Typing on the Fringes

[whippoorwill]

Lol I love this Candy-O retrospect!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Another option is to put Ms. Moore on the outfield grass. Yeah, but I specifically didn't want that. I wanted it to look like Moore and Dessens were there together.

Like some freaky old-timey carnival act where he pitches baseballs while she writhes on the grass in a sexually provocative manner.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Maybe the answer lies not with Candy-O, but with Dessens. It's *obvious* you're on the right track with this thing--

it's that you must find the Elmer that, yes, glues this genius inspiration all together, and brings to lfe this magnificent artistic vision, making it into into the gallery-worthy, jaw-droppingly stunning combination of fringe Mets, iconic rock albums, baseball cards, and big pointy tits that we all know it can be! Seek your answer in Elmer, FOR THE LOVE OF ART.

[Edgy MD]

He's not wrong. Putting aside any dividedness over the black jerseys, that white-fronted hat is totally ass, and nobody disagrees with that. How married can you be to that photo? Looking for an alternate Elmer would open up all sorts of possibilities to you.



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Don't let good be the enemy of great.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Using the stadium walls for signage is, for me, the option of last resort. It's the easiest card to make in this set because the available photos that lend themselves to this kind of card are plentiful. Once I did two or three of those kinds, it became boring and for the most part, devoid of any creativity. They look nice enough but they're variations on the same theme. BTDT. I'll do them when I'm stuck, or if there's a specific image that I really wanna include in the set, but for the most part, I'm trying to come up with other ideas. Which isn't that easy because the source photos don't always cooperate. Most of the photos available on the web are game action shots and after you've seen a few of them, they become repetitive. The same exact shots from the same exact angles.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Maybe the answer lies not with Candy-O, but with Dessens. It's *obvious* you're on the right track with this thing-- it's that you must find the Elmer that, yes, glues this genius inspiration all together, and brings to lfe this magnificent artistic vision, making it into into the gallery-worthy, jaw-droppingly stunning combination of fringe Mets, iconic rock albums, baseball cards, and big pointy tits that we all know it can be! Seek your answer in Elmer, FOR THE LOVE OF ART.

Or, you know, it doesn't even have to be Elmer. Which 2010 Met would pair up the best with Candy? Lucas Duda? He seems too shy for her. She might eat him alive and then take all of his money, like Kathy Kersh on Burt Ward. But they look like a good match, at least visually and that's all we're going for here - the visual. The cards don't talk. Jerry Manuel? Jay Horwitz?

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=97015 time=1655917112 user_id=68](It's not really model, but a Vargas Girl illustration, right?)

Well, Vargas used actual models as subjects for his illustrations. In this case, he used Candy Moore. Often confused and conflated with the Candy Moore who played Lucy's daughter in The Lucy Show, this Candy Moore was mostly known for her work as a Vargas model, as a photographic subject on several Rick James record covers, and for her turn as Diedre in the Oscar-spurned 1981 celluloid feature Lunch Wagon.



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Skeezy guy makes fun of skeezy movie! Come for the (really) cheap exploitation! Stay for the Missing Persons cameos!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I love this Typewriter Chewing Gum Rock n Roll set and would literally buy the entire set for real money and frame it and hang it my office, for real. It's the best thing since sliced (Wonder) bread, and a pity we had to wait 12 years to see it.



Signed,

Roger Kaputnik



P.S.: They'd be better if they all included a snippet of a lyric, an album title or quote associated with the rnr property that tied it to the Met or action in baseball, even with a dotted line, like the Turner one, but not be so obvious so as also to reveal the band or album. Would inspire thought and discovery

[Edgy MD]

I understand the redundancy of the walljob. I was just trying to throw out the opportunity of using an alternate photo. I wouldn't presume to suggest my knick-knack card belongs in your set.



Say what you will about the above cards not thrilling you, but you just made a legend out of Nick Evans. A LEGEND!

[Edgy MD]

And yes, I do want these printed on cardboard.

[Fman99]

Yeah these are all fucktacular.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

"Evans eyes the incoming ball like the Nirvana baby reaches for the dangling dollar--they're young, they're trying--but trickery and failure and heroin and suicide may await them both and this is in our own faces and yet clear that Evans' fate as a Fringe Met awaits and that Baby Nirvana is doomed to come of age as an American voter in time for Donald Fucking Trump to be president and all we can do is say 'Oh well. Whatever. Nevermind.'"



--Joe Schlabotnik, Famous Art Critic

[batmagadanleadoff]

This thread's never gonna be the same after it was visited upon by the great carny act of Candy and Elmer. He pitches and she wriggles on the ground beneath him, sexually, tantalizingly. Then Candy mounts Elmer and still fully clothed, dry humps Elmer while he throws perfect strikes on the black every single time. Then, Elmer simulates an orgasm by squirting glue from a bottle of Elmer's Glue. For five dollars, you can follow Candy & Elmer into the big tent where, under dim lights, they repeat their act, but this time, naked. And for real.



Pity the fringe Met that's gotta follow that act. It's like following Jimi Hendrix at Monterey. Talk about an antit-climactic letdown. And to make matters worse, today's fringe Met is pictured on what is perhaps, TCG's most understated card set ever, the 2011 set, code named Come Fly with Me. So whachyouse got on Val Pascucci?





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[Edgy MD]

You can spot a fake rock fan a mile away when somebody mistakes Jimi Hendrix' guitar-burning antics as having occurred at Woodstock, rather than Monterey.



What's lesser known is that his pyrotechnics were a lately conceived initiative of one-upmanship that he came up with as a way of topping Pete Townsend, who had demolished his guitar at the end of The Who's set, two spots earlier.



What's even more lost to history, though, but delightful to those who delight in such things, is that The Grateful Dead did an utterly unmemorable set in between the two heavyweights.



But at least The Dead lived on. The unhappy assignment of following The Experience went to The Mamas & the Papas along with Scott MacKenzie. Some sources say they opened with TM&tP's backing MacKenzie as he sang "(If You're Going to) San Francisco." Other sources say MacKenzie came out at the end and they closed with it.



I'm guessing the latter. I'm sure sharpie knows for sure.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I think that originally, The Who was scheduled to perform right after Jimi. But Townsend was against that, vehemently so, having seen Jimi live many times in England. So I think that they were allowed to flip a coin to determine which of those two acts would go first. The Who won and decided to go on stage sometime before Jimi.

[Edgy MD]

Anyhow, Val Pascucci was a perennial minor league homerun champ, who may or may not have retired with the All-Time minor league record. For all I know, he still has it now. He plowed through multiple organizations, but drank his only big league burgundy during a stretch with the doomed 2004 Expos.



He came over to the Mets playing first and right and a smattering of left and third, but it's no fun waiting for a young wonder like Ike Davis or a superstar like David Wright to get hurt, so he moved on to the Los Angeles system, after which, Wright and Davis got hurt and hurt and hurt.



In a virtual trade, the Mets replaced him as their AAA cleanup hitter by signing the very similar résumé'd Mike Hessman away from LA, but a year away from his friends in New Orleans proved too lonely for Val, and so he returned the next year to re-join them in Buffalo. And because injuries did continue, he got his first big league chance in seven years, hitting a single Met homer, which our own A Boy Named Seo celebrated by singing Val's trademarked fan chant from his days in NPB.



Upon his retirement, he spent several seasons as a minor league batting coach in the Mets system.



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[kcmets]

Edgy MD wrote: The Grateful Dead did an utterly unmemorable set in between the two heavyweights.

Did they ever do a memorable set? Did anyone in attendance ever remember one?

I only saw them once. I think it was after the first World Trade Center bombing and it

took like an hour to get into The Garden. My dead-head friend and I were pretty greased

and gassed. He slept through half the show. I could have, but someone had to be in charge.

I still razz him about that... my only trip on the bus...

[Edgy MD]

I would have no way of knowing.



My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know.

[kcmets]

Followers always boasted that if you went to see them three nights in

a row they'd not play the same song twice. But who would know?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Jon Rauch was tall. Still is, I'm guessing. But what else youse got on Rauch, pictured below on a pair of Lucky Strike Mets 50th anniversary panels from 2012? Use the slider at the bottom of the post for optimum viewing. These babies are wide.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

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I had to split the photos into two posts because the forum software provides only one slider per post, instead of individual sliders for each image.

[batmagadanleadoff]

ROCK & ROLL BONUS!



While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life!



No fringe Met in this post.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

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Jon Rauch was tall. Still is, I'm guessing. But what else youse got on Rauch ....

[Edgy MD]

Sorry to be late to the game.



When Jason Bay smashed into the left field wall trying to corral a deep drive by then-Red Jay Bruce, he was knocked silly by the collision as Bruce circled the bases for an inside-the-park homer.



As Bay was removed from the game and slowly escorted off the field by teammates and trainers, a small but meaningful wave of boos accompanied him, some boobirds joining the chorus slowly as the scene progressed, emboldened by the first wave.



Maybe several Mets stood up for their teammate. Maybe David Wright and R.A. Dickey gathered a throng of writers around their lockers to discourse on how disappointed they were with Mets fans, but the guy I remember was Jon Fucking Rauch going on a Twitter tear later that evening, back when the 140-character limit forecably tempered your tweeting posture, hammering out in a string of four or so tweets how thoughtless and shitty those fans were being.



My other automatic memory of Jon Rauch, besides the hugeness and the neck tats, is that I know that his name is pronounced John ROWSHE, but every time I read it, my mind mentally pronounces it as Jon RAWK, before I mentally correct myself.

[Fman99]

ROCK & ROLL BONUS! While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life! No fringe Met in this post. [FIMG=566]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52170405128_0ce0939630_h.jpg[/FIMG]

I dig this one man

[batmagadanleadoff]

ROCK & ROLL BONUS! While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life! No fringe Met in this post. [FIMG=566]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52170405128_0ce0939630_h.jpg[/FIMG] I dig this one man

That's one of my faves. It came to me in stages. The original source photo had an outfield wall in the background. The wall was in two sections. Originally I had put the front side of the CSN album cover on just one section of the wall. Later on, I remembered that that CSN album was a gatefold cover: it opened up and presented a wide view continuous photograph taking up both the front and back sides of the album cover. So I put that whole gatefold cover in there, but only occupying the left side of the outfield wall, which was sectioned off from the rest of the wall. And the more I stared at that version, the more it looked like CS&N were watching the game from the field itself. So I rearranged the placement of the gatefold album to the current state of the card - with the gatefold album cover obscuring the entire outfield wall. Now it looks like the house is on the field. Cool! I did another card in that same style. I'll post it in a few minutes.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Here ya go.



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[Fman99]

Yeah man another good one. I love that album.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Fman99 post_id=97507 time=1656338665 user_id=86]
Yeah man another good one. I love that album.

[kcmets]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97508 time=1656338760 user_id=68]On the same day that the Mets won the last game of the 1969 World Series.