Choose your bobble! Mets by the decade

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

David Howard announced that the team would have historical bobble heads this year, one player for each decade starting with Seaver for the 1960s.

So, who are your guesses for the rest of the decades?

I'm guessing:

1970s: Koosman (but Willie Mays would be sweet!)
1980s: Strawberry (though Mookie, Hernandez or Gooden all would be fine choices.)
1990s: Piazza
2000s: Wright

[HahnSolo]

70s: Tug
80s: Straw
90s: Piazza
00s: Wright

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'd guess Piazza for the 00's. Wright isn't exactly historical. But he could be by the time the 00's bobble is made available. Tough decision for the '80's. I'd ordinarily go with Mex, but this year, I'd guess Kid.

[HahnSolo]

Good thinking about Carter.
If not Piazza, then who for the 90s? Alfonzo, Franco, Leiter?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Good point about Wright -- Howard did say "alumni," of which Wright is not. Reyes might be by then.....

I can't believe I forgot about Carter, too. My bad.

Maybe Fonzie is in there somewhere?

[batmagadanleadoff]

HahnSolo wrote: Good thinking about Carter. If not Piazza, then who for the 90s? Alfonzo, Franco, Leiter?

I dunno. Piazza/Wright is a stronger combination than Piazza/any '90s Met. I guess that the three Mets you mentioned (Alfonzo, Leiter, Franco) are the likeliest of the 90's Mets to be given a historical bobble. Maybe Hundley. Personally, I'd like to see an Olerud bobble. Or an Anthony Young. But that's me.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If it was up to me, I'd go:

60's - Throneberry
70's - Theodore
80's - Keith
90's - AY
00's - Madoff -- who might yet turn out to be the biggest hero in Mets history.

[batmagadanleadoff]

HahnSolo wrote: Good thinking about Carter. If not Piazza, then who for the 90s? Alfonzo, Franco, Leiter?

They could do Piazza 90's/Jackie Robinson 00's. They probably wanna do that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: HahnSolo wrote: Good thinking about Carter. If not Piazza, then who for the 90s? Alfonzo, Franco, Leiter? They could do Piazza 90's/Jackie Robinson 00's. They probably wanna do that.

Even odds on whether the unis say Mets or Dodgers.

[metirish]

Is Leiter on good terms with the org?, Franco is back in the fold and he was there for the duration on that decade, it should be him.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

They already did Leiter, Franco and Piazza if I'm not mistaken (and I prolly am)

My guesses will be
Kranepool 60s
Mazzilli 70s
Carter 80s
Alfonzo 90s
Wright 00s

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: They already did Leiter, Franco and Piazza if I'm not mistaken (and I prolly am) My guesses will be Kranepool 60s Mazzilli 70s Carter 80s Alfonzo 90s Wright 00s

Already announced that Seaver will represent the 1960s. Krane might be a good choice for the 1970s!

[Benjamin Grimm]

How about Rusty Staub for the 1970's?

Keith for the 80's. (This is the toughest call.)

It's also hard to decide which decade to put Piazza in. I'd probably have to go with the 00's, which leaves the 90's (an awful decade overall, until the very end) to Fonzie.

[metsmarathon]

bonilla for met o' the 90s

[dgwphotography]

70's: Kranepool
80's: Hernandez
90's: Franco
00's: Piazza

[G-Fafif]

Would have gone with Casey for the '60s. There's a face made for bobbleheads.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Would have gone with Casey for the '60s. There's a face made for bobbleheads.

You could probably reasonably slide Seaver to '70s. But then Seaver wouldn't be first.

[G-Fafif]

The kids love managers.

But with Tom assigned, I'd go...hmmm...

1970s: Tug
1980s: Kid
1990s: Mike
2000s: Jose

Though I still say one per year rather than one per decade.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: Would have gone with Casey for the '60s. There's a face made for bobbleheads.

Exactamundo. They could just shrink the statue they've got in the HoF-- perfect mold.

I like pairs. (Maybe "interacting" with interlocking bases?)

60s: Casey/Throneberry (if they're really going for the spirit of the thing)
70s: Seaver/M. Donald Grant
80s: Carter/Doc
90s: Valentine/Fonzie or Bonilla/Rickey (card-playing, natch)
00s: Beltran/Reyes (we're talking alumni, no?)

[Edgy MD]

MLBS Bobbleheads:

60s: Pearl Bailey
70s: Richard Nixon
80s: Glenn Close
90s: Jerry Seinfeld
Aughts: Chris Rock

[HahnSolo]

Edgy DC wrote: MLBS Bobbleheads: 60s: Pearl Bailey 70s: Richard Nixon 80s: Glenn Close 90s: Jerry Seinfeld Aughts: Chris Rock

At the risk of my wife not talking to me for a month, I would totally buy this complete set.

[TransMonk]

70's: Tug
80's: Doc
90's: Franco
00's: Piazza

[G-Fafif]

Bonus points for the first Mets bobblehead that looks remotely like its subject.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I call for a special Joan Whitney Payson bobble!

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Bonus points for the first Mets bobblehead that looks remotely like its subject.

I know you're talking about the 50thAnn. bobbles, but I nominate the Bob Murphy half of the Kiner/Murph bobble for these bonus points.



I believe that Murph already won the damn bonus points.

[Ceetar]

btw, I tweeted this thread in the hopes to draw in new members. Didn't seem to work.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I call for a special Joan Whitney Payson bobble!

DeRoulet riding a jellybean-pooping Mettle might be more fun/useful.

[Ceetar]

Mets 50th Anniversary Bobblehead Series to feature: Seaver (4/22), Staub (5/26), Hernandez (6/17), Alfonzo (7/21) & Piazza (8/25)

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Ceetar wrote: Mets 50th Anniversary Bobblehead Series to feature: Seaver (4/22), Staub (5/26), Hernandez (6/17), Alfonzo (7/21) & Piazza (8/25)

can't argue with those picks, and the Seaver bobble looks AWESOME!!!