What's Buzzing: Riley Greene, Roki Sasaki, NBA playoffs, 2025 Topps Series 2, MLB's Ineligible List and "cards that have never surfaced."

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1 -- "Cards that have never surfaced"

2 -- Talking Riley Greene

3 -- So, about Roki Sasaki ... 

4 -- Still talking Ineligible List

5 -- Talking 2025 Topps Series 2

6 -- NBA playoffs chatter

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What: 2025 Rolling Stone Jimi Hendrix Keepsake Premiere Edition trading cards
Arrives: June 27, 2025
Box basics: One encased card per pack (six packs per display case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: "On the cover of a Rolling Stone" hits cardboard with one iconic name in play on every single card for this high-end release with all cards on the rarer side, too.

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What: 2025 Topps Dynamic Duals baseball cards
Arrives: May 22
Box basics: One dual-auto card per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: This brand looking at prolific pairings "showcases enticing player combinations featuring top MLB stars both past and present" with some other surprises also in the mix.

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What's Buzzing: Hall of Fame vs. MLB's Ineligible List, Jayson Tatum's injury, NBA playoffs, NBA Draft Lottery reactions and more.

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1 -- Talking the Hall of Fame for deceased Ineligible List players

2 -- NBA Draft Lottery reactions

3 -- Jayson Tatum injury reactions

4 -- NBA playoffs chatter

5 -- An NFL (and beyond) question

6 -- New Bowman breaks are here

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What: 2025 Pulse Stratos Football Heat Seeker Edition football cards
Arrives: July
Box basics: One encased autograph per one-card box (24 boxes per case)
Checklist: See early players list in gallery
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A faster chase -- one auto per box and that's it -- edition of Stratos drops this summer with newly drafted NFL stars as well as legends from the past all among the possible finds.

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What: 2025 Panini Prizm FIFA Club World Cup soccer cards
Arrives: June 25
Box basics: One autograph per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm takes on the FIFA Club World Cup with boxes that will be loaded with parallels and color and with  some of the global game's biggest stars in the mix.

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What: 2025 Leaf Eclectic Professional Bowlers Association cards
Arrives: June
Box basics: Four autos per hobby box (10 per case) or eight autos per jumbo box (eight per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes to the lanes with a bowling debut for Eclectic showcasing the stars of the PBA in an ink-loaded, variety-packed release that includes stars from the past and present.

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What: 2025 Panini Boys Of Summer baseball cards
Arrives: June 25
Box basics: Three autographs and one memorabilia card per eight-card box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This newer baseball brand from Panini America gets a sophomore season as the high-end release "offers an incredible collecting experience with stunning hits, a unique look, and an astonishing array of prospects, Stars and legends" once again.

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What: 2024-25 Panini Select basketball cards
Arrives: June 18 for hobby, June 27 for H2
Box basics: Three autos or memorabilia cards per 12-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case); four packs her H2 box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Select once again hits the court with the same formula -- a tiered base set with plenty of parallels -- but a new rookie class, some new looks and a pair of box formats, too.

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What: 2025 Panini Luminance football cards
Arrives: June 25
Box basics: Three autographs and one memorabilia card per four-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Luminance hits the NFL gridiron for an eighth time with its familiar photo-driven approach and with some new looks, new players and more awaiting collectors.

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What: 2025 Leaf Metal Football Blaster football cards
Arrives: May 2
Box basics: 10 base cards or parallels plus one autographed card per box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal's simpler counterpart arrives with a mix of players on NIL deals, some past stars and even some current names all in one spot.

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Take a minute and make some predictions and sports picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's all over then you get some free cards.

It's always that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday MLB action as well as some Majority Rules questions. Those questions are simple -- whatever gets the most votes is the winning answer -- and we've sprinkled in those along with the traditional picks. The end result is still the same -- whomever has the most correct answers once the dust settles wins free cards.

You have until 1 p.m. on Sunday to get your picks and predictions in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize remains a mystery item.

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How does it work? It's short and simple. Register and you'll get a dozen questions where your answers will be compiled and compared to others. Whomever gets the most correct gets the prize -- or at least a shot at it if there's a tie.

The goal with YourDozen.com? Have a little fun and get free stuff into some of your hands.

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What's Buzzing: New 2025 Bowman breaks, NBA chatter, reactions to upcoming MLB sets and more.

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1 -- New Bowman breaks are here

2 -- Talking MLB swings

3 -- 2025 Bowman collation issues?

4 -- NBA reactions

5 -- Still talking modern-day MLB overproduction ... talking NBA

6 -- Collectors react to Topps Dynasty MLB ... Topps Sterling ... Topps Inception 

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What's Buzzing: Collectors react to upcoming MLB releases, inside a 1985 Topps box, NBA Postseason, Jasson Dominguez and more in this Sunday edition.

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1 -- Collectors react to Topps Dynasty MLB ... Topps Sterling ... Topps Inception 

2 -- Positive results from a 1985 Topps MLB cello box

3 -- Jasson Dominguez had a weekend

4 -- NBA Postseason reactions

5 -- All your MLB chatter is here

6 -- Still talking modern-day MLB overproduction ... talking NBA

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What's Buzzing: MLB and NBA chatter, Cooper Flagg, new MLB pulls, inside NFL packs and more.

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1 -- NBA Postseason reactions

2 -- All your MLB chatter is here

3 -- Cooper Flagg thoughts in advance of the NBA Draft 

4 -- New MLB pulls are here

5 -- Opening NFL packs -- new and old

6 -- Still talking modern-day MLB overproduction ... talking NBA

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What: 2025 Topps Sterling baseball cards
Arrives: June 4
Box basics: Two autographed Relics or one auto Relic and one 1/1 Relic per box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps Sterling once again hits the diamond for a new season with some high-end inclusions and plenty of star power from today's game with 1/1s typically found in every case.

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What: Twin Peaks The Log Lady Chronicles trading cards
Arrives: July 23
Box basics: Three autographs per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This iconic TV franchise hits cardboard once again with a number of notables on autographed cards and a few ways ink can be found in every case of this one, too.

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Shotzi Blackheart takes care of business against then-champ Asuka during a brawl on Raw. (WWE photo)

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It's the end of an era -- for now -- but the moments and the memorabilia remain.

That's how I'd sum up the recent developments in the wresting realm that tie into this fourth chapter of a memorabilia series with a tweaked name -- a tank-driven tangent in my Collecting Game-used series to be more specific. This time, it's once again an item from Shotzi Blackheart, who I collect rather seriously in the traditional realms involving Panini America and Topps cardboard, but this time it comes with a mild bummer attached yet the piece being ironclad authentic and caught on tape.

The bummer part? Well, that's got nothing to do with the item -- Blackheart's five-plus year run with WWE is over as her contract isn't being renewed as of this past weekend. However, that just means she should be able to take her name and her tank anywhere else in the globe (both things pre-date WWE so they should be hers) and get a lot more ring time and add some new stories to her wrestling tales unlike others who have to find a new name that's not a WWE-owned creation. The unique part of this? Well, it's my next-to-last item for this run -- for now -- and it comes from her brief time in WWE with a distinctly different look, one that I call her spikes era. It's from after she was attacked by Bayley who cut off chunks of her trademark long green hair before Blackheart finished the job herself and she began to unravel. This item was from one of the final steps as she joined forces with Charlotte Flair to take on Bayley's group, Damage CTRL, at Survivor Series and exact some revenge.

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What's Buzzing: Babe Ruth memorabilia cards, modern-day overproduction, NBA action, Topps Heritage and 2025 Bowman in this Friday edition.

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1 -- Talking Babe Ruth memorabilia cards

2 -- Thoughts on modern-day overproduction

3 -- NBA action is on their minds

4 -- Heritage delivers pretty well here

5 -- 2025 Bowman arrives ... Thoughts on Bowman Red

6 -- Check out Bowman breaks

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The box: 2022 Donruss Optic UFC trading cards (blaster)
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The box: 2021-22 Panini Prizm Draft Picks basketball cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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The box: 2022 Topps MetaZoo Wilderness Series 1 trading cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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What's Buzzing: 2025 Bowman arrives, talking VeeFriends, new pulls, NBA postseason and more in this Thursday edition.

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1 -- Check out the Bowman breaks

2 -- 2025 Bowman is here ... Reactions to Bowman Red

3 -- Talking VeeFriends

4 -- Some new basketball breaks in there

5 -- Just don't.

6 -- All your NBA postseason chatter and more

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
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Detroit Tigers rookie relief pitcher Chase Lee after making his MLB debut last month. (@DETAuthentics photo)

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You probably don't know his name as he's a 26-year-old rookie in an MLB bullpen with more big-league innings in his five career games than he has big-league baseball cards. That count? Four-plus innings and zero big-league cards -- in other words, nothing Bowman at all before he got the call.

His name is Chase Lee and his nickname is "The Viper" -- that part's pretty big-league, actually -- and he made his MLB debut on April 22 with the Detroit Tigers. That day, he became the 23,429th player in league history, closing out a 2-0 loss to the Padres that was started by Jack Flaherty. Lee walked two and struck out one in just under two innings of work.

Three weeks to the day before that happened during a deep dive of game-used stuff from a major dealer in that realm, I added my latest item for this Collecting Game-used series and I added it for a few reasons -- but especially after I was intrigued by his story. Read this, I'll wait. Lee went from an average shortstop riding the bench on a club team with zero scholarship offers to being a failed walk-on who later figured out how to pitch -- he throws side-armed -- and came back to open tryouts the next year, 2019. That's when he made the Alabama Crimson Tide squad to start a three-year run that finished with a 9-0 college record and a 1.87 ERA and as a sixth-round pick of the Texas Rangers in 2021.

That sounds pretty strong, right? Well, all that was still years ago. Lee's path to Detroit and his first strikeout ball he's holding up top had more than a few twists and turns with a 7-11 record in those last five MiLB seasons with no MLB-approved baseball prospect cards (what we care about most here) but with 249 strikeouts in 182 innings -- that part's pretty big-league, too.

So, what is there to collect? Well, I'm sure somewhere deep in my Crimson Tide stash is a small sample of something from of his few Panini Prizm or Elite Extra Edition cards from way back in 2021 -- he's got cards in those sets and nothing since save for potential MiLB team set cards and game-used memorabilia. So, when I spotted a gamer I opted to break one of my basic rules and dip down into the minors for a game-used piece of his story to join my collection, figuring I had some time to craft this item before his possible call from a new team. Meanwhile, to my surprise, that's already happened. (Here's a newer story about his path and this one is even better.)

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