RIP Tom Seaver, 1944-2020

[batmagadanleadoff]

I know Nancy's livid about the lack of a Seaver statue at Citi Field. She's been quoted to that effect.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm sorry, but Nancy seems to be a bit of a Karen. I've had that impression for a long time now.

[G-Fafif]

Karenism in defense of Seaver is no vice.

[G-Fafif]

[Edgy MD]

Seaver Benedictions



Gary Carter



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Ron Darling



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John Franco



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Tom Glavine



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Dwight Gooden



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Al Leiter



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Johan Santana (and Darling redux)



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Darryl Strawberry



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Craig Swan



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David Wright



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[Benjamin Grimm]

No Jordanny Valdespin?

[Edgy MD]

Feel free to add your own.



Now I'm really missing Zvon. Had he been here, he'd have a shot of Seaver and Valdespin hanging out together in about five minutes.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: 50]Seaver Benedictions David Wright [FIMG=400]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/tom-seaver-mets-obit-david-wright-all-star.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1024[/FIMG]

I used that shot of Seaver and Wright in the Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set for 2013 - code name: Wonderama, or Has Anybody here got an Aardsma?.



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Edited October 15, 2020 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

I love putting the positions in the balloons, especially for Valdy.



Also love that you used a vertical orientation for his signature shot.



OE: Did you try to make the balloons proportional to relative appearances the player made at the positions? Because if so, that's pretty brilliant.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I love putting the positions in the balloons, especially for Valdy. Also love that you used a vertical orientation for his signature shot. OE: Did you try to make the balloons proportional to relative appearances the player made at the positions? Because if so, that's pretty brilliant.

Yes! Nice catch. The balloons are not exactly proportional, but the bigger the position balloon, the more games he played at that position, relative to the other position(s).



I had little choice with the Valdy shot but to go sideways or landscape mode.. That photo would've been unworkable in the portrait mode.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I love putting the positions in the balloons, especially for Valdy. Also love that you used a vertical orientation for his signature shot. OE: Did you try to make the balloons proportional to relative appearances the player made at the positions? Because if so, that's pretty brilliant. Yes! Nice catch. The balloons are not exactly proportional, but the bigger the position balloon, the more games he played at that position, relative to the other position(s). I had little choice with the Valdy shot but to go sideways or landscape mode.. That photo would've been unworkable in the portrait mode.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wonders never cease at Typewriter Chewing Gum

[Edgy MD]

I made an observation about the design of the Cy Young Award, and frankly, it was hardly the most incisive burst of wit in my social media career. But I made Anne Seaver laugh, and I feel about eight feet tall right now.



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You all have permission to share this triumph with me, by association.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Anne was probably creeped out as a child by having three of those things around the house!

[Edgy MD]

Flashing back to http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2014/11/17/seaver-at-seventy/Seaver at 70.

[G-Fafif]

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2020/11/17/a-rainy-goodbye/Would've been 76 today.

[G-Fafif]

Tom gets a https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-Baseball-Greats-Those-Lost/dp/1547856513/ref=zg_bsnr_16315_18?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BAHPZYBV7VMY2D9DKDK6posthumous magazine cover from a title that is usually no longer with us.

[Edgy MD]

It's a little strange to see 1983 Seaver presented as the gold standard.



Oddly enough, though, it more than works.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Doesn't work for me. When I saw that cover, the first thing I thought was "that picture 's from the wrong year".

[batmagadanleadoff]

The MLB channel's got some Seaver programming this afternoon beginning at 1:30. Studio 42 with Bob Costas, then two games: Seaver's no-hitter and his 300th win. Hours and hours and hours of programming from his peak years as a Met.

[kcmets]

Thanks for the DVR heads up.



I can't sit through the games but recording the interview fer shure.

[G-Fafif]

At 8 PM MLBN debuts a doc, “Icons Lost,” saluting the six HOFers who died in 2020.

[G-Fafif]

Preview...

[kcmets]

I finally watched the Costas 2012 interview this morning. Great stuff, and ya barely

felt Costas was there in The Franchise's glowing shadow - a plus for me.



Didn't delete, definitely will watch again.

[G-Fafif]

[batmagadanleadoff]

Hoping eff 'n jeff don't cheap it up on the inevitable Seaver memorial patch, but they'll probably get that guy who never went to art school to do it, like all the others, to save money, and we'll end up with some stupid patch like the script "Rusty" patch or something totally uninspired like the "Kid" in home plate patch. Watch this space. When the Mets get around to the Seaver memorial uniform patch, the team should wear it for about a full calendar year, through the one-year anniversary of Seaver's death, instead of for just the few weeks remaining in this season.

bump.



If that's the actual 2021 patch, it's got color, unlike the 2020 memorial patch.

[Lefty Specialist]

https://twitter.com/mets/status/1366400663337508869?s=21https://twitter.com/mets/status/1366400663337508869?s=21

And that's doing it the right way.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lefty Specialist wrote: https://twitter.com/mets/status/1366400663337508869?s=21https://twitter.com/mets/status/1366400663337508869?s=21 And that's doing it the right way.

Last year's Seaver memorial patch.







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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Big improvement.



(giving em a pass for not being too macabe in having prepped something for an immediate rollout last season even if it was foreseeable + covid probably affected seamstresses). But that's an excellent patch they will wear this year.

[whippoorwill]

Love it