Pictures From Spring Training 2021

[kcmets]

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[86dreamer]

wow, love that photo!

[kcmets]

A friend of mine posted it on that facebook Remembering Shea page so I

borrowed it kick off the thread.

[86dreamer]

Any idea of the year or who is sitting in the back seat?

[Frayed Knot]

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Any idea of the year or who is sitting in the back seat?

[MFS62]

Ed changed in a car. But Tom Seaver changed in a phone booth.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Havana fell to Castro on January 1st, 1959.



The cab is a 1964 Chevy Bel Air. And in the background is a 1968 Dodge Coronet. So I'd put this picture around 1968 or '69 at the earliest.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm guessing 1969 or '70. I've seen that picture before. In fact, it's part of a series of pictures taken on the same day within a short time of each other, maybe about a half dozen or so, of Mets emerging from cabs to the ballpark. I vaguely recall Tug McGraw in one of those shots. There's an excellent chance I have those shots on some external hard drive, but I'm not in the mood to go searching.

Edited February 20, 2021 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm guessing 1969 or '70. I've seen that picture before. In fact, it's part of a series of pictures taken on the same day within a short time of each other, maybe about a half dozen or so, of Mets emerging from cabs to the ballpark. I vaguely recall Tug McGraw in one of those shots. There's an excellent chance I have those shots on some external hard drive, but I'm not in the mood to go searching.

Here we go! Lefty can tell us the make, model and year of this cab. It's the same scene as the Kranepool shot (see the light blue caddy and the horse trailer in the background of both shots). I'm guessing Jack DiLauro coming out of the front of that cab.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

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I'm guessing 1969 or '70.

[ashie62]

Gentry makes 1969.

[Lefty Specialist]

Rite-Rate was going with the '64 Impala, a step up from the Yellow Cab '64 Bel Air. So Tug and Gary went first class.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That is definitely not Gary Gentry.

[ashie62]

I believe it is. Sure looks like him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Doesn't look like Gentry. Plus, DiLauro wore sideburns with the Mets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

T.C.G. Code Name: Turning over a New Leaf - circa 2018 Jack DiLauro (retro Mets)



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Check out those sideburns!

[ashie62]

Ears, same.



Schnoz,



JACK DiLAURO.

[G-Fafif]

Pictures From Spring Training 2021...

[Edgy MD]

Hey, the Mets got Francisco Lindor!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Syndergaard's looking a lot leaner this Spring.



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[Benjamin Grimm]

He's trying to woo Bauer's wife.

[batmagadanleadoff]

With his shirt on?

[kcmets]

Noah's neck looks a wrestlers who has stopped 'roiding. If anyone tweets that,

leave me out of it!

[Frayed Knot]

Not NYM related but, speaking of looking leaner, I read a blurb the other day where Vladdy Jr claims to be 40-some lbs lighter as compared to last year.

I've not seen before and after shots.



Two thoughts:

a) he needed it

what 22 y/o athlete allows themselves to get 40+ pounds overweight



I guess the idea that they've always gotten away with it to this point gives them less urgency.

Dom to a lesser extent carried extra weight until he decided he better not. Prince Fielder, probably others.

If nothing else it gives them a good entry in the 'Best Shape of My Life' contest seemingly held each Spring

[Fman99]

Did no one post on Francisco Lindor's https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/mets-francisco-lindor-arrives-in-coming-to-america-jacket/homage to Eddie Murphy in "Coming to America"? I showed this to my entire family. Link to the Post includes brief video of him saying a line from the film.



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