Crank It Up Sports Card Podcast Episode 13

Episode 13 of the Crank It Up Sports Card Podcast features a special guest, Maddox Bohannon, joining the show for a fun conversation about sports cards, collecting, and the hobby. Maddox shares his experiences, favorite players to collect, and what has him excited about today's sports card market. The crew also discusses recent hobby trends, new product releases, memorable pickups, and what collectors should be watching in the weeks ahead. Whether you're just getting started or have been collecting for years, this episode offers great stories, insights, and plenty of hobby talk from a fresh perspective. Be sure to tune in for laughs, collecting advice, and the passion that makes the sports card community so special. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and follow Crank It Up Sports Card Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms so you never miss a new episode.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Crank It Up Sports Card Podcast with your host Parker Johnson and co-host Matthew Eberson.

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Who the heck is that? Thank you all for coming back, you know, seeing our 13th podcast. We got a special guest on. How special, Matthew?

SPEAKER_01 0:15

He's very special. I'm glad. I'm excited about this episode.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Me too. Me too. You want to introduce yourself?

SPEAKER_02 0:23

I'm Maddox. And I am your favorite collector.

SPEAKER_03 0:27

All right. We didn't discuss that previously, so I did not know he was going to say that, and I don't uh I don't support it. Um but let's let's get right into it. Maddox, tell us a little bit about kind of how you got into the hobby, what you're doing now, what's kind of going on in your life with the hobby. Don't get too, you know, don't get too deep, please. Um just just the hobby stuff.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Um, you know, really. Uh started out uh watching Brady collect and thought it was cool, you know. Uh didn't have the money for it for sure. I was broke. Uh and then senior year, uh my mom made me get a job. And so I reached out here and I worked at Cranks for a little bit. How was that? Pretty good experience, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

Best experience you've probably ever had.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Yeah, playing iMessage games is my favorite with you.

SPEAKER_03 1:14

Uh we didn't do that. We worked. Yeah, we worked.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

We worked. But uh yeah, and then I just started collecting and now I just flip swords cards and nice, cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Where do you uh go mostly to do that? You go to a lot of shows?

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Go to a lot of shows, yeah, and do a lot of online sales.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

So nice. What um since you're flipping a lot, right? You you don't hold too much, do you? It's just keeping it moving quickly. Never. If you were to hold, because you really believed in a certain player, and you're like, I think that this player, uh, instead of a quick flip and I'm gonna sell it a year from now, who would be who would be your pick?

SPEAKER_02 1:53

I am actually holding a card right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Okay, who is it?

SPEAKER_02 1:57

It may not be held for too long because the national is in two weeks. Sure. But I just bought a Tom Brady auto from Brady yesterday, and I think that's a good one. Brady auto from Brady. I think that's a good hold. All right.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

So I mean, I think any greats like that, if you buy them and hold them, they're going up. I mean, unless unless something catastrophic happens in the card industry and the card market, there's no way that's gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

You're talking about uh you're holding Tom Brady, not Brady Long.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:24

Tom Brady He got the a Brady Long auto from Tom Brady. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how that's how it works. That's what he was talking about right there. Uh so maybe not maybe not the greatest hold then.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not working on that. I'd flip quick. Just kidding. Brady if you're right. Brady's a legend. We love you, Brady.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

Um, no, so that's good. Um, you said you wanted to do something, right?

SPEAKER_01 2:51

We actually asked uh previous guests, which uh we had some technical difficulties with that, but I think we'll probably ask him that question again. But let me ask you, uh Maddox, who is on your Mount Rushmore of athletes or um characters or whatever in the hobby? Mount Rushmore's four, right? Yes, that's correct. That's right. You heard it here first.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Number one, um might have a lot of haters for this, but Ladd McConkie. Really? Lad McConkie's going on the front and center for me. Wow. Uh big believer.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

So is this personal favorites? Is that how you're doing this?

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Yeah, personal favorites. Uh it's a little bit of personal favoriteslash the goats.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

Uh well, Ladd McConkie wouldn't fall in the goat category, right? That'd be that's hat that's a personal favorite right there.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

That's an opinion for you, though. Um and then MJ's up there, Michael Jordan. I mean, that's the it has to be on everybody's, unless you're Gunner and he just thinks LeBron's the best, but it's a different day. Yeah. Um big Chipper Jones fan. Okay. Big Chipper fan. Like that pick.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Um as a Braves fan, I like that pick.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

And uh Paul Skeens. And Skeens. Yeah. I would split it with like him and Livy on there, though. Just need to clarify.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

I I have an interesting point about uh Michael Jordan. Do you know why they called him MJ?

unknown 4:13

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

I do not.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

That was his initials.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Really?

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Wow. Somebody told me that recently in the in the shop. Enlightenment there. Oh some dropping some nuggets of wisdom with your old age.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

So learn something new. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Every day. Every day. I'm gonna hang around. I'm gonna hang around you a little longer. Maybe I'll learn something. Um, that's good. That's good. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

I mean, we we just ended it right. I think we ended it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

That's a respectable. I mean, maybe Ladd McConkey. Uh that'd be the only one I'd probably be like. That's kind of crazy. But I'm okay with the other picks. Okay, yeah. Yeah. What about you, Matthew? Yeah, what about you, Matthew?

SPEAKER_01 4:56

Um, I'm a Braves fan. I'll I'll steal his uh Chipper Jones. Um also King Griffey Jr. I don't have a huge collection, um, nothing really, really big. But uh I I even like Bobby Witt, one of your favorites. I know that's probably on your Mount Rushmore. Um and then any brave really.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

He's laughing at laughing at Witt being on Mount Rushmore and being okay with Ladd McConkey on there is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

It's just the love you have for Bobby Witt.

SPEAKER_03 5:26

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

Well, I mean, I I think he's the best shortstop in in baseball.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

I agree. I agree. Did you say a fourth one?

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Any Braves. Any Braves player.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

You know who I'm going with. First two are we know the first two, right? What's my first two on Mount Rushmore?

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Mike Trout and Bobby Witt. That's exactly right. Matthew Epperson. Okay, one more.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Maddox Bahannon to finish the fourth? I mean, if you know, if maybe if you were still playing baseball.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

That's what it is. I was wondering when that was going to come up.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

That had to come once at least, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Uh have you ended your your um baseball experience?

SPEAKER_02 6:06

My playing career is 98% for sure done.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

So where's the other two percent holding that back from being 100%?

SPEAKER_02 6:13

Church like softball. Yeah, that. Or uh yeah, probably that. Probably that. Probably the golf course, you know.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Fair enough. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

There there comes a point of time I guess everybody realizes I'm not going to make it in professional sports.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Yeah. So when did that time come for you?

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Oh, well, just has it? Has it come for me yet?

SPEAKER_03 6:32

I think you still I think if you wanted to, you know, debut in like professional bingo, you could probably still do that.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Uh I've uh recently been doing some underwater basket weaving, and I'm pretty good at it. And uh how many baskets? Well, we won't get into that.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Parker thinks his is MLB the show, but home run derby is not it for you.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

How many did I lose? One? Two?

SPEAKER_01 6:59

At least two, I think.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

At least. You don't have to throw the at least in there.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

You were pretty confident there for a while. And then Maddox come in, not even playing the game for a while, and just demolished you.

SPEAKER_03 7:11

Okay, I don't know why we're using such strong words like demolish and like at least.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

Yeah, yeah. That's kind of crazy. We know that belittles you just a little bit, but that's crazy. That's crazy. It's all good.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

You know, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

It's pretty hard to belittle him.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

It's like already like that's a constant of my life. Yeah. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Always reaching for the cookie girl. Always.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Oh, that's wild. At least, you know, you know, I'm not, you know. I chose to be done with baseball, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Choices.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

I understand. Well, uh, y'all want to go to game time? Game time. Let's go to game time.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Let's go to game time.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

All right. We should be in game time. We have a cool little graphic that was. Oh, yeah. So when you watch this back, you're gonna be like, wow, that looked really cool. It's gonna look cool.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

Was it AI'd?

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Uh no. We have uh we have a guy.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

I use ChatGPT the most.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Yeah, it shows. Um so, anyways, um what are we doing for game time? Oh, yeah, I know what we're doing for game time.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

We actually prepared pick for uh.

SPEAKER_03 8:18

Yeah, no, keep for cut for.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

You can call it what you want to call it.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

That sounds way better. So um I'm asking you. Okay, and you're asking him, and you're asking me. Okay. So we're doing uh keep for cut for. How this works for those of you who don't know and hadn't seen this game before is I'm I'm about to give Maddox eight baseball players. He doesn't know the order, and he's either going to keep four of them or cut four of them, and hopefully his list is pretty funny.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Um but I have to uh start with like when you give me the first one, you say I have to say keep or cut. So you don't know who's coming up next to blind ranking. I got it.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

It's blind. Okay. It can be all time as well. Okay. I mean my list has all-time people on it, so it you know. If your list isn't, that's okay. That's okay. You're you're entitled to be uh wrong. Okay, Hank Aaron is the first one.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

Uh keep. Keep.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

That's an easy one, I feel like. Yeah. Uh Yassiel Puig. Blast from the past right there.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Cut.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Cutting. Okay. Okay. Jackson Holliday.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

Keep.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Keep, wow.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

I'm a big holiday guy.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

I'm pretty sure he has uh less than a hundred OPS plus for his career.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Imagine Babe Ruth and Jackson Holiday being on the same team. That's just hard. That'd be crazy. Hard to think of.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

That'd be crazy. Mike Trout.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

I'm gonna say it. Cut.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Crazy. I'm about to storm off this podcast right now. He gets hurt. Yeah, that's true. Uh Ricky Henderson.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

You only have two spots left. I want to say key, but I should have never kept holiday, but greatest leadoff hitter of all time. I'm scared what's to come.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Set it up for Babe Ruth to knock him in. I'm gonna cut him.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Whoa. Wow. Okay, okay, okay. That is bold. But the next pick, I mean, I think this is fine. Pete Rose.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

Two cuts, right, so far?

SPEAKER_03 10:21

Yep, and you so you have two spots left.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

I'm cutting.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Cutting Pete Rose? Wow.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

I'm ready for the end game here. I'm I'm ready.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

That's crazy. Matt Chapman. Oh god. These were pre-written, so it's not like I'm just you know sabotaging. This is this is my list right here.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

I'm cutting him. I'm going the last two as keep. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

Wait, hold on. Did we mess up? Because I feel like I'm on my last one. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

He cut Ricky Henderson.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

You cut Henderson, Pete Rose. And Chapman, right? And Chapman. No, and Trout.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Oh, shit.

SPEAKER_03 11:00

You've cut everybody. You have to take the last two.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

It's Matt Chapman.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

So you have Matt Chapman. So this is your lineup. Who's my last? Hank Aaron. I'm about to tell you. No, but I don't want you to get overly excited because it's not that great. It's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

But you definitely could have made it. You have Hank Aaron, Jackson Holiday, Matt Chapman, and Buster Posey.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Buster's not bad. Buster's not bad. It's not bad. Chapman and Holiday.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

And Holiday, yeah. I messed up on that. You have a very, very mediocre team right there. Two people drag it down, two people are helping you out, you know.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Yeah. Let's get the attention off me now. Okay. It's time for Matthew.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Okay, you ask Matthew then.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Okay. You know.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Take it easy.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

This is all current players. I chose current because I'm an idiot, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

You're fine.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Ben Rice.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Ben Rice. Well, if I was judging it based off his home run derby last night, it would have been a cut.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

But I I feel like him telling you though that it's all current is like a really big hint. Or a really like that helps you a lot.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Okay. Right? Well, maybe he's just trying to help out an old guy.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Maybe so.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Respect your elders, yeah. I'm keeping Ben Rice.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Okay. I think that's a good pick. I mean, he's yeah. That's a good pick.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

What about Jordan Walker?

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Jordan Walker. Wow. Based on the first part of his career, that was kind of tough. Yeah. But I think he's put it all together. I'm keeping him.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Oh, two and oh. Oh. Wow. You only have two keeps left.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Now he's got like Shohei and Judge. I know.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Right at the very end. What about dance v. Swanson?

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Uh cut.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Okay. Wow. If he was still on the Braves, would you keep? This one might hurt you a little bit more too. What about Spencer Strider?

unknown 12:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

Hmm. Currently, I would have to cut him. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

Wow. And you call yourself a Braves fan.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

What a fan.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

You said any Braves on Mount Rushmore.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

He's injured right now.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

You said any Braves on Mount Rushmore. That's crazy. It's crazy. Fake Braves fan. I'm the real Braves fan.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

What about Chandler Simpson?

unknown 13:12

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Am I going to have to cut and accept his last two?

SPEAKER_03 13:17

It's two and two right now. That's risky. It's risky. Do you take the risk? Cut. Wow. His riskiness did not work.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Did you tell him about this? Like, we're going to do cut four and play four.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

No, did not tell him. I have no idea what his lineup is.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

You're good at this, Maddox.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

What about Paul Skeens?

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Oh, absolutely keep it.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Keep it. Okay. For sure. Okay. Cody Bellinger.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Does he have to keep? Is he at four kids?

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Three and three right now. Three and three. Wow. I mean, you're just flipping a coin here. I'd be nervous here.

SPEAKER_03 13:51

He's trying to get in your head. Don't let him get in your head.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

I still think even without Cody Bellinger or who he's going to next, is still a better team than Jackson Holiday.

SPEAKER_03 14:03

True. You've already you've already beat him. He could give you like the worst.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

So I'm going to cut.

SPEAKER_03 14:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

That was a good decision. Number eight was Shohei Otani. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

That was a good one.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

That was that was uh I think you win this game for sure.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

You win for sure. Well, I gotta go. I gotta go. We'll see, we'll see who he gives me.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

I don't know. I don't have much faith.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

He could give me trout and I could win it immediately first round.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Munitaka mirikami.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

So far, I mean I feel like I'm keeping him. So far.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Okay. Aaron Judge.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

I'm keeping Aaron Judge. That's two keeps right off the bat. This list is scaring me.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Ronald Acunia Jr.

SPEAKER_03 14:49

Because of injuries, I'm cutting.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

Stop laughing.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

Bobby Witty.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

I'm keeping. Keeping? I feel like I'm doing I think so far this is really good.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

No, you're cooked. Quiet Langford.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Did you give me four good ones and then four bad ones? Is that what this is? So I can only pick bad ones. If that's what you did, I don't gotta pick.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

The game's over if you pick a mirror.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Merikami, wit, judge. I'm very happy with that. Um I'll cut. I'll cut Wyattlingford.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

Okay. Brandon Nemo. Or Nemo.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

I'm gonna cut him. I'm there's a lot left, so I'm hoping that there's someone good at the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Nico Horner.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

Oh my goodness. He's actually done well this year, I feel like.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Is this career or just this year?

SPEAKER_01 15:53

Career.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

You're three for three right now, by the way. Three and three.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

Do I bet on the last one? That's really the question. Do I do I think that you did something, you know, a little silly and put someone really good at the end or really bad at the end? It's a toss-up. Your keeps are still better than mine. You went to better. I think that I I am would keep him, but I am going to chance it. And I'm gonna take the last one.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Mike Trout.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Oh, let's go. That's the best list.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

I wanted him to cut Mike Trout.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

That's the best list. That's the best list. Miracami, Judge, Wit Trout. That beats yours. I think that beats yours.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

It's close.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

It might be close.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

He cut Ricky Henderson.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

And Pete Rose. You're terrible.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

You just thought there was somebody better there.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

I was the gambling man here. Y'all took it safe and played the safe game.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

I gambled on the we both gambled on the last person. We both went to the end.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

I gambled on the whole round.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

You gambled and just were a poor gambler. Doesn't mean we didn't gamble.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

I was all in on the casino table. If we all three put our teams together, it's a pretty good team.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

It is. It is a pretty good team.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Yeah. We we might have uh a little light on pitching. I mean, we got skeins at the top, but true.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

He's the only one though.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

The only only pitcher.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

He's gonna have to work. That was good. That was good. We have uh another game that we wanted to play, uh home runs, right? We're gonna go go back to the home run totals. You get uh have you done this before? No. You pick five people, can be all time, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

Um five people closest to a thousand. So far, I'm the closest. I've gotten to nine nine eight. I think that's really good. I was two away. Yeah. And um I'll hit right on a thousand. If if you do, you might be the best uh person we've ever hit on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

I'll crown you as that. You can have my chair for the next time you're on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

I don't think I want your chair. Okay, that's fair.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Uh we'll start with uh we'll start with you. So you just name you name that way you have that way you you know, if he takes some people. I get five. Yeah, so you pick five players and their career to uh home run totals have to add up.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Matt Olson.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

Okay, I'm not even there yet. Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

But you have to you get to tell me the numbers before I go to the next person, right?

SPEAKER_03 18:16

Yeah. We could, I mean, we we have done it that way each time. We could try it differently and make it really difficult and not. Would you want to try that? Well, we'll uh we can all do that.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

That's Matthew's decision. Let's try it. Let's try it.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Okay. This is going to be really funny.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Just let me know when you're ready for the next one.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

Okay. I'm getting his career.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

Am I getting his total?

SPEAKER_03 18:39

I'm getting the total.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Okay. Because it's secret, you know, because he would say it out loud and then Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

I'm ready for the next one.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

Aaron Judge.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Oh, wow. We are going some big ones right off the bat. Are you gonna cheat and just like try to get there with a couple guys and then pick pictures the rest of the way? No, no, no, no. Let's make that a rule, no pictures.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

I knew you were gonna try to pick pictures.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

I mean, if you were two away, you could have picked like uh Bartardo Cologne or something, you know. He had a few in his life.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

All right, yes. Carlos Savano.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Like 17. Three more? Three more. Bobby Witt Jr.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Gotta pick a mediocre guy, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Literally has 4.9 war at the all-star break. So, I mean, mediocre, yeah. Where is his career? That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

I'm surprised you didn't know that off the top of your head.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Yeah, I know. Alright. Two more.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Wish I knew the number I was at.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

That would be helpful.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Hey, hey, where do you think you're at?

SPEAKER_02 19:52

723.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Closer now.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

I'm gonna give you nothing.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Oh, okay, cool. That's fine. Um, who'd I pick? Aaron Judge, Bobby Witt, and who was my first pick? Matt Olson, I think. Matt Olson. Um I need to pick somebody sneaky here. Tatis.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

He hasn't hit it. He what does he hit? Like one this year?

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Probably.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

Five. Five for this year. Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

How many does he have for his lifetime? Is that cheating? No, because I don't know the rest of the numbers.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

I'll tell you on the ne I'll tell you on the last one.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Okay, cool. Um. I feel like I gotta go. Who's someone who's been in for a minute? Or it can be retired, right?

unknown 20:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

Ooh. Not old heads like you guys, so I don't know. Ball as well.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Guys, I'm getting lumped in. I can't. It's gotta be short or old. It can't be both. You gotta pick.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

You've just hung around me too long.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Maybe you're old. Maybe so.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Um Ken Griffey Jr. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

I think you're gonna go way over. Slightly. Okay, you ready? I'll tell you what you were at. You were at 973 and you picked Griffey.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Which he has 630, so that is 1603. That's beatable.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

You said I was at 973?

SPEAKER_03 21:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

I would have been 1,007 if I'd have picked Drake Baldwin. That gummit. Wow. That's all I needed to pick. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Wow, that's crazy. That's pretty good. That's uh yeah, but it but you didn't, and so it was six oh three.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Idiot.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Your chair's safe, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

So uh do you want to go next or do you want me to go next? Uh go next.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

I can help out here.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Okay. Yeah, it makes it way more difficult not knowing uh where you're at.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Oh, maybe he should so it doesn't look like I'm I'm Getting players for the next one.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

Oh yeah, true. Usually just look it up on baseball reference and then scroll down to career home runs, is what we typically do. Um I'll go ahead and go with I'm gonna try to pick everybody like people you didn't pick, of course. So let's go with it. Let's go with Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper. I'm not gonna look anything up. Do you think it's cheating if I put what I think they're at?

SPEAKER_01 22:30

No, I I think that's acceptable? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Okay, alrighty. We're good.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

Okay. Don't look at what I think I what I'm thinking. I don't want to be embarrassed if you're like, man, you're so wrong. He's cheating. Um, okay. So Harper, let's go with Corbin Carroll. Wait, I feel like I picked him before. Okay, don't don't use Corbin Carroll. I'm trying to go with the 23. Have we used Michael Harris?

SPEAKER_01 23:01

We have.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

I have. Uh okay, then let's you let's go with Ellie De La Cruz. I don't think we've used him, right? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

It'll load at some point. Okay. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

Alright. Uh next one I'm going with is going to be 25 and 9595. I think I need someone lower. Um man, what's his first name? I can't maybe I'm not a true Braves fan, but uh isn't his last name Lopez, who hit the walk-off when we were at the game?

SPEAKER_01 23:39

No, that was uh Dom Smith.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Smith, yeah. Dominic Smith, that's who it was.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

What a weird take.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

I wanted someone that I think has not a lot of home runs.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

That is very odd take, but why?

SPEAKER_03 23:55

I don't think he has a lot of home runs.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Very obscure.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

I'm trying to be obscure. Because we've done this game, and I don't want to pick people I've already picked.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Where's he at?

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Two left. I am going to go. Did you pick Judge? I can't remember if you said judge. You did pick Judge. Did you pick trout?

SPEAKER_02 24:16

No.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Okay, I'll go trout. I know I don't remember exactly how many he has, but I know where about where he's at.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Alright, and then the next one. I'll go with man. This is tough. Let's go with Trey Turner. Okay, tell me tell me where I was at before I said Trey Turner.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

955. Was I?

SPEAKER_03 24:52

I had I had 890. That's where I thought I was gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

You're now at 1151.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

It's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

If you would have picked Drake Baldwin too, we would have been.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Well, I heard you say how many he had. I felt like that would be cheating if I picked him. That's not bad. 1115, is that what you said? That's awful. So for 1600. Okay, okay. I'll add for you. Who you got? Who's your first one? Eddie Murray. Okay, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Let me do. Okay. I'm gonna get some big chunks out of the way. Okay. And go Chipper Jones. So I'm at like nine. Nine forty or something. I'm gonna go Mirakami.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

What's he at, like twenty-something?

SPEAKER_01 25:54

I'm gonna go Mark Lemke.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Mark Lemke, wow. Okay. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm trying to I'm trying to get caught up.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

I'm thinking I'm really, really close to a thousand.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

Where is oh okay, there we go. Okay, so you have you have one more, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

All right.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

One more.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

I know what I'm going here.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

Nick Allen.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

I was gonna say Nacho Alvarez. I mean that would have been good. I'm pretty sure I'm I'm I'd like Matthew Wentley Chris. It's gotta be good, right?

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Alright, let's go to our next segment. Um you won. Where do you think you're at?

SPEAKER_01 26:55

I think I'm like within 20 of a thousand, one way or another.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

You're at 1,034.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Well, a little off.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

Eddie Murray had more than I thought he would have. What where did you have him at?

SPEAKER_01 27:08

I think Eddie Murray's like round 520.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah, that yeah. I thought he was a little less than that, but maybe I just don't know, Ball. Anyways, well, you won that one. And uh who won the other one? Me. Are we saying I think we're saying I won that one. I definitely won both. I think you came in last place like egregiously bad on both. It was like it was really bad. But well, yeah, you know, it's your first time on. First time on, so we'll give a little bit of grace.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

I'll practice when I get home.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

Yeah, yeah. Go look up totals, except next time when you come on, we're gonna have different games. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

You'll be practicing for the next time. I think you could very easily stay within 1500.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

Which would would be an improvement.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

So it's gotta get better each time.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Baby steps.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna take him a long time. I don't know if we're gonna have a podcast that long. Um okay, so uh we talked a little bit about the national a minute ago. I want to kind of revisit that. Are you going to the national?

SPEAKER_02 28:12

I am going to the national. Is Brady? Brady is going.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

So y'all be there together.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

We will be riding up in the car together.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Y'all gonna come say hi?

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Yeah. We can see that.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Me and Matthew, we'll be there.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Okay, that works.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

George Gunner, we'll all be there.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

We're gonna hit up a cups game too.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Nice. That'll be fun.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

Go see Wrigley.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

Y'all gonna be trying to buy stuff and flip it, or are you gonna go into sell a lot of stuff?

SPEAKER_02 28:34

Uh both. Okay. You know?

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Sweet.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Gotta buy and sell. Have you ever been to the national before? Last year was my first year.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

Was it crazy? I didn't go. I haven't been yet.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

What's the experience?

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Ooh, it's hectic. Uh never had been to a uh one like plus one day show. Like if it was two days or more, I've never been to a multiple-day show. Really? And it was overwhelming. It's a lot of rooms, a lot of tables to cover. So I look forward to it.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to go. We're actually flying up. Uh I wish I was flying up. Thursday? Flying Thursday? Uh yeah, and we'll be flying back Monday. Or is it Sunday or Monday? I can't remember when it was.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

I didn't even look at when we were coming back.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

Yeah, we we might not come back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

So Maddox. Maddox, I appreciate you being on the podcast. I had fun.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

It was a lot of fun. It's always more fun when you don't lose. So thank you for taking that.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

You know. Boy, you just get it from everybody, don't you? I think it's because you do dish it out as well.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

You do.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

I do take it though, man.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

You do.

SPEAKER_03 29:37

Yeah. And it's good.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

If you dish it, you can't get your feelings hurt.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

You can't.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Right. Just gotta laugh it off. Yep. I may cry when I get home.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

No matter how bad you are at baseball.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

You may cry as you're looking up home run totals. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Griffey isn't crazy. Like, that's I should have gone to Drake Baldwin.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Like, my mind was telling me to go Drake Baldwin.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

Those are the biggest contrasts I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

Baldwin.

SPEAKER_03 29:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

It was like going. It was either going big or not. Like I couldn't figure out. Like I wasn't going in the middle, but I flipped the coin.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Let me explain it to you. It wasn't that we were trying to get the most home running.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

Oh, that's funny. But man, Maddox, thanks for being here. Hopefully we'll have you back on sometime. Y'all need me. That's crazy. Yeah, we need we need a lot. Um, all right. Thank you for being here. Guys, thank you all for tuning in. If you're gonna be at the national, uh, definitely come say hey. You don't have to talk to uh to Maddox. Um, but come say hey to me and Matthew. We'll be there. Um, and we'll see y'all in the next one.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

See you next time. Peace. Thanks for listening to the Crank It Up Sports Card Podcast. Please subscribe, share, like, follow. But most of all, please enjoy.