Imagine thinking that taking a half inch drill bit, attaching it to a drill, and drilling through 30 signed bats and balls worth thousands of dollars was a good idea
Writeous0ne I mean, all in all. By the way of design and idea it is a very cool piece of furniture. Not necessarily eye pleasing but it really is one of a kind. Both in design and materials and execution. It’s just a shame that he didn’t actually think about the factor thet he is destroying them.
@@brianmartin3425 i wouldn't buy it for that much I would pay maybe 20 dollars max but I dont think it's ugly, waste of memorabilia maybe but it still looks nice.
I know absolutely nothing about this sort of thing so I’m asking a serious question. Please don’t make fun of me for just not knowing. Why is the value so little if the bolts don’t touch the autographs?
@@TheRealBizWiz uh what? The bolts decreases the value of the baseballs and bats because you're drilling a hole into something that people want in pristine condition. The autographs don't have this problem. They're fine to sell individually.
DoctorChained I was asking about the bats and the balls. The autographs were not damaged is what I meant to say. Don’t the autographs on the bats still have value?
@@TheRealBizWiz The autographs on the bats may have value, but it is much reduced. It is possible they are worthless if nobody wants to buy it because of that. What gives autographs value is people wanting to buy it.
Agreed, he should have just got a bunch of those stamped team balls and bats. He would have got his “art” piece and not destroyed all those autographs. Or use those facsimile team signed balls. Same look but no value.
Couldn't he have encased the bats & balls, then attached the cases? It seems like there were better options that don't involve drilling holes through valuable memorabilia.
The expert’s reduction of the seller’s value in this actually makes perfect sense. No matter what kind of signed memorabilia you have, or signed by whoever, you don’t just do things like this to it.
“I have here the original constitution of the United States. I cut out and glue sticked every individual autograph onto this scrapbook. I want 5.5 million for it.”
Employee: ok so that will be $5 for a burger Rick: I’ll give you $1 Employee: sorry it is $5 Rick: let me call in an expert who knows a lot about burgers
Rick: look ill give you a dollar, its gonna sit in my stomach probably give me some diarrhea, and ill have my maid clean it and she will charge me 50 bucks to clean my messy toilet......im taking all the risk here
I swear most of you comment on here about him ripping people off forget that this is a freaking pawn shop. I've never heard of a pawn shop that pays top dollar, this isn't a charity LOL.
I am just trying to imagine what would be going through my head if I had the drill right up against the individual bats and balls just before turning the drill on.
Everyone saying he destroyed thousands in memorabilia, which he did, he was trying to make something unique that he though would be very cool and find a buyer who is a super fan not realizing he was dropping the value significantly
"I'm going to collect all of these extremely valuable and rare autographs that are worth literally tens of thousands of dollars, but I'm also gonna drill holes through all of this"
he should've made them easily removable or replaceable, as piece by piece assembly. As a collector gets rarer stuff, he removes a piece and sells. etc. Not drill a hole, and have to destroy the bench for the stuff that isn't destroyed.
He didn't glue cards between two pieces of Glass. Thus he knew not to destroy them. I would question all bats and balls authenticity and by extension the cards to. It would have been easier to cut and shape a frame to hold bats and balls then to drill through base balls and bats. Obviously if a commissioned piece I see why backer backed out.
If you had all this amazing memorabilia from one of the biggest market teams in North America you put it in a display case and shelves not make into a piece of furniture
Sad to see the guy didn’t take the care/consideration to protect each item. Why not put each piece in a plexy box and put those boxes in a hollow plexy bench.
I think he would make more money if he sold everything individually. The autographs, baseballs, bats, and even the table sold seperately but sold together like in a package without drilling holes would actually seem to worth a lot!
Art is subjective. The individual pieces probably are a much quicker sell in pristine condition however there may be some rich Dodgers nut that appreciates the aesthetic of the bench and would pay top dollar for it.
Poker Theory u lots have no intention of selling . Free promotion for the item and they get to be on tv. That’s why they ask for more then it’s worth cause they know rick won’t buy it.
If you gave this fool the Mona Lisa, he would probably get some paint and a brush and try to add in his own colorful flowers and trees into the background because he thinks it will look cool.
He should have taken more care to not damage anything. In fact designing something that would make him not have to damage anything probably would have been easy.
That's like drilling a hole in a golden eagle coin so you can hang it on a nail. The bats and balls he ruined are probably worth 1/10th of what he could have sold them for.
I think what makes this bench valuable is how much stupidity this guy was able to consolidate into one thing. Even if this bench was made of regular balls and bats, I would never want to sit on in because it looks extremely uncomfortable. But this guy wants people to sit on pieces of history? If he doesn't want people to sit on it he still made something really stupid to look at. All of this would look better on a wall or display cabinet. Someone take away that guys drill before he drills a hole in the Mona Lisa to make a coffee table.
I have a chiefs defense signed football and some of the offense. I also have a kstate mini helmet signed by the punter. I have a len dawson jersey signed with a hof87 inscription. At least i dont drill holes thru them
Just watched this.... my jaw dropped seeing what this guy did to these bats and balls... He really thinks this is a 60k work of art? Maybe if he would have made i dinner table that housed all the items without damaging them. Surprised Rick offered 8k for this.
Kinda... Dude spent his own money to buy all those bats and balls, and then drills holes straight through them... It's like me buying a Ferrari, drilling a bunch of holes in it, bolting stuff to it, and then trying to get 25 million dollars for it because it's now "art". He did this to himself.
Drilling the holes were the worst part, but the other issue is, as they said, is that most people only want stuff from superstars. Paying extra for dozens of autographs of lesser known players is something only diehard fans of that team are going to do, which severely limits your pool of buyers.
Rick: so my experts from Web MD said I probally have strep throat Doctor: I'm sorry Rick, but the tests came back positive for throat cancer Rick: Best I can do is a cold
threaded rod and jam nuts on the end? great engineering. it looks like something from a high school woodshop class, good luck on selling that for 60K. we won't go into the ball and bat destruction.
Why wouldn't anyone commission the construction of a bench and table made out of memoribilia?!....it's very interesting, yet frustrating at the same time. It's cool but then it's really not.
As soon as I saw the bolts, I knew that this guy destroyed thousands of dollars worth of memorabilia.
Anti Mage indeed
1:05 😮
Anti Mage exactly. I was shocked.
Agreed. I thought the exact same thing when I saw this.
No he didn't.
Imagine thinking that taking a half inch drill bit, attaching it to a drill, and drilling through 30 signed bats and balls worth thousands of dollars was a good idea
If you’re ever feeling stupid just remember this guy
He destroyed the value this item. He’s careless
Ha! Too true!
He made a cool art piece. Baseball fans just too dumb
Yup
@@pointless132 so, it's really cool. Sports collectors just seem like babies
He ruined it. He actually had the thought of doing something so ridiculous to the bats and balls.
Sir puss that’s what I’m saying
James Punting
Did someone tell him to drill holes? I hope not...
@Nicolas Vargas exactly, he could have made a frame/rack which the balls and bats slotted into. then they wouldn't be bastardised.
Writeous0ne I mean, all in all. By the way of design and idea it is a very cool piece of furniture. Not necessarily eye pleasing but it really is one of a kind. Both in design and materials and execution. It’s just a shame that he didn’t actually think about the factor thet he is destroying them.
You'd think he'd know better, it's awesome but he should've done it with the bats and balls NOT autographed.
Rule #1 on collecting any kind of expensive stuff is to always drill holes in it and then carve your initials
lolllllllllll
He didn’t just say it was bad to drill holes, he said it was sacreligeous.
That literally means it’s bad dummy lmao
The worst part is, that he thinks he made it more valuable by making this peice of "Art".
If he was a known artist, maybe it would've upped the value, but he's not. Dunno what he was thinking.
Ibwould buy, it I think it's very nice.
PotatoAlpacas for 60k? I guess you don’t have 60k.
@@brianmartin3425 i wouldn't buy it for that much I would pay maybe 20 dollars max but I dont think it's ugly, waste of memorabilia maybe but it still looks nice.
I think he just wanted to be cutesy and show how cool the bench would be.
he wanted to feel special for making that stupid bench. not realizing he destroyed much of its value
I know absolutely nothing about this sort of thing so I’m asking a serious question. Please don’t make fun of me for just not knowing. Why is the value so little if the bolts don’t touch the autographs?
@@TheRealBizWiz uh what? The bolts decreases the value of the baseballs and bats because you're drilling a hole into something that people want in pristine condition. The autographs don't have this problem. They're fine to sell individually.
DoctorChained
I was asking about the bats and the balls. The autographs were not damaged is what I meant to say. Don’t the autographs on the bats still have value?
@@TheRealBizWiz The autographs on the bats may have value, but it is much reduced. It is possible they are worthless if nobody wants to buy it because of that. What gives autographs value is people wanting to buy it.
DoctorChained
Mmm I suppose that makes more sense now.
Thanks!
He should have made the back another glass case and put the balls and bats inside that without destroying it.
grigsolve great idea. Still would have been a bench.
right you can even use it as a bench because your body would rub the names off
Or the bench but in another way using a wood frame and not cutting and drilling the bats
Exactly.
😯😯😯😯😯
He should've just bought a bunch of Bats and balls from a store if he wanted to make this bench.
Rob's Relics exactly
Exactly
Agreed, he should have just got a bunch of those stamped team balls and bats. He would have got his “art” piece and not destroyed all those autographs. Or use those facsimile team signed balls. Same look but no value.
and he chose to fkd up the signed ones smh.
thats an insult to the bolts through bats and balls community
Lmao!
A community of one? Maybe two 🤣
More like an insult to the Dodgers memorabilia community
Seller: "It's religious."
Expert: "It's almost sacrilegious."
🎵I smell a sitcom!🎵
Couldn't he have encased the bats & balls, then attached the cases? It seems like there were better options that don't involve drilling holes through valuable memorabilia.
Pretty good idea, he could just glue the cases and i think it would have looked neater.
Yeah, I was thinking about that, there's way better solutions than just drill through the bats and balls.... screams of amateur woodworker
I could think of several ways to have made this without damaging the bats and balls.
No way, this guy probs put the bench outside and re painted it all after whetehe damage
How? I can’t even think of one way to make it without putting holes all over
@@justincraig398 a frame of the chair/ table where the bats & balls slot into, rather than be fixed.
@@justincraig398 wires, metal frame, wooden support
You stack the bats up along the back in a rack and you have a side arm display of the balls.
The expert’s reduction of the seller’s value in this actually makes perfect sense. No matter what kind of signed memorabilia you have, or signed by whoever, you don’t just do things like this to it.
“I have here the original constitution of the United States. I cut out and glue sticked every individual autograph onto this scrapbook. I want 5.5 million for it.”
Judge in court: I hereby sentence you to 18 years in state penitentiary.
Rick: Best I can do is 2 years, I’m taking a big risk here
think just *expert walks in with prison guards escorting him*
ColdTurkey lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tell you what, I know a guy who's an expert in this kind of stuff, let me call him in and get a second opinion.
Really dude? Screws and bolts through autographed Baseball's? You done f$#@ed up
Employee: ok so that will be $5 for a burger
Rick: I’ll give you $1
Employee: sorry it is $5
Rick: let me call in an expert who knows a lot about burgers
Brings a fat guy. The Burger expert
@@HowardSantiago-qn4kv brings Joey Food Reviews
Rick: look ill give you a dollar, its gonna sit in my stomach probably give me some diarrhea, and ill have my maid clean it and she will charge me 50 bucks to clean my messy toilet......im taking all the risk here
Luke Y Donald trump walks in
I swear most of you comment on here about him ripping people off forget that this is a freaking pawn shop. I've never heard of a pawn shop that pays top dollar, this isn't a charity LOL.
That's the most uncomfortable looking bench I've ever seen.
lol
@@Len1977gt yeah
Degrades as soon as you sit on it!
How can you not second doubt the idea of drilling into those bats.
He should only have made this at the request of a rich buyer/ collector. It was a very speculative project that failed miserably.
Imagine drilling holes on signed baseballs and baseball bats lmaooo that’s insane to me
That’s like putting a nail through a Babe Ruth card so you can hang it on the wall
It’s more crazy that he wants 60k, his fault he ruined it but no one wants to pay something.
Good luck finding that one in a million buyer for your “art piece” buddy. 😂
I am just trying to imagine what would be going through my head if I had the drill right up against the individual bats and balls just before turning the drill on.
Right?! 🤣
Everyone saying he destroyed thousands in memorabilia, which he did, he was trying to make something unique that he though would be very cool and find a buyer who is a super fan not realizing he was dropping the value significantly
And that make this guy tom an absolute , without a doubt total " MEATHEAD"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, this was beyond a stupid decision.
Yea we watched the video
He could of made a plexiglass case for the back support for the bats and balls and slotted them in.. instead, he drills through them 🤦🏻♂️
"It doesn't come with the players, the best I can do is $5"
And that's a big risk
It might sit in here for a year
Has to get it framed
@@jamesk1288 i would pay
eh
That bench and table got along famously when Mr Brown used it
Can you imagine what other crazy ideas he must have come up with?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
I bet he drilled holes in his toilet to increase the aesthetic.
"I'm going to collect all of these extremely valuable and rare autographs that are worth literally tens of thousands of dollars, but I'm also gonna drill holes through all of this"
At least the cards and photos where saved
he should've made them easily removable or replaceable, as piece by piece assembly. As a collector gets rarer stuff, he removes a piece and sells. etc. Not drill a hole, and have to destroy the bench for the stuff that isn't destroyed.
No he should have just used unsigned bats and balls and he would have been fine.
Jeremy makes a gesture after shaking the idiots hand at 3:46, disturbed by what has been done.
I can’t believe he drilled through all that stuff. That was a horrible idea I wouldn’t give him that and I’m a huge fan of baseball.
He didn't glue cards between two pieces of Glass. Thus he knew not to destroy them. I would question all bats and balls authenticity and by extension the cards to. It would have been easier to cut and shape a frame to hold bats and balls then to drill through base balls and bats. Obviously if a commissioned piece I see why backer backed out.
I love Jeremy being completely honest
If you had all this amazing memorabilia from one of the biggest market teams in North America you put it in a display case and shelves not make into a piece of furniture
Sad to see the guy didn’t take the care/consideration to protect each item. Why not put each piece in a plexy box and put those boxes in a hollow plexy bench.
This is the most pointless and misplaced use of human life I've seen in a while.
hahahaha
Wow...really.... he has a one of a kind collection and that's your comment for him....
Barry A. It is cool but he should have known better than to drill holes in the bats and balls.
Chumlee?
Aged and dumb.
Every pawn stars episode
Let me call in a buddy of mine
I wonder if they can show a list of those contacts (With some numbers blurred out of course) and a brief description of what they specialize in.
Dude hauls in Noah's ark in mint condition
"I have buddy who's an expert in Noah's ark, let me give him a call"
Let me call a buddy of mine who’s an expert in bolts drilled through bats and balls...
LMAOOOOO.....!
Not funny since he didn’t say that at all.
@@dizzydoma5903 That's the joke in of itself.
😂😂😂
Nukey Pie
r/whooosh
Me: finds the declaration of independence
Also me: burns it and sells the ashes
Rick: ill give you 10 dollars for the ash
Me: shocked
I think he would make more money if he sold everything individually. The autographs, baseballs, bats, and even the table sold seperately but sold together like in a package without drilling holes would actually seem to worth a lot!
Art is subjective. The individual pieces probably are a much quicker sell in pristine condition however there may be some rich Dodgers nut that appreciates the aesthetic of the bench and would pay top dollar for it.
Are these customers of pawn stars not aware of eBay?
Poker Theory nope they don’t know it exists
Poker Theory u lots have no intention of selling . Free promotion for the item and they get to be on tv. That’s why they ask for more then it’s worth cause they know rick won’t buy it.
It's all setup come on you should know this already. The prices are set long before we even see it on TV
@@kingsamoanOG i want some of that goodnes in your pic 😭
The fact he is surprised by the appraisal tells you all you need to know what a fool
someone please take his drill away from him.
‘YOU BLEW IT!’’ -Billy Madison
If you gave this fool the Mona Lisa, he would probably get some paint and a brush and try to add in his own colorful flowers and trees into the background because he thinks it will look cool.
Hahahaaha😅😅😅
I like that chums a giants fan,he's probably watched 1 game in the past 10 years
He should have taken more care to not damage anything. In fact designing something that would make him not have to damage anything probably would have been easy.
That's like drilling a hole in a golden eagle coin so you can hang it on a nail. The bats and balls he ruined are probably worth 1/10th of what he could have sold them for.
Poor guy it would’ve been great if he used unsigned bats and balls.
I think what makes this bench valuable is how much stupidity this guy was able to consolidate into one thing. Even if this bench was made of regular balls and bats, I would never want to sit on in because it looks extremely uncomfortable. But this guy wants people to sit on pieces of history? If he doesn't want people to sit on it he still made something really stupid to look at. All of this would look better on a wall or display cabinet. Someone take away that guys drill before he drills a hole in the Mona Lisa to make a coffee table.
It's obviously not meant to be a functional bench, you're almost as stupid as he is.
@@slamblamboozled1245 It has a matching coffee table... That would take up so much space if its not functional
Ahh so many signed things! You know this would make a great bench, now where are those bolts...
some say he's still looking for that buyer.
Rick definitely should have brought Rebecca in for advise on this!!!!
I have a chiefs defense signed football and some of the offense. I also have a kstate mini helmet signed by the punter. I have a len dawson jersey signed with a hof87 inscription. At least i dont drill holes thru them
I got a buddy who’s an expert on custom dodgers benches
1:07 When my car won’t start
Good luck to the fool, should have taken 8k.
Check him out he runs a unique furniture shop it was a $50k commission. It was never for sale makes for good tv however.
He went home and peacefully sat on the running drill
Just watched this.... my jaw dropped seeing what this guy did to these bats and balls... He really thinks this is a 60k work of art? Maybe if he would have made i dinner table that housed all the items without damaging them. Surprised Rick offered 8k for this.
Imagine thinking your smarter than an exspert!! And to honestly think destroying those bats actually would make them worth more!!
I can’t even watch this video without dying
And I don’t even like the Dodgers
Legend has it that he is still looking for a buyer....🤣🤣🤣
I feel so bad for the guy, he genuinely thought this was a great idea 😭
Kinda... Dude spent his own money to buy all those bats and balls, and then drills holes straight through them... It's like me buying a Ferrari, drilling a bunch of holes in it, bolting stuff to it, and then trying to get 25 million dollars for it because it's now "art". He did this to himself.
Worst idea ever.
Rick won't have to frame it, OMG Rick will have to pay full price.
omg!!!! what a frickin tool!!!! you don't take a drill to rare memorabilia like that 😵🤔😱🔥⚡️🌧️🦆
He LIKES HIS TOOLS AND IS A TOOL HIMSELF... WHAT GIVES???
**reads the comment as the video plays**
**immediately knows that this is not going to end well**
This is like drilling holes in rare coins because you think they'd look better on a necklace.
It hurts to look at this bench
Am I the only one that actually liked it as an arts peice?
Drilling the holes were the worst part, but the other issue is, as they said, is that most people only want stuff from superstars. Paying extra for dozens of autographs of lesser known players is something only diehard fans of that team are going to do, which severely limits your pool of buyers.
He should make one for the Reds and call it "the Johnny Bench."
good stuff, its like the homer car and homer bat all in one
The guy sold it 2 years ago for $70,000 which was announced on baseball oddities by the buyer.
"Wow that's amazing!!! Did you make it because I definitely need it for my collection" - No one
I saw it at goodwill a couple of weeks ago.
He Sold It For 85000 In An Auction In LA
Rick: I’ll get my _________ expert to check this out.
Rick in this episode: I’ll get my bench expert to check this out.
Try sell it to the owner of the LA Dodgers🤷🏻♂️
Lol don't you think they hurt his feelings enough?
This is like getting original jordan 1 Chicago's with micheal jordans signature and turning the shoes into a lucha libre mask
He didn’t think this through. There are ways that he could have displayed those autographs without damaging them
yoooooo!! Let’s go chum is a giants fan!! He is my favorite
He could have not bolted through everything
I have a signed Texans offense ball I wonder how much that would go for (2019 offense)
Rick: so my experts from Web MD said I probally have strep throat
Doctor: I'm sorry Rick, but the tests came back positive for throat cancer
Rick: Best I can do is a cold
Tell you what doc, let me call in a buddy of mine who’s an expert in this kinda stuff
The most valuable signature on that bench is Mr. Brown's.
He drilled holes in it
threaded rod and jam nuts on the end? great engineering. it looks like something from a high school woodshop class, good luck on selling that for 60K. we won't go into the ball and bat destruction.
Try to sell it to Dodger stadium. They can display it.
Probably the best thing he could do instead of looking for a needle in a haystack
The way Rick laughs 😅
He should have done his homework before making this collage out of rare autographed merch
You don't have to do any homework to know that drilling holes through autographed memorabilia is a no no. That's called common sense.
That's a sweet bench
This is an insult to the destroying valuable signatures community
Joke evaluation on the autographs. Worth a lot more than Rick's anemic offer
Why wouldn't anyone commission the construction of a bench and table made out of memoribilia?!....it's very interesting, yet frustrating at the same time. It's cool but then it's really not.
Could have made this with unsigned bats and balls and it would be acceptable. Also change the sitting angle.
"Sacrilegious"
Accurate.
3:28 Puts the guy on BLAST!!!