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Ep. 126 : 2026 Topps Series 1 Overview · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to Episode one twenty six of
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  Speaker 1: Cards and Categories. I'm my Cool Art, joined as always
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  Speaker 1: by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, and we are
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  Speaker 1: super jazz tonight because we've got a special edition of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast to discuss the Series one flagship release that
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  Speaker 1: is happening on Wednesday, February eleventh. We're speaking here on
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  Speaker 1: the ninth, so a couple days early, but there are
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  Speaker 1: plenty of cards already hitting eBay and Reddit everywhere. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about this a few times that, like post Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Tops Flagship release, it is baseball time. You feeling it, now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling it.
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  Speaker 2: We're ready. It's probably one of my favorite products of
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  Speaker 2: the year. Maybe it might have been awful.
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  Speaker 3: Little this year.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it, but it's always good to get
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  Speaker 2: Series one. It's always good that it's a price point
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  Speaker 2: that's successible, and it's always got those big rookies and
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  Speaker 2: everybody's chasing. So it's fun, fun, fun to talk top
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  Speaker 2: Series one. It's been a while since we've had a
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  Speaker 2: big flag shop product that we can actually buy to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, so no bowman here, Let's talk about Top
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  Speaker 2: the Top flagship.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, top set date twenty twenty five feels
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  Speaker 1: like it was forever ago. I guess it wasn't too
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  Speaker 1: terribly long. But we are right into the thick of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six releases now, I mean, I guess we're
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  Speaker 1: also still in the thick of twenty twenty five releases.
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  Speaker 1: We've still got some on the calendar. But if it
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  Speaker 1: is your first time joining us here at Cards and Categories,
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  Speaker 1: first welcome, and then second, please rate and review us
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  Speaker 1: us be able to grow our audience. And the other
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  Speaker 1: thing I want to note is everything that we're about
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  Speaker 1: to discuss, you can go into the show notes on
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  Speaker 1: wherever you're listening to this podcast. You will have a
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  Speaker 1: link to both the checklists that we're looking at. But
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  Speaker 1: then the most important thing is you'll have a link
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  Speaker 1: to rasball dot com so that you can look at
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  Speaker 1: the corresponding post for this podcast. It's going to do
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  Speaker 1: a lot more service to you if you can actually
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  Speaker 1: look at the design of some of these twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six top Series one cards that we're talking about actually
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  Speaker 1: you know, in picture form. We're going to do our
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  Speaker 1: best to describe it to you with our words. But
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  Speaker 1: if you are a little confused about maybe what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about and what we're delving into, just go to
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  Speaker 1: that post. I'll have links to all sorts of different
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  Speaker 1: products as well as just pictures of products and examples
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  Speaker 1: of what has come out so far for twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: TOP Series one. With those few caveats set up, let's
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  Speaker 1: just dive right into this checklist here. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: not familiar too much with Tops and what flagship is,
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  Speaker 1: we'll kind of start off there first. Because what Tops
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  Speaker 1: does every year is they will release three main sets,
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  Speaker 1: Series one, which is what we're talking about, Series two,
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  Speaker 1: which will come out about halfway through the year, and
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  Speaker 1: an update which comes out sometime in the fall, like
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  Speaker 1: October November time. And what Series one is really focusing
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  Speaker 1: on is starting that bang off for the year, getting
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  Speaker 1: everybody hype for baseball, so you're gonna have most of
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  Speaker 1: the stars, most of the big rookies in series one.
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  Speaker 1: Series two is probably the least kind of popular, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, of all the three releases in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just what it means in terms of collecting, because you're
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  Speaker 1: starting to pick up the guys who may be signed
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  Speaker 1: for new teams in the offseason, a couple more rookies,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just a little bit more of a muted
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  Speaker 1: release overall, mostly trying to round out that full top
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  Speaker 1: set for the entire year. But I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, Brew, but I've found over the years
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  Speaker 1: that Series two really lags in terms of just value
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  Speaker 1: held compared to Series one. Everyone always loves Series one,
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  Speaker 1: but Series two you can usually always find like sealed
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  Speaker 1: wax of that years later at a very discounted price.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: Series two has always been kind of the ugly step
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  Speaker 2: child of a flagship. And the big reason is because
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  Speaker 2: of the timing of.
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  Speaker 3: The print runs.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much the only rookies that you're gonna get in
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  Speaker 2: there that will be worth chasing, or the guys that
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  Speaker 2: made opening day rosters as rookies and what we'll call
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  Speaker 2: up in that first month or so, those are the
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  Speaker 2: guys that have a chance to make it into Series two.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise they're holding a guy or two over from from
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  Speaker 2: the prior fall. But that's generally why this is the case,
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  Speaker 2: because there's just not as many guys that get their
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  Speaker 2: debut and kind of kind of shoot off at that
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  Speaker 2: point in time because with the service manipulation that we've
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  Speaker 2: had for many, many years, that's kept kept it down.
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  Speaker 2: Now with the more more recent CBA number of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: that's I think changed a little bit. So it's made
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  Speaker 2: Series two a little bit more palatable, but still it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's definitely held off on its value outside of
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  Speaker 2: maybe like a Kunya when he when he kind of
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  Speaker 2: headlined that a number of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think on top of it too. What
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  Speaker 1: also happens in series two is that in series one,
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  Speaker 1: like a bunch of these big rookies we're gonn to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, they have their first patches with rookie logos
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  Speaker 1: on them, but they have their first autos with rookie
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  Speaker 1: logos on them. And if you're not familiar with what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about, that's the RC stamp with the home
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  Speaker 1: plate behind it. That's the rookie logo that everybody's looking for.
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  Speaker 1: You get that in series one. So there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit when you get to Series two and you get
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  Speaker 1: to those same autos and checklists and you get some
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  Speaker 1: of those repeats of rookies. People already collected the first
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  Speaker 1: ones that've hit the market, and those ones that come
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  Speaker 1: out in Series two are considered a little secondary. So
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  Speaker 1: if anything that boosts Series won even more that this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the products. I think that like, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the long term scope of what TOPS
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  Speaker 1: has done over the decades, Flagship Series one always holds
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  Speaker 1: up pretty well because it's really chalked full of all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of stuff. It's also like it's very ubiquitous. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find this stuff everywhere. It's gonna be on retail shelves,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be at hobby stores, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: at gas stations, it's going to be a baseball stadiums
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  Speaker 1: all summer long. So Series one it's meant to last
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  Speaker 1: throughout the entire season as opposed to Series two and
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  Speaker 1: update obviously come out and finish the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: setout overall. So with that, let's get into Series one
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, because we're looking at a three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty card set, which is pretty standard. Maybe some
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  Speaker 1: other things that we should set up for twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: it's the seventy fifth anniversary of TOP, so that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be included throughout the product. You've got that in
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  Speaker 1: the tops logo, and it's going to come up in
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  Speaker 1: different spots in terms of parallels and just other things
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be emphasizing throughout Chase Cards. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, here is celebrating that seventy fifth anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have many different ways and boxes
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  Speaker 1: to be able to purchase this product. So brew maybe
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  Speaker 1: give people a rundown out there of what sorts of
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  Speaker 1: products you're looking at in terms of types of boxes,
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  Speaker 1: what cards are maybe representing the best bang for your
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  Speaker 1: buck traditionally what you usually buy in terms of like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you see something on the shelf, We've got
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  Speaker 1: lots of different options. Which type of box or pack
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna attack?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so generally you have I think's actually generally it's
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  Speaker 2: not like six different versions out here.
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  Speaker 3: You have your hobby in jumbo boxes.
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  Speaker 2: Jumbo boxes running around two hundred bucks in the pre
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  Speaker 2: sales Hobby about one hundred bucks, and those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones that have you know, guaranteed hits. Your Hobby box
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  Speaker 2: guarantees you one autograph or memorabilia card and then one
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  Speaker 2: of those silver packs which said to have the mojo's,
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  Speaker 2: there are sometimes chance on autos. Then the jumbo box,
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  Speaker 2: you're guaranteed one auto, one memorabilia card in one silver pack,
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  Speaker 2: which frankly that's actually down from prior years.
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  Speaker 3: Usually is used to.
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  Speaker 2: Get two silver packs in the jumbo boxes and two
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  Speaker 2: memorabilia cards, so that is down a little bit. You
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  Speaker 2: have megaboxes, which are fifty bucks at this point, and
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  Speaker 2: those do not necessarily guarantee that you're gonna get anything
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  Speaker 2: out there. You're gonna get a few specific parallels, but
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily a guaranteed auto memorabilia. You have hang which
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  Speaker 2: are going to be out there, value blasters. Hangers are
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna be twelve fifty to fifteen bucks, value blasters
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  Speaker 2: about twenty five bucks. You have tens, which are kind
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  Speaker 2: of decorative collectible tens.
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  Speaker 3: They will be out there.
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  Speaker 2: And then also your fat packs, which are generally much
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  Speaker 2: thicker pack which have quite a few cards in it
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  Speaker 2: relative to kind of what you expect from a hobby pack.
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  Speaker 2: So those are your general availabilities. I think the common saying.
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  Speaker 3: In the industry is hangers or bangers.
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  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, it always seeing out the odds odds
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  Speaker 2: are better, or maybe it's just what's posted based on
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  Speaker 2: the nomenclature. I'm not sure which one it is, but
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  Speaker 2: those always seem to be great.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say if you're going for.
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  Speaker 2: A big box, Jumbo tends to be the way to go,
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  Speaker 2: just because of the guaranteed hits. If you do go
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  Speaker 2: with a hobby box, I don't I haven't looked at
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  Speaker 2: the odds, but it feels like it's like a ten
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  Speaker 2: to one that you're going to get a you know,
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  Speaker 2: relic of a no name player relative to an auto
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  Speaker 2: that you actually be after. So you get the guarantee
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  Speaker 2: in the jumpbo box, which generally is gonna make that worthwhile.
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  Speaker 2: So that's for me what I'm going after. I typically
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  Speaker 2: would avoid the tens.
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  Speaker 3: There are actually forty five bucks.
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  Speaker 2: For those tens, and I think you're stouly paying a
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  Speaker 2: lot for the display of those tens versus the actual
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  Speaker 2: cards themselves inside of those, so you're paying up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: There. So a lot of different options that are gonna
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  Speaker 3: be out.
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  Speaker 2: There for folks to pick up, and really, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, the nice thing is it hits
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  Speaker 2: all price points from breakers buying tons of jumbos all
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  Speaker 2: the way down to people picking up you know, fat packs,
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  Speaker 2: and that for five six bucks you have accessibilities. That's
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  Speaker 2: one thing that I think is really important with Series
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  Speaker 2: one is you can have the chance to rip. This
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  Speaker 2: is like the old school you just happen to be
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  Speaker 2: in the story, like I'm gonna grab a pack, like
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  Speaker 2: you could do that. You can't do that with some
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  Speaker 2: of the like tops, chrome or anything like that. I'd
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  Speaker 2: just like to pick up a pack to rip. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's a fifty dollars sixty dollars blaster. It's just not
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  Speaker 2: the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it is certainly a big downgrade in
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  Speaker 1: those jumbos losing one of the silver packs and losing
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  Speaker 1: one of those hits. So do keep that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: like if you're going back and buying a Jumbo, maybe
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  Speaker 1: because you do as a tradition to get into the season,
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  Speaker 1: especially because the nice thing with a jumbo too is
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  Speaker 1: you should put together entire set. Is assuming that your
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  Speaker 1: collation on the rent run of cards that you got
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  Speaker 1: was solid, you should get a whole set of Series
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  Speaker 1: one base in that too, which is kind of nice
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  Speaker 1: to be able to tuck away for yourself. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the prices did not flex there to reflect
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  Speaker 1: the lack of the silver pack and the lack of
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  Speaker 1: the hit, And I mean we've been seeing that more
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  Speaker 1: and more as Tops and Finacs had been bringing out products.
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  Speaker 1: It happened recently to our favorite stadium club from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five where they start peeling out some of those
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  Speaker 1: hits there too. So just kind of keep that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna be par for the course
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six as we get deep into the
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  Speaker 1: calendar and deeper into the releases, is that you're gonna see.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's so much consolidation that's happened underneath Fanatics
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  Speaker 1: and Tops into space. They really do run this market,
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  Speaker 1: and sure Panini is around, but you know Tops is
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  Speaker 1: the exclusive holder of that MLB license, and so with that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it really creates a situation where they are
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  Speaker 1: running the entire market and a lot of it's going
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  Speaker 1: through Breakers nowadays too. So that's something to also consider
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  Speaker 1: that it hasn't necessarily been proven, but breakers out there
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  Speaker 1: certainly do seem to get some pretty loaded boxes compared
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  Speaker 1: to the rest of the public here and there. But
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  Speaker 1: also kind of makes sense when you look at their partnerships.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little shady in terms of all that,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we still encourage people to rip Flagship
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  Speaker 1: Series one because it is probably one of the best
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  Speaker 1: products for bang for your buck in terms of like
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  Speaker 1: feeling that you're turning around and getting something worth collecting
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  Speaker 1: on top of it too. Like it is the first
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  Speaker 1: week of February, we have not seen baseball for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time, and I'm ready for anything baseball related. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's a little degeneracy here built into ripping Flagship
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  Speaker 1: Series one, but I certainly am not going to turn
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  Speaker 1: it down. Then, with the three hundred fifty card set,
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  Speaker 1: we've got all the parallels. I've counted it off, and
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  Speaker 1: actually I think there might have been even one added
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  Speaker 1: since we updated this rundown the other day. I think
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  Speaker 1: they added in a cherry blossom parallel to compared to
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  Speaker 1: when I originally counted it up, and that's only gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in the Japan edition anyway. But what we're looking
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  Speaker 1: at for top Series one fifty three parallels here per
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  Speaker 1: card of the three hundred and fifty cards set, and
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  Speaker 1: brew I'm giving you plenty of time. I saw you
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  Speaker 1: already chugging a little bit of power ready to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you were hydrated for the running through the
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  Speaker 1: entire parallel set, not only those fifty three parallels, like
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  Speaker 1: all out there. If you want to try to do
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  Speaker 1: a rainbow of being in these cards, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to buy multiple different types of boxes to be able
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  Speaker 1: to it or hope people are ripping it, because some
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  Speaker 1: are Superbox exclusives, some are Fanatics Value Blaster Exclusive, which
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  Speaker 1: if you're going back to that rundown in the different
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  Speaker 1: boxes blasters have a regular retail component that you would
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  Speaker 1: buy at like a Walmart or Target or something or
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  Speaker 1: hobby shops, and then there's one that you order through
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  Speaker 1: fanatics dot com and it comes with different types of
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  Speaker 1: hits within it. You've got the fifty three parallels per card,
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  Speaker 1: but then on top of it, you've also got a
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  Speaker 1: golden mirror short print of every card is back again
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  Speaker 1: this year. You've also got on plenty of cards. It's
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  Speaker 1: not every card is vintage parallels, clear parallels, holiday parallels,
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  Speaker 1: true photo parallels, player number parallels, team color playarallels, and
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  Speaker 1: on rookies you have nineteen fifty two tops variation parallels.
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  Speaker 1: That's an addition seventy or seven there that'll round you
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  Speaker 1: out to sixty total parallels. If you're looking to put
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  Speaker 1: it together for somebody like a Roman Anthony or another
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  Speaker 1: big rookie, that's gonna have all seven of those parallels,
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  Speaker 1: So good luck out there. If you're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: a rainbow, I'd suggest maybe trying to trim it up
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  Speaker 1: to something like a true color parallel of rainbow, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can do all of them.
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  Speaker 1: It's been impossible for a couple of years. But brew,
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  Speaker 1: are you ready? You're ready to run through this checklist
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  Speaker 1: of all fifty three parallels?
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm ready. We'll see It's no. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the pressure's on with this one. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: while since I've had a mess up in these, so
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if we can.
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  Speaker 3: Get through it. But let's let's go.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, I'm gonna try to avoid hitting
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  Speaker 2: all the ones you hit. But we got the Hangar
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  Speaker 2: Exclusive day of Monte foils. We have the Halo foils
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  Speaker 2: for retail, pink Diamonte foils from Hangars, Rainbow foils, Jumbo
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  Speaker 2: Exclusive sand glitter. None of these remembered by the way,
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  Speaker 2: these are all just pair pair of ols, silver crackle board,
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  Speaker 2: foil board, superbox.
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  Speaker 3: Exclusive and I didn'tven hit those earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Superboxes tend to be at your big box retailers or
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  Speaker 2: Sam's Club or you know, Costco or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So get your spring training parallels. You have your tops foil.
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  Speaker 2: Pattern, aqua holofoil, aqua rainbowfoil. Then we finally get into
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  Speaker 2: our numbers. Gold out of twenty twenty six, which is
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  Speaker 2: the standard. You have your pink holofoil expected print run
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  Speaker 2: of eight hundred is not actually numbered. Then you have
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  Speaker 2: yellow halofoil, yellow rainbowfoils both out of three ninety nine,
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  Speaker 2: Purple holofoils and purple rainbowfoils out of two fifty. You
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  Speaker 2: have blue holofoils and blue rainbowfoils out of one to fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's a whole entire rainbow at ninety nine of
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  Speaker 2: cherry blossoms, green diamonte foils, green holofoils, green rainbowfoils, and
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  Speaker 2: green spring training. So if you want to just collect
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  Speaker 2: the ninety nine run, you might as well. You have
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  Speaker 2: your Independence Day out of seventy six.
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  Speaker 3: You have your seventy five.
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  Speaker 2: Years of tops out of seventy five, black borders out
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  Speaker 2: of seventy five, a whole slew of gold, gold dimontefoils
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  Speaker 2: out of fifty, gold holofoils, Gold rainbow foils, gold sand glitter,
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  Speaker 2: gold spring Training, and don't worry, we just throw a
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  Speaker 2: canvas and they're out of fifty as well. For fun,
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  Speaker 2: down to the out of twenty fives. We're getting even
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  Speaker 2: more of these Memorial Day camos, which is a very popular. One,
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  Speaker 2: Orange Day Monte foils, orange holofoils, orange rainbowfoils, orange sand glitter,
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  Speaker 2: Orange spring Training, and your wood parallels, So those are pretty
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  Speaker 2: cool if you've ever had one. Then black Diamante, black holofoil,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: black rainbowfoil, black sand glitter, all out of ten, Red
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Day Monte foils out of five, Red holofoils, red rainbow foils,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: sand glitter, and you're red spring Training out of five.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Then all of your out of ones, which ironic that
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: there's more than one. First card off the line out
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: of one. You got your oil fractor out of one,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: you have your Rose Gold holofoil out of one, your
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Rose Gold spring Training out of one, and then your
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: your printing plates and all the versions of the printing plates.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through, but that is your
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: run of all of the parallels.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Bravo, bravo, you made it. You're still alive.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take the next ten minutes off. You might
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: have to go there, go this year yourself.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I have to go on the il for a couple
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: of weeks. But we'll see that is just is so much.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And if you've been with us listening to when we
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: run through these parallels every time on these bigger sets,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you'll notice like they added pretty much one of every
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: color across the board for the most part, especially in
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: those lower ones. You're getting an extra red, you're getting
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: extra orange, you get an extra black parallel, extra green parallel.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it is a lot of parallels, and it's
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: really become a little bit over the top because like
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: not only the big thing that has changed a lot
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: is that the spring training parallels I don't believe had
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: color parallels in the past the way this one's done
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: has done. And once you start adding those on, and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean you hit a few holiday ones, there's probably
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: actually more out there. So like, because there should be
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: a crossover of holiday parallel that we'll align with Easter
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: or spring, and so unless they've gotten rid of that,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it'll be buried because as we are
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: speaking a couple of days early, we've got most of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the checklist details from tops, but there will be things
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that are surprising and popping up on social medias and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: at other places as they really roll this thing out.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Even though we've already seen pictures of this, it's available
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: on eBay tonight on Monday for some of these cards.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: There's been posts on Reddit that these cards have already
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: been hitting retail spaces, especially like retailers that maybe don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: always dabble in cards and don't know when to put
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: things out at the right time. So there's lots of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: kind of small unknowns. But one unknown or one known.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Is that the.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Parallel checklist is extremely, extremely long. The other thing with
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: these parallels is I think this is going to dovetail
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: into maybe one of the bigger discussion points we have
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six is we skipped it because I didn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: want to bring us up and really kind of like
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: taint negative space here with twenty twenty six. But we've
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: hinted at this a couple times on the POD. I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: am not a fan of this design this year. It
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is not exactly invoking flagship for me. So if you're
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not familiar with the design, what we've got is a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: pretty traditional I would say, in the middle portion of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the card that's boxed in from the border, a pretty
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: traditional flagship looking card, but where it kind of starts
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: going a rise when you get to the borders on
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the left side. And this is consistent. I looked, it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: on both cards that are landscape and portrait. It's always
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: running down the left is a little bit of like
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a jersey stripe, where not only is it like the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: jersey stripe that matches with the team colors, which is nice,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but there's texture with it. And then on the left
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: side of that is all the way to the border
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a jersey like a mesh material kind of pattern that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: is with the card, and then it fades to the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: right of the stripe so that it eventually reaches, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on a base card, a white blank border, which is
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you know, traditional for a flagship especially.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I think that and I don't know if.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Border is actually ever going to go away, considering the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: way that Tops really loves these parallels now and they've
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: really been able to play around with those borders the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: past couple of years that they've been loving it, but
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: it the more I thought about it, what really doesn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: do it for me on this is that jersey background
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: behind the stripe. I can do it the stripe, but
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's the extra texture that like the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: only I was looking through the history of tops like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: flagship designs, the only time you usually have gotten like
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a real like a picture sort of parallel is nineteen
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: eighty seven, or like on the border like a wheen
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they did the wood. Even like getting into some of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like the twenty tens designs, you never gotten necessarily like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a real pattern. There is like a futuristic or kind
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of like some sort of design, and it's that along
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: with the fade like fades, you gotta be usually pretty
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: pretty like haphazardly I would say, maybe not halphazardly, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like limited on the fades on the borders, and it
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: just pulls in a lot of elements that don't scream
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: flagship to me. When you combine that with these parallel colors.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: There are some rough examples. I will put some on
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the the post with the show notes, but there'll be
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: one that you see this Luis Morales like rookie card
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: where it goes into the team parallel border. It is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: an ugly looking card, I can tell you that. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: then when you do the color parallels, the jersey color
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: changes and it just it's a mess. What is your
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: thoughts on the flagship design here?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I when it first came out, I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: was like, it's not so bad. And even the kind
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of fading you talk about the text string wasn't isn't
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the worst to me. But it's that stripe. It's that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: stripe on the card that on a bass card. It's
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: not so bad, like it kind of works. It destroys
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: some of the parallels. I just was looking at the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: independence parallels, which is like one of my favorite things
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of that they do. It's see out of seventy six
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is the only thing that feels like hasn't been tainted
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: by the serial numbers where we've expanded it. And I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: just looking at this coal young for the mariners who
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: minds you their kind of stripe color on there is
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: seafoam green, and the thing is still seafoam green with
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: this wonderful red, white and blue attempt around it. And
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it just completely, Like I mean, it looks like I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: woke up and made a card in the dark type
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: of thing. Right, it's you know who addressed you this morning?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: It's bad, and you're you're taking that across all these
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: different parallels where there's you know, a good coloring or
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: something like that, and then you just throw the stripe
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: in there that just it doesn't match. The color is clashing,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and I think that's just a big miss because it's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: just it's it's rough. So I think that's for me.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: That's really what's kind of causing a little bit of
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the I don't know, downfall of this is that those
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: cards they don't jump as off the page like they
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: used to because that that stripe, that color mismatch. You know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you and I love to talk about color matches. Color
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: mismatch is out the way to go. I will say,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: there are some cards out there that when the stripe
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: kind of works, it's actually looks fabulous. I'll admit that,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: but in general terms, because I'm like I'll call this out,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: like a lot of the team color borders, those ones
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: actually work really well because the stripe is aligned to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the team color and then the logo is in the
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: team color, and so it's actually it works really really
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: well looking at a Bryce Matthews for the Astros here
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it's got all the oranges and blues, it really just jumps,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: and then you just go to the next barrelel over
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: and you're just like, I got my orange and I
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: got my green. Like it's just doesn't work. So that's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: unfortunate that I don't think they really thought this one
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: all the way through.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the golds I think are the most disappointing
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: for me because the left side of the card looks
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: like a poohstain jersey, Like there's not much way better,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And especially when you start talking about the variation in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the ink that you get sometimes on Flagship, which I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: think you'll definitely have on this set because it is
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: going to be very heavily printed. When the reason that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: they're able to fit those sixty parallels in is because
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the base printing rate is so high now that like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they've got to be able to spread it across the hits,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: across lots of different sets, And so what happens is
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: uh usually I mean, I guess we won't see fully,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: but knowing how Tops has kind of gone underneath the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: finat's direction, the QC does not keep up with the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: parallels and the print runs expand. So what will happen
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is on the gold colored cards and the navy blue
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: or blue colored cards, which are a little bit more ubiquitous,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the ink will be very different and you're gonna get
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: some funky looking gold parallels out there. So uh yeah,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it's it is a little bit of a bummer because,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: like I said, if they just taken that jersey pattern
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: off of the stripe, I think it's a perfect card.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you find card.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the base design, the kind of like i'll say,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: dot I cut esque version of the border, like all
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: that is really really good. Like they I got the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: top seventy five logo on there. I like the way
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: that they're using the team logos. All those things really
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: really play well.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: It's just that they got too fancy. They got too fancy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: On the outside of it, it feels it does.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: It feels more like a Big League product if sorry
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: for those of you out there, was a Big League
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: when that was around. It feels like it's the cheap
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: version or the opening day version of Guys.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It really does, especially on these USA Independence parallels els
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: like they feel very big league to me. That's why
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I was also invoking which well, I mean it kind
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of go It's been a I mean, I wasn't a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: huge fan of the twenty twenty three design, but like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it was fine at the end of the day.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It's all perspective by buddy.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that since we've been doing that, this is probably
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the worst that we've seen where it's gonna but.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: The first time we've agreed on it too.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know it's gonna go down. I think
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: in terms of like maybe up there for me in
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: terms of especially how it ages, I just don't see
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this aging very well either. And we have to like
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: regurgitate this design in thirty five years, which brings me.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we've ever touched this subject, like
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: what is your least favorite tops flagship design or designs?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Because I can start as you kind of think it through,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: because two really stand out to me, and I'll start
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: with the one that is, uh, I think my absolute
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: least favorites twenty fifteen. Twenty fifteen is just brutaled. It's like,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it looks like somebody like eate a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: bunch of random mechanical components and threw up on the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: design and it's like all dark and it's got like
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: little swirls and it's got little dots and it's just
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen's all over the place, and the darkness overall
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: just does not allow pretty much any of the cards
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to pop. It's a really ugly, ugly set.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: In my mind.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The other one that six twenty twenty six here kind
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of reminds me of is nineteen ninety four. The nineteen
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: ninety four set is so nineties with all the gradient
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: borders and stuff where it's just like it went a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: little bit too far. Like nineteen ninety four, they were
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: so close and like it doesn't look bad nowadays and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: archives and like other reprints, but it's also like so
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: ugly when you line up all the other tops designs
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: through the years that like you just peel an element
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: or two often in nineteen ninety four design, and I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: think it would have been fantastic. I feel that way
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a it's a close race. There's
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: a number of them out there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I mean two thousand and three was was pretty pretty rough,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like it was that the blue borders for just for
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: almost like no reason. So I felt like every card
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: was a parallel if you look at today and then
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I think if you go back and you know, pick out.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but I think twenty one
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: even to me at this point, it just it. It
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: just doesn't like it filters the vibe of everything else
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that's been clean lines things like that. It's just a
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: kind of like extra kind of parallel lines that are
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: jumping out in the card. I just think those ones
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: didn't play as well or have an age as well
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: for me. So they've done a good job over the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: years changing things up. But I'd have to say the
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: early two thousands designs, even two thousand itself was actually
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: pretty rough back in the day.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I had a number of those that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Was perfect though.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two thousand and one was a good was a
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: good one, but even like ninety eight ninety nine were
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: almost the same exact design.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ninety six is brutal as well, with the like
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: David Lynch like elongated stretched like picture of the face
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: like embedded in the front of the cart or whatever.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Ninety six is also a brutal one. But it's like
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: so hokey in nineties. That it's it charms me a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: And don't worry.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: You can still go back and if you really want
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: to go further back, nineteen seventy eight might be the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: worst quote unquote vintage design. If you look at seventy eight,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: it's just just like a pure, just straight border with
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: a team name on it and like nothing else. And
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: so that that one was was pretty rough.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Good thing.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: You know, we didn't have huge, huge guys in that
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: in that set. So you go further back, there's amazing
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Ventors designs, but they definitely miss the boat seventy eight.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's all fair. Okay, well let's get in.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: There's actual actually even a couple of other parallels that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: we haven't touched on. So I guess some of these
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: guys will technically end up having nine of those additional
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: parallels into the fifth to the fifty three, because not
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: only do we have the Golden Murror short prints which
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: have become super popular. So if you're not familiar with those,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: what it is is each base card has a photo
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: variation short print card called the Golden Mirror. Pretty easy
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to identify nowadays because the back are like golden ish
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and it has SSP marked on it or or something
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: similar to it. And so not only will you have
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that base card, but you'll have that parallel for every
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: card in the set. Again, but they brought back the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Golden Mure legends, which hasn't been in the past couple
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of years. This is what the short prints used to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: be in lieu of the Golden Mirrors, is that you
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: would have certain cards, you know, for example, like Aaron Judge,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they would use Babe Ruth as like the short print
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and so usually it's like a team crossover or something
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: similar to that. So those are back, which I think
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is a good move. Those have always been pretty popular
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: over the years, and it brings back especially people who
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: collected from like Stars of the seventies that reappear and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you know, anytime you can reconfigure your set to get
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: more Babe Ruth cards in and more pictures of Babe Ruth.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that at the end of the day.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: The other parallel that we'll have is just like the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: USA Independence cards, which are of seventy six, there's one
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of those for every card, we've got a separate parallel.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Now for the Blue Jays, Canadian Independence parallels, which I'm
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: guessing I haven't seen one yet, but I'm guessing it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: just a Canadian flag instead.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Of a US flag. But I'm found one either, I assume.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you have to assume it's the exact same
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: design with the Canadian flag in the background. But that's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: gonna be Blue Jays exclusive for this set. So a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: couple more variations there that I think are going to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: be big chases, big ones to track down. But let's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: get into some of the details of the set, because
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: not only do we have those parallels in short prints
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and everything, we've got a huge rookie class, a really
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: great rookie class in this series, one which is I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: think going to carry this product a little bit in
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the market kind of whatever woes we've talked about in
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: terms of print run and design and everything else kind
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of going on with the way that Tops and Fanatics
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is running things through breakers, it is a heck of
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a rookie class. So here's the ones that I called
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: out when I was running through the parallel through the checklist,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna pass it over to you to
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: see if there's anybody that you're really honed in on.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And trying to collect from this list or maybe one
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that I skipped over. So here's the big names of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: rookies in series one that I kind of starred or
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you know, highlighted, Roman Anthony, Jonahtong, Jacob busny Rowski, Jacob Marcy,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Samuel Bissio, Cam Schlitzler, Jack Kgleone, Christian Moore, Colson Montgomery,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Nolan McLain, Bubba Chandler, Owen Casey, Chase Burns, Dylan Beavers.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So that's already more than I think we've seen in
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the past few serieses. Once, you know, it's a pretty
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: loaded group of rookies. You know, maybe not the highest
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of highs compared to what we've seen in the past,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but certainly lots of good young players. It was looking
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: back on twenty twenty five, lots of great debuts. So
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: anybody from that list really kind of strikes you as, hey,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: this is a guy I really want to tuck away
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and invest in from this set or another name.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can keep going on.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I was just scrolling through the checklist and I saw
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: like Peyton totally out there. It was another big name picture.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: But you know, for this group, really what I'm looking
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: for are the guys that haven't quite hit it yet,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: but I've shown a ton of potential. Because if you're
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: going after a Ramon Anthony or same as Bessaio or
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: somebody like that, like they're already kind of at the
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: top of their market and it's gonna be hard for
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: that to grow over time. But I think there's a
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: few guys and Jacob Marcy and Dylan Beaver's that have
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a ton of potential and had really shown some good
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: things while they played, but they both of them were
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: coming up at the end of the season. Marci came
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: up and had what roughly two months and Beavers even
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: less than that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: And so I think those.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Guys are going to have a full run of things
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: and they you know, their perils, and things will be
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: relatively cheap because it's just gonna be the teams fans
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: that are are collecting those ones because they know about them.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And those are the guys that I always like to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: target here, maybe even a bubble of Chandler or something
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: like that, who didn't get a whole lot of run
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: at the end of the season because the other guys
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: for the most part, got a good run. Maybe you
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: can talk about own Casey in a similar similar vein.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I think you and I are both big fans of him,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm looking.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: At the hitters.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: They only got a slight run at the end of
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the season and have a ton of upsides. Are the
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: guys that I would be targeting. So I think they're
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: gonna be healthily affordable. You can find them, and they're
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna be priced out as the biggest guys, like
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: the kagli Owans, Anthony's Miserowski kind of guys.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like it. So, yeah, keep in mind
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: that when you're looking through this set. I mean the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: nice thing is that you know, if you hit parallels
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of those cards, those are something to consider in terms of,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: you know, playing the game of do you move it
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: now when the set is hot and right out the gates,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you know, within the first month, or do you try
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: to tuck some of these away. I can tell you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: these flagship cards probably not gonna be worth anything in
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the long run compared to what we've seen in previous
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: print runs. But I think any of the parallels, I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: think you're gonna do great out there, especially if you
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: can get color matches. So let's get into some of
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: these inserts too, because we've got plenty of standard inserts,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: plenty of returners, and some new ones too. So first
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: let's get into the base kind of set that's gonna
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: run throughout Flagship throughout the year is the nineteen ninety
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: one design set where you get those inserts. If you're
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: not familiar tops, what they do every year is they
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: run back a thirty fifth anniversary of whatever the design
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: was thirty five years ago. That puts us as nineteen
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: ninety one. Yes, I just said that out loud, nineteen
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: ninety one, which you know you might have just thought
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: came out you know a few years ago, you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a couple decades ago. Even it's thirty five years now.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It is one of the more interesting designs I think,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to pour it across that nineteen ninety We had this
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit last year too, where like nineteen ninety
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and nineteen ninety one, those cards are so much about
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the card stock for me, like when you think about
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: that set, and they didn't port that over here for
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the inserts. So you've got just the design from nineteen
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: ninety one put onto new cardboard, onto new kind of
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: slightly glossed cardboard, where if you remember the ninety one cards.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: They were barely made out of like paper as opposed
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to like cardboard. They were very dull and especially like
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I think about like the Desert Storm cards too that
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: came out with them. But I've always liked the ninety
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: one design. It's just kind of fascinating to see it
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: not applied to that kind of easy to beat up
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: cardboard that I'm used to. So what are you thinking
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: about these ninety one design cards now that you've kind
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of seen them on a few releases on eBay?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I like him.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I think I think it was proteabe. You actually had
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: an insert of them a few years ago as well.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: You know, just harkens back to like the big names
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: in that set was like Chipper Jones rookie cards, and
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: it's just it's, for whatever reason, it's just such a
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: simple design that I just felt like it's classic now.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: It's not like some of the other ones are, Like
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't really love that design back in the day,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: but it's like I really like seeing the young rookies
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: on what I would consider a classic design that I
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: just remember back in the day because they were just
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: so readily available, easy to have, so I like it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I really I'm with you on it, Like put it
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: in your hand, it doesn't feel right because it looks
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: like it should be, you know something, put in your
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: bike spokes and I think this will just slide right
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: out of your bike spokes. But either way, I really.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Do like the ninety one design.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to be kind of a plus
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: of this of the set, and I think it's gonna
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: be a fun one to try to collect, maybe the
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: whole run through of the ninety ninety one designs.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into some of these other inserts, because
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: what we've got in terms of returners are all tops Team.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: We've got Greatest Hits back, which has been a pretty
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: standard fare over the past handful of years. We've got
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: pro files, which is pro Capital f files pro files.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: And when I've originally made the Rundown, we didn't actually
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: know who the profiles person was going to be, because
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: if you recall this card from the nineties, what it
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: is is it's a set where one player or person
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: covers and does blurbs about each of the players featured
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: in the set. It is King Griffy Jr. So you're
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: gonna have that kind of fun set where each of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the cards is going to have a picture of a
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: modern player. For example, I'm looking at one right now
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: in eBay if Mike Trout, and then on the back
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it's got what Ken Graffy Jr. Thinks about Mike Trout.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So that's a cool kind of throwback to the nineties
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: that is back. We've got First Pitch back, which features
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: different celebrities throwing out first pitches. We've got Heavy Lumber back,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: which is a set that's printed all on wood, so
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about those wood parallels. But
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: heavy lumbers are short printed their case hits, they're hard
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to find. We've got home Field Advantage another case hit
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: which has become popular and I mean, I don't know
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: if it's ever going to go away, where these are
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: based on the Panini design for the downtowns that they
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: used to put together or still do put together. I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: would say, but Tops just blatantly ripped it off called
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: it home Field Advantage. They're fun because they'll tie in
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: elements of that local team to the design and then
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: it's on a nice chrome slash foil finish, which is
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: always cool to see. We've got all aces and all
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Kings back, which those are absolutely tremendously popular. If anything,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: they're starting to maybe beat the dead horse a little
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: bit where it used to be there do either all
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Kings or all aces and kind of mix and match
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and make it a little bit of a tough set
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to put together. But those are back, all Aces, all Kings,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: stars of them will be if you've ripped anything over
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the past what like six years, you know what I'm
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: talking about. It's these chinsey little inserts that are in
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: every pack that actually are completely worthless compared to even
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: based because there's so many of them out there. Titans
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: of the game. A two thousand insert, which we haven't
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: seen for quite a while is back. So of these returners,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: which ones you dig in any and there's some good
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: nostalgia here for you, right like this is right in
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: our wheelhouse.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm honestly liking a lot of these,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: which is something I haven't said for a while from
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a from a set, and so you know, I think
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: if I had to pick one, I'm really liking the
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: big ticket players. I don't know what it is about that,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: but it goes back to one I haven't gotten there. Yeah, sorry,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I'm jumping jumping for you. But of the returners, sorry,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I'm following the rules of the game here. The the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: all all Aces, all Kings are probably my favorite, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: heavy Lumber as well, but I'll never probably get one.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Those I think are just absolutely phenomenal. Probably the only
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: dud in there is Stars of MLB, but that's just
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: because you need some fillers somewhere in the packs. I
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: do want to call out the profiles, like you said,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: and I just think it is kind of cool because
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I just pulled up Pete crow Armstrong's profile here to
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: read the Griffy quote and it says defense like a
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: highlight reel.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Reminds me of myself out there. Confidence, smooth and fearless
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: like that. That's kind of fun. That's that's kind of fun.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: So I honestly a lot of the returners, outside of
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: early Stars of It'll Be, did a great job.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: So I'll do that. I bear the lead on the
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: new ones.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I'll let you talk about the new ones out there,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: but I'm I'm already gonna preview it. I love the
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: big ticket profile, the big ticket players. I think it's
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: a good one.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that is one of the new ones.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: It is actually it's really similar to Panini Contenders, Is
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that what it is?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: I believe.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I know Panini has like a ticket.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: So it's very similar to the Contenders, yes, which.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: They've used previously, but I think in a new kind
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: of different take on it, where you know, the card
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: looks like it's a ticket and it goes from there.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Then we've also got the cover Athletes, which I was looking.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I can't find one right now, but maybe it's just
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: not coming up. Great, Oh there's one, because it is
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a pretty decent hint. It's a little bit more rare
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: than some of the other inserts, but what it is,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: it's just, honestly, it's a little bit boring. It kind
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: of looks like a magazine cover with the player on it,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and then it features when they were featured on a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: TOPS box previously. We've also got some redemptions built in,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: which I just mostly wanted to highlight because it is
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: this is where you're getting a lot of the seventy
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: five years of TOPS built in, where they'll give away
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: tickets to TOPS events, to World Series games, all sorts
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of other things. We've also got finas authentics back which
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you are mostly found. I believe in the value boxes
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: that you get the blasters through for anacs dot com,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: but that could be a redemption for a signed piece
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: of memorabilia that you would send into TOPS fanatics. So
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: those are some of the news and new ones and
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: redemptions you hit it on the big ticket players that
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I think those are pretty slick. And you know what,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I'm coming a little bit around to the cover athletes too.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Now they see a few of them just because it
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: does look it's it's like when you used to actually
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: get Beckett in your in your hands and buy it
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: at the hobby shots back in the day. Okay, well
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: let's get into a few of the relics then too,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: because we've got standard fair here, major league material, the
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: relics of the nineteen ninety one inserts, City Connects, Watch,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: those are all standards in flagship nowadays. Real one relics
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: are new. So if you remember from our coverage of
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five TOPS update, they started rolling out real
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: one autos. Now they're going to have real one relics
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: where it's the actual kind of base design of the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: card that has a relic included into it the way. Honestly,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: it's just like the nineteen ninety one insert relics, where
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got the ninety one design of the
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: card and they put one of those patches or napkins
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: into the card. Is the relic. Now we've got it
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: in a real one flagship design. So it's been a
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: little while since we've seen something like this, but I've
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: been digging it.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: What about you? Yeah, I actually I think it's probably
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: my favorite relic.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's others, like some of the high end
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: the ones that are with the autos, but just looking
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: at your base relics, like, yeah, I really do like
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the fact that they're using the actual flagship design and
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: just throwing the relics straight into that. It looks fantastic
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and it feels like it belongs, and I think that's
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: a really thing. So I think those are gonna be
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: pretty pretty much arned popular with folks. Relatives some of
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: these other ones that you have out there, Major Material
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: and things like that, which have been around for a while.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I really the real ones is a good, good spin
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: on it. You know what it is?
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: It's because of that grody jersey design works when you
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: put a relic in it.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: That's very true. It's very that's very true.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I almost maybe that would have been the suggestion, like
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: to go back as like, hey, use the the weird
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: jersey background when you're doing the real one relics. But
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: otherwise cut it because I'm looking at an Otani one
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: right now, and it looks cool when you've got like
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the jersey with the relic. They're kind of like screams,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: A relic and I like it.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well just wait till they like get the
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: colors all off and then somebody's got like the Purple
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: City Connected jersey that they actually put in that real
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: one relic.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: But yeah, or yeah, some sort of weird patcher or something,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: it just does not fit whatsoever. Yeah, we'll look for
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: some of those, because I bet you could find one
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: that has like the most absurd color combos if you
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: get you know, like some team in a green or
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: a blue that doesn't match and it's got like a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: like you said, a city connector some other seatures in it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: So that's something to keep an eye out for. But
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: maybe so ugly it's cool yep.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: By work, But that's literally the same as you.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: I can only find the one out here so far,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: which is that Otani and so not surprisingly that's going
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: to be a pretty expensive card, but for at least
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: for that one, it definitely definitely works.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they are going to be rarer than those
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Major League materials and other relics that we've gone through,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: just because it seems like it's a little bit more
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: significant hit, mostly because I think it's new. Then we've
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: also got the in the name relics, which if you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: have been familiar with those through the years, they're the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: same where they get, you know, a jersey player plate
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: with their name on it that cut it all up
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: so that they've got the individual letters in each one
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of one card. Great for putting together a rainbow of
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that or you know, it wouldn't technically be a rainbow,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: would be the full name. But then also cool to
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: collect these for especially on Reddit, people love taking the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: different ones that they have and just spelling out whatever
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: you want to So great for writing ransom letters and
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: baseball cards if you want as well. So always going
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: to be a big hit in those in the names.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: That leaves us with the autos, because honestly, this is
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: a fun checklist in terms of autos. It's going to
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: be hard to hit the really rare ones and the
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: things that people are really chasing, but at least it's there.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: So we've got plenty of great autos to chase. We've
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: got real one autos back again too, just like update.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I think they're here to stay as well going forward,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: don't you.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: It seems like it's it's a it's a really good,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: really good card and it goes a long way and
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: makes it easier to such a print one.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And so you're going to get that real
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: one auto with just the flagship design with an autograph
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: straight on there. It's I think it's always going to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: be an on card, just the way that they do
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the real ones, and given the popularity that they've had
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: in heritage and now, I mean, especially if you can
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: start getting like Roman Anthony real one Auto rookie card, like,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a huge, huge chase
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: in the future. So something to keep in mind if
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: you hit one of those, you're also just gonna have
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the standard nineteen ninety one autos as well. That will
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of those will be stickers too, so you'll
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: probably get a little bit of a mix across the
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: board stickers, especially on the chrome side is usually where
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you see those most often. But then some of the
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: big ones that we've got men are n or the
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: seventy five years of tops die cuts, which it is
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: a that's a star Stata checklist, and given especially the
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: seventy five year anniversary, I imagine lots of people are
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: going to be chasing that entire checklist and it's just
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: base auto set list. What do you think that that
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: seems that screams to me a Chase checklist.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely does.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: And I mean it's been a while since we've had
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: a really good die cut auto for Chase, and so
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: I think you're you're right there. I think it's going
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: to be good, and I actually want to go back
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and I don't say correction something, but it's very shocking here.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: The nineteen ninety one is almost all on card Oh
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: really Okay? Yeah, as I'm looking through, it seems to be.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: And so I'm looking at a Joorne Pisada which is
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: on card auto from nineteenninety one design. So I think
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: you might be surprised the number of them that are
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: actually on card outside mean, don't get me wrong, they
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: got the stickers and all the like MLB Stars versions
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: the Baseball Stars, so don't they didn't go too far,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: But there's a lot more on card autos, and then
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: I would expect it unless you get to some of
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the Mojo packs or even some of the Major League
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: material ones. Those appear to be mostly sticker, so it's
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: gonna be hit or miss. Don't guarantee that they're all
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: that way, but it definitely looks like they went on
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: card auto with nineteen ninety one.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's cool to see, and hopefully they keep
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: that up it Usually it feels like it fades more
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: into the series two and updating. Yeah, we'll see where
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: that kind of pulls through. Then we've also got some
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: of the other autos that I think will be big chases.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: You always have this kind of crossover with a music
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: star and a baseball player. I don't know if I've
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: seen one as strange as this. We've got Bryce Harper
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: and Moby which I was trying to find the connection.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure you're gonna say, please enlighten me. It
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: was because I didn't know the connection.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure because Mobi is like a very
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: famously like from New York person and obviously Harper plays
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: for the Phillies, and so I don't know what the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: connection is there, but that will be cool is that
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: you can have a card autographed by Bryce Harper and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Moby and so that will be available for you.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: The other thing that just found it found it, Moby
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: has his maybe Moboby has his walk up song. He
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: uses his MOBI walk walk Up song flower since twenty twelve.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Well there we go.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that Bryce Harper was such a MOBI
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: head into that trip hop electronica, so now we know. Uh.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: And then the other big one that actually just dropped
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: this afternoon on the socials for Tops, which shows you know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: there's probably gonna be a few other things that come
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: up and come out are there's Jerry Seinfeld autographs in
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: this product too, so a lah Larry David being included
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. It looks like Jerry Seinfeld is
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: hien here in twenty twenty six with a New York
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Hats New York Mets hat on and and you know
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a huge piece for any Mets slash
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Seinfeld fans out there you've also got. I was trying
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: to have you found anything on this flagship auto patches.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling they're going to be really rare,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: but I'm they might just be like really nice patches.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: It was kind of in the checklist. I will keep
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: my eyes peeled for it, but given the rarity of them,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many we're going to be finding
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: two days before we release date in here, and I
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: know you're the I have not.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been looking, but I'm not I'm finding a
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: lot of the like said, the kind of Bass ninety
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: ones or the Major League Materials autos, but I have
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: not found anything on the flagship auto patches. It kind
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: of feels like a Reverence type version or something like that.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: But no, nothing here yet. And we're still two days
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: ahead of release days. So if we're finding those maybe
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: bigger issues.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. And then you're also going to have most
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of those inserts that we ran through, they're gonna have
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: auto versions as well. And so I think the big
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: one to call out from there is actually the cover athletes.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: This is where it's gonna shine because the cover athletes
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: that have been on the Flagship tops over the years
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: have been very good, So like you're gonna have lots
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: of great players within that checklist between you know, your
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Mike Troutz, your Aaron Judges, Albert Poohol, Shoho Tani. So
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: that's going to be where I think, especially the cover
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: athlete stuff comes through. The other big chase card I
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: think in this set is first pitch. Those celebrity first
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: pitch inserts that I was talking about, they'll have autograph parallels.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I think the big one in the checklist this year
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: is going to be Tony Hawk, So that might end
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: up being like one of the main chase cards I
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: think from this set overall is that you get a
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Tony Hawk first pitch padres auto. That's that's gonna be
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a huge hit because I you know, just the crossover
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: of everybody, especially with all the nineties kind of throwbacks
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: they have in this It's gonna hit all of the
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: millennials and kind of all sorts of people right in
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the heart kind of going out there and collecting that
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Tony Hawk auto. So I kind of glossed over some
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: of those insert autos, But anything else from that auto
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: checklist or anything else from these chases where you're like man,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: this is really cool and this is really standing out
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six flagship.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the one I do want to call
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: out is just the Major League Materials autos. I don't
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: know that in the past that they've done a good job,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: but it's actually really really clean this year. I know
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: it's a sticker auto, but it does a really good
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: job of bringing in you know, different colors, a lot
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: of clean lines, and a really nice patch with the auto.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: It's just it's it stands out.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: It.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I referenced Reverence earlier, which is historically been a flagship
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: kind of stable, like an out of ten type of auto.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: These feel like Reverence patches, and they're like, you know,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: there's plentiful within the set, and so it feels like
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: they stepped it up degree with the Major League materials
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: this year than they have in the past. So maybe
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: it's just me, but I'm actually like you major League
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: material autos for once.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think that the design is much better
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: than it has been the past few years, where like
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it just felt a little cheap in the past few years.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: That it's the design. I mean, the card's gonna still
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: be relatively thin, but it's starting to like border around
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: like a Tier one or something in terms of that
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: sort of design where it feels pretty nice. So I
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: do agree they do look much better.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: And I'll throw out also, I'm seeing a lot more
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: it's not across the board, but a lot more game
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: used patches this time around rather.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Than player war.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, there's plenty of both, but
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: it feels like for a few years we were really
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: getting away from game use patches. And there's quite quite
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: a few as I've gone through and looked at, that
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: was released early across the board with these patches, so
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: especially the City connector I mean, which is probably not
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: a surprise, the City Connection. It seems to be almost
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: all game used patches.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: That is good to see. And I mean the other
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: thing is there isn't those like manufactured relics that they've
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: really phased those out. I think because the feedback was
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: so poor.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Those were so bad.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially if you're hitting those in hobby products.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't mind hitting them in a blaster, Like you know,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I'm buying a blaster, I'm not expecting the highest end stuff,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: and it's fun in that situation.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: But when you were getting.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Those in your jumbo boxes and your hobby boxes on
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: occasion that is that was the ultimate kick in the nuts,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: like you pulling that when you're expecting a real hit.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: And so I'm glad to see those that phased out.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: So a couple of wins there. So there are ups
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: and downs, but I think plenty of things that we
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: still love because at the end of the day, it's flagship,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: it's Top Series one, it's baseball Baby, it's back.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: It's back, We're here, let's get riven.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think that wraps up everything that
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about on Series one. Like I said,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: we are recording two days early from actual release date,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: so we'll be recording again on Wednesday on the release date.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm sure we'll see some other things that hit
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: the news wire. So if you check us out again
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: later this week on our podcast, we will be able
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: to round out any sort of other surprises that were
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: included in twenty twenty six Top Series one. Man, it's
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: so fun to say that after saying twenty twenty five
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: for so long, for all these releases we've been having recently,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: but with that brew, let everybody know where they can
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: find you. On socials, read your work, reach out to you.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: Yep. Find me Jay Brewer one seven on Twitter, ex
• 57:52
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• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Find me on the weekends doing hitter Profilestop one hundred
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: hitter rankings. We're gonna be doing bust this next weekend.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: We've done a lot of our sleepers or deep sleepers
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: or breakouts. We're gonna look some of those land mines
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: of voids. So come find me on Sundays out on
• 58:08
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• 58:10
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• 58:18
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• 58:21
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• 58:25
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• 58:28
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• 58:31
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• 58:33
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• 58:36
  Speaker 1: opening and just the excitement and thrill of what baseball
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: card collecting can be. So thanks everybody for checking out
• 58:42
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• 58:47
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• 58:50
  Speaker 1: We'll still be back to cover the NL Central.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: Later this week.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: In our preview series, we'll be back on board that
• 58:55
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• 59:00
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