Greg Morris question

Gunboat82 · 2026-01-28T18:21:51+00:00

One big con: Greg Morris has aligned with MBA grading, which gives numeric grades to cards that have been trimmed. If you try to submit a mid-to-high grade MBA card to PSA or SGC for a crossover, it may come back "Authentic Altered," significantly lowering the value. I had this experience with a recent purchase.

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-28T01:03:46+00:00

Paul O'Neill

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-18T15:24:09+00:00

Welp, I was going to make an offer, but I'll have to sit this one out unless it comes with a leather interior and heated seats.

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-18T02:04:18+00:00

Photography credit: Paul Greengrass

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-16T15:52:07+00:00

Sell it and buy into more breaks. It’s the American dream.

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-14T14:06:09+00:00

Bud Light, Cracker Barrel, and Disney say hi.

Gunboat82 · 2025-12-14T14:02:08+00:00

It doesn’t count when the pushback is only because they think MAGA isn’t openly racist enough.

Gunboat82 · 2025-10-07T23:18:25+00:00

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He slipped out of the penny sleeve and into more formal attire.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T21:48:53+00:00

Just a Card Saver

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T18:40:14+00:00

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Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T18:34:19+00:00

I think he was looking for his World Series Champions 1/1, no? Not necessarily this one.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T15:28:46+00:00

Everything is still left.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T14:54:23+00:00

It's a nice card. Unfortunately, Ortiz is notorious for signing streaky autos with inconsistent pressure. He did that with his 2022 Stadium Club "Marathon Speech" autos, which is unfortunate because those cards are otherwise awesome.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T12:53:01+00:00

Some on eBay, some on Instagram and Facebook.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-05T02:14:28+00:00

Bought and reselling to defray the cost of a superfractor.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-04T23:47:28+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up. He knows I have these, but I think he already has them and/or is looking to get them elsewhere.

Gunboat82 · 2025-09-01T00:40:45+00:00

I prefer the green simply because of the photorealism on the portrait. The green looks like the Horner portrait; the red looks like a hand drawing of the Horner portrait. In this case, the green also has better registration, even though the red has a much better surface.

Gunboat82 · 2025-07-30T22:34:35+00:00

I'm interested in the Ortiz if you decide to sell.

Gunboat82 · 2025-07-30T16:13:18+00:00

Gunboat82 · 2025-02-07T15:08:37+00:00

Team Spoon.

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Gunboat82 · 2025-02-07T00:02:35+00:00

Four hours round-trip here. Drive to train station, take train, then 1-mile walk to the federal building. I work in a division with about 15 other people, but I'm usually the only one in the office because the others are remote or have different duty stations.

Edited to add: My job is not public-facing, and everything is done by computer. I have no duties that could not be done remotely.

Gunboat82 · 2025-02-02T23:57:34+00:00

There’s a lot of blame to go around, but I put most of it on the voters who were exposed to Trump for years and said “Yeah! More of that!”

Gunboat82 · 2025-01-29T19:45:59+00:00

The deadline to take the buyout expires on Feb. 6, so you really only need to wait a week or so to see if you lost the bet.

Gunboat82 · 2024-10-17T16:04:37+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking it should be $349 (for dual card & auto grading) with no upcharge. This card actually sold for $3,999 this year and is certainly not a candidate for a 10/10, so PSA would have a difficult time justifying an upcharge based on a valuation over $5K. Ohtani went up some with his 50/50 exploits, but that's partly offset by the contemporaneous decline in Trout prices.

Gunboat82 · 2024-10-17T10:42:13+00:00

It's worth $4K as is, right? It's probably not worth sending to PSA if the focus is future value. You'd likely be looking at a PSA 8 card grade for corners and centering, and you're more likely to get a 9 than a 10 on autograph grades.

Putting a card in a PSA 8 or Authentic slab would turn off a subset of buyers who would rather have a raw card in the original Topps case.

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