I think it's about time to get started. We have a really interesting presentation today and I want to allow plenty of time for it. Welcome, I'm Cliff Lynch I'm the director of the coalition for networked information and thanks for joining us on this Friday for the some of the last of the first week of the fall CNI virtual 2020 member meeting. A couple quick logistical things this session is being recorded and will be available subsequently. There is closed captioning available if you want it. There is a chat box please feel free to introduce yourself or comment as the session goes along. There's also a Q&A tool. And you can use that to queue up questions for the presenters. After the presentation Diane Goldenberg Hart will materialize and moderate the Q&A. And I think that's everything I need to say logistically so let me introduce our session. We have with us today Katie Oberling and Fernando Hoches LaGuardia, both from the University of California at Berkeley. So in that sense they are colleagues of mine. They are with the Berkeley initiative for transparency and social sciences, which is a really important project trying to advance reproducibility and replicability in the social sciences. And they have a really interesting angle on some of the work they're doing in that they're thinking about how to integrate this is a pedagogical tool as well as a well as a set of good practices for researchers. And I think that's a really important idea that I'm looking forward to hearing more about. So without further ado, let me thank Katie and Fernando for joining us and turn it over to Katie. Thanks Cliff. That was, that was a really great introduction. Yeah, so I won't talk. I won't read this whole slide because I think Cliff has done a good job for me but I'm Katie. Fernando is also here and I'll talk to you a little bit about the the Berkeley initiative for transparency and the social sciences of which we're both apart but today we're focusing on a project that is very much still in progress but is kind of getting ready for to share with the world that is trying to advance specifically computational reproducibility. And as Cliff mentioned also using this as a teaching tool. So, there we go. I'll just give you a quick overview of what I'll be talking about today so I'll just spend a minute or so on who bits is. I'll talk to you about why we care about reproducibility. And then I'm hoping to spend the bulk of this presentation on the actual project itself and at the end I would love to since I said this is a in progress project. I would love to get some feedback and your, your perspectives on what we're doing because we're at kind of a couple inflection points in terms of the design of the project so hoping to hoping to hear from you all later on. Okay, so bits. The, the initiative that both Fernando and I are part of our goal is to promote ethical transparent and reproducible research in order to improve the integrity of science and eventually to inspire better public policy. And we're doing this in three ways so we're generating evidence through meta research. We increase access to open science education. So we run trainings we develop curriculum. We provide funding to, to other instructors who are trying to either create their own curriculum or adapt ours for their contacts. And then we also try to strengthen the kind of scientific ecosystem so a lot of this is through this kind of infrastructural development kind of the project that I'm talking today fits pretty squarely under this, this category. We also it also involves kind of developing open science policy with specific partners and developing protocols for for labs and research centers. Okay, so why we care about reproducibility. I think most of you on this call are probably aware of the kind of replication reproducibility crisis that we've been discussing a lot the past couple of decades in the social sciences. I won't get into what these too much into the, you know, the research on this but I wanted to kind of get us all on the same page about these two definitions that we're working with so for computational reproducibility we're really just talking about trying to get the same findings using the same data and the same methods that another researcher has used in a paper that's been published. There are a number of reasons why this might not happen. You know some of the data might be missing the code might not be well documented, the software that was used originally the version of that software might not be available anymore, or it might not be available in the first place. And so the, the figure on the right is from a recent paper from Gertler Galiani Romero that it was examining 203 papers published in economics journals. And these were journals with data and code availability policies so they're kind of the reasons I just mentioned led to a fairly significant number of findings that weren't reproducible. And on the other end where we're talking about using different data and or different methods to find somewhat similar findings at least you know in the same direction within a reasonable margin of error. And the reason that we try to distinguish routine these two is because while replication, we know is really valuable and really important for trying to understand the credibility of research. And we think that it's, we think that it's useful only to the extent that the original work was also reproducible. You know so someone might not be able to replicate a study. And that could be because the, you know the methods were flawed or they, it was a, it was just just by chance, but there's also a really good chance that that work just wasn't reproducible and in that case you're, it's almost a waste of time and so we are going to get everyone on the same page about starting, you know, putting the, not putting the cart before the horse and starting with the reproducibility part first. These are just a kind of this table is just showing the, the, the kind of rates of replication and reproducibility that have been found in recent years. And some of you have probably heard of the open science collaboration. Other efforts have found anywhere between 30 to 60% replication rates which all things considered isn't so bad reproducibility rates at least in economics are a little bit more alarming. And this is one of the reasons that we're trying to focus on this. Okay, so the kind of solutions and mitigation strategies that already exist. So let's talk about the transparency and openness promotion or top guidelines. So these are a tiered version of a tiered guidelines for journal policies that include anything from pre registration to sharing data to all the way to publication verification. It's a mouthful but basically that just means that a paper, the findings in a paper must be verified prior to publication so that means that the data and the code that the author provide must get the same findings that they are claiming to have found in the paper. I think maybe a couple dozen journals that we know of that are doing this now. Notably the American Economic Association or AEA released a new policy last year that that does this and this was kind of one of the motivations for the project that I'll talk to you about in a minute or so. We're working with the data editor to try to make it easier both for him to verify the reproducibility of the work that submitted to him, as well as prepare the the discipline of economics for complying with this policy moving forward. So the AEA manages nine or 10 of the top journals in economics and so kind of what the policies that they adopt hopefully kind of trickle to other economics journals in the discipline they're pretty influential. And so the idea is to kind of prepare the discipline at large for for being able to do this. I mentioned this list just a few others so that a couple of journals and political science as well as nature methods and meta psychology are also doing this. And then, I'm sure all of you know about these tools but the kind of the other side of enabling reproducibility we see as these, this digital infrastructure so your data repositories, your version control tools like GitHub, dynamic documents. So I've got, I have Jupiter here but in our trainings we generally focus on, you know, the just dynamic documents using state or are which are the software programs that are generally more used by social scientists. So I wanted to show you this is from a recent paper from Garrett Christiansen and colleagues, just kind of showing you the rapid rates of adoption that have happened in the last couple in the last decade or so, especially for sharing data and study instruments. So this is, you know, this makes us feel a little bit better about what's happening in the social sciences, but this is so this is focusing on economists political scientists sociologists and psychologists. But what this doesn't do is doesn't show us anyone who's not publishing in the top 10 journals in the discipline. So, you know, while this is, this is exciting for us and you know kind of justifies a lot of the work that we've been doing for the past nine or 10 years. And, you know, it's not unlikely that the rates of adoption would be lower for for people who are not, you know, publishing in these journals or going to these programs. So, that kind of leads me to my last slide on the motivation for this project. We've been thinking a lot about what scholarship means. A lot of people when they think of scholarship are thinking about the article, the, the main findings of an article, the conclusion. And I think something that we've been a more inclusive and broader definition that we have been working with has been the Clairvout principle that was paraphrased here by Buckhead and Donahoe. I'll just read for you really quickly. The article about computational results is advertising not scholarship. The actual scholarship is the full software environment code and data that produced the results. So what we what we're hoping to do with this project that I'll talk about in a sec is to kind of improve access to all of the data, the code and the decisions that went into creating these this final product is going to be published in the journal. The image we have here on the left is from the Garden of Forking Pads by Borges. And so you can kind of think of a paper as being the red line from point A to point B. But what it doesn't necessarily tell you is how the researcher got to point A in the first place. If they tried all these other paths and you know didn't didn't decide to go down them, or if they did go down them. It didn't work out. All of that is is useful knowledge, but it's not it's generally not going to be published in a paper. So having access to that knowledge can not only kind of accelerate our understanding of the world and of science, as well as supporting the learning of people who are, you know, digging through the materials and the data and the code to use for their own research. We also see is see it as improving inclusion and participation in science. So you can think of, you know, a lot of recent studies about kind of privilege and inequality and academia recently have been revealing that there have been unequal access to opportunities to learn from your instructors to learn from your peers. So you can think about things like homework groups, office hours, knowing when and how to ask for help who to ask help from. And so there seems to be like a growing body of literature about that. Our hunch is that there's also kinds of implicit knowledge that continues into, you know, graduate school and beyond so you can think about things like how to ask for data. How to talk to people about their, their research efforts already been published. How decisions and research are made, you can even take it all the way to how to navigate authorship conversations, but in the context of reproducibility. It's really difficult without the you know the full set of decisions and data and code to know exactly how someone got somewhere. And so a big part of our motivation is, is trying to improve access to that in an equitable way. Okay, so the acre project itself. This project includes kind of for major activities. We're developing curriculum which I'll show you in a sec. We have students and instructors on both how to how to go through the curriculum and how to teach it how to adapt it for their own courses. We're developing an online platform that is going to help us crowdsource reproductions, as well as improvements and then also spur discussion around around this work. And eventually, once we have enough reproductions, we're hoping to conduct a few assessments of reproducibility across journals and fields. Okay, so the curriculum starts out with this guide. The acre guide is a set of step by step instructions for conducting and recording a reproduction and notably it includes chapters on how to choose a paper, how to assess reproducibility, how to make improvements, how to conduct robustness checks, and also how to have constructive conversations with authors. I wanted to show you, I'm actually not sure if the sharing is going to let me do this, but I might have to do a new share. Let's see. Okay, so one thing I wanted to show you this is part of the guide and I included the URL in the slides. What we are are hoping to do with this project is to help people move away from these kind of binary statements about, you know, this paper is reproducible or it's not reproducible, and instead identify what exactly makes it not reproducible, not just at the paper level but at the claim level you know paper might include several claims within within it. And, you know, it might end up being that, you know, some of the cleaning code was gone or it was missing, and the student or the reproducer whoever they are suggests new cleaning code to add to the code that was already shared, or if no code was shared at all they can suggest code and move the paper or the claim from level six reproducibility to level seven. And we're hoping that helps, that helps foster more constructive conversations around this kind of thing and because the idea is not just to say this is reproducible or not it's to it's to move the the fields of social sciences forward. I'll go back to the slides. Okay, this is back on the slides right I'm not I'm not quite sure what people are seeing. Yeah, you're on the slides. Great. Okay. Okay, so I'll talk a little bit about how this has been going. We, this is generally taken up two to four weeks of graduate courses that we've piloted this with. It kind of just depends on how, how far you want your students to get into stuff. We've also piloted this with one undergraduate who who conducted their undergraduate thesis on this and it took them a whole year but they were getting really really deep into the details of a specific paper. So far we have piloted this with 37 reproductions, mostly in development economics courses. And so far people have have seemed to enjoy this, and they've actually found fairly high rates of reproducibility so this is, it's just within one one discipline but so far it's going going alright. So the kind of incentives or benefits for the people doing this might differ from differ depending on where they are in their career. We're, we're kind of thinking that graduate students might be more interested in getting credit for making their improvements or assessing reproducibility, as well as for kind of having language to discuss papers after they've been published, and also learning what the process is or should be for accessing data and materials, how to talk with authors, and empowering them to carry out these exercises as they move forward in their careers. And then undergrads as I as I mentioned earlier, might be more interested in kind of getting a closer view of what research is and what entails. The platform itself. This is this is exciting for me because we we've just gotten to a place where we're pretty comfortable sharing this fairly widely. But the social science reproduction platform or the SSRP is an open source online platform for crowdsourcing these reproductions. Just a couple weeks ago we got our cross surf membership so we'll be able to assign do is so these group productions will be citable. And we're hoping to in the next month or so to integrate the discourse form so this is an open source online form where people will hopefully be able to you know give feedback on other people's attempts to reproduce or their improvements. And then ask questions ask for help. And then eventually, I mentioned this as well, the kind of aggregated results on a on a metric dashboard showing the levels of reproducibility of certain sub fields and journals etc. The figure here on the right is from the platform and I also wanted to show you that so I think I'll do a new share. So this is the platform. I also included the URL in the slides, and I'll share these afterwards. If you want to take a closer look. But this is what it looks like so far. The main thing I wanted to show you I'm signed in here is kind of what the start of one of these forms look like. So I already started one this is a dummy but so it's, it's got a kind of a not not super helpful titles and data but I'll show you anyway. You kind of start out with what the entering the basic information about the paper that you're trying to reproduce. You've got your repack handle. This will be different depending on the discipline but in economics repack is a is a helpful database of papers that have been published regardless of journal working paper status. So the title your journal the year publication the DOI the authors. Importantly, it asks you if there is a package reproduction package already available and if there isn't. It takes you this question of, have you contacted the authors for the package. So you can't move on. So the idea is that they have to then go to the guidelines. We've got a chapter here on on having constructive conversations with reproducers are sorry with original authors. The part that I wanted to show you was we've actually sorry. Here we go. We've developed a few email templates. So trying to make it as easy as possible for people to talk to these authors. So we've got, you know, the, the salutation. I'm contacting you to talk specifically about this paper. So being as clear as possible, who they are where they are, why they're trying to reproduce this in the first place often it'll just be because they're part they're part of course work. And what exactly they, they were able to find and what they weren't able to find, taking that all the way through, you know, requesting specific missing items, asking for additional guidance, responding when people have refused to share, or if they haven't really given a reason, etc. So the idea is that, you know, there has been. Let me get back to the slides. I'm not sure if that was the right one. Here we go.  Sometimes these conversations can become hostile. And the idea is that we, we hope to try to guide people through discussions in a way that is going to avoid any of that kind of language. You know, make make it make it a learning process, both for the student and for the author in terms of how to actually make their work reproducible, moving it from, you know, level to level eight or whatever it is. The last thing I wanted to mention before I kind of opened it up for questions is that we are hoping to make it easy to for people to build on on top of other people's attempts to reproduce so someone might have spent, you know, a few weeks trying to assess this reproduction, you know, their course sorry assess this paper for reproducibility, their course ends. Someone else wants to go back to that paper and make improvements and instead of having to do, you know, contact the author bother that person again. There's a record of that person having contacted them, what they said, what they were able to provide. And what, you know, how far the original, or sorry, the first reproducer got in terms of assessing or improving and the next person can more easily build on top of that work so saving some time there as well. Okay. The last thing I wanted to talk about was that so I mentioned that we're we're still in progress. There's a lot of open questions that we have, especially as we're getting ready to launch. The main one is if and how to allow anonymous reproductions. So I talked about kind of the the risk to reputations that that people have perceived and felt in the past. So we want to balance that with, you know, we don't want to create a space for trolls and internet there's also been a history in economics of toxicity and some of these online forums. So we're trying to you were trying to balance this this kind of trying to create this kind of constructive space for discussion. Also, de identifying these attempts is definitely not foolproof. The most we can do we think is to give people guidance on how to de identify, you know, their code. But it's, like I said, it's if you're using GitHub, especially, you're going to have to go through the whole thing and make sure your name is gone from all of your commits, which could be pretty tedious. We're considering kind of embargo period so if you if you do a reproduction anonymously than maybe within, you know, two to four years and it automatically becomes non anonymous. And we're also trying to understand how to assess quality for those kinds of reproductions. Other open questions we've got are how to integrate other research databases, you know I talked about repack but there's lots of other ones in different disciplines. It's really just how to get buy in from social science scientists for this. You know how do we demonstrate and communicate the value of this. You know, maybe we maybe it's an encouraging citation or maybe it's more just that we want to improve the field of economics in general. So at this point I'm happy to take questions Fernando is also here for questions but we also would love to just hear from the audience if they have ideas about any of these questions that I've posed, or thoughts about the platform in general. So I'll open it up. Thanks Katie. That's a really fascinating tool really interesting. And it's great to hear about it. I just want to let our attendees know that of course you can certainly type your questions into the Q amp a but I think Katie and Fernando would love to hear directly from you about some of these questions that she raised and other issues surrounding their development in this tool. If you're, if you would be, if you have something to add to the conversation and you would like to be unmuted. Just raise your hand and we can definitely unmute you so that you can interact directly with Katie and Fernando, or type your questions or comments in the chat. I'm more in the Q amp a and I can, I can definitely moderate those here now. I just want to remind everyone that this is a CNI fall 2020 membership meeting will have another webinar coming up at 3pm Eastern time. And that will be the Catholic news archive. I know there are a lot of things going on this week, especially today. Thank you so much for spending some time here at CNI. And while we're waiting for people to jump in. I just want to say that that was a wonderful presentation and I think you've produced a really potentially very powerful platform here. I'm wondering if you can share a little more about the reaction from faculty who have been looking at this as they think about using this in the context of their own classes and in particular, maybe what kinds of classes what level of students. Those sorts of things. Yeah, sure. And so, so far we have presented in in one academic seminar where where faculty were very curious about it. They seemed interested about adopting a tool but there was no specific commitment to who and when they will take it. And we are piloting we're aiming to two pilots with several courses in the spring. And across different universities and the target audience for this would be a second year students of graduate courses and masters or PhDs where they are doing some applied work and and these these these exercises of doing reproductions are somewhat standard part of their curriculum. We just want to give them these these tools to make it a the the reporting process of these exercise tools to standardize it. And the two courses that we've piloted and already have been in Ted Miguel's courses and he's the one of the PIs on this project so it was easy to get his mind but yeah we're hoping to identify a few more this next semester in the spring and figure out how how easily or how hard it is to to kind of adapt this for a full course. I will also say so the day editor Lars Bill Hoover who's also a partner on this project. He's the one who's in charge of running these verifications for a journals. He does this with undergraduate students and his policy is that if an undergraduate student can't understand what you've done then you need to work on it to make it more easily understandable. And so, you know it might take an undergraduate longer to you know do this as part of like a thesis project or something but at the end of the day whatever is published should be should be fairly clear. Yeah, that's part of what I was thinking was this is this is this is an opportunity to provide an amazing educational experience for an undergraduate in terms of really coming to grips with a piece of published research. Yeah, and the guidelines are the guidelines of this project are structuring a way that that in order to do a reproduction you do not need to have in depth knowledge of the specific paper. Basically, the, the idea is that in the initial stages, what do you need to be able to identify is that what's the scientific claim that is being made in the paper. So, what's the set of scientific claims among that set which one would you focus on, and then the other thing that you need to focus is for a given claim you need to be able to find the result in the paper supporting that claim. So this result might be one number in a table in a paper so you provide the location you say that's that's my target. This, this is the claim and this, then you go look at the reproduction materials and how far can you get along into basically being able to run the car so to say to get to get to that point. And, and the last stage is, it's about robustness and that requires a little bit more in depth knowledge so it has to with like how to think of things and to see how, how the results change, but but it's definitely the materials are definitely developed with them with the mindset of a broad audience. That's great it's really interesting. It's a great tool. And we'll look forward to serious seeing what comes out of these questions that you're asking and investigating. Yeah, one, one thing I'm really curious about downstream is this matures is there are many folks in academic and research libraries who actually get quite involved in teaching these kinds of skills and it would be very interesting to see how they begin to make use of or make reference to this body of work for folks that they're teaching outside of the sort of, you know, formal curriculum if you will. Absolutely. Yeah, I think librarians for the past couple years we've realized if our are some of our closest allies on this campus so we'll definitely be working with them to figure out if they can not necessarily, you know, put it in a course but how how they can integrate it into their work with students to I will shut up now I've been advising all the q amp a on this fantastic presentation. Well, thanks Cliff for the questions and thank you Katie and Fernando for your thoughtful responses and this great presentation. We are a little bit past time now. I'll turn it down the public portion of the presentation I'll stop the recording we do have a few attendees still with us here and if, if they're interested in approaching the podium and having a chat with you after we turned off the recording. Just raise your hands I'll be happy to turn on your microphones and thank you so much for your presentation and thanks to all our attendees. Bye bye.


2022 was loaded with solid releases this year and honestly, I had a hard time picking which shoes I wanted to put in my top 10. So I'm gonna run a quick clip of the honorable mentions and then we'll get into my top 10 pickups. So I'm sure you saw a few sneakers on that list that could have easily been in somebody else's top 10. But at the end of the day, this is my top 10 and I'll explain to you all the reasonings behind all the shoes that I chose for this list. Starting with the first shoe, we have the Air Jordan 7 Citrus. Now I'm sure you guys are shocked by this one but in my head I just knew I had to put these in the top 10 simply because I remember wearing these back when they came out in high school and I used to wear these and cherish them and I wore them till I couldn't wear them anymore till the suede was messed up and then I wanted to get another pair and by then they were just like expensive and hard to get. Next thing you know, years go by and it's been a long time since these originally came out and I thought that this shoe would never retro again. So when I saw this was coming out for the year, I was extremely excited. I had to make sure I got these for the collection, had to double up. This is definitely going to be in my rotation. I'm looking forward to rocking these and creating new memories with this shoe at the end of the day. So yes, the Citrus 7s are on my top 10. I know they're at number 10 but out of respect I had to put them in my top 10. Next up we have the DJ Khaled Air Jordan 5. So as you guys know, I had the opportunity to reveal this sneaker with the other ones based off the releases and the friends and family colorways and things like that. So this shoe meant a lot to me and I know these could have potentially not been on the top 10 because of resale value and all those other things but to me honestly being a part of the release and the debut of the sneaker and being able to share that information and the qualities and materials on this sneaker and having a collaboration shoe and this being the first collaboration shoe that released to the public, there's a lot of different reasons as to why I like this shoe and why I decided to put it on my top 10 and number nine is my favorite number. So I felt like it was a good spot to put it at number 9. Next up on the list is a sneaker that I recently acquired literally like a week ago and I'm happy I finally got these. I know I haven't waited for too long because it was only like a few weeks before that when it comes to the release date but either way I finally got them in my collection to complete this set and I started to compare them with the other shoes and I was like you know what these actually are pretty clean. I don't like the materials all the way because I wish they would have done the same materials on the oh my bad I got to show you guys the shoe. We have the Black Fathom Air Jordan 1 low Travis Scott. So these in particular like I was talking about the materials I wish they would have chose either one or the other when it comes to the materials the suede that they have on the toe or the side or the swoosh I think that would have been extremely fire if they would have done that throughout the entire part of the shoe but I know a lot of people are going to have the great debate of like which shoe is the best which shoe is the worst and some people are saying this is the worst Travis Scott and in my mind I'm still kind of thinking the reverse smokers are the worst Travis Scott of the four so far. I know some people may say this is the best. Again this is my opinion what shoes I want in my collection and how I decide to rank them and everything. Honestly there's no bad or wrong answer like buy what you like at the end of the day. I know everybody likes to like be mad at each other based off of what they like and everything it's like bro we all we can have our own opinions on the shoes that we like. So for me in particular I think these fall on the list as third when it comes to the four Travis Scott and you got the Fragments and the Mokas with the OG colorway. I think these two are both for sure top two. This coming in third and then reverse Mokas at fourth. As of right now that's just kind of how I feel. I think this is a very easy shoe to wear and it being at an affordable price point as well especially for the four colorways being this is the cheapest one. I think overall this is a really good cop and a lot of people are going to be happy that they have this in their collection and if you're looking at for investment I think this could easily be a thousand dollar shoe down the line. Definitely excited about these. I know people are probably shocked about it but either way that's my number eight on the list. Next up at number seven is probably a lot of people's number one two or three on their list and that's completely fine. Again I have my reasonings I will explain in a second but we have the Amma Air Jordan fours at number seven. So this shoe right here in particular I knew about it before it was going on to the internet and I had this assumption that it was going to be more of a purple tone to the shoe and because of that I had this this vision in my head and when I saw the actual release I was kind of let down but at the same time I did really love the materials and everything when it comes to the shoe and I still think the Amma 3s are better than this model in particular. So again let me know what you guys think down below. We saw the poll results I've done a video with the whole Amma set so if you guys want to see that go ahead and refer back to that I'll have the links for all this stuff down below in the description for any reviews that I have on any of these shoes as well but I think overall very solid shoe I really love the materials I love the collaboration I love everything that they're doing with the Amma series especially one through four so these had to be on my list originally they were kind of higher up maybe around fifth or fourth place but then I started thinking about it as I started putting the list together and I was like you know what I think seventh place is where these deserve to be. Now next up at number six on the list we got another shoe that probably gonna shock a lot of people with the ranking and that is the orange lobster Nike SB Dunk Lowe. So I love this pack I had the blue pair way back in the day I grew out of them and I ended up selling them and I wish I never did because now it's just so hard to find a 13 and a blue pair and they're just extremely expensive and all other stuff so I do want to put this set back together and get things going get the band together you know I'm saying get the blues and the purples and the oranges and everything like that but I was like you know what I'm gonna start with the oranges and that's how we're gonna go you guys know I'm not the hugest fan of orange but honestly without the orange dislike this bias whatever you want to call it this is a fire shoe like they did a really good job on this collaboration and obviously the other ones are very similar as well just different colors but yeah the orange does pop it hits dope with the midsole being black and the orange stitch the little accents on the swoosh with the white swoosh behind it in a different pattern on the swoosh with the two different suede's on the upper the sock liner you name it they did a really good job again like I said if you guys want to see more reviews of any of these shoes I'll make sure I have all the links for you down below in the description but yes I really like this shoe at the end of the day and I know it'd be on a lot of people's top three number one number two whatever it may be but for me there's a lot of other shoes that just hit a little bit more home when it comes to the story or going to see things or whatever things like that for my story for my own self so I had to put these at number six now at number five this is a shoe that I didn't expect to be so dope when I got it in person I already knew that I liked it but I didn't know how much I was gonna like it and when I got them in hand and I saw the packaging and everything like that I was like yes this is definitely going in my top five I don't know where but I'll find a spot for it the Air Jordan 7 trophy room I love the way they executed this shoe with the different materials on the upper and all the little details around the shoe behind the tongue inside the sock liner the tab on the back the pull tab the gold jump man the eyelids even though the insole the box like I said there is a lot of cool details storytelling and everything that goes along with it and it's actually cool shout out to my people at Jordan brand for holding me down on these as well and being able to have an opportunity to get this shoe was super dope so I was happy about this and I think I think honestly the reason why I ranked a little bit higher y'all know I love Jordan sixes and these look like Carmines a little bit so it kind of might have been a little bit of a bias situation when it comes to that but either way I was like these got to be in my top five they grew on me quick soon as I got them in hand and just like I was talking about with some of these other shoes you can actually get these at a really affordable price so I think it's cool to be able to get a dope shoe collaboration materials display all the presentation that comes along with it and still be able to get the shoe at an affordable price so a lot of people out there if you plan on getting these shoes in particular I think it's a good time to grab them right now and just like all the other ones like I said in the past when it comes to the trophy rooms on that review I think this could easily be one of those $750 shoes I know it might sound crazy right now but give it a little bit of time I don't see why it couldn't happen because that's what happened to all the other ones in the past so if you're looking at for investment purpose so all those other things whatever may be I think it's a good time to buy if you want this for your collection same situation I think it's a good time to buy because then you don't want to have to worry about spending that crazy extra money later down the line and be like damn now it's 600 bucks and I could have got them for 260 or 275 or something like that so always think about that as well from a collector's standpoint but either way these are number five on my list let's take it to number four and that is the UNC Air Jordan 6 now this is the GR version and honestly I am so excited to have these in my collection like I said y'all know I love sixes and I had to get the PE as well which this is a part of my PE video which will be coming out tomorrow we'll talk about that later but either way these right here this is a clean shoe very similar to the Carmine color blocking which I love one of my most favorite shoes ever so because of that when I saw this in the UNC vibe and then the print on the back of the tongue and the hits on the inside of the insole and everything that they did the materials are nice on this shoe with the white leather I think overall a very very clean shoe and honestly probably really shocking for a lot of people to see this in my top 10 let alone in my top five I get that I understand but y'all know me I love me some sixes so if they would have had some honestly I didn't get the Georgetown sixes yet I need to I've been slacking being bougie not trying to pay resale on those because I want to get them for retail but every time I find a pair it's not in my size and better that whoop dude either way if I would have got the Georgetown sixes those might have ended up on my top 10 as well I think that shoe is extremely dope they did a great job on the Georgetown so don't be surprised if I pick those up this year maybe the next sneaker con I don't know I might have to grab a pair when we go this week but either way let's take it to the next shoe we have the Brooklyn Museum off-white Air Force ones it was super dope because I had the opportunity to actually go to the museum see the exhibit see the employees wearing the shoes months before the heck came out and all the different stuff so it was cool and we made some tick tock some of them tick tocks got like millions of views when people see and the employees rocking them and all the other stuff but it was fun experience and go in there and being able to celebrate Virgil through his art and his displays and everything like that and then being able to have the opportunity to get the shoe and have it in my collection to go with my other off-white Air Force ones so overall I think with the experience and the storytelling behind it let alone yeah obviously we know it's expensive and rare and exclusive all other stuff but I think for my story of being able to go see the exhibit go there interact with the people wearing the shoes and have fun and conversations and all this stuff and be there with my family and my friends and all this stuff I had a good time and I love the experience so for that and also this is just a clean-ass shoe at the end of the day like if you're a duck span like me again a very fitting shoe as well so there's a lot of different reasons but yes I love this sneaker I think it was well deserving on the top three some people might rank this as number one or two I get that as well but I got my reasoning for the other ones at number two we have the Air Jordan one lost and found Chicago colorway I'm sure all you guys understand why this would be in my top three it might even be surprised why it's not my number one shoe I love this sneaker I wear a pair already I've been trying to I'm not trying to beat them up but at the same time I've been wearing these things like and I got no problem rain sleet or snow I've been rocking these and I got no problem with the shoe I got multiples of these and I think this is an amazing sneaker and the reason why I say that is because my 2015 pair I have multiples of these these things are cooked I got all types of dirt and soda and you name it on these things I had a great run with the 2015 pair and again I probably could clean them up and everything but I want to create those same memories and this sneaker was my worn pair and have a couple pairs sitting on ice so I can continue to rotate through them because we don't know when the next time we might get a Chicago with the og colors and all the things and all the stuff I understand why it's top three for a lot of people but my number one oh my number one I got even more memories with that shoe and that is the Air Jordan 3 fire red so these right here come at first place and I was talking about this earlier when I did the review on this shoe and bruh I know people are sleeping on these right now and yeah you can get them for a pretty good price and they're still sitting on shelves at some stores for retail I don't care about none of that the fire red threes for me the memories that I had with my old pair rocking them back in high school getting multiples of that shoe tearing them up watching the paint crack all the different things keeping a fresh pair well these semi fresh because my paints cracked and they're starting to yellow and everything but trying to have a fresh pair on ice for all these years and I didn't really like the retro version after that and all the different things but besides all that this right here in my opinion is the best retro og that we have ever seen so when it comes to og colorways models cuts materials colors everything like that I think they did the greatest job on this shoe resembling the 1988 fire red air Jordan 3 materials cuts presentation everything is just really really nice on this shoe and I know it slept on because of price and everything but I can guarantee you these things are gonna go up so I'm glad I got my multiples from my collection and I'm looking forward to creating it's funny because I know the shoe is so cheap but at the same time I'm like I'm like kind of cherishing it so much because I don't want to mess it up I know my Chicago ones I'm kind of in that vibe but these right here I just I cherish the shoes so much again yes I will be wearing them I'm not going to just have every pair sitting on ice I definitely want to wait for the right occasion to bust them out for the first time so this shoe Nike air on the back this is something that we have never seen before on the fire red threes in particular besides the og there's a lot of nostalgia behind these I think they did a great job so that's gonna do it for my top 10 pickups I hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned because I got a bunch of pees I picked up over 25 pairs of pees alone this year so stay tuned for that video we're gonna do a top 15 with my pops probably be dropping that one tomorrow I'll see y'all in another one all right y'all I'm out yo before you go I just launched my sneaker head academy where we got everything on the inside I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years when it comes to sneakers scaling real estate you name it we talk about all of it in there and there's a eight week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways I give away shoes literally way too much honestly but either way I'll see you guys on the inside hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ sneaker head academy and I'll see you guys over there


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com, coming at you with 2020 Panini Diamond Kings Baseball 12 box random team break number two from jaspyscasebrakes.com. Big thanks all of these folks for getting into the action. As you saw, the first 20 have a shot at that early bird spot. So different dice roll there. So let's grab dice, let's roll it, let's randomize it eight times. Name on top after eight gets the extra spot. One, two, three, four. Five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. After eight, congrats Joe, Joe Flores, with the bonus spot. One of the earliest of birds catches the worm. So there you go, Joe, an extra spot for you. So now let's assign you a random team. You and everybody, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Two and a two for the hard way. One, two. All right, so after four, Levi down to Josh and then hard four for the teams. One, two, three, and four. After four times, we've got the Miami Marlins down to the Pittsburgh Pirates. All right, so Levi with the Marlins, Andrew with the Brew Crew, James with the Stroze, Matt with the Padres, Carlos with the Indians, Jason K with the A's, Shane with the Rays, John with the Royals, Nancy with the Rockies, Joe with the Twins, Mark with the Red Sox, Joe with the Blue Jays, David with the Phillies, Brandon with the Mets, Eric with the Cardinals, Matt with the Braves and Reds. Laura, you got the Yankees, Adam with the Tigers, Michael Glucci with the Dimebacks, Roy with the Giants, Matt with the White Sox, Michael with the Rangers, Matt with the Mariners, David with the Angels, Roy with the Cubs, Joe, last spot mojo, or not, early bird spot mojo. We got my Dodgers. Joe Lancaster with the O's, Joe F with the Nets, and Josh with the Pittsburgh Pirates last, he has the last spot mojo. That's why the little star is next to his name. All right, let's sort by Column B. I've found better times, new Roman. Going with a Serif font. Hey, Cambria. Anyway, anyone trading? Remember we popped open that massacre case? We did L first, the left side first. That's the R for the right side. We're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna, again, see if there's any trades, and then we'll break. Stick around. All right, welcome back, folks. No trades, some trade offers, but no deals were done here on Wednesday the 10th. Brand new release day, a Diamond Day. We've got Diamond Kings and Diamond Icons to ask these casebreaks.com. Let's make it a Diamond Day. So remember, once again, there's the letter R right there for the right side. Let's pop this open right here. TJ, what's going on? We've got two TJ's in the house now. So you can see on my camera and the top camera, you can see all 12 boxes right there. Four stacks of three boxes. All right. This TJ watt, JJ watt, Derek watt subway commercial is, I know it's a baseball grid, but at subway commercial, do you think that's their real mom? Or do you think that's fake mom? Stage mom, actor mom, I wonder. All the, man, boy was I fooled. Back in the day, the Campbell's suit commercials, right?  I was like, oh, that's really Donovan McNabb's mom. That's really Saquan's mom. That's AJ Hawk's mom. Campbell's chunky suit commercial, not all actors. Fake moms. Landon Nimmer says, wanna be moms. And Cow's saying, hey, listen, if they can pay JJ, TJ, and don't forget Derek, they can pay off their mom too, but see, what if mom's just a terrible actor? And they're just like, she's not good for commercials. Unless she is, I don't know. Well, there's our first redemption right there. Good luck, everybody. We're gonna go through this a tiny bit more quickly than the previous break, now that we've got a good look at what this set has for us. Remember, there are vet commons don't ship. Any guesses on that redemption? This set, it's pretty cool too. And is that another downtown card? It is, nice, Raphael Devers. If you've never been to Boston, that's exactly what downtown Boston looks like. True story. Mark L, with the Boston Red Sox, we saw one in the last inner case, and now one in this inner case. It could be inner case hits. I don't know if they're actually traditional case hits, but maybe they're just short print enough to kind of fall that way. Patrick Sandoval gray frame. We've got 46 out of 99, Jalen Davis. That'll be for the Giants, that goes to Roy in San Francisco. I don't think Dominguez is in this. No, no Dominguez and no Witt Jr. I believe this is more Rookie's vets, heavy on the checklist, not necessarily prospects. We got Logan Webb frame. All tobacco card designs are pretty cool. Sean, guessing Luis Robert. Callie, what's going on? Kyle says, I dig this art, might have to look for a box. Oh man, I'm glad you mentioned that, Kyle, because you can visit our personal box breaks channel that's live right now on Instagram, at Jaspy's Breaks. You can find a box right there, free shipping to anywhere in the United States. We can ship to you sealed if you wanted to, and open it yourself, or you can have Jason Jaspy rip it open for you on Instagram live. You don't have to look for a box, I found it for you. Oh, should we do the redemption? ABC, always be closing, folks. All right, Diamond Kings. We've got DK Originals, signatures hollow gold. What is that number two? 25, maybe? And the player is C-L-A, Clayton Kershaw? Wow. A, come on Clayton, sign your cards, Kersh. But that's a nice Clayton Kershaw for Joe Flores and the Dodgers. Dodger Joe Mojo, an early bird Mojo. It pays to be an early bird, ladies and gentlemen. Nice, plenty of time to redeem it as well. All right, now let's open up this box right here, box two in random team two. Yeah, I don't know why cards are even redemptions, especially for the veteran players, they know the drill. They have probably far fewer cards assigned than rookies. I don't think Kershaw should be sitting at his home either in L.A. or Texas and signing cards. Not like he can go anywhere, right? Got 38 minutes until the draft, ladies and gentlemen. That might be right at the end of this break. First round might be starting. I don't know if I timed it right. I was trying to get the first pick on this video. Maybe I'll have to slow it down just a tiny bit. Wow, that's the first, I was gonna say, that's a black frame, that's different. That's a one of one, Roberto Almar, Toronto Blue Jays. In case you were wondering, yes, those frames can be numbered. Joe Flores, again, Blue Jays. Wow, nice. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-woo! So far so good for Joe. How long for a redemption? I mean, a lot of times that depends on the player. How quickly they wanna return those cards to Panini. But then again, the pandemic probably delayed a lot of things too. So at this point, I don't know. Jersey King Craig Biggio. Is that Howard at a restaurant? And we got Anthony Kay. Another Toronto Blue Jays for Joe Flores. The Biggio, of course, goes to James Teal and the Astros and the Duel Religionatograph for Joe. So far so good. Great start for him. And Sean Corbett did a little research. He says that Kershaw is out of 25. Nice, Joe Flores, that is strong.  I might need some chalk, like LeBron James, Michael Jordan. Chalk up the hands. I'm assuming Moni Davis being interviewed right now. I'm assuming she's playing college ball? Curtis, what's up? Jaspy, Pham, and I, we are holding up just fine. Thank you for asking. I think they're slowly starting to open up around here. So we've been doing a little remodeling in the store. Stan Musial, Jersey. Nice, that's pretty cool. Eric Jay with the Cardinals. Game-worn material, nice. Yeah, COVID has not dared touch Jaspy's case breaks. We've been free of that. And everyone's been doing their part, keeping clean. We're already pretty clean. Just by the nature of our jobs, we're always using our hands to handle some delicate stuff. So we just became even extra clean. There's Joe Palumbo for the Rangers. That's gonna go to Michael Gallucci. He got randomized Texas. Yeah, pinball machine is working. We got the back panel light fixed. I think pre, just before we were shut down for the pandemic, we had just gotten that fixed. So I haven't played it in a while. Maybe I'll play that today. Yeah, the Hulk is smashing in the Avengers pinball game. It's getting pretty good at it, too. Maybe I'll fire it up today. All right, next up. I've only activated the, that's what it's called, the Black Widow Multi-Ball in Avengers pinball. I think I've only activated that, like how many times have I played, how many rounds of the Avengers pinball have I played since we got that machine? I don't know. 50 times maybe? I think I've only gotten the multi-ball. Oh, each character has a multi-ball? Okay, well, I don't know which multi-ball I got, but in general, I think I've only gotten like one or two out of like a couple dozen plays. I need more practice. But I'm starting to figure out the angles. Starting to figure out the angles. Tony Gwynn. Starting to figure out the way our table is set. It's possibly uneven floor, slightly. There's Tony Gwynn, Quad Relic for the Padres, Matt Gomes. I'm trying to find a good spot for a dartboard here. I don't think we have a good spot for a dartboard. There's Jake Rogers, Duel Relic and Autograph for the Tigers. Detroit goes to Adam Richards. Yeah, that I know, Curtis, but what about home field advantage? There are new Wendy's, Rex is reporting a new Wendy's Baconator Pringles. I'll give that a shot. Curtis says Wendy's Burgers, bottom tier. A&W the best? Is that, I don't know if that's a national chain though. I don't think I have any A&Ws. What's the best national chain, not regional chain, best national chain, fast food hamburger. Oh right, Curtis is in Canada, A&W is national for Curtis. In the United States then. Major United States fast food burger chains. What's the best? Five guys, says Rex. Is five guys wide spread enough? Maybe we just have to say the big four. Is there a big four? McDonald's, Burger King, Carl's Jr. Hardee's. I don't know, what would the, maybe, there's Matt Chapman, piece of his lumber, Oakland A's, Jason K with the A's. Jack in the box might be the fourth right. Those are the big four. So what's best of the big four? McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Jack in the box. There's Nico Harner, dual relic and autograph. Curtis's, Burger King is the best burger of the four. Rex likes the triple stackers. What, there's no Jack in the box near you? Nico Harner, nice one for Roy. I don't know when the last time I had burgers from any of those establishments. I'm trying to get a little healthier, but I don't know, the Wendy's standard burger is pretty good, I want to say. McDonald's burger is not too bad either. Not a fan of the Burger King burger. Carl's Jr.'s pretty good. Jack in the box, I feel like their standard burger is the overall, Jack in the box is a little too, a little too greasy for me. Wait, Curtis, you guys don't have a, a Sonic, I understand. Of course, a Calgary does not have a Jack in the box. Jack in the box needs to, needs to get their, get their act together. You can increase that, you can increase that international presence. What's up, Darren? Darren likes the Dairy Queen flamethrower. I don't think we have a lot, I don't know where the Dairy Queen is here in Los Angeles. No, I'm, yeah, I'm with Cal. I'm a curly fry guy. Or a criss-cut fry, a waffle fry guy. We got a Piedolanzo Quadrelic. Piedolanzo Quadrelic for Brandon Walker and the Metz. The first inner case had a Piedolanzo autograph, one of those T206 autographs. That was pretty slick, pretty sweet, pretty, pretty nice. It was one of these T206 designs, but with a sticker autograph on there, looked pretty cool. All right, halfway through this inner case, ladies and gentlemen, we're moving along nicely. Draft coming up in 25 minutes. I think we'll be able to get the first pick right here on the recording, which will be a nice historic moment. Addison St. Jack in the box has the best tacos. I don't know, if I'm going fast food tacos, I would still default, I would still default to Taco Bell. Where's the nearest Dairy, do we have a Dairy Queen nearby here? I don't know if we have a DQ nearby here.  There is, I've never been. Here, we've got Nick Jaspie here. I'm gonna hand a few boxes to him. High five. Wow, all of them. Yeah. All right, there you go. I was telling the gang earlier, Nick, that some of the Photoshop mock-ups of Diamond Kings, I was like, uh, doesn't look too good, but thankfully there were just Photoshop mock-ups because overall, I think it's pretty solid. I mean, especially, we got NT basketball, super expensive, Diamond Icon, super expensive. This is an excellent price point for a lot of people. Let me get some decent hits out of there. Rice Harper downtown card from the first inner case. Piedolonzo autograph in the first inner case. This one had a one-of-one black frame, Roberto Alomar, and a Raphael Devers downtown. I think I like everything except for when they Photoshop them to be like old players. You didn't like the T206 design? Those look better in person, I thought. The Piedolonzo autograph was a T206 Piedolonzo. Is it Gaudi or T206? I don't know, I mean. I think, yeah, I know, that's why, but Rex said the checklist calls it T206, like DK T206, or DK 206. So I don't know if that was just, if that was just the checklist saying that or if Panini's actually calling it that. Do you think Panini actually calls them T206? Nice Gavin Luxe quadra, like Joe Flores. T206, tops as the rights to T206, not Panini, right? So they couldn't call it T206. So that must just be the checklist calling it that. See, because group rate checklists call it DK 206. Oh, that's what it's called. They just take out the T206. They just take out the T? Yeah. That's the only thing? But they're also not shaped like a T206. The T206 are those skinny, red, the skinny, yeah. Carborel Connection also says they're called DK 206. So maybe that's how they get around it. We got Sean Murphy, dual relic and autograph, Oakland A's, Jason K's. No, I just saw a lot of the photos, they look sad and all that. Yeah. But didn't everybody look sad in those tobacco cards? Yeah.  There's Eddie Murray to 99. And that's Orioles is not too many numbered, serial numbered cards in this. I guess with Nick's help, we're not gonna get that first pick on the video. You know, I'm an apologies. That goes to Joe Lancaster and the Orioles. Who do you have going number one? Put the Jaspies rent money on it? Torkelson? Yeah. First baseman I think. Yeah. Torkelson, that guy from Arizona State. All right, here's another two boxes right here. All right. Good luck boys and girls. Next box. Jason K saying yes. Oh, Jason, you might be lagging by a minute or two. Make sure you catch up. There's Juan Soto, Jersey King, but yeah, that's Sean Murphy. It's a nice one for you. Joe Flores with the Nats. You know, Shagill, this Alexander's related to Nikhil Alexander Wong. Absolutely. They're cousins. I didn't realize. I see that every time I pull their colleagues. Every other time. You guys have one Alexander in the middle, but then the second. One, I don't, you're gonna have to ask the Alexander family. There's a two color dual relic, autograph, Jordanyama moto for Levi and the Marlins. I'm assuming so. Is Shay Gilgis, is Gilgis part of his first name? No, it's Shay. And the last name is Alexander Walker. There's Alexander Walker and Gilgis Walker. Wait, Shay Gilgis Alexander? Is it Shay Gilgis Alexander? Or Shay Gilgis Alexander? I think one's like, maybe mom side, dad side, married in, and the other one's like, O.G. Alexander or something like that, I don't know. I feel like Nikhil and Shay just did that to confuse everybody. They're like, this is gonna be funny. There's Travis Demerit to Adam Richards and the Tigers. There's a Mike Trout, artist-proof numbered card 49 for the Halos. That'll be for David Duffy. Who are the angels taking? The angels are taking, according to the fan graphs mock draft. The picture from somewhere? They are taking Reed Detmerit from Louisville. Fan graphs also, probably. They've also heard Ed Howard's name, that 10th spot, but he thinks that college players are more likely to be drafted. Yeah, I don't think a lot of high schoolers can get drafted in this year's draft. Is it the Corona Fires? Yeah, because it's only five rounds, too. Because they don't know if they're gonna. I guess, I don't know. Or they want MLB-ready players. MLB-ready players, probably. They haven't done a lot of scouting, so at least they have a lot of college tape that they can use. What's the Corona draft? It's gonna be all old people. College kids, yeah. 21-year-olds. Shoe Otani, two-color dual relics. Might be a little bit cheaper this year. And then gets really expensive, like, two years later. You don't have to weigh as long for those college kids. Because they've already seen him. Well, and yeah. True. That Otani goes to David Duffy and the Angels. It's one of Aaron's. Yeah, I mean, he was in the minor for a minute or two. But he was the Fresno State, you know. Right. Cardi says he emailed you about Mando pre-orders being up. I might have to get a case of that myself. Dylan Cease, dual relic and autograph. White socks. Matt Gomes. Mando. Love that Carl Weathers is in the Mandalorian. Mando. I thought that was artist-proof. It's not. Peter Lonzo Fring. And JD Martinez, Bat Kings. That'll be for Joe. No, I'm sorry. Check that mark. And the red socks. Joe Lancaster's name's right next to him. Right-handed hitting first baseman drafted in the first round. Frank Ta... Oh, MLB had to list up. Zach Prussian, what's going on? Boba Shet, dual relic, 63 out of 99. Boba Shet or Boba Fett? That goes to Joe Flores in the Blue Jays. He's having a nice break. Logan Allen, dual relic and autograph for Cleveland. That's gonna go to Carlos in the tribe. All right, and the final box, ladies and gentlemen. Good luck. AJ Puck, dual relic, 75 out of 99. Jason K and the A's. He's supposed to be a pretty solid flamethrower here. Reminiscent of big unit, Randy Johnson. Tall, lanky guy, long hair, composing. Trust me, she'll like it too. Frank Thomas, that's what he says. Nico Harner, nice. Dual relic and autograph. The second one, I think, for the Cubs. 39 out of 99. That's Roy with the Cubbies. Some better color in this particular one too. No, I think you're on time now, Jason K. Thank you. So almost to the end of our last box, Jackie Robinson, we've got a Clayton Kershaw and a Tony Gwynn right here at the end. That was 12 box, intercase, random team two of the brand new 2020 Panini Diamond King Baseball. We've got some more in the store on jaskyscasebreaks.com right there. So check it out, I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Oh, why don't we do a quick recap too? Might as well, it's sort of a longer break. Gotta get those recaps in. Breaks that are maybe around 45 minutes in up, which this is, we're at 37 minutes, but we got Nick's help. All right, so not too shabby, nice Clayton Kershaw right there. And we started off with that Raphael Devers Downtown Cards. And there you go. Thanks everybody. Joe for jaskyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.