LowBallin

Are you having trouble affording to stay alive in the sport card hobby? Can you add cards as much as you were once able to? Does overpaying for something that should be cheaper frustrate you? Do you dread it when your wife finds your credit card bill before you do?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, there may be a solution for you. It's called LowBallin.

With LowBallin, you will be able to feel like a collector again.

Symptoms of LowBallin include, being able to afford cards, pay the prices you want to, find money in your wallet, making your wife happy by having extra money for her, and finding that joy in adding that long sought after PC cards.

 

"I can add 1/1 cards to my collection and pay the price I want to pay for it."- Matt (not a paid actor portrayal).

Start LowBallin today. 

Ask your fellow Coffee Card Specialist about LowBallin and start to feel like a collector again.

Haunted Hits

Today is Friday The 13th, and for those of you that celebrate by staying at a camp by Crystal Lake and leaving out machetes and axes the night before for Jason Vorhees to use today, hope you can survive the day.

All I ask from Jason first is letting me enjoy my morning cup. Then let me run and scream like I saw a mouse, yes I am afraid of mice, away from him until I trip over something from old age and fall to the ground unable to get up and save myself other than hitting my life alert button (I don't have one yet but we all know its coming).

*takes a sip of hot coffee*

For everyone else, Friday The 13th may have different meanings. Such as avoiding your superstitions for the day or just ignoring the fact that it's Friday The 13th and go on with their work day. Or maybe throwing some raging party if you are young.

However you react to the day, just react however you want.

For me, I will be sharing off a "scary" card on this blog to commemorate a "scary" day.

 

This is a 2025 Wild Card Haunted Hits Eli Manning. It's a parallel of some form and is numbered to 9. It's so hard to figure out the parallels in Leaf products since there are so, so many of them.

I know many people don't like Leaf/Wild Card products, but I think the creativity they use is appreciated. Basically the same kind of creativity we may have seen in the 90's.

Well, that's it for today. Just a short post for the short period of time I have.

In comments, let me know which of the Friday The 13th movies were your favorite or any comments on Leaf/Wild Card products like this one.

Have a safe Friday.

*takes a sip, looks around safe from danger. Jason must have listened for now*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Counting It Down

Coffee is hot, cards are even hotter. 

I have a mail day from blog reader Oren to show off from our latest trade, so, let's do some Cards Over Coffee so I can show it off.

*takes a sip*

We all like countdowns. 

Whether that's a countdown to launch for a spaceship, a countdown til you retire (I bet most people now-a-days don't count this down because nobody can afford to retire), a Top 20 music countdown, maybe a countdown to some big life event such as a wedding or family vacation, or maybe everyone's favorite, a sport card mail day countdown.

Today, I am doing a countdown of my favorite cards in my trade with Oren.

12.

11.

Wild Card created Chrome before Chrome was Chrome. Imagine if these had refractor parallels?!!?

10:

 

Brian Griese Finest Rookie. Griese was one of those sought after rookies in the 1998 class along with Ryan Leaf and of course Peyton Manning.

9.

Topps Chrome inserts whether they are refractors or not, just look good.

8.

7.

 

7 and 8 are set needs. This set had different levels to chase. There was the green base level, the next level was blue and the top was red. I think the reds were a little tougher to chase. Each pack also only came with only one red or one blue.

6.

 

Flair Wave Of The Future design got better by the years. This is probably the weakest design, but I love the blue on it.

5.

Dufex. That's all.

4.

I rank Plax up there as one of my all-time favorite Giants despite not having a long tenure with them. He is teh one that helped create Eli's career and in his early years with the Giants was pretty much unstoppable. Go ahead and YouTube him.

3.

I think a lot of Giants fans forgot what Daniel Jones was like his first year with the Giants. He led a huge comeback in his very first start and made some incredible throws his rookie year. Yes, the mistakes especially the fumbles were there but look at what Coach Daboll did his first year with him. I am still hoping he has a future with the Giants, though I have a feeling his time will end soon.

2.

 

1.

 

Are these really 2 and 1. More like 1A and 1B. I gave the slight edge to Dorsey because he was a Giant and I think the design is slightly better. But, Topps Chrome refractors in the 90's will always trump all. These cards are just stunning and make me want to set chase them both.

Well there you have it. My countdown.

Let me know if you would have made an changes to this.

In the meantime, thanks again to Oren for yet another awesome trade and you guys enjoy your coffee and cards.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Wild Card Is Back!

*takes a sip, takes a bite of a delicious carrot muffin. I know it sounds odd, but it's like eating unfrosted carrot cake in muffin form and it's amazing. First time I have ever tried these.*

I have said before and I will say it again, the 90's for me were the best era of collecting. I am not talking 90-93, I am talking 94, especially 95-99 in those terms. Those cards, especially inserts, are still some of the most sought out cards today.

So when companies bring back old product names like Panini has with Donruss brands and Upper Deck has with Fleer/Skybox, I give them a try hoping to relive what once was.

Most of the time, those all fall flat since you can't remake what once was. So when I saw that Wild Card football had returned I was curious. Would there be a million stripe parallels? Great photography? Fun inserts?

I had to get my answers, so when I went to Walmart last Tuesday, I caught a blaster box of it on the shelf and picked it up for $23.

Before I opened it up, I knew already that it wasn't licensed by the teams or collegiate league and would be similar to Sage Or Leaf.

*takes a sip, begins to rip*

In each blaster box of 2021 Wild Card Matte, there are 4 packs of 10 cards. You can also find 2 blaster box exclusives per box.

 

The side of the box gives you a sneak peek of what kind of subsets, or as I would call them, inserts you will find.

Once again the definition of a subset is a set within the base set. Inserts are separate looking cards from the base set with different numbering such as X12 as opposed to the base set number of 125.

One of the first cards I found was one of the first I wanted in Kadarius Toney. I will say I found the base cards a little lacking. Not much action photography and it's a plain white background.

The back of the card was statistic free and only had one sentence about the player. The base cards all have a MBC-numbering.

Here are some of the other key players I found,

Now onto what I found for my inserts.

Weekend Warrior

X-Plode

X-Plode Gold

X-Plode....I don't know....red? Though those are numbered.

 

Rookie Heat (which is by far the best looking insert of the group)

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

The product wasn't overly exciting, but, I will say comparing it to Leaf and Sage, it wins. The added foil inserts takes the victory over the other two unlicensed products.

Upon doing research on this product, I see they do offer the Stripe parallels for the base card set but you have to buy the Mega Box version to find them.

PARALLEL CARDS: 5-Stripe /50, 10-Stripe /30, 20-Stripe /18, 50-Stripe /10, 100-Stripe /7, 1,000-Stripe /5.

CHASE PARALLELS: 5-Stripe /10, 10-Stripe /5, 20-Stripe /4, 50-Stripe /3, 100-Stripe /2, 1,000-Stripe 1/1.

Also during my research I did see they offer the big named autographs in this product as well such as Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Trey Lance, etc. Which are hobby box offerings.

In comments, let me know your thoughts on these "bring back" products that companies are offering. What has been your favorite one so far? Also, your thoughts on Wild Card is also welcomed.

Hope everyone has a great Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*