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Old 06-02-2024, 06:03 PM
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For 80K you could buy a solid group of five vintage cards in lower grades and still have money to spare. Modern continues to boggle my mind. Even more so the fact that he's a pitcher. He can easily go the way of Strasburg, or Lincecum, have multiple dominant seasons and then fall off the rails due to injuries.
Nobody is buying this for his collection, it's just a commodity to try to flip at the right time. It feels too early to me even for that, but then again I don't have four social media accounts, three devices, endless t shirts or a three day growth of beard and a backwards ball cap.
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