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 Topps Holiday Baseball Mega Box

Here is Box #3 in this series. Before I begin with this one, I want to mention I kept the other holiday mega box sealed. I have been collecting sealed holiday boxes for a few years now and will show them off as my Christmas post this year.

I don't know why I am, but, wanted to.

 

Today's box is my way of continuing to show off of retail wax that I got in the 9-card lot of autograph Daniel Jones cards I traded away. If you missed that, here is the ARTICLE.

I started with the football boxes and now moved to baseball saving basketball Value Hanger Pack for last.

Without further ado, let's start to rip and take a sip with these highlights,  

Before I show off the highlights, I want to point out that these Mega Boxes no long guarantee an autograph or relic card. For $29.99 a box, you want that. What used to be a good deal is no longer that on these. It's typically what Fanatics has been doing with Topps products so far.

Rant over, now the highlights.

My ornament pull. I like this years design.

Base card design. It feels recycled to me.

Some silver parallels,

Blue? I don't know a lot about this years product.

First short print find,

Jazz Gingerbread cookie. Kinda lame parallel/Sp.

These look good!

But, not as good as having holiday chrome!! What do you bet they will release a Topps Holiday Chrome next year. Mark my words and bookmark this post!

Final Sp,

 

Mike Trout. Remember when he was hobby relevant?

Well not too much there to get excited about. I do like the Trout Sp, the chrome card and ornament, but outside of that, not much in here. I miss finding a hit per box.

Alright, we have one Coffee Break left in this trade coming up tomorrow.

Hopefully it ends on a good note since the first three breaks were not that great.

We will see on that.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Worth The Year Wait

I have a circle of friends who I consider to be my top traders in the hobby which are the ones that I trade with most.

I also know some of them can't always mail right away, but I know when they do and when I get it, the wait will be worth it.

Just like my latest trade with @90snichefootballcard on Twitter. Bryan and I have been trading for years, roughly ten, and every time I get a mail day from him, it's incredible.

So, this one may have taken roughly a year, but it was so worth it.

Just wait and see.

*takes a sip of freshly brewed brew*

I won't be posting all of this remarkable mail day on here, you will have to check the rest out on Big Blue Cardboard so if you aren't following that blog yet, do so.

But here is what I will be sharing,

Bryan jammed packed this box with all of the goodies. There are actually more cards in here than it looks, I won't be posting them all because of this and just pulled out some for both blogs.

I have been wanting this Judge card as he is walking among the "happy little trees" and I really think he is actually a giant among them. I really, really want the Griffey like this as well. Do you have one? Let me know!!

Never wrong with getting a Judge refractor.

He is the ringleader of the Bomb Squad this year sending out bombs all over the ballparks.

One of my favorite insert designs over the years was Unleashed. For a while I was trying to chase the entire set for a variety of years, I gave that up but still have the ones I collected and will always take more in. I simply learned you can't collect it all.

I am not sure what they call this parallel, but I am digging it.

Panini should take note on how Topps still uses game used jerseys in their products and not this jersey wasn't worn by anyone at any time at any place in particular and was just printed off the presses. Sorry, it had to be said.

The next four cards I found exceptional.

   

A fun holiday chase. I wonder if there are more parallels in the run. I feel like it needs to be finished now. Either way, these make a great addition to my holiday PC.

And finally, for the part of the mail day I am posting on here, at the bottom of the box were two Gold Rush envelopes.

Before I show those off, I need some coffee.

*takes a sip*

The first autograph I thought about showing off on Big Blue Cardboard but decided just to keep it here to make it easier on me.

Joe Morris the 5'7 beast who helped the Giants win Super Bowl XXI.

  

Goose Gossage was in the other envelope. He has one of the nicest Yankee signatures other than Mariano Rivera (still need his).

Thanks Bryan!

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

This mail day was sort of like Christmas when it arrived since it took awhile, but if I can get one of these every year, once again wait until you see the series of posts on Big Blue Cardboard, it was well worth the year wait.

Have a great day everyone.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

Layered Part 4

Before I start on the finale to my mail day from Jon, let's do some catching up.

Recent posts on Sport Card Collectors and here were already drafted up and scheduled earlier last week so I haven't "live" blogged in any of those posts.

To sum it up, we played a basketball game Wednesday night and won 22-8, two games on Saturday won 27-20 in the first game (this half of the teams first win), 20-15 in the second game with the other half of the team. Sunday, I came down with the flu and just recovering today. My household has been saturated with sickness with flu, pneumonia, strep throat, and stomach bug in the past two weeks. I have washed my hands to the point where some bones might be showing. At least the warm coffee helps.

Also, I know some of you have contacted me via email and on Twitter and I haven't responded yet, hopefully soon I will!

*takes a sip*

Now onto something that doesn't make me sick. This on-going mail day from Jon from A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts. Since today's post is so saturated with pictures of refractors, I am going to just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Take a minute, go grab a warm cup and sit down, scroll slowly and soak in all of the shiny-love.

You may now begin.

 

I just sipped and scrolled along with you. It has me smiling all over again.

Not sure thank you is enough Jon for your generosity so here are a few ways to say thank you, I'm so grateful, I appreciate it, Much obliged, Cheers, That's So Kind Of You, and I'm Beyond Grateful. Hope this gratitude I had for this mail day shows. These cards will forever be housed here. I will take good care of them for you.

I hope everyone has a great Thursday. Enjoy your cup of brew (or Pepsi or whatever your favorite drink is)

*coffee card blogger out*

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.