The Shallow End ep 33 - Building a PC That Connects With Your Team (with Kevin aka @Colorado.Collector)
Kevin (@Colorado.Collector on Instagram) started back in the hobby by trying to collect his favorite Colorado Rockies. Several years later, he's built a PC that is both deeply personal and full of the...
23 Feb 202458min
The Shallow End ep 32 - Seven Players Who Cause FOMO
You watch them on the field. You track their cards across eBay and MySlabs. And you daydream about adding them to your collection – for better or worse. They're the players who cause FOMO: the fear of...
16 Feb 202427min
The Shallow End ep 31 - eBay Is Not a Recreational Activity
Some of us in the sports-card hobby spend more time on eBay than we do with our families. But it's important to remember that eBay doesn't exist to give us a place to hang out. It exists to separate u...
10 Feb 202416min
The Shallow End ep 30 - Why We Buy Sports Cards We Don't Want (a talk with Mike aka @TheGolfCardCollector)
Lots of us have done it. We don't want a card, but we buy it. Why? To get our card fix? For the rush? To keep our PC's from getting stale? Whatever the reason, it's a crucial issue within the sports-c...
2 Feb 202457min
The Shallow End ep 29 - The Fear of Standing Still
Dave (@Iowa_Dave_Sportscards on IG) sent cards off to grade. Now his card funds are tied up for the next 40-60 business days. Which means that for the next couple of months the collecting part of his ...
26 Jan 202423min
The Shallow End ep 28 - Baseball Hall of Fame Voter David Brown Stops By
This is an episode by baseball nerds, for baseball nerds. David Brown, Iowa Dave's friend and former colleague, recently cast his first-ever ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame. They talk player-by-p...
19 Jan 20241h 11min
The Shallow End ep 27 - Bob Hosta Has a System
Bob Hosta (@bobhostacollection on IG) wasn't satisfied with his collection, so he created a system to help him upgrade into a PC that he today describes as being so much better that he sometimes forge...
12 Jan 202441min
The Shallow End ep 26 - Move Fast and Move With Purpose
Would you trade 24 cards for one? Most of us in the hobby would – and have. In this episode, Dave talks about some recent moves he needed to make in order to pick up a new card.
5 Jan 202421min
