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I don't know if it's just childhood nostalgia to say "frames > bleeds," but I think frames > bleeds.

The Mona Lisa has a frame. The Tabloid Cover Derby winner has a frame. Shouldn't Wilmer Flores have a frame?


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My favorite set: 1972



My favorite set, pre-Mets: 1956



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The ability to use actual team logos seemed like a breakthrough, but now it seems less exciting than discovering the new year's Topps color-coding (i.e. Mets red, Phillies orange, Cardinals dark blue, Expos green, Pirates light blue, Cubs pink in 1972).


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Topps is showing off the design for the 2018 base set, though a checklist isn't available at this point. The design seems uninspired. The company appears to be in a rut for the last three sets. No Mets cards to display yet.



But this link is fun, showing the designs from 1951 to present.

https://www.cardboardconnection.com/evolution-topps-baseball-cards-1951-2017


I like the little swirly sliding pond thingy around the logo.
I must need new glasses. At first I read his name as **** Frazier. DOH!
And after that speech I just laid on Batmags. Foooor shame.

OE: Are the Skanks using the Mets colors? They better go blue and orange for our boys or I won't buy a single pack.


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You said "sliding pond!" I haven't heard that term since I was a kid. Is it a Long Island thing? I think most people call it a "slide".

I used to wonder why we called it a "sliding pond". Maybe we were just mispronouncing "slide-upon"?


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Benjamin Grimm wrote:
You said "sliding pond!" I haven't heard that term since I was a kid. Is it a Long Island thing? I think most people call it a "slide".

I used to wonder why we called it a "sliding pond". Maybe we were just mispronouncing "slide-upon"?


I don't know. The term just came to mind as I was typing. I did live in Smithtown in the mid 60s, right off 25A.(64-65. Just my luck. During the Worlds Fair. My folks still took us to it at least 3 times. Maaaaan, I loved the 64-65 NYC Worlds Fair. It was like walking into the future).


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Got my first packs of 2018 Topps this weekend. Pulled Conforto, Reyes, Cespedes.

Here's a trend I don't like and it's getting worse. Topps has "short print" variations of a bunch of players. Same card back, but a different photo. Well, this year there are short print variations and super short print variations. So there are three versions of a bunch of the cards.

Dom Smith is one of the three card guys.





As is Rosario:





While Conforto gets two:




As does Cespedes:




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Baseball cards were more fun when nobody ever expected that they'd be worth more than a penny each.


Most definitly true.

Or even in the 80's when we were all finding out that they were more valuable than we imagined. If it wasn't for the 1985 Topps Gooden card, I doubt I get back into the hobby. I didn't sell any that I got (out of packs, well over a dozen), but the fact that I read that card was fetching five bucks right out of the pack made me and my brothers scramble for it like card-mongers. I actually found it rather exciting. None of us had bought more than a pack or two since the late 70's and now we were driving from one candy store to another buying up pack after pack.

One thing that we don't have to deal with, and maybe for the better.
The 85 Topps Gooden: it was a bitch to get a good, clear, nice quality print of that card for some reason. I had approximately 20 of them , and only like 3 or 4 were really great, vivid (not dark), clear prints.

[fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DOmEJ7qw2hVARukEdBpSiadxacnqC8caGUXXkkFz2jM-eTiLwz_ymctv7L2StPm_-XG60o7cYpVnzVRKLChYLUAmAqpiIQUt24e_iY24nul-Enc64qZbakU3GZY3eebcEtCsTQRaWlpYsoPKyJFiTxxx9Is-77KuVlO7rC2BafEA6vP5OwhFfCcbJWVkBLsB3rh50QHP1S0nIzeHwm-fcG9iccV892xZOXH7-63umjdolwHTqkZ_Hl5ADNyVvZfJ19wAt_Ds-lOJo4pgh7TsrQ3oRRr45RjIw-XN07OkWGBCwCXQ6RKl3u22rUWZsaYHylIRnaai49VCzR3xCl19s6gkAjZiNICWwJAtzMg3CbI9NaHBYleuODWcJkUOzvZ8prBuuHwgXdNVKY1O4s2NL5iJ7i9BjmhmAAACInAisb-UhBLolIGjNCE56SxGAQMOkRdo4Z7fKm8iDpLTUQfirgsYDtv597BduEPscPqnha-Q_WJXa3mjAZ3lVQBxcM6KResPe4XIoDaL9n_3dDwchWcljxYyZCqB2jT7982iiZWcgReVeFd7ViR1Ln6d6P8pMOlM6wdFjgxbIy6i2Tw2O8D1Fb2ulxw6qyaUzYml=w531-h796-no[/fimg]

Typical print vs. great print^.


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The Travis card is pretty sweet -- and won't be possible ever again as the nets stretch down to the end of the dugouts.



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The 2018 Topps Heritages are out. Amazin' 1969 style. Surf the web for pics. I usually post lots a pics every year this line debuts, but my internet's been out for a while. Outage problem. Posting from my phone sucks.

Nice Matz card. Amed gets a New Age Performer card. Check 'em out.


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Poking around on the ol' server I found a couple of orphaned checklist
pages some might find interesting/useful:

http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsDonruss81to91.html
http://www.kcmets.com/MetsCardsTopps62to71.html

Other unfinished pages of interest (but with cool images):

http://www.kcmets.com/MetsScorecards.html
http://www.kcmets.com/MetsPublications.html


That's great.

I used to turn the SURF book into a checklist by drawing little check boxes next to the card picture.



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I got a blister box of Topps 2018 standard and Heritage, and a few packs of 2017 Update. Got 9 Mets total, which I consider a pretty good haul. Topps standard doesn't do anything for me. I did get a limited 490/500 1970 World Series card with Brooks Robinson on it, very kool. But I'm not gonna play the Topps short print game. That turns me off.
I'm gonna focus on Heritage, especially because the World Series cards look like this:



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[fimg=300:1ohgprlp]http://i63.tinypic.com/oidfmr.jpg[/fimg:1ohgprlp]

If First Data Field has a Sadecki Spot, this might have been taken there. I love the shot-in-Spring feeling of this card, a la the 1969 set (when they weren't recycling '68 head shots). I love that they have Reyes listed as a third baseman, which is in so many ways wrong (if not wholly inaccurate based on his 2017 deployment), but adds a layer of intrigue. And it's just such a swell pose.

I cropped this from an image that included two other cards on Twitter. One of those cards I want to stare at a lot.


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Also, I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THESE 1983 TOPPS HATS.

https://www.neweracap.com/SPORTS/MLB/Topps-35th-Anniversary/NEW-YORK-METS-TOPPS-35TH-ANNIVERSARY-1983-9FIFTY-SNAPBACK/p/11786270


These reject Houston Oilers hats?



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I don't know what was behind their color choices back in the day. You'd think orange would have made more sense. And the fact that it's red and not orange is the only reason I haven't already ordered one. But:



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I'm a big fan of the Topps Update Series and got my set today.

Some great Mets cards in there, and a mystery. Jason Vargas appears in the second series as a Met on card 530, yet he appears again in the Update Set as card US17. The second series is in a road uniform, and the update in home pinstripes.



I like the rookie cards -- Conlon and Oswalt, Guillorme and Bautista. But Bautista gets a card all by himself, too.

Mesoraco, de Grom as an All-Star, Lagares doing the salt and pepper thing, Jose Bautista, Todd Frazier, Jay Bruce in a cool home plate celebration with Nimmo and Conforto.

Good stuff.


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Kathy Ireland really shows how far we've come with all of these batters wearing body armor to the plate.


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