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Sports Cards Nonsense

Card Grading Changes, European Market Growth and Product Availability

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

With Mike out on the road, Jesse is joined by Alex AKA Clever Cuban Cards to talk about the latest sports card market updates. Grading changes with PSA, expansion into Europe, and Topps' release frequency are all on the docket. PSA's pricing and turnaround times have been a hot topic of conversation over the last week, which Jesse and Alex reflect on. They also discuss the booming market for Pokémon cards, the impact of player likability on card value (Aaron Rodgers), and the challenges of maintaining affordability in the hobby. Be sure to check out Mike's eBay Live tonight with DC Sports 87! And, tune into The Hobby Handbook with Clever Cuban Cards each Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:12.7

Didn't expect that voice, did you?

0:14.7

That's right.

0:15.5

Mike's not here to take over the intro anymore.

0:18.1

Sports boys here.

0:19.4

Sports boys here, not solo today, but Mike is not here.

0:23.4

So go ahead and turn off the podcast. Stop listening. Unsubscribe. Mike's not going to be here for today's

0:28.2

episode, but he will be back on Thursday. So then resubscribe immediately after that. All that being said,

0:34.9

we have someone, dare I say, I was going to say better, that'd be mean.

0:40.3

We've got someone that lives in Nashville.

0:44.1

I don't really know how else to describe him.

0:45.8

Alex of clever Cuban cards has joined me in studio for this episode.

0:50.4

Alex, how the heck are you?

0:51.3

I'm doing well.

0:51.9

Thanks for having me.

0:52.7

You're trading out one short Massachusetts person for another short Massachusetts person. I'm just younger. See, how the heck are you? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. You're trading out one short

0:54.6

Massachusetts person for another short Massachusetts person. I'm just younger. See, I didn't know how you how you felt about the short comments. I know like for Mike he will talk, he'll joke about it, but I can tell that that's like one of his like little bugaboos. It's like me when someone other than him talks about like my Jimmy Deans or something like that. It's like, I don't care for it. But if he's doing it, I'm okay. If I said you were like, oh, you're also like a little bit, a little guy similar to him. Who's taller? I think I am oh so slightly. Are you really? I think technically. Oh, man. We'll have to measure sometime. All right. Well,

1:28.5

Alex of Claver Cuban, if you're not already watching his content listening to him, he's got

1:34.0

a massive following, both on TikTok and Instagram's growing pretty well as well. Thanks to you guys

1:40.5

and YouTube's growing too and the podcast where we're doing well. Part of the SCN network right here.

1:45.5

This is cross-pollination time.

1:48.2

Alex, before we get started, I feel like it'd be good to introduce you a little bit more

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