There's a really cool event.

If you're into cards, baseball cards, sports cards, if you're in a hanging out, it's gonna be a lot of fun on Sunday, the inaugural Cards Show by Liquid Sports Cards at Oakley Greens.

You know how much we love the folks at Oakley Greens.

This is gonna be happening on Sunday, and it's gonna go pretty much all day long, starting at ten am, all the way till three o'clock.

Great plays to post up, have lunch.

A Noble Chicken is on site, get a cold one, maybe watch the Olympics or some college basketball, and check out Liquid sports cards.

We have with this in studio from Liquid Sports Cards, our friend Jake Baker, and of course from Oakley Greens, our friend Tory Meeker.

Let's start with the lady first, Tory, how we doing.

And how you do?

Now?

I'm well, it's awesome to have you.

Jake, welcome, thanks for having me.

Let's start by talking about Sunday, specifically Liquid Sports Cards posting up at Oakley Greens all day long.

What's going to be happening.

So we got forty tables, twenty five plus vendors who are excited to be there to connect the people coming into the hobby.

You know, we're excited to be at the Oakley Greens venue.

It's a great sports place.

The venues just off the charts, and excited to have a packed house.

Should be fun.

This is a hobby that I think, over the last what four or five years, has really taken off.

I kind of feel like the pandemic is what triggered a lot of people to get into sports cards because they were stuck at home, they were cleaning out their addicts, cleaning out their basements, found their cards and it's kind of like rekindled their interest in sports cards.

And I would imagine you would concur that's exactly what happened to me.

We were all in our basements trying to find something to do while we were sitting at home.

I found my old binder full of Corey Dillon, Eddie George, a few too many Achille Smith cards.

And dove right back in.

What's the Achille Smith card worth?

The Achille Smith card market pretty poor, And the worst part of it is I was trading charizards back in nineteen ninety eight ninety.

Nine for Smith.

I lost that one.

I hear you.

So, all right, I show do I show up with my old cards and you'll tell me what they're worth?

Do you buy them?

Is just what?

How's this gonna work?

Yeah?

So this we're marketing this as a card party.

You know, you have your traditional card shows.

There are some great shows in the Cincinnati area.

There's there's a big one in Nashville.

There's there's card shows everywhere.

Where.

We're differentiating ourselves here is we've We've brought in great vendors.

We've brought in people who are excited to work with folks and have conversations and really enjoy the hobby.

So if you have sports cards and you're interested in finding out what they're worth, definitely bring them to the show.

You can do some training and then we'll have vendors there, forty tables, all sports, a little bit of Pokemon, and you'll be able to shop and put your hands on some cards.

So it's not just baseball.

Can you explain the Pokemon thing to me?

Nostalgia?

Yeah, I didn't play the I didn't play the card game growing up, but I did do the game Boy, and you know, I love Squirtle squirrels.

My guy gotten my kids into the original.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

No, I mean this is you might as well be putting like algebra on the board or something like that for me.

And like logan, Paul just had that Pikachu sell for sixteen million dollars.

Wait what Yeah, it just still a Pokemon card for sixteen million dollars.

Most expensive card sale ever, Mike.

This happened on Sunday.

Not quite that all right.

So, whether you're a hardcore collector sort of just new to the hobby, or you know your collected cards as a kid, want to see what they're worth, you can stop by ten am all the way till three o'clock.

Where do you get the vendors from.

Uh.

They are people who love to set up at card shows and you'll have I have six or seven who have never set up before.

This is the first time.

It's a great environment for that and that just speaks to the openness of Hey, come in and ask questions and be part of the hobby.

And when Oakley Green I wanted to work together, I toured the space and it was a no brainer.

You know, it's it's a great sports venue.

You know, the weather will cooperate down the road and we'll have the outside people opportunities as well.

But it's exciting.

Uh, let's talk about what's happening at Oakley Greens specifically, because you have Tory Sunday, which is gonna be a lot of fun.

And if again, if you're a hardcore collector, it's right up your alley.

If you're just sort of new to it, if you just want to check it out and uh, you know, see if maybe there's something for you, it's gonna be a lot of fun.

But Oakley Greens has a lot of stuff going on.

Let's talk about Friday.

You guys have jumped on the Miami bandwagon.

Well, the owner and myself are both alumni, so we're pretty excited about the men's.

Basketball team, right as you should be.

We're gonna throw a big, like unofficial Miami reunion on Friday at the at Oakley Greens.

We're bringing in Paul Auton.

He's from way back in the day, back when I was there.

I'm not gonna tell you where that was because that's embarrassing, but bring back some old school drinks, some green beer, and then we're going to watch the boys go undefeated.

Wow, that's what you got five games to go.

I know we're right excited, and it's it's fun.

To watch Miami.

Miami's basketball team.

When I was in college at Dayton in the late nineties, Miami was always really good.

Yeah, and then Wally left and then for you know, twenty five years, they haven't been good.

So it's been fun.

Last year was good.

They were this close to making the tournament, made it No.

Seven.

But to watch the community, the Miami alumni community.

I went to the game against UMass a few weeks ago.

To see the campus come alive around basketball has been a lot of fun.

I think it's just Miami's very unique and we don't get a ton of these bright, flashing stars, right, we get good, solid teams like Enrico Blasi and the boys were really.

Fun to watch.

Yeah, Like when we have a good run, the fans are the best.

So we've got that.

On Friday, you guys are on the Miami University train and it's fun because you think about soccer starting, so FC Cincinnati on Saturday.

Baseball is going to be here before you know it.

March Madness lots going on greens, so good.

Yeah, your team will be in March Madness Mine.

We might be in the Crown or the n I or something.

Be able to watch them at at Oakley Greens regardless of what event they're in.

Right, Yeah, what.

Else do we What else is going on at Oakley Greens?

So we need to know about Oh yeah, we just got a new food vendor.

That's what I'm exciting.

Yeah chicken.

Yeah there, they quietly launched about a month ago.

We're gonna throw a big party for him pretty soon.

Yeah, we're just gearing up for the whole year.

We got so much stuff coming at you, like car shows and motorcycle meetups and maybe some October Fest stuff.

I don't know.

We're trying to go crazy this year.

So, uh, Sunday is going to be huge.

Let's talk about liquid cards.

Give me the backstory?

What is it?

Where is it?

What do you guys do?

So I, as I mentioned, I got back into sports cards in twenty twenty and looked to to fill a spot in the hobby where it was about enjoying sports cards, and so we opened about eighteen months ago.

I've enjoyed meeting people coming through the door.

It's been a at home base, you know, you're looking for that third spot to come in and have a friend.

I've made more friends in the last eighteen months at the shop and I made in the last ten years.

You know.

It's just a lot of people who are passionate about sports.

Parents coming in with their kids, grandparents coming in with their grandkids.

And I'm next to an arcade legacy in Sharonville, so we're in Sharonville off of Sharon Road I seventy five, So a nice cross pollination of people going in there, coming into my shop, and just being a spot to enjoy the hobby.

And it's exciting to get to do the card show aspect of it, because the card shows are just different, you know, it's it's a party, and that's why we've come at it with this angle is you can sit at home and do sports car.

Yeah, you can buy on eBay, right, you can trade on Facebook, but there's nothing like meeting three four friends at the card show, walking around to the forty tables, shaking hands and making trades.

It brings back such memories.

I'm I'm older than you, but I you know, in the eighties you would get the Beckett Baseball card money, which was like the Wall Street Journal of Baseball Cards, and you would.

You would get it, and it was like, man, I got a Joe Carter card, and what's It's up five cents?

It's worth fifteen cents.

All right, I gotta hang onto that.

Wait a minute, Wait a minute, my my Wally Backman cards down four cents.

That's only worth seven cents.

And so it brings back great memory.

So I can bring like when I was a kid, I'd get the entire set, right, I'd collapse.

I would and like my dad and I were into this.

It was like, you can't buy the whole set.

You have to collect.

You gotta buy packs.

You gotta see all right, I'm Reggie Jackson away from having the entire Angels team.

And you would do this over the course of the year.

And then I would take every team and sort them alphabetically, starting with with a for A's or a Angel.

It can these Angels, I guess, and all the way down to the end of the alphabet.

But then in every team it also had to be alphabetical order, so you know, players starting with the last name May.

And then he put them in binders.

I still have them.

I still have them, So can I bring them on Sunday so I can have someone look at me and go, that's cool.

You did this, It's cool you've kept him.

They're worth nothing.

I unfortunately had that conversation a couple of times a day.

But as a as a card lover, I certainly appreciate getting a flip through those binders.

Just yesterday I had a gentleman bring in a nineteen eighty seven Fleer basketball set, which was Jordan's second year.

Yeah, you know that those cards in good condition, which these are worth two three thousand dollars, right, the Jordan rookies worth ten twelve fifteen thousand dollars, that's the eighty six set.

And then a couple hours later, another gentleman brought through his old baseball cards the early seventies and late sixties, a couple of mantles Willie Mays.

So there's that side of and then there's the unfortunate side of nineteen eighty five to two thousand, you know when when the printing machines didn't stop for the card manufacturers.

You know, unfortunately, the Barry Larkin rookie cards three to five dollars, right, because there were so many of them, right, So many of them.

The only one that really holds the test of time right now is the Griffy Upper Deck nineteen eighty nine, right, so, uh, you know, that's that's the big one from that era.

And I'm always happy to look through collections because they're they're in the nineties, they started numbering cards, they started having autographs, so there's a little bit of variance there, But that late eighties, nineteen ninety ninety one, that's that's a more nostalgia than investments.

So I loved Tony Gwinn as a kid, like my guy rest in peace, like love Tony Gwinn.

So I remember getting his rookie card like in the late eighties, and he had been in the league for a few years, and then someone telling me like, well, that's only the tops rookie card and I'm like, what are you talking about?

So we need the Fleer, need the don Ross, need the exactly the score, need the Bowman.

And it's like, well, I'm not going to be able to get all those, you know, and I don't have any money.

And it was like, well, so that rookie card is not worth as much because there's like nine Tony Gwinn rookie.

Cards, Yeah, there are, there were the I believe eighty three was this rookie year.

Yeah, and there's the three main rookie cards, and then there would be some offshoots perhaps right.

But the big time manufacturing, yeah, it was the late eighties early nineties.

You had Leaf, you had wild Card, you had some different manufacturers come through, and then it just it goes nuclear from there.

I'm going to bring the binders on Sunday, please do it just so it could be like an episode of pawn Stars where a guy walks in with like a musket.

He thinks it's worth like six million dollars and the dudes like, I don't know, I give you eight hundred bucks for it.

And it'll be on a micro level.

But I just so you could look at me or one of the vendors could look at me and go, yeah, I don't know, man, that's worth four or five bucks.

That entire binder.

Yeah.

Sometimes sometimes the pages and the binder are worth more than the cards.

And that's a tough conversation to have, but how it goes.

Sometimes Sunday the inaugural card show by Liquid Sports Cards at Oakley Greens.

It starts at ten o'clock in the morning, goes until three o'clock.

Forty tables.

By the way, if you mentioned ESPN, there's prizes, yes, all right, ESPN or ESPN fifteen thirty or both.

But they mentioned me double prize.

What if I show up and mentioned ESPN fifteen thirty zero prize?

What if?

Right?

And this will be this will be the last Sunday of the month through August.

If you can't make this one, definitely put this on your calendar and we'd love to have you come through.

So that would be like the twenty ninth of March would be the next one.

So every month, last Sunday of the month, you guys will be there and this should be a lot of fun.

And again Oakley Greens wide open space, it's awesome in the summertime.

We've had a taste of it this week with spring and so I can't wait for warmer weather to get here.

We broadcast from outside at at Oakley Greens for much of late last year and that was awesome.

Weather's about to turn.

Oakley Greens is a great place to post up outside and it's gonna be a lot of fun on Sunday, ten am till three o'clock the inaugural cards show by Liquid Sports Cards at Oakley Greens.

Is there anything I missed?

Oh we are featuring a special cocktail too.

Oh I forgot about this.

No, this is this is the most important part.

Yeah, well it's it's super delicious.

It's a Captain Morgon base.

And every purchase of the cocktail you get a free pack of cards.

Really yeah, so, oh, maybe you'll find your next big Probably not, but maybe the next big card.

When are they gonna put bubble gum back in the car?

Never?

Never, No, and don't and don't try, don't try to do it.

I can confirm eating the old four decades old gum it will not go well.

Yeah, I could concur I could.

I h I don't remember how I got I got a my hands on a pack of cards from like nineteen eighty six or eighty seven a few years ago with a buddy of mine, and we both tried the gum.

It's a bad idea, terrible, a bad idea.

It can't get it out of your mouth before dissolved.

Yeah that was that was rough.

But you know what, I'll say this and like the random cards I have from forty years ago.

You could still smell the gum residue on them.

That brings back memories, Yes, yes, it does, all right.

Oakley Greens Sunday, starting at ten am until three o'clock the inaugural card show by Liquid Sports Cards.

And again this is going to be happening the last Sunday of every month.

Uh So, back again on March twenty ninth, and then all the way through August.

It's awesome to have you guys, Thanks so much, thank you,