JD Harmeyer Details How He Gambles on Baseball Cards

JD Harmeyer is no stranger to scrutiny from Howard and co-host Robin Quivers over his money management skills, and on Monday his recent foray into gambling on baseball cards was his latest financial decision to come under question.

“There are these expensive cards and what people do is, they sign up for slots … to go into this pack opening,” the Stern Show staffer said of his new hobby. “I paid $89 for a slot into this pack opening, I got assigned a team at random … say a Houston Astros card comes up that they get out of a pack, they would send me that card.”

When Robin was unclear on both how the process works and how JD made out during the pack opening, Howard was more than happy to break it down. “He was assigned a team, then they opened them up … he got one card, it was worth like $8,” he translated.

“Some of the cards are autographed … or have pieces of uniform or like a cleat or something – equipment that they use during the game,” the staffer added of the potential appeal.

It’s not just baseball cards that JD is wagering money on lately, either – he’s still playing fantasy football but it hasn’t been going so well this season. “$200 is out the window from fantasy football alone,” the staffer confessed before also admitting to placing additional bets on NFL games. “I signed up for an app, I put in $50 for that … I lost basically all of it but yesterday … they gave me a free $10 bet, so I put that on a certain Bengals player scoring the last touchdown in yesterday’s game and I miraculously hit that so I won $120.”

After being called out for not only his frivolous spending but also an apparent weight gain, JD said his workout regimen of pushups and sit-ups has all but gone out the window. “I’m probably back to like 210 … I’m barely moving,” he revealed of his weight. “I don’t even know where the scale is actually, thank God.”