Recent content by Fat Nick

I agree with every comment above. I'm far from sold on Daniels. I'm hoping my dislike stems from having PTSD from RGIII. He just seems so similar - and as @(HULK) said, I'm very worried he'll be broken a few weeks in and we'll all be wearing leis and praying to Hawaiian fire gods that...

Good find. Apparently that's just how they roll...

It's Thomas Tull's old place in the Fairmont - Try 5X - 10X that. I totally agree with your comments, but he didn't just buy a place, he bought one of the premier places.

So random insider info - Wilson is buying a substantial condo in downtown Pittsburgh and relocating his family there. I'm not sure if that's normal for guys who expect to be in places for a short time (maybe HE expects to be there longer), and I acknowledge that a very pricey place is a drop in...

Somebody here has to be skilled at audio editing...I'd record some audio snippits of this guy's laugh, and then see if you can remix it into something and then play it at your desk at low volume till he notices. Think of it as the audio version of my cow photoshop prank. Pranks aside - I need...

I just went through this a few months ago - brought my collection of ~75,000 cards from my parents in file boxes - each filled with 9 880ct shoe boxes of cards and then a few binders. I was a pretty organized kid, so most boxes were unique to a specific set of cards. For me, I went to...

Honestly, I've been buying some boxes of 2020 football because my son loves Burrow, Tua, Jefferson, and a few of the other QB's that year, so it's fun for him. What I will say is that 95% of the boxes are priced as if there is a guarantee of at least a few big rookies being in them, when the...

That's cool. My son is trying to do that with Panini Prizm variants of Joe Burrow (his favorite). I like those side-quests. They're typically affordable and fun. I'm trying to get every Upper Deck Canvas of Washington Capitals players...I've got about 85% but I'm now stalled on a few...

A playoff birth would be icing on the cake for this season. I certainly wasn't expecting it - not with how the season started, and certainly not with the trades. To me, the bonus here is playoff experience for the younger guys on the team. Overall, it's a successful season - the goals really...

That card is hard to get a gem mint 10 because O-Pee-Chee quality control was apparently crap and most of the cards are drastically off-center. This isn't like trying to pull a pack-fresh vintage card with good corners and edges - the issue is the centering, which is likely to impact a...

Did it work before or after you went to Bugatti.com?

Right - but since they aren't doing qualifiers except by request now, does that mean my as-graded PSA 3 Ryan is a legit 3, or is it what would have previously been a 5 (OC)? If it's the prior, I have no clue why anyone would request a qualifier as it could only hurt the card.

Thanks re. the qualifiers. That's good to know. Do you happen to know how that works out numerically? i.e. if I got a PSA 3 with no qualifiers (weren't requested) does that mean that with qualifiers, it could have been, say...a PSA 5 (OC)?

I just got back a bunch of my childhood collection that I sent to PSA for grading back in January. It's interesting because some modern cards I shipped in the same lot came back in like 2-3 weeks, but the vintage stuff took a solid 3 months. Overall, happier with the vintage grades than I was...

I watched an interview with the head of SGC, and he basically said "you can't detect what isn't there." He was basically alluding to the fact that they can't detect everything. I do think use of the card polish on modern cards (Panini Prizm) to take out LIGHT scratches and scuffs would be...