I'm Marcia Joyner and we are navigating the journey and now that we are into what we're going to call election season that's what we're going to talk about about election. Now in the Constitution it says that the election would be the first Tuesday after the first Monday November anyway but now that we have gotten really crazy with COVID-19 and all of this other stuff and putting by mail we now putting season so you are here on all the ballots will be mailed out on October 5. Each island has a different date when they mail out the ballot. I think it's a good idea since the they've been messing with the Republicans have been messing with the post office. I think that's a good idea to stagger the mail. Anyway so this is election season and we are going to talk about the city and county charter amendment. First I want to introduce my guest Christopher Edwards. I love Christopher Edwards because he says his full name Christopher. I have a son who has a beautiful name Christopher and he's Chris. Anyway that's hello Chris. Hi Marcia. Just move so how's your new house your new apartment? It's quite wonderful it's got a great breeze in a fantastic neighborhood and you know every day is a beautiful day and now I have a beautiful view to go along with it. Oh wonderful well Chris is Christopher is part of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and he has a lot of titles and he'll tell you all of those. He is championing in championing the second number two resolution on the charter amendment. So let me explain simply as I can make this the city and county Honolulu is a corporation and like that includes the entire island is the city and county Honolulu. Like any corporation they have a charter of which they go by. Many corporations have them and three years I think it is there are amendments to the charter. There's a charter commission here all kinds of people with all kinds of ideas of what needs to be changed what needs to be updated this like most corporations the city and county is alive living and their people and change from year to year and so this is built in to keep things up today. I hope that's as simple as I can get it. On your ballot there will be four charter amendments or questions and it will ask if you want to do this this and this. I am suggesting and Christopher you can read them all I am suggesting that you vote yes on all of them. Now if you leave a blank it's a yes vote so if you want to if you don't agree with it then you must put no otherwise blank votes they had to go to court to have all that sorted out so don't ask me why a blank vote counts for yes but it does. So that's why we're doing the show go over the charter amendment and we want you to vote on them this is your home you need to see how it is run. Christopher is all yours you want to tell us about the charter amendment? Sure so this year Honolulu has four charter amendments for the city and the county and like Marcia said we all get to choose if we'd like to vote yes or no on the four charter amendments they're all they're all so on your ballot what you will see is the four questions. The first question I guess we should go into now is shall a revised city charter be amended to establish for the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu term limits of two consecutive four-year terms. The the same term limits that are also applicable for the mayor and for the city council members of the city and county. So this question is coming up because we've had a prosecuting attorney who's had 18 years which is as Marcia points out an entire generation and so it it has come to the attention of the public and they brought it to the council's attention and the council decided that they would like to put this charter amendment on the general ballot so that we can update that living document that is our city charter and so we have the choice now to say yes the prosecuting attorney should have term limits or no the prosecuting attorney should not have term limits which is how it is today and so we have this choice in the general election to change our city for the long term and in this particular case it does make sense to me that the prosecuting attorney would have term limits so that we can keep the ball rolling and that that's not a particular job forever because it's a it's an extremely powerful position prosecuting attorney where you're the manager of all of the city's attorneys so if the police arrest you and you have to go to court this is the manager of the attorneys who are in court on behalf of our city's government and so we want to make sure that that person you know is the most professional they can be and that they're not in that job forever because that's a powerful city position and let me just add a caveat to that one the reason that um kloha mrs. kloha was able to get into so much trouble because she was a deputy and prosecuting attorney both of them had been there so long in those positions that they were able to do things and there were no checks and balances nothing to check on them and that's how you with that kind of tenure you can get into a lot of trouble so I'm sure that that's why this one was number one and so many people testified saying we have to do something so reasonably certain that that's where this came from and this also generates opportunity for the deputy prosecuting attorneys who are you know hired by the prosecuting attorney and work on behalf of the city and for the most part they're the ones who show up to court every day to prosecute folks who are accused of crimes and this by having term limits it gives the opportunity for those people if they'd like to rise to become prosecuting attorney the absolute opportunity to one day run and express their views and allow us as the public to make a decision on who we would like to have next as our prosecuting attorney because one person gets in there and keeps getting elected and and oh a very important part about the prosecuting attorney is that oftentimes this job gets skipped when people are voting so in the primary election for instance 30,000 people left blank the prosecuting attorney choice and there were many choices probably six choices of candidate and I think sometimes people skip over areas that they're not as familiar with which is why we're also going through the charter amendments so that they don't get skipped in the general but if if thousands of thousands of people vote for a mayor and 30,000 people skip over the prosecuting attorney in an extremely important and impactful role in our city I think it's very important that we try to raise awareness for the prosecuting attorney and what's going on around the country in so many cities it's important that we're always paying attention to who our prosecuting attorney is and another name for this would be like the district attorney in a lot of areas of the country if if you're more familiar with that terminology yes I really want as much as we can people to participate at this level but the last election we were able to go out and do workshops and all kinds of things to make people aware of the charter amendments this time because we can't this is the best we can do so very good let's go to number two which is your when you are champion yeah so number two is written as shall the revised city charter be amended to establish a youth commission under the managing director this charter amendment I feel like opens up a lot of opportunities for our young people to really have a voice in a say in our city what would happen if we passed charter amendment two is a council of 15 young people between the ages of 14 and 24 would be appointed by the city council members and the mayor to represent the voices and the concerns of young people and at the moment people younger than 18 can't vote and these would kind of be the representatives to bring to the attention of all of the city's committees and councils the concerns of young people and young people have great concerns and no representation and so no dedicated representation especially as non-voters and so that's what this would be creating we would be creating an opportunity and handing power to younger people to voice for young people to the mayor to the city council on issues from you know women's issues and concerns to climate change agenda to traffic and transportation affordable housing homelessness the concerns of young people are actually mirror the concerns of older people it's just that they don't have a voice and oftentimes they don't vote and so it's very important that we have these youth representatives who can bring attention to big concerns and things that are oftentimes overlooked solutions that might be overlooked by older people and impacts that the work of the city might be having on young people that are overlooked by the rest of us so let's give them that opportunity let's give them advisors who can talk to us and tell us I love the idea how is the youth commission is it they vote on or the old folks get to select how do you how many people would be on a commission so there would be 15 members on the commission by next august 2021 about half of them would be seated and about half of them are picked by the city council members and about half by the mayor so it's a nine to six so nine are picked by the city council members and six are picked by the mayor and so we'd have half of those positioned staffed by august 2021 now it says in the managing director's office for people that do not understand the hierarchy of how the city is operated the city and county of course again back to the that it's a corporation so the mayor is the mayor then there is the city council and then there's a corporation council like all throughout america is the number one person and the legislative branch the executive branch and the finance which is core core council the managing director is really exactly what he's what it says his office is around the corner from the mayor i'm sure that they communicate regularly but that is where it happens just as it says managing director and almost everything that happens within the city and there's 9 000 employees and i don't know how many divisions but it all happens there so that is a great place to be it's a great place to learn that's a great idea yeah and i think a lot of the learning that will be happening oftentimes what one comes to realize is that there's a ways that the city operates and you don't learn those things until you have a job inside the city or a friend inside the city or you speak to your representative on a regular basis your your council member and you you start to learn all of the steps that it takes this would give a real jumpstart to young leaders to learn those steps earlier and to impact our democracy or city's democracy from a younger age and it is not easy to change things and so if we give them this particular head start they may be able to be the best leaders for our city long term and remember these are the folks that are going to be leaders in our companies one day leaders in our public services one day in our nonprofits we want them to be as educated as they possibly could be in the city's essentially business so that we can have the best environment and economy now when when is the term did it begin in january or when so they they would have to be seated before august 21 august 2021 half of them would have to be seated by then and then the next half would need to be seated the proceeding august i believe i actually it doesn't technically say um but they will all be seated within the new terms the new term of the city council with five new members begins january i just wondered if their term coincides with the new city council oh no it doesn't have to so the the first half of the youth commission has to be seated before august 21 it says that in the charter oh okay is so so they don't necessarily start in january now but they do start sometime in the next nine or so months it's september uh i guess 11 months okay what is the length of term or is it spelled out it's two years so they're two year terms these first folks who are coming in it seems like from the wording that they serve for um for a year or two uh and that it's staggered so half go in and half come out and a big part of i mean they'll be able to do a lot of really cool stuff and and it really leaves open the opportunities for them to uh influence whatever areas they would like and to receive questions from all of the city's departments and then to also question those departments and directors but who knows what direction they'll go in but there's so many excellent potential candidates for this and so i'm really excited to see who those council members pick as their picks and who the mayors pick for their picks uh to help staff it they're regional you know from different parts of the island the students yeah so nine of them would be picked by the city council members from the district council members i would i would assume that that's how that'll happen um i would hope it's there that come from all over the island yeah yeah and then it'll be very interesting to see who the mayors pick because they could really pick anyone uh from anywhere uh and so to to see the dynamic and and the priorities of the organization develop will be very interesting i'm moving forward now um now we we have a new mayor and i have new council people and that means a new managing director also um usually his term i say him but managing director's term coincides with the mayor um so that you have all new everybody i mean not everybody some of the department heads will stay the same but the new mayor does have the option named new department heads with a great opportunity to come in when everything is new and everything is gelling and everybody's finding their way around wherever they're supposed to be it's it's a great opportunity there are limits you said how many people can be on at one time yeah so there'll be 15 people at once um after the first year when they all are eventually seated and that's wonderful this is a great opportunity we're going to say yes on to yes on to yes absolutely um we are very excited about it and we we want everyone to let you know their church members know uh however they how do they what's the process i have a grandchild says oh i'd like to do that how do they uh by what's the process there isn't a mechanism spelled out for uh for how to apply i would suspect that the council members would uh accept you know um applications of some sort uh or a phone call to let them know like hey i'm interested in this and this is why um it says that the council members may appoint the person or will appoint the representative but i would suspect that those council members will come up with their own mechanisms for how to select and that may be an interest of the public to say to the council members um you know we have a preference that you standardize your process on how you select your person and that way we can maybe um create as best we can at a fair council of folks uniform anyway exactly and over time have a uniformity and hopefully uh this is a great idea hopefully we can make sure that it's it's fair and balanced in terms of uh gender and ideas and things like that your age when you send out a notification notice just so people know that they can apply their office you know so people understand what's going on what what this means yes okay now i voted for it but now what so your office send out so so we over the schools or whatever yeah we'd like to make sure that everyone knows about it one we'd like them to know that it exists that it will be on the ballot and that they should vote yes for it uh after that we would like to see that it you know continues its prominence i mean its budget is essentially picked by the mayor and so the mayor gets to choose you know how much money to send over to this youth commission and also how to deliver staff to them and how those staff resources you know are they full-time like they are in other municipalities and this has been done before there's one on kawaii and there's one in san francisco a youth commission and it's very important that the that the community after we all vote yes and this comes to fruition that we make sure that it is resourced and is not left out in the cold because if the public is not watching and if it is not transparent then it may not get the funding that it needs to be successful at its priorities and so we want to you know make sure that they have priorities that are of interest to them and then make sure that they are funded to to do those things okay and they'll be free i'm sure all funding starts with the city council the budget committee so that's the one you're gonna have to think okay yeah let's go we only have a few minutes left so let's take a look at the other two yeah so charter question number three is shall the revised city charter be amended to allow the honolulu ethics commission to control its own budget after it has been enacted and so the way the budget works is once it's signed off on by city council and the mayor it goes into effect but the mayor can control and revise a lot of those funding allotments because just through the power of being the executive and the needs of the city can change the this charter amendment would mean that once it's approved by the city council and the mayor the ethics commission gets its budget uh end of story and then that director of the ethics commission can utilize their budget and the important factor on this is one the prosecutor's office already has this uh strength in its um in its rules it's allowed once its budget comes to it it is its budget it can't be revoked or removed or and moved to a different priority of the administration and so it the ethics commission watches over our public officials to make sure that they're appropriately filing their documents and folks that are influencing government like lobbyists are filing their documents and being as transparent as possible and so it's very important that these folks have their budget to do their work and don't need to worry about uh it being revised from under them and so I would say vote yes on charter question number three as well for the health and transparency of the city let's see about four uh number four uh shall shall the revised charter be amended to require ethics commission staff to be appointed based on merit principles but exempt from the civil service position classification plan and to have the salaries of all ethics commission staff set by the ethics commission a subject to the specified limitations uh i'm saying yes we should focus on this one so that the ethics commission gets to manage their own we've had so many problems over the year with the ethics commission what they can do what they can't do and you can't what's the budget who's on it it gets messy so i'm saying yes on this one on number four all right yeah and let's hit now again Eric we only have a minute left would you put up the picture of the yes that one um on this picture this is also if you go to the office of elections this is the map it shows where the deposit all the yellow canisters where you can just pin your ballot safer than the post office because the post office is going through some crap um but this you can drive right up the yellow box put it in the shoot and it is every day it's sealed and somebody from the office of elections comes unlocked picks it up every day so you know that your ballot is safe and they're all over the city all over the island um it's in a city park the parks are locked at a certain time so you have to be sure you get there before that time um i think it's wonderful we did it the last election and it worked very well the ballot again on oahu is on the fifth fill it out real quick put it in the box and you're done and you're safe and there's a verification step marcia where you can go on to the hunalulu website to check to see if it's been counted well they can't count until the day of the election if it's been received received the word i should have used yeah legally they're not supposed to count until the day of november or whatever it is um i think we don't know this when the legislature moved to having um mail in something they ever thought we'd have COVID and all this other crap so they didn't change that that that we'd have to count on the election day however thank you christopher thank you so much for doing this spending this time with us and we've been touched let us know how it's going with youth prevention and anything else we can do to assist and thank you audience thank you all that have been with us all this time remember we'll see you next time


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks.com. Happy Thursday coming at you with 2022 tops series one baseball six-box jumbo Three random teams each and this is break number six one spot gets you three all-card ship Big thanks to this group here. Let's copy these names. Let's triple you up. There's one already. There's two and There's three so see marks last spot mojo star three times all 30 baseball teams are in Let's roll it and randomize names and teams eight times three and a five one two Three and eighth and final time After eight we got mark all the way down to Rick three and a five eight times for the teams one two three four five six Seven and eighth and final time After eight we got the Padres all the way down to the Blue Jays So good luck everybody. Here's how the list shakes out Mark you got the Padres Matthew Rockies Marlins and Rays Michael with the Guardians and Tigers mark with the Royals Danny with the Nationals Justin with the White Sox Kevin with the Yankees David with the Phillies Matthew with the Cardinals David with the Orioles Mark with the Giants and Cubs Matthew Pirates Michael Braves Justin with the A's Mark with the Mariners Kevin with the Reds Justin with the Twins Matthew with the Astros Rick with the Rangers Danny with the Dimebacks Kevin with the Red Sox Mark with the Mets David with the Angels and Rick with my Dodgers Danny with the Brew Crew and Rick with the Blue Birds All right, so there you go. We're gonna pause the video when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back everybody. There was a little bit of trade chatter But in the end no deals were done. That's okay. You're on Thursday the 17th. Thanks everybody for joining us For making this part of your Thursday My Friday your Thursday Whatever the day is for you. Thank you settle in ladies and gentlemen Definitely a long break it's about an hour or so We're in the box topper though underneath me. Oh, it's underneath All right, silver packs up there And I got tailored trimel Future stars jumbo card right there. We'll set that aside these packs Got a little basketball on TNT on in the background Gotta think this is the last set of games before the all-star break right I think also all-star stuff happening We have a handful of games today Miami leading Charlotte 2717 of Washington Brooklyn tonight Dallas at New Orleans Philadelphia, Milwaukee. That's the TNT game and then Houston at Clippers the games on Sunday. So when's all the other stuff? I'll if you go to the the break schedule Click that link and that's pinned in the chat. It'll lead you to among other things Joe's picks I've got some golf picks for the Genesis Invitational Saturday is all the skills stuff So skills challenge three-point contest slam dunk. I did make Didn't make some money last year for that. Thanks to I made plays for all three three events and Demandis a bonus Won the skills competition. So that was nice. So let's see how I let's do this here It's Joey Vado for the reds reds relic going to Kevin. These goals are nice. They're not numbered though all cards ship, of course now there's a lot of These multiplayer cards Right if they're numbered will randomize it, but if they're not there's I mean there's so many of these cards in there that we're gonna balance it out There are shipping team will use your discretion to kind of kind of evenly distribute those cards to To those respective teams and we got a Charlie Blackman Denver Pride Going to Colorado. That'll be for Matthew the city flag patch cards are pretty cool. It's a nice addition this year and now for For Matthew G and the Tampa Bay Rays You may or may not know that there usually is a pattern to finding the base rookie cards for a longer Franco So there's there's those triple player cards. Those will be evenly distributed between those teams but if we see a Corbin burns there should be a Of the brewers, but there should be a wander right after that Generally speaking sometimes it's not it's not always but most of the times average. We've generally been seeing generally been seeing a Wanderfranco rookie card about about one per box on average I think I know that These base cards are a little more common, but the wonder Franco still go for 20 30 bucks a pop That's right burns and then yell it's usually that's the way That's the way we've seen it majority of the time And 34 out of 50 Jake of stallings nice. I don't think I've seen this that color parallel yet 34 out of 50 pirates that'll be for Matthew G Matt Jen William saying Monday was your birthday. It was not 15th birthday was not good. I'm sorry to hear that We'll get him next year 16 is more of a milestone birthday, so We'll make that don't make that one a good one Jesse have a go man And our autograph is for the Reds TJ Friedel rookie auto for Kevin and the Cincinnati Red Legs nice one Kev. I don't know too much about this player, but hopefully he'll end up being great There's Jacob the grom die cut love the Wood border in 1987 design nice Yankees card here That's for Kevin The Bronx bombers 113 out of 299 Yankees, I'm sorry to hear that one and there's Corbin burns. There's wander Franco. There you go match in Again, I think those are still going for about 20 30 bucks a pop Give or take of course. We're definitely looking for if you can find a wander Franco short print numbered card something like that that would be pretty awesome. We're only Just about one box in so a lot of time All right, silver packs So these are just the standard parallels here, but they do look pretty cool. Sometimes You'll find parallels that are numbered Sometimes They can even be autographed, which is a nice treat like box topper the jumbo oversized card Christian pachet practical set put right there And second box all right speaking of baseball, let's see what we got a corn to MLB trade rumors calm We did have a meeting between the players and the owners Today's collective bargaining agreement of collective bargaining Meeting between representatives from the league and the MLB players association last only 15 minutes though deputy commissioner Dan Holland and negotiator Bruce Meyer continued speaking a side meeting for about 20 minutes afterwards Decession appeared to send around two new proposals put forward by the union as per several reporters MLB PA has been looking to move the qualifying threshold for arbitration LV to two plus years of first rather than the current three Now the union has dropped that demand and replaced it with a large increase in the number of players Who would be eligible for super two stats? so A lot of different negotiating here. Hopefully they get they get it done the article goes on but Willie my day is going great Chad. Yeah, we really do need this lock at the end Tim. How do I fix my shipping address? It says first tree, but it's first tree First of all, I think you can change it when you log into your account You should be able to change it and in the meantime, I would go to jazby's case rakes calm Click the support button and definitely let us know about the address change. So Whatever you have possibly going out will be They'll catch that and change the address another wander Franco from Matt Chad saying wife and I booked some away Mariners game in the Midwest. Hopefully I don't have to reschedule. I hope You don't have to reschedule either Hopefully they'll figure it out. I think I think the the sort of It's who you're curious for the Dodgers Rick I think the The next two weeks are very crucial if they can kind of figure it out in the next two weeks before the end of the month basically It's two wonders in that box They can get it done. Then we're not gonna miss. We may miss some spring training time. That might be shortened up But we should not lose Should not use lose regular season games All right, sounds good Tim. Yeah Make sure you contact us through through support and not just an email because I think Those are two different accounts with support you'll get a you'll get more Accurate service That I don't that's an interesting question. How many games they cancel before they redo the schedule. I don't know but there must be like There must be like a trigger where it says if we're losing 30 games or something like that or X percent of games Then we got a rebalance out the redo the schedule But I don't think anybody I mean hopefully You know, nobody wants to do that right owners don't want to lose money players don't want to lose money 84 at 299 Bryce Harper Phillies David. So hopefully they'll get it done. It seems like with some of the concessions You know The MLB PA made today. It looks like it looks like people are negotiating. No one's really They don't seem to be digging their heels in too much. I mean they are but But not like in a we're just not talking, you know, I was reading that if they missed the first week They just throw that week. They all did they just tack it on at the end of the year But after a week they'll redo the entire schedule Okay, so maybe it's a lot fewer games than I initially thought Well, hopefully won't come to that. I think the tricky thing is I mean, let's say let's say a deal gets done in the next week or two I Think I read somewhere that they said that from the week they they officially have the collective bargaining agreement done That it'll be a week. It'll be seven days before they start spring training So that week is going to be wild because there's a ton of You know, there's just a lot of loose ends that that baseball teams have to take care of, you know administratively You know, they got to get free agent signings done trades could possibly happen and there's a Riley Adams nice So that week is to be really busy and then there'll be a short and spring training which may affect starting pitchers 1484 out of 2022 Because they may not have the time to to ramp up their pitch count and get their arms stretched out So that might be a problem for starting pitchers. Maybe there'll be a bigger run on starting pitching market once The collective bargaining agreement is signed and officially done Right. I wonder what Matt. Yeah, Matt's like they got to know if they missed time. They're gonna lose fans. Absolutely and Baseball is actually kind of been a little resurgent. Oh nice Joey Gallo baseball stars autograph for Kevin Yeah, it's Kevin and the Yankees 83 out of 99 Yeah, no one wants to lose fans Baseball has actually been having a bit of a resurgent resurgence. I guess in popularity in recent years Like it's been slowly growing But yeah, they lose all that momentum. They've built up if we start to miss games and we got a Joey Vado 2021's greatest hits. I think it's just a different parallel. Maybe I'm wonder how many games will it take before? Before fans really start losing interest I think if the season starts somewhere Anytime in April, I feel like fans will be a you know, I think that they can be okay with that I feel like if the start of the season starts to get into like May, I don't think anyone's gonna be happy about that Greg Maddox die-cut his old teammate Trevor Jones Sometimes these can be numbered too. They'll be flipped around when they're numbered. All right another box down a couple silver packs Box hopper is Andrew Vaughn I wonder if any of those box toppers can be numbered or Autograph I've not seen either happening in Major League Baseball. I guess Interesting note was that Juan Soto turned down a 350 million dollar extension 13 and 350 whatever the average annual value that is but apparently turned it down I think his agent spot boards, of course, and I think they're gonna Looks like they're gonna ride out the next the last two years of his deal and then Go into free agency So it'll be pretty interesting to see what happens. I mean if Juan Soto is just just has an average Juan Soto season which is An amazing season for most players. He just has a average wants a Juan Soto average season When he'll make he'll make a lot of money now if he knocks out like If he knocks out like an MVP in the next two years, which is definitely possible I mean, how much is he making a year in baseball contracts all contracts really in sports just tend to tend to increase year by year year over year so Be a big deal 400 million dollar man Possible Frank Thomas relic for the White Sox Justin With the big hurt trust me. She'll like it too, and we've got a nice Kyle Lewis 45 at a 71 These blackboarder cards look really sharp Seattle Mark Miller with the Mariners MM with the M's Burns means wander Franco usually Matt Jen racking these up So as you probably guess there's gonna be a decent amount of these water Franco base cards out in the market Good probably a good idea to try to grade some because those PSA 10s will definitely separate Themselves from the rest of the wander Franco base rookie market. These are really sharp to Wilson Contreras with the big MLB logo Medallion some of these can be numbered as well, but this one's not That's for the cubbies. That's gonna go to mark in the Cubs Roberto Clemente die cut We Got a Will Smith 1188 out of 2022 the Fresh Prince of Bel Air And yes, he does use that as a as a walk-up song Rick with the Dodgers Think he'll continue to do so make sense Clayton Kershaw Die cut The autograph is for the Phillies Hans Krause Rookie autograph for David and the fight and fills and that's a short print So you can see six zero on the back right there, and it's flipped around thanks to tops for doing that for us So nice short print going to the brew crew Danny with the Brewers Hey, no worries Rick. Thanks for getting in the last little bit here Nice another nice box in the books See what we have in the silver packs here That's number nice Tyler McGill Mark with the Mets And that is 102 out of 150 numbers right there Blue border looks pretty cool, too All right, we're halfway through this full case jumbo break Got about another 30 35 minutes to go It's about 10 minutes a box ish silver packs The nice Ryan Mount Castle box topper for the Orioles be for David see what other I love mlbtrade rumors calm That's what this this brings Rocky by mlbtrade rumors calm Blue jays quote very interested in Tyler Maley prior to the lockout what the What are the big free ages that are remaining out there? I feel like it's been see if mlbtrade rumors calm has a Free agent tracker maybe see I think kind of there's a whole huge list here. I think Let's see what the bigger names are Chris Archer is a free agent be an interesting kind of depth pitcher sort of guy right hobby or bias signed six years 140 with the with the Tigers Archie Bradley free agent Chris Bryant. That's a big name out there Chris Bryant's a free agent We'll keep going through the that list in the next box or two over the next couple boxes. Let me just do this There he is Chris Brian. Where's Chris Brian end up? There's Nick Solak 1252 out of 2022 Rangers Rick with the Rangers could go back to the Could go back to the Giants Chris Brian Like the Yankees kind of want to rebuild kind of reconstruct their their infield right so you might be Chris Bryant might be a part of that Jose what's up? Do you think the Dodgers make any big signings? I Don't think so There's Kettle Marta. I mean, I think they'll resign. I think they'll resign Clayton Kershaw It's a nice kettle Marta for the Mariners that'll be or I'm sorry diamondbacks. He used to be a diamondbacks Danny Phoenix pride Babe roots die cut nice Goes to the Yankees apparently There's a really short printed Mickey Mantle that could be a fun fun chase Fun search for Kevin and the Yankees. I think the Dodger Dodgers probably will sign Clayton Kershaw They got to be sign him. I mean they may use whatever free agent money. They have this year They may use that to maybe Trey Turner gets an extension might have to lock him I think Cody Bellinger. I think is also I Think might be his last year of arbitration or something like that. So he's looking for a payday I think he he's I think he might have a pretty huge season and You know They're gonna have to figure out what they want to do with Trevor Bauer and I guess that's gonna They're gonna have to wait until Major League Baseball decides what they're gonna do with Trevor Bauer So I think Dodgers could use a little pitching depth Even with Clayton Kershaw Yeah, I'm thinking. Yeah, I'm sure they'll give him like a couple years. I want to say as a You know, maybe hopefully have them or maybe make a deal that's Have them retire a Dodger, you know, basically nice That is Stuart Fairchild Rookie autograph on that 1987 design that's for Danny in the diamondbacks There's a willy-maze die cut Corbin Burns means wander Franco most of the time Matt Jen Racking up the wanders Now they were getting close to the end of the break. I kind of want to see something special, right? Special wonder Franco and nice Shane McClanahan 60 out of 99. You can see that there's the back is a Is more is paper basically or like a vintage back is I think someone mentioned that the other day But Shane McClanahan future stars That's for Matt Jen 60 out of 99. There's a wander Franco Generation now All right, another box down a couple more to go the Ryan Mount Castle box topper for David and the O's More free agents.  Good depth guy Steve Shizek for some bullpen help Is out. I think at a decent season last year Tyler Clipper till out there out column a south Carlos Correa's another big name.  DH Pretty much locked in You know now instead of 15 teams Looking for a DH 30 teams now Nelson Cruz still out there Johnny Quaidos a free agent Zach Davies a free agent Cory Dickerson still out there Sean do little there's a lot of names out there Danny Duffy Matt Duffy Adam Eaton still out there. You Reese Familia Mike Polknevich Freddie Freeman, that's another big name Freddie Freeman. So I forgot about that Freddie Freeman kind of like a Kind of similar to Clayton Kershide. I can't see Can't imagine that the Braves won't get a deal done with Freddie Freeman I think before the before the MLB lockout. I remember Freddie Freeman kind of being connected to the Dodgers He is from Southern California, but but I don't know if that's maybe There's Walker Bueller nice 67 out of 99. I don't know if that's like his agent or the Freddie Freeman can't kind of drumming that up to to Kind of force the Braves into getting the deal done quickly But let's see what happens if the Dodgers really Anyone could use a Freddie Freeman, right? I think the DH, you know, I guess I you know I don't want the DH to happen, but over the years. I've just kind of accepted that it's going to happen. So I just kind of stop being angry You know, but I think it's gonna be a good thing because As some of your favorite players start to get older There's Greg Holland to 499 especially in the National League You know, there may be more of those teams willing to re-sign those guys like like Freddie Freeman, right? As he gets a little bit older There's a Greg Holland No worries, Rick. Thank you for getting in Greg Holland for the Royals mark So now guys like Freddie Freeman could Could maybe stay with the brave maybe maybe teams are more willing to give these guys longer deals because they're like Well, maybe we'll put Freddie Freeman as a DH for a little while Towards the end of his career So it'll be an effective pitcher get him off the field From the from the strain of being on the field a lot that does affect players We've got a Ronald Cooney, Jr. Speaking of the Braves Roll chance That's for Michael Gellis and the ATL Yeah, J-Dog. I agree some pitching depth. I think the Dodgers could use some of that But I don't know the Dodgers have so many young prospects And I feel like you'd be cool if they're just like Maybe you add like a free agent or two just for the middle of the rotation Is what it'll be Walker Bueller I mean, they saw this guy David Price Walker Bueller Julio Urias Clayton Kershaw, maybe David Price Then the four or five spot I would love to see the news the four or five spot For some of the youngsters like Andre Jackson's a rookie in this series one set For the Dodgers, you know, maybe maybe he could be a guy that could be deployed in the back of the rotation I think Tony Gonson is still around Some of those young guys figured out that I'm gonna get the bullpen kind of strengthened too MLB has told MLB has a deal that's made by February 28th preserve opening and March 31st That's exactly what I said Rex old news So I've been saying they gotta they gotta make that they gotta make a deal in the next by the end of the month Or else we're gonna see some delays Well, I've I've said it when you've been in the chat I've been saying this the last like this whole week when we whenever we've been talking about it With you Rex. Just don't pay attention to me. I guess We got Martine Perez 240 out of 2022 for the Red Sox Kevin with the Red Sox Right. Yeah, Trevor Bauer J-Dog is also a big question mark. Let's see I mean, he's gonna get disciplined by by Major League Baseball. I don't think I think that's Definitely what's gonna happen. Yeah, Rex. You don't pay come on. Don't pay attention to me. Oh autograph caught it Griffin jacks Justin with the twins And we'll do a recap at the end of this break too. That's a short print. Nice Cabrion Hayes short print That's pretty awesome.  What are your my thoughts on the talks of taking away a minor league level? I did hear about that. What level are they taking away like a low level rookie ball? Hear something about it. I don't know the details. They really have to figure out that minor league system Maybe fewer players in the minor league system Maybe means that they can be You know just better compensated But like if you're drafted outside of the first few rounds or something like that, you're really not getting too much bonus money and kind of A lot of minor leaguers trying to be professionals are living in squalor and then and I think they're not just It's hard for them to hard for them to kind of You know live as his baseball players as crazy as it sounds You know So what's the reasoning for taking away? What's the reasoning for taking away rookie ball? And what are the pros and cons of that? I'm sure I guess I'm just trying to work that out in my head Oh rex I want I want to tell you something. Um Nick jaspy And his dad went to the top's rip party sort of event quote unquote Because mostly just industry people wasn't really it but uh the special guest there was Ryan samberg I I I don't know Sam banks. I've I've asked people if anybody have seen box opera autographs No one has mentioned anything, but and I haven't seen any We've ripped open a decent amount of boxes. I'm sure if we look at a checklist. I'm sure it'll say But I personally have not seen any my piazza Prim says carbocation lists them as numbered to 10 or less so we could we could find an out of 10 numbered Box hopper but no auto Oh, there are some saw a franco redemption box hopper autograph. Wow Yeah, I heard that he's uh, yeah, I think he's I don't know if nick actually got to like chat with him or anything like that, but We've seen we've seen him at another event before that maybe tops or panini had a number of years ago But yeah, apparently he's a really nice good dude. Yeah, he should get a managing job at some point some day Box house so the box hopper autographs are out there. Yeah, Jeremy. Yeah minor league There's a I just I just recently and I'm this has been well documented too over the years But I just saw recently another article about Just the plight of minor league ball players Especially if you're not like a bonus baby if you're not in like the first few rounds There are a lot of rounds of the baseball draft I mean You're not getting a huge amount of bonus money and You know you're expected and you're only paid a few months out of the year because you're only paid during the season They don't stretch out those salaries Over the entire year, which they should So a lot of the guys getting part-time jobs You know, but they're they're also like required to stay fit By spring training otherwise you're cut You know, but you're they're not getting paid to stay in shape in the off season They got to work regular jobs. They got to be amazon drivers or work in amazon warehouse and blah blah blah So if they If they get hurt on their amazon warehouse job, then their baseball career is over if they're not staying in shape You know can they got to use the uh You know, they got to use Their own money to go go to a nice gym, you know water franco So it's it's a real struggle and they kind of bounce around a lot Sam remember, yeah Exactly rexy. He did manage the fillies years ago, but didn't work out very well, but I feel like Second chance has got to got to happen usually the second time around for head coaches for managers Definitely a little more successful So i'm not sure why he's never maybe he doesn't want to manage anymore. That's the only I feel I felt like I feel like he would get some opportunities or some interviews or something like that, but Maybe it's a matter of him not wanting to manage any And oh I was going to finish my thought earlier the minor league is also They bounce around a lot So it's hard to get like housing housing is a major issue And when you tell your heart your your landlord, oh, I you need got to find month month places, which I feel like in most spots You know in a lot of places can't be that easy So it gets it gets kind of crazy, especially if you're bouncing around or you're only going to be Working in that minor league city for a few months at a time I don't know it gets tricky Nice sam's downloaded mlb the show And it looks great he's saying Yachty's wearing his jordan 10s and has the jump man on his batting gloves too. That is great detail Got a joey gallo 1415 out of 2022 Kevin and the Yankees Cardinals green that's going to be for Matt jen 450 out of 4 at 99 I like that I like that pattern All right, what do we have here to close this out any short print numbered card perhaps Oh, there's the auto paul de yum For st. Louis. That's going to be for matt jen Oh the nightmare. This is a this is a series one is a dream. I hope we do more series one tonight In fact, there will be another case coming up Love it. Um Yeah, we got we got a few fillers to do for that, but yeah, those fillers sell out. We'll do it Why wouldn't I I think we got time for it Oh an autograph in the silver pack Behind cody bellinger. It's Josiah gray danny with the nationals Former dodgers pitching prospect nice No Danny, I don't I don't think there was a home field advantage card in this one I don't think I don't think they are one per case not guaranteed one per case I think just based on odds they generally follow one per case, but I've seen cases where there are no Home field advantage cards. All right gang. That is that Let's do a quick little recap Really solid break. Thanks everybody for making this happen for getting into it I appreciate you I appreciate everybody Fulfilling up all of these breaks that was a very a short print nice medallion that pink was 250. That's cool And there you go. Excuse me. Thank you losing my voice. Thanks for watching. I'm joe. I'll see you next time for the next series one break Bye. Bye