The Smartest Cards to Buy During the NBA Finals

The one thing that matters that relates to trading cards is no matter what, there's one player you should buy and if you bought, you would have probably ten extra money. And that would be Mr. Jalen Brunson. His cards are gone to the roof. March his PSA 10s were selling for like a hundred bucks and at the end of May they were selling for $353,360. They're over a thousand, they're over a thousand though. I even saw today on Facebook, people are trying to get them on the secondary market already just to have them. These playoffs have to be subjugated for excitement, it has to be subjugated and NBA does it well and NHL does it well. Baseball does not do it well. Logo man redemption sold for over $1 million. Crazy! The headline news is great for the industry. It's great for all of us. We're all helping each other build the hobbies. We won't build itself so we've got to lift everyone. Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast here on the Collector Nation Network. Whether you're chasing grills or calling bluffs, you take you inside the hobby. Here are your hosts, Ryan Alford and Brian Lut. What's up guys, welcome to Collector Nation here on the Collector Nation Network joined by Bella, Brian. And you've always got Ryan here. We got the BRB all in the house. He looks powerful today. He looks like a CEO, I don't know if you're at the desk, Brian, but it's like Lut, X and Jordan above it. It's like the Oval Office. That's right. Exactly. The Lut, X, Oval Office. You're the worst dresser. Or square. You'll t-shirt. Keep it real. Yes. I had a teaser on. I threw this polo on. So if you're watching, if you're listening, you should be watching. If you're watching, you should be listening. And I put a polo on just for everyone. You know, just. That's like spiffy, doesn't it? You know, this felt underdressed with my t-shirt. But I usually wear t-shirts, you know. It's the joy of self-employment and ownership, I guess. But we appreciate where you are, wherever you are, whenever you are. You know, it's whenever they are. We don't ever know when they're listening. This could be someone 10 years from now catching this episode. That's what's weird about content. You never know when they're going to see it. Like it's here and now for us right now. Like this moment I'm talking is now. Yeah, we're an infamy now. Yeah. Anyway. When the aliens take over, they'll see this. Everybody's like, set the hell up to get some sports car talk. Yeah, we're not I generated. No way. This is real. Yeah. I cannot stumble, fumble, mumble. And, you know, dance their way around this. I will say I was excited that we might have a series again in the finals. It's been a dramatic and interesting series. I'll say this. Number one. And, you know, we're going to be changing the format a little bit of the show, getting a little more structure. Let me move along, integrate some things with LudEx, some other things we're doing. Anyway, coming down the road and part of that's going to be like transparency of like where we were right, where we were wrong. Yeah. Yeah. This series is ridiculous. I mean, I look forward to it every night that it comes on and it's high level basketball. And it's a lot of threes, but there's a lot of non threes too. I mean, there's a lot of like like intricate stuff going on. And if you really pay attention when we just, I mean, he controls the game on both sides of the floor, like the dude, if he, I mean, he's a baby, you know, like we talked about. I mean, it's unbelievable. New York better get him now. That's all I'm going to say. His reach, like just like, he doesn't even have to do anything and he can block a ball. Like, it's just like crazy. He's so lengthy in just any direction. I like New York's team way more than I thought I did. I'll tell you that. I was kind of hoping the spurs would win. But I've got some new respect for New York. There are team as a whole. Even call it any talent. So I beat up on more than I'd like to admit. Not personally, but just like, you know, watching this game right now. I'm like, man, why is that guy at seven footer shoot three and you know, super talented. But he stepped up defensively. If all stepped up, it's just been a really good series. Harper's a freak too. He's a rookie. And I mean, I don't know how whoever their GM, you know, whoever's been scouting like, like, get that guy a big fat race. Every player they've they've drafted last couple of years. It looks great. I mean, New York has enough going on. I mean, people love New York. If you want to, I'm rooting for San Antonio because I have, I have no allegiance to any team. But the city of San Antonio, it would mean a lot more for them. And I don't think they'll like cars on fire. What New York will. So see, New York's gonna like cars on fire regardless. Yeah. Because they're happy or sad. It's the weirdest thing. Yeah. But, um, winbys card still high, still selling. Well, someone's market who I've thought has been interesting is castles because he, you know, he really helped Wembee and he's a young player, direct tie to the long term momentum that Wembee's had. So I think that he's somebody that could really be a good asset and someone to look forward to if you're wanting to see someone progress. Yeah, you look at those guys. I mean, you look at any of these guys, right? Kobe had his guy with Shaq, Jordan Ned Pippin. He's gonna have a guy that's gonna be Hall of Famer just based on that. And, but if you look at it, it'd be interesting. I mean, Shaq's cards are fine, but Shaq's also pretty relevant. He's on the talk shows and he's on commercials. But Pippin's cards haven't, those, those really haven't gone up. And he's a Hall of Famer and won all the championships. So I don't know. A card wise, I don't know if castles, um, there. But he's definitely gonna be like, has a good chance to be Hall of Famer. Yeah. Me want to rookie the year last year. You know, when Wembee wins heart, you know, he, he, he, he wins the rookie of the year. I don't know where Harper is going to finish, but they're going to have three, uh, rookie, you know, the year awards. I mean, obviously, uh, I think, uh, Cooper flags already won or winning, uh, but I'm just saying, but could have like any other year for what a Cooper flag year, Harper's probably winning it. And so crazy young team castles is, is an exciting player. The guy has got like a 78 inch vertical or something like that. Not 78. No one has that. But you know what I'm saying? He could jump out of the gym and is exciting to watch. He's very good. I would love for his car to go up because I pulled like an out of 10 out of him and an out of 50 the last week. The boys and I have been on a absolute heater, uh, on, ripping some basketball. I mean, insane. He'll send me a picture like once a day. And I'm like, what? Yeah. Case hit, Cooper flag. On card, magic Johnson auto out of a modern pack. On card, James Harden aren't on card auto. Let's see that. It wasn't a 10 out of 10. Yeah, 10 out of 10. Wow. Uh, what else? That's just, I'm just getting started. Dame Lillard, five out of five. Case hit out of tops, signature basketball. You're one out of one a couple of weeks ago. We need to get the team. They need to have imagery of all this playing. Uh, we'll get the images. I need proof. I need proof. Yes, exactly. I know. I haven't seen them in in the flesh. And we filmed all of it. We saw some of it on the boat. We were doing a lot of them open on the boat this past weekend. We got backdrop. Everything. All right, guys. Ryan and Bella, we're cutting in here. Late breaking. We record. Look, we're transparent here on collection nights. We record on Wednesdays. Uh, we're not at every day show. We Tuesdays and Friday release days. I mean, sometimes recording the day before, but usually a couple days out. We had to break in here. Late breaking. It was too big of a game. The largest come back in NBA history in the playoffs in finals history. Yeah. Get all the definitive superlatives and records in tact here. Largest come back in finals history. 29 points down. Uh, so just whatever we were saying, uh, was going to happen or not happen. This is what happened. Yeah, it was crazy. I mean, the chance that this happened less than 0.5% chance. Like it's crazy that they even came back. I kind of, not going to lie. I kind of gave up watching. I watched like I was doing some other work when my laptop, the first three, I watched the whole game, but I was admittedly working and just going, oh my god. Yeah. I got to check out a little bit. Then do you started to get it? And I'm like, man, it's funny how in the pros. They will 20 point swings happen quick. And then it was halfway through the fourth. And they were still down like 12. And I'm like, they're just running out of time. You know, like they're, they're playing better run out of time. And it was still felt that way. And then I'm like, but they're just playing. I'm no longer working. I'm just watching going. They're going to somehow pull this off. And then at the end, unbelievable. OG and an OG. I have a hard time saying his name and an OB. Uh, unbelievable player, by the way. Don't let my bad, uh, uh, pronunciation of, oh, he is the OG now. Yeah. I know he is. And I mean, like that, I can just imagine Brunson's like as soon as he saw that ball not go in, his soul probably like, just got crushed. And then he saw it get tipped in. And it was probably like a euphoric feeling. Yes. So a little, you know, whether you want an unbelievable new, I said this. I'm going to continue to say I said my guess. Like I had very little hope for York and this. I just thought they were, uh, you know, the San Antonio Superior team. Young but superior and New York is some dogs. Like they are some dogs. That's the highest company I can give you. I don't mean that's that negative. This. They can fight in them. Yeah. They got some dogs. And Jalen's a dog. All these guys. Hard to dog. OG's a dog. Like they came at. I just did not give many. Uh, more talented teams than them have thrown in the towel with that. I guess a team like Wimby is team with all the. Like many a team have thrown the towel and gone. Well, we're going to have to figure it out next game. We're going to save our energy. Yeah. And they just did. I mean, putting up 55 points in the second half while the spurs only put up 25 points. So if you go back and watch that play, I played basketball my whole life. It was pretty good. Uh, all region should have played college blew out my ankle a couple of times. That was that. Um, if you watched the play. Literally. If one thing happens, they win the game. One thing. If Dylan Harper. Boxes out, which he should have. OG is coming down the lane because Dylan Harper was backing out. No one. He was there. He was in position. But you got super athletes that that are NBA players coming down the lane. He just bought puts a body on him. Stefan Castles right there to get the rebound. And that's that would be textbook. What you're supposed to do. You're for you. And I know it's in finals. Last but that's when instincts take over for the menals take over and some of these athletes. And look, I'm the biggest. I love Dylan Harper. I think he is a rock star in the making already really good. Um, so this is not. This is not me knocking on him. But textbook block out. Put your body in the way. OG doesn't get in there. Stefan Castles right there. But instead, he had the running start. Yeah. And he was already. They're all freak athletes. And so he's. Everybody else because he had a running start. Yeah. I don't care how good your vertical is. Uh, and there it was. And I mean, like the time it, like it could not have. It could not have been more perfect. And I mean, I think New York will be replaying that moment for years to come. So what does this mean from a collector standpoint? Well, OG, you know, one play matters. It's the New York. New York's big market. So one play does matter. Uh, and I do think. The buy is what it was with three weeks, two weeks ago, whatever it was. I told you it is Brunson. That's still the buy. Uh, they're now at three one. Good chance they're going to win. And look, but I don't put it past the spurs. This is so competitive. And I think the spurs have the team. Can they hold it together mentally? Like just physically they can but mental, like toughness this young 22 year old, 21 year old. If they can, they, I would not put it past them to come all the way back. I think New York just, I don't know, has this edge on them right now that feels like it. And if Taylor Swift shows up to every game, you know, maybe she, she'll be the good luck charm. Yeah, with her, her sneaky, Stevie Nick shirt and all. Yeah, she'll be on New York at Nick's fan. Is this new? Uh, I don't know. To be honest, I don't really follow Taylor Swift all that well. But I did see Timothy Chalamet and Kylie Jenner were there. And Timothy Chalamet went up and hug Brunson. And I thought he was like, he was like hearing out. He's like a long term Nick's fan. I'm pretty sure he's like from the Bronx. There were a lot of that. Yeah. You're Nick Patton's there. They've pulled from to the years. Yeah. It would be huge for them. I don't know if the city can survive it, but be a good party. Yeah. And I still think Steph Castles got a lot of upside on his cards too. Yeah. Look, Castle Harper, Wimby, you will not go wrong holding those cards. But I really think OG kind of has some potential. I know it's just one moment, but I think that that moment can give him a sense of confidence that he might not have had before. Because, you know, now, now everyone knows his name. Like, even, you know, even though Brunson tried the three pointer and he just tipped it in, like, he now has made his mark on the finals in the Knicks and in the NBA. Yeah. So we'll see. It's been an exciting series. And we'll keep following it and keep telling you again. You know what? Maybe we'll have the values next week. We'll have, I think we had him earlier in the show where at the end, where this little insert. So get back to your regular schedule programming, which is us talking probably about something interesting. Hopefully. Yep. We'll see you next week. We had a good episode recording and it'll go out next week of icons.com. Yep. The CEO and founder and talk about all things, messy jerseys, all the soccer jerseys and all the madness that is the World Cup. Do you have any team you're pulling for, Brian? Oh, USA all the way. Yeah. Of course. Okay. Kind of walked into that one, I guess. I don't, I don't like, honestly, like, I think, and I might take some heat from this. I've tried to watch soccer. I've tried to like be like totally like, I don't, I'm not putting any preconceived like notions in my head about if I like it or not. But on World Cup last time, I sat there and I said, okay, I'm just going to watch this game for what it is, right? It's the most popular game in the world. Well, I have a theory why it's the most popular game in the world. And it's not a theory, it's a fact. The fact is, it's really easy to get something round with two sticks and to kick it around and try to get through that goal. Right? I was in Africa and they were playing soccer. I'm like, of course, a playing soccer here. It's easy. Well, you know, there's some things. The off-size is ridiculous. The only sport in the world that can't stop a clock. Like, just stop a clock. I mean, I think what's... Yeah, I hate to sit. You know, we've already took some shit on the comment because we didn't know we were talking about on a messy card because like we'd had one detail wrong. And I apologize for that, but I don't like there's a lot of cards and a lot of niches and we don't pretend to be the soccer niche. We talk about it's relevance and we're doing that here. It's the world's most popular sport. I have no idea why. I don't hate it, but I don't like to watch it. I mean, I don't hate anything sports wise. I just don't get into watching it. I've tried too. I had a couple of sons who are pretty good at it. It just happened to be that they were good at several sports. So we put them in a more logical choice that wasn't that. I think what makes soccer special is just the culture and community that rallies behind it within all of these countries. Like if you like when I went to a Prague and they had a game going on while I was there. And you could just see and feel how excited everyone was to be there. And it's just such a different feeling and environment. When you're with that community and it like I've just seen it firsthand, especially in like. South America and stuff for those teams are super strong. And there's a lot of like competition going on. Like they everyone all families and everything rally again together. And it's just I think it's something pretty beautiful. No, I think it is. I think that's what said and I agree. And I have no issue with that. It's just in, you know, the focus group of one. My personal interest does not lie there. While I respect and appreciate all of that. Yeah, I think it's, you know, it's competition. I mean on it. Like what are they? What are they also they doing? And they're drinking baron Prague and they watch and soccer. Period. Like. Yep. Pretty much. There's nothing else going on. So a question I posed to my buddies is. Last weekend we're sitting up there or on a campfire said. Do you know how good the United States would be if that was the only sport in the United States? And you got LeBron playing goalie and you got you got the running backs playing, you know, strikers and you got like it. The US would beat every team hands down not even close. If it was the only sport in the United States, like it is in many other countries. I had this conversation with, you know, a couple of guys. I think it was last couple of guests when we talked about it was actually on right about now this business show. But it was about the youth growing up and that you know our best athletes just don't play soccer. You know, like they end up in something else because there's typically a clearer path to money and success and fame and all those things. So it's kind of like something like what do they say? Like programs are hard to turn around because you know success breeds success. You know, it's like chicken of the egg, right? And I think that's part of the problem. And our best athletes are elsewhere, but you're 100% right Brian. And that's the same thing like fastest best players end up doing something else. What else we got today, Bill? Well, in more fanatics news, they were so fanatics the NFL MLB NBA and players association associations were getting sued. Over their exclusivity licenses and limiting competition. Not well, they are getting sued by Panini, but the specific court case I'm talking about was not through Panini. And in March, it was dismissed. And then they were given time to come back and build a better case. And they chose to just say that it was done. And so now they can't be recharged by these people at least for this for this crime. So well, not crime case, I guess. Crimes. Now, who's going to jail over this? But what I do think is interesting is that the same judge that dismissed or that dismissed this case is the same judge hearing fanatics and Panini's case. Yeah, fair. Yeah, it could mean something. I think there's a lot more one who was suing the fanatics and tops didn't have a license previously. They just were like trying to say, I don't know, monopoly, not enough competition, all that. That's one thing versus, and I enter that judge's right on some low. Hey, well, you go by the license, then you could have, if you want to bid a billion dollars or whatever they paid for them, go for it. Yeah, so I think this is a little different with, but there is a judge that's ruled in favor of one company very quickly. And he's going to have to have a, you know, talk about them. There could be parallels. I don't know. Well, what about like the fact is like, I mean, the judicial system, especially in the court for business or, you know, monopolies. I mean, if you're going to take someone like that to court, you better have a shitload of money. Like some of these though, it's dismissed because they're like, bro, we're already in this thing for a million five. We're out of money and finance never runs out of money. So like, is it really like, it's just a, a tradition game at some point. And that, I mean, that could be, I don't know who the other party was, but I mean, Panini has money. They're going to fight this thing, right? But I don't know if Joe Cool from down the street with this class action lawsuit had enough money. Maybe to not take this all the way. Yeah. It's hard to say, probably do it. Hey, we get a quick paycheck. Well, we're willing to spend this to go get that quick paycheck. And they don't, you want to put, you want to, you know, you want to go in again? I think we're good. Once again, proving the lawyers are the only ones that get paid of 90% of the time. Right? Am I right? I got a check for $4 and 20 cents from Wells Fargo from a class act lawsuit that was settled. Oh, so you're rolling. I mean, it cost me more gas to go to the bank. Well, now you can do it over your phone. But it takes me more money to go put it in the bank than it does. Your time is worth more than it takes to put it in the bank on your phone. You said it better. Yes. So we'll see. I don't know when all that's coming to it. All of those, you know, tops is releasing more product than the story can keep up with. I mean, like truly, it's, I mean, they had two releases just today. Yeah. It tops at V friends. And then the newest V friends came out today as well as top series to baseball. Yeah. We will have all varieties here and do have them. I'm excited for the V friends because they have Mr. Beast signed and then Livy Dunn who she was a college gymnast now dating Paul Schienz. But she, I followed her since I was in high school watching her do gymnastics. I did gymnastics and then I watched her all throughout college. And so I'm like an actual Livy Dunn fan. So I think that that's pretty fun that they got her to sign. Yes. Crossover. Crossover influencer crossovers. Yes. Gary, you know, he knows what he's doing. I wonder if his 25, you know, being the first release. If those sealed boxes go up. Up, up, up. Yeah. Affirmative. Already have. Already will. Friends experiencing it for stand up. Yeah. And I'm watching. Yeah. Got him. The, um, sitting in the, in the archives. Those are in the home even. Actually, I didn't have him here. 2026. I mean, it's a different, it looks different. It's got an updated vibe to it. I was comparing. I think it's less playful. Like, like, like, kid, like, I don't, it's hard to describe. It's just a little more grown up, but it still fills hip and cool. You know, I think it's a popular product. We had. I mean, it wasn't that many, but at least two or three people have, like, asked for it, which we don't get it. We tend to cover most of the gamut. So we don't, we weren't making people ask for stuff. But that, I've been asked as much about that. It's almost anything else. Yeah. And it's been interesting. Because, like, compared to the superstickers over the tops, like, people really want the top. Like, it shows you how powerful the top's name is. And that's, it's been interesting to see that. I mean, now comes down. You should be pushing the stickers. The way that this is releasing. Yeah. But it comes down to, like, people collect it. Because there's, they make money on it. I mean, I, there's boxes that I'd break in, like, the ROI and Gary, and Gary's, you know, a hobby box of top's chrome last year. I mean, he got your money back. Not all the time, but like, your average was higher than the floor of the sports carts. 100%. That was true for me. I don't really want to argue. They probably averaged out to more than what, you know, like, the net average was about like 110%. Like, it was unheard of, like, compared to, and it was first year release. And he's got, he had a lot of, you know, built in attention what he's done the last 15, 20 years and all that. But you make a good point on the top's chrome stuff. It does carry weight. And I know, I knew that. I know that. But to hear it and see it live, like, it's, it's real. And I mean, look, we split 85 years of being a company does for you. Go figure branding works over time. Ladies and gentlemen, we should have to take like a thousand boxes of top's series one or series two baseball. And a thousand Gary Vs and open them all. And then see. So if any sponsor wants to sponsor that for us, that you will do that. We'll do that. Yeah, exactly. We'll take one for the team, you know. Yeah. If my boys had any way about it, we would priority, you know, breaking them and they like start ripping, you know, getting high on our own supply. Yeah. I'm really excited for the cosmic chrome football coming out. Yeah. Next Friday though. Those like awesome. Those cards. That's a fun set. The basketball set was cool. We've had a lot of good luck with signature top signature football. And mainly basketball, the hits I just said, I've been a couple of hobbies. That has actually been, I was doing the math. We've open three hobby boxes of that basketball. And the net will be worth. We're five X, what we have costing them. Oh, well, I don't think that's indicative of everyone. You're going to open by the way. So disclaimer. Bye, careful. This is our financial advice. But just saying, maybe it's just our store and the ones we got. So. And when I'm not here, as long as it's open when I'm not here, you'll be good. Your chances are much higher for sure when you're not there. It's like it's an uncanny phenomenon. And I've just, I've admitted defeat. It's terrible. Yeah, yeah. Pokemon remains hot though. I'll tell you that. Hey, we sell more Pokemon than we do sports. You know, Pokemon in the last sense, like the beginning of the year passed basketball in our scans. And so, like, fastball, it was always baseball. And, you know, football basketball. The Pokemon was closed. Now it flipped and it hasn't gone back. Pokemon second after baseball. It is third. It's after football. Okay. Interesting. Pokemon basketball. That doesn't surprise me one bit. I mean, that aligns with the market that we see in store. Like, and our store sells more Pokemon than it does baseball. But I mean, I think that's just the nature of our location and how hard it is to get. I think you can find some of the sports at retail Pokemon. You're not finding it retail. I was actually, I was looking at our, like, because the business profile we have for Google, it like gives you analytics and what people search to find our store. And like all three of the top searches had to do with like Pokemon packs, near me stores near me that sell Pokemon, like something along those lines. I just think that's interesting. Yeah. And our whole site's SEO optimized for those searches, too, is that that plays into it. Yeah. We got the magnet out there. It's like you're a marketing guy or something. Hey, you know, we got to get one thing right. At least I'm trying to. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else on the list? I saw the 101. Oh, yes. I mean, Shays. Another million dollar card. Yep. Every week. Low-go-man redemption sold for over $1 million. Yeah. I'll take two. Crazy. I don't want to one. It's all that news. Headline news is great for the industry. It's great for all of us. Yeah. Now it is. I mean, we keep the motto built in the hobby. Like, we, you know, we're all helping each other build the hobby. We won't build itself. So, got up, whipped everyone. They should make couples. Like, they should do one, you know, two of two. So, like, so one for one and one, you know, like a couple's low-go-man. Like, so the couples can each have one of two and two of two. So that you're always together and you know. Oh, Mary. Mary? Yeah. Like, couples that are into cards, you know? Or, bro, man. I mean, they get divorced. They don't have to cut the card in half. I need to get one. I'm just trying to save the cards, you know? It's time for this week's on it segment of the week. Hey guys, welcome to the on it segment of the week. It's the championship segment of the week brought to you by on it. Leonard, what's up, man? I know you're on the road show getting some autographs out there doing your thing, uh, big week for on it. Yeah, big week for on it. For those watching on video, you probably tell that this is not the standard background. We've upgraded. We've upgraded the blank wall to a wall with a fireplace. Um, but yeah, huge week. I mean, Texas National champs, three teams in the men's college world series in Omaha, where I'll be over the course of the weekend. So, once again, things are looking good for us here and it's been a fun journey, you know, and spring sports this way and basically they just the direct overlap with football season that I'm kind of doing right now. Exactly. One sport to the next. Uh, Texas takes out. Texas tack two. Oh, dominant performance. Uh, you know, I think you guys had both the teams. So there was no loser for on it. Uh, but, uh, Texas, you know, Tegan, Kevin, you know, I always struggled with her name. I want, I feel like I'm saying two last names, but, uh, what she is is far from last. She's, uh, at the front of the line because she's a badass. Yeah. Tegan, come on. Uh, women's college world series. Uh, most outstanding player. I always want to say most valuable player, but it's most outstanding player. Uh, once again, second straight year that she's wanted. She's the only player to ever win it two times. And the crazy thing is that she has another season of eligibility and she is coming back. Uh, to NCAA softball. That's insane. Yeah, she's already the only two time most outstanding player in the tournament. She could legitimately win it a third time, which is crazy. And her numbers were just unreal. Like she threw 33 innings across the tournament, struck out 33. Uh, the last year to, so I guess two years ago now. Uh, she had like a 31 consecutive scoreless innings streak. Uh, so outside of giving up the couple of runs that she did against Tennessee and the opener. I think she's thrown like 50 scoreless innings in two seasons across the women's college world series. Uh, and she signed with us this year. So she's been crazy and she's in our Texas National Championship box too, which is live for pre-order on the website. So that includes players like Tegan Kavan, Katie Stewart, Ashton Maloney, uh, Reese Atwood, all the players who helped Texas. They come back to back champs. Uh, they're all in that national championship box that folks can pre-order on the website. The box doesn't have any autographs in it, but it does have a unique card designs. It's some special inserts and parallels that you can only find in those national championship boxes. So it's always fun when one of our teams wins and we get to make one of those. And this Texas team, I mean, has so much talent. So they're a fun team to root for. Yeah, well, we'll transition to college world series. We got three on it teams to win at West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas. We're still other than most interested in that midway in the Midwest range where you're traveling Leonard three teams left out of eight good odds and an exciting tournament so far. Yeah, certainly has been a crazy run of upsets to kind of get us to where we are. Like I don't think anybody thought that Troy was going to be in the world series this year. I did not have them on my short list. So they're headed to Omaha, West Virginia is in Omaha for the first time. Like you said, we got Texas and we have Oklahoma joining them as well. Oklahoma with a big offset over Kansas. I'm going to be driving through Lawrence here pretty shortly. I know Jay Hawks fans are mad about that, but I'm going to be in Omaha for a couple of days over the weekend. If anybody's listening to this and they're going to be in Omaha, come find me. I'll be set up outside to the Ameritrade Stadium. I'll be doing some pack rips with on it stuff. So if you're going to the world series, come find me if you want to hang out and chat on it, but really excited for the teams that we do have. West Virginia has been playing out of their minds. Oklahoma has really come on at the most crucial point of the season. I mean, you have a Texas team that's just been Uber consistent all year. So I think any of them have a good shot, but Georgia also does scare me because that Bulldog team is really good. And I think if you go into it, certainly by the national seeds, they are the favorite. And I would be shocked if a lot of folks money in those states where you can bet is on Georgia to win this whole thing. You need to go get those Texas boxes. That's the bottom line. Yeah. Texas is a dominating year. Yeah, it takes us like you win both. You have Texas. That'd be a feat. I mean, you know, we talked about UCLA having a killer year, which is another on it teams across athletes. And then Texas getting covered all the way around it with on it. That'd be huge. Yeah, it would be. And whatever team, I mean, out of those three, of course, if any of them win the championship, we'll have a championship box for them. Dual Texas boxes. I say it's been off coming. Double, double championship box, you know. Okay, that would be pretty sweet. Maybe we make three products, right? And we do the baseball and we do a combo. So that'd be pretty cool. Definitely Texas has a shot. I think, I mean, like I said, I think Oklahoma has a shot. They've got some just bats that really come all together along with the pitching. I think the pitching was the thing that people were really questioning going into that Atlanta regional. You know, I think people thought the Georgia Tech was going to hang 15 to 20 on them. Like they did the pretty much everybody else. And Oklahoma just buckled down. And we saw that again in the Lawrence regional. They held Kansas to basically nothing. So Oklahoma's pitchers are peeking at the right time. They've had the bats all year long to make it happen. Now, West Virginia is a really interesting combo team of like styles because they do have the power. They do have the contact. They're like a five tool team. You know, people talk about like five tool players. To me, West Virginia is a five tool team. They just have multiple people in the lineup and on the staff. They can do a little bit of everything. Whether you need a crafty left handed to get guys out. Whether you need a power flamethrower. Whether you need a base stealer. Contact guy power guy. Like they have it all. And in Texas is the most complete team just in terms of star talent. So Cursed and he leads that group. He signed with us this year. Just unbelievable what he does behind the dish. So I'm there familiar with Georgia, you know, in the SEC. Like they've seen that before they know what it takes. So if anybody can upset Georgia, I'm pulling for Texas. Well, go to auditathlete.com. They got those Texas boxes. They got all the stuff that you want related to the athletes of today that will be around tomorrow before you know it. They'll be on all the other boxes. But today they're on on it athlete dot com. Enjoy your trip Leonard. Get some good signatures. Meet some the superstars of today and tomorrow. Let's be honest. These guys are rock stars already. Thanks to on it and everything they do to support them. And any final words as we close out. Just thank you guys. Thanks everybody who listens obviously. Yeah, we'll be on the road. So we're heading off to journey through Kansas will be in Nebraska. And then finally making our way to boys. So we hit Columbus Indian Indianapolis. And we also hit Columbia, Missouri on the way. So it's been quite the journey and. Appreciate everybody who sports. Let's me co out on the road and do stuff like this to bring. Cards and specifically on card autographs. Everybody in their boxes. Yes. And if you stop by at an Omaha, you can get Leonard Berry to sign. You're on it box. Tell them that glad to nation sent you. We appreciate Leonard and on it again on it athlete dot com. Use collector nation to check out receive 15% off your first order. You'll enjoy it. We had a clips and baseball box I'm opening this weekend from last year. So I'm still holding on to those and I'll just be thinking, you know, this is my Omaha. Is the on it. We appreciate everyone. We'll see you next time. We want to sing to the week. Anything happening over in a lot of X lands? Nope. Just working on some few things. I put some LinkedIn teasers out there for some of the stuff we're coming out with. It's looking good. It's great. So I'm proud of our team. And I'm always blessed to have people around you that are talented and more talented than me. That's for sure. I agree. I have to I get to fill my definitely more talent and you know, filling in for my weaknesses. There are many. I'm thankful for them and thankful for everyone listening. 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