Fickle Finds, so you don't have to
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Hope everyone is enjoying the early throes of summer. Hard to believe that we’re already in June, eh?
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That joke was way too easy.
Time for some quick hits:
It’s hard to believe that people find this hard to believe, but Walmart is getting into sports card breaking. Where there’s money to be had, there’s people with money wanting to have more money.
It would be great of Walmart to turn this all into other consumer goods. Imagine We The Hobby opening up a box of Cheerios and finding that there’s Lucky Charms inside the box: “We take those! We take those!”
“Chat! Chat! The throw pillows are at $12!! What are we doing? Look alive, chat!!”
I had this whole thing planned around making fun of the Sydney Sweeney bathwater situation - which is absolutely insane - but then LeMeme James came with the Rubin Rinse heat.
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Nicely and grossly done, sir.
If you’re a lover of baseball and collecting calories, make sure you’re following Ben’s Biz on Instagram. He travels to each Minor League park eating the wildest and whackiest foods he can find.
Speaking of food:
SI.com had a fun piece on fast food collectibles and as you know I write about fast food collectibles ad nauseam and legitimately told my editor that I was going to “give it a break” … but, suck it, Evan!
This week in “what will they put inside a card next,” Topps gives us a game-used-goal-scored soccer net. As one guy in the comments puts it, “they be making anything into a card man.” They certainly be doing that, man.
Poor Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
Finally, congrats to the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder who will face off in the NBA Finals this week. I have a random question that I’d love to open up the conversation on Mantel, but curious of this thought:
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I know that Tyrese Haliburton is blowing up, but if you combined the two teams there’s a reasonable argument that he would be 4th on the list of “players who will hold future value” behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. And you can get a Pascal Siakam RPA for $40.
Head over to Mantel and sound off on what you think the current and future market looks like for Tyrese Haliburton and the rest of the Pacers!
Note: I swear I’m not a bitter Knicks fan.
