Santana Illustrated

[G-Fafif]

Johan rocks the SI cover:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/2008/0225.html

Story here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/19/santana0225/

Good of the Mets to get the jinx out of the way last September.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That IS a great cover.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That IS a great cover.

Used to be they needed models in swimsuits to warm up their readers in February.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I Robinson Canceled my SI subscription a year or so ago and saw recently where not only did they lose Rick Reilly to ESPN the Rag, but they hired Dan Patrick (!?!??) to replace him. Bad to worse for the once proud franchise.

[Guest AG/DC]

G-Fafif wrote: ="Benjamin Grimm"]That IS a great cover. Used to be they needed models in swimsuits to warm up their readers in February.

Those chicks are on the juice.

[nymr83]

Don't be alarmed if Santana sucks in spring training, thats just the SI cover curse doing its thing.

[soupcan]

- I agree, great cover.

- I also think that if this were any of the past 8 or so years, Johan would be wearing a black jersey. Mebbe Lunchables is right and the Mets are signaling a de-emphasis on the black.

[TransMonk]

2007 No Black

2006 Black Caps Only

1999 All Black


Coming back to the pinstripes is nice.

[soupcan]

Fine, I'm a douchebag.

[Guest cooby]

When I got to work today, somebody had taped a little picture of Santana in his Mets hat on my PC; it was from ESPN magazine thoug

[nymr83]

when was the last time they appeared in GRAY though? thats easily my favorite jersey

[stevejrogers]

Check that little guy in the corner!



Full cover treatment:

[Guest KC]

Oh come on, that's not nearly full.

Knight scoring
The Dead End Kids
What's up Doc?
The Mets Against the World
The Amaysin' Mets
Struggle at the Top
Amazin' Mess
Dwight the Great
Pennant Pressure
Are the Mets as Good as Their Record
Brooks Robinson Challenges the Mets
Seaver Freakin' Sportsman of the Freakin' Year

I'm probably missing a couple as well.

[stevejrogers]

Nymr's request was for the grey top unis.

[Guest KC]

Didn't understand. Again.

[Guest AG/DC]

Goofy that he's shown on the mound, but wearing what look like cross trainer shoes instead of baseball cleats.

[G-Fafif]

Johan the first Met as a Met on the cover of SI to not actually take part in a game as a Met since the very first Met SI cover, Ol' Case, March 5, 1962.

[Guest AG/DC]

Two bucks gets you one with the blue top:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TIME-Magazine-1986-Mets-DWIGHT-GOODEN-Doctor-K-No-Label_W0QQitemZ350026556819QQihZ022QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem