Another SI Cover

[stevejrogers]

Last year


And now, appearing on newsstands everywhere


Sad that Endy's catch probably would have been on the cover if we won Game 7. First cover for all of them as well.

[stevejrogers]

Here is the link to the article

[metirish]

Maine - token white guy on the cover.

[stevejrogers]

I'm dissapointed that again they are not wearing the pinstripes.

I believe this is the last time a Met in pinstripes has been shown on the cover of SI, Straw July 7th 1990

[G-Fafif]

Just skimmed the article. Looks phenomenal. Gary Smith is my favorite SI writer.

This quote is particularly devastating to the historically minded among us (emphases added):

]Game time. Time to watch his guys play. The stars O wooed to New York by traveling to their homes and looking in their eyes rather than negotiating through agents: Beltran, Wagner and, when he returns later this summer from shoulder rehab, Martinez. The surprising contributors that O excavates from other rosters, role players such as outfielder Endy Chavez whom other teams judge by what they can't do but O welcomes for what they can. It's the team that has been lurking in his limbic forebrain since O was a child, the team that he wanted the Mets to be when he sneaked in to root for their more multiethnic foes. "What do you think of when you think of the Mets in their early years?" he asks. "Power pitching and non-athletes. This is the team the Mets were supposed to be back then, the inheritors of the legacy of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Guys who stole bases and hit for power. A true centerfielder. A slick shortstop. Athletes. Guys of different colors and nationalities. "But what happened? George Weiss, a Yankees guy, an American League guy, ran the Mets at the beginning. That's what happened. The National League stood for inclusion. It's where Robinson broke ground for blacks, Clemente for Hispanics. I see the Mets that way. Sure, I knew there'd be criticism about the ethnic makeup of the team. When you're the first Latino G.M., you know it's coming. But I don't care about players' color, religion, heritage or even sexual preference. I care about winning today. I'll go to sleep tonight thinking, How can we make this team better?"

[G-Fafif]

metirish wrote: Maine - token white guy on the cover.

1) I thought the same thing.
2) It doesn't matter an eensy-teensy little bit.

[stevejrogers]

Geez, of course I forget Cangelosi backing into a cover in 1994

[metirish]

G-Fafif wrote: ="metirish"]Maine - token white guy on the cover. 1) I thought the same thing. 2) It doesn't matter an eensy-teensy little bit.

Of course not,I was having a laugh.

[Zvon]

oooooo-kool cover

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Gary Smith is the man. Can't wait to set aside time to read it.

His first job was doing 2-3 sentence high school sports game briefs over the phone at a Philly paper. His editor says "he wrote the shit out of them."

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Who is that behind Willie? Perez?

[Gwreck]

Yes.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Now we know why we've sucked for the last two weeks: SI cover jinx.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Good stuff

]"Omar, c'mon, do you think any rich man would trust a Dominican with his money?" chided Ramon Peña, his old Dominican scouting competitor and pal. "You've got to be dreaming." A rich man would have to look past more than the color of O's skin to let him in the club. He would have to imagine an executive who didn't keep to-do lists, whose desktop was barren of paper, whose expense accounts were filed by emptying months of crumpled receipts from his pocket onto an assistant's desk. To trust a commander who carried no crackling air of authority, whose shoelaces might be untied, who transferred his cellphone from his ear to his mouth and back, as if it were a walkie-talkie, to make sure of the hookup. Know what I'm sayin'? That's what O asked after nearly everything he said. That's what mattered most: that you knew what he was sayin' and he knew what you were sayin', that he was connecting with people, not controlling them. Could rich men and baseball lifers grasp the power of the circle? "It's going to happen," O told Peña.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That article should be required reading for any person in any kind of managerial positon, be it a CEO or a guy in charge of the teen-agers flipping burgers in McDonald's.

There are about a dozen quotes I want to tape to my monitor at work.

And how big is the contrast from what we see in the Bronx?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is this on newstands now? Maybe I'll pick up a copy at the airport on Saturday. It will be a good reading option on the plane. (It's been years since I last held a copy of Sports Illustrated in my hands. I was a subscriber for about 15 years.)

[Frayed Knot]

Should hit stands today

[Guest iramets]

"Know what I'm sayin'? That's what O asked after nearly everything he said"

This is a virtue now? In my experience, it's the song sung by every inarticulate bumbling, mumbling master of the malaprop who's totally insecure (and rightly so) about his communication skills.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't think it's being presented as a virtue. I read it more like a peek into his head, an indication that Omar feels a need to be understood. (I think it's probably, as you say, a sign that he's not all that articulate, but to me it seems like the author is putting a different spin on that.)

[metirish]

Excellent article,could have done without the constant reference to O,I do remember when Alomar mentioned that the Mets should hire a Hispanic liaison ,maybe he was on to something,article is online.

Omar

[Guest Iubitul]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Is this on newstands now? Maybe I'll pick up a copy at the airport on Saturday. It will be a good reading option on the plane. (It's been years since I last held a copy of Sports Illustrated in my hands. I was a subscriber for about 15 years.)

You'll be disappointed - it's like a pamphlet now....

[Benjamin Grimm]

So it's thinner, huh? I guess I can take comfort in the likelihood that it costs more.

[Frayed Knot]

Y'know, one of the things making magazines thinner these days is the lack of advertising pages.
"Old" media vehicles are simply finding it harder to get ads.

[bmfc1]

http://pickmeup.mlblogs.com/pick_me_up_some_mets/2007/06/sports_illustra.html

Tough break for Joe Smith!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I hafta admit I prefer my SI covers to be action photos and not portraits. They used to never run posed shots on the cover. Now they do every week, seems like.

I got nothing against portraits per se; i just prefer action.

[Guest Mr. Zero]

Hexbreaker

[G-Fafif]

="Johnny Dickshot"]I hafta admit I prefer my SI covers to be action photos and not portraits. They used to never run posed shots on the cover. Now they do every week, seems like. I got nothing against portraits per se; i just prefer action.

It's either very uplifting in the "no I in team" sense or a little annoying in that "what, we don't have any superstars?" sense that three of the last four true SI Mets covers were posed groups: The Best Infield Ever, Rip City and now Omar's Master Mix.

I guess it's nice. But I enjoyed Piazza all by himself as The Man in 2000.

[Frayed Knot]

Gary Smith - author of the current SI cover piece - to be on WFAN at 4:25-ish