I'm Back!

Hello Coffee Card Enthusiasts!

I certainly hoped you all missed your favorite and only Coffee Card Blogger.

I came back from vacation last Wednesday and enjoyed an extra-long visit from family until this past Tuesday. I needed some time to recoup and unpack Wednesday and Thursday and here is a new post for today.

So, I thought it would be fun just to do a short I'm Back post and trip recap.

Here is what I got to see for three days. As I said in my last post, this was the first time I have been on a real family vacation and to a beach near the ocean in nine years. Cards Over Coffee didn't even exist then! We had beautiful weather every day with temps in the high 80's. I am not a swimmer as many of you know, but I spent plenty of time in the sand and did dip my feet in many times. I think as a whole we barely spent any time back at the Bed and Breakfast my sister-in-law rented for all of us.

As for my shoulder, the long three-hour trip up killed it and so didn't the ride back. Luckily in-between wasn't too bad other than having to eat lefty which made a mess. My wife would say no more than usual with my right.

Which I did spill some of this ice cream. This was a Reeces Sundae from a baseball themed ice cream place that was just down the road from where I stayed. Great stuff, reasonably priced too. However, this was bigger than it looked as I ordered the "Major" instead of the "Minor" I should have ordered. Let's just say this hit like a rock.

One of my reasons for going to this beach nine years ago was stopping at the hobby shop that was there. I made good friends with the owners, and they always threw free stuff my way along with some discounts. However, after my last visit, they sold the shop and traveled the countryside on a motorcycle. Sounds like fun to me! So, I knew that the card portion of my trip was not going to happen.

However, I did find this rack of packs in one of the shops. $6 a pack if you were interested! I walked out empty handed but found this interesting still.

I can't say that I went completely cardless on this trip. On our way back, my 40-year-old body needed a bathroom break, anyone over 40 will understand, so I stopped off at a Walmart halfway home. My wife had set aside some funds for me to bust a box of something. 

I wasn't going to miss out on that opportunity.

I ran to the bathroom, both because I had to and I wanted to, then ran up front to see my options.

I was really hoping for some Topps Chrome Disney, but all they had was Topps Chrome Deadpool. It was tempting, but I left it. Instead, I grabbed what I thought was a blaster box of 2025 Phoenix football. I will dive more into that in another post and what I got in it if anything.

For now, will leave you with a happy to be back and hope to get to some more blogging soon! I had a mail day from a fellow blogger to share along with a couple box breaks and a few other mail days to share as well.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

*also a reminder I will be adding to each post going forward. I don't know about you, when it comes to the hobby, I am looking for ways to SAVE all of the time. So, here you go. Just for you a 10% off code to SAVE on card supplies. You're Welcome!

So Much To Do

As summer rolls on and after re-checking my New Years goals I posted about earlier this week, I realized I have so much to do.

*takes a stressed out sip of coffee that was freshly brewed*

Being down one arm, taking two classes and trying to keep up with family stuff has put my hobby on the backburner....at least for this year.

Next summer, it will be the summer of Matt! Just like in Seinfeld with the Summer Of George!

For now, I have to think about the messy contents of these boxes after I did my big downsizing project. 

The boxes marked hits, aren't at all organized by team anymore or even sport.

Boxes marked NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL and completed sets may not have those contents anymore. More than likely they are the 90's cards that I pulled from the downsizing project. There are just tossed in there until I have time to separate them by brand, year, etc.

Some boxes are still marked right, many are not. There is a lot to go through to sort and maybe find more to downsize from. 

My plan this Christmas since I no longer have any extra autographs or relics to trade away, I will be downsizing all of my inserts from 2010 and newer from every sport. I have a happy home planned for all of them already, but I also plan to pull some out for my trading buddies in the blogging world. I also won't trade anything or unload anything from the 90's to mid 2000's. Those are mine!

Hopefully I can at least get to that project by the time October/November hits, and I have my hopeful shoulder back.

I will post more about the continuing downsizing project at some point.

For now, I must tip my mug to you for a bit. The mailbox has run dry, my ideas outside of that have run off and for the first time in 9 LONG YEARS I will be actually taking a REAL vacation thanks to my sister in law starting tomorrow for three to four days with family visting from afar after that. This will all equal a drought of posts on here for awhile until I get back and until I find something in my mail box to post about. Unless I can find my creativity again or do a vacation recap of some form. The post today is currently the last draft I have on blogger.

I hope in the meantime everyone has a Happy and Safe 4th of July holiday and see you on the coffee side. Flip side isn't how I roll right now, I can't flip. I can only stay in one place currently.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

*pictures self with mug of coffee on warm beach. good times ahead*

Trending This Week In My Hobby

Welcome to Week 7 of Trending This Week In My Hobby.

It's been a few weeks, let's see what has changed. I almost canceled this segment, but for now, it will hold on for another week.

If you missed a previous week or you are curious what this segment is about if this is your first time seeing it, I will be posting my Top 10 things I have been either adding or seeking the most. In other words what has been trending in my hobby, hence the name. Next week, the list could change and some things could disappear with new things added or move up and down my interests list.

You just never know because I never know where my head will be week to week.

So, the next post will feature the list of stuff for that week and then will compare it to this week for a breakdown of the trending ways and why. If I have an explanation for it.

Hopefully I will.

Without further ado or more rambling, here is the list of what's trending in my hobby this week,

1. 2026 Topps Chrome Disney Darkwing Duck
2. 2025 Panini Phoenix Hakeem Nicks
3. 2026 Topps Chrome Disney Any Cards
4. Eli Manning Cards
5. Ken Griffey Jr Cards
6. Non Sport Autograph/Relics
7. Rodney Hampton
8. NY Knicks Autos/Relics
9. Jalen Brunson Cards
10. NY Giants Autos/Relics

Last time as you will see below, I had nothing trending in my hobby. I didn't have a hobby focus. But, since shoulder surgery and since I have spent a lot more time sitting around, I became really focused on completing and chasing Darkwing Duck cards from 2026 Topps Chrome Disney. Then I have been obsessed with the 2025 Panini Phoenix Hakeem Nicks cards which I want to get as many as I can. Sort of like the Wild Card Splatt Eli Manning cards.

The Knicks playoff run led to those chases and the rest are the usuals. Rodney is caught on a little more since I updated my TCDB numbers which you can see by clicking the tab at the top of the blog. I have included all of my TCDB collections there.

If you were curious about last week's list and how it changed, here it is again,

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Who knows what next week will bring or where the wind will take me next. I guess you will have to come back and see. Or will it remain the same as this week which would be really odd.

While you wait, let me know what you are collecting this week or what's been trending in your hobby below!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

2026 New Years Goal Updates

This year, I have some things to accomplish in the hobby, blog and personally.

I am halfway through the year, so let's see where I stand with these goals.

Personally, I put on the ten pounds I wanted to lose last year and I am heading into the wrong direction with my health conditions so I want to lose that. I also want to make sure I can balance out life and school better this year. But, that also means I hope to actually continue with school and keep the momentum from Semester one going. (I have lost two so far. I guess that's a start)

For the hobby, I really need to cut back from last year's massive list. I feel like between life and school now, my hobby list needs to be way shorter to feel like I can accomplish some of the things I hope to.

1. I need to penny sleeve all of my inserts. I have tons of penny sleeves now, it's time to do the longer part of the job. (haven't started this at all)
2. Label my boxes like my binders and re-number them all (everything is lost right now) (nope, not done)
3. Binder up my non-sport cards and sort them by sets. (I wished this was done, probably will be my first project when I get my arm back)
4. Remove the index cards from my Giants PC and use Card Dividers instead (index cards are too flimsy and hard to read) (have the materials, but not the time to do the job)
5. Complete my Griffey card count and get a final number (haven't located all of my Griffey cards yet, hopefully that will get done by years end as well)
6. Put away all of the cards from 2025 that need to be taken care of (two 5000 count boxes full) (YES!! ALL OF MY CARDS ARE PUT AWAY!! The one thing I probably did do!!)
7. Update my Rodney Hampton PC on TCDB (did this too!!!)
8. Focus on finishing up some long time 90's sets, I am looking at you 1997 Spx basketball (nope havent' added any )

Now onto my blogging ones ,

1. List more set needs on the blog (nope)
2. List PWE trade cards on the blog (I did, then pulled it since nobody was interested)
3. Reach 80 followers (haven't gained a single follower this year)
4. Reach One Million Views (WE DID IT!!)
5. Blog. Just blog. (BEEN TRYING!)

Well, there you have it for my updates. Even with a much smaller list I haven't done too much this year. I will update again at year's end before I create next year's edition. I may have to make an even smaller list for next year.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday.

Let me know how your New Year's Goals have gone in comments (hopefully better than mine)

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week

 *coffee is ready and so am I for another new post on Cards Over Coffee*

*waiting for you to get coffee in hand*

*takes sip, gets ready to post*

Welcome to the next edition of 5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week. I almost got rid of this segment but decided I would keep it for now. Hopefully there will be more interaction, or it could be axed over the next few episodes.

For now, let's keep it rolling!

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

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/accomplishments they did for the week.

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 sat down, did the numbers....

 

And updated them again!

  

3. I took some pictures for the blog to do some posts. Which by now you have read some of them.

4. I have been making sure to read all new blogs posts on my blogroll and trying to comment on as many as I can since I have been having extra time sitting around from shoulder surgery.

5. I haven't gotten a lot of mail days recently, so have been taking notes on what kind of posts I can do until my mailbox starts seeing cards again. Hard to trade with one arm and one stamp.

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*

Tell me five things you did in the hobby last week or make a comment on mine. I will make sure to read and comment back on all of them.

Have a great Tuesday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Is 84 An Insane Number Or Is It Fun?

Hello and good morning, Coffee Card Enthusiasts! Whether your here for the cards, the coffee, or both I hope you're having a great day.

Today, I am going to talk about a crazy thing I recently found out.

 

I was mailed this Hakeem Nicks and thought, how cool is this parallel? I wonder what some others look like. Upon doing my research on that part I was beginning to think of another rainbow chase. 

Sadly, despite how great of a player Hakeem Nicks was, his cards are cheap. Which is sad but also falls perfect for me.

So, I was like, let's do this. 

Before I do any kind of set, player or rainbow chase, my main thing is to start up a spreadsheet. 

I began to set up my spreadsheet then went to copy and paste the parallels to the spreadsheet.

That's when I uncovered something.....

Something shocking...

Something uncanny and unheard of...

There were 84 parallels.

Well including the base, which I count as a part of it.

EIGHTY FOUR. You are not reading this wrong.

Is 84 an insane number or is it fun?

I will let you decide in comments.

I didn't know what to think at first, but I realized that maybe it is fun. I know I won't get all 84, but how far can I get? Sometimes it's more about the journey then it is about the finish.

Here are a few I have picked up so far.

Here is the full checklist with ones I still need and ones I crossed out will be incoming. 

1. Base
2. Silver
3. Silver Hyper
4. Silver Lava
5. Silver Lazer
6. Silver Mojo
7. Silver Pandora
8. Silver Pyramids
9. Silver Seismic
10. Silver Winter
11. White Shimmer
12. Red Hyper /399
13. Red Winter /399
14. Light Blue Pyramids /385
15. FireBurst /350
16. Light Blue Lava /325
17. Pink Hyper /299
18. Pink Winter /299
19. Lime Green Pyramids /285
20. Purple Hyper /249
21. Purple Winter /249
22. Lime Green Lava /225
23. Teal Pyramids /225
24. Blue Hyper /199
25. Blue Winter /199
26. Red Lazer /199
27. Wave /199
28. Orange Pandora /189
29. Yellow Pyramids /185
30. Teal Lava /175
31. Green Hyper /149
32. Green Winter /149
33. Phoenix /149
34. Pink Lazer /149
35. Bronze Pandora /125
36. Yellow Lava /125
37. Orange Hyper /99
38. Orange Winter /99
39. Purple Lazer /99
40. Red /99
41. Red Seismic /99
42. Ash Pyramids /85
43. Light Blue Mojo /85
44. Pyramids /85
45. Ash Lava /75
46. Blue Lazer /75
47. Lime Green Mojo /75
48. Pink Seismic /75
49. Blue /50
50. Bronze Hyper /50
51. Bronze Winter /50
52. Teal Mojo /50
53. Green Lazer /49
54. Purple Seismic /49
55. Blue Seismic /35
56. Orange Lazer /35
57. Yellow Mojo /35
58. Ash Mojo /25
59. Green /25
60. Green Seismic /25
61. Orange Seismic /20
62. Bronze Lazer /15
63. Bronze Seismic /15
64. ColorBurst /10
65. Gold /10
66. Gold Hyper /10
67. Gold Lava /10
68. Gold Lazer /10
69. Gold Mojo /10
70. Gold Pandora /10
71. Gold Pyramids /10
72. Gold Seismic /10
73. Gold Winter /10
74. Dreamweaver /4
75. Black /1
76. Black Hyper /1
77. Black Lava /1
78. Black Lazer /1
79. Black Mojo /1
80. Black Pandora /1
81. Black Pyramids /1
82. Black Seismic /1
83. Black Winter /1
84. Celestial /1

Look at the crazy amount of 1/1's!

I know I won't get any of the 1/1's, but let's see how far I can get. Let's keep this a new segment for the rest of the year. What do you guys think? And what should I call it? The Chase For 84? Nicked Off? Let me know your thoughts in comments on the chase and a name for it. Can't wait to hear it.

In the meantime, Happy Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

It's Been Since '73

The New York Knicks last won an NBA championship in 1973, which was 53 years ago. That year they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 and had a team that featured many stars including Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusschere, and Earl Monroe.

To put that into perspective for myself, it was ten years before I was born and ten years after that was when I found myself to be a Knicks fan.

So, I have been a Knicks fan for 33 years of my life. I was a die-hard Knicks fan from 1993-2004. Just a fan from 2004-2022, then in 2023 my love for basketball returned again especially more-so the last two years where I started coaching it. 

Basketball is back for me. The Knicks are back for me. A championship is back for New York.

*takes a celebratory sip, which means a gulp, of freshly brewed coffee*

I can remember all of the disappointing endings to the mid to late 90's Knicks teams that failed which included the 1999 team that beat all of the odds to the Finals to fall to the Spurs. So, to have this Knicks team beat the Spurs this year, made this long wait even more worthy.

To celebrate this year's team run through the playoffs, I started adding some autographs to my collection.

But first, I had to add a new card of the Finals MVP. I like shiny cards, okay?

Now onto the autographs,

 

(one of my favorite Knicks)

(what is this auto?)

(LEGEND)

(I know it's not Knicks uniform, maybe upgrade some day)

 

And finally, we end with Marcus Camby. Not only a fun 90's player in general, but he was a Knick for a short time as well.

My goal is to land my number one want, Patrick Ewing hopefully by year's end. There are also Knick legends I am hoping to add as well, some of which are the ones above in the previous championship team. Most wanted would be Willis Reed from that group. But would like to add them all. They are names my father talked about for years.

I do have two other Knicks cards on their way and will post those when they arrive. They are not autographed, but cool regardless. Some day when my arm is healthy, I would like to put my PC back together and see where I am at.

*takes a sip before closing up today's post*

I am not sure how many people can say they have watched all of their sports teams win a championship, but now I finally can. I have seen two NY Giants Super Bowls, many NY Yankees World Series and now I have a Knicks Championship. I can die a happy New York fan with a cup of coffee by my side of course.

In comments today, what was your thoughts on this year's Finals, and have you seen all of your sports teams win a championship?

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*