Saturday, June 6, 2026

is it still a thing?

tomorrow is june 7, or 6/7. last year, that was a big deal for some reason. reels of people losing their minds over references to "67" were all over the place. i am too old to understand, but to me, 67 means "garvey-yeager".

heres a 2025 panini national treasures steve garvey timeless talents autographed card
that shows his uniform number, and here's a 2024 topps heritage 50th anniversary buyback of steve yeager's 1975 topps card
that, unfortunately, does not show his number 7.

both cards were new to my collection late last year. here's the back of the garvey card
showing panini spending no time with the reverse sides of these cards.

i wonder if there were a brief spike in the value of cards like seth lugo's 2025 topps cards (this is his topps chrome refractor parallel)
given the 67 hype. doubtful, but stranger things have happened.

5 comments:

  1. Mercifully, I think it's finally on it's deathbed.

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  2. Parent here: 6-7 is still going strong in middle school but is now being used as in place of ironic "dad jokes"

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  3. Thank goodness June 7th falls on Sunday. Although it's died down among the students at my site, I still hear it six or seven times a week.

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  4. I think my kids are the last ones keeping it alive, even my 7-year-old nephew tells them it's dead but they're still hanging on.

    Doesn't mean anything - it's the Seinfeld of memes (a meme about nothing). Originally popular just because it would get a reaction from adults who thought it meant something.

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