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Frayed Knot wrote:

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Gsellman to the IL with a fractured rib.


How and when did he do that?!?!?
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Frayed Knot wrote:
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How and when did he do that?!?!?


Throwing a pitch in his last outing.

He doubled over in pain after he released the ball.


That's funny, so did I


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Johnny Lunchbucket Draft Eligible

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Chasen and Chirinos cards look best because of the capital C's.



This is such a subtlely designed collection as compared to 2019 Batman cards I almost think Typewriter Chewing Gum Co. had some kind of massive shakeup in creative.



Signed,

Joe Fonebone



PS: That darnaud card looks like Freddie Freeman though maybe with darnaud's body


Edgy MD FCL Mets

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When you've got Coca-Cola money backing you, you tell the boys in creative to play ball.



Greenway Productions and the estate of Lorenzo Semple, Jr. didn't have that kind of juice.


Johnny Lunchbucket Draft Eligible

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It is Freddy Freeman, unless he loaned dArnaud his batting gloves and a Halloween costume.



If I owned that card would be a rare misprint with big value on the collector's market


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:



PS: That darnaud card looks like Freddie Freeman though maybe with darnaud's body




Hey Fonebone? Where've you been during this furshlugginer lock-down pandemic? We missed you. And we double checked our source materials and it turns out that you're right. Unless Travis d'Arnaud can be in two different places at the same time, it looks like that pesky Met killer and bona-fide superstar Freddie Freeman peskied his way onto Travis's 2020 Coke card.



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Want some definitive proof? Take a look at the uncropped source image below -- specifically, the bottom left of the photo.



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If I owned that card would be a rare misprint with big value on the collector's market


OK. Wanna talk 2020 Coke card misprints and rarities? Good. "Cause I knew you would.



Here's the first AJ Ramos card we made for the Coke set. Ramos was, very briefly, a major league Cub this season -- for like three minutes.



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Shortly after this "Ramos" release, I noticed a name on "Ramos's" glove on the Coke card. I couldn't make out the name but saw that it didn't look anything like "A.J. Ramos". So I googled the Cubs 2020 MLB pitchers list and was able to figure out that the pitcher on the "Ramos" card is Adbert Alzolay. And then, when I set out to make a new Ramos Cubs card, discovered that on the web, there are no images of Ramos as a Cub. So I ended up resorting to some Topps 1970-era chicanery and came up with this Ramos Cubs card, below. Check out the bottom right corner of the card for the telltale homage to old Topps. Now we're talking misprints and rarities.



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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Chasen and Chirinos cards look best because of the capital C's.




Coca-Cola has two capital C's.



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Which Chirinos "C" do you like better?



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Now we're talking rarities.



I was hoping that there'd be a 2020 Met with the initials "C.C." so I could capitalize on those differfent capital C's. (Get it? Capitalize? Capital? hoohah!) Anyways, maybe I'll do a Coke classic card of Choo Choo Coleman to get both of those C's in there on the same card.


Edgy MD wrote:

When you've got Coca-Cola money backing you, you tell the boys in creative to play ball.



Greenway Productions and the estate of Lorenzo Semple, Jr. didn't have that kind of juice.


Man, Edgy knows exactly how this industry works. Goddamn uptight philistine bean-counters all over my ass.


Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

This is such a subtlely designed collection as compared to 2019 Batman cards I almost think Typewriter Chewing Gum Co. had some kind of massive shakeup in creative.



Signed,

Joe Fonebone




I gotta tell you the truth: I absolutely loved those Batman cards. I can't even express how much so. I suppose I realize they're not everyone's cup of tea, but making those cards was extremely pleasurable and satisfying for me. I pretty much stopped posting those cards -- the reason being that about half a year ago, my hard drive crashed. I hadn't backed it up for about six weeks before the crash and everything I did on my PC over those last six weeks was lost. I'm angry with myself for not sufficiently backing it up or even finally buying a new drive or PC because there were obvious signs that my hard drive was failing. And because of this pandemic, I haven't yet set out to fix my drive or to recover the lost data.



And here's the thing, over those six weeks, I was in a phase of frenetic Batman card-making, making them at a prolific pace, and producing wild and wilder cards and a good deal of my favorite BatmanMets stuff. For example, I made a 69Mets of Art Shamsky that was my most meta Batman Card ever. I had toyed with the idea of putting Charles Manson in the "says" box of a 1969BAtmanMets card. Manson, without doubt, was one of the biggest stories of 1969. But I couldn't bring myself to celebrate someone so purely evil. And celebrate, I thought, is what I'd clearly be doing by putting Manson on a card. But in the end, I figured that I could channel that newsworthy story without Manson by putting Sharon Tate in the "says" box, instead. Then I made that card around Quentin Tarantino's love letter to 1969 -- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I made an Al Schmelz Batman card. Al Schmelz ferchrissakes -- that might be the wildest, zaniest Batman card of all of them. All lost.



I started a new subset of Batman cards code-named "You Look Familiar", a few of which I posted.



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Those cards focused on Batman actors of recurring characters who'd appeared on other TV shows of that era. And apropos of our forum friend, Zvon, who passed away recently, I decided to make a subset of these cards based on the 60s TV show - The Man from U*N*C*L*E as a friendly gesture to Zvon, who loved that show. (He loved Batman, too and knowing that, I thought of him often whenever I made those Batman cards). I made about five of those Man from U*N*C*L*E cards but never got to show them to Zvon because of my hard drive crash. Now they're lost permanently unless I can recover them in the future.



Anyways, I'm ending this post abruptly. I'm running out of gas. See ya' later. Fonebone.


Johnny Lunchbucket Draft Eligible

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It's not even a contest, the first C is the far superior one -- but perhaps in Choo-Choo Coleman's case, using them in the proper sequence is the right call. Just one C, go with the Cola over Coke, I say



Love the Ramos error card


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