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BurdineBandit

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  1. The best advice I seem to have gotten since getting back into the hobby (half-assed) is to search ebay for sold items. You have to scroll down on filters but it's there. The last 99 Showcase Legacy Collection Griffey to sell was a 9.5 SGC-graded, went for $1500 plus. The days of Beckett are over, the market is basically what people will pay online. That's a sick card, can't seem to find any others on ebay, which makes sense because it's /99. I've been doing the same cleaning out since my dad is selling his home in Houston. I took a bin home of my old high school shit and I have plenty of loose cards I had left behind. Found a Troy Polamalu SP Authentic Rookie /2200 that I wouldn't have thought much of, but it's going for $100+ on ebay. Might triple in value if I can send it in and get a 9 or higher out of it. It's pretty sharp. Don't forget about those stars that maybe you didn't think about much but others might.
  2. With a rubber chicken in tow as a mascot to a group of mostly grown ass men. I try not to be a downer but damn the supporters groups never stop sucking themselves off for their own performances. Team support > performative fandom. But yeah, big win. Let's see what SAFC has tonight.
  3. Loved it. 5/5 stars. A lot of philosophy and emotion wrapped in a completely crazy/silly movie.
  4. As a public state school, we rely on those kids as money-makers. Because they're willingly paying the higher cost to attend as an out-of-state student at that OOS rate. Private schools are on a whole other funding scheme.
  5. Will be going for the 2nd time after a few years hiatus. Long weekend in May. Can't wait. This will be a bit more debaucherous than the last trip though, probably doing xochimilco with 4 dudes, all of whom love to drink. I do too, but anything more than 2 travel mates makes me uncomfortable.
  6. Cannot wait until Spence/Crawford. It indeed will be the biggest boxing matchup since GGG/Canelo.
  7. I have a bit of a newfound interest in the hobby. Drove down to South Austin last weekend since I saw there was a newer collectible shop open in Austin, finally, and bought a blaster box of basketball and a hanger box of baseball for about $70 total. The hobby is enjoying a resurgence, but seems like a shit time to be getting back into it for the consumer. Panini runs basketball and football, and shit is severely overpriced. I remembered that old feeling of wasting money after opening the boxes. $70 worth of shit singles and inserts. The one that excited me was a Josh Primo (Spurs) rookie parallel that looks great, but might fetch $4 on Ebay. To top it off I paid $40 for a Donruss basketball blaster that sells for $25 on Target's website. The local guys were really cool and helpful and outgoing, but fuck man. 60% markup? And you're telling me how much you love your wholesaler and how much they hook you up while I'm there. And how you visit walmart weekly to make sure you're staying price competitive..... That's on me though, I should've comp'd the prices before going in. Most notable card thing to happen in the past month was finding my old Upper Deck Victory Tom Brady rookie card, that I'm pretty sure I bought at a Tri-Star show in Houston as a teenager (no way I had the guts to spend more than $10-15 to spend on a single card).... going for $300+ on ebay raw. Going to get that one graded though, it's selling for $500+ at a Mint 9. Mine seems to be in really good condition.
  8. Fine to see Lonnie go, thanks for your service. Keldon is a year younger and has already shown to have taken a step up, with starts by not relinquishing a starting 5 role, unlike Walker. Primo and Richardson obvs also make him expendable. Keep Richardson, he seems like a new add to the Spurs culture. I'm really excited about the 1st round picks too, 3 in the Top 25, and our highest top pick in years. Would absolutely not mind flipping a pick to get us into the Top 20 again.
  9. Shit, I'm the dude in the kitchen who has no skin in the episode, but I was getting uncomfortable for the first 15 minutes, then it started getting kinda funny. By the halfway point I felt like I kinda understood more of the metaphor and who's point of view this was being written from. Chappelle had a similar premise but the POV wasn't as focused as where Atlanta put it.
  10. Fagundez back to the hesitant bullshit. Had at least 2 looks on goal and passed it off to a worse look for a teammate.
  11. Didn't expect Aljo to out wrestle Yan that bad. If he can do that to the #1 contender then he deserves the belt. Colby wishes he could do that to a champ. Khamzat got tested, what a great fight. Respect to Durinho. And if Kahmzat is showing that he's just about even on Burns' level, then he's not on Usman's level.
  12. For future reference, I've brought back half an ounce (2 separate quarters) twice from Denver to Austin. No problem. Why would they give a shit unless you have enough to sell. I just try to be discreet in my check-in bag. Put it in my pants pocket and roll it up or something. Don't open the seal so it doesn't smell.
  13. Wtf, did this dude get covid or what? His own IG story said he just came down with what seemed like a flu or something, I figured he'd be back in a couple days.
  14. It's crazy that this show can be this funny when it wants to be, but it enjoys weird more....
  15. I've been a fan of Foo for a bit longer, but ACL made me a fan of Taylor since that show (Dave's broken leg days). This sucks. I hadn't thought about Dave until this thread too. Jesus.
  16. It was Saturday night, which has looked like that on Saturday night for as long as I can remember going to SXSW (about a decade). Aside from the people actually here for the festival, there's a bunch of hangers-on who just want to be in a crowd because they know there's people in Austin for a festival. I had a friend make the trip just for the night. Beats me as to why, we just saw music at Zilker Brewing and hopped a couple bars on Cesar Chavez. I knew that Dirty 6th was not the place to be on Saturday night of South By, I kinda figured there would be shots fired by the end of the night.
  17. The hell was the point in sitting Fagundez? He's the engine of this team and runs his ass off, it's not like he only has 40 good minutes in him. That's Cecilio. And I'm actually ok with 1 point against Seattle. Let's get the full three when we're supposed to, like Saturday.
  18. It is, and he can't work inside, but he's had two good looks at the free-throw line, which he likes obviously because we ran the pick for him twice to get that shot. It's the same jumper he hit to help us beat TCU at home. He's gotta hit those if that's in his wheelhouse. If you're not big enough to get them inside, then you gotta hit that to bring them out a bit.
  19. This game has shown me what it means to be lacking in "athleticism". Twice we've had clear paths to the basket and came up with jack shit because their guys can make up two long steps of a headstart in a heartbeat.
  20. SXSW pet peeve of mine? Making it hard to find out when/where a band is playing..... no social media presence at all for this dude. Schedule says here in Austin from the 16th-20th, so I'd assume shows today and tomorrow, but nothing to be found. Otherwise, had a swing and a miss yesterday, went to see the local "En Orbito" who I've seen called a Psych-Cumbia group, but they played one song that might have been considered cumbia, and the rest was Psych jam-band with latin "grooves". Wouldn't see again. "Volcan" from San Antonio was much better at Hotel Vegas on Wednesday. night, the inside stage was packed and they looked extremely pleased and excited when they were granted an encore after the crowd hit them with the "otra otra otra".... Seeing them smile and then high-five each other after their set was probably my favorite memory so far. You can tell they appreciated it. Going to try to see SirWoman at Zilker at 5 then see where the night takes it.
  21. The announcer that's been saying he gets you "at least a few extra possessions on offense every game" just through hustle..... He gave us 4 by my count in the first half yesterday (and IIRC his rebound gave Jones his first wide-open look that he missed). And boy did we need them with how cold we came out. Offensive rebounds, steals, forced errors, etc.
  22. "Carr has struggled in this offense all year"........ has he? For him he's playing right at his ability level. His FG % and 3pt% are pretty much the same. Anyway, would love him to continue to show up in spurts like this. Keep him from chucking.
  23. Thanks for the tip! I know you were waiting for it to get higher, but $4.20 was the perfect amount of high for me and I exited at a 19% gain after holding for 9 days. Easy money. Now to blow it on lone stars and tacos at SXSW.
  24. I got busy at work for the 2nd half and came back to see the score and just chuckle. Of course we did. Cannot wait for Carr to gtfo. He was a rental who proved that he is exactly who he was his entire a career. A ball-handler who handles the ball way too fuckin much considering he doesn't create and has never shot over 40% FG in any of his collegiate seasons.
  25. Big fish in a small pond. Well, normal fish, in a small shitty pond. Sorry we had two bigger stars on offense than yourself last year. Also, you weren't exactly entrenched as QB1. Maybe he's mad at that 9.95 money that Card got.
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