The placards are terrific

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jizzed in my pants when I saw this this morning.

[metirish]

Sweet, I wonder if Edgy will buy me one.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:

The Mets still don't think that Wayne Garrett is good enough.

If I had my camera with me, I woulda photographed the big 50th Anniversary poster featuring Jose Reyes on the left and Ruben Tejada on the right.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I heard they have an Ike/Keith one too.

I'm glad they finally got around to this.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I heard they have an Ike/Keith one too. I'm glad they finally got around to this.

Give the Mets credit: ever since the de Roulets sold the team, the Mets have allotted a respectable amount of money to commercial poster-size advertising every season.

[stevejrogers]

If only this season was going to be more like the 1969 vintage, rather than the 1962 vintage...

[DocTee]

If only this season was going to be more like the 1969 vintage, rather than the 1962 vintage...

I'll wager that the 2012 Mets win total is closer to that of 1969 than 1962. Maybe not WS champs, but surely not 120 game losers.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So that means the Mets will win more than 70 games.

I think they're pretty likely to do that.

[Edgy MD]

DocTee wrote: If only this season was going to be more like the 1969 vintage, rather than the 1962 vintage... I'll wager that the 2012 Mets win total is closer to that of 1969 than 1962. Maybe not WS champs, but surely not 120 game losers.

Take the bet! Take the bet!

[G-Fafif]

SNY promo in the same vein. Beautiful in so many ways, though two not quite as beautiful things caught my notice:

1) In an effort to paint the Mets in blue and eschew the black (only Niese is seen in black; I saw an alternate cut in which Matt Harvey was used in that spot), the Piazza era exists only in one still photo. And no glimpse of Franco in his HOF year? I'm always fascinated at how history is cut and recut.

2) Gorgeous shot of the last swing at Shea Stadium...but who wants to think how that ended?

Still, Amazin' work. John Stearns, for cryin' out loud.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

My grade: Amazin', just shy of Perfect (which it would be had they done a LITTLE better at matching the action in the photos).

[stevejrogers]

SNY promo in the same vein. Beautiful in so many ways, though two not quite as beautiful things caught my notice: 1) In an effort to paint the Mets in blue and eschew the black (only Niese is seen in black; I saw an alternate cut in which Matt Harvey was used in that spot), the Piazza era exists only in one still photo. And no glimpse of Franco in his HOF year? I'm always fascinated at how history is cut and recut. 2) Gorgeous shot of the last swing at Shea Stadium...but who wants to think how that ended? Still, Amazin' work. John Stearns, for cryin' out loud.

I like the shot of that mural that used to adorn the exposed LF corner ramps.

I find it slightly Soviet-esque that they removed one strip of it early last season, and it took until the offseason to remove the whole darn thing.

[G-Fafif]

SteveJRogers wrote: I find it slightly Soviet-esque that they removed one strip of it early last season, and it took until the offseason to remove the whole darn thing.

Strip (or strips) came off in a winter storm and they were just too thrifty to replace it.

[A Boy Named Seo]

metirish wrote: Sweet, I wonder if Edgy will buy me one.

Made me LOL.

[Vic Sage]

"50 years starts here" -- so that's the angle this year? nostalgia? history? Ok.
It's always best to sell yesterday when its so bleak today.