It's Gonna Be May

*to the tune of NSYNC's gonna be me*

Every new post I do...doesn't seem enough for you.

 

You don't want to miss a post again.

Because I drink coffee unlike them.

Maybe when you finaaaaalleeeee

Get to read the newest one.

Guess what....it's published in MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Happy May. Or Me. Or whatever Justin Timberlake actually says.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Chasing The Gold Medal

 

Mikaela Shiffrin is not only a Gold Medal winning machine, but she is also a local hero.

She wasn't technically born and raised here, but she went to school and ski school within thirty minutes of where I live.

Which is a quick background on why I collect her.

She is by far the biggest known athlete/celebrity here.

So anytime I find her cards and find them affordable, I grab them.

One of the newest chases I did for fun is chase some of the 2026 Topps Chrome Winter Olympics cards. I knew going into this pursuit that I wouldn't be able to land a full rainbow with the cost of her cards, but I thought it would be fun just to make a run of what I could.

Here is what I have added so far or as I call it, chasing the gold medal (though I did get the gold refractor)

• Base
• Refractor
• Red, White & Blue Refractor (Value Exclusive)
• Pink Refractor /250
• Aqua Refractor /199
• Blue Refractor /150
• Green Refractor /99
• USA Flag Refractor /76
• Purple Refractor /75
• Gold Refractor /50
• Orange Refractor /25
• Black Refractor /10
• Red Refractor /5
• Superfractor /1

 

(this is my favorite refractor from the chase, USA-USA-USA)

 

 

And there you have it. I should have taken a group picture because nothing is better than a group picture of shiny things.

I would love to add any of the remaining ones, but that is very doubtful. But, it's been fun just chasing these down and that Topps Now I opened up this post with from her latest Chasing The Gold Medal add to her ever so growing collection of them.

I will need to update my TCDB soon even though I am a long ways from first. Here is what I have so far, SHIFFIN COLLECTION.

Let me know in comments if there are any Gold Medalists that you collect? Do you collect Shiffrin? have any cards of hers I don't? Check my collection above.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday night.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Dewey Decimal System Not Needed

Remember before computers were used having to flip through drawers of card catalog cabinet in the library? Remember having to run your fingers through index cards looking for the books you needed for research that most were sorted by using the Dewey Decimal system?

Well, BCW Supplies brought back that fun but actually made it fun.

It's called the 6-Drawer Card Catalog.

This is a place where you store sports cards instead of library ones.

Each very durable stackable drawer can hold up to 700 loose sports cards, 1,150 loose gaming cards, 210 standard toploaded cards, or 45 cards in 35 pt. BCW Magnetic Card Holders. Which is very useful for any card collection.

The drawers have these pull tabs, you attach yourselves by snapping them on, for easy pulling open of the drawers.

Inside, you will find plenty of storage room and each one comes with six clear plastic dividers.

I have actually had this for a couple of months trying to find the best use for such a wonderful item.

Then I finally decided this would make a perfect home for my NY Giants future studs collection. I had thought about storing my toploaded Rodney Hamptons in here, I still might use the bottom part of this for that, but guys like Malik Nabers, Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo will call this home for now.

There is even a part on the front of this where you can add a toploaded card, toploader already included, of the player or whatever you choose to put in each drawer as a way to label them.

I have added both Dart and Nabers so far. Still have four drawers to go and plenty of room in the two I already added.

I will add more cards to this soon. But, I may have to find a place to put it first. It was actually quite heavy already before adding cards to it, well, at least heavier than I expected. It would probably make a great place to also set my coffee on because I know it's not moving anywhere!

If you are looking to add one, you can find yours on the BCW Supplies website, HERE. Remember to use code MATT10 at checkout to SAVE 10% off your purchase!

I hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday!

Let me know your thoughts on this product or memories of using the card library system.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Monday Thoughts With Matt

Yup, it's Monday.

I haven't done one of these segments in a long time so figured hey, let's do this.

So, 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.

Yeah, I used Jessica's mug again.

Let's just talk in this NEW segment.

So, I recently went to a card show again, my second one in thirty years (I will certainly be posting on this) and noticed one trend......OVERPRICING!

It was really disappointing to walk into a card show and find $2 cards marked up to $20. There were lots of that and plenty of wax flippers especially for Pokemon. They were charging almost two times what they got them for.

I am all for letting sellers price what they want to sell them for, but do they actually sell anything? And what about the poor kids-sometimes literally-going to these shows trying to find their favorite Pokemon or favorite sports player and the prices are jacked way up? They most likely go home with nothing or way overpay for something a simple eBay search would have landed them the card cheaper for.

Now, I don't have a lot of money and went there with basically not much too spend and I found it really hard at each table to even spend anything. Though, in the end I did because well, I went to a card show. As I said earlier, I will go on more about this and show off my cards in another post.

For today, are you finding this same kind of thing at your local card shows? How do you think they can resolve this? How do you shop at these?

Let me know below and hope everyone has a Magnificent Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

I Am The Terror That Flaps In The Night

*takes a sip from freshly brewed pot*

Those who know me, know my love of the Disney Afternoon cartoons.

*takes another sip, then goes back in time*

I came home from a long day of school, flipped on the TV and watched the entire two hour block.

I would watch Talespin, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, Bonkers which were among my favorites, but none ever topped my super favorite, Darkwing Duck.

The Terror That Flaps In The Night easily became my favorite cartoon growing up. Those around me had to deal with me walking around pretending I was Darkwing whether that was at home, at a friend's house or on recess. 

They all knew I was Darkwing.

I began asking for the figures for Christmas and despite my poor upbringing, I was fortunate enough to find a few figures under the tree over the years. I never did complete all of them and had to use other figures to replace the characters I was missing from other shows, but I made it work.

As I evolved more into a card collector later on and grew up, I began to just leave my toys in my toy box and eventually sold all of them around eighth grade to my aunt for my cousins. I turned that money into cards.

 

Sadly, as I aged, I realized how much those toys meant to me, especially the Darkwing Duck ones. But, there was nothing that I could do to get the ones I wanted back. My aunt divorced my uncle, their kids grew up and moved away and the toys I can only assume went into the trash.

*plays sad music* (thinks that you are visualizing a tiny violin)

The good thing *plays upbeat music* was that I was older and an adult and I could buy back those things I wanted. They may not have been the ones I specifically owned, but they could fill in the holes. I first started with the ones I originally had, then realized, "hey, I am an adult, why not finish what I wanted to back then?" So, I finished the set and still have it to some day display.

Over the years, I have added a few other things to my Darkwing Duck collection including some comic books, the DVD set, some VHS' and a 1992 Pro Set Promo card which was the only card in existence at that point.

Notice how I said, at that point.

Recently, I have found more Darkwing Duck cards which brought that child out even more with me.

It kicked off with Disney Lorcana set. They aren't technically real cards and are apart of a game, but, to me, they were and they were needed to be added.

So, I grabbed some of my favorite characters and art from the set including some foil parallels,

 

 

And this is what I have so far. There are more I need and one I really want is the rare that featured all of the characters. It's a little overpriced.

Most recently Topps released a set called Topps Disney Neon which has a real Darkwing Duck base card and it also includes parallels. So far, I have only added the rainbow foil parallel. 

I will post this at some point.

*takes final sip of the post*

I know I am probably not the only one who used to watch Disney Afternoon on this blog, let me know your favorite show from the block 

Also, have you bought any TCG cards like the ones above for your PC? Try any of the new Topps Disney Neon? Let me know in comments!

Have a great Friday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Trending This Week In My Hobby

Welcome to Week 4 of Trending This Week In My Hobby.

It's been a couple weeks, let's see what has changed.

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 very first list of what's trending in my hobby this week,

1. Ken Griffey Jr Cards
2. Jaxson Dart Cards
3. 90's Inserts Any Team, Any Sport, Any Player specifically 1995-99
4. NY Giants Cards
5. 2025 Wild Card Splat Eli Manning Cards
6. Eli Manning Cards
7. Non Sport Autograph/Relic Cards
8. Rodney Hampton Cards
9. 1995 Pro Line Autograph Cards
10. 2025 Topps Chrome Pigskin Parallels NY Giants

Ken Griffey Jr, just like in the 90's, coming in very strong for my PC the last few weeks. I have picked up quite a few through trades. Same with Jaxson Dart, now that the season has ended, his cards have been a little bit more attainable which is what I was hoping for.

Outside of those two and a couple dropping off, there isn't a lot of change. I haven't added any 1995 Pro Line Autographs in a long time but they are still big time wants. As for the 2025 Topps Chrome Pigskin Parallels for the Giants, I would want one of each player but I highly doubt I can land the rookies. So, I will just chase what I can just like I did with the Panini parallels that were similar.

The Eli Manning Splat cards are falling, despite them being plentiful. It's really hard to add them to TCDB as there are hundreds and takes forever to add them. I guess you can call it me being lazy.

If you were curious about last weeks list and how it changed, here it is again,

1. NY Giants Cards
2. 2025 Wild Card Splat Eli Manning Cards
3. 90's Inserts Any Team, Any Sport, Any Player specifically 1995-99
4. Ken Griffey Jr Cards
5. Jaxson Dart Cards
6. Eli Manning Cards
7. Non Sport Autograph/Relic Cards
8. Rodney Hampton Cards
9. Mikaela Shiffrin
10. Allan Houston Cards

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.

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*

A Lot To Catch Up On

Hello Coffee Card Enthusiasts!

It's been two weeks since I last posted, but I should be back for a little bit.

The last two weeks have been long, very long.

Last time I posted, I mentioned coaching an AAU team and only having two weeks to get a team ready. 

Well, we got a team ready and we played our four game tournament this weekend.

SATURDAY:

It started off very ugly. For some reason, the tournament had us lined up against a much tougher, stronger and Shaq sized team of 5th/6th graders.

 

We trailed 28-1 at half and ended up losing that one 44-2. It was about as ugly as you can imagine. But, the team shouldn't have been in our league to begin with.

 

The next game, well, we didn't fair too well there but at least played someone at our level. We played against four of the girls, out of ten, I coached during the regular season. Even though I switched up some play names, they knew what was coming and we lost another lopsided game.

SUNDAY:

Sunday we were supposed to play that 5th/6th team again but thanks to a few emails, they rearranged the schedule for us and we played the same team twice four hours apart.

The first game we lost a closer one, 16-8.

The second one, well....

We lost again, this time 24-5.

After that, I told the girls that despite the outcomes of our games, that didn't reflect the hard work, the sacrifice, the heart and soul they put out on the court. Not too mention, every team we played has been practicing together and already been in tournaments for a couple months. We only had two weeks, 8 practices, to put this together. On top of that, only twice did we have a full team practice together. It wasn't going to be an easy task in general, but I am so, so proud of what they did learn and put together in terms of teamwork in that short time.

I think if next time we had been given a month of full team practice at least to get things into place, my "family system" takes awhile, I think they would have had a better chance.

But, once again, I am proud.

And once again, I gave them cupcakes, cookies, a small gift card so each one of them could get an ice cream and of course some cards.

 

Also, we didn't go completely empty handed in this tournament. We won the Sportsmanship Award which was this ball. The girls were all "fighting" over it and where it should go, so the assistant coach handed it to me and said it's Coach Matts. I will display this proudly.

I have already been in contact with the Tournament organizer about possibly doing it again next year and he seemed to be all for it and praised me for my coaching of the girls and how appreciated how I did with them. That also coming from my Athletic Director as well.

So, for now, that will be to be continued.....

*holds basketball, smiles back on all of the memories made the last two weeks*

Another thing that has kept me busy the last couple of weeks has been college. I am down to the nitty gritty and need to finish weekly assignments along with three final projects that are very timely. Just three more weeks left!!! 

Well, then there will be summer classes.

Speaking of summer, I will be having shoulder surgery. The right shoulder I injured last year has a new updated MRI and it showed a small labrum tear which is why it's still nagging and lingering. That will be fixed on June 10th (I think that was the day). It will take me out of any kind of sports for the summer as I will not be using it for four months. But, will be ready for basketball coaching season.

I am hoping to do a couple more quick posts on here and I really need to update my card numbers for 2026 instead of keeping them written down on a piece of paper.

 

And I also need to sort out and check out my next big mail day from the amazing blog reader Grady. No, these aren't unopened wax, but contain goodies probably better than any wax box can provide.

*eagerly awaits the opening*

I have been back and forth with schoolwork along with this post and it has now taken me two hours to write.

So, I need to stop it here and get myself to bed to start everything all over again tomorrow. Which will also include a new post.

Have a good sleep.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*