Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2022 Tops Chrome Baseball. A double header break, two hobby cases, 24 boxes, and each box gets a silver pack as well. That's where the short prints are. This is random team break number five. I just realized that this is our last two boxes of Tops Chrome hobby. So thanks everyone for making this happen, I appreciate it. Especially everyone here. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up. Congrats to the people who won their spots in the Tops Chrome Jumbo packs 10 and 11. Scott, last spot, Mojo, thank you. All 30 baseball teams are in, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Names and teams, five and a four, nine times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And once more, ninth and final time. After nine, we got Matthew down to Eric. Five and a four, nine times, four of the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And ninth and final time. After nine, we got the Metropolitan's down to the Minnesota Twins. All right, so Matthew with the Mets, Chad with the Red Sox, Jeff with the Cubs, Scott with the Phillies, Rick with the Yankees, John with the Astros. Sean with the Guardians, Nestor with the Rockies, Will with the Reds. Nestor with the Rangers, Jose, you got the Tigers, Scott, last spot, Mojo, White Sox. Michael with the Mariners, Brent with the Angels, Richard with the Giants. Franklin with the Orioles, Brian with the Pirates, Steven with the Diamondbacks. Michael with the Dodgers, Kevin with the A's. Michael with the Marlins, Richard with the Brew Crew, Steven P with the Blue Jays and the Rays, Brandon with the Cardinals, Nicholas with the Nats, Jose with the Braves, Michael with the Royals, Chris with the Padres, and Eric with the Minnesota Twins. Let's sort by, alphabetically by team. And we're going to pause the video just for a moment. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades. And then we'll have the break. It took around, BRB. All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done in the double header. We got some Halloween decorations back there, getting festive. Big thanks to everyone here on a Monday, the 17th, for making this happen, random team break number five. Scott with that last spot mojo, closing things down. People winning teams and fillers. People buying their random team spots straight up. However you did it, I appreciate you getting in. Thank you. It's dual case break, so hang in there, settle in. Let's, you can still see this on my face camera. Box is behind me here. Let's stack it on the other case so you can see it. Let's see if we can take this out of inventory here. Inventory, can you scan the UPC code? No, maybe on this. Next 24 boxes out of inventory. All right, good luck, gang. Box one of 24. Now I wish there were some baseball talk about, but game five of the ALDS is in a rain delay. They've got some game show on instead of the game, right? Let's flip back over there really quick. It's on some sort of commercial, yeah. So I guess we'll have to watch this Broncos Chargers game here. Now Terry, we're watching the Monday Night Football game and Terry is a fantasy football opponent this week. Of course has Jerry Judy. I think Terry is leading and of course it would take some Jerry Judy to win this week. Terry is like, he's going to have a record day against me. A four touchdown day. What's the record? I know this is a baseball break, but since so long, we'll eventually start getting to a lot of different topics. But what is the record for receiving touchdowns? I don't think I know the answer to that. I don't even know how many it would be. Four? Five? It can't be more than five. There's only so many, I guess I have to think about quarterbacks who've thrown a lot of touchdowns. I think that record is six or seven passing touchdowns. I'll have to look that up in a little bit. End of the first, Broncos leading 10-nothing on the Chargers in Los Angeles, a 51-yard Brandon McMess field goal and a Russell Wilson touchdown pass. To Greg Dulcich, tight end, maybe. Not the tight end that I thought would score a touchdown. I'm on the Broncos plus four and a half so far so good. Gilo looked it up. Thanks, Gilo. Gabe saying five TDs is the record. Jerry Rice, Kellen Winslow Sr. and Bob Shaw. Very short list. All right, good luck, everybody. And our first autograph is Jake Berger. That is a delicious Berger. What was that line in the publication? Was it a Kahuna Berger, maybe? Now, it's two autos a box, right? On average, two a box on average. There's Trey Overnje to 99. Number of people have four, including Kelsey last week. Come on, Gilo. And that's in the past. That's old news. That was like two weeks ago. Or was it last week? That's in the past. There's Reed Detmerce, 258 out of 350. Magenta Speckle. And there's your Edward Cabrera autograph. He's usually a redemption. But there he is in a live autograph in here, Michael Lausia and the Marlins. Purple Chrome Auto, 126 out of 250. I will do an autograph recap at the end of the 24 boxes after the second hobby case. We'll do one big randomizer there. Randomizer? Recap. That's why I went Denver plus four and a half. Because of that guy. He's going to cover Mike Williams. Don't have Keenan Allen. Big Kahuna Burgers, Harry. That's right. Yeah, Joe, because I'll give you an explanation. This year, they just flat out, they just choke. That's it. You know, like I think, no, I don't, yeah, thanks. I appreciate Gilo for looking out for my feelings. It's day like two. Each day it's getting better and better. So I think I'm OK to talk about it. They just flat out choke. I think previous year, yeah, that's most years. But I don't know. You can make reasons for other years. This year was just a straight up. Bats 1, 2, and 3 were cold for a majority of the series. Bats 7, 8, and 9 were black holes, you know? Usually I could say, oh, the dodgers played hard, but other teams just got some runs here and there. But hey, I'm proud of the Dodgers, blah, blah, blah. I could say it's this and that. I could say that in previous years. Like listen, they battled, but just didn't work out. That's playoffs. Playoff baseball, that happens. But this was just different. This felt a lot different, and it was a lot different. They just kind of, there wasn't a lot of heart, a lot of fire that wasn't really there. I think, and these aren't excuses, but they just weren't battle tested. The Padres had to grind to get a playoff spot. They had to grind to beat two good pitchers. They beat Max Scherzer. But they had to grind in a tough three game series. And so they were a little more battle tested. And it just seems like the Dodgers thought that they can just turn on a switch, and then it'd be back to the regular season again. Maybe they, I don't know, maybe a part of them underestimated the Padres a little bit. But I think mostly runners in scoring position, that's the big number. After like Trey Turner's home run in game one or something like that, they won that game. But after the run scored in game one, they were one for like almost 30 with runners in scoring position. That's everybody, that's everybody not putting in work, not passing the baton or not getting the timely hits. It's Josh Lowe, Magenta Speckle to 350. So 87 out of 199. John Means for the Orioles, that'll be for Frank Franklin. So, I mean, that's what it is. You went 111 games, they went into cruise control a little bit. They didn't really address a lot of issues. They knew what they had in Craig Kimbrell, but they let Josh Hayer go to the Padres. They knew, for example, Walker Bueller went down in June. They let, ooh, some red. Walker Bueller went down in June and they didn't address the starting pitching issue. They let Luis Castillo go to Seattle. And look at this, here's Zach Plisac of your playoff Cleveland Guardians. We're in a rain delay right now, three out of five. And that is for a little color match too. Sean Maddock getting randomized, Cleveland. Cleveland, this is for you. Yes. And all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoop whoop. Nice. Was there only one auto in there? I guess just one big auto. On average, it's what it says on the box, but there you go. All right, next box. Well, I mean, listen, it's, I know it's a subtle difference. A loss is a loss, but it's the way they lost, which is disappointing. Like I said, if they were battling, if they were grinding and leads were being changed back and forth and they just, I mean, you know, it's baseball and they just, and they lost, that's fine. I mean, I'd still be sad, but I could definitely live with it, you know, it's just sports, right? And at the end of the day, but the way they lost, that's where it, that's where I appreciate it. Thanks for being good sport about it. But yeah, it's the way they lost, I think is really, is really what I think has everyone stunned. And now I mean, I'm listening to sports talk radio on the way here. This is the first Monday after, after that loss and all the sports talk radio hosts are just, it's just the feeling of just being stunned. Oh, I see, I see. So that base car probably got shipped with the other, got it, I see what happened. Just blame the refs. No, I'm not to blame the refs or blame the uns kind of guy. That's not my thing. I'll let other people do that. Alcatno, what's going on? Well, aside from all of my sports teams being terrible, life is pretty good. Right, yeah. Joe's saying the one thing that always kills me is not that my team lose and won't be involved in a title. It's just, right, the feeling of how long you have to wait for next season for them to try again. Well, that's the other thing. It's just, it's a long winter. At least it feels like it's really just November, December, January, it's like three or four months. It feels longer though, especially when it's through a winter cycle. It feels a lot longer.  They should have addressed this issue, but although Tyler Anderson pitched amirably, that goes to Michael and the Dodgers. It's Corbin Burns to 99. Alcatno and Josh are saying that's worth, that's worse than being a Rockies fan, not having any chance at all. That's true. No, I'm proud of the season that the Dodgers had, just not happy with the way, and they're not happy either, I'm sure. Dodgers need a little grit. They may need, they may need like a Kirk Gibson type player. Here's Francisco Perez, National's autograph for Nicholas S.  You know, in years past, it was like Keke Hernandez or Jock Peterson, kind of providing that spark. All right, Tia Michael, I've got one man.  Just the anticipation of that. There's Elohimenez, magenta for Scott and the White Sox. So there's that. I mean, just a little too quiet for Max Muncie. I know he's coming back from some elbow injury, not a lot of grit coming from Trey Turner, some defensive mislaps, mislaps? Lapses, mishaps or lapses from him, or mislaps. So you put all those little things together and there you go. There's Luke Voight, Yankees. Rick T with the Yankees. And anyone have any idea, anyone have any idea when the Yankees game is supposed to start? Anyone keeping track for that? Right, or Paul Milsap plays basketball. Gilo saying, Casey only has baseball and football. Nothing gets us through the winter except football once a week, long off seasons, yeah. Yeah, Diamondbacks got one in the early 2000s. Your uncle played for the Diamondbacks. Who's your uncle? Oh, nice, your uncle's Matt Williams. Former giant also, Matt Williams. Did he manage the Diamondbacks for a little bit too? I feel like he managed a little bit after, after his playing days. I'm assuming that Matt Williams, right? Yeah, managed the Nats, that's what it was. He had a, if I remember correctly, Al Canone, he had a bedding stance where he kind of rubbed his chin or something like that on his shoulder, on his sleeve. Is that correct? I feel like he kind of had that sort of stance. Hey, see you Joe when I was going, man. Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like he had a, he had a few good, a few good peak years on those, on those giants teams. Yeah, right, where he kind of, kind of, it wasn't really a, it's just like a little motion, a little tick in a way.  We've got Mason Jar Thompson for Nicholas S. and the Nationals. Is Matt Williams a World Series champ? Uncle through, oh, uncle through marriage. Still, still uncle, still family. What's Matt, ooh, Shane Boss. Rookie autograph, gold wave parallel, should be at a 50-ish. This goes to Steven P. and the Rays, won that team in the filler. Oh, well, he was on that 01 Diamondbacks team. What's Matt Williams doing these days? Matt's managing Korea. Nice. What team is he managing? Maybe the Lotte Giants. Perhaps the, perhaps the Obi Bears. There's Steven Strasberg, 22 out of 99. Those are the only two Korean baseball teams I know. Videl Bruhan, I've got a lot of family in his whole. I don't know what baseball team or soccer team for that matter, club team, that our families are supposed to support. 14 out of 399. Videl Bruhan, Magenta for Steven P. and the Rays. Oh, Kia Tigers, but he might be back soon. Funny thing, if you're thinking, aren't those all brands? Yes, for somehow professional baseball, they're all owned by the major conglomerate. Out in Korea. So Kia is, yes, the car company that owns the Tigers. I don't know if Obi is a beer company, but I don't know if they still own the Bear, Obi Bears. I think Lotte is a company. I think they still own, pretty sure Hyundai and Samsung also have an LG. They must all have, I think they all have professional baseball teams. Rohit, what's going on? I think one team, I don't think the KBO gives away the sword, Jilo, but I wanna say one team did win it and their ownership provided them with a sword. I wanna say the owner of that baseball team is maybe a video game company. And that sword may be a sword in the game. And then they, I think they gave them a, they gave the team a massive sword as an additional reward for winning the league, something like that. I gotta look that story up, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is. So it would be like, I don't know, what would the equivalent be in America? It would be like if Jilo, if Blizzard Activision was your main sponsor for the Kansas City Royals, and next time they win a World Series, they'll be like, hey, here's a badass sword from like Diablo or whatever game they have there. And we'll give you a replica that you could put in your clubhouse or something like that. It'll be about eight feet. Oh, Matt Williams is back, actually. He's the third base coach for the San Diego Baseball Padres, there you go. Right, sure, World of Warcraft. Here's, yeah, here's like the, here's like, I don't know what the rare weapons are, but here's a rare weapon sword and we'll do that or something like that. Which would be kind of cool. All right, another box of many. All those wanders will go to Steven P. There's Ivan Castillo speaking of the Padres, Rookie Auto for the Friars, Chris Walker with the Padres. I think that NLCS starts in a couple days or so. There's Blake Snell, 154 out of 299, Purple Speckle, and we got Jake Myers, Rookie Autograph for the Astros, John with the Stroze, John R. 209 out of 499. Another two autos down, another box. Oh, we are, after this box, we're halfway through the first case. I think we're right on schedule, yeah. Each half case, yeah, it's a two hour break. 30 minutes, about 30-ish minutes for each half. About just a little over two hours total going solo on this. And once again, we'll do an autograph recap or actually, and any, you know, if there's like a card like 10 or under or something like that, we'll throw that into the top load pile as well and then we'll do a recap at the end, oh, and after the Silver Packs too, we'll do a catch. Monday night football game, three minutes left in the first half, Broncos up 10-7. Who scored the, oh, Austin Eckler had a six yard rushing touchdown. That's capping a 15 play, 82 yards, seven minute and 40 second drive. Now they got the ball again. El Canon got an order of light, chrome light. The black and white mini diamond parallels are pretty cool. If the charters win this one, they'll improve to four and two, tying them for first place with Kansas City. That'll drop Denver to two and four. My Raiders on a buy this week, so hopefully they're working on things. It's a Wander Franco doing, it's a variation right there, nice. Thankfully they flipped those around. That's for Steven P. Got randomized the raise, won that spot in the filler. That's right, Gilo, at least the Raiders didn't lose this weekend. I guess the LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer's in their playoffs. They won their first round playoff matchup, although they face a pretty tough challenge in LA FC. Their crosstown rival, they're facing them in a playoff game on Thursday night, Sports Equinox night, Gilo. Watch the Galaxy lose like five mil. More sadness for Joe's sports teams. And we've got Marcos Ditlan, Franklin, with the Orioles. And a Connor Wong, blue lava autograph for Chad Wright and the Red Sox, won that team in the filler. Or won the spot in the filler and then got randomized the Red Sox and ends up with this autograph, 132 out of 150. Like the lava parallels, those look pretty sharp. All right, second half, Wong gone, Gonzalez, like Juan, Juan gone. Any relation to Colton Wong, there can't be too many. And he was born in Texas, there can't be too many Wongs in baseball, right? He was born in Houston, actually a Dodger for a little bit. No, it does not say that he has any relation to Colton Wong, Colton Wong is from Hawaii. No relation, they do not. No, tip your waitresses, tip your bartenders. Try the veal. J.K. Scott has not attempted an NFL, I feel like the Chargers are always having kicker issues. What's wrong with their kicker today? Apparently this J.K. Scott guy is warming up, swinging the old leg around. It's a first down for the Chargers. What would the, is the backup quarterback the easiest job in the NFL in terms of just like, there's no stress, you just have to be in the QB room, maybe help out at practice, there's rent in low. For the raise, that'll be for Stephen P, 45 out of 150. And backup quarterbacks tend to get a decent paycheck for not doing all that much. QB one gets injured, there's really no pressure, you can just sling it around a little bit or hand the ball off a few times. Bills is saying, I opened one pack of tops and pulled up Padres to 2022. Maybe it's their year. There's Helio Ramos for the Giants, Richard for the Giants. Gabe was saying in the other day of dual threat players that aren't QBs. What are, who are other dual threat players that are not QBs? The Chief Safety can also kick in a pinch. There's Max Muncie Purple to 250. Right, yeah, you can put him on kickoffs and then he could, he can get into coverage and just blow someone up. I can't really think of any other, maybe quarter L Patterson, Devo Samuel, those are kind of like running back wide receiver hybrids. I wonder if that's gonna be more of a thing as time goes on. You have guys like Austin Enkler more versatile running backs. Maybe the days of the, between the gaps kind of running back may not be as common or at least not as like bell cow backs. You'll have the occasional Derek Henrys of the world. So here is, oh, there's Dustin Hopkins. I don't know why this other guy was warming up his leg. Dustin Hopkins, not Dustin Hoffman. I don't know, it's kind of like a knuckler. All right, well, Carter's make the field ball, they tie it up giving Russell, well does danger us with 53 seconds? Danger us, danger us of old could make some things happen. Now ladies and gentlemen, we only have a few orders coming in here. This is right now while I'm doing this long break cause we've got another case of this to go. Still have more boxes of this to go, but with this long break happening now, I know if you're not in this break, no, it's not super exciting, but right now is the perfect time to get into, is the perfect time to get into the other break credit breaks. Cause we're down to our last few breaks plus their related fillers. But we need some help. If we want to get that break credit done tonight. If, I mean, if you don't want to win break credit, I suppose that's fine. We want to give away the money though. There's Matt Manning, gold waved 250 and there's Ryan Vallad for the Rockies, Nestor with Colorado gets the rookie auto. Anyone have any word on the baseball game? Let's flip back to TBS and I see a commercial. If it, does that help the, the Guardians? Could they run Shane Bieber out there? If, I think I'll still be on short rest, but they could, they could they run them out there if they, if tonight's game is pushed to tomorrow or does Clayton Kershaw end up? And there's Zach Lothar, Orioles. Kershaw's a free agent. You only signed a one year deal. He's a free agent after this season. Franklin with the Orioles. And there's you Darvish, a photo negative parallel for a variation for Chris Walker and the Padres. I think he said he feels good about, I think he feels like he can throw pitch another season, but where is the, is the issue? A lot of people on Twitter, thanks Gila for the research. A lot of people on Twitter complaining because there are no updates about the game. Huh. Usually teams or the network is usually pretty good about, hey, umpires are talking about it. They're going to reevaluate. They're going to look at it again at X time. Now it's back to Dwayne Wade's game show. So let's go back to Bronco's Chargers, which is probably going to be in half time soon. So the Broncos have 50 seconds to try to do something and they also get the second half kickoff. So if they could get like a field goal here, come back and get the ball again. That'll help my Denver plus four and a half, Jerry Judy wide open, no flags, no timeouts. Either you got to spike it or run a play. There's 36 seconds left. Sorry, Terry. I got him to the 30, another pass out of bounds. Another 10 yards, nine, 10 yards stops the clock. They're in the red zone, they're on the 20, inside the 20, Chargers calling a timeout. I thought that was going to be a touchdown. You know, they do get the ball in the second half. Yeah, I guess Russ, Russ is, uh, I think we looked it up the Laticius dorsi, the big wing like muscle on, on your back there. Had a, apparently had a small procedure there and then some sort of shot, core zone shot or something like that. But now we're, now Jilo is thinking maybe, maybe he got some sort of robotic arm implanted in there. Is that acceptable in the NFL? Can you have robot parts? Should that be allowed? We've got an Aqua wave, Trey Averge, 199 out of 199. Reds would be for Will and the red legs. No, I don't think he got Ringworm. We're just speculating what that injection was that he got four or five days ago. Is that a roughing the passer call? I don't think you can grab by the legs like that anymore. Jeff Thompson with the Cubs gets the Greg Diegman. How long before quarterbacks just have, like flag football flags draped on their hips? There's Tyler Gilbert, Magenta to 399. Diamond back, Steven. And we've got a Colton Welker Aqua wave autograph, 56 out of 199. Rockies, Nestor. Now it's third and goal, seven seconds left. Clock stopping on the incomplete pass. Can you run? Is it possible to run another play? Another passing play in seven seconds? Well, they give him eight seconds. They adjust the clock. I mean, this stage of the red zone should be able to. We're gonna pass it. Ooh, off the hands of number 80. Is that Albert Ocuivanum? No, that's Dulcich. It's off to sell for a field goal. Well, that third and that second in goal play should have been that touchdown. I think they're gonna replay this right now. Or no, maybe not. Should be automatic for McManus. Gets it in there, curls it in there a little bit.  I don't know if it's getting pretty late in New York. It's already 9.37 on the East Coast. They really gonna start this game? Jeremy, what's going on? How are you? Good evening. I mean, even if they started the game like right now, 9.40, pretty late. We've got Adolz Garcia, Aqua Wave, 40 out of 199 for Texas, that'll be for Nester. Why is the Yankees game delayed? Rain, weather, the usual reason why it's delayed. Read Detmerce, unless there's like a zombie attack that I don't know about. Angels, that'll be for Brent and the Halos. Big release on Wednesday and Friday, Jeremy. We've got a lot of new releases. Top Sterling Baseball, you can pre-order now. Drops on Wednesday, that should be pretty nice. 2022, certified football, drops on Wednesday. Panini National Treasures FIFA Road to the World Cup drops on Wednesday. And either on this channel or our personal Breaks channel and Instagram, at Jaspy's Breaks, should have impeccable WWE. And then on Friday, Spectra Basketball, on Friday, Panini 3 and 2 Baseball, unless they push those back. And on Friday, 2022, Top's Luminaries Baseball. What a week. And what a hit, Paul Goldschmidt. You might be your MVP this year for the NL. 93 out of 99, Club Plax Autograph. Right, next box, two more boxes in this case. Cardboard has certified listed for Friday. Maybe they just changed that. Aha, I'll update that. Yeah, certified is, I'm looking at blowout as well. They have a good new release calendar that has, so certified has been pushed to the 21st, but either way, big new release week. Pre-orders for most of those products I listed off are up right now. We got pre-orders for Spectra up. We got pre-orders for certified up. We got pre-orders for Sterling up. And keep your eye out for the pre-orders for the other ones, Jaspy's Case Breaks.com. Oh, so Gilo reporting, they called it. It must be Terry. They called it, ALDS postpone till tomorrow. So who does that? Does that help? That's gotta help the Guardians, I would think. They had to travel from Cleveland to New York. They get an extra night to rest, maybe be able to get some other, I don't know, extra day of rest for maybe some of their top pitchers, maybe Shane Beaver, maybe put in some work. Now I know, I realize that, I recognize that Chris Berman earned his way to this position in his career, but it'd be nice to just, I mean, if this is his retirement, that's not bad. Just to do some halftime highlights. Once a week. All right, second and last box of the first case. Then one more case. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Whoop, whoop, rumbling, stumbling, bumbling. Back, back, back, back, back. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Whoop! There's Connor Wong for Chad Wright and The Red Sox. And it's Chasmacormic.  In the football highlights.  And gone. There's Harrison Bader, 85 out of 299. Cardinals, Brandon with the red birds. Purple speckled. What do I think of Justin Herbert? I think he is the real deal. He's Ryan Mountcastle, purple chrome autograph for Franklin and the Orioles. 63 out of 250. And an O'Neill Cruz refractor for the Pirates. That'll be for Brian. But I think a lot of people, I imagine if Justin Herbert wasn't on the Chargers. His value in the secondary market for the hobby anyway might be even bigger. I mean, NFL is, I mean, it's obvious to say, but it's such a team sport that he could be the real deal. But if the Chargers don't, don't continue to spend and improve around him, then there just might be a waste. And still rivers. Jeremy rarely watches Monday Night Football.  Yeah, it's political ad season. I think that's not every year. There is the Manning Cast. Jeremy, most of these Monday Night Football games has the Manning Cast. That's a lot more entertaining to watch. I think he just changed the channel with the ads. Come on. I don't mind Joe Buck doing football. I'm not a fan of him doing baseball, but now he's not doing baseball anymore. So it works out for me. Terry saying, Justin Herbert, Philip Rivers, 2.0, part two, gonna pick up a ton of stats, but not really do too much. Oh, there's no Manning Cast this week. Okay, so watch about mute. Watch Jaspis, Jeremy. I've got the game on mute right here. Game on mute. Watch us. A lot of fun. Yeah, I mean, that's the fun of collecting. Al Canone, Al Canone saying, listen, I mean, there's a lot of questions regarding all the young quarterbacks, you know? Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Tua, Mac Jones, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, so on and so forth. There's Jesus Lozardo, Blue Wave to 75. That's from Miami, that'll be from Michael L. But yeah, that's what makes, just not even for the hobby, that just makes the NFL fun to watch. And here is Whit Merrifield, Purple Speckle, double O2 to 2.99 for the Royals. Well, it's also for Michael, same Michael. So half the fun is just kind of testing your knowledge and luck to see, you know, which players are gonna be, you know, the ones to collect long-term, which ones just, who are just flashes in the pen. It's tough, because a lot of it, again, it's because it's such a team support, a lot of it will depend on, you know, what team they're on, what market they're in, you know, how the team supports these quarterbacks with weapons, with offensive line, with the decent defense that can help them win games. But yeah, it's exciting to see. That's what makes the NFL so great week to week. And there's our second auto, Colton Welker for the Rockies, that'll be for Nestor. All right, gang, 12 boxes down, another 12 to go. It's a double header. Let's play two, as Ernie Banks would say. Now, if you're watching live, don't have any more hobby cases. We may have some personal hobby boxes on our Instagram channel, at Jasper's Breaks. But we don't have any more after that, or any more hobby, case breaks. Not, I mean, unless we get more cases, but. But we do have some more jumbo cases. So right now, I think we currently have a single case, top-combing baseball jumbo pick your team break, if you wanna get into that. Each box has five autographs, and then a silver pack per box. Mike Tower is saying, when you were talking NFL, you thought I was gonna say not for long, seeing how a player may be great, hitting the rookier, and then become more hyped in production. That's the thing, there's like different layers. All right, guess, what do they call it in finance? Like different time horizons? If you're in your 60s or 70s, your time horizon for investing in the markets may be a lot shorter than someone in their teens or early 20s. And I think it's similar with the hobby, different time horizons, right? You may be a collector that just wants to get into some breaks, just for fun, and then flip really quick for the short-term hype and profit, which a lot of people did with, say, Lugodanjic and succeeded for basketball collectors. But the ones who held onto Lugodanjic a little bit longer may have gotten a little more. And if you ride out in his career, the ups and downs of the natural ups and downs of his career, he could be one of the greatest by the time everything's said and done. So just depending on what your acceptable level of risk is, what your time horizon is, but that's what makes it fun. There's really no right or wrong way to collect. Jeremy's saying, congrats, after six weeks, six and oh, in your church league, average margin of victory, 34 points. Hmm. Maybe your fellow churchgoers, Jeremy, maybe they're just not good at fantasy football. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe just in the easy league. Yeah, NBA, I feel like it's a good time to buy Zion if those prices are down. But those can have some pretty wild swings, like a tech stock, like a growth stock. Could be some wild ups and downs. Oh yeah, you're about to take down, Gilo's about to take down the number one guy in his league thanks to Eckler and Jerry Judy. There's Tyler Glass now, orange, 19 out of 25 for the raise. That's gonna be for Stephen P. There's our next, or yeah, our first autograph of the box, Ronzi Contreras, Pirates, Sir Brian M. Wow, you found a Lugodange's rookie floor general's dazzle in a box of yours. Send it in, got a PSA 10. That's not too bad. Gilo likes baseball because it's like investing in stocks. Basketball have to flip pretty fast. Although there are some long-term opportunities for basketball as well. Nice hyper parallel, Wander Franco, not numbered, but still nice for Stephen P. and the raise. But I mean, that's just the great thing about collecting. I think there's different types of collectors for baseball requires a little more patience, I think. And you know, there's a different type of person who collects football only or basketball or hockey or soccer. That's what makes the hobby fun. People have all their own opinions about what's best to collect and why. I think there could be pros and cons and counters for. And there's Trevor Rodger, our second autograph for everything, but that's what makes it fun. Michael with the Marlins.  Yeah, Alonzo stuff, why is that? I'm wondering why the Alonzo market's a little soft. I feel like you can buy that, hold on to that. And if he knocks out sort of air and judgy sort of season, and if the Met can kind of make their way deep into the playoffs. Yeah, the Yordon prices were pretty low too before the playoffs. And that's how quick it could change, especially in the playoffs. Oh, Alonzo stuff picks up in the winter because he's the polar bear, right? Although don't, wait, do polar bears hibernate? If there's a zoologist out there who specializes in Arctic animals, let me know. Behind Zach Wheeler is MJ Melendez. This could be the future, it's a rookie auto. This could be the future of the Royals' catching position. Michael Lossia with the Royals, 41 to 150. Nice, good research Terry from Google. The polar bear eats seals that it can hunt on the ice throughout the year. So has the polar bear has no need to hibernate? There you go. There's Mookie Betts, 248 out of 399. Bat hibernating in the playoffs. I guess, even from the Brooklyn days, when the Dodgers were affectionately known as them bums, the refrain was always, refrain was always wait till next year. Although they were a wildly popular team in Brooklyn and when they finally did win one, then the team moved. There's Tim Anderson, 103 out of 150. Scott with the White Sox. And Jose Ciri. I guess he signs all of them like this. I saw one car that was signed like this. I think he signed all of them like that. He maybe should be going across this way, but John with the Astros. That's right, Terry. I remember those days fondly. No, not fondly, but I remember those days listening on the wireless. And the Yankees pretty much dominated the Dodgers up until like the mid 1950s. Those were the days, Terry. When all the baseball games were in the afternoon on the old radio, red barber column, the games, old red barber column games and collecting, you know, at home I would listen to the ball game and score the game and then tell my dad about it when he came home and work, ride the trolleys, playing the stick ball in the streets, avoiding the cars, and singing in a doo-wop band, a doo-wop group, singing group, singing songs underneath the street lamp, fighting other local hoods, being an actual trolley dodger, right? One year, a lot of the guys got married in the same year and they were the Brooklyn bridegrooms for a little bit. A barbershop quartet, doo-wop was the 60s. Barbershop quartet. Yeah, that's a thing. Back in the day, yeah, people would go to Dodger's games and then they'd have a little transistor radio and listen to Vince Golly call the game on their portable radios while watching the game live, 6375 Reese Hoskins.  That's a 25, five out of 25. Reese Hoskins will see him in a couple of days. That's for Scott and the Phillies to face these guys in San Diego. I wanna say that back in the day, Dodger Stadium transistor radio giveaway nights were pretty big. They would do that almost once a year for a couple of decades. Now you can listen to the radio on your phone, so it doesn't happen anymore. There's that short. The radio stations would, I remember the radio stations would sometimes give away like a little transistor radio. There's that short for the Tigers for Jose. Where it was only, it was like a crappy little radio and it would only tune to that particular station. I wanna say. Damn, they did windbreakers for a long time. The fleece blanket, always a popular promo. They still do the fleece blanket. Do they still do the fleece blanket? The fleece blanket, I feel like is a pretty popular promo. You can get a little chili at Dodger Stadium even in the summertime. That's an infamous game, isn't it, Terry? The game against the Cardinals where they gave away baseballs and I think there was, was there, was that against the Cardinals? I thought it was a Cubs game. Maybe it was Cardinals. And there was some sort of fight or argument on the field or the umpires did something and they threw baseballs on the field. I don't think there was ever a baseball promo at least for probably a decade. I don't think they had a baseball promo after that.  All right, another box. There's Jordon Alvarez. You can crush in the baseball. I don't think, I don't think Jordon Alvarez is welcome probably in any part of the Pacific Northwest. There's Ryan Jeffers for the twin. That's gonna be for Eric. Tristan Mackenzie, 50 out of 50. Gold wave for Cleveland. Sean Maddock with the Guardians. They canceled that game five of the ALDS. They'll be playing that tomorrow. So does this, who, interesting. So the Yankees have already named a starter at least according to ESPN's schedule page. Here's John Means with the Orioles, Franklin. They're putting Nestor Cortez on the mound. They originally had James and Tyon on the mound. Here's Brian Della Cruz, Aqua Way Vodograph for the fish. Go to Concord, go to Michael in Miami. Nestor Cortez, an upgrade over James and Tyon. Undecided for Cleveland, 172 out of 199. Does this help the Yankees? They can roll Nestor Cortez out of there. I need a, oh, that's a, it's quite a cut on that Ryan McMahon. Another box down here, and then we've got the other half right over there. Am I doing silver packs for each box out? But yes, Christian, that's what it says in the description and the title. Justin, it does kind of look like a, it does kind of look like an LSU Christmas tree in the back. I think it's a Halloween Christmas tree. Maybe a sort of a nightmare before Christmas kind of thing. We are on box five of case two. We've got about another 40 minutes. We're at the hour 20 minute mark right now. And it should take me just a smidge over two hours. And I'll do an autograph recap of course at the end or the silver packs first and the autograph recap. Those boxes are right behind me as well. That's how many we have left. All right, good luck. We've got Luke Williams. Use the false Luke. And the second autograph, Connor Sebold for Boston. That's Chad Wright and the Red Sox. Six minutes left in the third, third and nine for the Denver Broncos. They're tied 13-13 with the Bolts or the Chargers. No baseball tonight. So that means two games tomorrow, right? So the game five of the ALDS, the division series on at one o'clock. Is this my time, Pacific time? Yeah, 107 Pacific, 407 Eastern. So that'll be the early game. So I guess the game will be in progress by the time we start our live stream here. And then the first game of the NLCS, the championship series will be on FS one, 503 LA time, 803 East Coast time. Might be a little bit of a later one for the East Coasters, but hey, I'll be on the live stream. We'll have the game on in the background and we'll watch together and talk about the game together and probably be breaking some baseball together. 59 out of 250, purple chrome for the Guardians. That'll be for Sean Matic. Some more Wanderers. And I wrote the book of love. Justin, trying to get into a little bit of baseball. What's the deal with the silver packs? That's your spot on. So when Tops released this product, I think they realized, either it was someone told them or I think they might've realized themselves. I don't know the timeline of this, but long story short, there were five cards, super short, super short prints to short prints that were not included in here. And that here, I'll drop the checklist for you here Justin and everybody else. And that was the five cards were the, it's box six of case two, was the extended base short prints set checklist. So those short prints, extended base short prints were not in there. It was Bobby Witt Jr. for the Royals, Julio Rodriguez for the Mariners, Spencer Torgelson for the Tigers, Hunter Green for the Reds and CJ Abrams for the Padres. So somehow an error happened. This sort of stuff usually happens on the factory level. So obviously those cards exist, they were printed, but they weren't distributed inside these cases. So it's not the perfect way to do it, but we gotta get the short print somehow, right? And remember, not every case we're gonna be guaranteed short prints anyway. So what they did was they printed the silver packs, there's one right here. So these printed these silver packs, I think it's like there's like four cards in each pack or something like that. Maybe enough for that. Anyway, there were four cards or so per pack and that's where the short prints reside. And for tops, they told us, hey, you're doing a pack per box, whether it's a hobby or a jumbler, you're getting a pack per box. And so that's what we got. So for our breaks, for the hobbies and the jumbos that we have, we're ripping open one silver pack per box. And that's how we're doing it. Not ideal, but hey, they made it right as best they could. And now once again, we have a chance at the short prints. Take a look at what those Julio Rodriguez for prints are going for out of here. So Michael Lossia, who won a spot, got randomized the Mariners. He's definitely looking forward to those silver packs. Rex, what's going on? You got your first snowfall this season and it actually stuck a couple inches already, several more overnight. Wow, already. Is this early or what is it? Is this early for this time of year? It's wet, heavy, power outages as well. There's Anthony Rendon, 148 out of 250, Brent with the Angels, Patrick Wisdom for the Cubs, Jeff Thompson. I did hear about that as well. I don't know what the deal is with that. I don't have any additional information on that, but hopefully they're still fulfilling the redemptions as well. That's really early and the first snowfall never really sticks. There you go, already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Jilo's already dreading winter and fall. Jilo, you can just visit Los Angeles. Ryan Jeffers, hang out with us here in LA. Do you work from home, Jilo? 187 out of 299, Ryan Jeffers for the twins, Eric C. And then we got a Kershaw, photo negative variation. That's gonna be 70s in the weekend. We're getting a little bit of a, I think maybe tomorrow? Next couple days might get a little bump in warmness here in Los Angeles and then back to cool again. I run the hybrid schedule life. I was gonna say, if you can work from home, you should just pop out to LA for the winter and just work there. This is also the time of the year, Jilo, and over the next month or so, or a few months or so, where you'll see me complain about how cold it is outside and you'll look at the Hormosa Beach, California weather and it'll be like, I don't know, it'll be like low 60s and you'll be like, screw you, man. And that's when I'll convince Billette, just come and visit. Spend a weekend here, hang out with us at Jaspies. Ooh, maybe full-time work from home. Does that mean you can kind of work from anywhere from home? Ah, Justin, that'd be cool. Yeah, carve out some time for us. I'm here Tuesday, I'm here Sunday through Thursday. When do Jason and I overlap? Tuesday through Thursday is our overlap or you'll see Jason on the weekend. We'll close on Sundays, remember that. But yeah, we welcome everybody to come visit the shop. MLB trade rumors, who on MLB trade rumors is suggesting that? Usually they cite their source. Yeah, I mean, Belanger could be a good one-year option for a lot of people. If they think maybe a change of scenery could help them out, maybe if they can catch lightning in a bottle, he might not be that bad for whatever arbitration is going to be next year, 18 million. And then go from there. Justin, we are hopskipping a jump from LA. You can touch the mighty Pacific. We're very close to the beach. All right, here is Kyle Tucker. That's for John and the Astros, 25 out of 150. They're waiting on that. They're waiting on the Guardians and the Yankees. Not to wait one more day. And Cubs are going to sign one of the big four free agent shortstop, Trey Turner's, Annabrogart's, Dansby Swanson, or Carlos Correa. That's short. There's Trey Turner right there. That shortstop market is going to be pretty interesting. Now, before Carlos Correa signed with the twins, I think Carlos Correa expected a lot more money than he thought. That never materialized. So that's why he signed that deal with the twins. There's Ryan McMahon, purple speckle, little nice little color match for Nestor and the Rock. He's 44 out of 2, 99. So that big payday never really materialized. And now, I don't know if that payday materializes this off season either. There's Alfonso Arriba speaking to the Cubs. It'll be for Jeff.  I'm assuming you mean Louis Hamilton, not Luis Hamilton, right? The F1 driver? Is he really a part owner of the Broncos? Those F1 drivers do make a shocking amount of money. Yeah, I don't know if there's been any Cubs color thus far, JT, but I still have a lot of boxes to go. I still got about a half hour ago. I think it's L-E-W-I-S. How much is he on? It's good to be greedy, Jeff. I mean, I'm sure you've been through some cold streaks in our group, Rakes. So it's good to be greedy, especially when you're thinking a lot of Cubs are popping. Wow. Rakes, I'm pretty sure last season you said the same thing. That's going to be a big off season for the Cubs. You're talking about a lot of free agents there, Rakes. How many of those free agents are going to be like, yes, I want to go to this rebuilding team? Maybe just overpay guys. I think it's like the Rockies did with Chris Bryant. And there's an orange auto that's Freddy Peralta, orange wave, one out of 25. Oh, OK, OK. Rakes is saying just for the major league off season in general, not necessarily the Cubs. No, yeah, I mean, those big short sought names. It's going to be pretty big. Jacob Dugromb is a free agent. I'm trying to think off the top of my head. I feel like there's some other key free agents out there, too. There's JT Real Muto, not numbered, but that's for the fight and fills. Scott with the filly. That was a crazy, I think there's some red here. Crazy Inside the Park home run by JT Real Muto. I realize he was fast, but I didn't realize he was that fast. The red wave is for a red team. It's the red legs, Joey Votto. Three out of five, red shimmer. We had a red in the other case, too. Here's our second one of this double header. Will with the reds. Where there's a will, there's a way. And out of fives and under, all aboard the Big Head Express. Frank says, I'm not greedy anymore. After the time, I traded the Metz Summit for the Angels. Then you hit a one-of-one trot gold. Who traded the? That's on the other person. He was a Metz Homer fan the same way you're an Angels fan. So that's why he did it. Was this in one of our group breaks, Frank, or somewhere else? I feel bad. I mean, as long as he knew what he was getting into, he was trading with his heart, Terry. That's OK. That's OK. It's not always about trading with your wallet, right? And here's Zach Thompson, Miami Marlins, Michael. It was a chance we'd break in. Like I say, there's no right or wrong way to collect. The person's a Metz Super fan. The person's a Metz Super fan. So, but yeah, Jeff, we are just up the 405 from Long Beach. In fact, I feel like a few of our guys here at Jaspy's reside in Long Beach. There's a hop skip and a jump. We're open Monday through Saturday, 11 to 6. And we're closed on Sundays.  I don't know if they use more of a thinner blue pen. Maybe they could use a slightly thicker one next year. Oh yeah, so if you know the area, we're right across the street from, or we're right next door to Vans. You know the Vans store on PCA? Across the street from that Hermosa Beach Community Center, across the street from that Vans, CVS, the Habit Chipotle Center. We're right across the street from there on the Trader Joe's side. Just a little ways up from the windmill. Parking in the back. It's always a premium in this neck of the woods. But we've got parking in the back. Entrance in the back. Come say hi. You can local pick up too, Jeff, if you want that option as well. Just hit the Support button on our website, jaskyscasebreaks.com. You can be a local pick up guy, and you can, or we can still keep mailing it to you as well. But if you're here often, we can kind of save stuff for a couple of weeks and pick it up every other week or something like that. You'll see my porch in the parking lot, right? I have to sell a lot more Topps Chrome Baseball cases, Gilo, before we're making that porch money. There's Rodolfo Castro, Brian with the Pirates. Yeah, just contact our support team. Thing on the website, jaskyscasebreaks.com. You should see, if you're on a mobile device, little question mark circle, you'll see it. And then just reach out to us, give us all your name, your information, and let us know you want to be a local pick up, and then you can kind of arrange it from there. There's Aron O'Vecunia, 29 out of 50. Gold for the Braves, Jose.  For the Reds, couple nice parallels there for Will. Where there's a Will, there's a way. And there's another Red for Will, Alejo Lopez. Can I pay cash in for a break? I don't know, actually. You can ask when you come in, 322 out of 499. All right, next box. Almost there. Stay on target. You got after this one, we got two more to go. And then we'll do the silver packs, then we'll do the recap. And then I gotta eat a little bit. I gotta refuel, a little famished at this point. Maybe catch the end of this NFL game. I was really hoping we'd have some baseball. That's a bummer. Mother Nature, come on. Mother Nature doesn't care about baseball. No, true, Rex, that was the old joke. I feel like we can't use the Tesla joke anymore because now that there's like the more affordable Tesla, just the $30,000 Tesla or $40,000 Tesla, there's just a lot more of them on the road. So we'll, we have to come up with a different car. Maybe a Porsche, maybe a Polestar. This break is a nine inning game. This break, this is kind of a fast baseball game. This could be, this could be like a, one of those Greg Maddox, you know, under 100 pitches, Greg Maddox complete game shutout kind of game. Maybe not a lot of strikeouts either.  This is the kind of game. Clock's in at probably about two hours, two 20 maybe, something like that. You know, and then it's the brave score. It's like a one nothing game. Yeah, that, that's how long this break would be. So it's pretty much a baseball game. Here's another Alejo Lopez for Will and the Reds. Is that a fumble? That's bobbling around. There's Teosca Hernandez, Magenta for the Blue Jays. That'll be for Stephen. 299 out of, 299? 289 out of 399. Wild and Avs already missed Mico throwing, throwing it down. That, that King's Wild game was wild. There is a little Kevin Fiala's return to Minnesota. That was, I think King's 176 or something. It was like a, it was a crazy score. And another Red, yes. Adam Frazier, five out of five. A lot of train whistles in this double header. That'll be for Seattle. That's gonna go to Michael Lossia, won that spot, got randomized the Mariners, gets the train whistle. All aboard the Big Hit Express, whoop whoop. And a redemption, it's Tyler Stevenson, veteran autograph aqua wave refractor parallel. There you go, Will. I don't know if I called your number too often in the first case, but you're getting some, some red legs here in the second case. Maybe a Bugatti, that, I feel like that's a little too fancy for me. All right, two boxes to go. You can't celebrate recovering your own five. I'd celebrate. I'd be so happy that I don't have a one next to fumbles in the fumbles lost column. I don't know if I'd want to Porsche either. Although people do say they're pretty nice. My tower, so yeah, Gilo, what is the prop? My tower's wondering, what is the proper football etiquette when you recover your own fumble? I would think maybe a bashful shrug. Sort of like, you know? You saw a lucid air on the road for the first time the other day. I've never heard of a lucid air. Is that another electric vehicle? Givante Williams, Terry, in the Raiders game a few weeks ago, tore up his, tore up his ACL MCL and is out for the season for Givante Williams. What would the Jazzmobile be? For the company or for myself? I guess it depends on Adam Frazier, 198 to 199. And there's Miguel Sanchez. Yeah, if we could have a car powered by Vet Commons, that'd be great. That Alabama game was kind of crazy. Can't believe Tennessee won that one. Oh, a Tesla competitor, I don't know. It's hard to topple Tesla. I think everyone, those companies kind of started a little late. I mean, yeah, at best they started a little late and are gonna be playing catch up for a long time. At worst, if you're a cynic like Terry, yeah, you can argue that it's just another pump and dump EV company. Either way, it's gonna be tough. There's Hans Krause, purple chrome autograph, 164 out of 250. That's for the Phillies, Scott, for the Phillies. We made it, last box, and then silver packs. All right, good luck, everybody. Well, I guess Elon Musk would be Tesla, right? Cause he's running Teslas and then the Lucid should be more like Edison. Oh, easy what you say about Elon Musk, Terry. Cause he might be listening. Rexon ad for an Arby's smoked bourbon, smoked with the same wood used to smoke their meats available this Wednesday in select states. Terrible. I don't just go to a regular barbecue place. I mean, it's really no different from any other emerging market, you know, back in the day or any sort of prospecting that you do. Gold mining. There's Alec Bohm, 281 out of 350. That's for the Phillies. That'll be for Scott. And there's Jackson Reitz, for Richard and the Brew Crew. Kevin Gossman, 13 out of 2.99. Purple speckle for the Bluebirds. That'll be for Stephen P. And there's a Trey Auberge, purple speckle autograph for Will and the Reds. There you go, Will. 212 out of 2.99. And that, my friends, is that. Silver Packs, Silver Packs. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. It's Silver Pack time in the city. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. That makes 12 and 24. One Silver Pack for each hobby box. All right, so once again, your extended Bayshore prints. Bobby Whit Jr. for the Royals. Michael Osia has his ears perked. Julia Rodriguez for the Mariners. That's another one for Michael Osia. Spencer Toracles and Tigers. That's going to be Jose with the Tigers. Hunter Green Reds, Will with the Reds. Reds finished his break strong. And CJ Abrams for the San Diego Friars. That's going to be for Chris Walker and the Padres. That's who he's looking for. So good luck. I'm assuming the Torques and the Wanderers probably sell pretty well relative to their other rookie card counterparts. Maybe Toracles and maybe not as much, but that's kind of like a wait and see sort of guy. So hopefully has a strong year next year. But for sure, the Julio Rodriguez is selling pretty well, just right out of the gate right now. Scammon Sheets, Real Muto. Julio Rodriguez Refractor, Extended Base Short Print. Michael Osia with the Mariners. They're all refractors. I don't know. Well, let's not have to find another one to figure it out. Another 12 packs. I'm assuming, you know, this is just market forces. I'm assuming that since the Mariners were bounced from the playoffs, that Julio Rodriguez might have softened just a little bit. But still, it's pretty nice. I would just put it on the slow boat to get graded. Hopefully it comes back as a nice grade. Hang on to it. See if he can, you know, if he has another great season next year, that card might be worth even more. You can move it right away. Either way, congrats. Michael, who won that spot in the filler, got lucky enough to get randomized the Mariners and lucky again to find that Julio in these silver packs. All right, another stack of silver packs. Silver packs. That, my friends, is that. But we did get that Julio Rodriguez not too shabby at all. The last one still went for $9.85. Just raw. That's pretty awesome. Big thanks, everybody, for getting into this. Double header. That was our last double header. We had a lot of train whistles, too, a lot of red parallels. More than I've seen in some of the other double headers that we've done. But we don't have any more Tops Chrome hobby cases for these double header breaks or for anything else. There may be some personal boxes remaining for nice MJ Melendez on Instagram, at Jaspy's Rakes on the IG. So be sure to check that out if you want to get a personal box for yourself. Jaspy's casebreaks.com. We do have jumbo cases still hanging around. So if you're looking for some jumbo, that's a wander variation. If you're looking for some jumbo's, pick your team jumbo's five autographs a box on the jumbo's if you want to get in on that. Another red-ray red auto, exactly set to five. And then Julio Rodriguez that we just got. There you go, boys and girls. Nice, we did it. Two hours, two minutes and 27 seconds. Pretty nice. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. And I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hello, I'm Leanne George, Coordinator of the Spec Survey Program at the Association of Research Libraries, and I'd like to thank you for joining us for this Spec Survey Webcast. Today we'll hear about the results of the survey on diversity inclusion, and these results have been published in Spec Kit 356, which is freely available at publications.arl.org. Before we begin the presentation, there are just a couple of announcements. First, everyone but the presenters has been muted to cut down on background noise, so if you are part of a group today, feel free to speak among yourselves. And we do want you to join the conversation by typing questions in the chat box in the lower left corner of your screen. We'll answer as many questions as possible at the end of the presentation, and I will read questions aloud and the presenters will answer them. This webcast is being recorded, and we will send all registrants the slides and a link to the recording within the next week. Now, let me introduce today's presenters from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Tony and Nia is the Instruction Coordinator, and Charlene Maxie Harris is the Research and Instructional Services Chair. You can use this hashtag, ARL Spec Kit 356, to continue the conversation with us on Twitter. And now, let me turn the presentation over to Tony. Thanks, Leanne, and thanks for everyone joining us today. We're excited to discuss the results and hear your questions, so let us get started. I wanted to provide some reasoning as to why we proposed this topic. Back in 2010, Charlene and I co-authored Spec Kit 319, which was Diversity Plans and Programs, which focused on changes to diversity plans as well as recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce. Since the original publications in 1990, Spec Kit's 165, which was Cultural Diversity Programming in ARL Libraries, and Spec Kit 167, which was Minority Recruitment and Retention in ARL Libraries. Diversity and Inclusion is an area with rapid change, and we were interested in learning how diversity programs as well as recruitment had changed in the last seven years. The scope of the survey was not only covered some of the recruitment and retention issues from 2010, but we expanded it to take into account the growing definition of diversity, the increased efforts of programming not only for the public, but for library employees, and also to explore how libraries funded these efforts. Over the last several years, we've been seeing an increase in published literature and conference programming, exploring topics dealing with diversity inclusion, such as cultural competencies as well as microaggressions and assessments. Most recently, we've witnessed the inclusion of social justice movements in libraries and on campuses across the United States, and this surge in activities really does highlight changes to the diversity and inclusion landscape since 2010. 68 of the 123 ARL Libraries responded to our survey, although not everyone responded to every question. And as a side note, the topic was fairly similar to number 319, and we were surprised to see that only 22 of the original 49 responding institutions participated in the 2017 survey. However, this does provide us an opportunity to see the diversity inclusion plans of these 46 new organizations as well as revisit what changes have been made at the original 22. Speaking about definitions, I wanted to note that the definition of diversity and inclusion we focused on went beyond the basic definition in traditional venues. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines diversity and inclusion, which you see there on the screen, much more narrowly than we as the authors, as well as many others in the profession do in a professional setting. Today diversity is defined beyond racial and gender ethnic groups and includes a variety of other issues such as gender sexual orientation, national origin, and age, just to name a few factors. And inclusion is much more than just making sure people are seated at the table. It's recognizing, acknowledging, and inviting those differences, as well as including and providing opportunity for topics to be discussed by members of those communities. For this survey, we did provide an overview of components that could be included in a diversity inclusion plan, and we received a variety of representative documents which were included in the spec kit. Many organizations had statements of diversity values or goals for the library. There were descriptions of the strategies for recruiting ethnically and culturally diverse staff to the library and then retaining them once they were hired. We received outlines of programs to create a to promote competencies, outlines created to promote ethic and cultural sensitivity in the workplace. The use of and subsequent development of programming based off the results from workplace time and assessments and other similar elements. And then speaking of representative documents, I wanted to make sure to thank all the respondents who included their materials. It was really challenging to select the sampling of what we received. I also wanted to mention that one of the challenges that we faced with this particular survey was that respondents may have mentioned an initiative or a document in a response, but they did not provide a URL or a copy of the document. And then for some reason we were actually unable to locate some of these that were mentioned. Interestingly, we had some institutions say no, we do not have a diversity inclusion plan, then went on to discuss campus initiatives. So when we went and looked at what was available online at these libraries, we discovered that they had extensive material which guided their programs, but they chose not to submit those campus level diversity and inclusion plans. This could have stemmed from the language used in the survey question itself. One comment in particular stood out which stated, our plans don't really fit your questions, we have initiatives and programs, but they don't necessarily fit in your categories. So we are really interested in seeing and discovering what those were. Now when we're talking about diversity, a good example of how institutions are framing the conversation we felt could be found at Duke University and they do a good job at defining these terms. This example in particular on this slide is representative of the verbiage we found when looking at a variety of other definitions from responding institutions. Now Charlene will discuss some of the major discoveries we identified in the study. So we wanted to start out talking about the survey finding from a broad view. Respondents to the survey reported the most influential factors to diversity and inclusion plans at their institutions are changes in both library and campus administration. According to a recent article discussing college diversity officers in the Chronicle, which quoted, dozens of campuses have created such positions in the last 15 years, often in response to pressure from student activities, but the role is still relatively new. These changes to leadership, both in the library and on campus, has impacted diversity and inclusion initiatives and were very often spurred on by strategic planning and or in reaction to demands of students after racially charged incidents on campus. Based on the information collected from the 2010 survey, libraries have been taking the lead in focusing on diversity and inclusion issues on campus and continue to be leaders. One of the biggest shifts we noticed was the increase in the number of diversity plans initiated by parent institutions. This reveals that some plans are now a part of the campus strategic planning document and outline specific initiatives. These initiatives include components of responsibility and accountability at a broad campus level, often coming directly from campus high, campus administrators. More libraries have reported diversity committees or groups that are working with HR and others in this area. So really there is a clear increase in the ways libraries and campuses are looking at and approaching these issues. Examples of this change can be seen in statements from senior campus administrators, such as the provost, chancellor, or president addressing current events related to DNI. We also received information from libraries HR and diversity and inclusion groups providing new training not seen in 2010. So as Tony already talked about, we saw some of these trainings on implicit bias and microaggressions, libraries are conducting climate surveys, or have appointed committees and groups to work in this area, both within the library and campus-wide. So as we move on to kind of talk a little bit about some of these examples from libraries, we do notice that they stand alone. There are parent plans in which our diversity plans are part of. And libraries that incorporate campus values, the mission, and then develop their own goals that are unique to their library. This chart shows that library administration has initiated these plans at 67% of the responding libraries, followed by the campus or parent institutions at 47%, and other entities. And you'll see that a pretty large group of 31%. The comments revealed that grassroots interest groups within the library really took the initiative to develop the plan. And some of these libraries have moved beyond just the separate documents for diversity to include their components interspersed throughout their strategic plan. And Penn State is an example of the library that has done that. A new question regarding funding was added to determine the investment libraries are making to support and encourage initiatives and programs. Library's investment in funding is mainly directed towards professional development, as you can see in the chart. This can be further broken down into these specific areas, workshops, which is kind of funny because it really isn't clearly defined if the workshops are offered to staff or to library users. Leadership, you'll notice outreach, programming, travel, especially to diversity conferences and events, and recruitment. Some library groups have their own budget, but the majority of the funding is supported within the main operating budget. Overall, responses to a question about whether the library has dedicated funding to support D&I efforts were split fairly evenly between libraries who reported they do, which was about 35 libraries, or 52%, and those who do not, 32, or 48%. 12 libraries reported they received funding from their parent institution. Over the past five years, 46% of the responding libraries have increased their funding over this time, and 49 claim funding to remain the same. We noticed in the comments field, libraries with increases to their funding pointed to the residency or similar programs. Moving on to the programming and events, this chart shows that there is a widespread program throughout the library. New areas noted this year are social justice, mental health issues, and veteran status. Different in this survey are those planning and delivering these programs, which are library staff, which includes both staff, librarians, and administrators, and instead of just the HR or diversity librarian. The bottom line, more individuals are taking responsibility and ownership for improving their organization. The results also show the ways libraries are collaborating with campus partners to host and offer programming on a variety of topics. Moreover, libraries are taking advantage of training opportunities on campus and from national organizations such as ALA, ACRL, and ARL. So if you're looking for great ideas, they are shared in the comments, so please use that spec kit. So for example, you'll see librarians are hosting poster sessions with them in the gender studies, and one library has an interesting topic every other week for their diversity, TEA, conversations. So that's just some of those examples that you'll find. Before Tony moves on to recruitment strategies, let's pause to remind everyone that you can enter questions in the chat box at any time. Thanks, Charlene. So now I want to focus our attention on recruitment and retention. 80% of respondents reported they have employed strategies specifically to increase the diversity of their job applicants. And the most successful strategies mentioned for recruitment are training search committee members on how to develop a diverse candidate pool, targeting job ads and personal recruiting of participants from diversity enhancement recruitment programs, and not surprising supporting ARL diversity initiatives. Many mentioned providing support to diverse employees to attend library schools, so to grow your own model or recruiting from within. Partnering with area libraries and changing requirements on job descriptions to encourage early career librarians and recent graduates to apply. 29 of the 55 who answered the question reported that they felt their applicant pools had become more diverse but an almost equal amount said they had not. Challenges in answering this question actually stem from a lack of assessment or access to how this information is tracked from the comments we've received, and if this information is tracked at all, especially when applications are first funneled through campus HR offices. So overall, when we looked at the challenges expressed to the recruitment of diverse candidates, we found that the results to be virtually unchanged in the last seven years. Most identified geographic barriers. They don't want to live in Lincoln, Nebraska, for example, salary and a lack of qualified diverse applicants applying for positions. Increase this year were mentions of stake politics, campus, climate, and high costs of living as barriers. So what we've known and what we've all witnessed is that there aren't many kids who grow up wanting to be a librarian. And many people actually make librarianship their second profession. Speaking from personal experience, I know that the development of targeted recruitment programs such as ARL's initiative to recruit a diverse workforce, Knowledge River, which I'm an alumni of, and ARL's spectrum scholar program has served as an avenue for diverse library students to pursue a career in librarianship. And these types of programs have expanded to include not only the traditional past, but also now focus on specialized areas such as archives, music, and digital humanities. Others have continued to support an undergraduate program and offer dual degrees so students can obtain both bachelor's and master's degrees concurrently. As we looked at LIS schools, we noticed that they are taking the lead to incorporate curriculum changes and develop more culturally competent students overall. Most notable are programs at Simmons, Illinois, and Maryland. What we have been seeing is not only is the curriculum changing, but student groups are more actively engaging in diversity and inclusion activities, including hosting student-focused and student-organized conferences and symposia focused on these issues. But going hand-in-hand with recruitment is retention of staff. Forty-eight of the responding libraries, or 71%, have developed strategies for retaining a diverse group of employees. The most used strategies are onboarding and orientation programs for new staff, leadership development and training, mentoring programs to help librarians attain advancement and or tenure, and supporting membership or engagement in parent institution diversity affinity groups. Also, ALA ethnic caucuses. For more formal mentoring programs have increased in workplace, professional organizations, and have always been present in scholarship programs. Visibility of these opportunities is limited really compared to the demand for the support. Parent institutions are also providing affinity groups that mentor and build on these skills. For residencies, there's been a rise and a fall of the post-MILIS residencies for many years. However, ACRL has revived and reorganized the Diversity Alliance Residency Program for Academic Libraries. According to the website, 35 academic libraries are members, and the goal is for libraries to create one or more residency positions that will expand the opportunities available to individuals from underrepresented groups to gain the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to thrive in academic context. I particularly like the following goal that articulates that library leaders are committed to opening doors, sharing their networks, and preparing residents for success in scholarship, professional service, and leadership. You may notice that leadership development and training was the second most mentioned retention strategy used in libraries. There are opportunities for all levels of librarians from early career on, with conferences like the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians to the ARL Leadership Fellows Program and the Harvard Institute for Future Senior Level Librarians. An area we feel there is space for some development is in the mid-career stage. ARL's LCBP program, or the Leadership and Career Development Program, is a program focused on providing librarians the opportunity to gain new skills and be intentional about seeking promotion in our organization. However, there seems to be a gap in other opportunities providing support to those students who are stuck in the middle. Keep in mind these programs are targeting research libraries, which is a narrow focus of the library profession, however it is in keeping with the purpose of the spec survey program and prioritizing the interests of ARL members. We didn't really have time to explore other opportunities for public librarians as well as other college and university organizations. However, one commenter summed up their experience with retention success. Having a diverse staff helps retain a diverse staff. Well, as we were looking into researching the literature, we were definitely impressed with expanding body of articles documenting the experiences of marginalized individuals. As our stories are being told, we know that microaggressions are real, right? These are the casual, subtle, everyday slights and insults where the conscious or unconscious actions, which really speak to the health of the organizational climate and do impact recruitment and retention. Librarians are sharing these examples of microaggressions more and more in social media for others to see. In the Selected Resources section of the spec kit, you'll find articles on promotion and tenure issues, microaggressions, and residency programs, just to name a few of those topics that we pulled out. As we're looking at what is trending in libraries, we know it's social justice now. It really does unite librarians on a totally different level. Social justice, inclusion, equality, and equity are broadening the conversation beyond race and gender and are more inclusive of groups of those marginalized or on the fringe. Over the last five years, changes in the national political climate, as well as changes in the campus and library leadership, have greatly influenced and heightened awareness of diversity and inclusion activities as survey respondents' institutions. Many state that the quantity and depth of diversity activities and trainings have increased, increasing, including increased engagement by more faculty and staff. So, diversity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of all we do and less as standalone initiatives. So, social media has been an outlet to garner support, share in scholarly dialogue, and increase our awareness of movements, issues, and progress throughout the country. It is increasing the visibility of librarianship, I think. So, when we're looking at evaluation and assessment, we really know that it's a reality check, it's an ongoing challenge on how to evaluate and assess our efforts. Perhaps this is an area where we can develop a community of practice to evaluate success, since only 15% of respondents reported that they found a way to measure success. We're hopeful and we're glad that we don't have to do this alone because a number of campuses are also defining inclusion as excellence. But there is the ongoing challenge of changing our attitude about when we will be done, so to speak, and work towards incorporating diversity and inclusion themes into the organizational climate, so it is a part of how we manage our libraries. Therefore, you know, we will never be done. This is our new normal, and we're not alone, again because we're working with our parent institutions to determine our success and progress. And if our campuses are addressing these values, the assessment will also be built in to the process. Based on new campus leadership in DNI, this is a new era, and I'm really excited to see how this information will be used in the future. Let's talk about the elephant in the room, which is assessment. When it comes to the evaluation of diversity and inclusion efforts, libraries are still facing challenges of how to define, establish measurable goals, and work with their parent institutions. Responses to this question were very similar to the 2010 spec survey, where measuring the recruitment and retention of diverse staff continues to fall behind the assessment of workplace climate. A surprising 86% of respondents have either assessed workplace climate or planned to in the future. Commons provided examples of Waze libraries are collecting data to benchmark efforts, which include hiring assessment coordinators and working with internal library and campus groups to assist with the development of strategic goals around these areas, measurable goals, and assessment strategies. So as our parent institutions are taking the lead for these efforts, it will be interesting to see what data they are requesting from units and what libraries will collect. For example, Penn State distributes diversity activity forms that are completed through their evaluation process. Well, at Cornell University, they have a complex matrix that is divided into the composition, engagement, inclusion, and achievement for all of their constituents. So undergraduates, graduates, professionals, staff, administration, tenure faculty, and it even extends to the community. On this page are not in any order of importance, but I personally feel the most important goal is to really work hard as a profession on assessment and developing measurable goals. My most pressing question when reviewing the work people are doing is asking, how will measure success from campus in the unit level? How will our campuses measure our success and then give us credit? Right, and I think as Tony has already talked about that, how will what the library is doing fit into their strategic plans? Some organizations are intentionally transitioning away from a diversity plan altogether, and these components are built into the organization's values, missions, and structure to make sure that everyone's at the table. And even in the management literature, inclusive practice is really defined as noticing who's not at the table and including their voice. So in closing, both Tony and I have worked on the ACRL diversity standards for academic libraries. And we noticed that that wasn't mentioned too much in the comments of this survey, but it does serve as a strong starting point to help libraries craft their diversity and inclusion goals. So we do welcome your questions and please join the conversation by typing questions in the chat box in the lower left corner of your screen. We have some questions already, I will read them. John, I want to know if there's any idea how most successful strategies were assessed or selected. If we go back to this slide, I'm going to answer that. In the survey, we asked first, if the library had developed any strategies that assist in the retention of diverse groups of employees, and those that answered yes, we asked them which strategies they had used and check all that apply, and then we asked them to pick up to three that had been most successful. So they self-selected what they thought worked best for their library efforts. Teresa wants to know, she has an iSchool question, how are folks assessing the coursework in iSchool for diversity, and what methods are being used to ensure that the entire program is taking these considerations into account? Tony and Charlene, can you address that? So I know that there's some work that's being done through some of the symposium and the conferences at iMaryland School, for example. And they are looking at that. We didn't have a chance to really go into any depth to be able to see how they're assessing, but they're definitely focusing their curriculum on making sure that the whole student body is culturally competent. There's been a lot of work by Paul Yeager and Nicole Cook in this area as well. We've picked out their books to actually see how they're making those changes with their curriculum and their activities to see how their students are doing. Great question. Errol asked, has anything been done relative to hidden disabilities, or did you find any insights on that issue in the survey responses? Not that I recall from the comments. Although I know that there is research being done on... I know one person is actually doing research on autism in the workplace and in librarianship, but I don't recall any specific comments in the survey regarding that work. I will turn participants back to the spec kit. Question 11 looks at the topics that are being addressed in librarian presentations. There's a list there that they chose from, and then a whole list of other topics. There might be some more insights there. Manuel asked, can you share with the switched libraries that participated in the survey did not participate in this one? I don't know if you have that information. So there's a long list of them. There's 22 people who actually responded in this one that did not participate in the other. So it'd be easier to do who responded as opposed to who didn't. University of Albany, SUNY, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, California Irvine, California Sandy, oh no, California Irvine, University of Delaware, University of Florida, University of Georgia, Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, Iowa State, University of Kansas, Library of Congress, University of Louisville, University of Maryland, MIT, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, North Carolina State, Northwestern, Ohio, Oklahoma State, Penn State, University of Rochester, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, University of Waterloo, and Yale. Split about half and half. Those are the ones that responded to both surveys in 2010 and 2017. Ohio University to clarify which Ohio school, Ohio University responded to both. Errol had a follow-up question of did the survey look at disabilities in general, not just hidden disabilities? Was one of the things that came out as far as other groups? Looking at it, in question 11 from the survey, it does mention we asked what types of topics have been addressed in presentations, and of the 64 respondents, 44 or 69% did mention physical disabilities as one of the topics that they presented something on. Sarah, you can tell us more about the institutions that have hired a diversity specialist. One thing that I noticed is that the individuals have doubled. So the number of people that responded, there's been an increase in the number from over the last time that we looked at this area of who's actually doing this. So we know that there's more diversity officers. We also noticed that there's variability in what those positions are called. I know at MIT they have a office of staff development type of position that's also working on diversity issues. And a lot of those diversity specialists were mentioned at a campus level, or even the development of diversity. There's like associate vice provosts, as well as diversity specialists done at a campus level that they're mentioning, as opposed to the library level. Tracy has a question related to recruitment. She says, libraries take up leadership roles in social justice. Do you think this will have an impact on recruitment to the profession? Possibly. That could be taken into account as far as the types of jobs that are available in librarianship that could really influence the people that are really interested in archiving these types of movements. I think that would be a really great way to start recruiting people who are involved and who want to make sure it's documented and reserved. I think that would be a really influential recruitment tool, strategy to do. We'll see. I mean, we'll just have to see if that is indeed why people might be coming back into the profession or be recruited to a certain library because of the activities that are going on. We know that it is definitely helping for us to take an active role in what we can do to make a difference. Jordan has a related question. He said, how many of the era libraries that responded to the survey have leadership for underrepresented minority groups? The survey didn't ask that. I'm looking at 319. But it's usually those types of responses come through under the question of what group or individual is responsible for. The type of programming. It was number 16. Here it is. So it would be responsible, but we didn't really get a lot of numbers as to someone who is responsible for those. Although we did have, what else? Yeah, 17 diversity officers. Well, and then there was another seven multicultural diversity library librarians that also work in this area. I'm not sure I really understood the question. Yeah. Lisa asked, did the survey have any comments or insights regarding LBGT identities and related issues? We do know that there are several areas in which we're working to be able to provide training for librarians and programming with LGBT issues. There was quite a bit in the comments that really do talk about different types of programs. You know, you can get at that also with the microaggressions and the implicit bias as well in the training. And that is actually listed in question 13 of that kit where it kind of talks about some of the external training opportunities that are being offered. It includes ally training, project safe ally, trans 101. There's been hosted library workshops for that as well. So there has been some training listed in the comments regarding LGBTQ communities as well as programming and events that libraries are hosting and providing. Adam asked if you can share any additional information about promotional opportunities for librarians of color. Was that captured in the survey? So we did talk about the leadership and career development programs that ARL provides. That is more of being able to prepare big career librarians to be able to move into leadership positions, also giving them skills for strategic planning, writing, research. So that is one place that we know of. And Tony talked really about their being we'd like to see more of those types of programs available. So there was something with Early Careers which was the Minnesota program that's been going on and that happens every two years. And then the leadership and career development program. But again, that's a growing need. We know that and maybe some of the parent institutions are also providing some of that leadership opportunities as well. Jordan had a follow-up clarification to his question on leadership from underrepresented minority groups. And he met deans and directors. And I would direct you to the ARL annual salary survey which does probably have the information you're looking for there. And I don't think we specifically asked for it in this spec survey. We don't have that type of demographic information. No. So John asked, what were some of the most innovative approaches or programs for workplace inclusion in your opinion? There were several different comments that were listed and suggested. And there were quite a we're trying to see if we can come up with some creative ones that we can share. I don't really feel that people shared specific creative ways they've done it. The questions were asked in a way that we asked if they had done it. Not necessarily creative things. I think the newly created upswing of diversity and inclusion and then the expansion of what those definitions were has really helped people expand what that looked like and what types of programming were offered. So I think that is probably the most interesting part is that expansion of the definition and then how that has grown to include a variety of different groups in what is defined and what is being supported by libraries. So as we were looking at one of the questions we have this changes in diversity initiatives and programs over the last five years. So we are seeing libraries developing these groups supporting these grassroots groups in the library and so the creativity part still may be evolving in that area and how do we define that creative piece of that. I think we were asked before a little bit earlier to kind of see what is being out there. I think the involvement with the Diversity Alliance is definitely with the residency program, but just our involvement with that libraries are making that investment as well. We have time for about one more question and Errol has one on if any guidance on creating training materials or a toolkit on diversity inclusion for libraries. Well I am so glad that you asked. We do have both Tony and I worked at ACRL Diversity Racial Diversity Group in 2012 between 2011 and 2012 and we created the ACRL Diversity Standards for Academic Libraries and it really is a great starting place to kind of give you a feel for how we as librarians of color have been over the years talking about this, but we all came together to be able to base these cultural competencies based on the social workers group and organization to be able to kind of map out what that would look like at an institution. So that is available on the website and you can be able to get some more information as to get started on those. And there was talk about revising those and making their more inclusive language in that and that is probably still in the works. And just a last comment Sarah was wondering how to get in touch with other folks who either responded to the survey or interested in these issues and you did Tony and Charlene mention developing a community of practice around diversity and inclusion and building communities of practice is something that the association is interested in so I would encourage those of you who are interested to drop me an e-mail or feel free Tony and Charlene I'm going to volunteer you to and if there is interest there we will see what we can develop. Perfect, thank you. So now it's time for me to thank all of you for joining us to discuss the results of this diversity and inclusion specs survey and to remind you that you will receive the slides and a link to the recording in about a week. Thank you all.