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@stevecook171 @streiffredstate @Liz_Wheeler Jesus is anti ice and open borders…

@streiffredstate @Liz_Wheeler You still have time to convert to real Christianity. Use that time wisely.

When the Pope makes questionable comments, it makes me GRATEFUL to be Catholic. Because the Pope has no authority to unilaterally change Catholic dogma with his pastoral comments. The Pope speaks in two ways, pastorally and rarely, infallibly (called ex Cathedra, which requires a certain set of specific circumstances as the Pope acknowledges, not invents, a doctrinal interpretation). The latter almost never happens. That’s important— His comments today are in his pastoral capacity. He wasn’t speaking ex Cathedra. Catholics aren’t required to agree with his opinions. It’s annoying for sure, I wish the Pope was a wiser leader on matters of politics. But I’m SO grateful to be Catholic because imagine he were the leader of a Prot church—he could change doctrine based on his own faulty opinions at a whim. That’s not the case with Catholicism. Grateful to God for His Church that remains as it always was and always will be despite the turmoil of the world and the sins of man. 🙏🏼

@WaxMetrix You’re so goated SlabSquatch 😭🔥I trust your analyses with my life.

With all the recent buzz around the 2023 Topps Series 1 Ohtani All Aces, I’m seeing more people jumping back into wax to try and track one down. So I wanted to add a little context that might help. All Aces debuted in 2023 with a print run of ~77,350 per card. For comparison, that’s the same print run as the 1988 Topps inserts in that set. If you ripped that product, I know you remember…those things were like cockroaches. They were everywhere. Though the All Aces benefitted from a smaller checklist (25 cards vs 100), and that included Ohtani, the per card print run was nearly identical. In Series 2, Topps scaled things back a bit. All Aces dropped to ~20,200 per card across another 25-card checklist, but no Ohtani. And 2023 Update remained steady with another 25-card checklist, no Ohtani, and print runs of ~20,200 ea. Then things changed. All Aces sat out 2024 but came back in 2025 Series 1 with a vengeance. The design had been enhanced on a black textured stock and actually short printed this time around. Print run dropped to ~360 per card. Raw Ohtani copies of this set currently sell for about $2,200. In 2025 Series 2, Topps swapped in All Kings and tightened things even further to ~240 per card print runs. Ohtani shows up again, this time in a batting pose. You might think with 33% lower print run and a bat instead of a ball, that the value might be a bit higher on these. And you'd be right. Last raw sale around $8,100, PSA 10s going for $19K. 2025 Update skipped both sets, but 2026 Series 1 brought them back and Ohtani anchors them both. The All Kings (batting pose- print run ~230 ea) still carries the most value at around $6,100 vs roughly $4,500 for All Aces, print run ~300 copies ea. With all that in mind, it’s easy to see why the 2023 All Aces has taken off. The 2025–2026 Aces/Kings have priced a lot of people out, and the 2023 version is close enough visually to pull people back in, even if it’s a very different card in hand. That 2023 Ohtani is now pushing ~$300 raw and has cleared $1K in a PSA 10. As a result, 2023 wax has gotten hotter than it’s been in a long time and is starting to dry up. So I wanted to look at how the main formats stack up if you’re chasing: Secondary market pricing (rough ranges): • Hobby: $150 • Jumbo: $250 • Blaster: $25 • Hanger: $19 $ per All Aces (2023 Series 1): 1) Blasters: $57.14 - 1 per 16 packs (~2.3 boxes) 2) Hangers: $76 - 1 per 4 boxes 3) Jumbo: $100 - 1 per 4 packs (~2.5 per box) 4) Hobby: $100 - 1 per 16 packs (~1.5 per box) Blasters come out as the cheapest path to an All Aces…on paper. But they’re brutal for just about everything else. No real shot at autos or relics, and virtually no upside beyond the chase itself. Hangers are a better middle ground. Still not good odds on hits, but at least you’re not completely drawing dead. They just can't compete with Hobby or Jumbo in that regard. If you actually want a shot at everything in the product while chasing, Jumbo is the play and it's not even close. Slightly worse on $/Aces, but it’s the most efficient format for every other desirable hit across the board. And you'll still pull 2.5 All Aces per box. And oddly enough, while digging around, the best current Jumbo price I found was sitting on Amazon at $250. Good luck everyone! #thehobby #SlabSquatchAnalytics #OhtaniAllAces

@RockSol1d_ @PokeTeeJay I know right?!? If some r*tard wants to spend way over the actual cost of Pokemon, go for it! I’ll continue to get all my stuff at MSRP at Walmart/Target while all of the other idiots can get it at Gamescalp. No problem to me!

@PokeTeeJay Shop where you please, unless somebody is holding a gun to your head telling you otherwise….. or starts your own LCS and sell product at the price you like… why are you worried how other adults spend their money?? Pocket watching is for losers….

Not sure how anyone still supports GameScalp when it comes to Pokémon

@urbanmyths @TheCinesthetic It’s actually Mayo, not butter. It’s a famous grilled cheese recipe by Los Angeles Chef Roy Choi. He was a consultant on the movie and taught Jon Favreau.

@TheCinesthetic No! You don't butter the bread! You put a pat of butter on the hot grill then you put the bread on the melted butter and rotate it. Watch how Anthony Bourdain did it. You will get a perfectly browned grilled cheese sandwich every time and it won't be uneven or laden with butter.

Jon Favreau making the perfect grilled cheese in Chef (2014) is one of the most satisfying food scenes ever put on screen.

@GuntherEagleman GOP had all this progress attracting minority voters and yet they’re so quick to make a such a big deal about a superbowl halftime show. It’s such a non-issue, WHO CARES.

🚨Bad Bunny just got HIT HARD, his Super Bowl halftime show LOST MILLIONS of viewers right when he took the stage! Nielsen data shows a 7.7M viewer drop (from 135.9M pre-halftime to 128.2M during his set) a record exodus percentage from the game’s peak!

@heartbreak_skid @Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_ You from Canada?

Genuinely wonder what it would be like to be an American They just live in their own little world down there

@FlizzyOnEu @Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_ You an OKC fan? As in Oklahoma, USA?

@RIP24KOBE @Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_ the impactful metrics of gold medalists and space exploration

@Barneyguy @Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_ Lebron is an american btw… NBA is an american organization btw…

@RIP24KOBE @Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_

@Hockey_Is_All @user12346758 @oscarr14_ Diversity, Military, Movies (Culture), Wealth (GDP), Top Universities, Space Exploration, Olympic Medalists. With that comes negatives, It’s obvious that USAs global influence fell off a cliff considering there’s people like you that actually think the USA is someone to fuck with

@user12346758 @oscarr14_ they are not even remotely "top 5 by every metric" lmfao you guys just make shit up 💀

@Unpopularopion3 @kobrakao @SMHighlights1 You’re actually brain dead

@kobrakao @SMHighlights1 0-2

I wanna say something about Philip Rivers. He hasn’t played football in over 5 years, he steps up in a role we have never seen. Coming into this job and immediately playing against the best defense in the NFL. The next week having to play against the other hottest defense and offense in the NFL, in the 49ers. He managed to be the best player on the field tonight for the Colts, as a 44 year old that just took the job. This story will always be remembered by me as a die-hard NFL fan, he played his heart out.

@itsgeoffwilson @WaxMetrix All of his analyses are amazing, but the difference is he helps ALL of us.

@WaxMetrix If you’d be open to doing some data contract work my team would like to talk to you about that.

2025-26 Topps Chrome NBA Analysis & Deep Dive After spending an inordinate amount of time with this behemoth of an odds sheet, one thing is unmistakably clear: 2025-26 Topps Chrome NBA is operating on an entirely different scale. This is not just the biggest Chrome NBA release ever. It is the largest Chrome release of any sport, period. For context, a typical major product release usually lands somewhere around a few hundred distinct line items on the odds sheet. This one does not simply exceed that benchmark, it absolutely detonates it. The sheer volume of parallels, inserts, autos, and variations is unprecedented. But this is the world we live in now. As promised, this is what growth looks like. There are some genuinely great things here, some not so great, and more than a few surprises. I’ll do my best to break this monster down into something digestible. Total cards in product: 89,850,600 In this total, I’m excluding the “Refractor Box Set” format. This appears to be a complete Refractor set with a chance at an additional Refractor auto. Until we have clarity on how many of these are produced (which may be never), there’s no responsible way to include them in total production numbers. Even without them, this release still represents 32.7% more production than the next largest Chrome release ever, 2025 Topps Chrome at 67,711,008 cards. Total production by format: Hobby: 104,484 boxes (8,707 cases) Jumbo: 34,640 boxes (4,330 cases) Breaker’s: 31,380 boxes (5,230 cases) Value: 1,164,200 boxes (29,105 cases) Hangers: 505,920 boxes (7,905 cases) Megas: 613,100 boxes (30,655 cases) Fanatics Megas: 210,700 boxes (1,505 cases) Fanatics Bulk Packs: 100,000 packs As of now, I don’t know how Fanatics Bulk Packs will be distributed. They ran something similar for 2025 Archives that ultimately turned out to be a mixed Super Box format. Regardless of distribution, I am confident there are 100,000 packs produced. Pricing is still unknown, so I’m excluding them from value comparisons. That omission shouldn’t materially affect conclusions, as Bulk Packs have historically not been a competitive value format. Sapphire Predictably, there will also be a Sapphire SKU. Sapphire will be extremely limited, with 10,465 boxes (523 cases) produced. Each box contains, on average, 1 auto, 3 parallels, and 1 insert. These will likely presale for about $100,000 per box and trade for $1 million on the secondary market. Completely scientific estimate. While we’re on Sapphire, it has clearly cemented itself as a permanent fixture. Can we also collectively normalize spelling and pronouncing Padparadscha correctly? Fittingly, it is a unique, ultra-scarce, and exquisitely colored pinkish-orange sapphire. Pronounced pod-puh-ROD-shuh. This is the perfect 1/1 parallel for a Sapphire product and it loses a little of its magic every time someone butchers the name, which has become so commonplace that even Topps’ own odds sheet creators can't even spell it correctly anymore. Sorry for the tangent. Hit Frequencies Hobby: 1 auto, 14.75 parallels, 12.37 inserts, 2.59 # cards (not counting autos) Jumbo: 3 autos, 23 parallels, 15 inserts, 4.25 # cards (not counting autos) Breaker’s: 2 autos, 3.67 parallels, 1.88 inserts, 4.3 # cards (not counting autos) Value Boxes: 20 boxes per auto, 4.61 parallels/box, 2.1 inserts/box, 2.91 boxes per # card Hangers: 32 boxes per auto, 1.64 parallels/box, 2.1 inserts/box, 5.5 boxes per # card Mega Boxes: 10 boxes per auto, 11.5 parallels/box, 3 inserts/box, 1.87 boxes per # card Fanatics Megas: 10 boxes per auto, 11.6 parallels/box, 3 inserts/box, 1.57 boxes per # card Fanatics Bulk Packs: 140 packs per auto, 0.63 parallels/pack, 0.28 inserts/pack, 19.7 packs per numbered card On the retail side, it appears cases are structured to uniformly produce 2 autos per case. Value Landscape Since preorders and launch day sales are already behind us, I’m forced to use secondary market pricing for hobby formats. Realistically, we are unlikely to see anything close to MSRP again. This pricing reality is also what makes retail, sparse as it may seem, a viable alternative for rippers of this product. Prices used: Hobby: $650 Jumbo: $1,575 Breaker’s: $1,475 Retail MSRPs used: Value Boxes: $50 Hangers: $20 Mega Boxes: $85 Fanatics Megas: $100 $ per card: Hangers: $1.33 Value Box: $1.79 Mega Boxes: $2.02 $ per parallel: Mega Box: $7.38 Fanatics Megas: $8.60 Value Box: $10.85 $ per auto: Jumbo: $525 Hangers: $640 Hobby: $650 $ per # card: Hangers: $110.60 Value Box: $145.50 Fanatics Megas: $157 Let me detail the main variants that are available in Hobby SKUs but not in retail as I feel prices have reached a point where this is extremely valid. In retail, you won’t find: Parallels: Prism, Negative, any Waves (Blue, Green, Purple, Gold, Orange, Black, Red) Common inserts (and their parallels): Loading…, Generation Rising, Tall Tales, Clutch Gene, X’s and Whoa’s! Rare inserts: Rock Stars, Radiating Rookies. There is also an insert called 451, but only its Superfractors are listed on the odds sheet and are exclusive to Hobby and Jumbo. If base 451s exist, they will probably be rare and Hobby-exclusive as well. Autos: Next Stop Signatures, Sky-Write Signatures, Signature Style What you CAN find in retail, but not hobby formats: Parallels: Basketball Refractor and parallels in Value/Bulk Packs, Pulsar and parallels in Hangers, Raywave and parallels in Megas, Lightboard Logos Inserts (and their parallels): Go Time, Ball of Duty, Inspirational, Activators, Serenity Rare inserts: Advisory, Glass Canvas, Paradox, Patented, Fanatical Autos: Future Stars Autos, Chromograph and Chromograph Rookies, Stratospheric Signatures and Rookies All other variants can be pulled in both Hobby and Retail formats. This includes highly desirable parallels like Blacks, Reds, Frozenfractors, and Superfractors. Also rare inserts such as Hidden Gems (which are FINALLY listed on an odds sheet, YAY!), Let’s Go!, Ultra Violet, and Helix. Superfractors of those inserts remain Hobby-only. Yes, these hits are tougher to pull in retail, but they are absolutely available. The point here is this is not a product where you must buy Hobby formats to have a chance at meaningful hits. At current pricing, Hangers are the clear value leader. A 15-card hanger for $20 sounds absurd on the surface, but perspective matters. For the price of two 4-card Hobby packs, you could buy three 15-card Hangers. One 11-card Jumbo pack equals roughly six and a half Hangers. And massive hits exist in all of the above. From a “$ per auto” standpoint, Hangers are the best retail format, even on par with Hobby and Jumbo. If you find them in the wild, they are absolutely the play. That said, they’re already pushing $35 each on eBay, so availability may be short-lived. Personally, instead of dropping $650 on a Hobby box, I’d rather spend that on 32 Hangers. That’s half a case and should still yield 1 auto on average and about 6 numbered cards, comfortably outperforming a single Hobby box. Hobby, Jumbo, and Breaker’s can be loaded. They can also be an absolute bloodbath. They are simply out of reach for a large segment of collectors. Fanatics Megas are traditionally strong, but here they don’t appear meaningfully better than standard Megas. They’re just more expensive, with the lone exception being the rare Authentic Redemptions, which is not enough to save them from being arguably the worst format for value. Gold Logomen breakdown As for the biggest chase in the product, Gold Logomen autos and relics, surprisingly, some do land in retail. Gold Logoman Relic (Non-Auto): 12 total cards (4 each of SGA, Stephon Castle, Evan Mobley) Distribution: of the 12, 3 are inserted into Hobby boxes, 3 in Jumbo, 2 in Breaker’s, 2 in Value Boxes, 1 in a Hanger, 1 in a Mega Gold Logoman Autos (3 total cards): 2 are dispersed into Hobby boxes 1 lonely copy sitting in a regular Mega Box somewhere (I hope we see this reaction on video and that it's an average kid, not a breaker) There may be more valuable individual cards, such as a LeBron Superfractor Auto, but the first Topps Logomen will likely be among the most coveted hits for years. Hopefully Topps expands Logomen beyond just MVP, ROY, and DPOY in future releases. Main takeaways This is a monumental, massive, yet masterfully crafted product with a gigantic print run. It’s hard to even call it overpriced, because it’s historic and contains legitimately life-changing hits. If you want to play, there are valid formats at every price point. But I assure you, there will be infinite complaining about box prices in all the groups and on all the videos. That part is guaranteed. Print Runs Unnumberd parallels: Refractors- ~12,380 ea Prism- ~2,100 ea Negative- ~380 ea Wave- ~560 ea Base Sapphire- ~280 ea Basketball Refractors- ~3,960 ea Red, White & Blue- ~9,170 ea Silver Basketball- Missing from the Odds Sheet Lightboard Logos- ~235 ea Pulsar- ~1,700 ea Raywave- ~5,020 ea X-Fractors- ~14,360 ea Skylight (takes place of ToppsFractors in Fanatics Megas)- ~705 ea First Day Issue- 16 ea Unnumbered Inserts: Youthquake (15 card CL)- ~14,100 ea Sleek Finishers (30 card CL)- ~14,160 ea Destiny (25 card CL)- ~16,300 ea Instinct (20 card CL)- ~13,840 ea Voices (10 card CL)- ~14,200 ea Youthquake Refractors- ~1,450 ea Sleek Finishers Refractors- ~1,430 ea Destiny Refractors- ~1,435 ea Instinct Refractors- ~1,435 ea Voices Refractors- ~1,460 ea (Confoundingly, the base Geometric parallels of all the above have crazy odds and compute to 3 copies ea. but I don't have a lot of trust in those odds.) Loading... (15 card CL)- ~8,190 ea Generation Rising (20 card CL)- ~8,225 ea Tall Tales (25 card CL)- ~8,050 ea Clutch Gene (30 card CL)- ~8,310 ea X's and Whoa's! (10 card CL)- ~8,160 ea Loading... Refractors- ~850 ea Generation Rising Refractors- ~850 ea Tall Tales Refractors- ~850 ea Clutch Gene Refractors- ~850 ea X's and Whoa's! Refractors- ~850 ea (Weirdly, base Geometric parallels of the above inserts compute to 2 copies ea, but again, I don't know if I trust those odds.) Rock Stars (20 card CL)- ~610 ea Let's Go! (15 card CL)- ~55 ea Ultra Violet (15 card CL)- ~220 ea Radiating Rookies (10 card CL)- ~210 ea Helix (20 card CL)- ~110 ea Hidden Gems (5 card CL)- ~50 ea Image Variations (50 card CL)- ~960 ea Go Time (25 card CL)- ~38,460 ea Ball of Duty (25 card CL)- ~38,500 ea Inspirational (20 card CL)- ~37,100 ea Activators (15 card CL)- ~37,380 ea Serenity (15 card CL)- ~37,380 ea Go Time Refractors- ~3,400 ea Ball of Duty Refractors- ~3,400 ea Inspirational Refractors- ~3,400 ea Activators Refractors- ~3,400 ea Serenity Refractors- ~3,400 ea Go Time Raywave- ~1,350 ea Ball of Duty Raywave- ~1,350 ea Inspirational Raywave- ~1,350 ea Activators Raywave- ~1,350 ea Serenity Raywave- ~1,350 ea Go Time Pulsar- ~65 ea Ball of Duty Pulsar- ~65 ea Inspirational Pulsar- ~65 ea Activators Pulsar- ~65 ea Serenity Pulsar- ~65 ea Advisory (20 card CL)- ~690 ea Glass Canvas (20 card CL)- ~700 ea Paradox (30 card CL)- ~700 ea Patented (30 card CL)- ~700 ea Fanatical (25 card CL)- ~2,750 ea Autos: Autographs Rookies (40 card CL)- ~2,250 ea Certified Issue Rookies (30 card CL)- ~490 ea Certified Issue Rookie II (Retail- 25 card CL)- ~430 ea Next Stop Signatures (30 card CL)- ~390 ea Auto Rookies Refractors- ~230 ea Certified Issue Rookies Refractors- ~250 ea Next Stop Signatures Refractors- ~250 ea Topps Chrome Autos (25 card CL)- ~90 ea SKY-Write Signatures (33 card CL)- ~340 ea Signature Style (37 card CL)- ~250 ea Topps Chrome Autos Refractors- ~35 ea SKY-Write Signatures Refractors- ~230 ea Signature Style Refractors- ~240 ea Future Stars Autos (30 card CL)- ~310 ea Chromograph Rookies (20 card CL)- ~395 ea Stratospheric Signatures Rookies (25 card CL)- ~255 ea Certified Issue Rookies II Refractors (Retail)- ~45 ea Future Stars Autos Refractors- ~70 ea Chromographs Rookies Refractors- ~45 ea Stratospheric Rookies Refractors- ~40 ea Certified Auto Issue (38 card CL)- ~370 ea Chromographs (28 card CL)- ~220 ea Stratospheric Signatures (23 card CL)- ~380 ea Certified Auto Issue Refractors- ~50 ea Chromographs Refractors- ~45 ea Stratospheric Refractors- ~45 ea @CardPurchaser #thehobby #2025ToppsChromeNBA #SlabSquatchAnalytics

@Topps I couldn’t even sign in to get any hobby boxes you locked me out!

Victor Wembanyama opens a pack of Topps Chrome Basketball cards and finds an epic rookie autograph 🤯

@CardPurchaser I couldn’t even sign in, is it because I already scored on the preorder? Because all it said was page unavailable.

Everyone able to check out Topps Chrome Basketball?

@Topps @NBA @shaiglalex ITS NOT LETTING ME SIGN IN AT ALL! It says unavailable reload in 2 minutes and then it just does it again!

OFFICIAL: Topps x NBA Gold Logoman trading cards have arrived. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (MVP), Evan Mobley (DPOY), and Stephon Castle (ROY) are all wearing a Gold Logoman Patch for the 2025-26 NBA season. These 1-of-1 trading cards feature a game-worn Gold Logoman Patch and the player’s signature. Look for these cards in packs of 2025 Topps Chrome Basketball, releasing December 18.

@CardPurchaser It’s not even letting me sign in to topps!

2025-26 Topps Chrome® Basketball - Value Box at Topps, limit 40 #ad $49.99 thetoppscompany.sjv.io/vPXx6y

@CardPurchaser Max quantity of 10 is just ridiculous. I’m not sure why these trading card companies only want their product to go to big money whales…

@naiikomii @beast82290 @katzdani_ a corrupt ceo r we dead ass. he’s literally just a guy and him dying just means someone will take his place. the hypocrisy is crazy. yall r so brain dead

@beast82290 @katzdani_ well i mean to make a comparison, the guy ur probably talking about killed a corrupt ceo who was killing people by denying them healthcare, compared to noah promoting the deaths of innocent people with children included. idk but i feel like one is better than the other

fuck you

@MercedesAMGF1 impossible to get into F1 when they clearly favor max. how is this even a sport? it’s just reality tv drama at this point. congrats max on the mickey mouse i guess.

We’ve got news… With Norris and Piastri disqualified, George takes P2 in Vegas, with Kimi moving up to P3