Favorite team:Houston Astros 
Location:Denial
Biography:HEY!!!
Interests:Baseball and alcohol
Occupation:Drunken Sportscasting
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Registered on:8/16/2009
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The kids move on quick from trends. He's 39 and already gray. The kids will see past and be bored with his schtick in a few years.
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They need to go back to two hours, cut McAffee, the weekly sob story, and finish by 12:00.

McAfee is lame after the fourth time you've seen him do his frat bro rip of your shirt and rile up the home crowd with a wrasslin promo gimmick.

I know the mascot head choice was Corso's tradition, but that really was the perfect way to sign off as games kickoff. Just cut McAfee, save $60M and hire actual sports analysts, and give the mascot head gimmick to the guest picker.
This reads like a Costanza B-plot
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completly
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imasculated
Your grammar is doing a good enough job of emasculating you already

Also - asking a message board what to do after being emasculated might be the most emasculated reaction possible.
If any of them were good enough to worry about leaving, Kiffin would've made sure they stayed.
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I just hate all of the sob mushy gushy filler stories crammed down our throats every Saturday
Not to mention ten minute political posturing segments with Tel Aviv Ted
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Ill get my hands on it this weekend. Its a circa 1998 ish??? year model, whatever that would be.

Oh it's definitely Base Set, it just depends on what kind of Base Set we're talking. There were four releases/variants: 1st edition, shadowless, unlimited (most common), and UK. And then a re-release Base Set 2.
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I can sell this crumpled bastard still?



Whats one in good shape worth? So I can kick my brothers arse again.
Is it actually 1st edition or "shadowless"? Might help to see a picture of it.

You're likely thinking of the Base Set unlimited. Which, even "crumpled" and significantly damaged, would be worth at least $150. "Good shape" would be worth at least $500, "near mint" closer to $1k. At that point it's more about its grading potential, which involves things beyond condition like picture centering and sharpness of the corners.

A crumpled and damaged shadowless would still be worth several hundred dollars. Can we see a pic of what you got?
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Just like baseball cards in the 90s, they're print too many and prices will droooop

Unlike baseball cards, you can actually play a tcg with these cards, and women are a huge portion of the collector's market.

Also let's not pretend they're printing anything comparable to the literal cardboard from the junk wax era. The printing quality itself is a totally different world from 90s donruss.
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Just don't understand a grown azz man worrying about something like pokemon.
It's not "worrying about," it's a hobby. You do it to pass the time with things you enjoy with people you enjoy. Same logic applies to a "grown azz man" worrying about something like which college an 18 year old is going to commit to for a year and if they play a game adequately enough.
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You'd get a better response posting this on the soccer board


Why you say that?
He's making a joke about pokemon tcg collectors and soccer fans, calling both gay.
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It’s a crazy hobby right now because kids can’t even get sets from stores anymore. And I avoid buying anything from scalpers.
Wal Mart drawings are your friend, I've been lucky a few times. Think Target's moving their online drops to drawings soon too.
A gay soccer board joke in 2026. This site really has it all.
Even worse, scalpers have backdoor deals with workers at the sketchier places like Dollar General/Dollar Tree. I asked someone about pokemon cards at Dollar General and he said to be honest he hasn't seen them and would be surprised if they ever "made it off the truck into the store."

The scalpers have their own (paid) discord to follow around the shipping trucks and clear out the stores as soon as they stop. It's like a virgin mafia.
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I play with my son - my son is running a deck right now that we are taking to a Regional this weekend. In his deck I have him running a $250 card, a $190 card, a $150 card, and about 9-10 cards that are worth anywhere from $50 to $80. The other kid's jaws just drop when my son pulls out his deck, the other parents are like "why are you letting your son play with those cards?!?!"

Beast mode :bow:

Also, it's 2026. People know how to protect their cards with deck sleeves. Let them play with the cool shite and show it off!
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There is some Pokemon vending machine at our grocery store and I only see grown arse incel men getting cards out

That would be the scalpers. They're not into collecting at all, just taking advantage of collectors. Subhumans with no jobs or marketable skills.
Got into it this year via my wife, probably more or less developed from our cabin fever from having a baby in January :lol:

I was pretty into it as a kid, Silver was my first game so I've gravitated towards the vintage cards of the first two generations. She goes more for the art collecting aspect, aiming to collect every card with illustrations from certain artists like Yuka Morii or Shinji Kanda.

I actually just pulled the Lugia and Charizard from the 30th set last week. Went to a card show yesterday and was told I should probably send the Lugia in for grading, it's centered pretty well. Not sure what I'd be getting into with the grading market, though. That's an entirely different beast.
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Aside from that, you’d have to make the tariffs really, really high to make them worthwhile. That’s one of the problems that Trump’s tariffs already face. These companies are paying these factory workers in third world shitholes at most 1/10 as much as they’d have to pay US workers. So you’d have to make the tariffs like at least 1,000% in order to bring factory labor home, maybe something like 700% if you take into account the cost of shipping the goods. And for call centers, the businesses don’t have to take shipping costs into account.

Then make it illegal to employ third world shithole workers at a higher ratio than American citizens. If they want to open a factory in India, the same functioning factory needs to be open and operating in America, staffed by American citizens.
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So we can be double hosed, lost jobs overseas and then you have to pay tariffs for using companies who have said overseas interest?

Or, hear me out, American companies can stop outsourcing their labor to Indians.
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Are all those dudes H1B?
Every damn time.

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Come on, Elon. Walk the walk.
He's not a trillionaire by mistake, or by paying American citizens fair wages.
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Holy shite that's wild. I wonder what that was about.