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*

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*

The 2026 Cards Over Coffee Hall Of Fame Returns!!

*coffee is hot and ready and I am ready for a new #CardsOverCoffee*

Hall Of Fame. It's where the best of the best go.

And that's where they will go in 2026 as I changed my mind 6 months into the year. I have backtracked the past few months and added cards to go in. This will be a new rule this year, I will be able to nominate ones to go in as well.

With a little cheating by copying the previous post about this, here's the deal and here is what I need from you guys, the readers.

I have created a box where I will be storing my Coffee Card Hall Of Fame collection. In this box, every year from here on out until I can't brew anymore coffee, I will be placing FIVE cards a year voted on by you to go into the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame. However, I will need some card nominees all year for you to vote on. This is where you guys come into play again. Every post on CARDS OVER COFFEE after today until the December 1st end date, you can nominate a card or cards from any post-including box breaks-in comments of that post you think should be in the Hall for the 2026 year. These will be the nominees.

Those cards will be POSTED HERE all year long. Remember, this is a Hall Of Fame nomination. Not every card has to be a patch, autograph or low numbered, but Hall worthy. I will close nominations on December 1st and will let you guys begin the voting process (how I will do this will be determined later on) on which five cards you would choose to make it into the Hall. The cards with the most votes, get in.

So, from today on, make sure you get those nominations in, and I will do my best to remind you to do so. It will be a long year ahead so I am hoping we can nominate more cards in than last year which will lead to more fun at the end of this.

Hoping more will join in on nominating also.

Have a great Friday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Did You Miss Me?

 *coffee in left hand, pain meds in front, takes a sip, takes pain meds, begins to write*

Hey! Did you miss me? I hope so! I should be back a little more as things have slowed down a little but will be picking up more soon. I will try to fit posts in between.

Here are some things to recap the past few weeks I have been MIA.

 

There has been plenty of coffee. Plenty. I picked up one of these Dunkin' iced buckets for a friend and strapped it into my front seat. This was before surgery and was also the last bucket available. I really wanted one just for my collection but maybe next time....if there is one.

For the first time ever, I have grown Lupin and a good amount of it spread across two flower beds. Hopefully the seeds will fall and more will appear next year when I can give my garden more love.

 

I went and got my shoulder fixed. Mild tear in the labrum, tendonitis of the rotator cuff and something with my bicep where they had to unattached and reattached it. I have a long summer ahead of rehab and can't do much for three months. Hopefully I will be at 100% by the time basketball season starts.

 

I took two summer classes I found to be fun, but also challenging when you can't move that well. I took Drawing 1-I can't draw but here is an example of a charcoal piece I did so be nice-and Creative Writing which has been a lot of fun, but once again a bit challenging to type since I only have one arm that can move around well. Though the last couple of days, especially today I have been able to move it more.

And the final thing I haven't mentioned yet is HOW ABOUT THOSE KNICKS!!! I will show off how I celebrated that impressive victory as well.

I hope you all have been doing well. More card posts to come this week as I had some drafts prepped and ready to go before I went full surgery.

Have a cup with me this morning!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Card #1,000 Of 2026 Has Arrived

*sits down with a fresh cup*

*takes a sip*

After I did my last post in this series with Card #600, I decided since my milestones are coming a little faster recently than not, that it was time I stretched out these celebrations a little instead of every 100th card. Now, it will be every 500th card.

This is why we have fast forwarded to Card #1,000 on the year.

I still can't believe I am already at this level and more. Of course it helps my numbers when I acquire such huge mail days from blog reader Grady M which is where I counted Card #1,000 from.

 

Which happens to be this 2026 Topps Stars Of The MLB Aaron Judge.

I have got to be honest with this insert line; I feel Topps has beaten this one down to the ground. They are overproduced and the design is lazily improved one year to the next. This years and last years are so similar you really have to look to notice the very slight difference.

I think it's time to put an end to these after this year.

Let me know in comments what you think!

*takes a sip, feels like maybe a soapbox rant needs to happen to rid the products of these*

*forgets about it and continues with cup of coffee*

Before I finish up this post, I wanted to share my grades from the second semester. Keep in mind, I have never been to college before, haven't been to school in general in 25 years, and this is college at age 43.

Not too bad! Ignore the heart face, that is one of my summer classes and that hasn't started yet...but very soon.

Which leads me to another part of this post, this could be the last one for a while on here and any of my blogs. Between my always hectic summers now with added schooling and shoulder surgery, this could eat up all of my time.

Plus, I think some down time from blogging is what I and these blogs need so I can refocus and figure out where I want to blog, why and how to move forward with doing so. Right now, all blogs have been lacking in new ideas, views and especially in comments. I feel also my content has taken a hit because of it. Maybe a nice break refresher will be what the doctor ordered.

I hope everyone has a good break and see you when the cup is refilled again.

*takes a final sip*

*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 am glad a few of you have reached out and let me know this is one of your favorite segments on here. I like information such as that.

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. Once again, I sat down and updated my numbers.

 

However, they no longer look like this. I made a tab like the Coffee Break one at the top of the blog where you can now find them. Go check it out! These are the officially updated as of today numbers. I have also removed the PWE trade tab, there was zero interest in that and trading in general.

  

3. I did some more serious sorting!!!!

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I have officially broken everything down and have been putting it away slowly as I go. It's been a busy school break, and I have been taking full advantage!

4.I had another huge mail day show up that I had to sort and break down as well. This took some time. This was a donated box of goods from a long time Twitter friend who was just looking to unload some stuff and I said I would take it on. Some of these will make their way to new homes such as the girls' basketball cards that will find the girls in the fall/winter.

5. I have commented on other blogs, replied to comments on here and have taken a few pictures for future posts so I will be ready.

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 Saturday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*