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Ryan joins Matt to talk about their goals and what its like to be a Super collector!

Greg, Matt and Alan discuss some of their hobby regrets.  =*(

Matt and Will interview Mike Cramer of Pacific Trading cards!  Find out who really is his  choice!

Ryan, Will, Chris, and Jeremy join Matt to discuss the 2023 National experience.

Matt catches up with Barry Bonds collector, Alan, to discuss their progress in collecting!

Sports card trivia!  4 of our tops minds test their card knowledge against each other!!

Greg and Alan join Matt to reunite the show as 3 become 1!

If Keep Swinging had a movie poster, Jake Burger would be featured  at the center of it. The Miami Marlins third baseman was drafted 11th overall in 2017 by the Chicago White Sox and signed for $3.1 million. What happened next is something no one could have predicted or even be able to prepare for. Burger suffered multiple ankle injuries shortly after making his professional baseball debut that led to 1,163 days without playing organized baseball. On this episode of Keep Swinging with Matt Stucko, Burger details his journey back to the ball field, mental health, the highs and lows and so much more that will leave you feeling inspired and motivated.

Matt and Alan bring on Ray to discuss 90s cards with a major Ichiro Collector!

Matt brings Jeremy and Will on to discuss the 90s market!  Is it cooling off?? (April 14 2023 - for reference)

Matt brings on Ryan, Jeremy, Will and Chris to get hyped for the 2023 National!

Matt drops some 90s news along with Mike Cramer news with Will, Jeremy and Ryan.

Matt and Alan discuss collecting a variety of cards!  (Alan mostly still bonds but autographs this time! )

Matt brings on Ryan, Will and Jeremy on to discuss why we love collecting so much!  It's addicting!! 

Matt and Alan go Full Circle!  They discuss hockey, bonds, and 90s inserts. As well as some modern stuff!

We kick off our own New Years Rockin’ Eve with boyfriends from the Guardians and Pirates. Pottymouth goes hopeful with CLE prospect Kyle Manzardo, and Patti selects Will Brennan, Tito’s pal from way back. For PIT, Liover Peguero plays right into  Pottymouth’s  English teacher heart while Patti looks to  her roots with Jack Suwinski. The Red Sox bring on Giolito and trade away Sale and Pottymouth comes to terms with it all. Where’s Wander leads off the Police Blotter, followed by Fox being Fox with the wrong Frank Thomas, and Patti gets all Monopoly money with the Competitive Balance Tax. Winter Ball heads into finals and Pottymouth ponders turning her fantasy ball prowess into international travel. Happy New Year, friends!

We say “They’re all gonna learn AC/DC,” “He didn’t want his groove harshed,” and, “I would prefer watching Boston Sports to playing 80s Trivial Pursuit.”  Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Twitter @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. Say goodnight, Pottymouth.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 98: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: You and I have 305 days until the election and the GOOD news is: if the Supreme Court rules Trump is immune from prosecution for anything he did while president OR if the Supreme Court rules the 14th Amendment DOESN’T disqualify him from the ballot OR if the Supreme Court rules both… Joe Biden can declare himself president for life, he can arrest the Supreme Court, and he can detain Trump without charges or trial and the Supreme Court has just ruled there’s not a goddamned thing anybody can do about it, including them. Well thank god THAT’S settled. Happy New Year!

I am mystified by the sanctimonious criticisms of Maine striking Trump from the ballot from its Senator Angus King and "Democratic" Congressman Jared Golden. They have decided the Constitution wasn’t enough and decided on their own that we needed HIGHER BARRIERS before as a nation we could defend ourselves against a psychotic dictator-in-waiting who wants to turn the government into a personal revenge factory and oh by the way the only thing he’s going to remember about YOU Angus King, is that you voted to impeach him.

“Under the established Constitutional process," said Senator King from atop his high horse, "absent a final judicial determination of a violation of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification clause, I believe the decision as to whether or not Trump should rest with the people as expressed in free and fair elections. This is the ultimate check within our Constitutional system,” This isn’t a matter of interpretation for the courts, or for you, Senator King. It’s what the 14thAmendment SAYS as opposed to what a fragment of your voters want you to tell them it says. What it SAYS is, your Senate AND the House have a right to REMOVE the disqualification of Donald Trump by a two-thirds vote. It exists. It exists right now. It only STOPS existing if you OVERRIDE IT. By 75 to 25, thank you. That’s what it says. THAT is the ultimate check within our Constitutional System.

I hope you can hear me up there floating on that cloud above it all.

Speaking of, congratulations to The New York Times, which addresses disqualification by quoting Judge Michael Luttig, and balancing him with someone who wrote commercial scripts for Dunkin' Donuts and an L.A. democrat who went on Fox to say he's mad at Joe Biden. And congratulations to The Washington Post for buying out the only one of its reporters who got it - Greg Sargent.

But genuine thinks to Green Day, which did what the rest of us can almost never do - pierce the MAGA/Trump Cult/Fascist bubble and show its cultists, to their shock, that they are not a majority and not at all liked. It's shocking that such penetrations come during Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve - but it's worth singing about!

B-Block (27:45) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: She allegedly liquored up underaged teenagers at her daughter's 17th birthday party. Is she A) a drag queen B) a trans-gendered swimmer C) a librarian or D) the founder of the “Keeping Kids In School PAC” and former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor?; The right-wing pundit who boasts of how The Statue of Liberty is better than any European art; The passing of Tom Foty. (35:25) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Fox kills the wrong Frank Thomas. Aaron Rodgers has now descended into using antisemitic tropes. And Michael Flynn Jr. sticks his father with a new name: "General Flynn-Bitch."

C-Block (41:55) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: We're now in the 25th anniversary year of the night - before Game 1 of the World Series which I was covering for Fox - where an Atlanta hotel gave me a room next to a choir that spent the entire night practicing for a competition the next day. It then tried to make it up to me by offering me, instead...THE PRESIDENTIAL SUITE.

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Matt, Ryan, Tyler, and Will show off their last 2022 Mail days!

Greg, Matt and Alan discuss TCG, Marvel, Pokemon and other varieties of the collecting world!

Greg, Matt and Alan discuss 2022 and the 2023 goals!