New Stadium

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Blue Jays - Dave Stieb (yeah, it's a stretch)

What?

[HahnSolo]

Is the stadium in Minny going to be connected at all to the downtown SkyWalk? I know the Target Center is, but the Metrodome wasn't. And the new stadium is right near the Target Center. The SkyWalk rocks. You can leave your hotel to go to a T-Wolves game a mile away and never throw on a jacket.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Vince Coleman Firecracker wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think Long Island City would have worked nicely. LIC is a little too far north to get the good parts of the skyline in without, as JCL said, having the batters face the sun (although you could market that as a pitcher's park, right?), but you could get a nice view of the 59th street bridge and you'd be a short walk to the incredible Gantry state park and the nice restaurants around the Vernon-Jackson stop. Plus, the LIE is right there.

The Lunchies got married at that park.

Nice restaurants? Hmmm... Tournesal is nice... then... Waterfront Crabhouse? Jackson Ave. Steakhouse? Manettas?

[Benjamin Grimm]

The 59th Street Bridge would have been a fabulous backdrop to a baseball stadium.

[ashie62]

Randall's Island is waterfront property

[Frayed Knot]

So is Rikers Island

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Angels - Garret Anderson? Tim Salmon?? Brian Downing???

He's forgetting Jim Fergosi, who must have been an incredible player for the Angels because we traded Nolan Ryan for him!

[MFS62]

And since the Mets will be playing in San Juan this summer, let me point out that outside Hiram Bithorn Stadium is a great statue of Roberto Clemente. (I saw it on a trip there)

A statue of a batter is probably easier than a pitcher.
You can show a batter in his stance.
What position should a pitcher be in? His windup?

Later

[Willets Point]

A statue of a pitcher can stare at you intimidatingly, like this statue of Cy Young in Boston.

[batmagadanleadoff]

MFS62 wrote: A statue of a batter is probably easier than a pitcher. You can show a batter in his stance. What position should a pitcher be in? His windup?

[MFS62]

Thanks, folks.
That statue of Spahnie is what I had envisioned as a pitcher's pose.


Later

[ashie62]

Willets Point wrote: A statue of a pitcher can stare at you intimidatingly, like this statue of Cy Young in Boston.

Looks like a..uh..Lawn Jockey

[Valadius]

Willets Point wrote: A statue of a pitcher can stare at you intimidatingly, like this statue of Cy Young in Boston.

I wasn't aware that Doctor Doom played baseball.

[batmagadanleadoff]

MFS62 wrote: A statue of a batter is probably easier than a pitcher. You can show a batter in his stance. What position should a pitcher be in? His windup?

I'd suppose that any pitcher that was once good enough to now merit a statue has developed a uniquely iconic image or pose of himself, suitable for preservation.







For fun, try and find an image of Tom Seaver depicting how you would like (here comes an assumption) his statue to appear.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Knee on the ground, chest out, following through on the delivery.

Something like this is very Seaver-y to me



Strawberry awaiting the pitch with his right knee curled back.

Hernandez crouched in the fielding position.

Bobby Valentine in disguise.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Guest Swan Swan H]

This one would be cool:



But if they could capture the youth and promise in this image it would be sublime:

[Valadius]

[batmagadanleadoff]

This innovative Walter Johnson statue attempts to capture the HOF sidearmer's movement in a sort of frame-by-frame effect.
Many fans think that the statue is grotesque ... creepy.

It does have a gargoyle-like quality to it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah it is kinda weird. They might have done better with three statues.

[Guest Edgy DC]

There's another one of Frank Howard.



Those statues may one day be classic. For now, disturbing.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: There's another one of Frank Howard. Those statues may one day be classic. For now, disturbing.

Frank Howard might've been the only player of his day capable of swinging three or four bats simultaneously.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I thought he was using a garden trellis.

[soupcan]

It looks like they are playing baseball in the La Brea Tar Pits.

[Valadius]

I wasn't aware that Flint Marko played baseball.

[Willets Point]

I didn't realize there was a competitive advantage for a pitcher to have a zombie arm exploding out of his chest. The Mets need a voodo witch doctor on their staff.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Gibson and Marichal statues are awesome by the way.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Gibson statue almost defies physics. I almost get the feeling a single adult man could snap it. Is the source photo a baseball card?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The Nationals' statues look like the same artists who created the statues at Comerica Park in Detroit. I'll find a shot of the Prince Hal Newhouser statue there.

Personally, I don't like that style.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Here you go!