 Hi everybody, I'm Joe for jaspeyscasebrakes.com coming at you with another jumbo case of the brand-new 2024 top series one baseball. This is pick your team seven. No vet commonship Everything else does a lot of nice stuff great design this year and a big thank you to To this group here for making pick your team seven happen You're on Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day everybody. Thanks for showing jaspy's the love today Matthew would double-ass Bob mojo the Rockies in Marlins And for grabbing though there's three teams remaining. I said hey if you someone buys two I'll give them the third for free. There you go Matthew. Thanks for taking advantage of that Otherwise, I don't know how much longer this break would have been sitting around All right, the next one the next break still has a couple of the big team still left $50 Dodgers I think are still around I think the So this is figure team seven figure team eight a's are still around for thirty nine ninety nine six left Maybe we can get that full by the time we finish this and With a little luck we might even be able to get to pick your team nine tonight and once we get there We can post another We think we have enough cases to post another one So if you want to help us out or if you if you want to get your team in a net another fresh case Why not help out with some of the with the next break? Right help us out with break pick your team eight And then and pick your team nine and then we can Eventually post pick your team ten and then you can snag your team there Yeah, if you want to mix in a little hit parade, I'd love to do that as well You know if you're if you're getting sick of the series one. We can always pivot do something else All right, here we go We'll do these silver packs all at the end Cheela reminding us that heart-shaped pizzas less pizza for more money Because that's it. That's if you're just buying pizza by the volume Can't put a price tag on on a warm on a heart being warmed by a heart-shaped pizza Can you put a price on that? I mean, I guess you know how But I can't there's a great article in the athletic about top series one Written by Jay Felicio The headline how tops reinvented series one for 2024. We have color our disposal. Why not use it? I thought that was kind of interesting. We'll kind of read through some of the some excerpts of here Yeah, they're Author saying it's a neon border black smoke backdrop. It's a massive departure from what we've seen over the years from series one Which he considers it's a bold new look You've collected tops cosmic for fire lines or even upper-deck skybox Metal universe canini phoenix. You've been treated to bold colorful designs a lot of imagination before but for the flagship line And the gold standard of in-card collecting. It's a little wild the author is saying so there's a Q&A Right there with Robert grave the designer and then clay Loroski the head of product development So for this is the clay I'm thinking of I believe We've met him before I think boss man Mike has Has worked with him in the past. It's pretty I think we pretty cool And collecting for a long time. He knows the hobby's been tops a long time What kind of read there did a Q&A we'll read some there. Oh, there's a thick card right here. Let's go this side first right Here we go Good luck everybody the key rookies that we're looking for would be LA Della Cruz Evan Carter Jason Dominguez Junior Caminero is in the 1989 design. Here's Tyler O'Neill to 50 nice That'll be going to Matthew Matthew Wood with that one Grand gamers Jackie Robinson And I think Caminero is only in that 89 design one auto and a couple relics a box is what the box says So good luck everybody Tyler Wells silver obviously that will ship her first Evan Carter Obviously looking forward numbered Maybe autographs of him, but that's a start that'll be for Tristan and Texas And we've got a Jersey an autograph Christian Javier 2023 postseason Jersey auto for the Stroh's that'll be for Zachary in the Astros 18 out of 50. Oh by the way these base Right any of these league leader base cards will evenly distribute to those three teams right there for each different team card if It's if it ends up being a foil card or something like that or numbered we'll do a left center right randomizer We'll find a winner for those Miss this one Tigers team card The 135 to 2024 that'll be for David H. Got a Jason Minga's insert 2023 greatest hits get well soon There's the wizard and we've got Major League of material Garrett Cole. He's of his Jersey going to mark and the Yankees Longo aeronado, I'll to the Ranger Suarez Excuse me Hector. Yes, you are correct Kamineros only cards are in that 1989 design. No base rookies You are correct They'll look like that We pulled a couple of those already in different cases and I spoiled it Eddie Murray 10 out of 25 and went on instinct there. That's gonna go to EA and the Orioles Big piece of his lumber Game use pretty cool We'll do a hit recap at the auto and hit recap at the end of this There's an Ellie Della cruise for the Reds. That'll be for Jeremy and the Red Legs Yeah, I did see that Gilo that some Niners players came out and said They had no idea about the OT rules And then I think there was some damage control from the Niners Kyle Shan had said that they did discuss it but Only with certain players, I guess I think Brock Purdy said he knew all about what the OT strategy was gonna be So I don't know sound like it was damage control. And then what was the other thing? I Don't know what the what the numbers say but in OT kicking off or If you win the toss in OT is it better to receive or defer? I feel like Shanahan got kind of crushed by saying that He wanted to receive the ball first But you're not supposed to do that. I guess Mathematically Since you get the ball back, you're supposed to let the other team do their thing And then the second possession would be would be yours And then you know what you have to do I guess that makes more sense. I guess that does make sense. There's Mark with the Yankees but then I think I think the The Niners kind of walked that back too and was it was like And they were like well the defense was on the field Previews, I mean and then so they were gassed I guess but I don't know there were commercials There was the coin flip then it went to commercial But yeah, the the refs explained the rules pretty clearly, but I guess the question was in terms of like I guess yeah, I think like Kyle Yusichek was like I Until I until he looked at the screen and was like and read the OT rules on the on the scoreboard in the video board Right, I guess kicking first so like So Kyle Shanahan deferred it, you know what you need to do on the second possession. I guess that's it's true Going back to that article so they So the athletic interviewed the designer Robert Grabe and had a product development Clay The Rasky who apparently has been with top for 24 years. That's right. This is the clay that I'm talking that I know Played college baseball at Pepperdine and considered a tops historian Grabe is based in Brooklyn and Paris which is that sounds nice and has been a senior designer at tops for a decade He attended the revered Savannah College of Art and Design majoring sequential art comics his favorite comic artist legends Jack Kirby creator puns as iconic characters like Iron Man Jim Lee who illustrated X-Men number one The highest selling comic book of all time So so the first question was from the athletic series one is historically tops most traditional release Why such a bold refresh now place as we knew do a new design and refresh quote-unquote refresh every year But we wanted to bring something different. I always tell the team that 20 10 20 30 years from now You should be able to look at a design to know exactly what year it's from This is one of the most memorable designs I've seen in the last 45 50 years I think we'll be able to look back and be able to identify Just at first glance. I'm speaking for him now at first time that that was the 20 24 set This interest in years some years the designs form from what we can do in a from a print perspective Sometimes there are tech and volume limits, but here we got to play with some foil in a way We haven't previously having the tech open up really lets you try new things I think that's I think what we've done really stacks up against the 70 years prior Some considerations that the the lead designers have on stuff like this and Tony Gonsolin pops his or auto in this box That goes to Chris parent and my Dodgers Dodgers starting spring training a little early their regular season starts a little early We'll be in Korea playing the Padres. That's a one-of-one I don't know if I that gave me any indication that that was a one-of-one nice Obviously with so many cards in series one one-of-ones are extremely hard to find Chris parent All aboard the big hit express Go Dodgers He's working his way back from injuries, so we might not see him until the middle of the season, but when healthy He's really solid Could be a could be a top of the rotation guy for a lot of teams Vlad grow junior piece of the Jersey going to Kevin and Toronto Obviously you got to be healthy Tony Gonsolin struggling with that a little bit It'd be interesting to see what Emmett Sheehan does. I think there is a spot open for a fifth rotation spot Maybe even a sixth Let's see what the Dodgers do there My Lakers on the background playing Logan's jazz. They're tied at 84 a piece with five left in the third Seth Lugo to 73 the blackboarder. You can see it's black all the way around For the Friars, that's going to be for Richard They should have filled that case first and they would have gotten this case And that will be a left center right randomized to that gold foil National League leaders And you guys are pretty good Now their LA Della Cruz for Jeremy and the Reds There's young Carlos stand big piece of the lumber right there For the slugger, that's going to be for Mark and the Yankees and an Evan Carter for Tristan in Texas Spencer did witty Making some big contributions to the Lakers already. You got a Stone Garrett to 2024 for the National and that's for Matthew and an Esther Cortez gold foil I see Chiro Logan Webb Matt Olson The athletic asks for Robert You said you wanted to bring the joy Bring back the joy of collecting a complete set and they design was an attack on monochrome Can you expand on this is the lead designer for for series one when you're going through a bunch of packs? Grave says the base card is the majority of what you get You don't want to see the same thing over and over again. This adds some variety some interest So maybe you do slow down and look through them. Why we have color at our disposal. Why not use it? He says so maybe that accounts for all the different team colors in the neon Clay says for the most part if you look at the 70 plus years of our base card designs The most consistent thing was is a white board Doing a dual color border is a big difference And Robert didn't just pick color you take color in a way that really pops The special tech we used on this card this year help accentuate that color. I guess your special technology It speaks to what's going down out there aesthetically in fashion and what pop culture is gravitating to to me This says 2024. What do you like most about this year's design? Clay says not only is the neon pushing the envelope when it comes to your traditional Trading card design, but we had access to new technology that gives the cards a bit of a shine interesting Once you get them in your hands, they look even better. It was a departure from what we normally see There's a movement from inside the hobby that wants to see new fresh difference I love the people are already grabbing to it because it's going to push this thing even bigger Robert says I think we pulled off the neon. There's some shine to it a little further down the line It's going to look awesome on chrome Which is what I mentioned earlier. Oh, there's a question about the design process We'll get to that in the next box. So stay tuned for that Get some Gen Z lingo on these cards It'll be like they'll they can have an insert. That's like no cap stats And they'll they'll be like they'll highlight some interesting Some can you believe it sort of stats on the back No cap Michael Garcia, you know had a 20 game hitting streak in 2023 No cap and here's Anthony Rizzo Piece of the lumber to 199 for mark Or could they go more tongue-in-cheek Jilo? What do you think about that? What if the no cap insert set is literally a Player without his hat on is that too much? But two on the nose and there's a parker meta. I don't it doesn't matter which column I start in I feel like I pulled the auto in the first one Anyway parker meadows for the Tigers and it's gonna go to David H and Detroit trying to You know trying to save the auto for a little bit later in the box, but Hey, if it wants to pop it could pop just go with it Do Buzzfeed top ten facts about this play? Surprise there isn't more of that like what if they started using like like a They started getting like sponsors like Pepsi could do a sponsorship for You know all rookie cards or something like that Do a refreshing rookies insert? sponsored by by Coca-Cola Niki Moniac Marcus Simeon The she subset surprise there has been like a Hazard been a let's go Like that could be like in a leaf set. Let's go with a bunch of O's Let's go. That's what he's saying right here JB Crawford and Lane Thomas in 2024 and a Hunter Brown relic. Oh There are oh, there are let's go inserts and bowmen you basketball. It's right. They have done that before Stroze that's gonna be for Zach Lane Thomas is gonna be for Matthew K It's to 2024 other LA Della crews for Jeremy Nathan Nevaldi Felix Batista Zach yellow off green That's to 499 for the A's nice little color match there for EA sports. It's in the game This is a gold foil. So we'll We'll do left-right randomizers on this. They're teammates now Angels that'll be Jeremy Chris parent Dodgers. So it'll be a Rando The base ones if any will be evenly distributed between those two teams Since that foil is a little extra especial There's Bruce Dar grader all His buddy Kershaw The athletic asks the head designer for series one 2024 edition Do you have a process? And he says the process changes from product product. Sometimes it's like throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks Sometimes I have something in mind going in I work backward for for this like I want a color border But what effects can I do to make it stand out? That's slowly evolved over time to being a neon Then I asked how is neon built it has two so all the same thickness So I use that throughout the design. I work until I see the light at the end of the time This article in the athletic about series one, which is pretty interesting Think through the designer goes on to say he was inspired by the 1986 set You know putting them a modern twist on that and I guess he worked with the guy that With the person that pulls all the images for these you know, he likes having You know the ability to maybe If a guy scaling the wall to rob a home run it's gonna look cool if he's reaching over the team name so he's kind of Kind of into that too Apparently the main designer is still an avid comic reader So that all that type of stuff will will leak in he loves art and sports So he really likes designing trading cards. He's into mid-century modern that bleeds into his design Which might be like that at that blueprint insert right there. It's kind of it's kind of a good vibe, too Having diverse inspirations the best thing you can do says if I'm watching a movie I see framing or design I like I'll take note. I don't want to limit it to one source There's Brendan Rodgers. That's to 499 Yeah, I'd like to see more of that, too Like more of a how it's made like I want to see what what goes on at the factory You know, maybe that'll give us collectors a better understanding of why You know how hard or maybe easy it is maybe Maybe we'd feel a little bit more sympathetic when mistakes happen in products maybe be amazed at how You know, I just think it'd be fascinating. How do they make chrome cards? There is a question in the athletic article that asks about if there's any Easter eggs in here And the answer was pretty coy, but it links. There's like a little edit and says there's a there's a literally In blaster boxes, I guess there's an egg Parallel with eggs in the background. We got a L. Harris Montero piece of the City Connect Jersey That'll go to the rocks that's gonna go to Matthew last spot mojo What seems like a Rex thing? Like he'd find that funny like if an Easter egg card would actually had eggs in the background To be an Easter egg Yeah, I could see that could be it could be a sounds like a Rex idea I feel like he would also sorry Patrick wisdom to 199 cubs, but I feel like he always Rex tends to stack jokes on each other and then over does overcooks it So like I feel like he would also go so far as to be like it'll be a die cut in the shape of an egg That would be the card with the egg parallel Brian who that's gonna be for David H and the Mariners a rainbow of eggs Actually kind of want to see that now Now in the comments section of the athletic there are a lot of favorable positive comments There's always that one jaded person right here Jaded person that I will that will remain nameless unless you have an Access to that kind if you're excited by anything Fanax has done in the hobby You're either new and I'm happy for your enthusiasm to last while it can or this is a blatant corporate puff piece on par for Fanatics I miss when baseball cards really were fun and not squeezed to profit maximization death Person doesn't realize that That's always been They are a for-profit entity. I mean unless he's Going all the way back to the days when it's like, you know what? It just used to be a little bonus when you're buying smokes when you're buying cigarettes in the 1910s 1890s or whatever Brian Wu again Then I suppose I wasn't wasn't like that, but there's Brandon Woodruff to 2024 But most of the comments are nice my kiddos love sports cards currently really into hockey. Thanks for the article about these awesome cards great article loved it as A longtime collector. I was excited about the clear departure from safe. It's growing on me Pleasantly surprised at their designs Benjamin clearly not following the hobby very well Feel like we need a wake to mark the last fun days of tops before fanatics ruins at all Someone's gonna someone has to let him know that fanatics has been running tops for a number of years Two three years already the comment section is always fun in any in any place this guy arguing about About tops is owned by fanatics and that fanatics is destroying jerseys Players knows how terrible the new jerseys look and feel but Nike does those series to that guy's a little off Yeah, the doomsday cards are also cracked me up as well. That's a relic right there. I'm so gotta close this Go down a comments rabbit hole Yeah, but the doomsday card people also cracked me up as well It's something I say I say frequently, you know the phrase I say frequently is that Every decade everyone has written the obituary for the hobby and every time it's rewritten Everyone's convinced this time. It's true. I know we've said it before But this time it's true remember when tops was throwing pallets of 1952 baseball tops baseball into the Hudson Hobbies over hobbies dead Every decade every year probably the hobby. This is it. This is the one This is gonna kill it No kids aren't into kids. It's all digital now kids don't Kids don't want trading cards anymore. The hobby is dead over printing. Hobby is dead Panini is gonna ruin the hobby Panini entering the hot is gonna ruin it The super expensive boxes that's gonna ruin the hobby. It's gonna kill the hobby No one's gonna buy that You know fanatics is gonna ruin the holidays Panini you know Yeah, so Companies signing players to exclusive that's gonna ruin the hobby and or kill it for good but yet Here we are Here we are it's been around since the 50s. I mean really since the tobacco card days and trading cards have been around for a while I think they're going away any time soon Think we'll be okay And are there ups and downs in any industry obviously of course but as for But I don't know how many times the hobby's been ruined because of decisions that manufacturers have made It's over it's killed it's done They are still up 119 107 717 left in the game It's not really got to find out feel like I've what I've done like what almost three cases now Three full cases. I feel like we haven't seen too many Ellie Della Cruz or Evan Carter numbered cards or let alone an autograph I mean at least let's start with something Number or gold foil or something like that. I'm sure they're not not meant to be easily found but You know three cases in getting a little impatient now see something here The stuff has been solid, but we want more than solid at this point italic glass now I'm sure has everyone seen the The uncanny likeness of Tyler glass now and Oppenheimer's Sillian Murphy Sillian killing hot you more with 30 points. There's Volpe orange nice 68 out of 299 Yankees it's mark the Bronx bombers and we got a Piece of Aussie's lumber right here You're a wizard Aussie Guardian leviosa Was I think Aussie was decent everyone knows him for the glove Aussie Smith decent with the with the lumber maybe no lifetime 262. That's pretty good Very light hitter. He did only hit 28 homeruns in his career, but he's Had some doubles It's got a little speed. He's got some got some triple speed here Not bad. Josh. What's going on basketball is broken? Are we talking about Talk about the refs a lot of people unhappy with that that nicks game meeting people to believe that The fix is in I don't know it might be I feel like it's hard to everyone talks about rigging football games or baseball games I feel like that's kind of hard. Oh nice home field advantage for Nana to tease junior I feel like basketball just feel like this way But I wouldn't I don't think if a ref was on the take Nice one Padres. That's gonna go to Richard Richard Hastings without I don't know if they would do it on such an obvious play like that It's like you're usually kind of shaving I mean if you're point shaving if you're ref trying to do that. I feel like that's kind of hard But you're gonna get caught pretty quickly, but how did Tim Donagy do it Donna Donna he done a Tom you know that ref I think it was totals. I think you just kind of edged the total one way or the other, but I want to say that I mean he was able to get away with it for a while. I don't think I mean unless the refs an idiot, you know He's in deep with the mob or something like that knocking over some cards here And nice Alex Kirilov That the team logo Design right here. Those are pretty cool. They're not numbered but Pretty short shorter shorter printed Luke with that one and then we got Major league material Paul Goldschmidt for the Cardinals as for Matthew Wood Rui Hachimura 33 points Is it time to I'm not made a dust-off Call in a second or two. We're Rex and I were talking about that yesterday, but maybe Rui Hachimura If you can string together a few games like this He's not a player to dust off his rookie cards would be a Him as a wizard. There's matt walliners 2024 Kind of kind of like seeing Hachimura start to warm up a little bit. We need that leakers need that another Evan Carter for Tristan in texas And an adley rushman autograph. There we go Nice one EA with the O's It's pretty good Save some threes for the next game guys The Torian Prince knocking down threes too. All right, we'll do the final box. We'll do silver packs We'll do randomizers and then we'll do a recap and then we'll see what's going on with the next break Pick your team eight is down to four. We got time to do it tonight Plenty of times We can do pick your team eight and nine And then I'll see if there's a case left over for us to do uh Pick your team 10 All right, final box. Good luck everybody Funner brown akunya jr Oh, and there's an o'neill cruise piece of his jersey It'll be four EA and the pirates brave team card ted williams Rizzo akunya jr got mitch keller christopher morrell That'll be part of the left center right randomizer And a brand new woodruff autograph brew crew mike g Nice It's a 199 37 out of 199 And then we've got max freed 2024 Roy with the braves in fernanda tetease jr Got hunter green major league material for jeremy and the reds Curtis mead Rod karoo Seya Suzuki akunya jr Ken griffey jr flipped around Oh, that's a blue border ken griffey jr. Not numbered though The Rockies might be the only team with that purple color. Everyone's either red white yellow or blue The neon There's an ellie delacruz How's it going? Anything exciting happening over there The 101 ellie is out. It's done. I wish And that my friends is that that's your break What? Are you serious? Now if if d'angelo rusko play a little defense in the playoff, that would be awesome In addition to what he's doing offensively And that dylan windler getting minutes Remember dylan windler We got callin castleton getting minutes right now too Or a minute I guess Hachimura is like over 30 points No LeBron no problem. Logan's like my jazz spank Raiders raiders lakers are doing Kind of the thing they kind of did last year after the trade deadline they They went off on a bunch of uh Finished like 18 and eight or something like that. I don't know. I feel like the jazz were having a decent season earlier on I thought this game was gonna be a little more competitive There's a junior camanero ellie delacruz nice In the silver packs Jeremy with the reds junior camanero EA and the rays Yeah, I mean, I don't know I mean, I may maybe you're just like Trading and picking and trading and picking and trading and picking until you end up looking like the okc thunder No auto no numbered cards in these silver packs doesn't look like it or maybe Let's play the whistle Hey There is an autograph. Henry davis your former number one overall pick Catcher from Louisville produced that produced catcher will smith For my Dodgers and number 226 out of 299 EA with the pirates. It's in the game Nice And that my friend is that Thanks everybody pick your team seven in the books Pick your team eight down of four. We still have time for that tonight Let's do some randomizing here So we're gonna let's flip to random.org New dice new list We'll do a left Center right randomizer and then we'll do the left right randomizer for the otani bets And any other two player cards that are like that Or no, the base will be evenly distributed. Sorry All right, let's roll a randomize it 11 times 6 and a 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 So left cards on the on these two triple player cards. It'll go to the left team right there. We got blue jays and braves 11 times for that otani bets card 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11th and final time Stays with the left side on this one too. That's going to go to the otani side So that'll be for jeremy smith and the angels my apologies to chris parent My dodger joe mojo did not work for you this time All right, but appreciate you getting in appreciate everybody getting in nice little finish here with that henry davis Some nice autographs that adley rushman was nice home field advantage to tis jr Snap a couple pictures of those Got parker meadows piece of rizzo's lumber That gonselin One of one gonselin eddie murray on the thick relic hardstock. That was the 25 And a jersey and autograph christina javier is pretty good as well. There you go gang. Nice little break That was picker team seven. I'm joe. I'll see you for picker team eight a little bit later tonight jaspyscasebreaks.com. I hope