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Processing... What Are Case Hits? Kaboom, Downtown & Tips for Signing and Grading
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Join us as we break down two of the most iconic case hits in the sports card hobby: Kaboom and Downtown. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just getting into high‑end inserts, this guide uncovers the key differences, market trends, and long‑term potential of these hobby favorites. Learn what sets each case hit apart, how rarity and design impact value, and which one might be the better chase for your collection or investment strategy. This is the ultimate breakdown every sports card collector needs.
All right, welcome back to another episode of the Powers Sports Memorabilia Show. I am here with our resident card expert, Mr. Caleb. Thanks again for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Cool. We're gonna have a lot of fun today in our million dollar studio here. What do you think about the million-dollar studio?
SPEAKER_01I like it. It's very nice too.
SPEAKER_00It it's not a million dollars, yeah, but we did spend a good chunk of change and some time putting it together. So uh today's gonna be kind of an informative video, but I think a fun one too that we're gonna be talking about case hits. And for someone who's new to the sports card hobby, Caleb, what exactly in its simplest forms is a case hit?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so they're oftentimes a rare crazy colored design card uh that fall obviously once per case in the name case hit. Uh so Panini, Tops, all these companies ship out their boxes and sealed cases. So with hobby boxes, there might be 12 uh boxes per case, and you'll find a case hit once in once per case.
SPEAKER_00So it's pretty cool when like a breaker is getting there and then they open up their case and then they get that one big card. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, so it's pretty rare. So like case hit, how many boxes usually come in a case?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so with hobby, oftentimes it's like 12 to 20 hobby boxes per case. Uh with retail, you might have 40 blaster boxes in a case and so on.
SPEAKER_00Gotcha. So not all case hits are created equal because there may be more or less boxes depending on what the case is, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And then also some case hits just in general, you might if it's a hobby case, you might find one uh every case or one every 10 cases. There's some that are get more rare than others.
SPEAKER_00And I'm I'm sure Panini and Tops screw up and sometimes don't throw the case hit in there, huh?
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes. There's been some uh instances in the past where they forgot to put a whole set of cards in there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Or I've seen them when they open it up and there's no cards at all.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Which I mean, it does happen in manufacturing. There are gonna be mistakes. Mistakes do happen, yeah, for sure. Uh okay, cool. So case hits have become really popular lately, but do you remember when case hits sort of started becoming a big deal in the hobby?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I feel like they really took off uh around the COVID boom.
SPEAKER_00Um can we say that word now?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know it's sort of like a taboo word. It's not free speech is still okay. Uh and but even from that sort of initial boom, I feel like they have taken off even more here recently.
SPEAKER_00And why do you think that is? Because I wasn't really into case hits as much as I am now, and that's partly because of you with the kabooms and the downs and runs and all that stuff. What do you think it is? Why are people attracted to these case hits?
SPEAKER_01I just really think they may I do think the designs of the cards are good. Uh even if the designs weren't good, it's you know, the rarity and the FOMO and all that that gets people going after them.
SPEAKER_00The uh the six finger traps hunter, man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they gotta make t-shirts of that. They did actually, yes. Yeah. There's some nice, like it's uh Topps Collab t-shirt with another company.
SPEAKER_00Man, everybody steals my ideas. I gotta be faster on these ones. So, how do you how is the design and creativity of these cases kind of changed over time?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I feel like they've definitely gotten better in some areas, but lazier in some other areas, like you said with the Travis Hunter, some different uh images that people call out the companies, they say they're using AI or different cheap, quick ways of doing it, you know. AI, you know.
SPEAKER_00I'm so confused on AI. I don't think it's gonna last forever, but I think it's really cool, but like it it's definitely helpful for stuff. It can it can do some cool stuff, you know. But then they had what was the the the Calvin Johnson downtown that was what Pettigrew was a receiver for?
SPEAKER_01Something like that. Like, I don't even know if that like that wouldn't have been an AI problem. They just simply saw an old Lions card and thought it was Cal I like I don't know. I don't know how that happened.
SPEAKER_00So if you don't know the story, there was a uh a a downtown that had the wrong picture of Calvin Johnson on there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's a picture of Brian Pettigrew, so I guess they just you know saw whatever, however, they select their images, they just saw that I think Brian Pettigrew was also number 81, I'm pretty sure.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so that could be okay. So that's a legitimate reason for screwing up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and there's he's sort of like covering his number a little bit. So you couldn't really see it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's hard to tell on the card itself, you know, unless you know what you're looking for. Yeah. Uh so why do you think I mean inserts are have been big in the hobby for a long time here? Why do you think Panini and other companies really lean so heavily on these types of inserts?
SPEAKER_01I'd say, you know, they just see all their customers buying them up, and I think they see it as like a really good selling point for new products that they come out with.
SPEAKER_00All right, so let's talk favorites here. What are the most popular case hits right now in football and basketball?
SPEAKER_01So obviously you have your downtowns and kabooms, but the recent uh Topps releases have uh the kaijus, ultraviolets, and the techmobles, of course, those have been doing well.
SPEAKER_00The kaijus are yeah, interesting. Those are the the Japanese ones that are in football, which I are there any Japanese players that play football?
SPEAKER_01Uh there's like maybe a handful, like a couple, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But they're not in any of the cards.
SPEAKER_01No, yeah, they don't include them in the set.
SPEAKER_00That is quite interesting. I think it was funny. We we've talked about this with Tech Mobile. I thought it would have been fun if they would have done like uh numbered cards or something on the players that are actually in the game, because right now they've got players like Travis Hunter who obviously were not in Tech Mobile.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and there's only what I mean, like a couple of players that were actually in Tech Mobile that are in the set.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like Bo Jackson, Montana, uh Rice, Elway. Those are kind of the main ones. I mean, they need to have Steve Largen in there. I think he was in the game, too. That was a great game. If you ever go back and get a chance to play that game, I do enjoy playing it. It had four plays for the first game, and then I think they came out with Super Tech Mobile, and that had eight plays, and that was a big deal. Yeah, it was so cool. Um, all right, so I kinda think I kind of know where you're going with this one, but kabooms versus downtowns. If you had to pick one, which one do collectors gravitate more towards and why do you think that is?
SPEAKER_01I think uh downtowns, quite honestly, but in terms of prices and how much they sell for, I do think kabooms sell for more. If you take like a certain player and compare it to their downtown kaboom prices, the kaboom price would be more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I'm more of a kaboom kind of guy. Uh the downtowns are are cool if the background makes sense, but sometimes the background is just like what am I looking at here?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think I do like downtown uh personal preference. I like downtowns more than kabooms just because each background's different, you know. With kabooms, it's all the same background, but downtowns they can be you know unique and all that. There's some really cool designs I like.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for sure. Like uh the Bo Jackson one, I think, is really sharp with like the pirate ship in the background. I think that that's kind of cool. Or if you've got like a a monument in your city, that's cool. Like if Kansas City had it, we had like some water, uh some fountains or something like that. That would be kind of cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know the uh Krishna Nakoye downtown has some fountains and then it has Union Station, and then well, I'm sure we'll talk about it later, but the uh Andy Reid Patrick Mahomes downtown has Union Station, the uh KC Symphony, and all sorts of different stuff. So I really like when they include different local landmarks. You don't seem like a symphony kind of guy. Not much. It's a cool looking building, though.
SPEAKER_00It it sure is, man. You know, right off of 35 there, yeah. So it's it's got like the little shape on there, or it's an acoustic building is what it's, you know. Um, yeah, so I I like the kabooms. I I just think that's what I like the kabooms because that's what the people buy from us and that's what they like, you know. Yeah. But I do like some of the downtown design. So um are there any other like underrated case hits that you think people are sleeping on? Ones you're like either either look cool or you're thinking, wow, these are gonna have some value in the future.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think most definitely like uh case hits and SSPs, you know, ones that are that people don't even realize that they're rare cars.
SPEAKER_00SSP, what does that stand for?
SPEAKER_01Uh super, super short print.
SPEAKER_00Super, super, super, super short print. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So there's a super super short print. It sounds like something like Spider-Man where Superman would collect, you know. Uh but yeah, so different stuff like that where they use, you know, the different crazy or cool images and crazy colors, and people don't even necessarily realize they're a case hit or they're rare. Yeah, I've asked you about this.
SPEAKER_00It's hard to figure out what is a case hit, you know.
SPEAKER_01There's yeah, there's definitely because the companies themselves don't help a whole ton either, you know. Like they're not like, oh, that this is a case hit. You sort of have to look at the pack odds and decide for yourself, I guess, if you think it's a case hit or not. I decide this is a case hit. Yeah, exactly. And that's how you see it sometimes. Some people are like, oh, SSP, it's like, no, that's just a normal card.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like uh I guess the stained glass would be considered a case hit. Is that correct?
SPEAKER_01So that's one, and there's other examples of this that uh it was a normal or it was a case hit, it was super short printed where it's hard to hit, and then it switched to just a normal insert where you know you would probably get one per box. So there's a couple different sets like that, like with the all aces and all that sort of stuff.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I love those all aces. We just got a Gregmatics 1010 on those. And then there's those are cool designs. I definitely like those. Yeah, it's kind of weird how they make them an insert now if they were not an insert before.
SPEAKER_01That's what well, yeah, because normally like before, you know, they were you would get m multiple in each box you would open, like you would get at least five all aces cards, and now you know it's a rare case hit if you hit one.
SPEAKER_00And it's not a super expensive card right now for 2023s. I mean the Maddox ones are like 10 bucks on the video.
SPEAKER_01But then you have something like the Shohei, where you could have you like you could have bought it for five bucks.
SPEAKER_00Dude, I mean I was selling PSA 10s for that for like 200 bucks. Yeah. Uh, is there any more value about like the player, the set, or the design that kind of affects the market, or is it a combination of everything? What do you think?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think it's definitely it can be a combination of everything. You take, for example, the uh green PMGs. Uh, there's every time one of those comes up for sale, it can be a player you've never heard of, and it'll go for thousands of dollars just because of what it is.
SPEAKER_00But you know, you don't know the player on the card, but uh it's like the 1986 FLEER where the guy gets someone's trying to complete.
SPEAKER_01Complete their set or whatever it may be, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh have you seen certain K6 explode in value like unexpectedly? Real like where did that come from?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily say unexpectedly with these, but the uh the last year of mangas, I think, really shot up uh compared to recent years. And I think you know that could be since it is the last year, they changed the design up and made it look a little bit more cool.
SPEAKER_00Umgas.
SPEAKER_01I do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, what is it you like? I'm not a huge huge fan of them right now. I mean, I could be, but like what do you think what do you like so much about them?
SPEAKER_01I enjoy, you know, I like different anime TV shows and stuff like that, and I just really like how they incorporate they just make them look really cool in the cards, you know.
SPEAKER_00It's kind of like the sports Pokemon cards. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Sort of, you know, it's like that anime style and cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. But then on the flip side, you have the Tecmo Bowls where those have dropped a ton recently.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. They uh what did somebody buy? Like, oh, what was somebody spent like 15,000 on my homes or something?
SPEAKER_0115,000 on my homes, and now it was like 7,000 or something like that.
SPEAKER_00But you knew that was gonna come.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So rule of thumb is when a new product comes out, don't buy it right away. Like, try to set set a calendar on your Google Calendar for like two, three months down the road, and then buy it, and then see what you really like and get a better price at that particular point. Like the first week, as you know.
SPEAKER_01It just doesn't make sense to buy singles or uh really much of anything from the product at that point, you know. Right, right, right.
SPEAKER_00All right, what makes what makes collectors chase these things so aggressively? Is it because that they want to collect them, or is it because of the resale value of these things once they get graded, signed, etc.?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you'll have you know both of it. You see a lot of flippers who, you know, if you go to a card show, they'll hold tables downtowns or whatever, and it's not they don't care about the cards, they just sell well. But you also have some people, uh, like I said, which they might like uh a certain design element of the card where they just feel like you know that's perfect for my collection. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So going back to the kabooms and downtowns, what are the actual odds of pulling something like that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh, so it's different across the levels of boxes, you know, between retail and hobby. Uh hobby, you expect one per case. Uh, I think with retail it might be a little bit harder to they say one per case, but it might be like more like once every two cases.
SPEAKER_00And then do the odds change per year, like so, for example, like 2026 absolute with the kabooms, is it gonna be different odds than 2025 or 2024?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so like it's sort of like widely known that uh the 2018 downtowns are like the rarest downtowns, and they're like very hard to hit. If you go and look at the PSA pop reports, there's a lot less graded than like the newer years of downtowns.
SPEAKER_00Was that the first year?
SPEAKER_01Or uh I believe that was the first year downtowns, yes.
SPEAKER_00So they just they they realized then like wow, we can make more money if we print more of these.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, sort of, because yeah, they're still selling for a ton, you know. It's not like they've price realized, like they're printing more, they go from now.
SPEAKER_00They're just yeah. So we get a ton of these cases signed at our signings here. And you know, when we get these signed, like what makes them different from other cards that we get signed, say, for example, like a you know, a topps 1981 card? Do we have to treat them differently, or is there a better way to get these signed than like your standard cardboard card?
SPEAKER_01Personally, you know, all cards, no matter if it's a one dollar card or a thousand dollar card that we get in, I'd I'd I'd treat them all the same and prep them all the same. Um, but just the fact Talk through your prep stuff by the way.
SPEAKER_00When we get a card and we want to prep it and get it ready to go, what did we do?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so obviously you have your card out. Uh I like to rub it down with an eraser. Uh just sort of gets all the you know oily or different stuff on the surface that yeah, might mess it up. So I rub that down with an eraser uh over the spot they're signing, or the half of the card they're signing, because you never know exactly where they'll sign. Uh, and then I take a microfiber cloth and walk wipe that down because sometimes the eraser leaves behind some you know bits of eraser. Yeah, you don't want that. Yeah, so uh yeah, ultimately I just you know wipe it down, make sure it's good for signing, and yeah.
SPEAKER_00So go back to you're talking about getting cards signed and like how you treat kind of different ones or if you do treat them differently.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I I I treat all cards the same, you know. Uh put the same amount of care into each one. Um but with them, you know, with the case hits getting signed at signings, I feel like the uh like what makes them different is the fact that they're so rare and people haven't really thought to get them signed yet.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I think they they sometimes pick the wrong pen colors and pen types. I mean we we see this on every type of item anyway, but like sometimes you'll see like it's a uh a clean background and they want like silver or something like that, and you're like, or like they're getting gold on the item when it's no gold in the card at all. And you're like, why are we doing gold? It just doesn't make sense. If it's a 49ers card, okay, that makes sense, you know. But we're doing gold on a you know, uh I'm trying to think, New York Jets card. Yeah, what are we doing here, you know? Um, so are there any case hits that you've seen that are more difficult to get signed, or are they kind of all the same?
SPEAKER_01I feel like me personally, when I'm looking at it and trying to decide an ink color, I think the kabooms are sort of tough, just with that, you know, that design, that uh pattern it has going on, and then it has the big red kaboom going throughout it. So you already red's off the table. You can't do any red over that because it'll blend in. Sure. There's some other ones that I do think you know sort of blend into it. Like you want to make it pop, uh, I think.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Paint pens usually work pretty good on those just because there's so many different colors going on, and it kind of sits on top of the card versus the sharpie will kind of blend in there. Yeah, um, so going back to Kabooms and downtowns, best pens that you've found to get those signed.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like you were saying, paint pens. I uh we use uh deco and molotov mainly. Uh we've been getting the the Poscas as well. Yeah, those have been nice and certain you gotta sort of bounce between uh with the different colors. Some companies uh it turns out better than others.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like white decos aren't great, but white Molotovs look good. Um Bostos whites aren't too bad, I don't think.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I really I really like uh most of their colored pins, like the different crazier colored pens, I really like the pink, purple, blue, like all that different stuff. I think pink's kind of a highly underrated color.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I do. I think so too. It's okay. So if you get like um, you know, like the pink refractors or something like that, but sometimes especially you like the the the ladies obviously like it because of the ties into the breast cancer awareness there, and it it does look pretty cool. It's I think it's you definitely unique. It's it's a it's a head turner when you see a pink autograph.
SPEAKER_01I always like, yeah, just you know, matching the ink color to the parallel of the card, and I think you know that pink on pink uh like pops the most out of it.
SPEAKER_00Right, right, right. Have you ever seen a situation where it's like we're getting a card signed, you know, an insert, and it the pen just didn't work like and and I I've seen this here. I want to kind of hear your opinion on it, but we're like, wow, that autograph, we thought that pen was gonna work, but it just didn't for whatever reason.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think there were definitely, you know, since the time that I've been here, there's already been a few that we've had to wipe and redo just because you know it didn't turn out real well. Sometimes it'll be the customer's pen and they're adamant on using that one, but it's it's not a good pen and it doesn't come out well.
SPEAKER_00No, and a lot a lot of it people just don't remember this. Like it has to do with the athlete and how they sign your item. For example, certain athletes they sign so fast that the ink doesn't have a chance to catch up to the item, so it looks super streaky. And then you get guys like Barry Sanders who sign really slow, and most of his stuff is usually a 10 auto just because he takes his time. Um, but yeah, it usually comes down to the athlete and uh whether or not that surface is kind of ready to go for that item.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because you'll definitely see you know, people being like, Oh, I use the same pin on like why does it look so different? It's just you know.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I'll get items signed back to back. Yeah, and you're like, Exactly. What happened there? Yeah, for example, like like uh certain athletes like Sharpie, like for whatever reason doesn't work. I have no idea why. And I'm just like, this is just the most bizarre. Yeah, let me get that Sharpie, I'll test it out. Okay, it looks good. Get back to the athlete. What is going on? What are you doing that I'm not doing here? You know, um, but yeah, you so certain finishes are are are more conducive for paint pens, like the chromes and like kabooms. I think those kind of work well just because it kind of sits well on top of the car, you know, whereas the sharpie kind of blends in. So that doesn't apply to every rule, but that's kind of like the general yeah. All right, are there any of the case hits that you've seen that are the toughest to grade? I think you've you and I've talked about certain years it maybe been tough to grade, but are there any case hits that even though sort of like, wow, these just never become you know 10 PSA grades?
SPEAKER_01Um, I wouldn't necessarily uh say that there's you know a certain case hit that's harder to grade than the others. Like you said, the years, uh like 2023 Crown Royale basketball, uh the kabooms in those, there's only been, I believe, one PSA 10 graded kaboom. Wow. Out of 2,000 total kabooms that have been graded. So you'll get different stuff like that where it's uh you know, a certain set won't grade well or something like that, you know. Like PSA's recently been putting out uh their different uh sort of things talking about the different things wrong with that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's really cool. I I I think that's really what PSA should be doing, is trying to educate on what they've been seeing. I mean that's a unique angle for them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so differ different stuff like that, you know, where it's just whole sets or whole uh you know print, like they're just not not good, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I wonder why that is too. Like it's like whether they change printers or they've just got a different type of card stock they're doing.
SPEAKER_01A little bit of yeah, you know, because you'll see, you know, recently, uh in the past couple years, I believe both all the big companies change their printers, so there is some different things.
SPEAKER_00And there's there's only like one or two companies that print these in the United States, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yes. I mean, like yeah, obviously there's not a ton of people out there printing the cards. Like this ain't currency, we can't print it ourselves.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh do any certain designs like kabooms, do they kind of hide flaws a little better than maybe some other cards?
SPEAKER_01Or what have you seen? Sort of think that way, but not that if anything, it it'll really, you know, make the uh blemishes and the problems pop out even more. Like if you have a little dimple on that uh red kaboom spot, you're gonna be able to see that you know easily because it's gonna be a little white spot in the red kaboom. Whereas if it was just a white card in the white spot, you wouldn't see it.
SPEAKER_00So anything collectors should look for when sending a card in for a grain, for a case hit, you know, are there anything different they need to be looking for? Or kind of talk about the kind of four things that you look for when sending off a card for it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just uh anything you'd be normally looking for. So the corners, edges, surface, uh any other defects that you have going on. So I like to look for I like to start with the surface. I look for any print lines, roller marks, dimples, anything like that, uh oil oily, anything on the surface that you know doesn't belong there. Uh then I'll move to the corners and edges and just sort of you know follow along. I like to use a magnifying glass for that. Uh and yeah. Cool.
SPEAKER_00Now, so if you're building a collection, someone is out there right now and they're watching this and they're just like Yeah, I want to get involved in case hits here, but like are they a must-have in a collection, or is it just kind of more of a luxury item to have?
SPEAKER_01I think that's definitely preference. You know, there's a lot of people that uh do say they are, you know, the staple of a collection. You you need to have like a case hit, but some people just don't like the designs, and I don't think that's necessarily something that's like, oh, you're not a collector if you don't have a downtown, you know.
SPEAKER_00Like you don't know me. Some Yeah, I think the thing is you do you. Right. You know, if you like the case hits, get case hits, but you know, there are other case hits too that I mean, we were talking mainly about modern ones today, but they have a lot of the older kind of super short prints or inserts or whatnot that you know are from older generations that people still collect talk about the PMGs. PMGs and uh Dunkin' Goanuts and the Flear Jam and all the different are those like the uh the the acetate with the clear ones then so that's those are kind of like before their time then.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, very, yeah. I would say yeah. I I really that's one of my favorite looking cars.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they've got the NBA Iverson's on one Iverson, Jordan, Kobe, uh yeah, all of them. Wow, that's cool, man. Uh so what's your favorite? I think you alluded earlier, but what's your favorite case set that you've ever seen or owned?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so uh it's a new one, the uh Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes downtown, dual downtown. I just think that's so awesome with the different, like you said, local landmarks and stuff. You know, I can relate, like I can go drive around Kansas City and see, like, oh, like that's on this card right here. You know, I just think that's cool. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I think we have a chance to maybe get that one dual signed. I know we can probably do Patrick again um sometime in the summertime, and then Andy does it in the summertime too. So get that one. Yeah, that'll be a popular one. Really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe get you that for Christmas or something. That'd be that would be very appreciative. All right. So someone is chasing their their first, you know, big case hit and they want to go out and buy some product, let's say, which we don't really recommend. We recommend, hey, just go out and buy the car that you want. But it is fun to go out and chase it. Yeah. What would you recommend as far as maybe a one that you maybe either a get better odds on or want something that's maybe a little more affordable where you can kind of get some more bang for your buck?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so you know, if you're looking specifically for uh case hits, I my main one would probably be optic uh retail blasters. You know, they're 30, 40 bucks, and you have your chance. Last time I opened one, I got a downtown. So, you know, you got your chance of uh TJ Watt. So, you know, all right. I know who he is, yeah. So uh I think that's you know price friendly, and you know what, you have a one in 40 chance of hitting a downtown or something like that. Not too bad. Telling me there's a chance. There's a chance. Uh other than that, I I enjoy you know, cheap hobby boxes that are like a hundred dollars around a hundred dollars. You they guarantee an auto or two that you know sometimes uh it'll be like a 2013 product or older product that people just don't really know about and it's cheap. Cheap, a hundred bucks there, man.
SPEAKER_00It's gonna be like uh filling up your tank of gas. Yeah, yeah, I know. All right, so if you could design your own caset, we've talked about this a little bit here, but what would it look like? What would be your the Caleb caset?
SPEAKER_01You know, yeah, Caleb's kaboom. Yeah, uh I think you know, crazy colors, and I would probably have some sort of uh that sort of anime cartoon sort of style to it and incorporate different pieces of Kansas City uh into the card. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Gotta put the Missouri River on there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know if that's very uh aesthetically pleasing, but yeah, but I think it'd be kind of cool to put it on there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, really on there. The S's, that would be sort of cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh so to wrap everything up here, do you think case hits are gonna be staying at the top, kind of like where they are now, or is the hobby gonna kind of migrate to maybe whatever the newest, coolest FOMO thing is?
SPEAKER_01I think they'll de uh they'll definitely shift away from it for a while, but I do think at some point it could come back just the way, like the way the PMGs and all those different earlier on SSPs and case hit type cards have.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I think what Caleb's saying too is like, is make this fun, but make it like for you. Like, you know, whatever you want, whatever you like. Definitely do that and you know, but buy something that you can afford for sure. Yeah, you don't get expensive, you know. Don't want to get out of your price range or your budget or anything. No, no, no. But again, hopefully this helped you guys kind of understand case hits and what they are and things to look for. Uh whether you want to get them signed or not, you can always get them graded, or you can be like that guy with the Jokic cards who just keeps them in a binder. You know, I sort of like that. Binder boys. I think that would be a great Instagram handle. Everything's been binders, no more grading, you know. Um, but yeah, if you want to send them into our autograph signings, we'll prep them for you, get them ready to go, make recommendations on your pens. Um, if you want to tell us who you want to have signed next, there's a link uh in the description here where you can get us your email and tell us who you want to have signed, and we'll contact you when Mahomes or Andy Reed are doing their next signing. Good old Andy right here. Andy we trust. Hopefully we can turn this around this year. Yeah, yeah, let's see it. I don't know, man. That's the way where she's been acting. I think we're yeah, he's not uh one chance, man. But anyway, thanks again. That's the end of the Power Sports Movia show. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram at powers autographs and check out our website, powersportsmobilia.com, and we will see you on the next episode.