Mets 2012 Wall Calendar

[bmfc1]

It's time for my annual look at the Mets wall calendar, the one you see at the calendar kiosk at your local mall. It won't be as mocking as usual because for the first time in three years, everybody on the calendar is still on the team or at least on the roster. This will obviously change but it's not like Beltran or F. Rodriguez is there.

http://www.amazon.com/YORK-METS-12X12-WALL-CALENDAR/dp/1436085594/ref=sr_1_114?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316180568&sr=1-114
Niese
Pagan
Thole
Johan
Terry (you know you're a bad team when the manager gets his own month)
Ike
R.A.
Bay
Gee
Murphy
Pelfrey
Wright.

No Jose--maybe they know something.

Edited September 16, 2011 by Guest

[Ceetar]

they went young this year, but I'm shocked they actually put any thought into it. Or was it just dumb luck that Brad Emaus isn't on it?

I'm shocked Reyes isn't there. That's pretty much a gimme and they usually just pick top 12 most popular names and throw 'em up there.

[G-Fafif]

I feel like I've been stared at by Jeff Francoeur all of 2011.

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: I'm shocked Reyes isn't there.

And I'm depressed that Angel Pagan still is.
There's nobody realistically better for CF on the team right now, but still ...

Later

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: I feel like I've been stared at by Jeff Francoeur all of 2011.

I refuse to buy the calendar. Actually, it's so easy to make a calendar of your own, I feel like a semi-ambitious person/blogger could take some of Michael Baron's images, someone's database of Mets birthdays/historical dates and make a pretty kickass calendar on Shutterfly that people would actually covet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I only count eleven months. If that's in sequence, I pick Pelfrey (October) as the guy most likely to be gone before his month comes up.

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I feel like I've been stared at by Jeff Francoeur all of 2011. I refuse to buy the calendar. Actually, it's so easy to make a calendar of your own, I feel like a semi-ambitious person/blogger could take some of Michael Baron's images, someone's database of Mets birthdays/historical dates and make a pretty kickass calendar on Shutterfly that people would actually covet.

i refuse to tell a thoughtful relative who bought it for me that half the guys on there are no longer or soon won't be Mets.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I feel like I've been stared at by Jeff Francoeur all of 2011. I refuse to buy the calendar. Actually, it's so easy to make a calendar of your own, I feel like a semi-ambitious person/blogger could take some of Michael Baron's images, someone's database of Mets birthdays/historical dates and make a pretty kickass calendar on Shutterfly that people would actually covet. i refuse to tell a thoughtful relative who bought it for me that half the guys on there are no longer or soon won't be Mets.

yeah, my, at the time, 12 year old brother bought me one a couple of years ago. And that's why the thing sells; because of people like us that our friends and family know anything that says Mets on it is a good gift.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I feel like I've been stared at by Jeff Francoeur all of 2011. I refuse to buy the calendar. Actually, it's so easy to make a calendar of your own, I feel like a semi-ambitious person/blogger could take some of Michael Baron's images, someone's database of Mets birthdays/historical dates and make a pretty kickass calendar on Shutterfly that people would actually covet. i refuse to tell a thoughtful relative who bought it for me that half the guys on there are no longer or soon won't be Mets.

This year's is hanging on Lunchpail's wall, also a gift from a well-meaning relative. He gets excited every time we turn to a new month, then invariably disappointed when I have to explain Castillo/Francoeur/Santana etc

[batmagadanleadoff]

Is that the Mets official 2012 calendar? Or some licensee's calendar? It's possible that the Mets had no input in the creation of this calendar. By next Spring, there'll be many Mets 2012 calendars on the market.

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Is that the Mets official 2012 calendar? Or some licensee's calendar? It's possible that the Mets had no input in the creation of this calendar. By next Spring, there'll be many Mets 2012 calendars on the market.

It's officially licensed I believe, and I doubt the Mets had any input.

[Frayed Knot]

Right now my description of a NYM calendar is 'Target Practice'

[bmfc1]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I only count eleven months. If that's in sequence, I pick Pelfrey (October) as the guy most likely to be gone before his month comes up.

Amended to include Niese, Mr. January.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So Pelfrey is November? I'd bet a hundred cranes that he'll be an ex-Met well before then.

[seawolf17]

No Reyes? That's REALLY surprising.

[TransMonk]

Is it?

Do we have Paddy Power odds on the Mets' ability to bring him back?