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Buying Cards When Grades Don't Matter!! · Sports Card Clubhouse

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  In our massive country, there are card collectors throughout
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  the land participating in the hobby.
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  There's Mike of Junk Wax Hero and Greg of Midlife Cards, and
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  while distance may separate them, here is where they come
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  together to talk cards. Hey buddy, so let's talk some
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  cards. How are you?
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  Good. I'm so tired, Greg.
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  I didn't even bop along to the song to the intro song.
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  I mean, that's AU problem, really.
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  I've been off all week, so I'm bopping all over the place.
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  I played a few holes of golf today with my mother.
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  We went out and played six holes and then we got tired of waiting
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  so we just drove off. And is it school vacation week?
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  Yeah, it's spring break. Here they get vacations in
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  February and April. Yeah, that's how a lot of people
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  do it. That's called A modified
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  traditional. My district doesn't believe in
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  that for some reason, but yeah. If I had known, we could have
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  started this earlier. Yeah, I mean, we could have.
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  Yeah. I didn't know that.
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  I thought that you didn't work from home on this day of the
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  week. But I don't.
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  But I, I, Yeah. It doesn't matter.
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  Yeah. I I I don't know.
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  I have. There's a yeah.
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  So we're I I golfed today. We went up to the mountains for
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  a couple of days. It's been.
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  I slept in today. I slept in till like 7.
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  I felt like I was cheating. Maybe 7:15.
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  I very rarely sleep until 7:00, but when I do 7 is just about as
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  late as I can still feel good. Like I'll feel like wow I slept
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  in, I feel good, but if I sleep longer than that I've wasted my
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  day. Yeah, No, I, I hear that too.
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  I mean, if you do sleep too long, then you feel like you're
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  behind, you know, and not not even that you have anything that
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  you necessarily have to do. I got to tell you something,
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  man, I had a massive mail day today.
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  Now you you're aware of one of the cards that I came, came
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  because I texted you earlier a picture of it.
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  But I and, and I think that's going to be part of our topic
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  today potentially. But I had another package that
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  was delivered from, there's a small auction house that sells
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  non sport it, it auctions non sport cards.
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  And I'm big into non sport cards.
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  And I bought 4 cards in their auction that closed a week and a
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  half ago and the card showed up today and dude, I'm I'm pumped.
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  Like I just absolutely love them.
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  Can I show Can I show you a few of these?
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  Please, is it Goonies related? Not Goonies related.
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  So this is a 19 O1 Teddy Roosevelt sweet cap card.
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  Now this card in cigarettes, there would be a panel that had
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  two cards on it. And these are heroes of the
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  Spanish War, OK. And it would be hand cut.
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  There'd be two cards on a panel. And this is the the Teddy
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  Roosevelt, which the other thing that's cool about this card is
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  it came out in 19 O1, which is the year he became president
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  after an assassination. So it's so.
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  It I mean, it's his presidential rookie card for sure.
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  And if you look here, I pulled this up, pop total pop is five
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  and a pop higher. This is a 2 pop higher.
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  There are two twos, so the others are authentics.
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  So really excited about that card.
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  Let me get this out of the way. I'll show you a couple more.
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  So then I got another Teddy Roosevelt card.
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  I mean, doesn't it look just my kids?
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  My daughter looked that goes, that's what he looked like in
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  the night at the museum. I was like, I know.
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  That's right. Yep.
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  That's 1910 card and then from the same set I got this Buffalo
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  Bill and I got this sitting bowl I am pumped for.
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  Those. So those cards were these are
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  needle in a haystack cards, these just don't come up for
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  sale. And then when you do, you just
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  hope that somebody else doesn't want them as much as you.
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  And I felt like I got a killer deal on all four of them.
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  And I'm getting a sense that you're not going to name the
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  auction house because you're afraid to give people the idea
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  of going to buy it at this auction house.
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  Now there is a there is a piece of that.
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  I to be honest with you, I think it's just called non sport
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  auctions. If you'd googled non sport
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  auctions. I'll pull it up.
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  Let's see if I can find it here real quick.
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  Yeah, it's, I'll put it on the screen here.
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  This is it. Vintage non sport cards.
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  It's auctions.vintagenonsports.com.
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  If you watch Ryan Nolan's channel break out cards, he
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  always covers these auctions thoroughly afterwards about
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  cards that stood out and stuff like that.
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  I love this stuff. This Blackbeard right here,
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  sold. I was watching it, I didn't end
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  up making a play for it. Pretty nice 3 1/2.
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  Very nice. That sold for $4272.
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  Yeah. Oh yeah, dude, it's, it's legit,
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  bro. So yeah.
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  So that was half of my order. Then the other thing that came
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  in today, which is going to lead us into our, our main topic I
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  believe is a big Derek Jeter card.
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  It's 1997 essential credentials Derek Jeter.
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  Now this card is interesting because it's out of 99 and I
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  know that a lot of people are like out of 99.
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  Is he really doing this? It's out of 99, but total PSA
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  pop 9 higher. This is an 8 pop 3 total pop is
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  16 even though it's numbered out of 99.
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  So some of them are probably in Beckett holders, but some of
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  them just are still in the wild. Yeah, sitting in 90s collections
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  completely forgotten about. Yeah, and a lot of them thrown
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  out. We should say before we get into
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  this that non sport auction company is not a sponsor but
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  Greg who is the sponsor of this show.
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  Yeah, who is a sponsor is Chris Sewell.
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  And if you went to sportscarclubhouse.com and you
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  went to partners, you would see on the screen Chris Sewell,
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  collector, investor, dealer, in that order.
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  And if you click on the Learn More, you could even go directly
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  to his website, collectorinvestordealer.com.
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  He has this e-mail address is the one that's still posted you
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  and I kind of sharebothofthembutthisoneischris@collectorinvestordealer.com.
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  Again, if you're looking to sell your collection and get treated
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  well, get good prices. I do trust Chris very much, and
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  as do you. Tell me again, remind me of his
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  other e-mail address. Chris@sewellsports2cardssewellsportscards.com.
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  Yeah. You know what we should do,
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  Craig? We should have.
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  We're never going to do it, but it'll be funny if every time we
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  say Chris Sewell, baseball card collector, investor, dealer and
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  then we had a music thing pop up and play in that order.
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  Yeah, like a barbershop quartet. Yeah.
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  Now he's great. We appreciate more than
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  anything. I'll be honest with you, I just
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  appreciate his support and belief in us.
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  That means a lot to me. And he's a great guy.
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  He's also a partner in CIA auctions, which I bought a
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  couple of cards at CIA auctions this last weekend.
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  I've been on a buying spree. Do we want to do we want to get
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  into that? Because why don't you, why don't
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  you lead us off on the your main topic that you want to talk?
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  About today Well, we should also mention that Chris, something
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  you're not aware of is there is a tall guy club, but I'm part of
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  Yeah, and not you. You have to be tall.
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  Chris Sewell is part of it. Jeremy Lee and Adam Gray, part
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  of the tall guy tall guy club. You have to be 6 foot 2 or
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  taller. Sorry.
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  Sammy Thunder. Sammy Thunder's in there.
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  Tall Guy Club. Yes.
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  Yeah, I'm not in that club. I'll blame my jeans for that.
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  I Yeah. OK, so tell me about the topic
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  that you. You you We've been talking a
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  little bit about it, but you've been going crazy on some very,
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  very nice 1990s Jeter cards, some refractors, some non
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  refractors, very like very high end.
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  These aren't just like 1993 tops.
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  These are, I think there's 1800 eighteen 165 of the gold mirror
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  in 1995. Weird thing, if I if I remember
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  this correctly, there were over 1800 of the 95 select gold
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  mirror, but they're only 30 of the 1996 gold mirror per player.
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  Why did they change so drastically?
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  I don't know, but the 1996? Good luck getting one of those.
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  I don't know what those sell for for Jeter, but it's got to be
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  10s of thousands. It's thousands, yeah, it's
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  thousands 'cause they have like the red and the blue and the
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  gold and the gold are super rare.
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  Thousands of dollars. Even the other colors are are
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  not cheap. And then and and I'm just going
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  to, you know, continue to pull back the curtain on what I've
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  been doing. These are the cards that I
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  bought at the CIA auction over the weekend.
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  So I did not limit my spending tear.
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  This is an artist proof 97 pinnacle.
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  This card, it's like something, it's like one artist proof per
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  two boxes and there's a bunch of artist proofs.
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  So the odds of getting the Jeter is like like one in 300 boxes or
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  something. So what?
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  What did you pay for this? It's right there, I just can't
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  quite see. You owe $202.40 with the buyer
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  premium. That feels like an insane deal.
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  I think it is. Let's look up.
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  Let's look up the pop on this one.
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  So this is going to take me a second so everyone will see me
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  fumbling around here. Well, yeah.
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  And while you do that, so Adam of splendid sports, we know
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  Adam. He's our partner here on the
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  sports card clubhouse. Adam is the best created a list
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  of the best Pedro cards, Pedro Martinez cards of all time.
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  And what what year was that artist proof one?
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  97. OK so the 97 there isn't artist
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  proof for Pedro but there is a different one.
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  I'm looking at his list here. Oh it's 98 pinnacle plus artist
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  proof gold which is numbered at 100.
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  What was yours? Mine is not numbered.
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  It's an artist proof gold 97 pinnacle.
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  But but if you look at the pop here, the the pop is 18.
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  This is a nine, there's six 10s. But let me get the total pop.
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  I have to pull the number 139. So we'll look at the total pop
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  of that particular card again, 200 bucks.
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  This is Derek Jeter. Total pop of that card is 44.
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  Announced print run IS300 OK non serial numbered.
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  So there's 300 in the wild, there's probably some in Beckett
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  holders, there are 44 in PSA holders.
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  But 200 bucks? Seems like a huge deal.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  And then I I bought another card and the reason I bought this one
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  is because I don't see this one very often.
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  So this card right here is a 1999 Metal Universe Diamond Soul
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  PSA 8. Now this card is something like
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  one in every 76 packs. You get a diamond soul card, one
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  in every 76 packs. That's like one in every three
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  boxes and there are 15 diamond soul cards in there.
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  So about one in every 45 boxes you would get this Jeter and
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  this card was $79 with the buyer premium in already in a case
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  already already graded in an A. It feels like you've done
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  something illegal here. I don't know about that.
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  I mean, there are people out there that are rolling their
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  eyes at what I've done here. They're going what is this guy
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  doing? But here's the thing, you are in
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  our text messages which people can't see.
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  You are poo pooping anything beyond 1999.
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  And I have to tell you, I have to tell you, when you start
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  looking at the 2003 and 2004 Jeter tops Chrome refractors,
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  you are going to change your mind.
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  You're going to say I have to have those?
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  OK, so let me first say this. I'm not poo pooping.
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  Let me let me set the record straight.
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  First of all, I actually bought recently a Jeter 2004 Jeter
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  black refractor on man. Those are so nice.
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  It's such a cool card. I'll show it on on my I'll put
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  me in solo and I'll put it up there and then I want to tell
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  you a story about this. I mean, that's an awesome
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  looking card. It's in a Beckett 8.5 scratched
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  up case needs to be polished out.
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  But let me explain what happened here.
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  What happened? Hold on, hold on, my bad.
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  So so I bought I did buy one, but I want I want to defend
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  myself here because you just you came at me so I need to defend
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  myself. So first of all, I did buy one.
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  Now I bought that two weeks ago and there was no notification of
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  it being shipped and you go well, it's probably a bad
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  seller. It's DC sports cards.
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  I bought this on eBay from DC Sports 87.
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  OK it was not cheap. Finally after two weeks and it
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  doesn't have a tracking number, I put in a thing that says I
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  haven't gotten the card yet and immediately and I said I still
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  want the card, just ship it. I immediately get a notice that
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  I've been refunded. I don't want to be refunded.
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  It was an auction. I got it for what I believe to
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  be a good deal. That's an insane deal.
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  Yeah, it it was. I thought this was a great deal.
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  For anybody listening, he's got it.
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  He paid $225.00 before taxes and and shipping.
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  And and these cards are numbered, but they're numbered
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  out of a lot. But it's it's a so I'm sitting
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  there going, I didn't want a refund.
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  I just wanted you to ship me the freaking card.
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  Like what's the deal? So, and DC is one of the
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  companies I've always heard really good things about.
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  So I'm not thrilled about that. But OK, so now let me address
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  the accusation. The.
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  Accusation is I'm poo pooping cards from 2000 and after.
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  That's actually not accurate. What I'm doing is I'm trying to
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  find focus and if I take my window and I go all the way to
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  2005 or something, then it's so broad.
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  I feel like I'm, I'm drowning. I'm in quicksand.
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  It's too much. So here's what I did.
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  I went in to the Jeter PSA master list and I went through
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  every single card from the very first Jeter card through 1990.
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  I started with through 1997 and I looked at every single card
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  and I said, I like that one. I want that one.
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  Put it on the list. I like that one.
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  I want that one. So then I made an Excel
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  spreadsheet. I can even pull it up.
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  I'll pull up the Excel spreadsheet and and then I said,
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  Oh my gosh, there's like 60 cards.
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  I need to stay focused and when you're talking about something
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  as big as this, I can't possibly bite off all of that.
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  So it's more it's not that I'm Pooh poohing it, it's that I'm
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  trying to put guardrails on myself.
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  OK. Is that is that fair?
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  Yes, I think that if you've seen the 2000 fours, you know they're
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  very nice. Like here's here's my 2000
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  threes of Pedro black and gold number to 199 and 449.
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  And they are the 2003 and four are the best.
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  They I think those are the two best years.
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  I, I, they get a little out of control with some of the later
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  refractors, even well before current times like 2009.
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  There's all kinds of different colors.
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  I don't know, but yeah the 2002, 2003, 2004 are my favorites.
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  All right, so. You're going to increase, people
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  are going to go out there and start bidding you up.
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  Now this is how diabolical I am right now.
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  I made a list of all the ones that I want and I'm at 30.
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  I'm at 3036 ish, 35 because there's a couple of MP lines.
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  I've got comps, I've got populations, I've got how much I
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  want them now. I haven't updated this since
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  I've been on my tear recently. So that's something like, you
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  know, like the Pinnacle card that that I just bought that
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  that's not even that's not even on here, because I didn't even
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  think I would be able to find it so some.
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  You have a 97 Topps Chrome Refractor, 96 Topps Chrome
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  refractor 'cause that's the first year of tops.
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  He does and it's expensive. It's like $1000 cart 'cause it's
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  the first year and, and that's, I got to go back to this and I
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  got to go back to part of the reason the essential credentials
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  that I got is so cool is because this is the first year of
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  essential credentials. And so I've had some people rub
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  off on me big time over the last couple of years.
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  And it's interesting 'cause I, I came to a realization today.
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  And the realization is sometimes people, they, they start to
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  impact you and you don't know that they've impacted you until
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  long after they've impacted you. So you start making changes to
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  what you're doing. You just think it's your own
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  natural evolution. And then you look back and go,
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  wait a second. It's, it's that person and that
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  person and what they've been saying that I somehow it's
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  morphed how I'm doing things. It's.
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  Their fault, not yours. It is 100% their fault and
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  there's a lot of people at fault for this modern, this modern
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  kick that I'm on. And don't get me wrong, guys, I
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  mean, if you say it was so he's a modern collector now.
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  No, like these weren't cheap. These these cards that I just
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  bought weren't cheap. And I am definitely I'm not a
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  modern collector. I feel like I'm I've broadened a
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  little bit, but I want to take you through and I'm planning on
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  doing a whole video on this next week.
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  So I'm going to expand on it, but I just want to briefly throw
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  this out there. So let me get this off the
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  screen. I want to briefly throw this out
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  there. So Chris Hoge, now you know,
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  I'll say right now, Chris Hoge Card Ladder is a sponsor of my
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  channel, not a sponsor of Sports Card Clubhouse, although we
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  would be open to that if Chris was interested.
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  We would definitely be open to that, I believe, right?
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  We, I started using car ladder in November, so about four
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  months ago. And I would say that every day
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  my affinity for car ladder increases.
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  I and I have a video that I've been thinking about doing that I
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  think will be maybe it's maybe we'll do it on April, April
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  Fool's Day where the title is, I'm obsessed with card values
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  because I kind of am. Honestly, ever since I started
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  using card ladder, I use it every single day I go in and I
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  had never cared about what the value of my cards were, but now
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  I'm just like, oh, this is really interesting.
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  And I don't know if I like that part of how I use cart letter or
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  not. And that's not a that's not them
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  problem. It's a me problem.
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  But yeah, I love, I love cart letter.
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  I use it everyday for many things.
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  And, and one of the things about the values that's interesting to
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  me, and this is, you know, a lot of people are anti value.
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  Great, that's fine. I, I, I don't have, I really
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  don't have a problem with that. My, my thing about card values
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  is like that pinnacle artist proof card that we were just
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  looking at. Like part of the reason that
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  values are interesting to me is it's interesting why some things
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  are valuable and some things aren't.
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  So sometimes I'll, I'll look at card ladder and, and I'll find a
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  car go that's a really good looking card.
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  The population is low, but it's only worth 80 bucks.
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  Like why is it only selling for 80 bucks?
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  And those are some of the cards that I've been targeting are the
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  anomalies. And so part of all this data
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  that I just had on the screen, all of this over here, the
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  populations, the comps, the, the every, all of this is 100% from
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  card ladder. And I've, that is interesting to
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  me is why are some things valuable and some things not?
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  Like who decided that? But back to what Hoge was
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  saying. So Hoge, about a year ago, he
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  started using this quote over and over and over.
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  And I think this is really interesting and I really want to
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  hear your take on this. Doctor is a Doctor Beckett
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  quote, he said. And he's he's probably, I
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  probably heard him refer to this quote at least a half a dozen
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  times. And the quote was Doctor Beckett
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  was at a table and he was talking to the dealer.
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  And Doctor Beckett said to the dealer, I don't want the cards
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  that you're selling. I want the cards that you're not
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  selling. And Hoge is referred to that
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  repeatedly because it's like, yes, the stuff that you're
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  selling, you know, is OK to let go.
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  But the stuff that you're holding back, there's a reason
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  you're holding it back. That's the stuff that I want.
• 23:59
  And what Hoge has been on this kind of kick of saying recently
• 24:03
  and talking about is buy cards where the grade doesn't even
• 24:09
  matter. It doesn't matter what the grade
• 24:11
  of the card is when it's the card that's special, not the
• 24:16
  grade. There are some cards, an 83
• 24:20
  Fleer Wade Boggs it it's it's it's so common of a card.
• 24:26
  The only time you go, oh, wow, is when it's a 10.
• 24:29
  The grade made it special. But there are some cards that
• 24:33
  are special. Even if the grade was a six, if
• 24:37
  this Derek Jeter Essential Credentials was a six, it would
• 24:40
  still be an extremely special card, regardless of the grade.
• 24:45
  This Teddy Roosevelt. Yeah, and you don't care, do
• 24:49
  you? Not remotely.
• 24:50
  In fact, I like them as that because I can crack them out and
• 24:52
  put them into one touches. Yeah, this, this Teddy Roosevelt
• 24:56
  is A2. I could, I couldn't care less
• 24:59
  because just the existence of that card is what makes the card
• 25:02
  special. So I started thinking about all
• 25:05
  the cards I've been buying over the last few months and they
• 25:10
  kind of have this same thing in common.
• 25:13
  When I went to the West Coast card show, I bought a sitting
• 25:15
  bowl 1888 Allen and Ginter card. It's thrashed it'll get a one at
• 25:20
  best, but it's special because of what it is.
• 25:25
  My Brooks Robinson autographed rookie card that I didn't think
• 25:28
  I'd ever get rid of my regular Brooks Robinson rookie card, but
• 25:31
  I wanted this autographed one because that autograph in that
• 25:35
  place, that was a younger autograph made it special.
• 25:39
  Didn't matter that the card has issues.
• 25:42
  That's what Tony's been doing, is buying auto cards because
• 25:45
  they're special regardless of the condition.
• 25:49
  Is that something for you as a collector that you think a lot
• 25:54
  about of do you just go, I like the looks of that, I want it?
• 26:01
  How much does it's special because of its existence instead
• 26:06
  of its special because of the grade?
• 26:09
  How much does that play into what you do?
• 26:12
  Because I feel like it's starting to really play a lot
• 26:14
  into what I do. I like cool cards.
• 26:17
  So on Adam's list, it's all these really rare Pedro cards,
• 26:22
  rare and popular and just really awesome cards.
• 26:27
  But then he has one of them that isn't remotely rare and he just
• 26:31
  says this isn't rare, but it's really cool and shiny or
• 26:36
  something like that. And and it is, I look at him
• 26:38
  like, man, that and it's a 20. Dollar Pacific is a Pacific
• 26:41
  card. No, I.
• 26:43
  Don't. He loves the shiny Pacific
• 26:44
  cards, but go. Ahead, yeah, I don't remember
• 26:46
  what it is, but yeah, for sure I some people like cards that are
• 26:52
  rare. They don't care about who the
• 26:56
  card is of they don't care about the demand for the card.
• 27:00
  They just want a rare card. I want cool cards.
• 27:05
  I want cards that when I see them, I say, oh man, that is
• 27:08
  such a cool card. And I like in demand cards too.
• 27:13
  So like Griffey's 89 Upper Deck card, it's famous and I want it.
• 27:18
  And that's the whole concept behind my attainable collection
• 27:22
  of Envy 100 cards. Is there cards that everybody
• 27:25
  knows? There are cards that everybody
• 27:28
  could aspire to. There's no Harness Wagner T2O6
• 27:31
  in there. It's some of them are out of
• 27:33
  reach for me included. But I'm yeah, I'm definitely
• 27:37
  into those. And you talked about the cards
• 27:40
  you wanting the cards that are not for sale.
• 27:43
  And I've been, I noticed that I'm searching for important
• 27:48
  Pedro cards in my in all over eBay and I started noticing that
• 27:54
  a lot of them have the same seller and his the cellar store
• 27:59
  is called unparalleled collectibles.
• 28:02
  And it's, it is bonkers Greg. So you know, I'm just looking
• 28:05
  through all this guy's Pedro has a page dedicated to Pedro on his
• 28:09
  eBay store. And it's, it's insane.
• 28:11
  So I, I messaged him and I said, hey, I assume you're in New
• 28:15
  England. I'm in Maine.
• 28:17
  I'd love to see your collection. And you know, you have this
• 28:21
  insane Pedro collection. He said.
• 28:23
  To be honest, this what's listed on eBay is just a small portion
• 28:28
  of my collection that made me go, oh man, I need to see this.
• 28:34
  What is he holding back? What is he not selling?
• 28:37
  It's got to be huge. Well, you know that Adam
• 28:41
  Splendid Sports has one of the best Pedro collections on earth.
• 28:46
  Like it's insane. You should do like a like an
• 28:50
  episode where you have both of them on and you should, Yeah, go
• 28:55
  ahead. I wanna, I wanna go to Adam's
• 28:58
  and film his hobby room. I think if I remember correctly,
• 29:02
  I just asked him fairly recently, I think he said he's
• 29:04
  not not ready for that yet. Yeah, well, he just moved.
• 29:08
  He just moved and he's got younger kids and you know.
• 29:11
  Yeah, I'm not. I just moved into this room 7
• 29:14
  months ago and I'm not ready yet.
• 29:15
  It's I've had no time to work on it.
• 29:19
  Yeah, I, I, I, I think that and, and back to the whole, you know,
• 29:24
  getting into the shinier stuff, 'cause I know a lot of our
• 29:29
  audience are vintage collectors and, and they're, you know, kind
• 29:32
  of going, Oh my gosh, I can't believe this.
• 29:34
  These guys, these guys were like us and now they're into this.
• 29:39
  They're yeah. Like, like, like there's, there
• 29:41
  has to be an element of of our audience going like you didn't
• 29:48
  used to like that stuff. And I did, though I've always
• 29:51
  liked it. I've just, I've just brought you
• 29:54
  over to the dark side. Well, it was a lot of guy.
• 29:57
  It was Shane Shewock's Legends, it was Brent Richards, it was
• 30:01
  Brian High Pop, it was you, it was Adam, it was Dylan.
• 30:05
  I mean, it was a lot of these guys.
• 30:07
  And and I think it it, I don't think and and I did an episode
• 30:13
  on this like a week and a half ago on my channel.
• 30:16
  I called it or maybe it was like a week ago is like have you ever
• 30:20
  considered a new portal or a new like arm of your collection with
• 30:25
  new things The the brothers duo call it a new branch of their
• 30:29
  bonsai tree. Like is there a new direction
• 30:32
  that you Cuz I'm having a blast with this.
• 30:35
  This does not mean that I don't like what I have been collecting
• 30:39
  for years. It doesn't mean that I'm going
• 30:42
  to go to Strongsville and I'm not interested in trying to get
• 30:46
  a Lou Gehrig card anymore or an Appalachia way card.
• 30:49
  Like I still want those too. I just think that this this is
• 30:54
  something I want in addition. And it is really been fun to
• 30:59
  learn about. I've loved digging into it and
• 31:02
  and researching it. And like with that, is there a
• 31:08
  new branch? Is there a new portal for you
• 31:12
  that you've recently or are considering?
• 31:16
  Like you're mostly baseball, except for the attainable list
• 31:21
  that's got a lot of like you've even got some figure skater
• 31:24
  cards and things, but which is, which are really cool by the
• 31:28
  way. And but but like have you, do
• 31:32
  you have anything that you're kind?
• 31:35
  Is there anything starting to itch a little bit and you're
• 31:37
  like, I maybe I need to scratch that itch a little bit?
• 31:40
  Yeah, so I I noticed that there was AI don't remember what what
• 31:45
  Cardinal 54 Bowman color, Johnny Pesky autograph some 50, you
• 31:53
  know, early to mid 50s Johnny Pesky.
• 31:55
  And Johnny Pesky is a Red Sox legend, could have been a Hall
• 31:59
  of Famer if it weren't for WAR. You know, he's, he would have
• 32:02
  been borderline, but but then worked for the Red Sox for
• 32:06
  decades. And I was at Johnny Pesky game,
• 32:10
  I don't know, 20 years ago maybe.
• 32:12
  I don't know how long ago it was.
• 32:14
  And his autographs from the early 50s are so cheap. 52 tops,
• 32:20
  I think was what it was. And then I was like, well, how
• 32:24
  many cards could Johnny Pesky possibly have?
• 32:27
  And it's not that many. And I thought, what if I just
• 32:30
  start collecting all of them autographed?
• 32:33
  So it's not, it's not like branching out beyond what, you
• 32:36
  know, baseball. But it is a new sub collection.
• 32:40
  I'm constantly doing this and I hate myself for, but I also love
• 32:43
  it. It keeps things interesting.
• 32:45
  I never get bored. There's always something.
• 32:47
  I love players like that, that the franchise and the fans and
• 32:54
  the diehards of the franchise just love, but they're not going
• 32:59
  to get in the Hall of Fame. Like most people have never
• 33:01
  heard of Johnny Pesky. They've heard of the Pesky Pole,
• 33:04
  of course, but you've never heard of him.
• 33:06
  And it keeps his cards really inexpensive, which I love.
• 33:09
  Yankee fans love Paul O'Neill. Like if you ever look at like
• 33:14
  Paul O'Neill's last game in Yankee Stadium, they're chanting
• 33:18
  Paul O'Neill so loud. So he's just crying in right
• 33:22
  field, like, you know, and he's not a Hall of Famer.
• 33:24
  He's very good. But those guys as kind of
• 33:28
  gamers, there's something about those guys that it's, it's
• 33:33
  pretty cool. It's pretty cool to, to kind of
• 33:36
  have those little, you know, I, I know that Adam Vintage
• 33:40
  Sanctuary, he collects a lot of the, he calls him Yankee
• 33:44
  contributors, like during the early 50s when they were really
• 33:47
  good, like, you know, Allie Reynolds and stuff where they
• 33:51
  were important players, but they're not the household name
• 33:55
  guys and, and I think that's pretty cool.
• 33:58
  Paula Neal batted left-handed through right-handed.
• 34:04
  No. Left-handed.
• 34:06
  Yeah, he was left-handed. What?
• 34:07
  What foot did he kick with? What?
• 34:12
  Why are you asking me this? Is there something I'm
• 34:14
  forgetting? Yeah, go go to his baseball
• 34:18
  reference page. OK, the you know.
• 34:21
  Where it says bats, left throws left kicks.
• 34:28
  Does it? I'm pretty sure it does.
• 34:31
  It does and then. Click on the link.
• 34:34
  So bats left throws, left kicks, left click on the link.
• 34:40
  I'm going to pull it up on the screen for everybody.
• 34:42
  Hold on. Oh, I remember that now.
• 34:46
  I remember that now it's. A fun call O'Neill fact.
• 34:50
  Let's see if it'll it's not wanting to show it.
• 34:53
  It does its thing where when I share a screen.
• 34:56
  Hold on, let me see if I can see if I can share the screen here
• 35:02
  now. Here it is.
• 35:04
  I got it in the comments for not remembering if he threw
• 35:06
  right-handed or left-handed. I know.
• 35:07
  Oh, you are for sure. I was like starting to second
• 35:10
  guess from someone like what are you talking about?
• 35:11
  He's left-handed. All right, here we go.
• 35:13
  Let's watch it. They said right field but
• 35:18
  they're going to have to hold Jelts at 3rd going out of
• 35:21
  August. Away from.
• 35:22
  O'Neill and it worked. It did, it was great.
• 35:26
  Got a Steve Jelts appearance too for TJS online absolute.
• 35:30
  All timer. He kicked.
• 35:31
  The ball to Todd Benzinger. Todd Benzinger all.
• 35:36
  Time play I may have ever seen. It's funny.
• 35:41
  It's funny because Paul O'Neill, even when he went to the
• 35:44
  Yankees, he lived in Cincinnati. And I actually have this quick,
• 35:50
  funny Paul O'Neill story. It's not that funny, But my
• 35:54
  brother went to college at the University of Cincinnati and my
• 35:58
  brother was a musical theater major.
• 36:02
  And so my brother, whenever there was any sort of big show
• 36:05
  in Cincinnati, my brother would be added or in it or something,
• 36:10
  and many times he would be sitting down the aisle from Paul
• 36:15
  O'Neill. Paul O'Neill went to all this
• 36:17
  stuff, 'cause I think his wife was really in the theater.
• 36:20
  And he said every time Paul just looked like he was absolutely
• 36:24
  miserable at the show, but he was there for his wife.
• 36:27
  And he, my brother, just got such a kick out of it, how he
• 36:30
  would be there, but he looked miserable.
• 36:32
  And he never went up and said something to him, but he just
• 36:34
  got a kick out of that so. I also am not a.
• 36:38
  Theater person. I'm not either.
• 36:41
  I'm not either. My brother, you know, he got
• 36:44
  into it when he was real young, like maybe 4th or 5th grade,
• 36:48
  ended up majoring in it. Now he's a him and his wife and
• 36:51
  kids live about two hours north of me.
• 36:55
  And he's a professor at a university in Northern
• 36:59
  California now. So yeah, he's made a career out
• 37:02
  of it. But yeah.
• 37:05
  So anyway, Paul O'Neill kicks left.
• 37:07
  That's funny. That's really funny.
• 37:11
  I don't even know what we were talking about, but the Hoge
• 37:14
  thing, I really, I really feel like that's an undercurrent
• 37:20
  right now for me of as I'm analyzing what I'm into and what
• 37:25
  I'm not into is if the grade matters for the card, then it,
• 37:32
  it may not be a card that is as interesting to me is a card
• 37:40
  where the grade doesn't matter. And you know, I, I recently
• 37:44
  bought my Isaac Murphy Goodwin champion card.
• 37:47
  It's a one. It doesn't matter.
• 37:50
  You know, I, I have a Thomas Edison N 76 card.
• 37:57
  Doesn't matter to two. Like it just doesn't matter.
• 38:00
  And those cards where the grade doesn't matter, there's
• 38:04
  something about those. And a card like this, this
• 38:09
  mirror gold card, like it's not rare, but this is an 8.
• 38:14
  I didn't, it wouldn't matter if it was an 8 or A10 to me.
• 38:17
  I I just think it's cool. So, all right, you got anything
• 38:22
  else? We're 38 minutes in.
• 38:24
  You got anything else that you need to get out there off your
• 38:27
  chest before we move on? I'm good.
• 38:30
  OK, well, then I guess we'll call it a wrap.
• 38:34
  I do want to throw out a couple of thank yous, Jake of Wax Pack
• 38:39
  Wisdom and Matt of Matt from Providence.
• 38:43
  Those guys, yeah, they're both great guys.
• 38:47
  And they, you know, Jake, the hosts, their ongoing hit list
• 38:53
  episodes, which if you're not subscribed to Jake at Wax Pack
• 38:56
  Wisdom yet, you're missing out because just the hit list
• 38:59
  episodes alone are fantastic. And we reached out to them
• 39:03
  couple months ago and we said, hey, what if you did a little
• 39:07
  bonus at the end? You recorded a little extra
• 39:10
  bonus segment. And we hosted it over on the
• 39:12
  Sports Card Clubhouse YouTube channel and they and, and
• 39:16
  podcasts and they were like, yeah, let's do it.
• 39:19
  And they've been awesome. And then we reached out to to
• 39:24
  Mike Petty and Tony Lebrik and 'cause they do their Odd Couple
• 39:29
  episode and they just had their first one posted this past
• 39:35
  Thursday on the channel on the Sports Card Clubhouse channel.
• 39:38
  So that was awesome. There's a couple other channels
• 39:43
  that were talking about doing it.
• 39:45
  Nothing has happened yet, but I just love involving extra, extra
• 39:50
  people. And I think that it's very cool
• 39:53
  that those guys are willing to, you know, pump out some extra
• 39:55
  stuff to, to share with the the community that we have over
• 39:59
  here. So I wanted to throw out a quick
• 40:02
  thank you to them and tell them how fantastic they've been and
• 40:05
  and how much we appreciate it. Yeah, all those guys are
• 40:09
  phenomenal, Jake, Great, great guy.
• 40:12
  Matt top three dealer in New England, which you probably
• 40:16
  think big deal, but there are a lot of dealers in New England
• 40:19
  and Matt's top three in my opinion.
• 40:24
  Tony amazing guy, amazing collection.
• 40:27
  Same with petty. They both, I mean, they're such
• 40:29
  a perfect fit because they're so opposite personality wise and
• 40:33
  Jake and and Matt also opposites personality wise.
• 40:37
  And it's, it's, it's a lot of fun to watch or listen to both
• 40:40
  of those. Are we opposite personality wise
• 40:43
  because we're people say we're a good fit?
• 40:45
  I think that we are. I think we're a good fit, but I
• 40:49
  don't think we're opposite personality wise.
• 40:51
  I think we we complement each other in different ways.
• 40:56
  OK, most it's probably that I'm so smart and handsome and you're
• 41:00
  not. No argument.
• 41:05
  I have no argument there. Oh boy.
• 41:09
  All right. Well, I, I, I will say this, I
• 41:12
  have an interview on Monday, so next week you'll have to ask me
• 41:16
  how it went. Yeah, good luck.
• 41:18
  Could be some changes going on in my life.
• 41:21
  So I'll leave that tease for next week.
• 41:24
  All right, buddy, off we go. Another one in the books.
• 41:27
  I think we're up to about 28 or 29 now.
• 41:29
  So feels like just yesterday that this all started.
• 41:35
  Yeah.