When The Wrong Choice Goes Right

 Remember when I said I bought a box of cards on my way back from my vacation? 

Well, my choice was the wrong one.

Sitting on the shelf among other boxes of 2025 football cards, I saw a box of Phoenix and without even looking at it, assumed it was 2025 and walked out a happy guy.

That's until I hit the car and realized I had bought a 2024. Ugh.

Yeah, I could land another Nabers rookie, but it wasn't what I was hoping for. I wanted to pull some Dart or even a Hakeem Nicks to go with my rainbow. Speaking of which, the updates on my chase for 84 will be found on my NY Giants blog, Big Blue Cardboard. Check it out if you haven't yet and go give it a follow!

Now back to the box (one of which I mistakenly deleted the box picture of).

Even though I was disappointed to have grabbed the wrong box, I still was excited just to open something again.

Each blaster box comes with 6 packs of 4 cards each, so 24 cards for $35. No guarantees in the box besides three parallels and a chance at an autograph or case hit.

I kicked it off pulling a new Giants card in the very first pack. I thought maybe that was the kickoff to something good.

DeVonta Smith,first of three parallels. I assume this is a Purple parallel. It's Unnumbered. This should have counted as a Giants card since the Eagles jumped ahead of the Giants in the draft that year to snag him.

 

JJ McCarthy rookie. I think he will be spending more time on the bench with Kyler there now.

My second parallel was of Travis Kelce who recently spent more time in the news about who he married over his sports season.

Here was a nice find. Rookie Rising parallel of Caleb Williams.

Then to top that off, a second dosing of Caleb Williams. This time a base card rookie parallel. Both are heading to my rookie card PC.

New Giants card. Two nice Caleb Williams pulls. I will call this blaster a win. One of the very few times a wrong choice goes right.

Let me know your favorite pull from my box below in comments.

I hope everyone has a coffee-filled Tuesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Need To Finish A Project

*coffee is ready, cards are by the side and computer is on. time for some cards over coffee*

I am starting to feel like my father-in-law. I start projects and never complete them.

It took him many years and some extra pushing from his wife to finally finish building our house. Which is something he worked on mostly alone for two plus years. But he has also started many projects around his own home which have spent years of sitting there. Things such as window frames in a newly updated bedroom incomplete. His workshop floor that has been needed to be replaced, but only half has. A bench he started to build. Some clearing out of bushes that never got accomplished. His sugarhouse needing upgrades and so on and so forth.

Looking at all of his unfinished projects made me look back on my own hobby ones. I am no handy man, I can't even put a screw in the wall, so the only projects I seem to start and never finish are hobby related.

All of my player collections. All of my rainbows. All of my set chases. So many left undone. All of my sorting and re-sorting that needs to be done. Soooooooooo much.

Which is why I post some of my needs on here just in case anyone out there has the help I need.

Most of the times I strike out as I collect stuff that most bloggers don't. However, sometimes I get lucky and by lucky I mean meeting someone cool like Greg from Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle who has a lot of similar interests as myself when it comes to collecting non-sport cards.

So much so that he completed a Master Set I could only dream of completing, the 2013 Press Pass Parks and Recreation.

I got deep into Parks and Rec about three years ago when I went binge watching. Such a funny show with humor that hits. Well, except the last season. That to me was a disaster and they should had ended it the prior season.

Anyways, the set for Parks and Rec included a 90-card base set with 90- card silver parallel to the base set as well. There were no inserts but a very solid autograph and relic checklist.

With my chase to accomplish my dream of trying the Master Set, I actually jumped right into the autographs narrowing my search down to four. Then I went and completed the single relic set. Then I went to try and finish up the base and silver parallel set which I traded with a guy on Twitter who almost had a full set of each.

This is where Greg comes in. He had some extra cards kicking around of base and silver parallel and emailed to see which ones I needed. After a few exchanged emails, he generously helped me out and I was able to cross off a few needs to the chase.

Here they are,

Now I am just needing the following to finish up the basic part of the chase,

Base:
6

Foils:
1,5,10,19,34,51,64,77,79,82,87,89

As for the aforementioned autograph chase, after many trades, I am down to the four impossible ones. I won't ever have funds for them so it will be just a strictly trade kind of thing.

Here is what I have,

Here is the checklist and what I need to finish this,

1. Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope
2. Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate
3. Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford
4. Fred Armisen as Raul
5. Jay Jackson as Perd Hapley
6. Jim O’Heir as Jerry Gergich
7. Megan Mullally as Tammy Swanson
8. Mo Collins as Joan Callamezzo
9. Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson
10. Parker Posey as Lindsay Carlisle Shay
11. Paul Rudd as Bobby Newport
12. Retta as Donna Meagle
13. Rob Lowe as Chris Traeger

Now onto the relics. I finished the single relic set, however, there is a 4-card dual relic set, and a 2-card triple relic set if my research is correct. I don't have any of either of those yet. Once again, probably another impossible chase.

If only I was into the show back in 2013 when the product was basically being given away. I heard boxes from hobby shops were literally $35 a box. Wow.

Thanks goes out to Greg for his big help in my chase. Check out his blog for cool cards like these and more. I linked you above. 

Hopefully I can at least finish the base and silver sets now. It would be nice to be able to say I finished a project then maybe brag to my father-in-law though he may not see it the way I do.

But it would be one project more than he has done recently.

Have a Magnificent Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

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*