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[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Here you go!

Grrr had trouble posting..

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

And how lame are the MFYs for putting the blue dividers around the Larson statue?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://www.wezen-ball.com/2010-articles/february/baseballs-best-statues-by-ballpark.html

This site shows -- and ranks -- every statue at every park. Some interesting things around the parks.

[Guest themetfairy]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Knee on the ground, chest out, following through on the delivery. Something like this is very Seaver-y to me

This would be my vote. Gotta have the knee in (or almost in) the dirt.

For Strawberry I'd go for his home run swing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Kauffmans is cute. Got to love a statue that has the aplomb to depict a lady of a certain age showing a little knee.



The [crossout]Rogers Center[/crossout] Skydome one is insane. INSANE.

[Valadius]

Toronto's statue looks like something out of a Ralph Steadman drawing.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

the Cyclones' statue of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese is really nice, too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Knee on the ground, chest out, following through on the delivery. Something like this is very Seaver-y to me Grimm's and JCL's Seaver images are virtually identical captures of Seaver, from different angles. The two photos depict Seaver at practically the same point in his delivery. This one would be cool:

I like Swannie's idea so much that when I buy the Mets, I intend to commission an installation honoring the '69 Mets. I just might erect a clubhouse celebration scene, complete with champagne bubbles floating through the air and encasing Donn Clendenon's head like some foam helmet. Mayor Lindsay will be there and so will Ed Charles, with his million miles wide smile, holding up the "The Amazing Mets" record album of that same year (Buddah Records). I promise that Joan Payson will be showing some knee. That image of Seaver swinging a champagne bottle like it was a microphone in search of an interview will be the centerpiece of my vision.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

When you start raising money to buy the Mets and create that vision, I'll gladly contribute!

The Reds have something along those line in their museum, with members of the Big Red Machine in an on-field celebration. Because we are goofballs, we posed for photos as if we were part of the high-fiving....

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ..with champagne bubbles floating through the air and encasing Donn Clendenon's head like some foam helmet.....

That's what I'm talking about:

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

-- The somewhat unorthodox mid-celebration concept, I love. Clendenon-with-champagne-helmet is the tits. Orosco with flying glove would work for me, too. (Maybe even the Ventura-Pratt moment, post-Grand-Slam-Single?)

I think the key with a Seaver statue is getting his teeth-gritting/sneering mid-motion face right.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

A statue of Seaver, Yogi, Rusty and Willie Mays standing in left field asking fans to stop throwing garbage at Pete Rose after the fight with Buddy could be placed in the parking lot where Shea stood, in the place where they stood.

Turns out the fans were right, just about 15 years too soon...

I think it was those four guys who walked out there, but memory might fail me. I remember one of them brought a bat out there with them

[Valadius]

Instead of a statue of a batter in mid-swing, I propose that whatever hitter we choose to immortalize - whether Strawberry, Piazza, or whomever - they should be posed like this:



Breaking out of the box, much more action and movement to it.

[Guest themetfairy]

Ah but Val, you're so young.

Anyone looks like that breaking out of the box after homering. But Strawberry's swing was truly beautiful to watch. He made it look effortless.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This is the Strawberry statue you want, maybe a little more intense than that even.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh, and you need that rubbery Gooden shot from Sports Illustrated immortalized.

[Valadius]

I kind of like how Cincinnati did their statues - arranged in the middle of a game. I'd love to see Seaver pitching to Piazza with Strawberry at the plate.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nah, if it's good for them, it's good for them.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The champagne-bubble thing-- along with any one of the other, sorta-joyously-awkward celebration concepts-- is, on the other hand, very much ours.

Other possibilities:

[Guest Edgy DC]

Exactly. Even if they don't do that, something original --- insanely original.

And by "insanely," I don't mean that nastiness that Blue Jays have.

[dgwphotography]

[Valadius]

I can picture a Mount Rushmore-type statue/bust-type thing featuring four great Mets managers.

[stevejrogers]

I said it before, I'll say it again, I want THIS to be a statue:



Of course if I had my way that would be life sized, stage included and yes I know how wide it'd be. Plus it would include a built in speaker that would play the 8/15/1965 set list in it's entirety, all 30 minutes, plus other era specific tunes in a constant loop. Now THAT would be sweet!

[G-Fafif]

What about that not quite lifelike statue the Mets installed at second base in 2007? It was so popular, they took it on tour with them last year.

[Ceetar]

My eyes! my eyes! the second-half of the '09-'10 season will be better, i don't need to see recaps from the first.

[Frayed Knot]

I certainly hope that any decision as to which Mets get statues consults the CPF Rankings list.

[Centerfield]

dgwphotography wrote:

Yup.

[Centerfield]

On the other hand, the iconic Piazza is his follow through:



I could only find this shot of it, but I think the statue should reflect the following:

1. Unlike Strawberry, Piazza's swing had no beauty or grace to it. Piazza swung hard, as if he were wielding a ten pound bat and trying to maim an intruder to his home.

2. This picture doesn't really capture it, but the classic Piazza follow-through should have his face in a grimace. Almost as if it hurt to be that good.

3. Ideally, he would be following his ball travel to right field.

Why is there such a paucity of good Piazza pics? Where are the DGW photos now that KCMets doesn't hold them?

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Oh, and you need that rubbery Gooden shot from Sports Illustrated immortalized.

this one, no?


There's so much freaking potential energy in this pose. Like the ball is about to punch a hole through time or something.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I bet he meant this inhuman photo: