Meet the Thirty 2020 Mets

batmagadanleadoff · October 13, 2020

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Dear Typewriter Chewing Gum Co.,

I like the presentation of the names in the new subset, not sure I like the the borders but can you turn these cards over so I can see the back. Also, do these cards scale to standard BB card sizes?

Signed,

Roger Kaputnik

Back 'atcha

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Yes, Roger, these cards scale to standard sized baseball cards. They were designed to standard baseball card specs -- 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Didya try with the light blue right border? They make sense framing a circle

The original design for this set -- code name You live, we give --was based on the logo shown above, including the color scheme, which is an older-school Pepsi color scheme. I generally prefer older school stuff. But after a few cards, I thought that the color scheme wasn't working. The old school Pepsi colors didn't work well with the Mets colors and the newfangled photography, whose colors are more vibrant. Old school Pepsi was more pastel-like and somewhat duller. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't suited for the baseball photos. So after about a dozen cards, we switched to the newer Pepsi colors, which are a much richer red and blue.

batmagadanleadoff · October 15, 2020

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Edgy MD · October 15, 2020

You can use the two halves of Pepsi circular swoosh (in its various incarnations) as your frame.

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Please forgive my sloppy work and lack of text, but you get the idea of what I'm getting at.

batmagadanleadoff · October 15, 2020

I totally get what you're getting at. I like it. I like it a lot. I think it's a great idea. Especially the Matz, or a variation on that one.

Edgy MD · October 15, 2020

Please feel free to run with it.

Edgy MD · October 15, 2020

I'd work harder but I actually have an assignment today, and I don't want to hijack your initiative.

Here are the two sources I used:

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And you're probably already deep in here, but here's a collection:

https://www.logaster.com/blog/pepsi-logo/https://www.logaster.com/blog/pepsi-logo/

batmagadanleadoff · October 21, 2020

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G-Fafif · October 21, 2020

I like that Jake is TCG No. 1.

batmagadanleadoff · October 21, 2020

I like that Jake is TCG No. 1.

I like that you wrote "TCG".

batmagadanleadoff · October 24, 2020

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MFS62 · October 24, 2020

Nice.

Later

batmagadanleadoff · October 24, 2020

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Nice.

Later

MFS62 · October 24, 2020

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Nice.

Later

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Edgy MD · October 24, 2020

I'm lining up for the 2021 Dr. Pepper set.

Benjamin Grimm · October 24, 2020

Here's my vote Welsh's Grape Soda.

batmagadanleadoff · October 26, 2020

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batmagadanleadoff · October 27, 2020

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And watch this space because Typewriter Chewing Gum is going political! We'll be counting down the final days to Election Day with an exciting new set in conjunction with the greatest newspaper in the world.

Code Name: Exquisite Scumbag.

ashie62 · October 27, 2020

These are really good.

I found an unopened 1985 Topps Senior league set with lotsa Mets, even Kong, will try to post

batmagadanleadoff · October 27, 2020

And watch this space because Typewriter Chewing Gum is going political! We'll be counting down the final days to Election Day with an exciting new set in conjunction with the greatest newspaper in the world.

Code Name: Exquisite Scumbag.

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Benjamin Grimm · October 27, 2020

Did Terry actually say that?

batmagadanleadoff · October 27, 2020

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

Did Terry actually say that?

Beats me. If Terry did say that, then I'm trying to figure out who Terry was talking about.

Benjamin Grimm · October 27, 2020

Probably James K. Polk. Terry has always had a bug in his ass about James K. Polk.

batmagadanleadoff · October 27, 2020

I dunno. Is a pre-civil war president modern? (Maybe to Terry.)

G-Fafif · October 27, 2020

Although I'll be available to confirm the Metsiness of various low-profile 2020 Mets in the not too distant amnesiac future, I've really given next to no thought to most of these guys since the seasonette ended. These cards have me all “Franklyn Kilome...oh yeah.”

Edgy MD · October 27, 2020

That's a sweet Kilome card.

Johnny Lunchbucket · October 28, 2020

I was gonna say his perfrormance this season doesn't exactly mark him for sodapop stardom

batmagadanleadoff · October 28, 2020

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I was gonna say his perfrormance this season doesn't exactly mark him for sodapop stardom

Shirley, you jest.

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Technically, these Typewriter rookie star cards are rookie debut cards, and not simply rookie cards. The difference being that every major leaguer has but one rookie debut. But some will have more than one rookie season, having not used up their rookie service time in their debut year. So, for example, Petrerson and Gimenez have used up all of their rookie service time in 2020 and will no longer be considered rookies in MLB's next season, whenever that is. At Typewriter, we card rookie debuts. All of them.

But Sanchez and Kilome (I'm pretty sure, though I haven't formally checked) will still be rookies next season. Still, Sanchez and Kilome will not appear on Typewriter's next batch of rookie star cards because they've already debuted.

And that's how we roll, here at Typewriter.

Oh, and have a happy Exquisite Scumbag day.

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