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Each spring, the Dutch community of Pella comes alive as thousands flock to the Iowa town located just 40 minutes east of Des Moines, Iowa. The first festival which is held each year the first full weekend of May took place in 1935 and has grown every year since. The community does a tremendous job of telling its story. The town of more than 10,000 people comes alive with more than 300,000 tulips that create a sure sign of spring. The festival is what you would expect from a

We are criss-crossing the state of Minnesota visiting local breweries and state parks in the ultimate road trip! Our 2026 Tour had to begin somewhere and Tanya and I decided to keep it a little closer to home as we headed to Moorhead to Junkyard Brewing company followed by Buffalo River State Park in Glyndon, Minnesota. Check out our podcast on our maiden voyage below! Morning fuel up at Fill Thy Cup in Hawley, Minnesota Right in our backyard is Fill Thy Cup, a cute little c

Three cards. One player. Today we break down the phenom Shohei Ohtani. No one player's eco-system is built like Shohei Ohtani. Upon his arrival in 2018, Shohei hooked a rocket to his back and hasn't looked back. Whether on the mound or at the plate. Whether an Angel or a Dodger, this do it all superstar is without a doubt a generational talent. Today, we dive head first into his card universe. Shohei Ohtani - 2018 Topps Chrome #150 Pitching There are plenty of rookie card op

We're into a new week and looking at one of the all time greats Derek Jeter! I'll be honest. I completely missed out on the Derek Jeter card cycle while he was playing. Loved watching Captain Cool play, but was out of the card game. With that said, I wanted to look into his earlier stuff and there are gems to be had in the Jeter universe. Derek Jeter - 1993 Bowman RC #511 Love this card for multiple reasons. It's his rookie card and is attainable selling raw for around $15,

In today's Daily Three we look at the greatest receiver in NFL history not named Jerry Rice. Let's get Mossed! Randy Moss changed the game when he exploded on the scene in 1998. The star receiver from Marshall was passed up by 19 other teams (Cincinnati twice) before being selected by the Minnesota Vikings with the 21st pick. His highlights, epic. His imprint on the game, electric! His cards are attainable but not as liquid as one might expect. What I found in researching Mos

Nolan Ryan is one of the all-time greats. His cards are affordable for the PC and for flipping. Long before he was pitching with a bloody lip after taking a ball off the bat of one Bo Jackson and even longer before he took Robin Ventura to the woodshed for charging the mound, Nolan Ryan owned batters. The all-time strike out king with 5,714 K's over his 27 year career will likely stand forever...okay I think its safe to say, it will never be touched. Ryan and his cards are t

Every day, we are scanning the sports cards landscape in search of gems that could be raw-to-grade plays. We present the data, you make the decision to make the play or not. Today, we've got three Michael Jordan plays that could play to your and your bank account's favor. Here we go! Twenty years after he retired for real, MJ's card universe remains extremely liquid and lucrative. There are the obvious cards to dive into, but at In The Cards, we want to look deeper at his

We're ranking the G.O.A.Ts in each of the four major sports and how their cards move in the marketplace. Well my friends, we have reached the end of our little scientific experiment. Today, we are looking at the all-time greats on the ice. As we've said in each of the prior three blogs, this isn't meant to be a debate on who should be on this list. It is meant to look deeper at the data on which player meets up in the intersection of price and liquidity. Hockey is a very dif

In the trickiest of all four major sports due to the majority of the G.O.A.TS being vintage, strategies are flipped upside down. Welcome back to this excersise in researching the top 10 G.O.A.Ts in the four major sports. I knew that baseball was going to be the trickiest as the names are vintage. Again, we aren't in for an argument about who is omitted and put in, the ten (with a bonus) can easily be argued to be an all time great! Looking for a longer play? Here we go! Dat

We picked ten of the all-time greats and looked at each of their rookie cards to find the intersection of value and liquidity. No we're talking! When I thought about content for In The Cards, looking at all-time greats to find out how expensive their cards were and then bank that against how much those same cards move was my first order of business. Basketball is my jam so I was over the top geeked out to dive into the data. Like football, this isn't meant to be a debate on

Our crack research team, along with our friends at Sports Cards Pro have got the numbers. As I have re-entered the hobby after a nearly three decade hiatus, I have learned a lot of things. Imagine being asleep for thirty years only to wake up to life as we know it now. It's that way for me with cards. First, the price in cards now is crazy compared to when I last cracked a pack. My parents owned a small town grocery store and my pay for helping out was a pack or three of bas

The members of Hairball put on another great show in Fargo Hairball has become an annual go to for us. The Minnesota band has become a must see on the national and international stage. Making stops in the US, Canada and even playing for our troops in the middle east. They made a stop at Scheels Arena in Fargo and on a night where the temperatures dipped to well below zero, gave the fans a boost of rock and roll adrenaline and no one seemed to notice or care. Kiss opened the

There are some stories that never get told or at the least are left out of the bigger story. This is one such story. Ladies and Gentlemen, you are about to hear the story of a squirrel who never got its big break. On the eve of filming one of the most epic scenes in cinematic history, tragedy struck and the world was left to wonder what could have been.

There are some artists who despite years performing still bring it every single night with every single note. Bryan Adams seems to drink from the fountain of youth. The 66-year old Adams hit every note with perfection, sang every hit, as if you were listening to it on the radio. In a word, he was flawless. Truthfully, he owns the soundtrack to my youth and on Thanksgiving Eve, the Canadian rocker took over Target Center giving the sold out crowd a portal to the past while bri

It is the most wonderful time of the year and we have so much to be thankful for. Here is our High Five lists of our favorite Thanksgiving foods. Doug: Okay, before we start this, understand that people are probably going to disagree somewhat with our list or ranking of foods in said list. Tis' the season to keep things civil. Tanya, are you ready to unveil our top five Thanksgiving foods? Tanya: I think so. Number 5: Tanya: Cranberry Sauce Doug: Cranberry Sauce Doug: Hey

The legend of Uncle Buck survives 2025 I had seen him on camera two weeks before the hunting opener. He was massive and somehow, someway, I was going to bag this big boy. There isn't any hunting pressure on our 94 acres of land and so the deer I dubbed Uncle Buck had plenty of room to roam and hide. There's a reason he has survived as long as he has. He's cunning, crafty and smart. Opening weekend came and went and although I saw deer including a couple of nice bucks that I

The Northern Lights were on full display Tanya and I drove home from work, both looking at the November sky, waiting. There was a sharp sense of disappointment as we thought we had missed it. A week earlier we saw the northern lights from our driveway. The green sky seemed to dance without a care in the world. I sat in awe just soaking in the enormity of it all. There are some things in this life that I can't explain. Yes, it's science and we'll get to that, but its bigger th

Buck Fever Running Wild I knew we had some monster bucks on our 94 acre farm. Trying to get them to cooperate was going to be the deal. We put up a game camera on the east side of the property. It was there that I got my first look. And buck fever took over. Again. It was a crisp November morning in 1989. The leaves crunched beneath my feet as I headed out from camp towards my stand. I tried to be quiet, but it being my first hunt, I felt like the whole world could hear my

5,000 illuminated pumpkins await at the Minnesota Zoo