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Sports Talk Radio starting now. What's up everybody, and welcome to episode
two hundred and sixteen of Let Me Get that Potograph. My name, of
course, is Drew or the d Agent, joining me and my awesome co
host mister Scott Rappaport and his little puppy. Whose birthday it is? What's
going on? My man? What's going on? Yes, it is Trip's
birthday today. He is three and that's a career. As I said earlier
that that's twenty one in dog years. So we're hitting up the bar and
the casino a little bit later. There you go, There you go,
And it sounds like he's happening to party there today. So have fun,
Trip on your birthday. Oh, welcome everyboy into the show. We've got
a lot of awesome, awesome stuff to talk about today. We spend a
little bit of time in the green room hanging out chatting with you guys.
If you just joined. We are live always on YouTube as well, but
we're gonna get right into it. Scott let's dive in with the big news
of the week. JSA sold sold. What the hell talk about coming out
of left field? I've I've heard a lot of rumors and a lot of
stuff that's going to happen, and we're gonna speculate on some of that today.
I hadn't heard a word about JSA, So this is something I've actually
been speculating on for a long time, but not by not getting purchased by
Yeah, my speculation over the last year or so was that there was gonna
be some sort of merger between JSA and SGC, and obviously, with SGC
getting bought by Collectors a couple of weeks back, that is, Yeah,
there's no need for it. So it's not really a shock because CSG did
not have an authentication division, right, and let's be honest. They there's
a lot of stuff that they could use that you know, would require authentication
of some sort. Yeah, autograph comics, autograph cards, autograph memorability.
They couldn't do. Autographed comics was a massive, massive hit to that industry
for forever. And so that changing opens up in that market, which isn't
necessarily you know, the card market, but in that area of the hobby
opens up an entire new an entire new field, an entire new pop report
area, everything. I mean, it's it's a massive move that really didn't
expect to happen now CSG and there you know their companies that are all since
they have to change their name for everything, they're great. All those companies.
You know, they're owned by some pretty influencial own big name people,
so that not a lot of people know that. But this company is owned
by quite a few very very big people in this uh in the world,
and it doesn't surprise me to see them do this. But like I said,
I would have thought s GC. But then, like you said,
they have PSA DNA now, so they don't need it. Well, well
not necessarily because they're still not they're not going to be integrated with PSA,
right, but that eventually that could come eventually. My again me speculating would
be that you know, somewhere along the line, even if they even if
they forever remain separate companies that you know, PSA would loan them some of
their authentication people to use. Well that's well, that thing. The idea
was to help each other with fraud and also I mean, I think it
helps PSA with their vintage and you know, I mean it's easy to keep
them separate and have people work together and so, you know, and share
that information to better both companies, which now they have a vested do.
But the JSA move, I mean it positions CSG very very strong in the
grading gap. Now CSG seems to have I'll tell you right now, doing
collecticons, CSG sells better than SGC in TCG world, night day, all
day long. Like it. If you look at slabs, we have a
buying booth every single one and we get people that come up all the time
we're selling and buying. It's always PSA or CSG or some crazy grading company
I've never heard of. So CSG has a massive input the in that area.
Now, well, if you compare, if you compare TCG to the
sports card world, if you look at vented, the way that CSG versus
SGC goes with the TCG stuff is like how PSA and Beckett go from a
vintage standpoint, they've been doing it longer, you know, that was their
primary focus. In fact, they didn't do sports cards for a long time.
You know, that's only within the last couple of years. So TCG
was kind of their bread and butter when it comes to uh, you know,
card grading. Oh yeah, and that's so that's the reason that CSG
is, you know, sells better than SGC when it comes to TCG cards.
A lot of acronyms, we have a lot of acronyms were thrown.
Yeah, I know, I know. So how do you think this is
for JSA? Like I understand CSG wanting it. I totally get that.
Like you get an authentication department, you get one of the top ones in
the world. But how do you think this is gonna affect JSA? Because
JSA was always run In my opinion, I thought they were running one of
the better authentication companies because they ran it with card shows and in person authentication,
drop authentication stuff in mind. And I mean, you could be at
a Hunter card table show and JSA is there no other companies doing that?
JSA. That's where I thought they really had a leg up because I attend
a lot of those shows. I see it, and they get a lot
of action at them. So do you do you think this is gonna change?
Is JSA gonna change anything? Will they remain autonomous? From one another.
They're gonna completely combine and JSA is gonna be no more. Like So,
how do you see this playing out? So? I see I see
it playing on a couple of different ways. I still see JSA doing that,
doing all the shows, doing all the in personal authentication. They may,
and I honestly think that they may keep the j s A name because
they have some weight within the hobby. They kind of have to. They
kind of have to keep that. Yeah, but obviously they're gonna be doing
JSA needed a company to be able to do slabs because they didn't have a
way to slabtograph cards and autograph cultures and things like that. So that's important
for JSA to have that. I whether or not it's a completely separate operation
and it's just the CSG label with you know, kind of how when Beckett
had the partnership with JSA before they brought Steve on and started their own authentication
division. I you know, it's probably going to be a CSG flip on
the slab with the JSA logo, and I think it's going to be for
authenticated items only. It's probably just going to be a JSA flip. But
I don't really see much choice. I mean I could see a CSG flip
was simply on the back of it. Like how PSA has their logo twice,
I could just see the SA logo right on the back. Have all
the information on the front, you keep it well. I think it's important
because even Beckett when they had the JSA partnership, the the JSA logo was
on the front of So I think it's important to have I would put it
small. How PSA does the small and in the front. You don't want
to have that two cluttered, you know what I mean, Like have that
JSA kind of like the uh what the funny Mike Baker, Black Diamond,
you know things. Yeah, Like that's like ye those lines if you're gonna
do it. But it's gonna be interesting to see what they do because I
mean, like I said, this came out of left field. But we've
been talking for a long time on this show now about how all these companies
right now as the hobby goes into very very new territory and a lot bigger
territory. And I'll touch on that in just a moment, Like we were
gonna see consolidation of companies. We knew this was gonna come. We've been
talking about this and telling people this was gonna happen for over like a year
and a half, two years now, and now you're starting to see it.
You see the the PSA, SGC, you're seeing JSA, your CS
and CSG come together. The consolidation effect is one happening, and it's continuing
to happen, as I can guarantee you in the next two weeks or so,
there's gonna be about two or three very very big stories that are gonna
break as well that regard massive companies in this industry. So this is another
domino that's falling. As all of these dominoes seem to have hit that part
where everything kind of goes into full swing, we're hitting that time and kind
of related to that. I don't know if you've heard about this. I
teased it in the green room on YouTube before the show, But there's been
a lot of subtle little hints here and there, and I can confirm now
that it is true. But Darren Ravelle has been doing a lot of little
hints. He's bought collectible girls Twitter, He's talked about how hobby journalism,
hobby media, and things like that. He's been talking about how it needs
a revolution all this type of stuff. Well, I can confirm right,
he's right, No, he is right, he is right, He's right.
There's I got on the thread last night and uh said, my piece
on journalism in this hobby, being someone that has a journalism degree and with
a fucking school for it, I did. There's a massive overhaul needed.
But I can confirm that Darren Ravel and a group of other people are starting
a new venture that's going to be announced here in a couple of weeks.
But what's interesting is at the same time, Tom Fish put out a photo
the other day saying exciting things are coming with Kevin O'Leary, who's known from
dealer, Uh shark tank, shark Tank, Yeah, thank you? So
is he part of the revel thank Who knows? But you're what You've got
all that stuff coming up? Speaking of Kevin O'Leary, hold on. So
maybe there's more to the than we think because uh shine, yes put out
a picture kind of started it all off on a private jet with Kevin O'Leary.
Yes, yeah, so is he and I kind of kicked it all
off. Then Tom Fish did something Blowout. Now Darren Ravella is purchasing collectible
girls and launching a new venture. A new venture will be announced and probably
through that account in some way, shape or form. But he is getting
and putting skin in the game in the Hobby, which is very, very
big for this A like, I don't think what his venture is yet,
Darren's Darren's venture is probably strictly on the journalism side, I hope. I
don't see him buying into you know, let's say, like Blowout or you
know, a company like that, where so I think, I think what
Darren's trying to do is just a guess is going to be strictly on the
media side of things. And Trip agrees because you can hear a moaning no
I I that's what I said. Trip seems to think that Darren Revel is
a good fit. I agree. I hope he does. But you know,
they're They're My point of bringing it up with Darren Revel is coming into
the Hobby in an actual you know, he's tweeted about it, he talks
about it, but he's going to have skin in the game with a new
venture coming. We've also got, like I said, some major announcements regarding
very big companies coming very very soon as well. So that consolidation effect,
the JSA, c CSG just another part of a lot of dominoes that we're
going to fault and uh in the coming weeks. It's not going to be
long. A lot of this stuff is going to happen in the coming weeks
two months because all this stuff, I guarantee you, is going to be
very very fleshed out and organized by the national They have to have time to
set that up. This stuff is going to drop. This is around the
time when this stuff starts to happen every year. Anyway, you're gonna see
a lot more and uh, buckle up. It's gonna be fun. Yeah.
Speaking of fun, Yeah, oh man, this is gonna be fun.
So Top's Dynasty is coming out tomorrow, I believe yeah, And I
guess what they did. We're talking about it already, so everybody knows what
they did. So I'm just gonna come out and say it. Something stupid
decided to like bleed that exclusive autographic Agreement dry and Wemby is getting an r
PA from when he threw out the first pitch of the Yankees game. And
I don't like it. I absolutely hate it. I think it's so stupid
because a the the funniest thing to me is the patches, the Spurs patch.
So the patches at least for is it. I thought it looked like
a PA's that's the Spurs number in that patch. Okay, now maybe if
they show other ones, maybe it is the Yankees jersey, But that looked
like a Spurs patch, and the mock up that that I have it looks
like the numbering on the back or front of their jersey. But they went
as far as including the rookie card logo, getting that auto on card and
getting a swatch in and finding some type of product to throw it in just
to get a wemby r PA out there. This to me is kind of
like the Tom Brady thing, like okay, like no, no, no,
no, no, no, wait wait hold on, not in that
it's something cool and neat and awesome and different, but in their using it
in a different an athlete in a different prop except that Tom Brady was actually
drafted by the expos Right. No, no, I under that. I'm
not saying the same thing. I'm I'm just comparing that that the fact that
they assover in the sports that they've been doing. I find it pathetic that
they're doing this with Wemby just to get an RPA out there. And they're
doing this because they're seeing the sales of Wemby cards because his lack of autos
has we said helped his card market tremendously. Is I mean it also helps
He's fucking amazing, but true, true, but his cards there you can
see in the Panini's having no problem every basketball flying off the shelf secondary market
incredible. This is to me, this should have been a Tops Now type
of thing. If you're gonna do it, yes, don't want this.
Don't put this in a baseball product. And it's not what they needed it
to sell the product exactly. This looks like a cheap way to just like,
yeah, a shot in my opinion, and it's I don't like it.
I am not a fan whatsoever. I think. I hope there's not
a lot of them. I do think. What's really weird to me is
the rookie card logo. Yeah, that's a logo they used. Even looks
more like Panini's than Tops does. Like because even when Panini did the George
Costanza card in National Treasure yes, they didn't put a Rookie card logo on
that, right, you know, it was just the George Castanza ru which
is cool. I actually like that because it you know, but this one,
well, I'm looking at it right now. This is essentially this is
essentially a new rookie card logo that is so similar to Panini's and I've got
two to compare right here. Yeah, it's pathetic. They literally curved it
a little bit more and added one angle on one side and that's it.
But it looks it's a blatant ripoff of trying to have a a horizontal RPA,
and I I think it's stupid. I think it's I think there were
so many cool things you could have done with Wemby in the first pitch and
that type of stuff. You can include him in all this type of stuff
that you want with that Yankees jersey on and I think it's cool, But
this was this was the wrong move in my eyes, and trying to trick
collectors into thinking that this is going to be viewed at as an RPA.
I really hope that the overall market doesn't view it like that, because I
don't know, it just feels it feels pathetic. Yeah, I agree,
I agree, it feels pathetic. I agree that Daniel Rodriguez. Normally we
don't answer comments from the chat and I love it. It's in that case
we should have my Jordan Cartero cover chip sign, I agree, or honestly,
or a golf ball or something. Yeah, pick because it's just it's
ridiculous. Now, maybe this is a sign of things to come. Maybe
they're looking at doing a lot of crossover stuff. They got to we talked
about how were they signing these guys just to hoard them or were they going
to use them? They haven't used them a ton, but when you do
use them, you've got to put a little more tho audit into it.
Like you said, this is a product that needs no help set none,
no, none at all, none none. And you're throwing this in there
just because what's on a couple thousand dollars boxes, I don't know, Absolutely
ridiculous to me. I think it's it's pathetic. I hope they don't sell
for a lot. I know they will, but you know, I'm curious
to see how this goes over with collectors. But the Rookie card logo was
what was really shocking to me, and I wouldn't be surprised that Panini brings
it up in court because is take a look at it very very closely.
They tweet that to make it look like a flawless or something like that,
or an a flawless or an NT or something horizontal. They tweak that.
They tweet that logo purposefully to make it feel like that. And I Meani
at this point can just add it to the list of lawsuits. Yes,
yeah, and I think they probably will, yep exactly. And on that
note, because you know Anini going after fanatics for money, it looks likely
in this case we could use some of that as well. So hand over
the scratch. We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back, and
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were talking about while you guys were listening all those advertisements. Speaking of advertisements,
Yes, I see this pop up in my Facebook all the freaking time,
and it's advertisements for Kurt's card Care. Yeah all right, so the
reason I bring that up. They're not a sponsor. But it turns out
that the Wemby Prism black shimmer and it looks like the Wemby Prism Black.
Yeah. Before they were sent to PSA went through the Kurts Card Care treat
Yeah, one got a ten, the other one got to know and it
was publicized before. Fuck like seriously got all right now, before we go
any further, you just said this is the funniest part. My god,
if you're going to go through what, I have a lot of feelings on
this. I'm about to let loose on a lot of diff and stuff.
But for fuck's sake, if you're gonna do it, don't announce it.
You just don't say that type stuff. If you're that like, you don't
publicize if you're gonna do it, I mean, if you're going to go
behind like some of the stuff on Kurt's cardcare, what I want to explain
for people that don't know exactly what it is. It's multiple different tools,
so it's not one thing. You can use his little kit in like twenty
different ways for different things. So what exactly was used is what I want
to know. That's what I would want to know because some of the stuff
on there, I don't necessarily have a problem with clean with the idea of
cleaning a card. PSA obviously came out said that they, you know,
have a like don't say that, you know, they don't want it,
but they can't detect it. The stuff on Kirk's cardcare, Yeah, supposedly
it disappears not on that once it's wiped, once it's juice, will I
will say. Pete Steinberg from SGC came out with a statement a couple of
weeks about card cleaning. Somebody had asked me about it, and he had
He had basically said that if we can't detect it, then it's gonna get
graded, and if they can detect a foreign substance on there, it will
be graded accordingly. Yes, And I think that's how you need, and
I think that's where it goes. But I'm I'm looking at this from a
different angle right now. Now. The there are areas of Kurt's cardcare kit
that I have a big problem with, and that's the the parts where he's
been like he's able to take away creases and all this type of stuff.
Like that type of stuff is alteration beyond belief. It's no different than taking
those massive pressing machines and pressing. So I'm not in any way advocating for
everything that he does on this, but I think we're at a time now
where if these cards are I mean this, these are gonna sell for probably
a million fucking dollars probably, or they're gonna sell for a lot of money.
And it's getting to the point where a lot of sports cards and things
like this are considered modern art. If we go into that area and we
want it to have the value and the sustained value of art, then certain
things that are done in the art world may infiltrate into the hobby. In
the art world. There's a difference between restoration, which we would call altering,
and cleaning, which is perfectly fine. And so that's where I can
I kind of see this going because it doesn't look like they can detect the
substance at least from this. If the substance truly isn't on there after it's
been on there, if it's really gone and there's no remnants of it whatsoever.
I don't have a problem with if there is any type of remnant on
it, if it leaves any type of anything, yeah, any residue or
anything like that. But but let me ask you this, there's a problem.
So if you have a but if you have a card that is scratched,
you know, which is clearly you know a problem with the chromium type
cards. Anything that fills in that scratch is technically residue. You're correct.
But a lot of those that people think are scratches that get filled in or
not actually scratches. That's part of the printing process. On top, they
can simply be wiped off without a substance, right micro a nice nice jewelers
cloth wipe a lot of chromium cards and get things that you think are scratches
off. So there's you know what I mean. And that's where I say
is if there's no substance can be detected, if it's truly gone then,
because if you're filling in something, it would have to have some type of
residue. There can't fill something in and then disappear, so so you know,
it would have to leave something. So if it leaves something, that's
where I think there's an issue. And all the other stuff that comes in
those kits I have a big problem with, well, like the creases.
The creases issue. Really that type of stuff is alteration because what you're really
doing is it's basically adding moisture to the card and then allowing you to smooth
out the crease, yes, and then it dries out. And he's also
got the ones for the vintage. He's got the little poker for the edges
and the corners where you can make an edge perfect again, all that stuff.
Can't do that with the chromium stock cards, but you gain with your
vintage. Chances are all that was used on these Wemby's is a simple spread,
the spray and wipe that he does, and maybe an edge cleaner tool.
I don't know if he has that. I honestly don't get into that
stuff, so I don't I'd never even look to all the stuff. I've
just seen some of the videos. He may have some tool that works for
chromium stocks stuff. But to me, I mean the Wemby looks centered.
At least the black ten loook centered. Didn't really have a problem with it.
I mean, well, but then we probably the other. This is
a whole other conversation on look, they're both one of they're both the black
and the Black Shimmer one of one. Does it matter? Does it really
matter what grade they get? It's not below like seven, That's what I
really don't under even if it's below a seven. The rock one on one
WW the grade six sold for a two million exactly doesn't matter. A one
of one grade doesn't fucking matter. It never does. People always say,
oh, it's gonna kill it. No it doesn't, No, it doesn't.
But now, but now both of these cards, both of these cards
have that stigma attached to it from you know, with some people that you
know it may be considered altered because you know it was you know, you
know a chemical was used to to clean it, you know, to shine
it up, and that you know, whether there's residue left behind or not.
There's some people that are gonna say, hey, look, I don't
care if it's a ten. I don't care if the owns a nine.
It's gonna be in my eyes. And I'm just saying me personally. I'm
just saying from some people, like in their eyes it's altered. Yes,
No, I agree. I totally agree. It's gonna be interesting to see
how they sell. And I don't think it's gonna cause a problem whatsoever with
the buyers. I think these cards are gonna go on, and I think
people probably forget about this here shortly because something else will come up with some
rookie doing something stupid. But but like I said, a swap, Yeah,
like like more Grady dig Jersey swap please, somebody put a whole list
of ones to avoid. I know, I love God. That list was
hilarious. Yeah, And to see I saw him this year a little put
the comment He's like, why don't y'all want me to do that? Jersey?
Hey? Look, I give him. I give him credit for,
uh, you know, for joining at the fun of that one. Now,
if Panini really wanted to have some fun, give us an instant or
you know, give us a Panini instant on that one, Like you have
some fun, show a sense of humor. You aren't you know, like
I don't know, but greedy dick, dude, I love it. I
mean, dude, I mean we're talking about this draft class. Hell,
look at gg over in Memphis. If you're not on the gg ban on
quick, dude, does a monster put up thirty last night? But yeah,
so PSI and the card cleaning. I mean, when it comes to
all this type of stuff, like I said, if it leaves the substance,
I have a problem if it truly is something. Now Kurt, I
will say, does have an actual background in this stuff. His father did
it. It's a family business of art restoration where he came from, which
is where he learned this stuff. So by all accounts, this could be
something in that that's commonly used in the art world. And it truly does
disappear. And if that's the case, if you can't see it, I
don't necessarily think that there is a problem with it. Well, well,
now to some people, they're going to have a problem with it. Well
no, but but hold on, you gotta you gotta think about this from
from the same point. It may not be, it may not leave a
residue, it may not be detectable by with today's technology, but somebody may
come up with a technology down the road that it can't it is detectable,
and it is well, it does show it. So at that point,
what happened, Well, like I said, if it's detectable, then they
need to be decertified, dem altered whatever. I mean, those guys got
really lucky that PSA came out with the letter they did instead of decertifying those
like going out when they put out that advertisement right there basically saying thank you
for helping our card get a better grade KERTS card Care. They are very
lucky those cards were not decertified right away because of how big they were.
I know PSA, I know how they work. I've talked to the reps
about this since I They got lucky that PSA just was nice enough to put
out an email on that or a statement on that instead of truly doing what
they could have done, which would have you know, I don't know if
it would have had an effect because it's a one on one, but who
knows. Yeah, well, if it altered, then yes it would have
had an effect. But I mean they should have. They probably just could
have just left it ungraded and it would have had the same effect as having
a graded because it is that one of one. It's literally Wemby's biggest card
of the year since he has no autographs, yes, which means he's not
gonna have a you know, an auto one of one no r p A
yeah, oh exactly, so that's going to be you know that, that's
it right there. And they they took a big risk doing what they did.
I mean that's balls, man, that is balls. It is oh
oh, it's balls, all right, speaking of that relations for the good
grade. But we get Grady and balls to do a jersey swap would be
a good one too, h Jersey swaps. That's what we need. We
need just a whole insert line for jersey swaps next year and then just toss
that one in there, you know, just that would actually be a cool
it would It'd be awesome. I mean they take photos of all of them
now, so obviously, so you know, I'd like to see it.
I think it'd be cool. I thought it was funny enough, but but
yeah, and you know, and that you know, I mean, you
know, the jerseys were extra largest. Sorry man, And on that note,
I think it's probably time to wrap up this week's episode. So you
know you know when they when they change the size from extra large or double
X to magnum, you know that you know where that's gonna come from.
Alright, well, guys, that's gonna wrap up episode and sixty. Let
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