 Hi everybody, happy Monday. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com and this is 2022, Topps Chrome, Ben Baller Baseball, 12 box picker team number 6. All card ship, really nice stuff, a lot of fun parallels, fun looking set. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate it, we sold this out straight up, no filler. We got Ryan with LastBod Mojo and the Nationals. This is our last case. We don't have any more to post after this. My guess is we'll have some more on the way. But for now, no more to repost, just keep an eye out on jaskiescasebreaks.com for its return. Mostly parallel hunting, but I think each case generally has some autographs. I don't think they're super common though. Parallels are the big hunt here. Ben Baller, some of you may know as a jeweler to the stars, one of the more famous jeweler to the stars. It's done a lot of things. Mostly some music production work, well known in those circles. The custom jewelry circles. I guess he's pretty good at amateur golf, he's been playing some programs. All right, here we go. Got a Spencer Torkelson die cut. These are pretty cool. It's a good question, Joe. Hopefully as many as possible. But I really have no idea. 7 out of 99, Chris Parent and the Giants. And there's an out of 5, Alexander Wells. Nice. Train whistle right out of the first box, out of 5's and under. That's for Kyle and the O's. All aboard the Big Head Express. Out of Bryce Harper die cut, 20 out of 50. It's Ryan, no, check that, sorry, Ryan in the National, he hasn't been in the National in a while. Daniel and the Phillies. Kyle Lewis for the Mariners, Daniel to 75. Jordan Alvarez to 99. Jorge Soler to 50. All right, box one in the books. Jorge Soler for Justin and the Braves. Jordan will go to Mark S and the Astros. All right, but that out of 5, Alexander Wells for the O's, not a bad start. Box two. Yeah, as for that, I mean, Joe, that's going to be 2020, 2021, the Cup Hockey, I want to say. So I'll just be happy to get that product in. We've been waiting for it for a long time. Love the Cup. I'll be grateful for one case. But it's one of those things where it's just like, we just tell our people like, hey, as much as possible, how much can you give us? So we'll see. It's actually, yeah, it's been actually so long since we've seen the Cup. Like, I don't remember how many cases we usually get in a normal year. You know what I mean? So I'm trying to think back to a normal year for the Cup. You might be able to look back to our 2019, 2020 Cup Hockey videos and see how many breaks we did the new release day. But I don't know. I mean, I don't know how things have changed for Upper Decks. How many are actually printing in a post-pandemic world. So no idea. My guess is at least two cases. One for personal breaks on Instagram at Jasper's Rakes on IG and then one for YouTube. Right here, Jasper's case breaks. Would love to see more though. Tristan McKenzie to 75. You know, Upper Deck is actually located just south of us, North County, San Diego. I think they're in Carl's back. So Adele to 75 and Brandon Lau to 50. Suppose we can just drive down there. Just knock on the door and just be like, guys, what's happening here? How can we help? And it's Jesse Winker to 99. Yeah, with any other product, that sounds about right. Any other high-end product like that, five or six cases, a few picker team cases and a couple reserve for Instagram. But I mean, it's just been so long for that Cup Hockey. I'm just like, I'll just be happy to get anything. There's Mike Moustakis, moose to 15 for the red. That'll be for Steve. Got Harrison Bader to 99. That's for Stephen Carney and the Cardinals. Nice photo of him there. And we've got a Hunter Green guy cut. Box three. Yeah, that'll be kind of hilarious. Redemptions could be already expired in the Cup Hockey, if any. Hopefully, I don't know, hopefully they're printing those last so they can get a more accurate expiration date on it. Or maybe there won't be any. I mean, after all this time, maybe they shouldn't have redemptions. Is that this week? Yeah, the blowout new release calendar saying it's on the 24th. That's Thursday. I don't know, Joe. I wouldn't put it past the manufacturer, kind of forget that part like, oh, right. And it's like, yeah, we printed those redemptions first like years ago and then got to update them. 24th. 23rd. Which is a Thursday, which is kind of a weird release day. Is that right? Redemption never expires, it'll never come in. Well, hey, listen, it's slated. The calendar says the 23rd. If it was pushed back, I feel like it's happening but if it was pushed back, we probably would have gotten that notice like a week or two ago. I mean, we probably would have known by now. Is that right? Jason is saying that UPDEC not wanting to do a typical Friday release. It's not a bad idea. Everyone else has Wednesdays, Fridays. UPDEC could own their own day. Own the hobby news cycle of the day. They take control of that Thursday. There's Juan Soto to 50. And a Bobby Whit Jr. riding low insert. That'll be from Mark B. And the Royals. Kind of like this insert set. And Ryan with the Nationals edition of Juan Soto. Whit Merrifield, 39 out of 99. Royals. It'll be from Mark B. And a blue man, Machado, to 75. Gave his team an ultimatum. They made it in Maw Offer and then he's like, I think I'll opt out at the end of the season. Spencer Torgelson, green. 1999 prints in that 1987 wood border design here. I like it. Yeah, I do too. We do have more of that Series 1 on the website. jaskyscasefrakes.com if you want to run that. And Wander Franco, rookie card. Let's look for parallels of this guy. Tampa Bay, Mark. Brandon Belt for the Giants, Chris Parent. You know, I was hoping, when I did my first case of that Series 1, when Ahulio Rodriguez died cut for Seattle, Dilo, Daniel, I was hoping that it wouldn't just be aces. Like, I thought we were going to be able to make a poker hand out of it or something like that. Alas, no. They did not lean into the playing card thing. It's Miguel Cabrera, to 75. Four of a kind aces, those aren't bad. All right. Another box. If you got to redesign Top's Chrome Baseball, how would you do it? Ben Baller, a jeweler to the stars, Jilo. Music producer, got discovered by Dr. Dre in the early 90s as well. I'm trying to think what I would do. It'd be interesting to see the stats of how many cards I top load a year. Geez. I don't know. Like, if someone said, hey, let's do, instead of Top's Chrome Ben Baller, let's do Top's Chrome JC, Joe Christian. Like, I don't know, what would you do with it? I'm trying to think how many cards do I, it must be tens of thousands, right? You think I top load 1500,000 cards a year maybe? How many breaks do I average a day? How many cards am I top loading in each of those breaks? Jilo Gabe would do a Top's Chrome Pokemon? I would say this is a variation of Top's Chrome because I think the, I think for the most part, is the photography the same? Maybe there's different photography, but I think like the checklist is the same. I don't think that changes that much. That's right. Yeah. I mean, if we're top loading 50,000, if I'm individually top loading 50,000 cards a year, like think about my groups like Layton as well. I mean, how many are they? How many are they top loading? I mean, they're team top loading on a year. Hundreds of thousands? Keeping those top loader companies in business. There's Manny Machado 25, Steve Locke and the Padres. I do not collect. I think this, being able to do this every day scratches the edge. So, Gabe's Top's Chrome, Top's Chrome Pokemon, maybe a red Charizard Otanii to five. Be kind of hilarious. Aaron Judge going to Ed and the Yankees. So maybe like down there would just be like Pokemon instead of the team logo perhaps. Gavin Sheets to 99. Daniel and the White Sox. I feel like there's some licensing issues there that probably doesn't let that happen. Tetease Jr. die cut. Corey Seager to 50. Got a Bobby Whit Jr. in that 1987 design. That's for the Royals. That'll be for Mark B. And then there's Shane B to 75 for Daniel and the Guardians. Another box. Yeah, I do collect postcards. I don't know if I'd collect Chrome postcards. You would say keep going with Steve Locke cards. I'm surprised they did a second year of I guess 2021. Ben Ballard must have done really well if they invited him back to do a second year. Is it third year already? Did they do a 2020? I don't remember that one. I know last year's are in the blue packs, right? This year's in the black packs. No, not the stamps. I mean, this stamp helps if I'm like mailing a postcard to myself. Or if some friends are traveling I'll say, hey, if you're able to send me a postcard from some international location here, and that's cool. Apparently that's a... I mean, there was a one point in time where that would have been an easy task. But now it's like an actual... It's actually hard. Top's Chrome Banksy would be kind of cool, my tower. And that might be out of... I mean, how much would those boxes be? It would be pretty pricey, I would think. Matt Olson to 99. And Cole Calhoun to 50. And Juan Soto to 99. Eli Morgan to 99. Sonny Gray to 75. Are you able to take a photo and print to postcard stock so you can send a postcard to the photo? Yes, you can. I've done that before. Maybe not to postcard stock. You can take a photo, get it developed, get a standard 3x5 photo, and you can put a stamp on the back of it and send it. Tyler Gilbert, 10 out of 10. Kevin with the Diamondbacks. I have no 100s of postcards. I'll see if someday maybe a postcard book could be in the works. I haven't worked on that project in a while though. Just as long lost paper ephemera. Is there a Banksy exhibit in Philly right now? Have we found out who Banksy is? Has anyone uncovered his identity? Also, is there only one Banksy? Could there be multiple Banksy? Like the Blue Man Group and their understudies? The Tothcrone BK Wapper Edition? It's pretty cool. Get some Wapper Redemptions. At BK, have it your way. Tyler Scott did a collaboration with Donald. He has a 36 inch body pillow that looks like a McNugget. Is it the one that looks like the United States? That nugget? Is it that shape? There's a tiny die cut for the angel that will be for Mark. Tothcrone Breaker Editions? How would that work? What are you thinking on that Gabe? A bunch of different breakers have different cards of themselves? Didn't the company ever try to push really random card sets? Random as in how? I feel like there are some independent card companies out there that will manufacture some really weird stuff. I think there's a company that has the... I think Futera maybe? Has a cricket license or something random like that? Tristan Mackenzie to 25? I did not, Danny. I completely forgot. But next box I will. It's Joey Votto to 75. Kyle Hendricks to 99. Torkelson. So Danny had a weird issue, I think on the group breaking side of things where he had one of those die cuts, the Wander Franco die cut. That was like ten, Danny? Or five maybe? And what had happened was, what happened was the die cut, I guess while this wrapping process was happening and they seal that right there, the die cut must have slipped up to the top. It was the ten. So the point of the die cut must have slipped to the top and then it went kajunk. And so essentially crimping the top of the die cut. And so he contacted tops and usually like for damaged cards that they'll be willing to replace, especially like a higher end card like that. Usually we can just send you the box and one of these wrappers and then you just kind of go from there. But some representative emailed Danny back and was like we need the box and every pack in the box. Isn't that random? It's the first time I've ever heard that. Oh, Zero, we know the guys at Zero Cool. We've actually sold some Zero Cool Jackass stuff right out of the shop. We did a fun little video for them too. Yeah, they've put out some pretty interesting stuff. So hopefully they can kind of fill that sort of niche because sort of high end non-sport type stuff with different and unique collaborations I think could be a market that could be worth exploring for sure. Some painter's tape on here. This will come off pretty easily without sticking. Good luck. All right, onwards. We've got Zach Popp to 75. That'll be for Chris Parent and the Marlins. Max Muncie to 50. That's for Daniel and the Dodgers. Green Jarrett Kaleneck, Mookie Betz die cut. Daniel with the Mariners. And the Rare Autograph, Mackenzie Gore. It's a nice one too. Rookie Auto for the Padres. I'll go with Sea Block. It's part of that big Juan Soto deal. Three out of 50. These are the Nats now, I think. I'm in C.J. Abrams, among others. Brian Della Cruz, 10 out of 10. Chris Parent with the Fish. Another box down. Some more boxes to go. Let's see. I'm on mlb.com. Let's see what kind of headlines we got there. Inseparable Goldie and Aronotto push each other to improve. Marlins number one. Prospect throws heat in first live BP. Otani's agent on contract talk one day at a time. Could Judge possibly match 62? We'll see. What does the future hold for Machado and the Padres? Two surgeries later. Anthony Rendon, finally healthy. Apparently, Christian Yelich went off the grid to recharge for 2023. And apparently, Jason Hayward. His new swing is the early talk of Dodgers camp. Jason Hayward has enjoyed playing a success during his 13-year big league career. Made an all-star team, won a handful of Gold Gloves, integral part of the Cubs' 2016 World Series team. Last season, however, Howard experienced some of the worst struggles at this plate. When he hit 204 with one homer in 137-at-bat and striking out at 21.2 percent, his highest of any season since 2012. Given those struggles, the Cubs decided Hayward wasn't going to finish the season in order to give the organization to the younger players an opportunity. Hayward's only 33 years old. I thought he was much older, but... Blah-blah-blah-blah. Didn't know if anybody would... would even sign him at all. The Dodgers do have a... Yeah, but Los Angeles' track record of reviving careers was ultimately the biggest appeal for Jason Hayward. I wasn't expecting changes in his playing to start from scratch, which was nice. But then, so... Blah-blah-blah. Decided his swing needed a major overhaul. Wow. Over the years, Hayward preferred to keep his hands closer to his body, but this spring has kept his hands higher and more compact. Something like that. We'll see if that works out. Yeah, Angels gave Anthony Rendon crazy money. I think they gave him, uh... They're paying him like $40 million a year, something like that. They gave him... seven years, $245 million. Average out to be $35 million a year. That's the average annual value. It's Joe Adel to $50 million. Lars Newt Barr to $99 million. For the Cardinals. Got a Wander-Franco right in low insert. That'll be for Mark S. And the Rays. Newt Barr goes to Stephen C. Angels, Mark S. You know, we were just looking at that yesterday. It's worth looking up again. So they signed him in 2020. So his first season was 20, which was the pandemic shortened season. I think he played most of those games. 52 games. And like a 60-some-odd season. 60-some-odd game season. Hey, no worries, Danny. Good luck with the, uh... with the replacement. I hope the IP gets something nice. But then 2021 only played 58 games. 2022 played even less 47 games. All for an average of $35 million a year. There's Juan Soto to $75 million for the Nationals. That'll be for Ryan. And another autograph. CJ Abrams, another Padre for Steve Locke. You got McKenzie Gore earlier. It was part of the Juan Soto trade. And it's TJ Abrams to $50 million. I think there's some others involved, but those are the main guys. Well, that's numbered. You knew that looked a little different. That's to $99 million. Mike Trout, Mark S. You got Jake Myers, 88 out of 99 for Mark S. And the Astros, the Biebs, Shane Bieberber to 25 for Dilo and the Guardians. So, rough time for Anthony Arundo. The Angels just seemed... Either they just have bad luck, or they're just not signing the right long-term free agent. I guess Trout. No, but Trout was more of an extension, if anything. But the free agents they've signed from other teams, they've just been unlucky. Josh Hamilton, Albert Pujols, Anthony Arundo, and those are some of your more recent sort of misfires. But went healthy in that 2019 season. It's an all-star finish. Third in MVP voting was the Silver Slugger. I think that's won the World Series that year. He hit 319, had over a thousand OPS. I think he almost walked more than he struck out. 80 walks, 86 strikeouts. 44 doubles. 34 home runs, 126 RBIs. 175 hits, 74 hits. Over 100 runs scored. That's the kind of production you can get from him. Went healthy. But hasn't been healthy. Yeah, it's gotta be frustrating. Someone was mentioning earlier, man, it's just a shame that the angels have got guys like Mike Trout and Botani. They just can't get anything else right. Yeah, if something can go wrong for them, it will. Just around town. And this might not be the answer for everything, but I've just heard that Artie Moreno likes to spend on these flashy free agents, but kind of doesn't really spend on anything else. I think there are credible rumors that say that, for example, in comparison, like the Dodgers front office is like, personnel-wise, two times the size of the angels front office. So Dodgers just have more people working for them, whether it's assistants or coaches or more scouts and more assistants in the scouting department, data guys and gals, just all that sort of stuff. They invest into their medical staff, their training staff, their HR, their operations, all that sort of stuff to keep that, to keep the organization running as smooth as possible from top to bottom. Nice Wander-Franco Green, 18 out of 99. But if you don't have a strong structure, then you run into issues that they've had with, with their medical staff distributing drugs to their players. So that's a whole thing. I don't know if more personnel would have helped, but I don't know. That's something, if that happened in any other corporate America, any SAP 500 company, imagine how massive that scandal would be. These are corporations. That's numbered. That's numbered. 41 out of 50, speaking of the angels. So it's sort of frustrating to kind of see Mike Trout and Botani, they're not really seeing them in the playoffs. Yeah, Danny's right. At what point do the angels try to do something with Trout? I mean, I don't know if you could, with a player like Mike Trout, could you ever get, you know, full value for someone who will end up being one of the greatest players in baseball? Even if you had like, if you got like 10 prospects, how many of those prospects on any given team, even the Dodgers, how many of those players are going to turn into Mike Trout? Yeah, Gabe saying maybe they're buying into the angels in the outfield strategy. Yeah, prayers all they really have at this point. Yeah, Manuel, there you go. Manuel is an angels fan, kind of frustrating to see. I'm a fan though, but they need to build around the team instead of throwing money at the next big name. I agree. Yeah, you won't get the best return, but if you're not going to win a series, but then it's a matter of Danny, do you trust the angels from an office to make the right move for Mike Trout? That's the other thing. You know, you got to be, I mean, you got to be A, a very confident GM, and a very smart GM to be able to get the best deal for Mike Trout. Pretty ballsy too, if you're going to be, try to face a baseball even. It's pretty bold. I mean, that's what it is, Joe, right? They'd have to, for Trout, I mean, that's why he's almost untradable. They'd have to bottom out a team's farm system and hope two or three players turn into like a Freddie Freeman or something like that. But, is that going to happen? I mean, what would the best thing to do would try to be, would be trying to get, you would have to have a combination of a star, a ready-made star, and then prospect. So it would be like, and I don't know, the Rays would never do this, but you would trade Mike Trout for a young potential superstar in Wander Franco, right? You get Wander Franco, and then five or six, you know, of their, five of their top 10 prospects or something like that. I mean, that's probably not realistic, but, I mean, the Rays would never do it. Oh, Bobby Whitjune here, wow. Get some nice autographs out of here. Mark Bassett with the Royals. If you were him, you would want him to go to Seattle. I mean, that would be Julio Rodriguez, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby. Do you trade that for Cal Raleigh? Do you trade that for Mike Trout? Yeah, what's the formula for baseball if you have Trout in no time? For football, I believe in drafting when you're outside, get your line and then draft QB. Right. Well, the Angel problem has always been pitching, but they never seem to do that. They end up spending money on Anthony Rendon instead of like, instead of investing in top of the line pitchers. I mean, they've got the hitters. What made the Angels good in 2014, the last time they made the playoffs? I mean, they probably had better pitching. And they've always seemed to have traditionally some good, like, like back of the bullpen kind of guys, but the last few years, their bullpen has been terrible. I've seen them, I've seen them, you know, just, just because they're on TV. You know what I mean? When they're, if they're in Seattle or something like that, they're one of the later games. So after the Dodger games, they'll flip over to like an Angels game and they'll be up by three or four runs and sure enough, inning seven, eight, nine, their bullpen will blow it. You know, Mariners will make some sort of crazy comeback in the ninth inning and like they're usually like, like they usually do. And then all of a sudden, six, five Mariners, you know, the back of the bullpen has been an issue. Wouldn't mind having Trump come to Cleveland, but Cleveland doesn't have anyone they can trade. Yeah. Who would, who would they have, I mean, they would have to trade Stephen Kwan, Jose Ramirez, Shane Beiber, et cetera, et cetera. Any exciting breaks, Lorcan not post maybe for Thursday or Friday? I'll bet if we sold out more breaks today on the website currently, Eric Houston. All of a sudden, there might be some new stuff that appears. I think the Cup hockey is coming out on Thursday. That's one we haven't posted pre-orders for yet, but allegedly they've been pushing that for years now, but I guess since the new release day is Thursday, I guess if it was going to be pushed, they would have pulled us by now. So I think you like hockey, right, Eric? I think I've seen you buy in hockey. So I think, I think Joe Christian was interested in that too. They'll just be some people who just don't even care about hockey, but they realize that the Cup hockey can, you know, they'll play that as a high-end lottery ticket. So there should allegedly be the Cup hockey there. It's a high-end flagship set. And remember, it's 2020, 2021, upper deck the Cup hockey. That's how that's more recent years than we've come out yet. What, Eric? Are you talking about the year? Yeah, 2020, 2021. Look at, look up the release calendar. It's insane. I agree, GT, no one player. Yeah, it's not like the NBA. You know, we're one, I'll use, I mean, you really do need a team everywhere, but in any given day, there could be one, one, you know, it's just this NBA basketball, it's a smaller roster, a smaller rotation of players playing regularly. One person can just go off and yeah, take over a game. One person could have a hot series and take over a playoff series, but yeah. Baseball much like the NFL, it's not just one player. One player cannot carry a team. You know, I mean, it's like the old cliche defense wins championships, right? In most sports, and that would be for baseball, it would be pitching, bullpen, closer. Torgelson, for the Tigers, Stephen Carney. That's what, that's what will win championships in the end. And then just some timely hitting here in there. Patrick Wisdom to 75. It's a smart hit going to Mike and the Cubs. Freddie Freeman, die cut. And Vidal Brujana to 99 for the Rays, Mark S. So Tani, really Castro, that might be to 10, I think. No, to 25. I feel like the colors are a little too similar in some of those ties to 50. Final box coming up. One person seeing our games, then playing the All-Star Game can hurt an NBA team too. Yeah, Danny was offered free Kraken tickets. I had my daughter and it was a school night, so you could take her there. No, she doesn't want to go see the Kraken. Hockey's really fun live. Ah, Gilo, we know. You're proud of your chiefs. Gabe trying to shoehorn in some Mahomes talk. There's exceptions to rules, of course. Yeah, Singles' dominant game-changing postseason player would be Mariano Rivera, yeah. What's his savory in the postseason? You think it's like 99%? Or what is that Diamondbacks incident? Oh, she's seven, okay. I don't know, I feel like that's kind of... No, maybe not. I'm trying to think when I really got into sports. So that had to be like... When do most kids really get into it? Seven's a little young, I think. Nine? Nine or ten? I like having the lip of the pack on that side. I don't like when it's flipped around the other way. That just doesn't work. You're 12 or 13 because of Madden video games. Yeah, I feel like that's right. Late elementary, middle school is when you really start getting into it. Austin has any baseball breaks when moving? Yeah. We're doing one right now, obviously. So yeah, it has been. We did some other baseball breaks earlier today, too. We did Finest baseball a little while ago, so... They have been moving. Is Andrew McCutcher into 75? Mariano's ERA was 0.7 in 96 playoff appearances. That's crazy. There's Josiah Gray to 50 and Spencer Torkelson. Ooh, there you go. You did get her set of golf clubs for her birthday last month. She loves them so far. That's awesome. Maybe we'll... Maybe that pays for the college, Danny. She gets a golf scholarship, right? Ends up on the LPGA. There's Otani to 50. It's crazy. I'll go to the driving range and there'll be little kids that are out there with their parents who are clearly under 10 years old. And for kids, their bodies are just so rubber bandy. You know what I mean? And so these kids are just whipped their hips around and then they're driving balls further than me. It's crazy. There's Eudarvish 99 and Shaman Naya to 15. Half of them probably do hit better than their parents. Bryce Harper. DJ LeMayhew. DJ LeMayhew. In the midst. That goes to Ed and the Yankees. And we've got Mookie Betts riding low insert. We've got Lindor, Julio Rodriguez, Ernie Clement, and Fernando Tattis Jr. And that, my friends, is that. Not a bad break at all. I think there was maybe a couple more autographs than I feel like we usually get out of a case of Ben Baller. The autographs are not, you know, a super common thing, but some nice ones. Bobby Whitjr, CJ Abrams, Mackenzie Gore, right? That's not bad. Those three are not bad at all. Thanks for watching, everybody. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye.