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    Sports Cards Mania

    Agreed on both of those, I would probably also say it tends to be in sets that have an aesthetically pleasing or sets where people like the styles or subsets - there's Allen and Ginter set-builders. Gypsy Queen had adherents. Basically the cheaper the product is and the more uniform/cohesive...
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    Sports Cards Mania

    To Traut's point, Topps Flagship Wax Value based almost entirely on quality of rookies in the checklist and volume printed. A lot of S2 was printed, and the top rookies in the product have faltered. The RC list is actually really good in theory: Volpe, Yoshida, Carroll, Mitchell, Alvarez, Jung...
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    Sports Cards Mania

    So, I totally get the thrill of opening packs. For a while I got really into box/case breaks (and still dabble, though not nearly as much) because I loved the thrill but could only justify a smaller amount of cash, and wanted to make it last. I think there's still room for it for the reason you...
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    Sports Cards Mania

    To add on to Traut's fully correct guidance. For hang it on the wall cards, I strongly, strongly recommend getting singles.. I've definitely hit my share of "hang it on the wall" cards from opening my own packs of cards and in breaks, but you need to spend a lot more doing that to get those...
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    Sports Cards Mania

    Haha sorry, that's also my only non Teel Sox auto so... Same. Nice pick up on the 1/1, Mini Heritage seemed fun
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    Sports Cards Mania

    So we've had Bowman out for nearly a week, more 2024 in Baseball Cards really. Kind of like Topps Series 1, I think the product itself is really solid. Topps has done a good job at stabilizing another highly desirable, hard to hit insert that nails its look (the '55 Bowman Anime style has been...
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    Plummeting Ticket Prices

    That actually brings up the radio point as well. Given the advent of Spotify, the reduction of importance on radio in general, and people spending less time in their cars, that's another avenue that people followed the team (both sports radio and live broadcasts) where people are less likely to...
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    Round 2 Bruins-Panthers

    Isn't this how we got to the incredibly ugly Bertuzzi-Moore assault? Steve Moore cheap shots Markus Naslund, the referees and home office sit on their disciplinary whistles, Moore refuses a fight, and Bertuzzi sends him to the hospital? No one in their right mind would hope for this but given...
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    Plummeting Ticket Prices

    I think this is a severely underrated and key factor to all of this. Twenty years ago most Sox fans likely had NESN in their house - I know I did and most people I knew had cable that had NESN included. We've been, functionally, a cord cut house for probably 7ish years now and while we pay for a...
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    2024 MiLB Injuries & Other Affronts

    This one is real rough View: https://twitter.com/SmittyOnMLB/status/1788579387303923790?t=17CuYZjRloOPz1DmHn3mxA&s=19 I was told it was a “significant knee injury” and Johanfran Garcia will undergo surgery. He’s out for the season
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    Roasted GOAT

    I will say Bill wanted absolutely no part of that toast with Kraft. He had to be pushed to do that by the couch
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    Roasted GOAT

    So one cool thing about being there in person is seeing how often people go away from the script. Most of the athletes kept to the prompter, a few did some stylistic deviations, the comedians were more comfortable ad libbing. Kevin Hart was doing a lot of that completely off the cuff and on...
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    Roasted GOAT

    Yeah we had an absolute blast there. I'm not gonna posit it made sense to fly out to see this but I have absolutely no regrets. Most of them killed and it was the kind of closure for the dynasty that felt right
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    Roasted GOAT

    Place is about 3/4 full and they are warming up the crowd with a DJ about as old as Tom Brady
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    Sports Cards Mania

    The Heritage SPs (1-100) are just the worst. It is a set builder but the SPs require buying so much to build it.
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