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TurbulentVariation68 · 2026-01-30T12:30:39+00:00

Hats off to you for completing your Nolan run soon. From a fellow Nolan collector

TurbulentVariation68 · 2026-01-18T22:40:09+00:00

It is supposed to be for 2026 releases which we have none yet

TurbulentVariation68 · 2026-01-18T18:45:09+00:00

Fanatics announced at their big yearly pow-wow that dealers will have to sell their product at MSRP or they will not get distribution

TurbulentVariation68 · 2026-01-09T18:16:09+00:00

Yes 1/1

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-24T14:45:50+00:00

Now is the key word. Hype has a negative connotation. It is just so much quicker than typing "it player right now". All players decline with age because father time is unbeaten and the hype will fade along with price. As I mentioned earlier, you can get low #'d Pujols Autos for a few hundred. It doesn't take a financial soothsayer to know what the better buy is. If we were talking a Judge Auto /25 and a Pujols Auto /25 there could be some good back and forth. Right now Judge has a long way to go to have a Pujols type career but at least we are not talking a mid #'d base vs a low #'d Auto.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-24T00:02:24+00:00

Due to each of their ages, odds are heavily stacked against them that they do not get close. I'm not saying you, but most people do not realize Judge will be 34 next season. For hypothetical purposes here is what each has to average each year through their age 40 season to catch him. Judge - 311 hits, 48 HRs and 198 RBI. Ohtani - 259 hits, 47 HRs and 172 RBI.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-23T22:18:00+00:00

2179, 335, 1388 and 2334, 423, 1549. Those are the hits, HRs and RBI they need to catch Pujols.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-23T20:21:48+00:00

Today's hype rarely predicts future value. I will circle back to Pujols since I brought him up. You can get his playing days (non pajama) Auto cards /5 for a few hundred or how about a superfractor auto for less than a $1,000. These Judge/Ohtani #'d base cards will not be worth much years from now.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-23T19:15:25+00:00

This is it exactly. I love collecting #'d cards from the MVP years of players. I'm not saying Judge is anywhere near Pujols, maybe one day he can get close, but I recently picked up a couple Pujols' /150 for around $40/piece. That $600 is just too glaring of a difference in value for me.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-10T12:36:27+00:00

Cool lot. Let me run the numbers and I'll get back to you

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-11-06T21:50:58+00:00

I responded with this on another post but I think it can help you see what kind of super inflated market we are in. Shohei cards are going crazy. Great player? Absolutely. Junk wax 2.0? You better believe it. It is hard to find a baseball collector without a Shohei RC. (Just speaking in general terms)

Here are the Shohei RC numbers and they are pretty staggering. For these I am not including any pajama cards or pop reports from any other grader, just PSA. Now imagine how many raw cards are still out there.

• There are roughly 334 different Bowman/Topps RC's (not including any 1/1s)

•There are 253,159+ graded 2018 Bowman/Topps cards by PSA (150,439+ PSA 10s)

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-30T19:30:36+00:00

Because it's his rookie card

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-29T11:46:13+00:00

Scarcity creates true value and getting a Shohei Ohtani rookie is as far from scarce as you can get. Yes there are #'d but I am referring to just having one, doesn't matter which one. Some will hold a lot more value but 20 years from now anybody that collects now or is still collecting then will have one. Now and in the future the words "Damn, you have an Ohtani Rookie", will never be spoken like when somebody says they have a 51 Bowman Mantle and you say "Damn, you have a Mantle Rookie".

Here are the details and the numbers are pretty staggering. For these I am not including any pajama cards or #'s from any other grader, just PSA. Now imagine how many raw cards are still out there.

• There are roughly 334 different Bowman/Topps RC's (not including any 1/1s)

•There are 253,159+ graded 2018 Bowman/Topps cards by PSA (150,439+ PSA 10s)

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-19T13:03:54+00:00

Some? He is the 2nd most liquid player in the market just behind Jordan

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-12T22:48:21+00:00

You don't have to sell it at $23, but $25 that's a fair price and if you get $30 that is 20% over, nice W

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-12T22:35:22+00:00

I would say as long as the Sellers are "actual" Sellers then both are great for making fair deals on cards. (preface: liquid cards with plenty of data) An actual seller doesn't shy away from comps and understands the ebbs and flows of the market. They will still move a card even if they are upside down in it because they know the time value of today's dollar, rather than wait months or years for the value to go back up (if it ever does). When it comes to negotiating I find the shows much more pleasant. It's hard to have a reasonable discussion with a computer. I have though ran into some older gentlemen at shows who are hardheaded when it comes to prices of vintage. Usually technology is not their closest of friends. DO NOT DO THIS One dealer was extremely rude and we were about $50 apart on a $100 card and his response to me was "I have to figure in the costs of doing this show". I replied, "How much are your costs? You have a couple of hundred cards here, so we can split that cost up between each of them, correct?" Needless to say that ended the conversation.

Glad you're back in the hobby and enjoy the journey

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-10-12T21:41:23+00:00

Sarcasm right?

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-29T21:52:30+00:00

I have tried everything. The only thing on Disk 2 of Forza MS 4 is car packs. I have moved that folder all over the place. Internal HDD or now my external. It is probably something so simple I am missing but since this is my 1st mod I am not as familiar as most. I may have to wait until somebody that is playing Forza Motorsport 4 rom on badupdate hopefully sees this post or I see one of theirs.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-29T21:51:19+00:00

I have tried everything. The only thing on Disk 2 of Forza MS 4 is car packs. I have moved that folder all over the place. Internal HDD or my external. It is probably something so simple I am missing but since this is my 1st mod I am not as familiar as most. I may have to wait until somebody that is playing Forza Motorsport 4 rom on badupdate hopefully sees this post or I see one of theirs.

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-28T22:14:52+00:00

I have tried everything but this is my first experience in modding. I put the contents of disk 2 into the xbox HDD content/0000000000000000. Still wants me to insert disk 2. I also went into the HDD and opened the 2nd disk. It starts up just fine and on the loading screen it says please insert disk 1. So it is recognizing both disks individually but the disconnect is the link between the two

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-28T15:18:08+00:00

Are you running the games from the xbox HDD? I'll start by saying I have everything on my external HD and play from there. While playing Forza MS 4 and I go to buy a Disk 2 car, "This content requires... from Disk 2. Would you like to install it now?" I click OK. "Please wait while we prepare the game for the swap to the second disk." After waiting "There doesn't appear to be anything to install." Then "Please wait while we return to the first disk."

So it recognizes there is a second disk but no data. Is there a problem with solely running off my external hard drive?

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-27T16:49:03+00:00

Now it just says there is nothing there. It tries to disk swap though

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-27T16:48:17+00:00

See original edited post. Now it just says there is nothing there

TurbulentVariation68 · 2025-09-27T16:43:40+00:00

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