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Sports Cards Nonsense

$16,000,000 Card Sale, NBA Market Watch & MLB Pre-Season Buys

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gioseffi and Adam Gray break down a chaotic week in the hobby, including the mind-blowing $16 million Pokémon card private sale. Is the high-end market completely detaching from reality, or is this just the new normal for "grail" assets? With the Nashville Card Show kicking off this weekend, Mike shares his strategy for the show. He breaks down why he is looking to buy bulk inventory for eBay Live and details the "blind offer" battle he is planning with Alex at the booth. Then, the focus shifts to baseball. The MLB season is around the corner, and the buy window on some top prospects has already slammed shut. Mike explains why he missed the boat on Roman Anthony but is pivoting to buying Travis Bazzana, Max Clark, and Ronald Acuña Jr. instead. Then, Adam Gray joins the show for an NBA Market deep dive. They discuss whether the Pistons and Cade Cunningham are finally a legit playoff threat or just a good story. The conversation heats up around Stephon Castle’s shocking $75k sale, and the guys debate if this is sustainable. Later, they react to Gary Vee’s prediction that Panini inserts like Color Blasts and Kabooms will become the "90s PMGs" once Fanatics takes over. They also tackle the Cooper Flagg’s "First Card" 1/1 from Topps and rank the Top 3 players who will own the next decade of the NBA. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code NONSENSE at shopmando.com! #mandopod #ad Our listeners get the Harry’s Plus Trial Set for only $10 at Harrys.com/Nonsense  #Harryspod #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Before we jump into today's episode, quick shout out to our sponsor eBay Live.

0:04.3

If you think eBay is just a marketplace, you're missing a whole side of it. eBay Live is where real-time excitement means rare, exclusive, hard-to-find cards and collectibles. You can watch live auctions, catch exclusive drops, and buy directly from trusted. And quite frankly, the best sellers like myself, while it's all happening. It feels like a show, not just shopping with great hosts, the aforementioned me, creators and streamers,

0:24.3

plus everything's backed by eBay's protections and authenticity guarantees.

0:27.9

To check it out, download the eBay app, tap the eBay Live button right under the search bar.

0:32.7

Make sure you follow obviously sports cards nonsense.

0:35.0

Let's get back to your show.

0:36.3

Who are the three guys in the league right

0:38.3

now who will be face of the league guys for the next 10 years in the NBA Luca and man wendy

0:43.7

first they're the only three to come to mind they're the only three to come to mind dude

0:48.3

show number two jesse is still gallivanting around you've probably seen him on social media

0:53.0

he's wearing a werewolf shirt in london he is not a fan of Warren Zvant, so I don't think he should be doing that, but he is. He is perusing around the London card show. I don't want to say he's being a perver over that. I don't know what he's doing, but he's having fun. He's doing McDonald's cards. He was at Taco Bell today. Quite frankly, he is doing everything in London that I think he could have done in Hendersonville. Taco Bell, McDonald's, and goof around with cards. But he wanted to gallivan across the sea. So this is the second show without him. We've got a few more. Adam Gray will be joining. And then we've got two sponsor reads that I will butcher throughout the course of this episode, which you'll be excited about.

1:28.5

Brought you by eBay Live, of course. We actually had a great eBay Live night last night. Sunday's become our night for eBay Live stuff now. We had a full house. My brother Russ was here last night. We had Tim, Theo, made an appearance, that little psychopath, two-year-old of mine. We did that. We had a good room. We had like 200 people.

1:44.2

I do feel like I say this every week,

1:45.5

but the eBay Live room is picking up,

1:46.8

which is pretty cool.

1:47.5

So we're still taking concern. psychopath, two-year-old of mine. We did that. We had a good room. We had like 200 people.

1:47.1

I do feel like I say this every week, but the eBay Live room is picking up, which is pretty cool. So we're still taking consignment stuff for that. If you want to sell some of your stuff,

1:50.5

just reach out to me. We'll buy it and sell it over on eBay Live. Every Sunday night,

1:55.1

I usually have a catchy phrase with eBay Live. This time I don't. It's just great. That's it. It's the best. If you don't use eBay Live, don't ever speak to anybody in public again ever. I think that's easiest way I can say it. And you're under a rock, by the way. If you're selling singles, there's no better place. And then you actually get really good deals. I see guys complaining online still. Some of the sellers, like, I'm not getting enough money. Great. Then your buyer's got a good deal. So eBay Live. If you use it, you don't have to go to London.

2:20.4

That's what I would say.

2:18.9

Adam's going to great, then your buyer's got a good deal. So eBay Live. If you use it, you don't have to go to London.

2:36.1

That's what I would say. Adam's going to jump on here in a few minutes. Adam is a, I don't know, he's like a top five guy. I like Adam a lot. He's super smart. He does NBA way more in depth than I do. So we'll definitely talk some NBA with him. leading up to it though the big, the big Nashville car show, we were supposed to have Jeff,

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