Card #600 Of 2026 Has Arrived

It's here!

Card #600 of 2026 is in hand and sitting next to me.

As I said with Card #500, these cards may or may not be something mind blowing.

Today's is a simple Stadium Club base card of Derek Jeter from 2025 Stadium Club.

 

This is my first look at 2025 Stadium Club thanks to my buddy Grady M. The weird thing is that these base cards have gone way downhill. He included a few in the box of cards I got from him, and I feel the photography wasn't like it once was and the base cards are made of toilet paper. What happened to the card stock on these? It's non-existent. But I had a feeling Fanatics would find a way to mess up cards.

Let me know your thoughts on 2025 Stadium Club if you had any in-hand. Would love to hear your thoughts in comments!

Other than that, have a Super Sunday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2025 Topps Archives Baseball Blaster Box

*it's too late for coffee, but, not too late for a post*

As I sit here finishing up my homework for the week, I decided that maybe I had time for a blog post as well.

Especially since family is visiting and playing Boggle with my wife. I refuse to play word games. No Scrabble, no Boggle. I don't have the brain compacity for that.

So, I will blog which is just enough for my brain compacity.

ESPECIALLY WITHOUT COFFEE.

The easiest thing I have to blog about tonight is a blaster box of 2025 Topps Archives Baseball I got for free from a contest win on Twitter from @NavyYardNats.

Let's rip it!

Each blaster box of 2025 Topps Archives baseball comes with 7 packs of 8 cards. Each blaster is roughly $20-$25 depending on where you buy.

There are no guarantees other than 4 exclusive parallels.

*yawns, hears family laughing over a long word that I don't get*

*tries to join in on the fun, but dropped a lame dad joke*

*back to blogging*

Archives is a fun product seeing new and old players in designs you may not have seen them in before.

This year's has 1964, 1996, and 2005.

Here they are,

 

 

 

Now onto the four black parallels,

 

 

(PC card alert)

and finally,

 

Now onto the inserts,

 

Juan Soto All-Star insert

Brookes Lee Boardwalk

Jazz Chisholm Jr Boardwalk

And that was it. Nothing too exciting and to be honest, it was a boring break. Not something I will go back and break again.

Ratings (ratings based on 1-5 🍵)

Design 🍵🍵🍵
Photography 🍵
Inserts: 🍵
Hits N/A
Price 🍵
Value 🍵

Thanks again to @NavyYardNats for the contest box break!

Hope everyone has a good night sleep, that's where I am heading counting down to coffee in the morning.

Let me know your thoughts on this break and product in comments.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Okay, I Lied

Okay, I lied.

I didn't mean to. Well, was it a lie or did I just forget with so much on my mind.

I will let you decide.

But, first, my latest basketball update.

*takes a sip, well a chug, it's been a long week-only Tuesday*

Well, as I told my players, you can't win them all. We fell 22-16 this past Saturday. It was just a sloppy played game by my players and I would probably put that blame on myself more since I tried to install a few things in the ten minutes we had before the game began. 

Lesson learned. That wasn't the time for that.

We trailed by double digits at one point, but at least we closed the gap some by the time the game ended.

As I told my team, there are lessons to be learned with every win and every loss and you can't win them all. We will just look forward to practice and make ourselves better.

That begins Wednesday night before our next game on Saturday.

*takes a motivated sip*

The game wasn't the part I lied about, it was about having finished up my cards from 2025 Christmas.

Buried in  my drafts was my latest yearly Christmas trade with Becketts Cheap Wax Wednesday's writer Shane. Who was once a blogger under the same blog title.

This trade wasn't the typical one for us. We always go big or go home and this was a massively dulled down version of that.

Tiki parallel.

 

Another Tiki parallel.

 

Things heating up some here with two very low numbered Rodney Hamptons that go towards my rainbow chase. The first one is /5 and this one is the /2 card. This is the only one I have seen listed of this.

Still waiting on the Super to be listed.

A new Purple Marvel PMG for my set chase of this as well. The rest are very expensive so I may not be able to add anymore sadly. I really want to do the Doctor Strange one so I can finally finish a set of five off.

Any Napoleon Dynamite fans reading? That's all there really is to say about this card. I now have two of the three characters from the movie with only Uncle Rico missing.

And that was the end of the trade.

Thanks again to Shane for another great one.

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

But, before I close out, *takes another sip*, I wanted to show you the update to my 2024 Topps Chrome Rodney Hampton Chase.

Topps Chrome Sapphire. Still have a few to go! Lost out on the 1/1.

Topps Chrome itself. Just missing the Super 1/1 and the basic red /5.

I hope to finish both of these rainbow chases someday.

Thanks again for checking out my cards and coffee blog. I sure hope you have been sippin' and readin'.

Have a terrific Tuesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2025 Mosaic Football Holiday Box

I was trying to think of another post to do instead of this one today, but with the NFL Playoffs going on and it being the last of my Christmas stuff to post, I said, let's just do it.

So, here we are.

*takes a sip of freshly brewed coffee*

*takes another sip, begins to rip*

 

2025 Mosaic Holiday is a new addition to the Panini lineup. I think they are just creating products at this point to make all of the money they can before their final important license is lost.

Every box comes with one pack of ten cards and costs just under $12. In those ten cards you get one "candy cane" parallel and the box itself has an embedded ornament. Those two things are really the only difference between the product and regular Mosaic.

Here was my embedded ornament,

Chase. Not a bad one to get out of the six.

Now onto the pack rip. Which I only picked out the key cards from the pack to show off.

My first Russ in a Giants uniform card.

This guy played really well to end the season, could be a guy to watch next season.

Plain and boring insert. This isn't the 90's anymore.

And the Candy Cane parallel. These are pretty nice. I wished it had been a better player, but at least the card looks cool. I have actually a few of these since.

That was about all the excitement you get from these. The other cards were all base. No other parallels or inserts.

Other than the Candy Cane parallel, pretty boring/lame product.

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

I have finally finished up my posts for the 2025 Christmas season. Now it will finally be time to move onto this year.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2025 Donruss Football Blaster Box

I mentioned a few posts ago, before the streak of Christmas ones that I hoped you enjoyed, that I got a couple retail surprises for Christmas.

Two of which were Donruss related.

The first one was the Donruss holiday tin that I shared previously, and today is a blaster box that I apparently forgot to save a picture of.

So, picture it. A blaster box......you got that in your mind now.....

Now let's take a sip, so we can rip!

There are 6 packs of 15 cards so you are getting a ton of cards for the price of $27.99. The only problem, about 80 of those are base. There are also no guarantees and since I am never lucky enough to pull a Downtown, I wasn't expecting too much from this break.

Let's see if I was right.

Unlike the tin, I did find some Giants cards for my collection.

It was only two, but that was two more than last time!

I have heard these blasters are tough when it comes to finding the good rookies as they only appear one-per-blaster.

Here was mine. Not too bad. He had a decent season for the team he played on.

Yup, another McCord parallel. If only this was a Giant.

Bo Nix throwback insert.

White Hot Rookies. I need the Dart version of this still to pair with my Red Hot Rookie.

Brett Favre insert.

Rookie Revolution. Shiny...however...looks like literally their product Revolution.

 

Dominators Trevor Lawrence. It's too bad the way their season ended on Sunday. They played so well for a team that was unexpected to win as much as they did.

And that's it. 

It was meh like the last break.

There is one break left to show from my surprise Christmas presents.

Hope you come back and read it.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Ghost Of Christmas Box Part 4

*sits down with a big stack of cards nearby, takes sip, gets ready for a new post on Cards Over Coffee*

I felt like the good version of Scrooge this Christmas season as my mail box was visited by three blogger mail days.

I had the ghost of Christmas Box, the ghost of Christmas Card and the Ghost of Christmas Package.

For today's post, you will be visited by the last ghost, the Ghost Of Christmas Box which was sent by Wes who is famously known for the packages he sends.

And this one was such a whopper, I broke it up into four posts and didn't even come close to covering it all. I had to narrow it down to the like the Top 45ish and leave the rest for your imagination.

Let's keep the momentum flowing!

*takes a sip*

Here we are. The final part. All of the cups of coffee. All of the cards has led us to this ending.

So, let's end it.

First up, some lady relics,

I am not sure how many of these 2008 PopCardz relics are in a set, but I am pretty sure these ones along with the couple I have make a complete set. Unique relic cards of some pop culture icons of that time and some of today. I just hope the relics are authentic.

 

I mentioned in a previous post in this series, but I am a HUGE FAN of the Autograph Silhouette cards in the Panini Country Music product. Look at the cool relic swatches they use!! None of that player worn or employee worn material.

Now to end this post, how about some 1/1's?

(Toomer!!)

(Janoris Jenkins)

(autograph Rodney!)

(regular Rodney!)

And finally the big Whopper of the group....and not the kind that comes with grilled patty and pickles but instead is a 1/1 that comes with a......

 

LAWRENCE TAYLOR AUTOGRAPH!!!

Yeah, I see how stunned you are. I was too.

Try not to spill coffee on yourself before going to work.

*takes a sip trying not to spill some*

Thanks goes out to Wes for another bomb of a mail day. As I said in Part 1, this wasn't even all of the cards or the extra items that he sent. This was just a narrowed down version in order to fit into this amount of posts.

Thanks again for reading and have a magnificent Monday, not a manic one.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*