Young collector opts to auction off one-of-a-kind Paul Skenes rookie card, turns down unique Pirates offer - CBSSports.com https://search.app/rAhi32jGzYDv75fc7
IMO the kid made a good decision.
IMO the kid made a good decision.
OT: Skenes Rookie card
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Sell it now and get as much money as you can. Then invest the money.
Nutting would do the same thing if he pulled the card. He cares more about making money than winning.
i still havent heard WHY the pirates ownership would want that card. doesnt make sense. would they put it on display or something at pnc, who cares? its a baseball card..
I doubt skenes wants it or he'd just make an offer to the kid himself.
I doubt skenes wants it or he'd just make an offer to the kid himself.
Nutting probably was hoping to give it his kids, and then have them sale it for a profit.
Smart move....25 years from now when manager Gerrit Cole is giving the induction introduction for Yankee great Paul Skenes at Cooperstown that card will be worth a helluva lot more than some crummy Pirate seats are today......
Pirate seats for the next 30 years? What the hell did the poor kid do to deserve that?
Geez, he only opened a pack of baseball cards. It's not like he took a bite of an apple from the forbidden tree or something.
Geez, he only opened a pack of baseball cards. It's not like he took a bite of an apple from the forbidden tree or something.
I would like to see what those seats would be worth on the resale market though, assuming he'd be allowed to sell those seats. Probably not worth the $1 million in today's money that he'll get but selling 2 premium seats for 2,430 games certainly has a high value.
I still don't understand why the Pirates wanted this card. I can only think of 2 reasons:
1. To sell it
2. They didn't want it and this offer was just for publicity.
Are the Pirates even going to be in Pittsburgh for another 30 years? I hope not.
Plus, this kid would have to be looking over his shoulder way too much. If one day Nutting determines the remaining lifetime value of these tickets is $250k but he learns he can hire a hitman for $245k (with gratuity included), well, the kid would be toast. We're talking about 5 grand.
Wait...you mean they didn't actually think the family of the 11-year old would move from LA to Pittsburgh to watch the Pirates lose 42 home games per year?
Heard on Sirius radio yesterday that the family is auctioning it off, and donating it to help with the fire relief efforts in California.
I heard the auction house was donating its proceeds from the sale to the relief efforts.
i was thinking that, selling these seats in mini packages or even by game, you can probably make a close to 1m.
problem is, that would be a full time job in itself, probably nothing an 11 year old and his dad want to deal with for the next 3 decades..
unless the family needs money, probably best to put that somewhere safe, wrap it up or whatever you do to seal a baseball card to keep it in mint condition and sit on that for awhile. if he has the career we all think, that will be worth a lot more (I think) in 10- 20 years. the kid is 11, wait til he's an adult, see how it's doing and then sell it..
and i've asked that question myself, what the hell do the pirates want to buy a baseball card for? the bulk of his career will be like Garrett Cole's, with the yanks, dodgers or mets. i get it, not even upset about it, the pirates and about 95% of the rest of MLB will not be able to afford to sign him to his next contract, oh well.
Because there is almost no chance of winning under the current ownership. I'll take my chances on the team moving elsewhere and Pittsburgh possibly landing an expansion team someday. The Cleveland Browns only went three seasons without a football team. Even if Pittsburgh goes ten without a baseball team, so be it. They literally have better odds to win big the moment they have no team at all than they do if everything stays as is.
Well they made the offer well before anyone knew who would find the card or where they would live, so they had no way of knowing that it was going to be a kid from LA.
But even if it was a kid from Pittsburgh and he took them up on the deal, it still would have been done for one reason, and one reason only.
Publicity.
Ok, so they didn't single out the LA kid, they made sure to make the same offer to the other 332,000,000 Americans that live too far away from the stadium for that offer to be even remotely usable.
A little off topic but teams like the Pirates should sell the opportunity to play for the team for a game. Like wouldn't someone pay $100K for an at-bat? $1 million to play a full game? This sounds like a Message Board Geniuses post but this is a great money-making idea.
There are 20 teams in MLB that will probably never win another championship.
Don’t know your angle other than occasionally trolling but even you couldn’t possibly be loopy enough to believe this would be allowed.
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