Updates All Around

Now that I am officially on Week 4 since my shoulder surgery, I have a few updates on it.

I started rehab with PT finally on Tuesday and will be doing two-a-weeks for the next few weeks. It's been a slow-go with trying to get my arm to move which is expected. They told me I will have a few weeks to get it moving or ortho will do it for me which doesn't sound like much fun. My friend had it done and he said it's very painful. So, here's to hoping I can move!!! Also, I told PT that my ultimate goal would be to shoot a basketball by November. The therapist stalled with a reply and basically told me it will be a while and probably up to a year before I can go to full strength. I guess it sounds like Coach Matt will be under-armed this upcoming basketball season, but that doesn't change my plans on coaching.

I don't need the ability to shoot the ball to coach.

Enough with those updates, let's get onto some more updates.

This is my first card post since I have returned to blogging from vacation. Well, it's more of a play on Topps Update where I am giving you a list of cards I am adding to my checklist or what I call my Top Want List halfway through the year.

But I am still talking cards so that's gotta count right? I do promise a real card one is coming up.

With my lack of being able to afford to open new product, I have to turn to my readers or followers who have cards sitting around collecting dust they are just looking to get rid of....or PWE trading. But I will need to get stamps again (did you hear they are going up to .82?!?!) So, if anyone has any from my list, please let me know!

I am looking for the following cards,

2025 Topps Allen Ginter:

169 Laura Prepon
184 Larry David
198 Mr. Eon
204 Druski
206 Big Sean
209 Brian Cranston
225 Livvy Dunne
252 Lauren Alaina

253 Brandon Coleman
254 Andrew Bishop
255 Drew Nix
256 John Hall
257 Zach Rishel
258 Chad Gilbert
259 Joey Graziadei
260 Cara Maria Sorbello
261 Wes Bergmann
262 Shyne
263 Peter Weber
264 Lesley Arfin
265 Tom Marshall
266 Jax
267 Mark Long
268 Taylor Rooks
269 Josh Rawitch
270 a Boogie wit da Hoodie
271 Scott Boras
273 Michele Fitzgerald
274 William Fichtner
275 Skylar Astin
276 Brittany Snow
279 Chuck Ragan
280 Greg Barnett
281 Tom May
282 Eric Keen
283 Joe Godino
285 Sway Calloway
286 Emma Roberts
287 Ethan Zohn
291 Alexis Ohanian
292 Seth Meyers
293 Richard Kind
294 Andre Lotterer
295 Dario Franchitti
298 Tai Verdes
299 Jamie Chung

2026 Topps Chrome Disney Darkwing Duck Base *this one might be on the way from Twitter*

2026 Topps Chrome Disney Darkwing Duck Anniversary Gizmo Duck

2026 Topps Chrome Disney Darkwing Duck Anniversary Quackerjack

ANY Rookie Cards Of,
Roman Anthony

Trey Yesavage

Tatsuya Imai

Munetaka Murakami

Jac Caglianone

2026 Topps First Pitch cards of,

FP-3 Caroline Marks 
FP-4 Kevin Negandhi
FP-5 Jesse Eisenberg 
FP-6 Tony Hawk
FP-15 Hayden Christensen

2025 Topps First Pitch
FP-9 Lauren Alaina

FPU-1 Big Sean

OG Anunoby - 2025-26 NBA Topps NOW® - Card 336

2025-26 Donruss Basketball Ludacris #122

This is probably the biggest midseason want list update I have done! Now to get some, well hopefully all, crossed off! I will be adding these to my main list soon.

I am sure there are more cards to be added to my overall list, but these are ones I have been trying to update on here for a while. Finally made the entire list for this post and am now a step closer to adding them to my overall list. That list has barely made any changes all year so adding more just makes it look even more impossible or more fun? What do you think?

Hope everyone has a super Sunday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Sketch'd

*coffee is ready and so isn't the newest post for cards over coffee*

*takes a sip*

Before I start with today's post, I would like to reiterate that I am no artist. I cannot draw. I do not have the talent of some the brilliant artists we have in the blogosphere who can create amazing pieces of cardbaord art. So, please be kind.

One of the two summer courses I signed up for was Drawing 1. Each week we are assigned a drawing either done with charcoal, pencil or pen. There is always a theme to the drawings as well. This week's theme is charcoal and was graphic design/logo, Fantasy or Abstract. Since the other two are not really my strength, not sure what is yet haha, I decided I wanted to draw a logo for this blog.

After many attempts, this is what I created and turned in,

 

Not my favorite, but it's not the worst thing.

Before I turned that one in, I came up with this one and sent this one in as well. This was more of a rough draft compared to the first one which was my piece to be graded.

Neither are going into an art museum, but I am wondering which one is better and why, and which one should I attempt again when this class is over and try to make it a final logo?

Let me know in comments!

Hope everyone has a super Saturday!

*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!

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*