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True rookie cards are from Japan. BBM #183 his true Flagship. People are catching on and it’s exploding.

"you could buy a whole buncha mums..." 😂 Spitballin T-pot > SCI T-pot

Great episode as always guys. Sorry, if I don't think any card past 2020 is worth $80k. You guys also mentioned investable Yankees and never mentioned Volpe. Curious why?

This is a bit off topic but I would love to hear your thoughts on the imagery of the 2018 Topps New Era set. The Mookie, Freddie, and Ohtani cards are pretty neat!

For 80k, Scott could fill out the blue void behind him with decor.

I agree mostly with Jeff. Judge doesn’t have to necessarily be a HOFer. He’s a Yankee and the captain at that. Ask Don Mattingly how popular he was and for the 80s junk wax, his cards hold value.

Being a huge T-Pott fan that I am, I’m going to blame this on the mysterious beverage in his red drinking glass, but at the 7:58 mark I’m going to have to request a professional, light-hearted, friendly debate about his Caitlin Clark take. :)

$80,000 for Paul Skenes is called "taking money off the table" and you're a true WINNER for selling it and using the proceeds for potential lifestyle changing things like a new car, paying down a mortgage, paying debt, saving for retirement, etc. As a collector from the 1980's, we've all seen "Busts" and Studs who turn to Duds, after debuting hot and colling off or getting injured. Anyone who proclaims "But Wait, this time it's different with Skenes!!!" are misguided. Even HOF pitchers cool off. Do you think Skenes can become the next Nolan Ryan? Or more like Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Pedro Matinez, etc.if he's blessed with consistency of success. Can you image any modern era HOF player card being worth $80k? The whole notion of a 1/1 isn't as prestigious as it sounds. Sure, it's "one of a kind" but the card companies create these daily every year in so many variations. Babe Ruth has a 1/1, many through a plethora of releases through the years. Population is only important in a supply and demand situation. I think the Michael Jordan "Autographed Logoman" 1/1 is a joke in valuation in terms of it was created as a collectible and not organic like his rookie card. Walking off with $80k is smart. Sure, it might go to $250k, but it could just as easily and more likely go down to $20k either due to diminishing performance, injury or a more popular "next big thing" rookie comes to the league. We've seen so many flavor of the month players. High ticket big money cards are created for "flipping" exchanging hands over and over like a game of "hot potato", they're rarely long term investments, so the smart card sellers/buyers know it's a gamble and about timing. It's not investing in wine that ages well in time.

Hello I have been watching some of your videos and I have seen some of the other 2 guys except for Phil’s videos and I think a lot of this subject isn’t really about a certain player or card all the time. I have noticed that many of the influencers have some kind of agenda behind their words or posts. I don’t consider you guys as influencers because you are just talking about the hobby and what’s going on. I think of an influencer in any aspect of life, as just that, an influencer or marketer. I think most of them in the card hobby/industry either are marketing for specific products and that’s fine but I will use SCI for example because t-pot is on here and I think he is very biased towards marketing for fanatics and it is not made clear in his videos directly that he’s a marketer/influencer for fanatics mainly. Influencers seem to not do what you guys do and talk about ups and downs and the reality of it. I will use an example that some of the influencers not on CZcams but social media (which I don’t use), but they have pictures of their cards in one hand and money in the other. I think that certain people no matter what they influence, should be aware of they have the attention of many people and make it clear. In cards I have had so many people on eBay that I can only assume they follow some influencers that don’t give them the information of how hard it is to get to a place where you can make decent money and let them know it’s not easy and it takes a lot of hard work to get yourself known and established. I think it’s one place that people feel betrayed by some of these influencers and figure that they without knowing how tough it is throw cards up on an auction and think they can just sit back and wait for the money to come in. I don’t deal in too many high dollar cards but it is relevant because I have had too many people that I have won auctions for relatively cheap and after the auction is over and I paid they just refuse to ship the cards because they figured it should have sold a lot higher. Some have been really good and have said that they expected more but it is the chance they take. Some come right out and say they won’t ship it and ignore messages. I have even had to report a few that canceled and refunded me telling me they wanted more and then relisted. I think that’s more of an issue that influencers have to address because of the bigger issues than the ones that suggest who they think is worthy of investment. For me I think of it as entertainment and learning to make better informed decisions but some people are lazy and just want others to do the work and tell them who to buy and what products but they have no one to blame but themselves. Sorry for the long comment. I just think it’s a more complex concept than just a simple pump and dump.

Maybe someone can ship their cards to Strongsville 😂, i heard they take great care of mail. 😮

Scott when your explaining why a player is a potential buy it’s like taking a college course on the player. The way you explain the stats using baseball reference is awesome. The people who are shoving 3rd string quarterbacks in your face are who the pumpers are.

Of course not. Just ask all those who bought Todd Van Poppel and Brien Taylor in the 90s 😂

Acuna prices will be fine, he is a hobby darling and doesn’t need all the nerd stats. Kyle Tucker is a great example of why stats don’t always matter in the hobby for many players. Gotta have that “x” factor and acuna has it for people.

Just bought that Mike Schmidt and Bryce Harper 20/25 Dual Auto Card for my dad! Happy Father’s Day, dudes!

Clark has a signed deal with Panini . . . not sure of the contractual details . . . she'll have WNBA autos

That's my captain right there! My dream card to get of his is the true blue bowman chrome auto. Idc the grade I'll take it!

I don’t see a problem removing unwanted things that were added to cards. The key here is the removal of foreign substances. If I spill coffee on my card & I can then remove the coffee then I don’t see the problem at all. Dirt, gum, mold, etc. All should be fair game. As long as nothing remains on the card. Also, returning an edge & corner to its original state should be fair game.

Judge is awesome....when he is playing 166ops + I believe for career

Mark prior.... they also said his mechanics were great as well. Great show guys

$80k is a bit insane for a pitcher who just started to play. Since he is a flame thrower good probability of Tommy John in his future. I hope it doesn't happen. My guess is someone with mega dollars in wealth bought this card. $80k for this person is like $8 for us hahaha. I like Aaron Judge but like Jeff I passed on buying rarer RCs due to the prospectus of injury. I was wrong. I do like Soto more because of his age. But I do wish I bought some Judge RCs. I even passed up on Judge's Field of Dreams nonRC short print which was more affordable at time. That's the beauty of collecting/investing. Limited money but unlimited appetite lol. Thank you guys for the cotent and insights.

all of a sudden the pitcher market is heatin up. Great to see. Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper superfractor 1/1's sales back in the day were game changers!

Langford has less then 150 Ab's. Not quite a bust yet. lmao. Gunnar was horrible pre-July last year, now he is one of best 22 year olds in the history of the game.

Make sure it actually paid for since goldin had lot of big cards not paid for those that know. Strasburg sold for bigger money back in day.

I've strictly invested in Gerrit Cole and Dynasty RPAs based on this podcast. It can't fail. Edit - and it goes with out saying, Billy Butler to the moon.

I'm filing a claim on that Judge card mishap.....for punitive damages ~ it hurt me just hearing that story~ pretty badly I would add.

character matters 2me+from all available data-judge's character is as high as anyone i've ever examined. His humility surpasses his homerun power, which says alot. =IMO a living legend on multiple fronts-all rise: - )

Would you rather have the Skeenes or the Caitlin Clark super? For me, give me Caitlin.

how did that auto get a 10?

I guess Chris was eating chicken chunks. I like the comparison of what you could get for that amount of money. I know there is something said to say you have the best card of a player but when you can get a top top top card of about anyone for that price then it seems like it doesn’t make sense

Ty pulling out the Mums reference made me spit my water out lol!

Skenes is heading for Tommy Joooooooooooooooooooooooooohn! Can his arm hold up?

This argument is more about whether to set $80k on fire quickly or over the long haul. If Skenes does have a great career this $80k probably has potential to hold value better than $80k spent going after say 100 singles at $800 each.

Congrats to the seller of the Skenes card. I love Skenes, However, the odds are against him having a long term HOF career. Not a fan of paying $80K.

30:46 😲

Not for the seller 😄

Being the real deal or not isn't going to matter. 80k is just way too much. 100% it'll go down. Not even a small chance.

33:40 I stand corrected 😂

I don’t even have any constructive criticism for you on this one fellas. Good episode

We got through this whole podcast without Phil talking about Skenes' buttocks, delts, thighs or pecs? You okay Phil? You at least got to Yordan's calves obliquely, so I'm not too worried. 11:07 Nice Mookie Red! Kudos to whoever bought that! 29:00 "What do you want for that card Phil?" The correct answer: "Your firstborn." Judge is generational. It's just a question of injury for me. Yes, he won't compile with his late start. But the whole Yankee thing and him bouncing back this year? It's getting harder and harder to deny it.

Cards are worth what people want to pay. Nothing else matters.

2 hobby box open 1 keep at least 3 of the same cards sell 4.5.6. & so on ( BGS BLACK LABEL)

Who's livy dun?

Dang you guys hyped up Soto and he gets removed with left forearm soreness. In what could be total coincidence Dominguez was also removed from his game in AAA shortly after. Something to watch closely

I could've taken that 80K and bought something simple, like a high dividend ETF (SCHD per example) and used the dividends to fund my hobby. People blow my mind sometimes

I hope that card goes up 10x and everyone finally decides that pitchers are valuable to collect.

Spoiler: Ty spends all his time defending Jeff.

Pitchers!!! The Ryan Express was a locomotive machine. Rarely broke down. 😎💪🏽💯👌🔥

Aaron Judge fan for life 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎💪🏽💯😎👌

For 80k I'll find a Porsche 911

No way I’d pay even close to that for a pitcher. I’d put that into some vintage or a few other cards as well like Phil said