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Speaker 3: show today. Coming here in studio will be George Motes
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Speaker 3: So what do you think about the last last game?
Speaker 3: There said your wand.
Speaker 4: Not really surprised about which which part that they won
Speaker 4: the fact, simple fact that they won, a little bit
Speaker 4: surprised by the defense. But I think again it's a
Speaker 4: credit to ASU four.
Speaker 5: Their their team.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say desperate, but they have nothing
Speaker 4: to lose, so why not chuck up a lot of threes,
Speaker 4: try to make those tough shots.
Speaker 5: And they're they're a tough shot making team. They've always been.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and they played they played admirably well. Uh
Speaker 3: or because of their situation with injuries and and and.
Speaker 2: Uh underneath the underneath the table, I think he's coming.
Speaker 3: Out, uh with what they what they had their lesser
Speaker 3: one of the top miller guy in the first play,
Speaker 3: YadA YadA. They played, they played hard, they played well.
Speaker 3: It was just a bizarre game. I fell asleep about halfway.
Speaker 3: I wanted to take a nap.
Speaker 4: Actually, I mean I feel like those games are always
Speaker 4: like that, just especially at Arizona. Those games are bizarre
Speaker 4: between the two teams, but you definitely want to see
Speaker 4: a better defensive effort from Area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the puzzling part. That was my whole story.
Speaker 3: Even Tommy joked about the defensive battle right. I don't
Speaker 3: know if anybody defended.
Speaker 4: Now, not until maybe the last five minutes when they
Speaker 4: need someone needed to uh. And and I think it
Speaker 4: was kJ with a couple lockdown sequences and transition plays, so.
Speaker 3: The over under was like one like that. They blew
Speaker 3: through that with Timinus left yeah, oh yeah, and we
Speaker 3: all saw it coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah everyone everyone, The way that that first half was
Speaker 4: no one, no one points and knowing no one.
Speaker 3: Could get a stop yeah or no they did they
Speaker 3: want to. It was just really bizarre. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that sounds the alarm uh for this team, because
Speaker 3: they look great at times. They look average at times,
Speaker 3: and they just don't look good at times.
Speaker 4: And that's been the whole season where they don't look
Speaker 4: great to start the season. You start Big twelve, they
Speaker 4: look great, and you kind of get into these last
Speaker 4: patch and they look okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and last night was okay, I would say, so okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like yeah, yeah, okay, Yes, you just
Speaker 3: wanted to get you wanted to get through the game,
Speaker 3: no injuries, find a story to write about, and you know,
Speaker 3: be done with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of plays where some guys hit
Speaker 4: the floor and you wonder, oh, are they going to
Speaker 4: get back up from that? Did they tweak something right there?
Speaker 4: They hit an elbow, they hit their head on the
Speaker 4: floor really hard, But as far as we saw, nothing
Speaker 4: came from it right.
Speaker 3: Right right, And they and Arizona played well offensively. And
Speaker 3: whether the issue defended him or not, I'm not too sure.
Speaker 3: And Caleb had a nice game, every a lot of it.
Speaker 3: By the time you looked up and they had one
Speaker 3: hundred points, they had like twenty guys double figures.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you had uh kJ with twenty one, Caleb Love
Speaker 4: with twenty one. I think base I had twenty two,
Speaker 4: and those are probably some of the guys you're going
Speaker 4: to be looking for offensively come Big Talf Tournament, March Madness. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and they needed a game like that to maybe get
Speaker 4: back into a rhythm, especially someone like kJ, where you
Speaker 4: know he's capable but he hasn't shown it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, we talk about this all the time with you guys.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you didn't use the word momentum.
Speaker 5: Because I try not to front of.
Speaker 3: You, because kJ has not established momentum all year. And
Speaker 3: why would you and use a word with him? Oh,
Speaker 3: he might might start I wouldn't bet on it, No,
Speaker 3: because that's not him. Would you start that with Caleb
Speaker 3: because there was Oh that'll give us hope for you know,
Speaker 3: I'm talking with a fan of will give us hope
Speaker 3: that he'll continue to do this.
Speaker 2: Okay, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: What that doesn't make sense for a momentum because you
Speaker 3: never see it.
Speaker 5: No, welcome to the Kale love experience.
Speaker 4: You're gonna love him one week, hit him the next week,
Speaker 4: and then I think he's an NFL prospect the next month.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well he's going to join the NFL.
Speaker 4: Or NBA, I said, NFL didn't. That's visit. I went
Speaker 4: to sleep at three o'clock last night. I was upriding,
Speaker 4: So my apologize. I know, I maybe who knows these
Speaker 4: these athletes like to go both ways. Last night after
Speaker 4: the game, I was celebrating last time I meet him Michale.
Speaker 2: Oh, you were taking photos all last time.
Speaker 4: The next time I'm in Michale, I'll be in my
Speaker 4: cap and gown. That makes kind of bittersweet right there. Oh,
Speaker 4: say you're taking picture what he doing? That's not the
Speaker 4: big of a deal. And then you say, oh, I
Speaker 4: get it. Did you kiss the floor?
Speaker 5: No, I should have.
Speaker 4: I was I was too tired to bend down. And
Speaker 4: if if I go down and kiss the floor, I'm
Speaker 4: probably not getting back up.
Speaker 5: Last night, that makes total sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what I'm surprised no one tried to do
Speaker 4: that last night. Uh you know there was last minute subs.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well you know because uh, Tommy talked about white Man's
Speaker 3: quote blah blah blah. White Man would have been the
Speaker 3: perfect guy to you know, he's been here one hundred years,
Speaker 3: kiss the ground, that kissed the floor, and.
Speaker 4: He's made the plays when he's been in the game
Speaker 4: at Utah last week or not at Utah against Utah
Speaker 4: last week. Hits comes and hits. The three saves a
Speaker 4: lot of people's bets. Even when we when they celebrated
Speaker 4: him last season. If one of the first places he
Speaker 4: gets to steal and.
Speaker 3: Right, foul, you gotta start right, you gotta start Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you're right. He created He created a lot of
Speaker 3: problems early and then you didn't see him again. Kind
Speaker 3: of sol flashes of TJ. Yeah, that's true, just small flashes.
Speaker 2: There's God.
Speaker 3: The basketball gods sometimes played for you in your favor.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they got the win. Bobby was Bobby, you know,
Speaker 3: got a tea. But you know, it was kind of
Speaker 3: a subdued the crowd again, the kids again, the ones
Speaker 3: right next to us, you know, using the F bomb.
Speaker 4: I just feel I feel like they didn't use it
Speaker 4: too much. I mean there was one where it was
Speaker 4: real loud, and that's about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they got the memo something because the
Speaker 3: other side of the kids, the students started kind of
Speaker 3: trying to drown them out with Arizona Arizona of a. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like the bad dudes on one side, the
Speaker 3: good people on the other.
Speaker 4: It felt like they just wanted to get one in
Speaker 4: one last time and maybe maybe something else. There was
Speaker 4: a section of students dressed in all black for Bobby
Speaker 4: going away party, if you want to call it that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would assume, I'm assuming that's possibly gonna
Speaker 3: happen because he just hasn't done what he needs to do.
Speaker 5: And he's gotten the money.
Speaker 4: It's not a money issue anymore, especially with the player
Speaker 4: like James Harden.
Speaker 2: Give me they did they say how did he say
Speaker 2: how much?
Speaker 5: I saw something that said six figures. Okay, that's kind
Speaker 5: of I never saw an exact amount.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like Tuesday from the pros. Arizona needs that.
Speaker 3: They needs the guys, the guys to come back, and
Speaker 3: kind of, well, there's not very many left.
Speaker 5: I was gonna, I was gonna say, who would be that?
Speaker 3: TJ? TJ, TJ. But here's the problem. His guy's not there. No,
Speaker 3: it's not Sean. It's not Sean.
Speaker 2: It's not Sean, and there's nobody.
Speaker 4: I wonder if him and Tommy have some sort of
Speaker 4: communication or relationship, given that t J such a figure
Speaker 4: for Arizona basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a good question.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not because he is tied to Arizona not
Speaker 3: and to Sean maybe both ends. You can help both ends. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then Coloco probably doesn't make enough. Who else is
Speaker 3: out there? Old Mathern, he's not and he's not connected really.
Speaker 3: I you know, when I covered the team for a
Speaker 3: long time, he got connected with all the guys you know,
Speaker 3: good or bad and connected and Sewn's guys.
Speaker 2: There's really no connection.
Speaker 4: To Tucson outside of maybe TJ outside of maybe teaching.
Speaker 4: That's just because he has a love for Aerts on
Speaker 4: the basketball where he he originates from.
Speaker 3: Right, that's where he has magic started. It's not Ducaine.
Speaker 3: He was good there too, obviously. Okay, today's show, we're
Speaker 3: gonna wait for George Modis here from Showtime Cards, talk
Speaker 3: a lot about his business, and just have him as
Speaker 3: a guest. You'll be with me on the other Mic
Speaker 3: Ray's running the show today. Uh, and we're gonna have
Speaker 3: who we having? No, we're gonna have Blake Eager here
Speaker 3: at three seventeen calling in, Oh, did you are you
Speaker 3: going tonight?
Speaker 5: No, I'll be going tomorrow night. That's for college college night. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what I still got to talk to him, get
Speaker 5: a media passed I'm sure, sure.
Speaker 3: You better do it now because I'm going tomorrow too,
Speaker 3: just just to be sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I forgot. They're not playing tonight. They're playing tomorrow six o'clock,
Speaker 3: seven o'clock, I believe.
Speaker 5: Six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, here he is. Now we'll just sit there.
Speaker 3: You know, he'll get penalized for not so so he'll
Speaker 3: be here at US three seventeen, and then at four
Speaker 3: seventeen we're gonna have Michael lev to get his impressions
Speaker 3: from last night's game. We sat next to each other,
Speaker 3: talked a little about the game. It was just, uh,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say nondescript, but it was it
Speaker 3: was just, you know, let's get this over with, move on.
Speaker 5: I want to use a quote from Tommy.
Speaker 4: He talked about his celebrating his son Liam uh and
Speaker 4: he kind of hesitated, but he said business as usual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 3: Because that felt like what the game was that observation,
Speaker 3: because that you're exactly right. And he said that a
Speaker 3: couple of times. Yeah, and that's what I feel like,
Speaker 3: that's what all the players wanted it to be. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe on both parties. Do you have I asked you
Speaker 3: this question when you're in here on Monday. You live
Speaker 3: little of confidence with this team. I said about seven, Yeah,
Speaker 3: going going into what's the most season? What's seven gonna
Speaker 3: get you? Maybe sweet sixteen?
Speaker 4: Maybe that's again going off of seating matchups and so.
Speaker 3: So I know that Ray hasn't really been around for
Speaker 3: a while. He's been out doing his life work for
Speaker 3: you as you're You're You're born and raised two songs,
Speaker 3: so and you're You're You're like a little favorite son.
Speaker 3: I wish you were you you were a fan obviously
Speaker 3: coming in you're still a fan deep down, I'm sure
Speaker 3: has things have things changed for you now that you've
Speaker 3: had a little, uh on the inside view.
Speaker 5: It's been changed. Uh.
Speaker 4: If you were to ask me back in November December,
Speaker 4: I would have said anything to uh back up whatever
Speaker 4: Arizona was doing. Now I really can't and I don't
Speaker 4: really not watch basketball, and well that's a different conversation, Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: but basketball I can't because I I know more, I
Speaker 4: see more.
Speaker 5: Uh, I go to almost.
Speaker 4: Every game and some and so and so when I
Speaker 4: get uh, other students friends of mine saying what the
Speaker 4: heck is wrong with Arizona what heck is wrong with
Speaker 4: Caleb Love?
Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, did you not watch the game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty obvious what's not working right around making shots?
Speaker 3: But you you get the same questions I do. Then,
Speaker 3: I mean, what's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 2: We see the game, same game.
Speaker 3: We're not privy to any inside information, but your your
Speaker 3: your demeanor, your attitude has to change because you're you
Speaker 3: can't be that fan. I guess you could without showing it,
Speaker 3: but you know what I'm saying. It's like I tell this,
Speaker 3: I tell this to people when I like kids, but
Speaker 3: I go, tell me about your career, so I tell them,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2: This is why.
Speaker 3: It's like the kids getting a job at UH at Snickers.
Speaker 3: They love Snickers and they can't you know, they love
Speaker 3: going there. They want to work at the headquarters of Snickers.
Speaker 3: They get that job and then they put them on
Speaker 3: the assembly line and they and they see that it's
Speaker 3: when they put them in the packages. It's not as sanity.
Speaker 3: I just use, yeah, it's not as it's not what
Speaker 3: they think. It's not what they think. And they go
Speaker 3: home and say, I don't know if I want to
Speaker 3: exact exactly and then you kind of get to change
Speaker 3: your perception.
Speaker 5: Same for you one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sorry again deep down, always root for
Speaker 4: the for the program, and I hope for the best.
Speaker 5: But I got to be realistic. Now, that's what my
Speaker 5: job calls for.
Speaker 3: Right and pragmatic, realistic, pragmatic and kind of like even
Speaker 3: keel without any bias.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm sitting there in the media section
Speaker 4: and from the waist up, I'm serious, I'm focused, I'm analytical.
Speaker 4: But then you hear the band. You're tapping your foot
Speaker 4: under the table. No one's watching that right.
Speaker 3: Right right, and you and you notice, and you notice,
Speaker 3: I'm sure the media members in the room kind of
Speaker 3: the ones who tap their feet and kind of like
Speaker 3: the fist bump and all that underneath.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm still one of those where even
Speaker 4: when I see it, I see a prespect PLAYOFFLL be like, wow, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I do I do, I do that, And that's more
Speaker 4: appreciative of the the concept of the play.
Speaker 3: And kJ Williams kJ Lewis had a couple of those
Speaker 3: plays falling down reverse yep, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a there was a play.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I cheered for when Owaka got at
Speaker 4: top of he took one dribble, kind of faked the
Speaker 4: shot and then.
Speaker 5: Threw a lob to cutter Bryan. I was impressed.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I thought the same thing.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking either they practiced that a lot or o'wauka
Speaker 3: has some touch with his passes because he's a big
Speaker 3: man who gave them all up.
Speaker 4: And now a lot of people can make that type
Speaker 4: of pass given middle of the court.
Speaker 5: You got another player coming from the baseline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, oh thanks one. We're gonna go take a
Speaker 3: break here and come back with Blake Eager.
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Speaker 17: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball hero
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me
Speaker 3: today is George Mnis from Showtime Cards. Now on the phone,
Speaker 3: we have Blake Eager from WBC and and where are
Speaker 3: you from?
Speaker 2: There? Senor Blake there? Can you guys hear me?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're you're with us. How are you doing?
Speaker 5: How's the vacation at the ballpark?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I would, I mean it's it's amazing, right, So
Speaker 6: I mean I'm fortunate in the situation that we're at
Speaker 6: right now and what we're doing that I get to
Speaker 6: be able to hang around big leaguers and be on
Speaker 6: the field on brand new field and have Major League
Speaker 6: Baseball here and World Baseball Classic here, watching all the
Speaker 6: fans in the stands and the beautiful weather we've had
Speaker 6: except for Monday night. But yeah, it's it's a dream
Speaker 6: come true. Stee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no cool.
Speaker 6: What's the reception been, Uh, yeah, it's it's it's been outstanding.
Speaker 6: I mean all the feedback we've gotten from people that
Speaker 6: have gone to game or have seen some of the coverage.
Speaker 6: I mean, the games have been on Fox Sports too,
Speaker 6: they've been on MLB Network. I had Shelley Duncant text
Speaker 6: me the other day and said he was in the
Speaker 6: clubhouse watching it with the Yankees. The New York Yankees
Speaker 6: were watching Tucson on TV. So I don't think we
Speaker 6: could have asked for a better reception.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no cool, George. Have you been out there and
Speaker 3: I have not been out there this week, And I'm
Speaker 3: sure you have some cards with the dudes that are there. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're coming in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, h yeah. Who's like and the who well he
Speaker 2: said done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had yeah, well Shelley, Yeah, Shelley's in Shelley's
Speaker 6: actually the Triple A manager, so he's in Tampa for
Speaker 6: the Yankees. So he's in Tampa. But we've had Geo
Speaker 6: or Shechella, Julio duran On, uh, Donald Lutz. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's all kinds of guys out there. Brazil's got a
Speaker 6: ton of high end prospects. Manny Ramirez was out there
Speaker 6: a couple of days. We've got Andre and Audrey Agassi
Speaker 6: and Steffi Graff have been out really, all the Perez
Speaker 6: is out there. Yeah, Miguel Batista has been out there.
Speaker 6: It's it's the It's been incredible. It's nice baseball back
Speaker 6: in town.
Speaker 2: We did it. Uh.
Speaker 18: I had a shop inside the team shop for over
Speaker 18: a decade years, the side the sidewinders. Yeah okay, and
Speaker 18: then we also George Yeah, we also did the Arizona
Speaker 18: Diamondbacks and the White Sox.
Speaker 2: Oh nice. Yeah, it was fun. I miss that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you've had some great publicity. I know Gomez,
Speaker 3: Mister Gomez's son played, he was playing for Columbia.
Speaker 5: Who's he playing for Columbia?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh, And then you.
Speaker 3: Have you talked about Augusty Gomez, a lot of x
Speaker 3: u A, A couple of u A guys. Right, uh so,
Speaker 3: so what the weather? And then no games today?
Speaker 6: No games today? We got a sixteen game tomorrow against Columbia,
Speaker 6: I mean sorry, against Germany and Brazil to move on
Speaker 6: to the World Baseball Classic. It's gonna be a it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a wild night tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: So who's who's already in.
Speaker 6: Columbia? Columbia? Are you and Steve?
Speaker 9: You?
Speaker 6: And I've talked about this, I've talked about on our
Speaker 6: on our show, your show plenty of times. Columbia was
Speaker 6: a favorite going into it, that that roster is stacked.
Speaker 6: But Brazil and Germany it's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 6: an exciting game. I think Brazil beat Germany in the
Speaker 6: first game eight to seven. So who knows what happens
Speaker 6: on Thursday night at six pm at Kino Veterans Stadium.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you real quick before George Chemsen.
Speaker 3: So these rosters, are these rosters set in stone or
Speaker 3: can they be manipulated? As that's the right word. But
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, as the roster as the game.
Speaker 6: Start yeah, you can't change. You can't bring in players.
Speaker 6: I think the only ability you have is if an
Speaker 6: injury happens and it has to be a reserve that
Speaker 6: has been identified. So right now, this is a roster
Speaker 6: they're rolling with.
Speaker 18: Okay. Oh yeah, I had no idea on that. I
Speaker 18: thought they could bring in and you know, sub out
Speaker 18: players like kind of like the Olympics.
Speaker 3: You know, you just have a sub team and you
Speaker 3: qualify and then you bring right the rest of the
Speaker 3: group guys in.
Speaker 6: Is there the same thing as the Olympics? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 18: Is there a game in the morning tomorrow? I thought
Speaker 18: there was one in the morning.
Speaker 6: Nope, No, just six pm tomorrow that will be the
Speaker 6: champions to move on.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let me ask you, because I asked you
Speaker 3: yesterday and you can tell publicly. I'll ask for the merch,
Speaker 3: because you know, I'm a merch dude for a hat
Speaker 3: or something cool from colombiaet bright yellow. So do you
Speaker 3: have still had some of that stuff left?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's still some stuff in the in the store
Speaker 6: there that that's available. I think they were surprised at
Speaker 6: how much merch they actually sold, because they sold out
Speaker 6: a bunch of stuff even after the first game, it
Speaker 6: just went like crazy. People were so excited about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how'd how was it yesterday with a bunch of kids.
Speaker 6: So Monday and Tuesday eleven in games were those kids
Speaker 6: in the park? Day? It was And thankfully I think
Speaker 6: one game was on Fox Sports too, and one game
Speaker 6: was on a MLB network. Yesterday was wild because you
Speaker 6: had it was probably four thousand people in the stands
Speaker 6: and three thousand over just screaming kids. But they had
Speaker 6: an unbelievable time. The reception that we got back from
Speaker 6: the superintendent's office and all the schools, the kids loved it.
Speaker 6: And you know, my background steve to have the ability
Speaker 6: the tucsona in or southern Arizona to go to you know,
Speaker 6: you know, Veterans Stadium and watch a professional baseball game
Speaker 6: happening on the field. We haven't had that opportunity since
Speaker 6: twenty ten. So the core memory that we were able to,
Speaker 6: you know, come together as a team and create for
Speaker 6: these kids.
Speaker 3: No, it's cool because you kind of have the same feeling, George,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure that you probably influenced a lot of
Speaker 3: young kids. They went to the game and says, hey,
Speaker 3: Doug could you take me the future started to tell you, junior,
Speaker 3: there's not any opportunity but for you, George, if you're
Speaker 3: if you're a young dude, you're seventy eight years old,
Speaker 3: you start collecting cards, that's when it all begins. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: that's exactly how it begins.
Speaker 18: As a matter of fact, I bought my first or
Speaker 18: my dad bought me my first pack at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 18: when I was eight years old, you know, yeah, and
Speaker 18: I was keeping score and I didn't even know what
Speaker 18: they were. But I've seen like some picture cards and
Speaker 18: I was like, Dad, can I get a pack of that?
Speaker 18: He's like, yeah, how much?
Speaker 2: Is it a bock? I was like, all right, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you no. No. Little did he know they would
Speaker 2: be your addiction.
Speaker 18: Oh that's it. The back of it had stats, and
Speaker 18: then my life changed. And that's what you're hoping for too,
Speaker 18: right he's young.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, And George, George, you'll love this. So like
Speaker 6: both kids in the park day Major League Baseball Players
Speaker 6: Association MLBPA. That's Oliver for Rez and I hope if
Speaker 6: you guys don't know him, he played in the big
Speaker 6: leagues for twenty years. He's from Mexico big name. Oh yeah, Miguil.
Speaker 6: But Batista was Arizona diamondback, played the Olympics for twenty years. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So MLBPA brought both of them out, got all their
Speaker 6: baseball cards. They had a bunch of tops baseball cards
Speaker 6: and just went around passing at all the kids in
Speaker 6: the stands. So all these kids not only did not yeah,
Speaker 6: not only did they get baseball cards, but they got
Speaker 6: baseball cards handed from to them from guys that just
Speaker 6: got done playing twenty years.
Speaker 2: In the big from the players. Yeah, what a great
Speaker 2: experience from the players.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was. It was amazing. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. That's great.
Speaker 18: Do you think this is going to bring back baseball
Speaker 18: or is it kind of open the doors?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Uh so. Uh I've spoken to Steve about this
Speaker 6: multiple times. This is a catalyst hopefully for future events
Speaker 6: and a community effort. Uh. This is our you know,
Speaker 6: this is our first chance to bring Major League Baseball back. Well,
Speaker 6: Baseball Classic here to show off what we're able to do,
Speaker 6: and we've got nothing but great reception from them and
Speaker 6: and feedback. But we are currently working with other ownership
Speaker 6: groups about anchor tenants in Kino Stadium, and this is
Speaker 6: this is a jumping off point and one of the
Speaker 6: big things for this, and the reason why we're really
Speaker 6: excited about the future for this is that uh Pima
Speaker 6: County and Keino Sports Complex have done such a phenomenal job.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is a this is the first time
Speaker 6: you've got a brand new field at Kingo Veteran Stadium.
Speaker 6: What I mean by that is they it's completely They
Speaker 6: tore up all the existing grass and saw it. They
Speaker 6: tore it all up. They brought in bright View that
Speaker 6: does all the major league stadiums. They rebuilt the field,
Speaker 6: They've got a video board there. They refurbished all the dugouts,
Speaker 6: the bullpens. I mean, if you guys haven't been out there,
Speaker 6: I don't even you know. I listen personally, I would
Speaker 6: love for you to go to the game. If you
Speaker 6: if you don't get a chance to go to the game,
Speaker 6: you got to drive out there and just look at it,
Speaker 6: because all it looks like a it looks like a
Speaker 6: big league stadium. It feels like spring training, but it
Speaker 6: looks like a big league stadium right now.
Speaker 18: I'm just gonna say yeah, because the field issue was
Speaker 18: one of the issues they had was the field, you know,
Speaker 18: they had like holes in it or something. But now
Speaker 18: with the brown new I am going to go check
Speaker 18: it out tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I'm going, well, you don't have that problem anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, do you know what's gonna You're not going
Speaker 3: to answer this, but do you know what's going to
Speaker 3: happen with that wonderful place now once they're gone?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I hope I can answer that. We
Speaker 6: had a meeting today. I hope I can answer that
Speaker 6: in two months. For you see, I'm tired. This is
Speaker 6: this is a this is one of those that there
Speaker 6: has to be an answer pretty soon. And we were
Speaker 6: talking this morning in a meeting that it looks like
Speaker 6: it's going to be a two month turnaround that I
Speaker 6: can get you an answer. And that's just for one one.
Speaker 6: The other one might be a little bit longer, but
Speaker 6: it's not going to be too much longer either because
Speaker 6: there's got to be a major announcement on the other
Speaker 6: one as well.
Speaker 2: It's my good news. Though no one's listening to us.
Speaker 2: It's between us.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, you've already got me to cry on your.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you still have a job after all the stuff.
Speaker 2: You've given me.
Speaker 6: Well, well, yeah, well I'm hoping to still have a job.
Speaker 6: I think that's I mean, that's a that's a different conversation.
Speaker 6: So we're in good shape right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, anything else you want to add because I have
Speaker 3: another question about another topic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you know, Steve, you and I've you've
Speaker 6: been so you know the for allowing me to come
Speaker 6: out of your show, for allowing me to co host.
Speaker 6: I told you this before. I'll never be able to
Speaker 6: thank you enough. It's amazing to be here. It's amazing
Speaker 6: for what you do for the community. If we as
Speaker 6: a community come out tomorrow night and just kind of
Speaker 6: just just knock it out of the park. And I
Speaker 6: don't want to use a baseball pun in that sense,
Speaker 6: but if we can come out and just show our
Speaker 6: best foot forward and send them off going, there's no
Speaker 6: question about it that Tucson should be a home for
Speaker 6: a qualifier every three years. But showing Major League Baseball
Speaker 6: that we're ready to be a major player again in
Speaker 6: the market, it would mean so much to the community,
Speaker 6: and it would be mean so much to the game
Speaker 6: of what really put us on the map in a
Speaker 6: professional sports scent and also listen Thursday night, you get
Speaker 6: five dollars, twenty four ounce modelos, and dollars hot dogs,
Speaker 6: like if anything else, come have a drink and come
Speaker 6: eat twenty five hot dogs and leave happy. I don't
Speaker 6: know another. I don't know where else in the United
Speaker 6: States you can go watch Major League Baseball player on
Speaker 6: the field, pay fifteen dollars to get in, five dollars
Speaker 6: for parking, five dollars for twenty four hours from dollars,
Speaker 6: and a dollar of hot talk. I just don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe I'm wrong, and I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 6: to drive up north right, Yeah exactly, Yeah, Hey, real
Speaker 6: quick before I say that. So there's really cool thing.
Speaker 6: So we were I actually took somebody down to interview this.
Speaker 6: So I met a couple of yesterday that go to
Speaker 6: all World Baseball Classic events. They're from They're from Virginia Beach.
Speaker 6: I met a couple yesterday that drove down from Denver,
Speaker 6: Colorado for this event. They're staying all week. I've got
Speaker 6: a group of like thirty people from Sedona. There's a
Speaker 6: group of like thirty people from Indio. Like it's it's
Speaker 6: it's awesome out there. So it's a great environment. Come
Speaker 6: out and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3: So thanks for the compliments towards me. Go give me
Speaker 3: some clean X please covert tears in my eyes, tears
Speaker 3: of my eyes. Let's let's get those tears out of
Speaker 3: my eyes and say, what the hell did you think
Speaker 3: about last night's basketball game?
Speaker 2: Did you go?
Speaker 6: I knew you were gonna ask me. I didn't I listen.
Speaker 6: I'm stuck at I'm pulling sixteen seventeen hour days right now.
Speaker 6: I haven't. My wife took her best friend, they went.
Speaker 6: I told everybody I don't want to know what happened.
Speaker 6: I don't know want to score. So I would love
Speaker 6: to talk about it, but I need to rewatch it
Speaker 6: or I need to watch it.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: So I'm trying to stay in my bubble. It's very difficult,
Speaker 6: and Steve knows how much of a diehard fan I am.
Speaker 6: It kills me that I miss senior night. I heard
Speaker 6: it was a wild game. I heard kJ played really well,
Speaker 6: but I know nothing else than that, So I'm sorry, Steve.
Speaker 6: I can't add to that. I mean baseball mode right now.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to teasing moment and tell you what happened.
Speaker 18: Don't for me that you have, George, No, I mean
Speaker 18: that's that's just wonderful. Yeah, yeah, I'll make an announcement.
Speaker 18: We share a post on it. Oh yeah as well,
Speaker 18: mister social media here, I love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, George, I'd be perfect. And so after this
Speaker 6: is done, I've got to run into some contract negotiations
Speaker 6: and work them through through some things. And we've got
Speaker 6: some stuff on the tourism side and film side that
Speaker 6: I'm working on. But I'm going to take like a
Speaker 6: three week break maybe a month, and I'm my dad
Speaker 6: and I are going to go through all our card collection.
Speaker 6: I'm going to come in and talk to you about it.
Speaker 6: If that's okay. Absolutely, We've got We've got cards from
Speaker 6: like the forties. I mean I was obviously a huge
Speaker 6: card collector. That's what we did growing up. So I'm
Speaker 6: hoping that we can get your advice on kind of
Speaker 6: what we have and what it looks like.
Speaker 18: Oh, it would be my pleasure. I mean, vintage is
Speaker 18: still so strong. Even young kids are collecting vintage as
Speaker 18: well as the mom go ahead George, sorry, as well
Speaker 18: as modern new players you know, Otani, Mike Trouts and
Speaker 18: all the all our current heroes.
Speaker 6: And then I'm gonna bring my own baseball cards in
Speaker 6: and then I'll pay you to take them.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: A good thing for you is you didn't have a
Speaker 3: mom or dad that you said, what the hell is this?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna toss them.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I did it with my own baseball car collection.
Speaker 6: But all my all, my all the stuff I was
Speaker 6: supposed to inherit from my grandparents that I don't have
Speaker 6: any of it. So yeah, flip a coin. I guess
Speaker 6: in life.
Speaker 3: Well, Blake, thanks for joining us. Good good that things
Speaker 3: are going well. I'll see you tomorrow. I think George
Speaker 3: might see you tomorrow too, so yeah.
Speaker 6: George, yeah, Wan, please come you just let me know
Speaker 6: what you need. I'll take care of you, guys. Text
Speaker 6: me George when you get there, Steve, you can share
Speaker 6: my number with George. I'll can get you, Steve. Let
Speaker 6: me know you You've got tickets at the ticket office
Speaker 6: waiting for you, Steve. And then hopefully you know, after
Speaker 6: this is done, you still like me enough to where
Speaker 6: I can hop on the show every now and again.
Speaker 18: That would be great, of course, it's so funny, and
Speaker 18: I will be there. I will shoot you a text tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Awesome. Thanks guys, thanks so much for everything. Thanks for
Speaker 6: having me on wan Hey, it was great talking next time.
Speaker 6: Trying not to talk so much.
Speaker 5: Okay, I try not to this show. You know, I
Speaker 5: don't want to be the main star like I usually am.
Speaker 3: Wellready said my show. Well he was talking about it.
Speaker 17: I know.
Speaker 6: I'm take it over. Sorry, Ball said, Okay, all right, guys,
Speaker 6: have a great day. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Come
Speaker 6: out of the park. I'll be running around with my
Speaker 6: head cut off, but everybody can grab me. I'd love
Speaker 6: to see everybody, So talk to you guys soon.
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Speaker 17: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 17: Want to take part in the show Call up Steve
Speaker 17: now went five two oh four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to in the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 3: In with me today is George Mattis Hello, and now
Speaker 3: we have Chris O'Gorman her ninety two point nine.
Speaker 5: That's sure, he's all. He's like a twelve year old
Speaker 5: kid here.
Speaker 2: He gets you.
Speaker 5: S Youna get Georgia.
Speaker 2: You get Georgia.
Speaker 14: Well, George kind of like little fire. Like when we
Speaker 14: did the Willie Mains card. He was very good to me,
Speaker 14: sending off to get PSA. Granted, he showed me the
Speaker 14: breakdown of the prices and we're hoping for a two
Speaker 14: on that one. We got agree and know we got
Speaker 14: a one. No are we sure about that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 18: Yeah, any way, but you needed it because it was
Speaker 18: you needed this part of my set.
Speaker 2: And he sends it off and I got good cash
Speaker 2: out of him. No, yeah, I remember that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I paid him well as I do. You don't know
Speaker 2: he cards? That's why you're back.
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, because I have some cards and like I said,
Speaker 14: you kind of you know, lit a fire on me.
Speaker 2: And now it's like, you know, you're trying to find them.
Speaker 14: You know, I do, I collect him, but if I
Speaker 14: find something like a gem, I mean I'm not above
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes you have to sell while they're hot.
Speaker 14: Right, Absolutely, when by Yamba or whoever I would have
Speaker 14: sold his stuff.
Speaker 2: Are he dropped because of his injury?
Speaker 18: So really yeah, Chris Bosh had a similar injury and
Speaker 18: it kind of ended his career. So they're like, maybe
Speaker 18: let me sell now, everybody starts selling at the same
Speaker 18: time that stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, the bottom falls.
Speaker 3: Out, well unless he comes back and does really well, of.
Speaker 18: Course, and then it shoots back up. So now it's
Speaker 18: time like if you want to gamble, you kind of
Speaker 18: buy it now.
Speaker 14: So so would you have sold his Zion Williams and
Speaker 14: you got to I.
Speaker 18: Was just thinking you do unload that, right, that's the
Speaker 18: other player that was exactly big Eye, just as hot,
Speaker 18: and he's like no in college, the kid from Hooper Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So what does he have a card?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 18: He has the McDonald's tops chrome cards, big money. I
Speaker 18: think the autographs are a few thousand dollars. And he
Speaker 18: is the hottest player as far as the young guys,
Speaker 18: projected number one and he is good Cooper Flag, so
Speaker 18: he's good until he's not good.
Speaker 14: Can I ask a really quick question then, real fast?
Speaker 14: Do you do bilow candidates? Do you have a segment
Speaker 14: like at your shots? Like, okay, Trevor Lawrence, you can't.
Speaker 14: There's no way that rookie card is I mean, would
Speaker 14: he be a bye let's say he lands in Pittsburgh
Speaker 14: this year or something. Is he a by Low candidate
Speaker 14: for a rookie card or does he cards?
Speaker 18: And no, I mean someone like that. Once they drop,
Speaker 18: it's harder for them to go back up. But he
Speaker 18: could have a very few players.
Speaker 2: I'll give you.
Speaker 18: One is Otani. Remember his rookie year. He had the
Speaker 18: Tommy John surgery. His stuff dropped and it dropped it half.
Speaker 18: And I actually took a chance at him because Tommy
Speaker 18: John's not you know, it's an easy.
Speaker 2: Repair career and it paid off for.
Speaker 18: You, and it did, it did well and I sold
Speaker 18: it all and it keeps going up.
Speaker 2: But very few. The percentage is less than ten. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but there, I mean I've got his some by those.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well would you get your degree at card collecting? Because
Speaker 3: my son's thinking about switch. He's making money on cards.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 18: He's a twenty year old sophomore atte Arizona study.
Speaker 2: What is he study?
Speaker 18: Well, he was going to go into a pre med
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, he's going to be a doctor.
Speaker 2: And now he's he's a doctor of cards. If his
Speaker 2: mom's listening, she'll kill me the card doctor. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. You got there.
Speaker 14: Okay, So I got some cards I didn't know because
Speaker 14: I know for people that don't know you do a
Speaker 14: great job, and I know that you're very fair and
Speaker 14: thank you. You will give straight up answers. I just
Speaker 14: brought a few from my collection. I'm kind of holding
Speaker 14: one for the last I showed you too, but I
Speaker 14: don't know how much time we have it. Okay, so
Speaker 14: here's you can talk about them. Okay, these are just
Speaker 14: because I know you do a wide writers. I brought
Speaker 14: white rioting for you talk about.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking.
Speaker 18: This is a player that was really hot ninety three
Speaker 18: ninety four, there was a basketball boom Penny anforty hardaway.
Speaker 18: But Shaq was also a rookie that year. Many Rodriguez
Speaker 18: rookie nineteen ninety four. This card was the king of
Speaker 18: the nineteen eighties. This was the Holy Grail card. Maddenly rookie.
Speaker 2: I wish he would have made the mean today. What's
Speaker 2: a card like that?
Speaker 6: Launch?
Speaker 18: Not much that a forty car oh today? Yeah, it's
Speaker 18: about you're you're close. Yeah, and back then it was
Speaker 18: maybe double. It was eighty dollars, but that was the
Speaker 18: best card.
Speaker 2: But back in their eighty bucks in nineteen.
Speaker 18: One's a lot of money, yeah, absolutely, you know, and
Speaker 18: they didn't have home run hitters.
Speaker 2: Like they do now.
Speaker 18: It's just different, different era. Who is his federalf the
Speaker 18: same thing?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 18: The thing with these cards is there are a lot
Speaker 18: of eighties and nineties they mastered PTS cards. I have
Speaker 18: a lot of woodcutas in there, right, compared to that,
Speaker 18: you know, and then Lebron James. You know, he's got
Speaker 18: a nice mosaic. As a matter of fact, this product here,
Speaker 18: I was. I was with Pannini round Table, so I
Speaker 18: was part of the development team.
Speaker 2: This is one of the products I helped create. Wow
Speaker 2: did you number that? Did you number that in the
Speaker 2: back too?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Right, Oh it's number nine. Yeah so that Oh that's
Speaker 18: a big card. Okay, is it really seventy four one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Mosaic I pulled that, and he's hot. If you guys
Speaker 2: are weak to me, what the show? See that?
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful card. It's a beautiful this kind of
Speaker 3: did shake, sh shimmers and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, the more shimmers, the more money. Yeah. No, so
Speaker 2: you're looking at me like bling, Yeah, what would you
Speaker 2: off the top of your head.
Speaker 18: So that's there. We were talking about production of cards.
Speaker 18: So that's that card. They only made one hundred and
Speaker 18: forty nine and that's number seve.
Speaker 3: So do we need to carry you to the car today?
Speaker 2: Well? Who needs a four oh one? K?
Speaker 18: I've got yep, oh Mark Grace autograph? So what is
Speaker 18: this an in person autic?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 18: It is right, So someone got this signed and this
Speaker 18: is the traded set and it's a rookie.
Speaker 14: So that's why I was kind of going to deal
Speaker 14: with you on that one on the side maybe at
Speaker 14: some point.
Speaker 2: But I just want to get your take.
Speaker 18: Oh wow, this is the big oh man, he's got
Speaker 18: two nice ones.
Speaker 2: But the dog seem to chew on this one.
Speaker 14: That's an old Yeah, no, that's no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I showed him that. Yeah, yeah, so what does that?
Speaker 2: Because the dog cards.
Speaker 14: Can't be worth more than thirty dollars. It's an old
Speaker 14: Roger Merris right, that's the end of the screw. It's
Speaker 14: got two marks on it. So this one is a
Speaker 14: great card. It's a TOPS Chrome. They just came back.
Speaker 18: Tops Chrome hasn't produced cards in a decade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, young man.
Speaker 18: Daniels, we know him when he played here at ASU.
Speaker 18: You know a lot of people think he was lsu
Speaker 18: only No, no, no, he did really well as you
Speaker 18: But Jaden Daniels rookie with a piece of the jersey
Speaker 18: on it, and.
Speaker 2: It's official says it's valid. I pulled that from a pack.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And he's the hottest rookie. I mean he he was
Speaker 2: one game away from my eyes. Really got big one.
Speaker 14: I saw that because I did one of those where
Speaker 14: I'm skimming down like who is it?
Speaker 2: Who you know? When you're breaking?
Speaker 14: And I was like that and I couldn't put it
Speaker 14: in the top holder, which ticks me off by the way.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 18: Yeah, And we can look up the value like that's
Speaker 18: a big one.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess two hundred bucks. I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 18: Gonna guess so but wow, and then you're gonna guess
Speaker 18: this one.
Speaker 2: What's this one?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Leblon Lebron forty forty I think so, Yeah, that's disappointing.
Speaker 18: Yeah, what are you thinking, Steve, Steve.
Speaker 5: I have no idea. That's why.
Speaker 14: That's why Steve pretend it's the price is right? What's
Speaker 14: the showcase showdown on? What's your number four?
Speaker 2: For Lebron?
Speaker 6: First?
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about Diane Parkinson. Yeah, she was great.
Speaker 3: What's your I don't know, I don't like I said,
Speaker 3: I don't two hundred bucks for that car took good
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 2: This one for I thought this would be more. I
Speaker 2: would sho because it's the Yeah, it's because you.
Speaker 3: Got all excited when you open the lebron thing. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, and then he goes forty bucks. Then he
Speaker 3: says about seventy three, which is you.
Speaker 2: Know the numbered.
Speaker 14: I thought it might be that Jayden's gotta be worth
Speaker 14: one hundred dollars, eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: It's eighty, but eighty Is it a stock? Do I
Speaker 2: hold very tough on that one?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: How at his living? I mean he was one game
Speaker 2: with from the super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's what it says, eighty eighty bucks. Who
Speaker 3: would pay eighty bucks? Well, yeah, because you're not.
Speaker 18: Paying eighty bucks for cause you got to I pay
Speaker 18: close to eighty dollars. Then you keep it for later
Speaker 18: to maybe resell it for eighty.
Speaker 14: Well wait a minute, but you're telling me if you
Speaker 14: what if he wins the super nice, sure the card
Speaker 14: goes to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 18: So yeah, he was one game away from the super
Speaker 18: Bowl this year. I'm really disappointed. Have you go to
Speaker 18: the super Bowl. It would be worth oh yeah, it's
Speaker 18: double wow. So but is he a stock because he's hot,
Speaker 18: he's young? Okay, what about something like look at this one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna find this Lebron real quick. That one was
Speaker 2: really good. Steve can appreciate that one. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 2: a mini card. I don't understand. I had this forever
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's worth anything. But it's weird.
Speaker 2: Didn't get excited. No, no, no, he looked at it.
Speaker 2: What the hell, I'm gonna save the best one for last?
Speaker 18: Okay, Well, I mean, do you guys, see George brings
Speaker 18: it down to what Lebron is doing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, just stock go up on that card. See, George
Speaker 14: gets you all excited, and I'd be like.
Speaker 2: That's a great card. Forty The last one sold for
Speaker 2: thirty wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you got you got about five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: worth of cards there.
Speaker 14: Well, and I pulled a couple of rookie bon UXes
Speaker 14: out of the top strown in the same box.
Speaker 18: So the Bonuxes are like twenty five bucks. So the
Speaker 18: problem with this it's a graded card. But I've never
Speaker 18: heard of this.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got that years ago at a show and it
Speaker 2: was sketchy. But here's the one I pulled that I'm
Speaker 2: happy about. I'm saving he's gonna dig me. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be like his twenty dollars.
Speaker 18: So I pulled this. Oh wow, no, that's actually really nice.
Speaker 18: And you turn around, Yep, it gets a lot better
Speaker 18: when you turn around.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah he told me about that. Wow,
Speaker 2: Paul Skian's the twenty five. That's actually nice. That's a
Speaker 2: high five right now. So that was the one. I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what it feels like.
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm in geometry with a bunch of.
Speaker 10: Angle.
Speaker 2: No, Georgia wants his geek now.
Speaker 14: Because I was telling, see now, George, that's the one
Speaker 14: I would love for you if you could.
Speaker 2: I think that one needs to be graded. Stee.
Speaker 18: But as a youth, you played sports. Oh no, I collected.
Speaker 18: He's probably sitting on money, aren't you. He's got the cards. Well,
Speaker 18: I'm gonna say I gotta go home and fight. Yeah,
Speaker 18: but most of it I went into the cars, the
Speaker 18: bike spokes.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: We were kids, yes, but that card needs to be graded.
Speaker 5: George.
Speaker 2: That's the one I want because it looks pretty mint,
Speaker 2: it looks centered. I'm hoping.
Speaker 14: If it's a gem, it's gotta be to me, Paul Skins,
Speaker 14: I don't know you follow basis all right? If you're
Speaker 14: if you're like me, aren't you holding on him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he's dating what you too?
Speaker 18: So this is a Paul skiing Paul Skin's tops chrome. Uh,
Speaker 18: it's serial number nineteen of twenty five or sixteen of
Speaker 18: twenty five.
Speaker 2: What do you think it's worth sixteen of twenty five? Yeah?
Speaker 14: I think it's going to be lesser than I think
Speaker 14: because he's been digging me since.
Speaker 2: We got in here. Fifty close.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'm gonna say, now are we talking PSA two hot?
Speaker 2: This is a rock card? It can't you know? If
Speaker 2: it gets graded then then it's great.
Speaker 14: So right now I would say that card phace value.
Speaker 14: I mean there's other ones out there already gave you
Speaker 14: a base, he said, Okay, I'm gonna say three twenty
Speaker 14: five on a good day.
Speaker 2: Very close. Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 18: So during and Nick cards, it's gonna start to rise.
Speaker 18: And they're already talking about him having another follow up season.
Speaker 3: So so so I collect stuff, right, it collects up.
Speaker 3: But to me, it's more more worthy, more expensive or whatever.
Speaker 3: To me, I've never give it up. I've never said
Speaker 3: because it's means something to me. That's not what this
Speaker 3: is about. Because you collect and you say, okay, it's
Speaker 3: worth as much I'm getting rid of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, what I'm saying, Yeah, five hundred dollars worth
Speaker 2: of card?
Speaker 6: What do you take?
Speaker 2: Five hundred the podcast?
Speaker 3: You know, I have a lot of signed stuff, But
Speaker 3: to me, it's more important to have than to go
Speaker 3: sell it to you.
Speaker 2: George Well, but.
Speaker 14: Like I was saying, for me though, he kind of
Speaker 14: lit a fire in me, Like I discovered the twelve
Speaker 14: year old, I mean, which is pretty easy to find
Speaker 14: on a daily basis, as you know, Steve. But but
Speaker 14: like I love ripping cards, and like I'm chasing, I
Speaker 14: think this past NFL class is the best class I've
Speaker 14: ever seen in my lifetime. Absolutely, and barn On best
Speaker 14: quarter well quarter right, lay the receivers, the running backs,
Speaker 14: No one talks about Bucky Irving.
Speaker 2: I mean, really, it's the best class I've ever seen.
Speaker 14: So I'm chasingers, I'm chasing I'm chasing rookies, and I'm
Speaker 14: chasing the downtown. But he's right, I'm not looking to
Speaker 14: sell him immediately. But like I said, like if I
Speaker 14: V came back and said, okay, so what about this card,
Speaker 14: it would be what would if he's seven to fifty?
Speaker 2: Oh, seven to fifty, let's go, let's go, let's let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but so what if a car like this comes back
Speaker 2: as a gym?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 18: You typically doubles, so we send it off getting graded
Speaker 18: me on that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Well, I mean if if a card, if you send
Speaker 18: off a card and it's a five figure it turns
Speaker 18: into a ten thousand dollars card. PSA will say you
Speaker 18: have enough charge? Do you want to accept it? It's
Speaker 18: now one thousand dollars to grade this card, as before
Speaker 18: they were charging you fifty dollars. This car card mafia
Speaker 18: right there. Wow, give me a piece of I need
Speaker 18: my cut, you know. Yeah, And that's how it is.
Speaker 18: I'd be curious to see Steve's collection because I know
Speaker 18: you got some signs stuff.
Speaker 2: I know some of the like, oh.
Speaker 14: Yeah, he's a millionire. Do you do you collect as
Speaker 14: a journalist. Let me ask you a question that I
Speaker 14: haven't collected in years. Let me take something I need
Speaker 14: something stupid. When I was in high school, I sold
Speaker 14: my baseball collection. Of course, you get a price pras. Okay,
Speaker 14: I don't have the money.
Speaker 3: You're fifteen years old, so I exactly. So I kept
Speaker 3: my NBA cards. I like my Bill Waltons and my
Speaker 3: all Cinders and blah blah blah. Yeah, only because I
Speaker 3: didn't want to sell them. I have them somewhere. I
Speaker 3: don't know who they're at. So that's why I have
Speaker 3: Are you gonna go the old NFL stuff? Well, listen,
Speaker 3: how about this? How about this? I'll give you a
Speaker 3: couple hundred bucks, give me the box of far here.
Speaker 3: I'm not fifteen anymore. I had the honey on the
Speaker 3: show yesterday. He says, well, would he if I have
Speaker 3: a suitcase of stuff? He said, yes, this stuff. He said,
Speaker 3: you went by your place. I said yeah, he said that.
Speaker 2: I think I think you look at it.
Speaker 3: I don't know absolutely how much time. And that's what
Speaker 3: you do, right, That's what we do.
Speaker 18: Anybody who's listening, and we buy cards every single day.
Speaker 2: I mean he does. He's on there on his Instagram
Speaker 2: and on Friday night.
Speaker 3: So when I go to his place every now and again,
Speaker 3: I'm it's like geek Central. I mean there's people Pokemon
Speaker 3: section as gee, that's where the money is apparently Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: my son just sold those two cards eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Now you can't get it change. You see, I'm in
Speaker 2: the wrong. I'm in the wrongs. I mean yeah, Pokemon.
Speaker 18: Star, Trek Star Wars, it's all the same and literally
Speaker 18: two cards PSA tens eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: But one of the odds of you. Okay, So let
Speaker 2: me ask you a questions to you wearing left, Well,
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 14: A question, honest dialogue, what are the odds of pulling
Speaker 14: those cards in a pack at a Target or a Walmart?
Speaker 14: Or do you come into showtime and buy the hobby
Speaker 14: box because you're gonna have that? Is that a hobby box,
Speaker 14: like we were talking about to the average You're not
Speaker 14: gonna pull that. No, those you can pull them out
Speaker 14: either retail or booster boxes. You can find those anywhere.
Speaker 2: The odds.
Speaker 18: He's right about that, though. There is two different types
Speaker 18: of like and George show's the hobby boxes. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 18: the hobby boxes usually you have your better odds on
Speaker 18: that stuff. And then you have the retail, which is
Speaker 18: big box stores like Target and Walmart where I go.
Speaker 3: So we got about twenty seconds real quick. So you
Speaker 3: do your your online stuff.
Speaker 18: With the people breaks. How many people actually they watch? Yeah,
Speaker 18: usually you have a group, like it's a room, it's
Speaker 18: twenty five people. We sell thirty spots because there are
Speaker 18: thirty teams, so everybody likes to watch. Sometimes you have
Speaker 18: a big break, it could be fifty one hundred people,
Speaker 18: you know, and they just kind of wanted to chime
Speaker 18: in or.
Speaker 2: Say something or watch the product broken.
Speaker 18: Sometimes you might only have fifteen people and you throw
Speaker 18: down a pizza party. Everyone's from Yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 18: lot of fun.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 2: Is Myron here?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, Myron, that's President present Christ President.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't wait to see Steve's cards. But we
Speaker 2: gotta go, we gotta go. Thank you for that. That
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that ends our geek talk for today. We go
Speaker 3: back to sports little bit. Thanks you guys.