First Buzz: 2024 Bowman baseball cards

[seanbros55]

I happened to be near a Target for the first time in months, popped in, and found 5 Blasters and a single lonely pack in a a box - wonder how many fingernail divots the edges have...

Anyway, $150 for 5 blasters cant be much worse than $269 for a Hobby Box, right? Right? =)

Havent bought any retail since one S2 Mega box last year. I'm preparing to be underwhelmed, but will enjoy ripping some Bowman for the first time since 2019.

[ThoseBackPages]

none today

[theredmenace]

For those wondering, Bowman anime PR is 615ish, base spotlights PR is 125

The spotlights parallel design is definitely improved, the parallel color covers most of the card instead of being contained to the spotlight like 2023. Back corner condition is pretty tough with the black bezel.

[mikejones]

Originally Posted by theredmenace

For those wondering, Bowman anime PR is 615ish, base spotlights PR is 125

The spotlights parallel design is definitely improved, the parallel color covers most of the card instead of being contained to the spotlight like 2023. Back corner condition is pretty tough with the black bezel.

Doesn't make sense.
Spotlight gold refractor 1:17,571
Spotlight orange refractor 1:7,126

Did everyone on the checklist not get a gold refractor parallel?

[Hail2TheVictors]

Originally Posted by seanbros55

I happened to be near a Target for the first time in months, popped in, and found 5 Blasters and a single lonely pack in a a box - wonder how many fingernail divots the edges have...

Anyway, $150 for 5 blasters cant be much worse than $269 for a Hobby Box, right? Right? =)

Havent bought any retail since one S2 Mega box last year. I'm preparing to be underwhelmed, but will enjoy ripping some Bowman for the first time since 2019.

Seems like blasters would be about as good of value as you can expect with Bowman.

Curious to how things go with your 5. Good luck!

[theredmenace]

Originally Posted by mikejones

Doesn't make sense.
Spotlight gold refractor 1:17,571
Spotlight orange refractor 1:7,126

Did everyone on the checklist not get a gold refractor parallel?

Oranges (and base) are exclusive to hobby format while golds are included in all formats except HTA. The math is just orange odds (7,126) / base odds (1,441), then multiplied by the number of orange (25). So, ((7126/1441) = 5 (rounded up to nearest whole), and then 5 * 25 = 125

[mikejones]

Originally Posted by theredmenace

Oranges (and base) are exclusive to hobby format while golds are included in all formats except HTA. The math is just orange odds (7,126) / base odds (1,441), then multiplied by the number of orange (25). So, ((7126/1441) = 5 (rounded up to nearest whole), and then 5 * 25 = 125

Ah, haven't opened bowman since 2020 that I forgot orange are hobby exclusive.

[Yanks23]

I love watching the degen breaker delight boxes aka HTA choice boxes with no color - 2x base and refr /499 for the low low price of $600.

[TFP]

Pulled this out of a blaster...


Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bowman Chrome Rookie Autograph Green Refractor /99
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6swad_uBvB/

[seanbros55]

Originally Posted by TFP

Pulled this out of a blaster...


Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bowman Chrome Rookie Autograph Green Refractor /99
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6swad_uBvB/

Nicely done!!

[YouFold2Me]

Originally Posted by TFP

Pulled this out of a blaster...


Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bowman Chrome Rookie Autograph Green Refractor /99
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6swad_uBvB/

BRAVO!

[baseballbunez]

SlabStox just did a choice case with 7 red wave autos. Walker Jenkins, Dylan Crews, Wyatt Langford, Bryce Eldridge, Emmanuel Tejeda, George Wolkow, Burrows

[Hail2TheVictors]

Originally Posted by baseballbunez

SlabStox just did a choice case with 7 red wave autos. Walker Jenkins, Dylan Crews, Wyatt Langford, Bryce Eldridge, Emmanuel Tejeda, George Wolkow, Burrows

Well....that is certainly not terrible.

[Hail2TheVictors]

Originally Posted by TFP

Pulled this out of a blaster...


Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bowman Chrome Rookie Autograph Green Refractor /99
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6swad_uBvB/

Whoa! Tremendous

[1800gambler]

Bought a single box. Pretty damn good box I’d say.



Skenes /100 & Pete Crow-Armstrong Spotlight (1:1441 packs)

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

Thread has been up for five months, and before today, here were my two posts in the thread.

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showpo...4&postcount=88

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showpo...&postcount=176

So sorry I prevented all the great discussion about the product. I refuse to believe people here are so easily offended that they won’t talk about something they want to talk about. The board is dead because the products suck. Not because the talk about the products sucks.

Khal, you were successfully baited into an argument by trolls claiming rampant negative commenting in this thread. Why this was done, I have no idea -- on the release date of this product, of all days. Only a small percentage of comments in this thread would be characterized as negative.

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

The board is dead because it's a message board in 2024.

Lol How do explain Reddit's popularity with younger people?:

According to a survey of U.S. adults conducted at the beginning of 2023, 44 percent of respondents who indicated using Reddit were aged between 18 and 29 years old. Reddit usage tends to be affected by users’ age, with older users reporting lower levels of engagement.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-by-age-group/

Daily actives users rose 37% to 82.7 million, Reddit said late Tuesday

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/sto...eU8vtg5gTKwXLd

Of course, a lot of those "users" could be bots, like with Twitter, but the point still stands.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by fabiani12333

Lol How do explain Reddit's popularity with younger people?:



https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-by-age-group/


https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/sto...eU8vtg5gTKwXLd

Of course, a lot of those "users" could be bots, like with Twitter, but the point still stands.

Yes, Reddit is a modern platform. Blowout is an outdated BBC message board type. That was my point. This type of platform is a dying breed in favor of more modern types of social media. Thanks for making my point.

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Yes, Reddit is a modern platform. Blowout is an outdated BBC message board type. That was my point. This type of platform is a dying breed in favor of more modern types of social media. Thanks for making my point.

Uh, no, they are both forums. You did not distinguish between the software being used.

You are so full of crap, by the way.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by fabiani12333

Uh, no, they are both forums. You did not distinguish between the software being used.



You are so full of crap, by the way.

I made a 1 sentence tongue in cheek comment. I wasn't giving a dissertation on online forum terminology. Everyone except you knew what I meant. Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier. Why do you insist on following me around to troll my comments? Are you that hard up for human interaction?

[fabiani12333]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I made a 1 sentence tongue in cheek comment. I wasn't giving a dissertation on online forum terminology. Everyone except you knew what I meant. Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier. Why do you insist on following me around to troll my comments? Are you that hard up for human interaction?

Huh? Are you implying I'm stalking you? Lol

You said forum. They are both forums. You wanted to distinguish between forums and other types of social media, like Facebook, X, YouTube and TikTok.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by fabiani12333

Huh? Are you implying I'm stalking you? Lol

You said forum. They are both forums. You wanted to distinguish between forums and other types of social media, like Facebook, X, YouTube and TikTok.

I said message board. Not forum. If you're going to troll, at least get it right.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

The board is dead because it's a message board in 2024.

I know I'm going to have to make an adjustment eventually, but I, for one, will be sad to see this type of message board die. I used it for poker and now for cards. In both cases they were helpful to my development.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by StateEx

2026: What will happen. Sales will continue to drop in response to high costs and limited returns. What's more, collectors priced out of core products will leave the hobby entirely, rather than migrating to Big League, which -- coupled with another Mike Trout season-ending injury -- will result in a massive drop in card prices.

I think it's going to take a solid recession to readjust box prices. That's what I thought heading into 2020. It didn't quite work out like I thought it would. The opposite, in fact. The next one won't have as much stimmies, so should correct prices. Hopefully anyways.

At this point it feels like Fanatics knows they are towards the end of the cycle and are just gouging the remaining customers. It's kind of like when the MLB team loses 110 games they jack up the price of tickets. They know the marginal fan isn't going to show no matter the price, so get as much from the die-hards as possible.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I know I'm going to have to make an adjustment eventually, but I, for one, will be sad to see this type of message board die. I used it for poker and now for cards. In both cases they were helpful to my development.

I'm right there with you. I was only partly joking about the death of the message board. I'm here because this is the type of message board I was used to for decades and I never really took to other types of social media. But we are definitely in the minority these days.