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Sports Cards Nonsense

My Love-Hate Relationship With Topps, 90s Inserts, Big eBay Live Debut

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Topps is bringing serious heat with Bowman Basketball, Cosmic Basketball and the return of Topps Football, but Mike Gioseffi has a big problem with how it’s all being rolled out. He opens the show with a rant on Topps flooding the market all at once after long gaps with almost no major releases, and explains why the timing is brutal for collectors trying to plan around multiple expensive product drops. At the same time, he gives Topps credit for what looks like a loaded stretch of releases, from Cosmic’s massive chase potential to Bowman Basketball’s return and the inserts that could help Topps Football be a major success. Then the episode shifts into a fun deep dive on underrated 90s inserts with Lane Dukart, including Penny Hardaway, Platinum Medallions, Flair Row 0 and other nostalgic cards that still feel under-appreciated in today’s market. Later, Gordy Bonker joins to break down what’s happening in vintage, why top-tier names like Mantle, Ruth and Jordan keep rising, and why he’s making the move from TikTok to eBay Live for his live selling show. Join Gordy's debut on eBay Live Sunday at 8 pm ET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I feel like these have gotten more and more popular, the power players.

0:04.5

Oh, yeah, is that like 98 tops chrome?

0:06.5

2,000 tops grown.

0:07.7

Anything that has like a rainbow tie-dye-ish background, like I'm a sucker.

0:14.0

All right, guys, Thursday show solo edition.

0:16.0

Jesse is not here.

0:16.9

Solo for like 30 seconds.

0:18.1

I'm 10 minutes late because I'm a moron.

0:20.6

So Lane is coming.

0:38.9

Lane and Jesse, I actually didn't remember this until yesterday talking to Lane. Famously, I mean a famous feud, like the Hatfields and the McCoys. I think Lane, I'm pretty sure Lane's the guy Jesse hung up on when he called him the show last year. That will be our first question to Lane. Then we have Gordy Bonkers.

0:40.5

He's our big vintage guy.

0:55.0

He's also moving over to eBay Live. We want to talk to him, kind of get some of his backstory. I want to start with this, though. Some would call it a bold move. Someone would say it's kind of a stupid move. I have some praise in here as well for Tops. The Topps conference is next week. I got a speaking part on Tuesday and they're gracious enough to let me take over the main stage on Wednesday

0:59.6

with some access to guests that I wouldn't normally have. Having said that, which had to be

1:05.3

said, because Jesse isn't here, why the frig are we going two months with no releases or a month

1:09.4

and a half and then just 50,000 things all at once.

1:12.6

I guarantee my phone will ding at some point during this podcast.

1:17.4

Like we get nothing for weeks and weeks.

1:20.2

And I'm not talking small releases.

1:21.8

Now we have Bowman basketball.

1:23.4

First time they've done Bowman basketball in forever.

1:25.7

So you're going to have first of some of the college players who are, you know, major prospects, still the Cooper flag and the con rookies and all that.

1:32.1

It's going to be a massive, massive release. And then like a week or two later, we have cosmic

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