shout out on
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  this platform to the young man that came up to us at
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  yesterday's card show. Theo showed us our image on the
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  What was it like Spotify or whatever?
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  Yeah, it was Spotify. Is this you?
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  That was so awesome. What a nice kid, Theo.
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  Yeah, it was great. I can't believe we have a we
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  have a fan. We have a fan, we have one fan,
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  we have one fan between the two of us, I.
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  Don't know he listens to the show during his homework.
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  He will listen, does his homework and listens.
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  To doesn't collect vintage cards, but likes our show.
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  That was really cool. That was really cool.
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  I know we just talked about it on the hit list on your net on
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  your platform, but I wanted to share this on what's this thing
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  called? Sports card clubhouse.
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  I think there's no sports cards live with Jeremy Lee.
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  What I get that was by the way #2 ball guy sports cards,
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  clubhouse sports cards, nonsense sports cards.
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  There's all kinds of sports cards there's.
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  Sports cards, Professors. There's this, there's.
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  This yeah sports card lessons there's this is all kinds
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  there's just all kinds of you know, names so I forget the
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  names listen that I'm the. Sports Card Clubhouse Thank you
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  to Theo for listening to Sports Card Clubhouse Thank you to
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  everybody who listens. It's a if Jeremy Lee wasn't
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  bald, right? I could be the best bald guy and
• 16:43
  he could be the best others the other guy.
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  But like, it's like, no, it's just like I really, I'm really
• 16:48
  competing at that number one spot for both.
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  You know, like it's, you know, you know, it's a tough, it's a
• 16:52
  tough one. It's tough.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Is that how far are we into this?
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  117 minutes. Oh, I.
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  Think that's. Good.
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  Yeah, perfect. All right, I hope he doesn't
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  have a lot of homework this week.
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  Yeah, yeah. But yeah, thanks for listening
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  everybody. Like, comment, subscribe and
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  collect.