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Beckett Hot Cold List June 22, 2026 · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Man, I am thrilled you're here today because we are
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  Speaker 1: diving headfirst into the exact market forces driving the sports
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  Speaker 1: card hobby. Right now, we're getting deep into the Beckett
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  Speaker 1: Sports Cards Hot and Cold list for the week of
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  Speaker 1: June twenty second, twenty twenty six. Look, whether you're a
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  Speaker 1: seasoned investor managing a massive portfolio, or you just love
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  Speaker 1: tracking hobby economics, I'm going to guide you through exactly
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  Speaker 1: why certain athletes are seeing their cardboard stock skyrocket to
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  Speaker 1: the moon, and why others are just dropping like a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Whose cardboard stock is actually exploding?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that is the million dollar question, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: In a market that literally shifts by the day, figuring
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  Speaker 1: out which young stars are becoming collector favorites and which
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  Speaker 1: veterans are cooling off, Well, it's high stakes. Every single
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  Speaker 1: dollar you invest requires a strategy. So today we're counting
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  Speaker 1: down the absolute hottest names in sports cards, breaking down
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  Speaker 1: the why behind the big buys, and then wrapping things
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  Speaker 1: up with three players whose markets have gone completely ice cold.
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  Speaker 1: All right, kicking things off with section one, market Hype
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  Speaker 1: and Potential, look at who collectors are buying based strictly
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  Speaker 1: on future greatness. You know, in the card hobby, ross
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  Speaker 1: ceiling can honestly be just as lucrative as established success.
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  Speaker 1: Collectors absolutely love getting in on the ground floor, especially
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about massive NBA draft prospects like Kansas
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  Speaker 1: guard Darren Peterson and former BYU star aj Debansa. Analysts
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  Speaker 1: are already crowning Peterson with that coveted face of the
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  Speaker 1: franchise potential, and because of that, collectors are aggressively hoarding
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  Speaker 1: his Bowman university cards. Meanwhile, you've got Debansa, who's projected
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  Speaker 1: by pretty much everyone is the number one overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: driving immense demand for his Bowman basketball issues. People aren't
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  Speaker 1: waiting for their rookie seasons, guys, they are banking heavily
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  Speaker 1: on that massive potential today. Now let's look at how
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  Speaker 1: this speculation plays out over on the grid. Arn It's
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  Speaker 1: essentially a battle of sheer polarization versus proven motivation. Take
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  Speaker 1: Shador Sanders. He remains one of the most polarizing figures
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  Speaker 1: in football right now, even with an uncertain exact NFL role.
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  Speaker 1: His card demand is sky high strictly because of his
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  Speaker 1: raw star power. But then you look at Max Crosby,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a totally different investment strateg He is a
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  Speaker 1: proven raider superstar, no doubt about it. But collectors are
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  Speaker 1: stockpiling his rookies right now because he's back in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: with a massive chip on his shoulder after all those
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  Speaker 1: offseason trade rumors. The hobby loves a highly motivated superstar
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  Speaker 1: and they're anticipating a furious double digit sack bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: Moving right along to Section two historic diamond dominance, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about crazy on field performances. So stepping away from
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  Speaker 1: future speculation and onto the baseball diamond for a second,
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  Speaker 1: just feel this sheer weight of this number. Fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: That is how many home runs Kyle Schwarber blasted last season.
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  Speaker 1: Why does this matter right now because he's doing it again.
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  Speaker 1: He's currently leading Major League Baseball with twenty nine home
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  Speaker 1: runs and he's fresh off an absolutely ridiculous weekend against
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  Speaker 1: the Mets where he logged five hits, four home runs,
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  Speaker 1: and nine RBIs. Home run hitters will always attract major
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  Speaker 1: hobby attention, and Schwarber's monster pace is basically forcing collectors
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  Speaker 1: to buy in. But hey, it's not all about rob
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  Speaker 1: power right check this out. Pete Crow Armstrong pulled off
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly rare reverse cycle last week. Think about that,
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  Speaker 1: a home run, then a triple, then a double, and
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  Speaker 1: finally a single. He is literally only the fourth player
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen sixty nine to accomplish this exact sequence. And
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  Speaker 1: the craziest part, he hasn't stopped hitting since, carrying a
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  Speaker 1: batting average right near point three hundred pchch's absolutely every
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  Speaker 1: single box for collectors, power, speed, elite defense, and winning. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the crazy thing about the hobby is that sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: major injury doesn't even slow down the momentum. Take Japanese
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  Speaker 1: slugger Munataka Markami. He launched an unbelievable twenty home runs
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  Speaker 1: in just fifty seven games before suffering a hamstring injury. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: you'd think the market would cool off, right wrong. The
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  Speaker 1: anticipation of Murkami becoming baseball's next massive global superstar is
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  Speaker 1: driving intense international demand. The injury actually increased the hype,
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  Speaker 1: with collectors eagerly stockpiling his rookies to prepare for a
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  Speaker 1: massive second half return. All right, up, next, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a guy literally defying the laws of
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  Speaker 1: physics and the rules of the hobby one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: one miles per hour. That staggering number belongs to Brewer's flamethrower,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Msiurrofsky. In a single recent outing, he threw an
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  Speaker 1: absurd forty seven pitches at one hundred and one miles
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  Speaker 1: per hour or faster. Let that sink in for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Forty seven pitches over one oh one. It is absolutely staggering.
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  Speaker 1: It perfectly highlights a long standing truth in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Pitchers don't usually dominate hobby conversations. But when a pitcher
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  Speaker 1: throws harder than almost anyone in baseball history, yeah, collectors
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  Speaker 1: pay attention. Missiurofsky is defying the unwritten rules of card collecting. Traditionally,
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  Speaker 1: hitters drive the market, but historic nearly unhittable velocity completely
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  Speaker 1: changes the math. His rookie cards are climbing incredibly fast
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  Speaker 1: right now as fans dream about his future dominance on
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  Speaker 1: the mound, which brings us to section three, the championship premium,
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, winning changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about massive potential, we've talked about historic stats. This,
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  Speaker 1: this is the ultimate market driver. For the seventh consecutive week,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson is the absolute, undisputed king of the Beckett
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  Speaker 1: hot List, NBA Champion, NBA Finals MVP ended a fifty
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  Speaker 1: three year championship drought for the New York Knicks. He
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  Speaker 1: is the definitive face of New York basketball right now. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it is incredibly rare for a player to capture the
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  Speaker 1: imagination of the biggest media market in the world and
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  Speaker 1: actually deliver the ultimate prize. Winning changes everything in the hobby.
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  Speaker 1: It's the golden rule of sports card economics. Guys. Brunson's
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  Speaker 1: legendary championship run didn't just give his values a little bump.
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  Speaker 1: It completely transformed him into the hottest commodity in all
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  Speaker 1: of sports. It has sparked an absolute buying frenzy across
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  Speaker 1: his entire catalog. We were talking his early Dallas Maverick's
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  Speaker 1: rookie cards, his current NIX cards, autographs, parallel short prints,
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  Speaker 1: literally the whole shebang. When you win the biggest prize,
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  Speaker 1: every single variation of your cardboard becomes a highly coveted asset.
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  Speaker 1: Okay time for section four, the cooling market. Look, we
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  Speaker 1: all know it's a zero sum game and not everyone
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  Speaker 1: is riding a massive surge. Right now, let's cool things
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  Speaker 1: down and look at the cold list. First up, Dear
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  Speaker 1: and Fox, specifically his twenty twenty five twenty six Bowman
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  Speaker 1: Chrome Mojo. Still a fantastic talent, but hobby excitement is finite,
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  Speaker 1: and Fox is simply losing attention to those younger playoff heroes. Second,
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  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers and his twenty twenty six Top Stars of
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  Speaker 1: MLB an absolutely premier hitter, sure, but his market has
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  Speaker 1: slowed strictly because collector focus has shifted toward the new
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  Speaker 1: emerging rookies. Finally, Kirk Cousins twenty twenty five Tops Chrome Lfeboard,
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  Speaker 1: the veteran quarterback, is highly respected, but his market is
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  Speaker 1: softening purely due to career uncertainty. It's simple. If collectors
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  Speaker 1: don't know where you're going to be next year, they
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  Speaker 1: stop buying you today, and that actually brings us full
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  Speaker 1: circle to the future of the hobby. I want to
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  Speaker 1: leave you guys with this direct question, aj Debansa or
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  Speaker 1: Darren Peterson, based on the raw heype, the potential, and
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  Speaker 1: the market trends we explored today, who are you investing
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  Speaker 1: your cardboard capital in? Let me know your strategy down
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  Speaker 1: in the comments. If this explainer helps you grasp the
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  Speaker 1: market forces at play this week, make sure to hit
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  Speaker 1: the market, keep investing smart, and I'll catch you in
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