Introducing the Mets Yearbook Cover Derby!

[Guest cooby]

It'd prolly be better than the one they come up with!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I just had this idea to publish an "unofficial" Mets Yearbook, loaded with dark matter and satire in the spirit of National Lampoon's high-school yearbook parody.

This is an idea, man.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ceetar wrote: Leaning heavily towards "no one cares enough to leak it"

And no one cares enough to look up from their phones to see if a yearbook or two is
laying around at that concession event yesterday. Might miss a tweet or a snap.

Warped priorities, your generation.

hahaha

[Guest d'Kong76]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I just had this idea to publish an "unofficial" Mets Yearbook, loaded with dark matter and satire in the spirit of National Lampoon's high-school yearbook parody.

Ooooh, can we photoshop Jeff into every picture dressed inappropriately?

[Zvon]

cooby wrote: It'd prolly be better than the one they come up with!

Ha! That didn't occur to me.

I just had this idea to publish an "unofficial" Mets Yearbook, loaded with dark matter and satire in the spirit of National Lampoon's high-school yearbook parody. This is an idea, man.

Sign me up for the graphic department.

Writing is not my strong suit. I have to write a fictional interview with Ray Sadecki concerning the (not so famous yet) Sadecki Spot and I don't know where to begin, how to end, or what to say in the middle. Anyone want to do that for absolutely no remuneration? I can afford to give full credit. My plan is to make a comic/panel type of post for that.

[Frayed Knot]

First thing everyone would need to do would be to go back and check-out (or re-checkout) that Lampoon issue JCL references.
THAT should kick up a few ideas as well as remind you what true satiric humor was like before Nat Lamp became nothing more than a brand name to slap onto mediocre comedies.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My proposed yearbook cover:

[Zvon]

My proposed yearbook cover:

Niiiiice!
And you didn't raise the price! yay!

Well, my work here is done, albeit by someone else.
DIBS ON THE BACK COVER!

[Zvon]

First draft of back cover.
After I did it, it occurred to me that saying something about how the Mets drive us to drink might be more apropos. But the back cover has got to go to something involving beer, right?

Wow, looking at the more recent yearbook back covers it looks like they have steered clear of that custom.
I only had the 1989 and 1990 yearbooks down off the shelf. Just looked at the yearbooks for 2010 and 2011. Those have Mets/Citi Field ads. 2013 is the last I possess and that's an ad for the All Star Game at Citi.

.....nevermind.

[Guest cooby]

Just beer. Awesome!

[G-Fafif]

I don't remember when the broadcasts stopped advertising the yearbook, particularly the opportunity to send a check or money order for a dollar-fifty (including postage and handling) to Shea Stadium, Flushing, N.Y. 11368 (which I did to obtain my first). Bob, Ralph and Lindsey showing it and talking it up made every edition -- with its suitable for framing team picture -- a must have for every baseball library. I doubt I would have made a beeline every year for the concession to get one had I not been so expertly primed to part with my 75 cents or dollar or whatever it rose to as time went by. Though I've dutifully laid down my cash for one every year of my sentient game-going life, they now feel part curio from another age, part orphaned from the entire Met experience. The announcers don't mention them. I don't believe there's any real push to sell them via PA. Like so much of what we are ingrained to look for as baseball fans, the yearbook is one of those things you wouldn't necessarily invent today if it hadn't been invented already.

[Edgy MD]

Wasn't there a 1986 post-season edition? Or is that just a post-season media guide I'm thinking of?

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I just had this idea to publish an "unofficial" Mets Yearbook, loaded with dark matter and satire in the spirit of National Lampoon's high-school yearbook parody. This is an idea, man.

you got like three days. bookmark this for 2019 early March and you can really make strides.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not of the yearbook, I don't think.

In 1969, 1973, and 2015, the World Series program had a Mets-themed cover. (And I assume, one for the Orioles, A's, and Royals for their home games.) In 1986 and 2000, there was a generic MLB cover for all post-season games.

I would have liked to have included the 1969 program cover (below) but that's not a yearbook. Maybe if we ever do a Scorecard Cover Derby.

[G-Fafif]

Coincidence City: I had lunch today with a gentleman whose father's company was responsible for printing the Mets yearbooks during the latter half of their first quarter-century or so. Had several swell stories related to being a kid who occasionally got to meet players and see things in shall we say the classic era of Mets baseball (which is to say when he and I and a number of you were young).

[batmagadanleadoff]

You can get a photo of tbis year's version by searching ebay (2018 mets yearbook). The 2018 version features separate photos of various Mets. No Callaway. Just players. I don't know how to grab those pics on my furshlugginer dumb smartphone.

[Zvon]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

And there it is! Thank you!

This cover will have the unenviable task of going up against the 1962 "Baby Met" yearbook.

[G-Fafif]

I'm impressed they got Jake in his new 'do.

[Benjamin Grimm]

We have our first poll closing. In Round 1.01, the 1989 Revised Edition ousted the 1990 Revised Edition by a vote of 10 to 7. (None of the subsequent polls, to date, have been nearly as close. The second through eighth polls are all heavily lopsided.)

These seven polls are still open for voting. The response so far for 1.07 (1979 vs. 2000) has been a little light. Judging by the vote count, there are probably four or five regular voters who have not yet chimed in.

Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.02 1983 vs 1996
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.03 1977 revised vs 2002
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.04 1970 vs 2010
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.05 1963 vs 2017
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.06 1989 orig. vs 1991 orig.
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.07 1979 vs 2000
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.08 1978 vs 2001



ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Benjamin Grimm]

Round 1.02 has now closed, with 1983 winning an easy 12-5 victory over 1996.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Frayed Knot]

The '96 yearbook gets eliminated only slightly more quickly than the '96 Mets were.

[Benjamin Grimm]

In yet another of what is promising to be a long string of lopsided victories, the 2002 cover has defeated the 1977 revised edition by a score of 13 to 5.

Maybe Joe Torre should have shaved his wrists before the photo was taken. And someone should have told him to close his mouth.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Benjamin Grimm]

The fourth poll of the first round has provided us with our biggest landslide yet, an 18-2 win for the 1970 cover over the cover from 2010.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


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[Guest 41Forever]

Zvon wrote: [fimg=500]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kqoAAOSwiN9avRfP/s-l1600.jpg[/fimg]

Did the Mets wear the pinstripes for home games this spring, or those blue tops? Because the yearbook photos have Frazier, plus de Grom with short hair before they appeared in a game at Citi. Maybe some PhotoShop magic.

[stevejrogers]

Photoshop.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The fifth poll has now closed, and the 1963 cover has defeated the 2017 cover by a vote of 13 to 5.

The following threads are currently open for voting:

Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.06 1989 orig. vs 1991 orig.
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.07 1979 vs 2000
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.08 1978 vs 2001
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.10 1977 original vs 2003
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.11 1987 orig vs 1992 Española
Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.12 1985 vs 1994

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Benjamin Grimm]

Our sixth first-round poll has ended, resulting in a 13-3 victory for the 1991 Original Edition, eliminating the 1989 Original Edition.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Benjamin Grimm]

The 2000 cover has ousted the 1979 cover by a tally of 12 to 3. We have now concluded seven of the 32 first-round polls.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


ELIMINATED:

[Benjamin Grimm]

Today marks the closing of the eighth poll in the first round, meaning we have now established one quarter of the participants in the second round. The string of landslides continues, as 1978 scores an easy 15-2 victory over 2001.

ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO:


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