Monday Thoughts With Matt

It's Monday again.

It's okay. You have this new post to comment on and I hope a cup of coffee like me. That will make it better.

Right?

 

Well, it should.

Or maybe my holiday themed mug will. We all know how much I love Christmas.

Anyway, this new Segment didn't really do too well last week, but I don't plan to give up on it quite yet. What I didn't mention in the first post of this series is that my Monday thoughts may not always be just hobby specific. It will be based on whatever my actual thoughts are.

With Thanksgiving coming up this week, that has me thinking what my favorite food is for the holiday. Is is the turkey? stuffing/dressing? cranberry sauce? dessert? I honestly don't know how to answer this. But, if I had to choose, I think my mashed potatoes might have the edge.

Without gravy though. I am not a gravy fan. (I see the shock on your face)

So for today's Monday topic, tell me in comments your favorite Thanksgiving dish, food or dessert item.

We all know the key beverage is coffee so I wasn't going to include drinks as part of it :)

Hope everyone has a good Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Will This End Up As A Smart Move?

It doesn't happen often for me, actually has never happened at all, that I collect a ton of cards of a certain player, they leave my team, turn good and the value of their cards go up a little.

I usually have Kadarius Toney type results.

But, we are talking about a win this time and that win was Daniel Jones.

He was terrible for my Giants never quite hitting his stride in NY, was cut last year and ended up on the Vikings practice squad before turning into a backup quarterback for their playoff run and then this past offseason ended up on the Colts roster and earned his starting job there.

So far this season, he has led the Colts to a 8-2 start, has thrown for over 2600 yards, 15 touchdowns and has completed close to 70% of his passes.

Pretty impressive for a guy who was the laughing stock of the NFL.

When I found out that he was having a decent season, I said to myself, self, I have thirteen Daniel Jones autograph cards and he is playing well and the values might be at the best they will ever be right now. So, now that he isn't a Giant, shouldn't I find a way to turn some of these into something I want more? Especially since most don't feature him in a Giants uniform.

So that's what I did. I pulled out nine of this autographs, all rookie ones with some numbered, and posted them for trade.

The surprising part, there wasn't a single bite.

Despite his hot start, not a single person wanted to trade for this lot....or even a single card from it.

After pushing them and pushing them, I had come to the point where I was just going to keep them and hope he continued to do well so I could turn them into something even bigger at a later date. Then at the same time, I became concerned if I didn't move them soon, he would get hurt or turn back into that Giants quarterback again and that I may never see anything from them.

This led me to seek an alternative route to move them.

I started trade talks with a long time trading friend and we came to an agreement for a trade.

I ended up sacrificing some value and in return, I got some wax to open.

It wasn't the full ideal trade I had hoped for, but it was something. It gave me an opportunity to open some wax I may not have been able to otherwise. I can't remember the last time I opened something so it was kind of exciting.

But, would I get my value back in the long run after moving on from those Jones? That is for me to share with you guys and for you to be the judge of.

Coming up, I will be posting some Coffee Breaks of the following products that I landed in this trade,

• 2 2025 Mosaic Football Blaster Boxes
• 2 2025 Topps Holiday baseball boxes
• 1 Hanger pack of 2025-26 Topps basketball

And then a bonus post where I will sum up the "best hits" and compare it to the nine Daniel Jones autographs to see if I made the right move or not.

Of course with feedback from you guys as well.

Thanks for reading today's post. Sorry for the lack of coffee for this one, but it's eleven pm. I shouldn't even be awake still, but I had some homework to do and wanted to get a post up.

Now that the post is done, time to go back to homework.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Monday Thoughts With Matt

It's Monday. Let's not let it bring you down.

I just want you to grab a cup of your favorite warm beverage in your wife's mug, or your own, 

then walk over and sit down in your most comfiest chair, take a breath, relax.

Let's just talk in this NEW segment.

Today, I just want to talk about your feelings on the rumor that Fanatics/Topps might be buying out Panini America and your thoughts about the ramifications that may have on the hobby.

I believe that any one company running the show for any type of business is bad. It gives the consumer no options, higher prices, lower quality products, and less innovation since there is no competition to drive those things. Not to mention the overproduction that Fanatics has done since taking the Topps name.

I think this kind of move will be terrible for the hobby. It's bad enough they are monopolizing the main three licenses (football is soon and sorry hockey guys, hockey isn't a top three sport in the hobby) and now if they buy out the last big competition they have left, they will rule it all and the downfall of the hobby could be on it's way.

But, that's just my thoughts.

Take a sip, another deep breath, and give me your input below. I will be curious on your thoughts.

Now it's my turn to sit back, relax and take a sip to read your replies.

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I Pity The Fool

I Pity The Fool who doesn't read this post.

As soon as summer ended in early October this year, fall moved by fast and now I feel like we have reached level four of the yearly Jumanji with winter already.

I just can't believe how fast this year has flown by. It has flown by so fast that I found myself finding cards or in today's case an item that I never shared with you guys that I acquired this summer but had in the drafts on here.

Now it's finally time to share it.

I Pity The Fool who doesn't get to see it.

*takes a sip from a fresh brewed cup*

Early this summer, along with the other trades I pulled off with my father, I also landed a pretty cool piece for my non-sports collection.

This is a Mr. T and The T-Force Tri-Folder. It's packed with a few unique items that I guess were distributed to comic book shops in the 90's.

Inside letter with information on it.

Another flyer talking about the comic book behind the paper..

And then behind that was this autographed copy of the comic book that is also hand numbered. I guess he autographed a bunch, looks like 10,000, first edition copies that went out to comic book stores to help promote the comic. This is a really cool piece.

However, makes me wonder how long it took him to sign that many pieces MT. Reminds me of today's NFL rookie autographs.

I have no idea how my father got the item, but I think he knew who to trade it to once he got his hands onto it.

There are two more pieces that go to this including a Certificate Of Authenticity which I have but however the special edition card I did not see with mine. I guess that will have to be added to the want list at some point so I have the set.

*takes a sip before pittying the fool who didn't bring coffee to view this piece*

I had never heard of the comic book until I got this piece, not that I am a big comic book nerd to begin with. But, I am a nerd overall with the comic book characters. 

I will say that I have not looked at the comic as I am trying to preserve it from getting ruined especially the autograph. I do need to find a better way to save it from any elements down the road.

Today, let me know in comments if you have ever seen anything like this and what your favorite Mr T role was even if it was a commercial. Mr T was everywhere. Mr T for me came from The A-Team.

Just comment below!

I Pity The Fool who doesn't comment.

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5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week

 HELLO FELLOW COFFEE CARD ENTHUSIASTS!

*takes a sip*

Another week has come to a close and last week I felt I did the most I have done in awhile for the hobby. As I have figured out a better balance to my life and hobby life I have found myself spreading thin all around but I am finding time for everything at least last week.

*pauses with a sip, then continues on*

This series has done well on here so far and I love reading the answers and interactions from you guys on this post. Keep it up!

But, for those of you that are new to it, here is the background to this series:

This series is once again related/played on by Elon Musk's email to government officials in February 2025 asking them about what five things they did.

Also, once again, this is not about politics. I just liked the idea.

*its best to never post politics, make friends, not enemies*

Here we go onto my five things.

1.As always, I did a lot more social media posts across my planet of them. I started doing Rodney Hampton, Eli Manning updates along with small mail day posts on there since it's much faster to send out a social media message than putting up a big blog post.

If you want to catch up on stuff you missed out on, here is a list of all of my social media channels:Cards Over Coffee YouTube Channel is for cards:

Cards Over Coffee - YouTube

Matt's World Of Fun YouTube Channel is for everything else:
Matt's World Of Fun! - YouTube

On top of this, I have two Facebook accounts, Cards Over Coffee and Sport Card Collectors,

Twitter/X: Coffee Card Guy

Instagram account: Coffee Card Guy

Bluesky as Cards Over Coffee

There you have that. Now go check me out on those!!

2. I finally did some sorting!! That's right. I took one night for an hour and busted through a huge box of cards that have been needed to be sorted since June!

I still have more to go in Step one of my sorting process, but it's a start!

3. I opened up some wax! I don't want to share any pictures yet on the pulls or which products I opened, there will be a series on it and the final post to the series I will need your guys opinions on what and how I did. I will also say I didn't buy this wax, they came to me another way. Which is why there will be a series.

4.I pulled off a couple more pwe trades. I haven't gotten the cards yet in the mail so those posts are still to come.

5. Some more Christmas piles have been added to. I just need to find the time to get these in the mail box and on their way out. It's very time consuming to pack these up.

And there you have it. Five things I did in the hobby last week.

I hope to keep this series going when I have time to post on it.

*takes this posts final sip*

Have a Super Saturday and in comments, tell me five things you did in the hobby last week or make a comment on mine.

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MIL Strikes Again!

While I wait for my wife at the dentists office, she is getting a tooth pulled, I brought my laptop and connected to my hotspot so I can finally create a new post.

It may not be the most ideal place to do a post, but finding time to do one is what matters. I also need the distraction while I sit here. I hate the dentists.

*looks up for a second to see only one person sitting in the waiting room* *good, they won't think this person jamming on their keyboard excited about pictures of people on pieces of cardboard isn't weird*

One of my last posts I shared how my mother-in-law found some cards and an autograph football at an auction, this time she strikes gold again when she went to a yard sale.

 

This is a decent size stack of 9-card pages filled with cards. I am unsure what she paid for these, but some superb stuff within that fits my collecting profile.

Kick it off with some 1992 Topps baseball.

A nice mix of baseball including some Pucketts.

 

Anytime I find 90's Finest and then 90's Fleer Metal Universe base, it's a win.

 

A couple Clementes

Griffey! I am pretty sure I have this one, but still, it's Junior!

Middle row of 90's inserts. Those are gem finds to me.

 

More gem finds here. 90's Pinnacle Mint, Puckett and Griffey Dream Team and Prism.

Another slide show! Cool!

 

Now onto some football. This page has a 90's insert already in the top corner for the PC.

 

It's still so hard for me to see Mark Brunell in anything but a Jags uniform.

 

I will have to see if I need any of these for my base set.

 

Brunell rookie!

  

90's Emmitt Smith insert with some shine. Not sure if it's a tough find or even has value as I haven't looked it up yet, but still a pretty cool find featuring one of the NFL's greatest running backs.

 

And we finish this up with one page of basketball that was randomly in there but it has Patrick Ewing, so that's a plus.

Overall, another solid MIL strike!

*sees wife coming out of the room so hurries up to finish up the post to get out of the dentists office*

Well, let me know your thoughts on this latest find from my mother-in-law.

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2025 Cards Over Coffee Hall Of Fame Cards Nominees (VOTE NOW!)

The day has come, a little bit earlier this year due to my schedule being all over the place.

It's time for you to send FIVE and ONLY FIVE of the Cards listed below to the The Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!

Make your voice be heard and your vote count!

Here are your nominees and who nominated them,

 

Nominated by Matt

 

Nominated by Ginko-5

 

Nominated by Matt, Jafronius, and Uncle Charlie

 

Nominated by Matt

 

Nominated by Me!!

 

Nominated By Matt 

 

Nominated by Fuji

Nominated by RJ Sahl

Nominated by Cardboredom

Nominated by Matt

In comments, just tell me which five you want to go. The ones with the most votes will make it. The inductees will be announced in the next few weeks depending on  my schedule but I didn't want to miss out on doing this. I feel once again turnout on the nominations was weak again this year, but let's see how the voting goes and that might make a difference if this returns for 2026 or not.

Let your voices be heard below!! 

Sip on that coffee and think it through as only half of these will make it. There is a lot to take in for considerations for these cards. The look, the value, the stories, etc. Make sure you put together all of your thoughts before casting your final vote.

Thanks you!

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