The most inneresting photos you can find

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I just have to say, day in and day out, I learn more things when reading this forum.

Good discussions, good information and solid opinions on just about everything.

Thanks, guys!

[Guest Edgy DC]

You get Bruce Bochy, you lucky stiff.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Not many Met photos of Bruce Bochy exist but this spooky one is instructive in that:

1) it's pre-mustache, which may have been the condition Bochy arrived to the Mets

2) the lack of the stache highlights Bochy's weird eyelash thing, which apparently came from a chemical in a furniture refinishing store he worked in in high school.

3) The orange helmet he's wearing (or one like it) actually came with him from Houston to NY, since it needed to be custom-made to fit his giant head and the Mets had none in his size. The Mets actually painted that helmet blue and affixed Met graphics to it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/mlb/photo/photogallery/2004mets_fantasycamp2/12.jpgTim Bogar explains something to the wannabees at Mets fantasy camp.

This is interesting because they are LETTING SOME YAHOO TAKE THE FIELD WEARING 41!

My word. I hope neither Brian Bohanon, Bruce Boisclair, nor Danny Boitano would let that happen.

[stevejrogers]

The Ballpark In Arlington has every player in Ranger history, season by season, listed. Brian Bohanon's name on the 1992 roster is listed as such

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

No doubt W. ordered that brick up.

[Guest Iubitul]

The thing I remember most about Bruce Boisclair, other than his long legs and really wide stance, is a picture of him in one of the yearbooks. Next to his picture was the headline copy referring to young stallions, and in my pre-teen head, I said, "Yeah, he does look like a horse".

Why that stayed with me all these years, I have no idea.

[Guest Edgy DC]

What makes that picture inneresting, more so than the ugly arm bands, is that he's apparently swinging an aluminum bat on his Topps card.

He's in home whites. Is that really Shea?

[Guest Iubitul]

Yes - that's Shea with the old ugly colored seats.

As for the bat, I bet that's a weighted bat for the on-deck circle.

Another thing I missed in that picture: All photographers are taught to "Watch the background". The photographer clearly didn't do that here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://www.rndng3rd.com/NYMHall/players/B/Danboi.jpgIf there's something that's not interesting about this Danny Boitano card, I want to know about it. Danny's got a black underbrim, he's got maybe the greatest moustache ever for soaking up the head off of a beer, there's two pairs of coke-bottle glasses, and Lenny Sakata, the first (only?) Japanese-American player in MLB history, has a great gunfighter sneer.

[Centerfield]

Did the Mets have red piping on their uniforms? Or is the color on my computer off?

[Benjamin Grimm]

You're referring to Boisclair's sleeve, I assume?

It looks pretty red to me, too. I have a copy of that card; I'll have to dig it out and see if mine is as red as that one is.

Edgy, I can't see your Danny Boitano image. If you used IMG tags, I think you need to make sure the URL is in quotes.

[metirish]

What I find interesting about this pic is that Danny looks too old to be a future star,he looks cool though.

Did Edgy post a pic of Danny already,I can't see any pic in his last post...

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, I just looked at my 1979 Mets baseball cards and yes, that color is accurate. Bruce Boisclair, Ed Kranepool, Doug Flynn, and many others all had that very red shade of orange on their uniforms. It's kind of a "blood orange."

Good eye, CF.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://www.bostonbaseball.com/graphic/2003Portland2.jpgYeah, sorry, I fixed my image link. And good for Willie Mueller getting a six-game big-league career. That photo says to me, "Wanted in three states."

Not that the two are mutually exclusive.

At left, Boitano contemporary Mark Bomback gets his sunburn on with fellow members of the Boston Men's Baseball League. At least, I think that's our Boom-Boom, if I squint hard enough and mentally dial back his age by 27 years, it looks like the guy on the baseball cards.

[seawolf17]

Bobby Bonilla, just before he was attacked by zombies, immortalized on his 1996 Pinnacle baseball card.

[stevejrogers]

Mike Bordick assisting the FLOTUS in 2001, though apparantly doing the same amount of help that he gave the Mets a year earlier

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think he's checking her out.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Such composites as the one on this 1995 Fleer card of Toby Borland, always give me the notion of a guy smiling confidently, unaware of his doppleganger in the distance getting set to attack him from behind.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The first time I read his signature I thought it said "Pele" but on closer inspection it looks more like "Ball."

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The chain-link fence makes it seem like he's playing in a prison yard.

(On deck: Daryl Boston)

[apmorris]

Met Fan Catches Bond's 756*

[Guest Edgy DC]

Darryl Boston has changed.

[stevejrogers]

I think Mike Bacsik's inneresting photo can be changed

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't have time for centering, fool. Fix it in the program.

[metirish]

Looks like Ken is wearing a mesh cap...also Ken is using his knee to make a dog shadow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good pic.

Ricky Bottalico
Ed Bouchee
Larry Bowa
Ken Boyer
Chad Bradford
Mark Bradley
Darren Bragg
Craig Brazell

[Guest OlerudOwned]

To keep his arm in shape during the offseason, Ricky Bottalico often enters in Under-Ripe Cantelope Toss events.

[stevejrogers]

While we look for Ed Bouchee, getting the Year 2007 New Metsies a chance to say hello


I must say that thing growing under Jon Adkins' chin looks inneresting. Is there a term for these overgrown soul patches?

Sandy Jr
Mosies Alou
Chip Ambres are next in terms of the 2007 crew in between Don Aase and Ed Bouchee.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/ed_bouchee_autograph.jpgOn this 1961 card, Ed Bouchee grins like the cat that ate the canary, concealing a pleasant secret.

The reason I can't show you his 1958 card is because that was the season Ed was caught eating the canary, or, less metaphorically, suspended for exposing himself to underage girls back in 1957 --- about 50 years ago! --- and Topps pulled and destroyed every one of his cards.

The secret, in the end, isn't Ed's, but is rather on Ed, who doesn't yet realize he's paying for his sins by heading to the 1962 Mets.