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@steve_renner Gotta play the WNBA. Don’t be silly

I might tweet every night that ESPN would make a killing just adding the MLB Big Inning as a channel every night. It's the greatest show on TV and I don't care that all the look ins are a little behind

@OleTimeHardball You betcha

You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Lou Whitaker. Does he get in?

@FanaticsCollect He has a YouTube channel showing some of the cards. Not all junk wax at all. Lots of great cards

This man found 20 million trading cards in the back of a Virginia home 🤯 Tim Banazek was tipped off about a hidden collection and found a small building packed floor-to-ceiling with boxes collected over decades. He bought the entire collection, an estimated 20 million cards plus memorabilia and unopened boxes, with experts valuing it at at least $5 million and possibly much more. (via thebigleaguefind/IG, @nytimes)

@BreakerCulture The problem is not everyone has the money to swim in the Jordan, mantle, Gretzky waters. I have no issue buying the A-/B+ tier ( moss, shaq, Jerry rice, Tim Duncan, bonds) along with some local legends ( miggy etc)

The brutal truth about Sports Card "investing" ...I've bought hundreds of sports card collections over the years. Boxes, binders, storage units, estate sales — you name it, I've dug through it. And after doing this long enough, you start to notice something that most collectors never want to admit. 90% of every collection I open is full of guys who were genuinely great players. Not scrubs. Not junk wax commons nobody wanted even when they were printed. I'm talking real careers. Pro Bowlers. All-Stars. Hall of Famers in some cases. Players that people were legitimately excited about at some point in time. And VERY FEW PEOPLE cares about their cards anymore. Not a little. Not "the market is soft right now." I mean the cards are functionally worthless in terms of long-term appreciation, and they've been that way for a long time. Vinny Testaverde. Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Jaromir Jagr, Guys with legitimate careers, legitimate fan bases at their peak — sitting in boxes that end up in my hands for a fraction of what someone paid for them 20 years ago. For a long time I thought this was just bad luck or bad timing. Then I started to see the pattern. The sports card market isn't driven by talent. It's driven by attention. And here's the thing about attention — it's finite. There is only so much of it to go around, and it doesn't grow proportionally with the number of great players in any given era. The money in this hobby concentrates. It always has! And it concentrates around a very small number of players per decade — and sometimes not the best players, but the ones who transcend the sport entirely and become something bigger than a career stat line. Every decade gets maybe one, two, three of those players. That's it. 👈 The 90s had Griffey, Jordan, and Barry Sanders. Thousands of players were active. Hundreds had great careers. But when you say "90s cards" to anyone in this hobby, those are the three names that come up every single time. The market didn't forget the other guys — it just never gave them the same weight to begin with, and 30 years later that gap has only widened. The 2000s were Brady, Kobe, and Jeter. The 2010s were LeBron, Trout, Curry, McDavid with a significant drop-off after that. The names get fewer and further between the longer you look. That's not a coincidence. That's the structure of how this market actually works. And if you go back even further — into true vintage — the filter gets even tighter. There have been thousands of Hall of Famers across baseball, basketball, football, and hockey over the last century. But the vintage market really only sustains four or five names at the highest level over the long haul. Mantle. Ruth. Mays. Gretzky. Wilt. Gale Sayers on a good day. The rest of those collections, the ones filled with legitimate legends from their eras, eventually end up in boxes that people sell off because the market just doesn't care the way it once did. Vintage just shows you the ending of the movie that modern collectors are still living inside of right now. Here's the part that I think most people in this hobby don't fully sit with: There is a limited pool of money chasing cards. It's bigger than it's ever been, but it's still a pool. It's not infinite. And that pool has to be shared across every player, every set, every era, every sport. When money moves toward a handful of true icons — and it always does over time — it has to move away from somewhere else. The players who seemed like safe bets because they were great athletes end up being the ones holding the bag because the hobby only had room for so many at the top and they weren't quite in that tier. This is the conversation I wish someone had with me earlier. Not "buy stars." Buy the players that the entire world will still know by name in 20 years. That's a much shorter list than most people want to believe. For this decade, my honest read is Ohtani, Wemby, Mahomes (?), and maybe one or two others we haven't fully identified yet. Ohtani might be the safest long-term card investment I've seen in my entire time in this hobby. Two-way dominance at the highest level, global appeal that crosses every demographic, a story that doesn't have a clean comparison to anything that came before it. That's the profile of a player the market rewards forever. Wembanyama has the same energy — if he becomes what the basketball world believes he can be, his early cards are going to look ridiculous in 15 years. Everyone else? Buy them for what they are — short to medium-term plays. Ride the wave, sell into the hype, and move on. There's nothing wrong with that strategy. But don't confuse it with building something that compounds over decades. Every collection I open reminds me of this. The cards don't lie. Someone believed in those players once. Paid real money for them. Held them through the good years thinking it would pay off. And here they are, passed down or liquidated or dropped off at a show for whatever someone will give for them. Find the icons. The real ones. The ones the entire world will still be talking about long after you're gone. There aren't many of them. That's exactly the point....

@Emilio2763 Moses Malone like stat padding

Angel Reese High School Basketball Highlights Just Dropped…

@MurrayHillGuy1 College basketball is fantastic. You must not live in a state with two good teams ( Michigan). Do agree that the tournament doesn’t seem as exciting then in past years with it being top heavy but I still dig it.

I used to LOVE March Madness… Took “sick days” every year on Thursday + Friday, posted at a bar with 4 screens all day. This year I don’t even care enough to fill out a bracket (but picking Michigan) Wtf happened… did I get older or did it just stop hitting the same?

@RyanBHQ Bubic. Not sure of his adp

From 2015-25, one player per year has put up first-round value from Pick 180+ (12th round in 15-teamers): 2015: Keuchel 16: Villar 17: Judge 18: Snell 19: KMarte 20: Voit 21: Mullins 22: Adolis 23: Bellinger 24: Rooker 25: Perdomo, Woo Who ya got for 2026?

@Ghost_Story86 @CardPurchaser @Topps This hobby is a reflection of the overall economy. How is the average person supposed to survive with increased insurance , health care, food cost etc. same thing with these outrageous box prices. Insane. Now a rich man’s game. I haven’t broke a box in ages

How is the hobby supposed to survive when prices keep rising, product keeps getting watered down, and collectors keep getting less value in every box? What’s the plan to protect the long-term health of the hobby instead of just maximizing short-term profit? @Topps @CardPurchaser

@MSUFanJay I am guessing because we recruited great guards and out of respect to tum tum

Why have we not offered KJ Torbert Jr?

@AyashEtienne @CardPurchaser I order a lot of under 20 cards. Some take forever but most all show.

As someone who sells a lot of sub $20 cards, shipping ESE isn’t the best with tracking. I shipped a card on Monday last week and guy still hasn’t gotten it. He’s asking for a refund, what should I say to him? Never had this issue with anyone before. @CardPurchaser

@CraigRob914 Shaq , Randy moss, Barry sanders, Jerry rice, bonds etc. There are ways to get in the hobby and buy the greats on a budget

Hobby realization right now… Instead of chasing uncertainty with retail and high-end modern wax, there are some huge opportunities with both older and modern rookies of players that are actually proven already. Think smarter, not harder.

@Roger774501171 Pulled a Rickey elite. Still have it too

My fellow card collectors, I’ve been a collector for 40 years. But growing up in the junk wax era. Who honestly has ever pack pulled a Mantle score auto, Ted Williams upperdeck auto etc or a Donruss Elite. Myself I’ve pulled an Elite before but never the others .

@joshandjase Head to black rocks brewing

Why is it so cold?! 🥶😭

@huskercspackler @CardPurchaser Better lighting in photos etc make a big difference

@CardPurchaser I'll never understood why some people searches doesn't include by it now or what's going on here? 1 card gets bid up to $20 by several different bidders, while the other 1 is sitting there for $12...

@DK_Assist Cmon send it my way already. Lol

👀 We’re very close to 65K followers… We know we’ve said it before, but it really does pay to be following us on a random Tuesday. Just saying 😉

@msupeach He’s really improved this year. However I don’t think he’s as fluid and explosive as Wallace was. Proteas a better head on his shoulders though.

The archetype is there for Jesse McCullough

@jackunheard Perhaps we shouldn’t be subjected to taxes until this mess is cleaned up. What a shit show.

Should I go do this in Dearborn, Michigan? I’m pretty close to it…

@fantasybbhero I’ve purchased about a dozen of Joshua Baez autos. - not all bowman . On the cheap

If I was prospecting like I did years ago, for the money, I think I would buy a Joshua Baez Bowman Chrome auto. He really popped in Double-A this season. And the stolen bases, are you kidding me😳 Keywords- for the money. Who are you buying?

@ACumbow The only explanation is fears and divine had the flu

No way they are playing this lineup in a 7 point game with 3 minutes left lol

@BattingStanceG Thank you for bringing the cards I collected as a kid to life in a funny way

How baseball cards are made Pt2 📸