Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2021 tops chrome platinum anniversary Baseball a dual case break a double header One case of hobby and I got light in front of me right here one case of light 12 boxes here 16 boxes in the light All card ship Thanks everybody for getting into the action facts specifically. 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You got my Dodgers. So let's get all this on one screen we're gonna pause the video in just a moment and We'll give you a good little trade window here And when we come back, we'll have the break. We'll see if there's any trades. We'll have the break We'll discuss Juan Soto. Where's he gonna end up? We'll discuss MLB draft and we'll discuss my My future my future golf career. All right, we're gonna pause the video and we'll see you on the other side All right, welcome back ladies and gentlemen. There were there was a little bit of trade chatter But in the end no deals were done. So big thanks everybody here for joining me and hanging out with me on a Sunday Kind of a longer break. So kick back relax settle in if you're rewatching the video of this There will be a autograph and low number hit recap at the end of the video all right, so There's the light we're gonna do the light first and then the hobby last the light case has those diamond Parallels though, that's exclusive to this set And there's like four per box or something like that. The autographs are really few and far between so we're not gonna see We might not see an autograph, but if we do should be a Should be a nice little low numbered auto So good luck and of course these are pretty cool because it's honoring the night the old 1952 design there it is so pretty cool stuff. So good luck everybody Well, the big news of the weekend and everyone in the chat wants to talk about this to Juan Soto Where is he gonna go? Juan Soto rejected the nationals offered him a 15-year Four hundred and forty million dollar contract which average annual value-wise does not end up as much but I mean 15 years that gives you a lot of security You know no matter what happens in your baseball career That's guaranteed money so so Sort of a sort of a big deal. I don't know what the details were I don't know if that's been announced yet if there are any like opt-out I'm sure there were but if there are any opt-outs or something like that These days most modern-day contracts that are that are that long will have a series of opt-outs so I don't know if that those details haven't revealed but Yeah, so I Think but still four hundred and forty million dollars. That's a overall. That's a huge Contract, I think maybe the biggest in baseball as it stands now total wise So now since Juan Soto has rejected that Since he's rejected that then uh, then I guess the trade window is open for Juan Soto At least that's what the national is saying they're enlisted some offers But what kind of haul does Juan Soto get he's still super young? Super talented Obviously, so it's gonna be really interesting to see Where he ends up or if it even happens At this stage of the season, you know by the trading deadline. Well, yeah, he said no because he thinks he can get more more more in terms of average annual value and He's so young that he could probably Have two big free agent windows for him. There's Robbie Ray to 199 and he could probably get even more then There's Ken with the Blue Jays and remember all card ship Right and Diego's right, too. Maybe maybe he just doesn't want to be in And he just doesn't want to be in Washington DC for that long Rexing according to CBS top three teams are Cardinals Dodgers and Yankees. Yeah Probably I mean you have to think who it's two different things who has who has the best farm system and Who is able to because no one's gonna Know a team that that gets him probably most likely doesn't want to empty the farm system If they have no assurances that they could sign or extend him right, so Just think of any any team with a good farm system and deep pockets Rubble would laugh if he takes a smaller contract to get out of Washington he might He might take a smaller deal with a higher average annual value and then take another buy at the free Asian apple Diego's heard Mets as well. Yeah, I'm sure Mets with new ownership. They want to they want to continue making a big splash Yankee seem logical if If that means they're not gonna re-sign Aaron judge That would make sense, right? That Aaron judge money goes to Juan Soto and said Juan Soto's Juan Soto's younger healthier. I mean the thing is every team Could use a Juan Soto 16 out of 50 Blake Snell for the Padres that will be for Rick T Yeah, Aaron judge was a little bit of a late bloomer Soto's what? 23 years old So it could be a team that only cares about the next couple years. Maybe If they're willing to yeah, if they're in win-now mode and you want to empty your farm system For a player that you have for a year and a half You know what teams take that risk though without assurance is that you can that you can Without assures is that you can re-sign him. Yeah, I mean the the Giants could Giants could go for him Lefty lefty hitter in that ballpark Make sense Yeah, Diego Kumar Rocker went third. I was a little surprised by that too the MLB MLB Network guys were surprised by it as well Here's Rex's cubs. A lot of people's cubs There you go Cade Horn pitcher Sam Bank saying Cardinals can't waste these aeronauto Gulchman ears getting Soto is totally something the team would do Yeah, that Drew Jones pick Arizona fans have got to be happy, right Diego? But yeah getting Soto something the Cardinals would do That might mean moving. I don't know. Who do you move for that? I mean, they're just it's crazy, right? I Feel like it's it could be a combination of a couple everyday players And draft picks everyday players draft picks Farms like, you know a few top five farm system guys Tim Sam and that old school angels gear It's pretty cool There's Esteban Floreal It's the blue wave Antrim Tim Simmons. These are the the mini diamond parallels by the way But about four per box There's a rod. I mean, you're gonna see a lot.  I think people are gonna be spec that you can speculate anything from now on your your guess your speculation is probably As good as mine or any other writer that's any other analysts that's out there But but J rod for one Soto, would you do that Mariners fan Mariners one? What 13 in a row?  J rod could be could be the next one Soto with power with a with more power Sublogan Yeah, Libertor O'Neill Gorman for starters probably Maybe even a even a Dylan Carlson and a few farm system guys. Did they win today 14 now? Wow Good for the Mariners. I said the beginning of the season I said the beginning of the season The Mariners are equipped to be a breakout team Wait, is that cubs pick a cornerback Diego is even gonna play baseball?  Is this cubs doing cubs things? All right next light box Just paving Smith those x-fractors not numbered You think it's gonna take you think Wilson contraris and Ian Hap is gonna get one Soto Now that would talk about wishful thinking No more Garcia para 28 out of 100 for Boston for Jonathan. No ma Well, first of all, they got keeper Ruiz from the Dodgers last year a top-catching prospect So they're not gonna they don't need contraris Ian Hap. I mean, I think he showed a lot of promises a prospect number of years ago, but I mean It is what it is kind of right now for Ian Hap If you're gonna if you're gonna chase after that look cubs are gonna start Gonna have to move some of their top farm prospects and a lot of them I think for everyday players. I mean for everyday players For everyday players there you're talking like Christopher Morel. You know what I mean? Yeah, but Ian Hap is a what he's already 27 years old. You're talking about Juan Soto a 23 year old You know that I don't know 274 nine home runs and 42 RBI's on the season if that's if that's a breakout season then I Think it's not much of a breakout It's like it's like a small zit. It's not even a pimple But I think you're I think you see if you're talking cubs. I mean we can speculate all day and that's half the fun but but if but if if it's the If it's the cubs, yeah, it's got to be guys like You know Christopher Morel has to start you probably want magical in the action too and then Guys like Brendan Davis and other top names in the cubs farm system and a lot more and probably draft picks Although cubs draft picks might be worth a little bit more since you're you're thinking in the next few years or so They'll still probably be picking in the top ten. It's old-school Randy Johnson in that Old Diamondbacks uni Yeah, it is a lot like KD like KD is gonna empty out someone's team or set of prospects from from an MBA perspective There's Alfonso Soriano 49 out of 50. I think the last guy that came closest to the 50-50 club This is Yankees edition going to Kevin KD for Soto Kevin Durant is from the district. He would be going back home Jilo Jeremy was gonna yeah, Jeremy Jeremy's right Jeremy Harder's right. They don't really need Soto pitching What is what the cubs need?  I don't know thing is I feel like if if you're every GM in baseball has put in a phone call or an email to a Phone call or an email to The nationals front office I mean everyone's gonna be inquiring about Juan Soto, you know every single every single team has to Maybe the Royals will get them Except the will accept the A's may have a Pretty big farm system They're at least making a phone call According to mlb.com farm system rankings Before the 2022 season the preseason farm system rankings Orioles Mariners Rays Diamondbacks Dodgers Marlins Pirates Royals Rangers and Tigers are your top ten. So I don't know rebel There's some prospects that the Royals have but if you're the nationals you're asking for Bobby with junior, right? I Don't know if they want to do that. I think Juan Soto is a Juan Soto is a Scott Boris Klein, right? It's Tony Perez 76 out of 199 so I don't know so I think it's got to be a combination of farm system a combination of farm system and a Combination of you don't want to empty your farm system For a one and a half year rental right half of this year and then all of next year So if that's the case then you also have to think about what teams can also re-sign him or Or agree to an extension Once he once he ends up there That's what every team is asking it's like listen We'll dump all you know, we'll empty out our farm system But we got to have some assurances that he's gonna sign an extension for us as well Yeah, giants have the money Tim, but I don't know if they have the Well, they're number 11 So yeah, they might have they might have the farm system to move But do you move guys like you know Marco Luciano? Do you move Joey bar Luis Matos Kyle Harrison? Maybe a couple every day guys Maybe you do. There's jay krona worth the crone zone 159 out of 199 these are facsimile autographs, of course the actual autos are in blue. This is the light edition so we're not gonna see Autographs are gonna be very very few and far between if at all. We might not even see one in this case This is a 16 box case. So we're halfway there after we don't we're done with this box Think Tim was asking me earlier. Do I have a do I have a plan at? for the Dodgers to make a run at to make a run at a Want soto? I don't know. I don't think so Where would I want soto to go? Not anywhere in the NL West maybe somewhere in the AL let's get him out of the NL. I Don't know what the Dodgers could move. They can send Trey Turner back I don't know if I don't know if the Dodgers have pieces now, I don't know if I could see a deal with it With them, they're not gonna want Cody Belanger. You're not Gavin Lux is not enough. So with a lack of everyday players You know you would have to start looking at You know Dodgers prospects We already traded them keeper Ruiz. So they don't need Diego Cartagia Our other Dodgers other catching a prospect we are on box eight. We were halfway through the light case See the rest of the box is back there So does that mean I mean then you just have to unload like the top ten close to the top ten of the farm system, right? and future draft picks Bobby Miller Michael Bush Andy Pogus Miguel Vargas Ryan Pepio Names like that. We'll have to we'll have to move Plus draft picks the Dodgers have a lot of money tied up in Freddie Freeman Mookie Betts I Think they're probably gonna want to try to try to resign Trey Turner instead of Paying Juan Soto I would I would rather put the Juan Soto money to Trey Turner to be honest with you Tanner hopes it goes to the Braves. What would it take? What would it take for the Braves? He's gonna take a lot for the Braves as well You know, it's got to be a couple everyday players. I mean, how many does it take a couple everyday players and then a and then a few top farm system guys, I Mean if I'm the Nationals I'm saying alright Let's start with let's start with Ozzy Albee's and Max Fried Ozzy Albee's Max Fried and then you know how about some How about a Bryce elder and a Jared Schuster? You know guys like that. How about a Braden shoemaker? Etc. And future draft picks future first-rounders 8th box Chris Taylor His numbered look different. They're usually black and white But in color You got 65 out of 70 Chris Taylor for the Dodgers Joe Nikith Rex is saying Kate Horton the Cubs draft thing has already had Tommy John. That's good. That's a good thing Get that knock get that knocked out early. I don't know. Where does that? Where does everyone think Juan Soto can go?  I'm sure there's some playoff teams that would love to get a Juan Soto Add Juan Soto to the team right now all this looks like Amari I don't know who that is so it's over my head. Um, I Don't know blue jays desperate to win right? Are they win now now? Who's really win now? I guess Yankees are kind of win now Would they unload parts of their farm system? I don't know Rays maybe I Don't know if Juan Soto wants to resign in Tampa Bay though Toronto perhaps I Feel like they think they should be further along than they are. I feel like they need a little more pitching than they do offense I feel like their offense is Okay Who could I'm just looking at the standings right now. I'm not sure what team could I would love to see the Mariners get Juan Soto if they didn't have to move like probably a Julio Rodriguez, but But I'd like to see them make a big move, but I think they got a role what they have Yeah, I guess that I guess suppose the Mets Right, it's Peter Lonzo to 199 Mets could be interesting again like I said earlier. They got new ownership that wants to make a big splash They're getting Max Scherzer back. Oh, there's an autograph Ron Goodre these are not too common in the light Ron Goodre blue ink autograph classic Yankee going to Kevin Smith 11 out of 15 nice low number. Yeah, Gilo thinks the Mets make the most sense But who would they have to move? I'm gonna look at the Mets depth chart and their prospect ranks for 2022 and Next box coming up. We're a little over halfway through this first case We got about 30 more minutes to go 25 30 more minutes to go and then another hour for this hobby case right here, so Kick back relax settle in Any Mets fans out there who would you move? I'm not too familiar with these Mets prospects. So I'm not sure who would really But my You know my thought process is That's gonna require a couple a Couple everyday players on the younger side and then some some farm system guys. I don't know if the Mets have the That sort of Younger up-and-coming player kind of thing that would interest that would interest the nationals so maybe this would be more More prospect heavy Maybe you're talking Francisco Alvarez Brett Beatty Ronnie Maurizio Alex Ramirez mark the Entos Guys like that anyone in the top 10 Khalil Lee Nick Plummer Dominic Hamill Jol Diaz in future picks Future first-round picks. I mean the problem was oh nice Braille and Marquez nine out of ten nice low number on that too That's the 70th anniversary parallel you can see the 70 behind there It's cool one of the cubs youngsters going to Raymond. Yeah, I mean Khalil Lee it's still a number seven overall prospect for For the Mets for the in the Mets organization Jazz Chisholm rookie refractor for Ben in the Marlins. So there's you know He's still in the mix I think he still has probably he's in triple A now, so he's pretty close to being called up, too I might be something that the Nats would like to see some top prospects that are going to be ready to contribute almost immediately Take the sting out from losing I'm having to trade Juan Soto It's smart though. I mean I feel like if you know a player is not going to re-sign Right he want so it as this year and next year The remainder of this year and the whole the whole of 2023 before he's a free agent now is the best time to To move him moving him in them. I guess or this off-season, but moving him next in the by the trade deadline in 2023 doesn't make sense He's a half-year rental You know, they won't get as much back at that point If a team can get in for the rest of the year and all of next season, that's a little more attractive The Nats don't want Nats might would like Mike Yostremsky, but Brandon belt come on We know what Brandon belt is Brandon belt plus he has Mike Yostremsky does not equal Juan Soto You're gonna have to add a lot of prospects there and a lot of draft takes. Oh and the young closer. Yeah You have to add that. Yeah See the Giants of their top what top 11 according to MLB comm And prospects they're gonna have to move a lot of those prospects Jilo wants the Mets to trade for Ben and Tendi Do they need Ben and Tendi? Do they got Mark Kana, Brandon Nemo, Starley Marta in there? So yeah, they could use it. He could use a Ben and Tendi So there's Ruzudo. Looks like there's some sort of green parallel hiding down there. Let's see what that's all about Terrison Bader 82 out of 99 That's for the Cardinals. That's gonna go to Steven Flatt. What if they sent Khalil Lee back? How many times do you think that's happened? A player gets traded for a player and then Traded back for that player. All right next light box. Good luck. And then we'll get into some hobby boxes That's where we'll see a little more action each box has an autograph What's going on in the world of baseball today outside of I think today is our last slate of games before Before the All-Star break, right? I think all the games are in the books It's like the Tigers Guardians game was postponed. That'll be made up in mid-August Reds at Cardinals was also postponed due to rain. That's gonna be made up in mid-September Meryl Kelly gave up one run and six innings And that led then Peralta's Homer led the Dime Max over the Padres 3-1 Diamondbacks in the draft got Andrew Jones's kid, which should be It should be really very interesting to see Logan Webb pitched six strong innings For his ninth win Giant speed through crew nine to five in Colorado Pirates beat the Rockies eight to three Newman Shavers lead pirates over the Rockies Jayce Young, I wonder if that's out other Young's Brother Josh Young, right? Think they're related It's a Mount Castle rookie refractor For the O's that'll be for Charles O's have the number one overall pick took a Took Matt Holliday's kid got tongue That's what his autograph looks like to end ton Tyler O'Neill 37 out of 99 Faximli autograph to 99 going to Stephen Flatt and the Redbirds Kevin Allar intentional talk Yeah, that's that's pretty encouraging for those youngsters Jilo All right next box. Let's go through the next set of scores here That's right. They are brothers so Josh Young Place for the rent who's in the Rangers orientation a little brother a little bro just got drafted Mariners won 14 in a row that they're one of the teams that probably wish the all-star break wasn't happening right now They're playing so hot. They win their 14th in a row Julio Rodriguez tie France are going to the all-star game too I think after some injuries Rodriguez with a key hit to beat the Rangers Mariners beat the Rangers 6-2 in Chicago Cubbies beating the Mets 3-2 Yeah, Nico Horner gets three hits They stop their stop their losing streak A's edged out the Astros they beat him 4-3 Steven vote Hit a tie-breaking single in the eighth They hung on to win four to three Next box and a will Craig red atomic 15 out of 100 Someone's making me think that it was out of five the red color, but Pirates rookie card going to Gary and the buck-os Angels taking a shortstop You should be taking pictures. No, all right two boxes to go in the light case.  Oh, no But Brett Phillips Randy Ardrey and Francis to me he a homer raised beat the Orioles seven to five Orioles having played some good baseball lately Garrett Cole and Mac Harbender send Yankees over the Reds 13 to 2 but for Chris sale Getting plunked in the pinky Fractured pinky Nationals beat the Ray 7 to 3 one Soto homers as Nationals and nine games skid Victor Robles had a home run as well and the Blue Jays beat the Royals 4-2 in Toronto Kirk's Alejandro Kirk's to run homer in the 8th lifting the Jays to a 4-2 in over the world Yeah, the Royals spite of losing a lot of guys to the COVID list have been Have been Playing pretty admirably I'd like to say You know earlier. I said a QB doesn't seem like it would relate much to a pitcher. Oh Yeah, that's Yeah, I think that's pretty I think that's pretty easy comp actually They're both throwing. Oh You think it relates more to outfield no a lot of High school quarterbacks Are also pitchers and that's usually the more common case Kyla Murray Patrick Mahomes most of the time I Think I think Clayton Kershaw Was a Everyone knows that Clayton Kershaw played high school football with Matt Matt Stafford Clean Kershaw. I think Clayton Kershaw threw it around a little bit, too No, no brewers hits yet. We're just doing the light case first It's really not too much going on here. There might have been some numbered cards some refractors, but nothing significant hit-wise We're gonna do the hobby case next that has one autograph per box. That's we'll start seeing some some proper hits I don't know. I don't think it was Manzell was Manzell a Quarterback I thought Manzell was like a shortstop. Sometimes you see short stops, too Well, the quarterbacks rarely run to catch a ball, right? But yeah, you think the the the outfield arm strength Would be important but for throwing far but believe it or not those Their arms are so strong. That's a little more valid that arm becomes more valuable as like a third baseman Shortstop catcher. Yeah, Manzell was a middle-end fielder He was drafted by the Padres as a shortstop. Yeah, actually, you're right Tim Kyler Murray was also a middle-end fielder Not a pitcher James Winston was he actually played two sports in Florida State He was a quarterback there and he was the closer for the baseball team. All right last box of that 16 box light case That's the 75 so the so the diamonds That are in color parallels 75 numbered parallels it seems like and nice and Eloy Jimenez So the autograph very few and far between in these light cases, but we got two That's for Joe and the White Sox Four out of 15 those pink parallels nice low numbers on those I saw a tonning blue wave Jet All right ladies gentlemen But wait, there's more it's a double header. Yeah rex that there was a there was a whole There's a whole ad campaign on TV with Tim Anderson and Bryce Harvard I think you got to vote like you got to vote for which meal was like the best meal or something like that Some sort of thing going on All right, let's wrap up this break ladies and gentlemen. Now. This is hobby edition So we get we're guaranteed I guess on average, but we should be guaranteed one autograph per box So this is where we're going to start to see some of the action here I think maybe more more parallels or something like that Think Cody Belanger and Fernando Tetease, Jr. We're in the most recent I saw DQ commercials for them those ads must be on the interwebs who a lot of ads end up on On the interwebs as well Let's see. I guess the the symbolic first half the season is over boys and girls Yankees lead what all of baseball right with 64 wins. Does it look like they can be stopped yet? Dodgers are second with 60 They look pretty good. Although five and five to end the last ten games But still 64 wins for them, then it's rays blue jays red socks and Orioles Twins leading the AL central They're kind of limping into the all-star break three three and seven in their last ten games twins guardians are a couple of games behind them White Sox Tigers and And Royals the Yankees are ahead by 13 games So they're kind of running away with the AL East, but AL central looks interesting White Sox only three games back guardians are two games back. So it could be a dog fight to the end of the end of the year Astros are ahead of the Mariners by nine games, but with that 14 game winning streak for the Mariners Looks like the Astros went six and four in their last ten. So Yeah, Mariners probably picked up a handful of games four or five games So there they could make that AL West interesting Rangers are 70 and a half back angels are 20 and a half back a's are 28 back So I don't think those guys are gonna threaten anytime soon We'll take a look at the NL in the next box. What are them? angels with shoyotani and Mike trout 39 and 53 two and eight in their last ten three game losing streak going into the Going into the all-star break and don't look now, but Shoho Tani Has an arbitration year in 20 and for 2023 they're gonna figure out arbitration Then he's an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2023 season going into 2024 now the The angels I'm sure want him to sign an extension Try to eliminate that arbitration hearing which is probably not gonna go well for them for the angels on the angels side of things They want to try to extend him, but does Ohtani want to extend with that team? Who I think hasn't haven't really come close Maybe they have come close, but they really haven't really made a threat To to get into the playoffs and that's something Ohtani has definitely said he wants to wants to do Who's Matt Foster 180 out of 199 white socks Joe locus. Is there a chance that Ohtani could Could be trade Ohtani for a billion and a small market team Maybe if that's small market team can get to the playoffs. I think that's that's what's important for Ohtani Not and I don't think he's really thinking about the market that he's going to The tricky thing with Ohtani is how long can he keep up playing? You know hitting and pitching he I don't think he can do this at this level for the remainder of his career There's James Karen check for Cleveland. That's 76 out of 99 for the Guardians That'll be for Nic Coba and another Elohim and as autograph with little Dent in the middle of that card. Unfortunately. This is for Joe and the white socks But another one for you refractor autograph, but man, and that's 18 out of 199 Joe I don't know what an Ohtani trade looks like as crazy as it is to say As crazy it is to say I Think I think Juan Soto will probably carry more value than Ohtani on a trade market. Oh, yeah, we were I just read that off Rex He's in his last year of his deal and then he has an arbitration year for 2023 And then he's an unrestricted free agent 2024 that would be his age 29 season So the angels if they don't want to lose him Well, I'm sure the angels are trying to extend him right now But it but if he refuses Then I'm sure the angels will probably want to trade him and not lose him for just like the Nationalism and Soto They don't want to lose Ohtani for nothing. I don't know if their cubs are really close Rex. I think I Think in subsequent interviews Ohtani. I think said he was definitely looking at at the More at the West Coast, I think probably cubs Dodgers Padres Maybe even the Giants. I think we're closer in the mix I think he eventually chose West Coast and AL because of the DH. I don't think most NL teams really had a chance But now that the Universal DH is there But now that opens the door for the entire league next box. Good luck The crazy thing is now that the Juan Soto thing is out there now, you know, maybe trades for like Maybe deals for Frankie Montas and Luis Castillo Kind of are in limbo now Tanner I would I would I would suggest to you don't buy fillers Just buy a spot straight up Less of a heartache 119 out of 199 Lee Mozzilli for the Mets that'll be for Joe. I Always tell people don't do fillers bias five full spots straight up, but a lot of times out that Falls on deaf ears The fillers just it's just another chance for me to disappoint you.  Nice That'll be for Ben and the fish Anyone been Marlin fishing that's something I want to I want to do someday You have a low budget. Well, listen, I would I would every time you want to think you want to do a filler Don't and put that block of money aside, right?   I'm sure that I'm sure there's like a I'm sure there are tons of like Charter boats that I can rent to go catch your marlin. Now what I'm thinking is if I catch this Marlin I Can I keep it right? I guess I've been deep-sea fishing here in LA a lot of times I guess you keep your fish, but I'm Marlin so big. Can I do it?  Well, see that's the thing that way I'm only this point you once if you did like four fillers and and you're don't hit in those four fillers Or something like that. That's four times. I'm making you sad if you do it the other way the only one time Marlin's delicious Where's Marlin taste Marlin's like a what the closest to like sort that I've got toward fish It's that same thing But yeah Marlin fish Enjoy your seafood on the coast. It's terrible in the Midwest. Yeah, seven out of 75 Yeah, I'm not I'm not interested in eating seafood in the Midwest Although in Vegas, it's not so bad, but then again if you're getting seafood in Vegas There's so many of those high-end restaurants in Vegas that are getting seafood and all the buffets that are getting seafood So even the local shops end up getting some decent seafood, too. There's Marcona Blue ink autograph for the Oakland a's John Fernandez With the a's on the board Well, hey Tanner keep getting your abes in We'll get we'll get back to our winning ways soon. I hope Nick Madrigal rookie No wrong again Rex a they spell their names differently and B to Matt holiday son. Remember Matt holiday old Cardinal Matt holiday Roy spells his last name holiday Right ha ll ad y Jackson holidays Matt holidays kids I Remember as a Cardinal Sean Murphy 58 out of 100 Well, yeah, who's who's the second player again second pick was that the second look it up That Andrew Jones's kid. Yeah, it was drew Jones Yeah, actually, I'm with you Rex. I I I mean These drafts are so difficult because there's so many high school players that are involved And I'm not watching high school. I love baseball. I'm not watching high school baseball. I'm not keeping Track of that unless fan graphs or something tells me about these high school prospects Drew holiday though. There's some tape on drew holiday. That's that's out there or drew holiday drew Drew Jones Andrew Jones's kid Yeah, he looks like he looks pretty amazing, but I don't know who knows I Like how MLB is trying to sexy up the draft a little bit here like like the NBA draft for the NFL draft, but I mean, it's so hard to to mock any of these drafts and to You know and to really Project how how these players are gonna do? Oh Nice Jonathan saying your son played against Drew several times. So what's the scouting report? Jonathan said kids certainly a stud, you know, I'm thinking now now that I'm looking at this Well, how are we feeling about bowman draft baseball, right? Bowman draft baseball is gonna look pretty good, right? Jackson holiday former Right like Rex was pointing out the first two sons of former MLB players, right Jackson holiday Matt's kid Offensive players to shortstop and then drew Jones out fielder out of high school and Then Kumar rocker who's had a little bit of an interesting story behind him Then Tamar Johnson shortstop Elijah green out fielder Jacob Barry cornering fielder out fielder Kate Horton pitcher, but Brooks Lee Offensive player Gavin Cross offensive player, etc. Etc. Etc. Josh Young's brother Jayce Young being picked up by the Tigers So I could that could be good for bowman draft Usually bowman draft has the number one overall pick And then regular bowman baseball has the number two pick in there something like that So I feel like this year is a This year's bowman products Could look pretty good. So we'll have some so keep an eye on jaskies case breaks calm Whenever they come out, we'll have pre-orders and we'll we'll be happy to rip all that stuff and go prospect hunting There's Joey LeCasey to 199 for the Mets be for Joe Yeah diamond back certainly do right and oh, sorry I'll go through the nl standings in the next in the next one, but Diamond backs, you know, we'll probably have they have they're a 40-win team They'll they'll probably have a top 5 top 10 pig again buddy by the end of this season There's 11 out of 50 Jose Abreu Cool orange wave white socks. That's gonna be Joe Locas. So I Mean, I mean that could be part of a nice little trade Here's another son of a former baseball player Justin Crawford got picked up by the Phillies son of Carl Crawford I might remember Carl Crawford Carved out a pretty solid MLB career And there's Yasmini grand all another white sock for Joe Locas White socks Yeah, David big Davidson. We need our pitching to catch it for the rest of the team a lot of young talent for sure 10 out of 150 I Mean to the point where you know, maybe There are if those prospects are a little ahead of schedule. I mean that could start looking like I don't know. What's another young team right now that's looking interesting? Blue jays white socks Those those kind of teams a lot of young faces playing well Yeah, the white socks they they do have Three autos out of the handful that we have so far out of the but hey We still have one two three four five six seven eight more autos to go a lot of time For for a lot of different teams to hit in the NL NL East. Let's look at this. Let's look at how the standings look going into the All-star break The brazier still keeping it close. They're two and a half behind the Mets Phillies have some work to do. They're eight and a half behind the Mets Brewers and Cardinals looks like they're they're gonna battle it in the NL central all the way down to the end and Dodgers leading the NL West pretty comfortably there They won nine of their last ten four-game winning streak to go into the All-star break Ten games ahead of the Padres Tanner St. Graves will win the division. I think that's gonna be a fun really fun race to watch. That's for sure But I don't know Jacob DeGraw, Max Scherzer for the second half. That's gonna be pretty pretty difficult currently in the wild card race the What? Rays and Rays and Mariners Rays and Mariners are in the top two in the wild card race Blue Jays Red Sox Guardians Orioles and White Sox. They're three and a half games back White Sox They're all kind of in the mix to get into remember the Wild card has been expanded a little bit this year. So those teams are in the mix Graves Padres Phillies Cardinals Giants all in the wild card mix outside shot for the Marlins were five and a half games back of a wild card spot and And and the Rocky six and a half games me on a wild card spot But braves Padres Phillies Cardinals Giants looks like they're in the mix for a wild card spot Extra wild card does make things a little more. All right. See what interesting things we can find in this box. Good luck Remember all card ship. I'll do a autograph recap towards the end Or at the end of the video. Here's an autograph that CC Sabathia gold Bronx Bombers Kevin with the Yankees 43 out of 50 We get a Giants got that spot Tim's Giants got that spot. Yeah, they're a half game back of the Cardinals and Phillies for a wild card spot Mike Piazza 33 out of 199 for the Mets Joe Locas Yeah, a lot of white talks in Yankees, but still a lot of autos to go right next box anyone watch the Anyone watch the British Open or the Open Championship today? What a win by by Australian Cameron Smith Take a look at the back nine of his card pretty amazing Roy McElroy was there. I thought he was gonna do it I Definitely thought he was gonna do it, but And he didn't play a bad round But like he said he was like I didn't play a bad round, but I didn't play a great round Cameron Smith played a historic round and it was it was pretty amazing He was he rallied back from four shots Hovland was in the mix to Victor Hovland didn't quite Didn't quite play it well either, but I think I think a lot of people were You know especially with Rory being a Being from Northern Ireland, I think there was he was definitely a fan favorite out there in Scotland There's some Aussies out there for for Cameron Smith. I like Cameron Smith I like Rory to a little bit nice to see Rory win one But not quite for him Yeah, right Tim 30 on the back nine It was pretty crazy But he he started the back nine with what one two three four five birdies in a row par par par birdie on the 18th 30 Shot a 64 on the day Cameron young American might be Had a great open as well Tommy Fleetwood had a great open Dustin Johnson top-ten finish Bryson had a top-ten finish or in speed top-ten finish. I Who did I have in my pool did not cast last two majors I did cash in the pool that I'm in this time. No, not even close But I think I might have still cash in the year-end Part of the pool, so I'll keep you posted on that for those of you care about that sort of thing Rod Carew twins Stephen flat won that spot got randomized the twins and gets Hall of Famer legend Rod Carew is the big D. Don Drysdale and Vlad Guerrero Jr. 76 out of 99 Nice one for the bluebirds that goes to Kenneth. It was Mickey Moniak. There's the Duke Mark 66 out of 100 For the Bravo's I don't be for Patrick next box Almost there stay on target after this I will be taking a little a little break And I think we do have a quick little break after my break and I see Let me see four orders coming in so if you want to keep going After this just case breaks calm keep it going Next break that sells out will be able to do Look at my schedule. That's always pinned in the chat dropped in the chat At around 745 Pacific. I would think eight o'clock room to 748 o'clock specific give or take We'll be Be ready for the next break. That's those We've still got about another 20 30 minutes here on this one Then the break then a quick little 15 minute break and after that we'll see what else we can do I'm sure by then Hopefully got something else filled up So for the open championship picks that I made which are also available on that break schedule if you click a few tabs over to the right It's where you pick a player for In each tier by world ranking so one through ten in the world rankings eleven through twenty twenty one through thirty one So on and so forth I had Matthew Fitzpatrick had a good day and not good enough Max Homa I had a lot of higher hopes for him. He's a local guy but he was cut Shane Lowry had a decent day, but not good enough Tommy Fleetwood actually finished pretty well Lucas Herbert and Robert McIntyre were my sort of late round picks, but Yeah What's for dinner tonight? I'm gonna eat some some hard boiled golf balls tonight Rex They say the more the more golf balls you eat The better you can become at golf Crack those delicious shells open and eat the eat the deliciousness inside and gives you the power and energy you need To keep the left arm straight And keep your golf balls flying flying true any break credit giveaways not tonight Tim Unfortunately, we are not made of money We did the 30 days of giveaways in June a lot of break credit given away there For free Can't do that all the time is Jake Arietta three out of 50 Orange wave for the Cubs Raymond Out of 199 shogo Akiyama for the regs that'll be for Kenneth and there is another cc. Sabathia There's a little variety here in this case There's Kirby Yates Been trying to get into the golf ladies and gentlemen. I've been talking about this for a while, but We had a Good a local customer of ours heard me talking That I want to get into the golf and I was going to get some clubs and whatnot and Gifted me some irons, which I appreciate another good customer of ours gifted me and a driver Just need to add a few more things and then I've got I'll have a full set Been starting off with the with some iron work Which they say So we're beginners should start I'm kind of been working on the working on the old seven iron Getting pretty consistent with that hit the driving range last couple days working on some shots went one day with my with With Nick's brother actually Who is golf's a ton? Play some local tournaments and stuff like that. I had a lot of fun with it And was and said that I that I looked okay As a beginner the basic mechanics were looking okay Well, most of the balls are being hit straight, you know, I'm not not really know I don't really know how to aim it But I am hitting it true It can get addicted definitely Definitely addicted.  That's here. I've got a pretty pretty high wall on the side of our building in our parking lot So I'll just I'll hit like how many I have 20 25 of those foam balls So usually after work, I'll you know spend 20 30 minutes Hitting against the wall Feel like if I do that every day and some And if I do, I don't know Maybe 80 to 100 balls at the range on the weekends I feel like I could I could be decent enough to get out to a to a par three course and goof around there. Oh nice. You worked at a golf course and Hit a large bucket every day for lunch. I Mean you can get good Pretty quick if you if you have basic mechanics down And then the rest of it's just repetition. It's Johnny quater to 199 So, yeah, I feel like I feel like I can put in some time here After work with this with the old swing And then put some extended time in on the range during the weekends during my weekends Friday and Saturdays It's Carlton Fisk 61 out of 99 Red Sox edition for Jonathan You're like if I do that I Could get pretty decent. Here's an astro Christian Javier. I think he's been having a really nice season That is for Rick T and the Stroh's 003 out of 150. There you go, Rick Nice color there and four more box to go. We're almost there so yeah, so I'm excited about the golf like I said Nick's brother plays a lot and You know, it's a good excuse for us to hang out and I know Nick plays a lot to Or wants to play more. I don't know how often he does play, but I'm sure Nick wants to play more Kind of do that. Maybe we'll have a future Little jazzy golf tournament Or maybe not even a tournament, but just an outing. Maybe a jazzy golf outing That could be pretty fun For charity or something like that But if I hit consistently enough, I feel like I could I could feel I don't know so a little nervous about hitting like a Getting on a par three course and goofing around, but at some point I better I Just have to do it, right? So maybe Maybe in a few months or so of consistently hitting maybe I'll feel confident enough to To goof around on a par three and see how I do Yeah, maybe some golf jaspy golf pga 2k Asi, what's going on? Can you recommend some boxes to break? Tom Brady fan, and I'm awesome. Thank you. Um, I Don't know. Well, we don't do individual boxes here But if you go to our Instagram channel at jaspy's breaks on Instagram We have individual boxes there and there might be some boxes over there where you can chase a Chase a Tom Brady But it all depends on your budget Your your level of risk how risky you are or how a risk adverse you are Well, that's that's the other plan Rex once I win the mega millions that's at five hundred and thirty million dollars or something like that Once I win that then I can build my miniature golf course, although My work on my irons Rex probably have nothing to do with the miniature golf course But I guess if I play more golf courses, maybe I'll have more experience on maybe designing a golf course There's David Price gold to ten and it'll be for Joe Joe and my Dodgers Doing some long relief work for my Dodgers What happens all the base cards and refractors? Mr. Rous is saying they get shipped to the people that have these specific teams All car chip in this break all car chip in most of our breaks Sometimes we say vet commons don't ship So so that would be a common that would not be a common that would be a common But usually parallels always ship Autographs obviously always ship relics obviously all always ship But if we don't the only time we don't ship anything Would be no vet commons, it'll say In the description, but most of the time everything ships Okay, most guys over at the insta say they have them. Yeah, that's a little different on Instagram. They're personal boxes so So since they're buying an entire box We let them, you know, they have the option to to not receive vet commons if they don't want them but On the group breaking side of things you don't have a choice. It's either or 11 out of 70 Doc Gooden That'll be for Joe and the Metz. I Don't remember Gary, but I will be doing a recap at the end of this break. So We'll see We'll see in a few boxes I've honestly kind of been on autopilot and working through this this long break here Rex when I win that don't forget who's your longest? I won't I won't forget ever forget Rex whether I win it or not Yeah, every once in a while there's no ship breaks better keep an eye on the item description to make sure You see if it's a no ship break or not So read those item descriptions carefully ladies and gentlemen the golf major season is over with the end of the bridge open the open championship so I think there's a couple PGA tournaments That are gonna happen and then I think the Wyndham tournament would be The last one before the FedEx Cup playoffs sorry, so I think a lot of the golfers especially the golfers who are in like the Maybe the top however many of the tournament will probably be Taking the next couple next tournament or two off Maybe some of the guys looking to get into the playoffs might play those tournaments Then the FedEx Cup playoffs. There's Willie Sturgell 51 out of 99 Pirates that'll be for Gary And the buck O's Shara Rolled his Chapman 105 out of 199 for the Yankees and Jared Weaver for the halos That's gonna go to Kenneth Two boxes go almost there Rob Manfred just pronounce it Oregon Interesting Be a local dialect Wait on my Dodgers pick that one of the Dodgers pick Don't think the Dodgers have a first round pick Cardinals just made their pick And then it's blue jays red socks Yankees white socks Brewers Astros Rays and Giants Tigers option to Spencer Torvalson. I'm the same and will be trade rumors Dot-com I think was I yesterday today? Struggling a little bit. He'll be fine. I feel like but I'm gonna work on some stuff Fergie Jenkins Cubs auto It's gonna go to Raymond and the North Siders So Kevin, I know soccer I hope so keep checking the website jaspyscasebreaks.com. We're always getting a Multiple times a week. We're always getting stuff from our distributors. So I feel like I'm sure there's some soccer in the mix as well Cal Ripken Jr. That is to 25 nice low number on this 70th anniversary orange parallel. It'll be Charles and the O's jazz officially rebuilding Logan's giving it what a 10% chance that Donovan Mitchell stays Yeah, I mean He may as well Tear the Band-Aid off right There's Wilson Ramos for the Tigers. That'll be for Gary Yeah, that Ripken is pretty nice like let's a bit of a color match to write orange parallel with the the orange O's Will that sell well? nice That's I'm sure Charles is very happy to hear that I'm assuming this isn't this is a platinum anniversary edition. Is this the only year they're gonna do this? It's what makes this product pretty unique here We're saying Miles and Quentin Grimes look great on the jazz bench. Is that is that a Is that deal gonna go down? Oh, yeah, I mean jazz got a I was I mean not too long after Not too long after Rudy go bare was traded Maybe a day or two afterward. I actually didn't really look too closely at the deal And then we were doing a break I think it was like a prison basketball break or something like that and then I as I was ripping packs I went and looked at the trade and I was like that Wikipedia page can't be right They didn't give up all that And then people in shower like they did so Good good for Logan's jazz. So I mean now at this point. Do you just rip the Band-Aid off? and then try to Try to get another big haul for Try to get another another big haul for Donovan Mitchell Who's saying Westbrook to the jazz? Optimistic Lakers blogs ESPN riders who want to get clicks Those are the only people saying that Heard from who though the Lakers fan-sided blog Top five moves the Lakers could make to get Donovan Mitchell No, no one's Westbrook trade would be If a Westbrook trade gets pulled off for it for a decent If there's a decent Westbrook trade that's out there You would give Rob Polinka executive of the year Right then and there What if it's all a ruse mr. Rosh is saying all those all those picks that the jazz got could be flipped for a big player Could be I mean jazz have been playing some having some really solid seasons really would be You know, it's not like they're had a bad season if they're like blow time to blow it up CC's the bath you had a 199. Maybe all those picks turn into Turn into Kevin Durant Although just Kevin Durant really want to leave Trade Westbrook for Juan Soto and make Juan Soto your point guard. How tall is Juan Soto? He's 6'2 I'd like my point guard to be a little bit bigger, but I feel like he's he's pretty quick It's got good footwork good field vision and Bucky Dent for the Yankees closes things out last autograph of the break Kevin Smith With the Bronx bombers good randomizer there for you with a spot you got straight up 52 out of 99 Hey, happy birthday Logan They realize it's your birthday your birthday and soldier Anthony Edwards for $3,000 today Congrats happy birthday To Logan Collister and thanks everybody for getting in that was our 2021 tops chrome platinum anniversary baseball 28 box double header case break a hobby box and a light box big Thanks everybody who got into the action really appreciate it That was from the light case. We've got two autos from the light case and it's not just about the About the autos. There's a lot of excellent parallels here, too That's a good chase as well So thanks everyone for making this happen a pretty long break But a lot of people were chatting with me and hanging out with me through the break and then made life a lot easier So I appreciate that as well. Thanks very much everyone. I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm I will see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


All right, here's the final lecture in the set of three on supply and demand analysis and price determination using supply and demand. What we'll do in this one is put supply and demand together and look at how we can use these, and again these are ways of thinking that can help us make sense of a very complex reality, how we can use this idea of this artificial arrangement of a demand curve and artificial arrangement of a supply curve to help us understand why prices tend to where they tend, why the market quantities are what they are. And when things change, how is that going to affect market demand? How's that going to affect market prices and the quantities that change hands? There are three main elements of this lecture. First of all, we'll think about what equilibrium is, the famous market equilibrium, what does that mean? What is an equilibrium there? At least two things are. Then we'll look at why market prices move toward equilibrium as determinedly as they do. And I'll finish by talking about some limitations of supply and demand analysis that it's very good to keep in mind. We want to remember that supply and demand analysis are a tool for thought.  They're a tool of thought, a limited but wonderful tool of thought. Okay, first point is that there is a very strong tendency in all free markets toward equilibrium, toward reaching that equilibrium. So what do we mean by equilibrium? And I just remembered something I learned the other day about where there is a not very strong movement toward equilibrium and I'll add that in. But for now, let's think in our standard analysis. There's the equilibrium price and quantity, so the price is there. P star, often the textbooks say that's the equilibrium price and here's the equilibrium quantity, Q star. So the first thing we want to think about is why do we call that equilibrium? You hear in that word equilibrium, the root of the word equal. What's equal here? There are two things we could say probably. What's equal? At this price, what's equal? The quantity supplied and the quantity demanded. Perfect. The quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded. At this price and only at this price, right? That's the only price at which quantity demanded will equal the quantity supplied. So that's one thing that's meant by equilibrium. Quantity demanded equals quantity supplied. What else is equal at that equilibrium point? This is when I confess that I haven't even been teaching until recently because I didn't see it clearly for myself until recently. It's much less emphasized, but we should emphasize it. It was last term, in fact. It was one of my football players who answered this. I thought, by God, he's right. What else is equal there? Let me give you a hint. Start at that equilibrium quantity and go upward to the equilibrium point and tell me what, don't you have two pieces of information? When you come up from here, you hit two curves and the curves are giving you different information, but there's something equal there. At that equilibrium, the value to the buyer, to the marginal buyer, equals the cost to the marginal seller. So at that market equilibrium, at that price, that price is simultaneously the cost of producing that, of bringing it to market to that marginal seller, and it's the value of that additional or last unit to the marginal buyer. There's a lot we could say about that. That's a piece of information that emerges out of the market process that cannot be determined in any other way, which is a sort of a cool thing. Okay, I'd like to give you another term for this. In addition to calling it the equilibrium price, actually I prefer the market clearing price. That term, the market clearing price. Think about what that may mean. In what sense does the market clear at this price and at no other price? In what sense does the market clear? I think of market sort of clearing out at that price. Any guesses to that? Savannah? As many products are demanded are as many that are sold. Yes, okay, good. So are there any disappointed buyers saying, I would like to buy at that price? No, because everyone who wants to buy at that price was able to buy at that price. Are there any sellers left there saying, hey, I'd still like to sell more at this price? No, they're all gone too. All the sellers who are willing to sell at that price have been able to sell at that price. So you can think of it as the buyers clear out, the sellers clear out at that price. Nobody else, nobody's disappointed. I'd like that term better because there's a kind of a pathology in economics about equilibrium. When we get too textbooky, economists can start to think, well, that equilibrium is somehow the natural state. No, equilibrium is not the natural state. Things are always in disequilibrium and changing. So this theoretical equilibrium is a kind of a theoretical aiming point. It's where things would settle if nothing changed. But of course, everything is always changing. So we never really get to equilibrium. So for that reason, I sort of dislike the term equilibrium. I prefer the term market clearing price. Okay, that's the first of three main points in the lecture. The second is this. Why does that price, that equilibrium or market clearing price, tend so strongly to prevail? Why in well-organized markets is that almost always the price? Why when I run experiments following the work of Nobel Prize winner, Vernon Smith, who has done experimental economics. In my micro classes, I have 70, 80 students at a time in a computer mediated experiment, and the price zeroes right in on there very quickly. Why? Why that price and no other? That's the main thing I want you to be clear on now, and rather than ask you, I'll lecture a little bit. That price tends to prevail so strongly in practice because in a world of scarcity, buyers are competing with other buyers in a kind of an implicit auction. If you're a buyer, and you're willing to pay more than the going market price, but you can't get what you want, you'll bid a little bit more so as to be one of the purchasers. So in that way, the buyers are always sort of outbidding one another and pushing price up. Meanwhile, the sellers know there are a limited number of customers for their products. They are forced by one another to lower their prices, to undercut one another, to be the ones who make the sale. So you have these two forces going in opposite direction. Buyers tending to push price upward as long as one of the buyers sees some advantage in offering more, and at the same time, you have this downward pressure on prices from the sellers, all of whom are willing to lower their prices a little bit as long as they see some advantage in lowering it at all. And the two sort of meet in the middle at what is the equilibrium or market clearing price, where there's no incentive for buyers to offer a higher price because everyone who's willing to pay that, given price, is able to buy. And there's no longer any incentive for the sellers to offer a lower price because at the going price they're able to sell all they have for sale. There's no longer any incentive for price to be pushed up or to be pushed downward by the competition of buyers and buyers or the competition of sellers and sellers. That's why the prices tend toward equilibrium. Now, when supply or demand change, what happens to the market price? And this is really the payoff from the supply and demand analysis because you can anticipate and make sense of how prices change when conditions in the world change. Let me start you with this one. You all probably are familiar with the tremendous change in the market for natural gas and oil in the world that has come as a result of the technological development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing known as fracking. With these technologies, people who are producing natural gas and oil drill way the devil down in the ground, two miles down or something, then turn the drill bits on their side, how they do it, I have no idea, and drill out into these deposits of shale rock which, until this technology was developed, was not a resource. But now the ultimate resource, human ingenuity, has developed a way to get natural gas out of these oceans of rock down in the ground. Well, with that technological ability, has come the ability to get more natural gas out of the ground at a given cost. Is that a change in supply or demand? Supply. In supply. Is that an increase in supply or a decrease in supply? Increase. Increase in supply. So let's put it on our graph here. We have the first, we say there's the supply curve number one. Now an increase in supply, at any price, more natural gas can be produced. So we'll call that supply curve number two. This first one becomes ancient history, so we forget about that. That's years ago. That's what the supply used to be. Today the supply is this new point and we get a new equilibrium, which means, which suggests, if you follow the logic of it, what will happen to the price of natural gas now? What has happened to the price of natural gas? Glory, hallelujah. In the last months, it's fallen dramatically because of this increase in supply. And this use of the apparatus of supply and demand can help you understand why. At the same time, what has happened to the quantity of natural gas that is offered for sale on world markets? Increase or decrease? Increase. Okay. Now, not to beat a dead horse, but to make sure we're clear on things. Why would the supply, sorry, why would the price decrease? What actions would people take to bring about this decrease in price from the old equilibrium price to the new equilibrium price? I'll call it P1. You can see just by looking at the intersections, well, the first intersection was at a higher price than the second intersection. And if you take economics from me and tell me the price went down because the lines cross lower on the page, you'll fail. Because economics is about human action and human exchange, not lines on a page. What does this represent? What were people doing so as to bring about that lower price, so as to decrease the price? There are probably a number of things we can think of. What comes to mind? Why did the price go down? They were more comfortable taking road trips or just spending more money on gas. Or not spending more money, but because it was lower, they were able to buy more gas. Okay. Are you talking about suppliers or demanders there? Demanders. Demanders. Because they're willing to pay, why are they willing to buy more? Because the price is lower. Okay, good. You've put the cart before the horse that I had in mind. Okay. My question was why did the price go down? You're quite right. But you jumped one step. Why did the price go down? Who lowered it? It's not going to be these different natural gas molecules in the pipeline saying, you know, our price should be lower now. Our price is too hot. Natural gas doesn't do anything. People do things. What people lowered that price? Sellers. Sellers. Sellers. Suppliers. What sort of suppliers and why? Competitive ones. Competitive ones. The people who are able to get the stuff out of the shale at a reasonable cost say, well, we've got this additional natural gas. If we're going to sell it, we're going to have to do it at a lower price. That price is still above our costs so we'll still make some profit. Let's undercut the existing sellers, lower the price, and so the price starts to come down and it'll keep coming down as long as there are sellers who see an advantage to them because they can still make some money by selling a little more at a lower price. Try not to think of the changes in price as sort of mechanical consequences of the geometry. Think about it as the result of human action. Human beings who see an opportunity, they have an incentive for their own betterment to take an action by lowering the price. In this case, it would be the people who've brought the new natural gas out of the ground using this terrific new technology. They see that they can sell it at lower-than-the-going price and sell all that they've brought out of the ground so they undercut their competitors. Their competitors have to respond and the price decreases. And it decreases until there's no longer any advantage to lowering it further. Now, there was one other thing I wanted to... I'll get back to that in just a moment. First of all, I want to spend a moment on the limitations of supply and demand analysis. And boy, there are some serious limitations on it. Remember, it's just a tool of thought. The main limitation is that this supply and demand analysis, where I've got here, price here and quantity, the main limitation is that all it considers is price and quantity. What about location? What about friendliness of service if we're thinking about the demand for groceries or something? Hours of operation, friendliness of salespeople, availability of parking, location, packaging, availability of free financing or free shipping. All these things affect markets. Is that represented here? No. Just price and quantity. So keep in mind that real markets are much richer than can be represented on a graph like this. There's an even more important limitation. This is a snapshot in time, or each of the curves is a snapshot in time, and things are happening over time. And we need to keep in mind the changes that will occur as time passes. One of the main things that the difference between good economists and bad economists is that good economists are always asking, and then what happens? And then what happens? How are other people that we haven't considered so far affected? What incentives will that change for somebody else? Always thinking about the follow-on consequences. So let's just start with this decreased price of natural gas. Do you suppose a decreased price of natural gas affects anyone's incentives? Does the lower price of natural gas give anybody an incentive to do anything different? And then what happens? What is likely to happen in response to the lower price of natural gas? You could probably think of a thousand things. Let's just air some of them. People start using natural gas to replace other fuels. You'll see a natural gas stove instead of a wood stove, perhaps? Sure. Very good. And that will have what effect on the price of natural gas? Price of natural gas. That'll push it up. That'll be an increase in demand. We're using it for stoves. That'll tend to push price back up. A real economy. A kind of a cycle where some technology, like fracking, will lower price of things. Well, at a lower price, it becomes economical to change our technology for heating our house. Use natural gas rather than wood or something. And that'll change demand and prices will come back up. Another one I had here, for example, on the supply side for natural gases, as that price has come down, a lot of drillers are mothballing the wells. Say, we're not going to put any more money into it. The price back up will reopen this well. But now, we're not going to produce anything from it. And that reduces the new supply coming on. Okay. And that's the end of the formal presentation on supply, demand, and price determination. We'll finish with any questions on that.


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Tonight, you've got the Clemson Tigers, the LSU Tigers, and then of course right now we've got the TFNN Tigers, the best of all the tigers. Yeah, right. Oh my God, who are we going to root for? Yeah, right. Tiger is going to win. There you go. I like it. I like it. Totally. I didn't get a chance to put together, normally I like to, especially, I like to put together a little bit of a presentation to maximize the use of this time, but I just didn't get a chance to do that. So just kind of, kind of mull around here a little bit, share with you and the folks that are listening, what to be watching for, we'll just kind of go from there. But I did hear you talking about Tesla, and I hadn't looked at a Tesla chart for a while. So I put, that's what, let me just put my screen up here so everybody can follow along. So this folks is a longer term chart of Tesla. So I imagine you were looking at the daily time frame chart trying to figure out the A to B equals C. This is a quarter, I'm sorry, this is a monthly time frame chart. But the beautiful thing about this chart here, Tom, is that it helps us to be able to teach those folks that are watching and listening in about a consolidation pattern. Because Tesla's been in a consolidation since 2014. It's got clear bottom, a clear top, and the beauty of that is that, and I remember all those years when I used to be over in Clearwater with you and we started doing that show together, and I remember we were sitting there taking a look at Walmart that had broken out of a, like a 15 or 20 year consolidation pattern, right? And so the beauty of these consolidations folks is that what it does, it provides us with a measured move. And I'm not sure who developed it. Maybe Tom, maybe you know who developed it. But we take a look at this consolidation, the measured move means that if you break either above or below the consolidation, then the move should be equal to or greater than that consolidation level. So in the case of Tesla, in addition to A to B equal CD patterns that I heard you talking about the extensions of the C to D leg from a consolidation standpoint, longer term because we're looking at a monthly chart, has Tesla moving up to 600 bucks. Now, my chart, it's got priced out at $598.21. We're not going to worry about pennies in a few dollars out here. But it does look like it's headed up to that area. Pretty amazing, you know, but it is what it is. And I think with, I just don't know enough about the company, you know, a bunch of hype. I've actually never even driven in a Tesla. Oh, when you drive in one, you'll be a believer. Yeah, you know what? I haven't driven one, Steve, but I've been in them twice. Yeah. You are not going to believe how fast they are. I mean, and I wasn't in the fast one. I was in the three. These are like, these are like rocket chips. And so I know I can speak for myself, but I think I'm speaking for you too. We love fast cars. Yeah. We love fast cars, you know, knock on wood because I take the alligator alley fairly often between here and Naples, you know, and you can drive fairly fast there. You can. But so, and I pass a number of Teslas. Sure. When I look at them, the body style just doesn't appeal to me. Yeah. Compared to the other sports cars. Right. No, yeah. So if I, but it's intriguing, but you know, and I, but anyway, as far as a price projection for folks out there, just be aware of the, of just a normal pattern, large consolidation, measured move, and it should move up to an about the $600. Now, I can see that. I just, I just did, it's 631. That's pretty amazing, man. That's, that's freaking intense, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. So I just thought, you know, while, while, while I was, while I was listening to you, I said, yeah, let me go check out this stock. Seriously. I know. I don't look at this stuff. What happens, folks, when you have this type of long consolidation, it makes a difference. I mean, that's the building cause, you know, 2014 to 2019 is a big number, man. You know. Yeah. And we should have really, we should have put on it. We should have as, as, as Musk was having all those problems with the SEC and so forth, and it was pushing lower into about the $180 level back in the middle of last year. All it was doing was going back to the bottom of the consolidation. I know. I mean, it's like, it's kind of like you and I could say, can it really be that easy?  I know. I grew, no doubt. And we'd have that, folks. Okay. This will probably be about, be about China. That's the, that's the bottom line, you know. Yeah, I would think so. I would think so. He's pushing them out. And you know, what we have found out is that the other car manufacturers are not Tesla, it's just like an Apple phone. You can, there's plenty of phones. Everyone wants an Apple. That's what's going on with Tesla. They, the numbers for these, you know, other car companies are like, they're not even one-tenth of Tesla. And I'm talking about our major American companies. Oh, sure. Sure. No, no doubt. Market cap, all those types of things. Absolutely. And, and I, David probably knows for sure, but I understand it.  But, you know, Tesla gets a benefit as they move into China in a big way. But talk about things, you know, can it really be that easy? Tom, this is one of the charts. Well, actually, let me show you another chart here that we've talked about, that I'm continuing to watch. And that is the cycle chart. Now, I'm not showing when the annual seasonal cycles take place, but they're listed here on the chart when the, when those highs and lows, and we've talked about this before. So, the red, the red information is showing you tops. And the green are showing you bottoms. Now, they're showing you bottoms and tops in regard to when the cycle would typically occur, which at tops is typically around January 6th, May 19th and July 21st. So last year for 2019, what you'll notice is those tops occurred 22, 19 and four days earlier. And the bottoms, which typically form around January 30th, June 25th and October 13th, they also formed early, 23 days, 16 and 7. Now, the last top that formed inside of the Dow from a seasonal perspective took place four days early. Now, as great as the markets have been today, they haven't taken out the highs of Friday. And Friday's high happens to be four days later. Is it possible that it shifted from four days earlier at the last top to now four days later? Well, you know, it's so cool. Well, no, soon. Yeah. Now, I don't know if you've heard Larry show this morning, but listen to this, folks. Larry had numbers on this morning. This was pretty cool that from the depression, well, the first get go down the stock market crash in 1929, to the highs that were generated on Friday was 28,000 days. And then he brought a second one that once 28,000 days to the number and the other's 33,000 days as of Friday. Isn't that great? We were talking, he was talking to even numbers, folks. Listen, folks, come over to our website at TFN, go to the newsletters, go to the marketing probability, test driving, great newsletter. Steve, you have a great one, safe one. We look forward to show tomorrow. Thanks, Tommy. Thank you. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.


And I think you just have to be open, because each individual is different, and you're not too sure what to expect, how people would react to a situation such as this, and it's just good to keep an open mind, but to keep people in the moment. What can I get you at the moment? Whether it be that glass of water, whether it be, hey, let me just sit with you a while, while you kind of soak in what is happening, and let's just be patient and sit here a while, or whether it's finding out who can we contact, whether it be a family member that may want to sit with you at this time, whether it's a pastor at a local church who you might want to reach out to, is there somebody in the family that we should notify? And it's a matter of just coming in, there's no set prescription, it's just a matter of being open, being situationally aware of who's around you, what resources are there, and who's there to help. And I think that's just a critical thing to understand when you show up at a situation like this, find out who the other helping agencies are, and let them know, hey, we're here to help support, what can you offer, how can we work together to support those in a time of need. So it's just a matter of just being open, seeing what's out there, and seeing what's appropriate. Each situation's different.


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Hey coach, welcome back to the channel. If you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content we put out. Now, if you want to learn more about our Sports Accelerator program, right? This is a business coaching program that we have in our company that helps coaches to grow, to scale and get to the next level with their business, right? Book a free 15 to 20 minute call with me. Go into the description of this video. My calendar link will be there. Click on it and book a free call where I can learn more about your business. I can show you some actionable steps. And if we are a good fit, then I can teach you more about our business coaching program. Now, if you don't want to do that and you just want to send me a question directly, right? There's two ways to do this. You can either send me a question through WhatsApp, right? My number is in the introduction of this video. Send it through there. Or you can send me a direct email to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com, okay? So, those are the ways that you can get in contact with me, connect with me, and I can help you with your business. Right, today I want to talk about free common objections you will face with parents when it comes to your training business. Now, I've got my own training business, which I currently run. I've been, I've had it for now over five years. I also, as you all know, work with coaches in mainly, mainly soccer, but also in other sports as well, okay? And the question I get asked a lot a lot of the time is, Leo, what are common objections? How do I handle objections, right? And how do I push through it so it doesn't affect my confidence? So, when I look at objections from parents, there's three very common ones that I see in this type of industry, okay? Now, the first one is a common objection is your training is too much money, right? So, your training is too expensive. We can't afford it right now. So, we can't commit. Now, this is a common objection and what I want you to also take into account that when you do hear objections, treat them all as complaints, okay? Because what might happen is that that parent has been shopping around and what they've probably been shopping around is on price. So, they've probably gone to two or three coaches before you who have offered their training for cheaper and then they come to you in the hope that your training was going to be cheaper, okay? And what they're trying to do is they're trying to lower your price to get it cheaper. Now, just because they say it's too much money doesn't always necessarily mean they aren't in a financial position to invest in you, okay? What you need to do is you need to treat all objections as complaints and if there is an objection about money and that it's too much then essentially what we want to try and do in order to verify that it is a money objection is we need to ask them really specific questions about pretty much what their child is doing when they're not training with you, okay? So, are they training with someone else, okay? What other activities do they do after school? What does their week look like? What does their schedule look like? Once you get a rough idea and ask them really good questions then you will realize that you know what? It might be a time objection rather than a financial one, okay? So, the best way to do this to overcome this type of objection where appearance is it's too much money is trying to really verify, right? By asking really good questions and then when you get to the point where you realize you know what? Okay, this is actual financial objection. They can't afford my program because maybe they're already training with two or three other trainers or they do multiple other activities that their parent has to invest in, okay? And they just haven't got the money to invest in you, right? That's okay, but as long as you can verify and you can do a deep dive into that objection and make sure that you know what? Okay, it is a financial one and perhaps they aren't a good fit at the moment, right? Don't take objections personally. Treat them as complaints until you verify them as an actual objection, right? The second one is we don't have time to train with you, okay? This one is really common. This is one that, again, should be treated with as a complaint because essentially what that parent might be saying to you is that the time and day that you are offering them doesn't work with their schedule, okay? Now, if you're doing group training, then it's very difficult to come to an agreement on a certain day and time that suits not just them as a family, but you as a trainer, okay? Because if you have to move a day and a time for one client, then you have to move it for the entire group, okay? So, if you do one-on-one training, this is a little bit more different because you can maybe accommodate that client to that set day and set time, okay? So, when you hear that we don't have time to train with you at the moment, when you hear that objection, right? See it more as a complaint to say, right, the time that you are offering us doesn't work during the week because my son is doing swimming, because my son is doing lacrosse, because my son is doing basketball, because he has other school commitments, right? So, once they give you that objection, then again, like I mentioned at the beginning, you've got to break down the objection step by step, right? And you do that by asking specific questions with regards to what they're saying to you, okay? So, try and ask them, okay, Mrs. Jones, if that day or time doesn't work, would there be any other day or time during the week that you may be able to commit to that we can maybe change the day or time of our training sessions, right? Now, if it works for your schedule, then I would encourage you to do it. If they turn around and say we can't commit, then essentially that objection isn't about time, it might be more about their finances and money, okay? Because if a parent has come to you, they've come to your evaluation session, essentially, in my eyes, they do have time, but what they're probably, the objection that is real to them is another one. So, what we have to do is we have to try and break it down to get to the main thing that they're most concerned about, okay? So, if it's not time, but they're telling you it's time, then it might be a money, it might be a money objection after all, right? So, asking the good questions and also offering them alternative days and times, if you can and if it's something that works with your schedule as a trainer, right? Now, the third objection that's a very common one is we don't want to commit for that long. So, if you are part of our business coaching program, what we encourage coaches to do, we encourage them to sell minimum three month packages. Now, that's the minimum requirement we ask. There's some coaches in our program that do six, nine or up to 12 months, but if you are selling a three month package to a parent and essentially what they're doing is they turn them around to you and they're saying we can't commit for that long, okay? Now, again, treat this as a complaint because what that parent may have done in the past is they may have trained with another trainer that runs their business on a week by week, okay? And this is what most parents are programmed to do when it comes to a private training. Most parents are used to going week by week with trainers and they're used to saying no to when they can't train, but if you're suddenly changing what they're used to and you're making them commit to three months, that can become a shock to them because they aren't used to it, right? So, when a parent says they can't commit for that long, don't take it personally, don't treat it as an objection, treat it more as a complaint to say, right, we've been used to training with other trainers and it's always been week to week and suddenly you want us to commit for three months which is something we can't do, okay? So, essentially what it is, it might be a fear of committing that long because they don't know if their schedule is going to allow it to sustain the program for that long. Also, it might be a fear of making a massive investment and then not being able to fulfill the three months, okay? So, treat them as complaints until you verify them as an actual objection. Now, what we say and this is something I always tell coaches is that if a parent can't commit that long to your program, then the alternative is maybe offering them, instead of going three months, you can maybe offer them a two-month package but what you do, essentially, is you charge more for those two months than you would be charging if it was three months, okay? So, if they were committing to three months, then they would get a discount if they committed but if they can't do that three months and you want to offer the two months, you can do that as well, we just charge a higher price because the commitment's less and the time that you are going to have with that client in order to get them results and achieve the goals you want to achieve is going to be a lot tighter and if you were going to do it three months, it would make a lot more sense to have them in three months, okay? So, in my business, when a parent says to me, we can't commit, in my program it's a 10-month commitment so when parents join my program, they essentially have to sign a contract that they're going to be staying in the program for 10 months. Now, I have had that conversation with parents where they say, right, this is too long of a commitment, we can't do it and that's fine because I've got to the point where I'm happy to fill our parents out that don't want to commit, okay? Now, what I do essentially is I have that really difficult conversation with parents and the way I sell it to them is I break it down why it's that long of a commitment. So, if you're a coach and you're looking to transition and sell three-month packages, what you have to say to parents is the reason why it's three months is because we have done this in the past where we've offered one-month commitments but essentially we haven't been able to achieve the results and the goals that our clients have wanted to achieve in that short space of time. So, what we tend to do well, what we do now is we space it out to three months where it's a longer commitment and we can go through a step-by-step process with that client and help them achieve their results and their goals that they want to achieve with us. So, if you want to see results with your child you need to be in the program for longer than one month or two months. I think three months is a pretty good commitment because essentially you can achieve results with clients in that long. The ones I've done when I was doing one-on-one training I do very minimum one-on-one training now everything's in groups but when I was offering three-month commitments minimum I was seeing results and transformations with the clients I was working but I was selling it to parents in that way I was selling it to like okay if you guys join and the reason why you're committing three months to a three months with me is because I can promise you that off when we get to the third month or at the end of the contract your child will be more confident they would have developed technically their skills right there'll be a completely different player and that will show when they're playing in their matches on the weekend okay so if you would need more help with this okay get in contact with me I make your mission every single day to connect speak with coaches help coaches with their business so as I mentioned at the start there's three ways you can do that first one visit the cannelly link in the description you can book a free 15 to 20 minute call with me if you don't want to do that then there's two ways you can send me questions you can WhatsApp me directly via text my number is in the intro of this video and also if you don't want to do that and you just want to send me a direct email you can do that as well to make money coaching sports at gmail.com all right thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards, we're up in 22, Penini Flawless, football hobby, 1 box break, number 14, random left side serial numbers. So look again at your random results, as always you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. So, good luck. I wish he could come in. No, you know what? He claims to the machine that he's gonna come in tomorrow in like 3 hours into the top floor.  I can see it happening. That happens most nights, I would say, when it hits like 1 o'clock. He's either like, loopy or he's out, one or the other. There's one night he starts with a cape on his face and it was just a mess dude. Absolute mess. Alright, well, good thing this is... Oh, that's kind of dope actually. This is actually pretty sweet dude. That's gonna be a triple kicker patch. Justin Tucker, Daniel Carlson, Harrison Bucker going to the 18 spot. Stefano, congrats buddy. This is also nasty. Going to Viviana at the 24 spot. How about A, Rob Gronkowski, Wes Welker, four colors both ways for the paths. This is so sick. Going to the 7 spot. Viviana, 7 of 15, Steve Young as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer man with the creamsicle uni. That's hard. Dude, those patches are hard. Jason, two spots. We're down to 11. Jason H, thank you buddy. Going to Mike W at the 10 spot. That is 10 of 15. Damian Pierce, rookie auto. You can add this next one coming up. Creamsicle, baby. Stop, Hawk. We've got 13 spot, 13 of 25, RPA. The guy who is on the track, Drake London. Congrats on that. Thanks, Bolts. Appreciate that, man. Hell yeah, man. Going to the 20, you can add this one too. Going to the 21 spot, Viviana again. 21 of 25, Sauce Gardner. I'm a big Drake London fan. He is on my fantasy team. I started in week one and he got zero points. And I didn't start him last weekend like 21. So I was like, well, great. He's going to stink again. And then Christian Kirk is on my bench. He's going to go for like 30. I'm going to be so pissed. Jetta Steph Curry. Is there a giveaway? There's not a giveaway. 20 of 20, Brendan G. Nice one there. Congrats to the 20 spot, Brendan G. 20 of 20, TJ Hawkinson. Three-color patch auto. No giveaway. I think I told you you can bag the Sauce. I have Cooper Cup too, Bolts. I wish I could go back in time and just be like, don't do that. Like, don't take him. Don't think you know more than you do. All right. We've got 12 of 20, Brock Purdy. Two-colored patch. Going to the 12 spot, Kuniaki T. Congrats, Kuniaki. Nice one there, buddy. With the Diamond Authenticity. Going to the 12 spot, Kuniaki T, again. That's going to be Flawless Champions. Emmett Smith. Nice one there. Congrats on that. I know we have Robert B. Inchat, who is like a huge Emmett Smith Flawless Collector. So there may be a buyer for this Kuniaki. I know he's got like 300 Flawless Emmett Smith autos, or Emmett Smith cards. It's crazy. Yeah, remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yup. So congrats, Kuniaki. And then, dude, this is so nasty. Oren W. One-of-one Platinum Gem. Aaron Rodgers. Let's go, man. Congrats on that one, Oren. Oren. One-of-one. One-of-only one. Congrats, buddy. Let's go, dude. That is awesome. So sick. We'll take that all day long. There's an empty case. No recap on this one. Thank you all again for filling this up and the support. We'll get them right out to you guys.


This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New research could raise hope for women who are having trouble getting pregnant. For years the thinking has been that women are born with all the eggs their bodies will ever produce. In fact, this has been the thinking not just about humans, but all mammals. Then, in 2004, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital reported that adult female mice could produce new eggs. Now Jonathan Tilley has extended his work and reported another discovery this time about human females. We've isolated essentially the female equivalent of the stem cells that we know exist in men that actively make new sperm. He says having these cells now isolated opens up a lot of opportunities to consider. Stem cells are special kinds of cells. Starting in embryos just a few days old, they produce the many different cell types and tissues that form the body. In some adult tissues, stem cells produce replacements for damaged or worn out cells. In his new study, Jonathan Tilley and other researchers removed cells from ovaries. Ovaries are the female reproductive organs that produce eggs. The scientists did laboratory tests to make sure they had the right cells that they were looking for. Then they used what are known as culturing methods to grow the cells so they would divide and produce more cells. And we could start with perhaps 100 cells and over several months' time take those 100 cells and make hundreds of thousands of cells. And interestingly, we noticed that these cells would spontaneously generate immature eggs all on their own in these cultures. The researchers then placed some of the cells into human ovary tissue and implanted the tissue under the skin of mice. The studies found that these human cells were, in Jonathan Tilley's words, more than happy to create brand new human egg cells. He says growing eggs in the lab could improve the chances for women who were having the process known as in vitro fertilization. With IVF, an egg is fertilized with sperm in a laboratory, then placed in the woman's uterus to develop. Jonathan Tilley says his work could also lead to fertility treatments that might improve the chances for more traditional fertilization methods. The journal Nature Medicine published the findings. Some experts raised questions about his earlier work with mice. Some are not so sure about his study either until other researchers can reproduce the findings. For VOA Special English, I'm Mario Ritter.


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