Good morning, everybody. Welcome to episode two seventy two of Hobby Hotline.
Cousin Tony here and I am happy to be joined by Brody the Kid.
Brody was going on, brother, what's up Tony? What's up? Everyone?
I hope you're all doing well. Awesome, awesome, So listen.
We might get some people jumping in with us later here. Rich Rich Klein
was backstage too, and I think Drew might jump in, so we'll see.
But before we get today these main topics, I wanted to ask you,
this is like a magical time where like all four major sports are going
football, Baseball, Hockey, uh, and basketball just started. So for
you, what, uh, what's kind of the top of the heat when
all these four sports are going on at the same time. I've enjoyed baseball
right now, World Series Game one and with the always Garcio with the walk
off home run to put the Rangers on top. I thought the diving Backs
had that game locked up Steeger ties it up, but then Garcio with the
walkoff and XT ratings. That was a good game. Yeah, no,
I haven't. I'm just getting over the you know, I'm a Phillies fans,
so just getting over the Yeah, the diving, they're collapse. So
but yeah, and then to see that, I was like, wow,
man, that was that was good man, Like you just like to see
good games, and it was it was nice to see uh Garcia, you
know with the walk off and right now Rangers are up one nothing I means
always Garcia. Man, he's a stud like you who he's a good player.
But this postseason, man, he's been putting up some crazy whole runs,
some crazy clutch hol rounds. Yeah, that's the thing to it,
Like not only is he hitting home runs, but they're in big spots,
so you know, it adds to to the whole to the whole thing.
And actually, so before there's something I do want to talk about with the
World Series, but let me get to some of these comments real quick.
Philly Joe says, good morning, White Sox, White Sox. Tom says,
hey guy, Mad City Brewers. That's exactly what I want to talk
about, he said, who has the Marte Tacos card? Uh Clean,
Cheap Shots says good morning, foul File, five ball, Good morning everybody
words says folks, Chris C Hello all and three Bat Collection says good morning.
So yeah, I actually see here. Yeah, so I wanted to
ask you about the taco fractor. So basically could tell Marte stole the bass
last night and let me actually, i'll bring it up here on the screen.
Got it here for you right there. So there's our taco fractor.
Which hold, I'll give me one second and let me bring in who's that
Uncle Rich to see what we have to be audio only, all right,
Uncle Rich? And I just tested on Microsoft Teams and camera was perfect.
I test. I did a zoom the other day. It was perfect.
There's something I don't see your face either, Tony. The only face I
see is Brody. All right, well we can hear you, you can
hear us, so it's all good. Yeah, for sure, Soris come
on in too. The more the merrier, there you go. So so
let me get back to this taco fractor here, because we got we have
tacos to buy. So there it is. Basically I could tell Marte stole
the base yesterday, and I guess they, you know, announced that if
you have this taco fractor, you basically have tacos for life, which actually
it's only like it's like a fifteen thousand dollars value. But you gotta figure,
man, fifteen thousand dollars worth of tacos is a lot of tacos.
But Brody, what do you think about this card, the promotion and all
that stuff, And do you happen to have one? I do not have
a taco fract or to tell Marte. But I don't know if I want
tacos for life. Man, Like when I go through Taco Bell. It's
a very rare occasion when I go through Taco Bell, and I'm careful for
what I select, and whatever I select, it usually doesn't feel too great
afterwards. So if I get one of those every day for the rest of
my life, I don't know, man, But whoever has this, it's
a good value. Maybe you can sell it for a good amount. I'd
rather do that than have the tacos for life, because I don't know.
I don't know for sure rich thoughts on tacos for life. I agree with
Brody. I think I've eaten a Taco Bell twice in the thirty two years
since I've moved to Texas. I don't think I ever ate there in New
Jersey. Ether. Let's just say that I agree with Brody, and it
does not do good for my stomach afterwards. So it's not exactly and I
will say to the credit they also are giving you five, two and fifty
dollars at part of this promotion to defray the cost of the taxes on the
on the gift. So they have made sure to look out for that.
That's that's what a lot of people do a really smart charity nonprofit when they
have a raffle to say we cover your you know, your taxes because you
can win a car. And if you win the car and you have to
pay the taxes, guess how much you're going to Guess how long are you
going to keep the car unless you have a lot of money? Right.
Uh. That happened actually way back in the day when they had this,
when the famed Honus Wagner, the PSA eight first card graded by PSA got
like raffled off in a public It was like a drawing and it was like
on a Saturday night on the Larry King Show or something like that. And
it was won by this woman and she couldn't keep the card because she had
to pay the taxes on it. Yeah. An Upper Deck a few years
earlier than that had run a pro promotion. You know, we'll give you
like Don Drysdale's uniform, We'll give you all these uniforms. The same thing
happened the people who won the prizes. They had to sell them to pay
for the taxes on the prizes they won. So give them credit for thinking
that part through and paying the taxes. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah. Yeah, you often don't hear about that, so kudos to them
for that. Let me get some of these comments. So, uh seventies
Car Show said brother leshave Forever. Yeah, man, that's the only thing
working in Philly right now. So tacos for breakfast, Yeah, dude,
I mean yeah, I'm not a Yeah, I guess see, I'm not
a I can't even tell you the last time I was at a taco bill.
I prefer the like authentic street tacos so over that. But uh,
Microsoft team is the Bobby Bonds are teleconferencing decent enough, but no one sticks
with it. So there you go. Yeah, and definitely, uh,
definitely a problem there with the with the taco bell stuff. Mookie si U
cheer, oh Ivy News Daily says, cheers and cheers, Jens and Chat.
Mookie says, closing the taco taco tax sloophole is something we can all
get behind. That's a lot of case. So Mookie as always with the
fire and the chat man. So uh and there's anything else in there and
tagos. Yeah. So yeah. Basically this thing was a big commercial for
Taco Bell and people were talking about it. So I guess, I guess
it worked out. And remember they've been doing the Steal the World series Steal
a Taco for twenty years. They actually began this promotion in two thousand and
four, so this is this is a long standing thing and this just takes
it to a different level. Yeah. Yeah, always count on John Keating.
It says, imagine serving time for taco tax evasion that John. I
can't wait till I see you. See you in a few days. There
you go. Uh So another thing that they still owe you a card.
By the way, Oh look at that. Look at that broke. As
long as everybody somebody oways you, you'll never be broken. Man. So
we got the taco fractor out of the way. Now, the other thing
that came out this week, we actually saw the debut kind of debut images
of the uh the one on one rookie cards the MLB debut. I want
to bring that up on here right there, so there we see Anthony bulpitit
one on one on card auto. Uh, brody. Initial thoughts on this
card, What do you think prices are gonna look like? And all that
stuff? I mean, I think they look sharp, but I think the
design is cool. Like, but to put them in top chrome update is
kind of like a weird set to throw them into just because like these thick
patch into tops chrome. I don't know. But like the card looks great,
Like it's like nice white with the autograph, it looks cool. Ye.
And like I think prices, like with these one on ones, like
they should be pretty high with some of these hierarchies. I think, yeah,
for sure, Rich, that's a really good looking signature from a modern
player. They always see such a good signature. It's very true. I
know it's a cursive is a lost start with the younger players. Uh.
But actually, and Rich, before I go to you, I'm just happy
that they didn't, you know, I like that it's a full patch,
that they didn't take the patch and cut it up and try to make,
you know, multiple cards of it, which I mean they had announced it
was going to be like this a while ago. But I mean I like
that. I think it's a really sharp looking card and I I think they
did it right here, rich I. You know, Fanatics does some things
that we all sometimes shake our heads about. You know, what's that expression
the kids used smh. But they do a lot of things right as well
with tops and this is an example of they wanted to do this. You
know, the thing is this is going to change the hobby. That was
the thing. I don't think it's going to change the hobby. But on
the other hand, this is something where Fanatics, with all their tentacles in
the sports world, is able to do something and do it correctly and that's
to their benefits. So they do a lot of things right. I wanted
to talk a little about, you know, switching subjects. You know,
they had a big press conference in New York this week and they brought some
high powered athletes in and they're going to be doing a lot with the Make
a Wish Foundation. Yeah, I did have that on here, and yeah,
that's something where with what they can do, they do it right.
And having had one of my great nephews and thankfully he is so far he
is in remission and we hope it never comes back. But he babbled childhood
cancer. He's the most wonderful five you old person you ever want to meet.
And he got visited by a Major League baseball player when he was in
the hospital with his cancer. Daniel Murphy now retired again, and I saved
up and yes, I went through the donation, so you know, and
plus I would guy them in diamond quarterboxes. I found a whole bunch of
Daniel Murphy cards to give him. He remember he's five years old. And
then all of a sudden, by the by the end of his visit,
he goes, I want more cards. Okay, well he lies in Jacksonville'll
be getting Trevor Lawrence cards and things like that can make card. You know,
everybody in the family very appreciative of fanatics. And anytime you can do
positive pr things, it's a good thing, you know. And I'm going
to use the term back in the day, pre pandemic, you know,
in older times, and I you know, just want to say Panini back
in the day was really good. This is when I was doing prizes and
stuff at my synagogue show. So this is pre pandemic so twenty nine,
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, twenty twenty, and before they were amazing at
you know, legitimate helping legitimate nonprofits. And it wasn't just me because I
knew some of them, but they helped. They helped a lot as well
Fanatics. This is a wonderful thing Fanatics is doing. And the more they
help people, the more it helps in terms of the pr of the world
and the hobbies a lot of PR. Two, Brody, you're you're you're
the official spokes You're what the official under eighteen spokesperson for the national now the
official you know you supposed spoke So you know what pr is. PR is
good? Now, Yeah, well, I mean, yeah that that's that's
cool man, that they're that they're doing that. I saw that, you
know, they had an experience with the sixers, so yeah, I'm sure
maybe someone somewhere probably has a problem with it, because you know, somebody
always has a problem with everything, But yeah, I think it's cool man
that they're getting it out there and making these experience for people who are going
through some some tough times. Real quick though, back to that card Rich
just I mean, you've been around for a while. It is this kind
of one of the more innovative things you've seen come through the well. As
I said, it won't change the hobby, but it's it's something Fanatics has
the ability to do with all their and now that they have the relationship with
the contracts with the player association in the league, this is the type of
things that they're going to be able to do that I don't think any other
previous card company, including TOPS pre Fanatics would have been able to do.
And I think things you may see more I'm going to use the word more,
things like this. This is fair. Obviously you can only have a
major league debut patch once, but you may see other ways of honoring various
events, not just TOPS now not but ways of saying, hey, this
is, you know, every every player in the World Series. I believe
there's a World Series patch on every uniform, Am I right? I believe
so? Well? Could you imagine you know, next year or TOPS one.
I think they can still get it in. Can you imagine TOPS one
with every player with a World Series patch card? That'll be cool? Yeah,
I mean things like that. Can you know? It makes And the
thing is if you put them in the products like they did Tops Chrome Update,
Tops One, you know, not not We'll call it not the expensive
products, but the products with the reasonable price points. It's affordable to every
collect every collective, every collector, and anything that's affordable as a shot to
every collector is a good thing. Yeah, very true. That's actually Chris
said, you know this is this is the only time most of us will
ever see one of those cards, dadam, and somebody pulls it and shows
it off on one of the social media's. Yeah, I mean they're gonna
be They're gonna be pretty pretty pricey, and hey it is what it is,
Uh, which rich you you may tops Now and Brody, I'll ask
you that I harken that to the when you're in the grocery store and when
you're gonna check out and they have those impulse items there at the end before
you know you leave, And is that kind of I see it like tops
Now like that sometimes, you know, because events happening right away, you
get the email the next day and it's like, hey, here's this card,
buy it now. Just protty all your thoughts on tops Now just as
a whole brand and stuff like that. I like tops Now it's like interesting
because like sometimes like my big Brenton Doyle collector, and he had a rookie
card at tops now before he had any other Tops rookie, which I thought
was interesting, So like pretty cool. And there's like been some college basketball
players that have had similar stuff like that, So I think it's kind of
cool. It's it's interesting. I mean, I feel like it's not for
everybody, but you could get numbered cards too when you order, just like
the base cards, So I like it. I think it's cool. Yeah,
Rich, I have not looked to see, you know, if there
was any if they've sent out the daily email yet, but I bet you
there's an adults Garcia walk Off Homer card being made, and I bet you
there's going to be a lot of collectors in Dallas buying that card today,
right yeah, probably probably. Yeah, it's yeah, I said, it's
like, you know, the fact that they can use these events and put
out cards right away definitely plays on the emotions of you know, recent you
know, seeing it and getting excited by this, uh buy this card.
It's also a chance a lot of times, as Brodie says, to get
cards of people who may not be in a card yet or may not be
in a card in that uniform yet. You know, when Elie Dela Cruz
came to the majors, you know his I think there was cards of him
by his first week in tops Now before he ever had a rookie card or
any any you know, he had tops You know, he had minor league
heritage, he had pro debut, but I think that was his first major
league card. So you can also get a lot of really cool cards early.
I know last year, and I know that he's got different issues now,
but I think there was twenty two thousand copies of some wander Franco card
sold last year when it was his rookie year and he had a tops Now
card and it sold very well, so some of them sold really well.
Yeah, he does Pinnini instant and I think I protected something too. So
they all do it, and they all know to do it, and a
lot of times they're done in the house, so the whole process is a
lot cheaper. Gotcha. Yeah, good stuff, Drew says, back to
the one on one, the MLB debut patches was brilliant move by Tops fanatics.
Design is eh, but execution and delivery is awesome. I agree with
that. Yeah, yeah, you know, I like the design. It
was a nice, simple design. But I agree with Drew in terms of
it's been executed brilliantly. Yeah. I mean most of the reviews and just
feedback has been pretty pretty positive all around, so they've done a good job
with that. White tom Ass Brudell ask you first, what about the fake
patches that aren't player worn inn updates series? Well, I mean that,
what do you think about those patches man, that aren't associated with anything?
I don't know how I feel about those. I feel like we're like back
to the Piniti not associated things. Uh, it's tough for me. I
feel like, if if you're buying a hobby box, you should at least
get something that's at least player Warren. Like if it's a rookie, should
be player Warren. If it's a veteran, it should be game warned.
But if it's player Warren, I get it, you know, especially like
when we were in the pandemic when stuff was player warn like, I got
it, like it, you know, it's understood, but like mass produced
stuff like I don't know, and a lot of times those fake things,
it actually says commemorative. And if it says commemorative, if you know what
you're getting, yeah, yeah, I mean it's memorative. You're not getting
a real You're not getting a real item, So what are you worried about?
I mean, you know, if if it implies that it's, hey,
this is this is a real item. Okay, that's a different subject.
But if it says, you know, a lot of times in the
blaster boxes you get you know, you know, the one commemorative patch card
per blaster box, depending what it is, and it says commemorative World Series
ring or commemorative World Series patch or commemorative All Star game patch or whatever,
it's telling you that it's commemorative. So those are perfectly fine. Those are
telling you these are not a These are not the ones that are even purported
to be a real uniform, right right, Yeah. I mean hopefully we
get away from that as we get back to you know, with well deals
with fanatics and things like that, So hopefully we get back to as real
as they can be. Mike says, they're all fake anyways, with fake
patches, fake scribbles, so I mean whatever, So hopefully we can we
can get back to seeing a lot more game use stuff, because I mean,
yeah, sure, and that's what the community, the collecting community likes
is you know what they say is game warn stuff. So you know,
I don't know, Mookie says, Tony, how about some fanatic for in
a patch card? Uh yeah, Mookie, that would you know what,
I'm surprised they haven't made that yet, or maybe they haven't. I just
didn't see it yet. But there's got I am sir. How did you
feel in game seven? Man, you're just opening up? Was it the
sixth inning that they left the run around second and first? Listen? Man,
it was a mookie you see, MOOKI just you know, plants to
see it. And uh yeah, well listen, it was a total epic
collapse. Uh. They you had the bases loaded, they let the worst
hitter on the team, you know, take the at bat. So there
was that, you know, the runners left on base all over the place.
Uh going back to game four, going back to game four, you
have the end clos or blow it. Yeah, so back to back games.
Yeah that you had the manager do some stuff. You had you know,
high high priced players go over you know, so it was au so
yeah, Rich, it was. It was a yeah, it was a
rough night. So I went, I went kicking and screaming, and my
wife called me an idiot, and I said, why do you get so
upset when those guys get to go home and live their life. And I
was like, yeah, and I gotta get up and go to work tomorrow.
So so yeah, it was it wasn't good. Rich my condolences.
I mean, it's it's kind of like it's kind of like in twenty ten,
when I knew I was going to the World Series if the Rangers won,
and they're playing the Yankees, which is, you know, my hometown
team I grew up with an I'm still a Yankees fan and watching Tali Enough
Tali police freeze pay Royd on a perfect curve ball for strike three to end
the American League Championship Series, and part of me is saying, oh,
I'm really pissed, and another part of me is saying, I'm gonna go
to the World Series. Yeah, And I'm still all these years later trying
to sort that one out. Yeah, it's amazing. Before we started,
I asked, I asked Brodie. I said, I saw he had the
the Justin Fields Jersey honest say, hey, you're a Bears fan or Justin
Fields fan. He say he likes the Bears and stuff, and uh,
you know, this is this is why we collect, this is why we
do it. We spend hours watching these games. And I'm thinking, I'm
like, man, all this sleep I lost, and all this time I
wasted. But I do it again tomorrow. So yeah, at least you
guys have to see Cody Parky's kick and I'd be like, did it go
in? Did it not go in? And then it didn't go in and
it's just like you had a better kicker and we would have won. No,
man, dude, Yeah, so it is what it is. Let
me get back to the Rich actually sent me this. There was another partnership.
I mean, Fanatics is on a role here. They did basically a
partnership with the Argentine Football Association says fans of Argentine football. Argentinian football around
the world will not have online access to licensed sporting goods, clothing and digital
assets of the Argentine national team. So here we see the web expanding even
further. Rich, what's going on here with this stuff? Well, soccer
is the most popular sport in the world and going for all the different licenses,
and there are so many leagues that that's just another way for card companies.
It'll be another battle for the card companies. You know, remember Panini
has a sixty year experience in doing soccer, soccer cards, soccer items,
soccer stickers. They've been doing them forever. Actually Tops is also way back
in the day they call themselves A and B C in England. But Tops
has actually been doing soccer cards for sixty years too, So this battle has
this is another battle that has never ended, except now it's a little more
let's say, less friendly. But you know, hey, every every card
company is going to look to get every league they can. And as long
as you do the negotiations, you know, legally and upfront, that's no
issue that Hey, if they come up with a better deal, they'll get
the license. So good for Fanatics. And you know if Panini wan of
them and their offer wasn't as good, then that's what it is, gotcha.
But I don't remember Panini having argent Argentinian league, so good for Fanatics
coming up with another league to get cards from. Fair enough. Let me
bring in somebody from the bullpen here. True, what's going on the alarm
goes off right as we come in. What's up all as well? Sarah
all is Well, So, I don't know if you heard anything with the
Argentinian football stuff, well soccer as we called it over here. Yeah,
I have anything on thoughts on that. Oh no, absolutely, I'm an.
I mean, anyone who knows me knows I love soccer. I've been
on the soccer collecting bandwagon for a long time now, and I expected this.
I expected these leagues. I expect a lot of those leagues you saw
Pinninia with the euro League, You're seeing the Australian League now, a lot
of these leagues that other players have been going to. I guarantee you that
Saudi League, that basketball that's pulling a ton of people over is going to
end up getting a license eventually as well, just by the name recognition.
I think, you know, I think as the hobby expands, they you
know, you're not gonna see fifty releases for this stuff, but you're gonna
get your releases like NIP and Baseball League did with tops back in the day
that for some reason they didn't keep up with that. Well, but I
love it. I think it's great. I think it's the more, the
more types of cards you can have, the better. I mean, some
of these guys from these leagues are going to go on to do big things
and to be able to have that first card, have those cards out there.
I think it's awesome. Okay he said the more than marry a right.
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. You mentioned the other leagues too. Oh
go ahead, Rich, No, that wasn't No, that's fine, No,
I did. I did want to. I was. I heard you
guys talking real quick about the about the tops the tops update stuff and the
player patches and all that stuff. Yeah, the comment that I made on
the execution everything, I thought that the first patches were awesome. The only
thing that I didn't like is that they were an update. That they're an
update Chrome and not in update. I thought that they should have changed that
probably. But one thing I don't like, and you kind of mentioned that
as Fanatics has that relationship with players, we're going to get less game warn
stuff or less non player Warren stuff and a lot more game used stuff and
things like that. But there's a flip side to that, and you're seeing
it already with Fanatics announcing there's literally MLB Authenticate I don't want to go too
deep on this, as I did on my show last week, but there's
literally a new line out that is MLB authenticated with the hologram on them from
the first jersey that was produced off the line for mass consumption, not for
the player to wear, not have anything to do with anything outside of the
first jersey produced for merchandise, and so I think you're actually going to see
a lot more in the relic side of things like that from Fanatics, which
I don't understand why they did it to begin with, but I think you're
going to see that type of stuff as well. The update stuff those game
use patches that they can put in awesome, and I hope the relationship with
players allows them to do a lot more with that. But keep in mind
they're also a massive jersey manufacturing company, and you're already seeing MLB authenticated stuff
that literally tells you where it would normally send you and tell you what game
it's from. Now you have it telling you this is a jersey that was
the first off the line for production. So there, you know, it's
a double edged sword there with Fanatics. Yeah, yeah, I know that
that was a little weird. Brody up front that it's not a real item.
I don't have a real problem with that. I don't have a problem
with it. I just you know, there's a difference between and I'm going
to use the term because you know, and I can talk about something about
where I work at com C This weekly made an announcement that if a card
is slabbed authentic alter, we will we will now accept it because at that
point there is no attempt to deceive a customer. Right the card is slabbed
authentic altered. You know, you're getting a plague with card where we're still
going to draw the line and rightly so if somebody sends in a card that
was altered and then it comes back no, then then then that's a different
subject. Yeah. No, I agree, I was that. I wasn't
necessarily saying that I don't have a problem with that, and that's why that's
why as almost it's announced, Hey, this is first off the line.
This is you know, this is a first day. Yeah, you know
their premier date the cramer that my cramer used for specific you know, or
some term like that. It's fine. No, I agree, I wasn't
saying there was a problem with it. I was. I just heard the
comment of you know, getting away from uh non game used you know,
player Warren stuff, and I think I think you might see a lot more
of that just every day, just running the middle type of stuff because of
what the company is. But just the comment that I heard that I wanted
to uh that I wanted to touch on real quack. No, I'm with
you, Drew, that could there can always be. There's always a possibility
downside to everything, right, And I think that's what you're saying. Yeap
Brody has some thoughts on the Jersey stuff. I if I could tell you
that there's anything I knew about soccer, I would be lying. It's fair
about five players, And to be honest with you, I don't know if
I could name them right now what they two said, just go with them,
go back five minutes and just you know what I will say. I
will say the it ties in great with your first topic of the day or
one of your first topics of the day with tops now, because soccer and
tops now that was a while a lot of people were chasing prism and stuff
like that. That was a money making opportunity and a half when they first
came out with it that Anthony the Instant. Both of them were just there
were so low print runs on massive players like Jude Bellingham, irlin Holland people
like that. But the tops Now when it comes to soccer is huge and
so and same with Panninian Instant and so if they do that with this new
you know, with these new leagues, I think you're going to see those
become quite popular because the print runs might not be massive, but they're going
to a lot of dedicated collectors. As you guys kind of mentioned earlier,
Brody, I know you'd said it. You know, I collect a lot
of people that no one in their right mind wants to collect. Tops Now
Panninian Incidant provide me, you know, with some cards that otherwise I wouldn't
be able to have, and so, you know, they kind of tie
in together in a way. But I think if they use tops Now with
that new football league, then I think that is one thing that they benefit
greatly from. Yeah, I did see some early Holland big number sales at
tops Now cards like nineteen. You know, I've got all I've got all
the Jude Bellingham's, the Jude and Arling ones, all of them and I
bought them up like and I mean it's nice because with tops, you know,
when you buy them, you get TOPS points. So if you buy
enough of them and you don't have to buy thousands, but I mean,
if you start buying fifty sixty of them, you're going to be able to
get ten or twenty for free. Like I mean, you can use your
TOPS points on them, and you get TOPS points on everything. So there
were tons of releases where I ended up buying twenty or thirty for nothing for
shipping, and so you know, buying them there is a reward system in
place if you continue to buy them fair enough, true, I'll throw this
to you first, Mookie. In regards to the first off the line Jersey
goes, is it first off the line Jersey worth more or more? He
goes? Is that a thing is a first off the line Jersey worth more
or more collectible? Or is fanatics trying to create a sub market. Well,
they're absolutely creating a new type of relic. I mean, this is
just like they did they did with the game used update patches. They are
creating a new type of relic. These are I mean, they're going to
the length of putting the MLB authentication sticker on it. They don't do that
on a lot of stuff. I mean that's normally reserved for higher end products
and a lot of specific game used stuff, Triple threads, you know,
flagship stuff of theirs are you know, not flagship line, but you know
flagship products of THEIRS that always have that sticker. So to go to the
length of MLB authenticating it, Oh, they're absolutely creating a new sub market,
if you want to call it, a new type of relic that's out
there. Because it's like I said, if you scan or type in the
code, we did it on the show live. If you type in the
code for any other card, it tells you the game tells you all this
stuff about it. If you type this in, it says this is the
first jersey. This is a piece of the first jersey for mass produce,
for mass production off the production line. And so it's very interesting that they're
going to the links of MLB authenticating that. So yes, I do personally
think that they're you know, creating a new type of type of route,
which they did with the update patches as well. And I like that,
you know it, it's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm not a fan
of this production stuff. I'm trying to be very nice here on these.
Yeah, but the update patches I love, and so they are you know,
at least they're being innovative, at least they're being creative. I just
think there's some swings and misses and I really don't know how five people approved
us. But anyway, I do think they are creating a sub market in
a way. Okay, here, enough Able says the reason why I'm a
big fan of the tops now NHL stickers, print runs are very minimal when
compared to produce cards for hockey big time, So totally agree able with tops
now. You really do have the opportunity to grab some really low umber cards,
and honestly, guys, in in the next five years that might not
matter as much. But when all of this stuff gets to the vintage era,
when this stuff gets to that time frame where you know, pop reports
really start to matter on certain things and certain players, these are going to
be cards that are going to have some insanely low print runs compared to what's
produced today. Mike says he's going to stick to Elvis hair cards. I
agree, Hey, give me something I'm right there with you, Mike,
get that going right there with you, Budden. Chris is one thing that
Drew mentioned, and this was back in the eighties. I was always a
big fan, and anytime I saw them cheaply, I was bought the tops
Tiffany cards. There you go, because the print runs were known and they
were so much smaller. You know, you know, eighty seven tops print
run. Tiffany print run is huge at thirty thousand copies. Yeah, I
think they're still making eighty seven tops in the factory they are. I think
there's a dedicated factory that's been doing that for forty some years. Rich,
you know, in some of the years, eighty forty eighty six is even
much less of a print run than the thirty thousand that was the highlight,
that was the high watermark of the Tiffany print runs. With a guaranteed print
run of let's call it ten thousand and eighty four, which I believe was
the number. Yeah, would you rather have it? Maddingly rookie, where
you know they only made ten thousand, righty? There is even more problematic
because in some places you could order ten cards and they had to make special
sheets up because you know, not everybody was finishing cards from their sets.
They were saying, Mattingly, Strawberry, you know all the rookie cards and
all the biggest names, you know, not the Bill Krueger's. You needed
to finish yourself. Nobody nobody really ordered the Bill Krueger. Chris says he'd
liked to meet the person who came up with the idea of authenticating non game
used jerseys. There you go, I agree, Chris, and Mike says,
cut up. I agree, But well, like I said, I'm
gonna be nice today because I went in really hard two weeks ago, so
I'm gonna be very nice today. But I agree, Chris, that's fair.
Mike says, cut up a hat. Put it in the card hat
patch from the first fanatic hat with triple threads. Here he says, hello
everyone. Orlando says Tiffany sets are the only ones worth collecting during that era.
See that, that's my that's and rich. That is an excellent example
of I didn't even really think about that, but you're dead on, I
think, and that's exactly what I was, you know, trying to trying
to point to now where now tops Now, granted, isn't a the exact
same set produced a little less like Tiffany is. I still think, I
think what we're valuing now and what we value for modern cards right now is
going to be drastically different when these modern cards head into vintage territory, just
like we're seeing with nineties products right now, nineties basketball, nineties football inserts,
star rubies, we're you know, odd odd stuff like that, Pacific
inserts, things like that. Stuff that was not valued even fifteen years ago
is starting to be very valuable now. And so that's where things like now,
products like that I think, I think have a lot of future value,
even though we might not value them right now. Well, one thing
to remember with that is back in the day in the eighties, you know
when players were signing at shows. Oh, you never wanted to get Mickey
Mantle to sign, you know, one of his older cards, because the
autograph was the card was worth so much more than the the you know,
than the signature. Well, now being if you were counterintuitive and like one
of my friends, would get off quality cards signed, you know, let's
say a fifty three Bowman color Mantle sign Right now, all of a sudden,
those cards when they're authenticated are worth a ton more than your average eight
by ten photo, even if it's authenticated. So yeah, Able, stop
giving him ideas. They watched this show, stop giving him ideas. Able,
Stop we don't need more parallels. Stop giving them ideas. No,
I think, And I don't know. You guys would have to let me
know. I'd be curious to what you guys think. But I kind of
think they don't use the Tiffany name anymore, probably because we have chrome now,
and that's kind of what Tiffany was was an upscale version in a way,
or a nicer stocked version of the base set. And I think now
we already have chrome. But I am kind of shocked that they haven't brought
back to Tiffany. And I've been wondering if they were ever going to do
a release like that. But don't give them ideas, don't don't there those
comments out there? Well, remember the if any sets were produced in Ireland,
Yes they were, they were not produced at the American, the durry
A or Brooklyn Plants, and so I wonder if they're you know, and
I wonder what the and I'm going to say, what the implications are if
you make an American product at the Ireland plant nowadays, even if they even
still have it. Yeah, yeah, there you go. All right,
listen, it's uh, you got all kinds of stuff coming down the pike.
I'm just glad Drew is being nice today. So that's that's cool.
Hey, I'm always nice. It was very respectful. It's just I felt
that went a little harsh. I had a conversation with mister Ruben afterwards.
So everything's good. But we reached out to you. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, there you go. So well, apparently, I guess that's the
nerve. Uh. So, I guess my camera is off. I don't
know mi Endi shows it's on, but so I guess you guys see me
as a black screen. But I'm good. You're John Cena today. It's
all good. Yeah, I guess so. I So, I guess,
well, I just wanted to close out here with any recent pick Yeah,
exactly, recent pickups or anything you guys had that wanted to show. So
Brody, I'll start with you. I guess I can't go. I'll just
because you can't see anything. So but go ahead, Brody. While you
go, maybe I'll try and figure it out what's going on over here.
Well, I'm gonna go with because I got my new blog on Hobby News
Daily. I got one card from every eighties set because I ranked the nineteen
eighties top set and my blog. So for nineteen eighty we got Vita Blue
and that Giants form. Rested piece Divida eighty one tops. We got nice
Roley fingers on the padres right there. Very nice. Eighty two. We
got really Gedman, nice looking car at like eighty two tops, very nice.
Eighty three tops. We've got Bruce Soonter also rested piece. Eighty four
tops. We got Goose Gossip Jogg the Yankees. That's a cool card,
Goose Gossip All the Greats. Eighty five. Got Joe Morgan. Love this
card with a donut on his back. Yeah, it's cool, very cool.
Joe Morgan eighty six tops, my dad's all time favorite player. Alvin
Davis, okay, all right, seven tops, Darryl Boston White Sox Legend
eighty eight tops. We got Don Sut looking like he is not supposed to
be pitching anymore. Look at how he looks in that picture, Like,
I don't think he's pretty pitching anymore. Don Sudden just like you know,
like maybe just like he just dazzled here. Now like go to coaching,
all right, and eighty nine tops we got Mike Scott, so check that
out. Hobby was Daily dot Com ranked the eighties tops sets by Brodie the
kidd there you go. Look at that. That's the you're a pro man.
You got to see you see that? Rich he was. He was
listening when you said the pr He went over his pickups and did the plug
all in one show. Now I like it. Brody's growing up. Man,
kid's a pro man. You are trained for sure. Well, so
you can't see me and you can't see rich So Drew, what do you
got? Yeah, well I went and ran and got some since I didn't
know we were gonna do it, but uh, first up, we got
one sitting here on the desk. It's a Paulo in person auto with the
blue and it's in the new Zion mag pros, which are coming out really
soon. These things are freaking awesome. These magnetics are really really sweet.
Yeah, what is that? What? So just Zion Cases makes it and
it's coming out I believe at the end of this year beginning next year.
But what it is, it's actually a mag where when you open it up,
you can actually change the top. You know, you can make your
own custom label so it has your its own custom label instead of having it
in a slab, and so you can switch things up, put different labels
on it. They have ones where you can put the price on it so
you can have them for sale, you know, and have it look like
the price is ready, multiple change changeable flips, a lot of really cool
stuff on these. These things are actually incredible quality if you guys know anything
about Zion cases and their quality on those. But they're very easy to put
back together as you can see. But yeah, the mag pros they'll be
coming out really soon. I highly recommend going to Zion and checking out what
they have on those now. But got that Paulo from the guys over at
Game Time Sports Cards. They actually gifted that to me. Got this card
in a trade in at a recent show. I'm a big old school North
Carolina guy. My mom went to you and see everyone in my family did
except for me. I went to ECU but picked up a nice Anton Jamison
from back in the day, and then grabbed a very nice Ronald Acunya out
of ten rookie salute. Yeah out of ten. Ended up picking that up
and then, speaking of tops now, got the Tops now Otani Rookie.
This goes for about four times. What does Tops rookies go for? Just
to give you a comparison, since we're just talking about it, there's another
Otani Tops Now Rookie. The first one was from the team set, that
one was from another Okay, I got this one. If you guys have
seen the new Tops by j Rod collection, the Julio one. I ended
up pulling the Gunner out of forty four. Really nice set, really really
nice. I like it a lot. Let's see what else is here we've
also we picked up. Other than that, we basically picked up a lot
of pookah. I'm a big Pooka Nakoula fan, so a lot of hookah
and then a whole lot of Paolo and Jalen Williams mosaics and stuff like that.
I'm really big on Jalen Williams, really big on Polo. And then
less but not least, got to add more shade in my collection. I've
literally been grabbing that dude since draft day, so why stop now? I've
been telling people since draft day to buy those cards, and then I actually
did end up getting one Bryce Williams Super collection for those that follow me on
social media. Now I'm going after every single Bryce Williams one oh one that
he has. The ones that aren't behind you are in a stack right here.
I have all but about ten. Did find a printing plate that I
did not know I had, that I did not know existed, So I
got a contender's printing plate from twenty sixteen Bryce Williams. So there's some recent
pickups. Very nice, very nice. Well, since I'm behind a black
screen now just have to save these for another day. But fellas, man,
this was fun. I'm I'll go around the table. Man. What's
what do you got coming up in hobby wise, Brody shows, anything like
that? Oh you read my blog happing his daily. I really want opinions
on my eighties tops rankings, especially being a kid, I want adults opinions.
I feel like it was a little controversial. I put one major eighties
set pretty low, so I want people's opinions on it. And I have
one more quick pickup. This is actually from a box I open of U
the trilogy number to two seventy five. Gordy Howe frozen. Nice. Oh
that's a nice one. It's like this like glass yeah. Card, it's
like really like oh wow, so it's not acetate. That's like it's those
thick yeah, those thick clear ones. I love it, Like take it
out like I'll take it out real quick. It's like yeah, it's like
plastic, like yeah, clear, pretty cool, pretty cool, nice even
always a red wing, it's pretty cool. Good. Oh good, Rich,
What do you got coming up? We have the Dallas Card Show next
week, Yes, you do, and so that's always a blast. And
I know there's going to be various out of towners coming in, so I'll
get to see some people I don't normally see at the show. So that
will be a fun thing for next week. And then two weeks after that,
Kyle and his team will have the Smaller show where I will be setting
up by the FW Airport, which is a very night it's a very nice
room. When I do the Dallas Card Show, when I do it with
com see we're in the Starlight Room, and the show he does at the
Airport, it's like the Starlight Room. So it's really I like those shows.
It's really cool and the floor is carpeted and I feel so much better
at the end of the show. A cool, cool jue. What do
you got, oh man? Next couple of weeks are busy as always.
Let me at that potograph coming out every week. Got a show coming out
actually later today. But I'll actually be in Texas, but not at the
Dallas card show. I'll be at the Houston Collecticon next weekend, and then
the weekend after that, I'll be down at the Palm Beach card Show,
going back to where I actually grew up to go to the first card show
I've ever ever been to where I spent most of my life. Weird,
but so I'll be at both of those shows, working the gem NPSA booth
anyone's dropping off submissions. And then other than that, I got, like
I said, show out every week, and then hobby News Daily article be
up this week. Make sure to check that out. Actually got two of
them that I'll have out this month. And then other than that, just
traveling like crazy sounds good, sounds good, I'll be I'm actually well,
I'm just tagging along November eleventh to Caucus, New Jersey. There's a show
I'll be hanging out with cousin Oz. He's going to be setting up so
sports card therapists and those other guys will be there, so I'll be.
I don't carry much inventory to sell, but I'll be there and maybe i'll
buy some stuff while i'm there. So awesome collector's dream. Hey, make
sure to stop down and say what's up. I'll be at the General PSA
booth. Definitely. I don't know. That's that looks like it's gonna be
a good show. I'm excited to see it. I grew up in Wellington,
so I can't wait to go back to West Palm and check it out.
It's supposed to be a big one. I think four hundred plus tables.
I know it's been growing, so it's gonna be interesting. Sounds like
good, sounds like a good time. Man. Oh yeah, listen,
Hey, thanks everybody in the chat as always, man, it was fun.
You guys are always good in there. Brody, thank you very much,
sir Rich and Drew, thanks for jumping in there and uh always absolutely
so with that said, thank you very much. Check everybody episode two seventy
three, next week, same time, same bat channel, all that good
stuff. No, that's right, it will be the Tuesday night show will
be week from Tuesday. Yes, make sure you wear your best costume on
Tuesday night. There you go. So, with that said, thanks everybody
having one. Yes, I forget so ye