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Vlad definitely shooting blanks down the stretch but let’s not lose sight that $250m was spent on: Two of the worst hitters in all of mlb and a SP and Closer with a combined ERA of 5.00

I’ll bet you he was being a cocky a-hole and Jays didn’t think the juice was worth the squeeze anymore. Even if he wasn’t looking good, an off-season can change a lot

Was just about to mention RR.

Should RA be eligible to get any Executive of the Year Award votes? 2025 Additions: Santander/Gimenez- Atrocious. Hoffman- Terrible. Max- Bad (including injury) Deadline- Varland/Dominguez- underwhelming together and plain bad for Varland Bieber could be his saving grace of sorts but man, did he not help things.

Good thing I haven’t been around the board bc I would’ve been arguing with Brownie19 on Giminez like Biggio in years past. Listening to small sample sizes where “he’s looking good at the plate”. He’s so bad. Hopefully Bo comes back for playoffs and the bum sits on the bench

CR was a “star” only for defense really. Pretty non-roids Anthony Santander with the bat, otherwise.

Yeah, don’t like it. Comp sets are key in my industry and the analogy here, is including a Waldorf Astoria in the same Comp Set as Holiday Inn. Some RP or backend SP coming back and maintaining his 4.30 ERA is not the same as Matt Harvey, or Strasburg Comps. Also, as a hitter, it essentially ended Jarrod Walsh’s career, more recently.

Has anyone come back the same, or better, from TOS? I remember assuming it was like TJS when I traded assets for Matt Harvey in a fantasy league, not understanding the difference in return to form rate.

Well, I’d enjoy cards more and my son is into it, as I said. So blow me! You’re probably right on the mortgage, I didn’t get serious about it yet, so didn’t look, but especially if I only buy $500k, I would be able to pay it off faster without an issue.

I’m 46. I’ll probably buy a house in the next year . Probably $500k, basically a good starter home in non-major city suburban American. I don’t think I could retire in my 60’s from boredom anyway.. So figure retire at the end of my 30 year mortgage. If I have a 5% match, should be able to put away $20k/yr 401k.. Then social security or course, so that’s the foundation plan. Like you said, make sure I’m debt free i actually don’t like the fractional CRE. I’m more of a hands on investor. Like in hotels, I’ve really switched from Operations to Revenue Management, as it’s what I enjoy. Playing the game. But I’m too old to get in the stock game and I like being very good at what I do. I don’t need to hit any home runs, I definitely won’t be the guy ripping packs. All these tips have been good though. I only need to make 7% to match S&P 500, so we’ll see.

Thanks. I appreciate all takes. When I was young and cocky and came in to a bunch of money, I dove in to diamonds without knowing much and it didn’t go well, I’m taking a cautious approach and will probably start our targeting auction cards. I saw a Eury Bowman RC Yellow Refractor /50 sell for $100 graded 10. I maybe should’ve hopped on, I did not know they charged that much to grade and so I’ll try to look for pregraded if I can. I will actually send them to the “EBay vault”. I saw you pay 3% but you also don’t pay tax.

Yeah. I don’t think that’s bad advice either. I don’t think it’ll collapse but maybe a correction. Of course people have been saying Bitcoin would be worthless for awhile. But last night I’m looking up Blaze Jordan and Dylan Beavers, prospects I like outside the Top 100 Pipeline and their best cards are like $300-500 and it’s like, come on lol. Theres a 90% chance they’re just guys in the league at most. I’m not counting the crazier stuff like $1500 Dylan Beavers 1/1 and assuming as JH said, sellers dreaming. As like you, my son doing it also is driving it. He was really into it and I was just being a good dad and being like “yeah cool” when he’d be telling me about it but at 22yo now, it’ll kind of be a cool thing to keep the bond there

Maybe sometimes but who cares if they’re buying it, it’s just figuring out what society might be into. $2m for the first Mario game. Most of us had it lol. Like none of our dads was saying I’m going to buy one for $20 and keep a copy in my safe lol

I’m not going to look up Shaq bc I wasn’t collecting then but I remember the Fleer MJ rookie card quite well. $200 in Mint condition 1990. With auto, sold $3m not long ago. Oof. That wasn’t a rare card and you saw at shows all the time.

That was worth a Google to get a kick out of it. $200k his card went for at auction in 2021 and it wasn’t his most valuable, as it was 1/5. The 1/1 looks like it got to $500k in value, but only cause it was a little dinged on condition, or could’ve been more. That’s a tough loss lol