Who Am I? & The Dedication & Re-creation of Butterball Field

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

lolololol

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: [youtube]leohcvmf8kM[/youtube] If you see a made-up card In the midst of this thread That has a lefty veteran Holdin' a pose Sadecki's Spot Yeah, yeah!

The best way to read this post is with the music playing.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This former and Toppless Met seems to pique Edgy's interest every coupl'a months.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This former Met was a Tiger for a blink of an eye. So where did The Man From Topps find the time to shoot him in a Detroit uniform?

[batmagadanleadoff]

"With these powerful eyeglasses, I can see that one day, I'll be a furshlugginer NY Met".

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

What is a Sadecki Spot and can we discuss it in mixed company?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: What is a Sadecki Spot and can we discuss it in mixed company?

Start reading beginning on page four of this thread.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This former Met was a Tiger for a blink of an eye. So where did The Man From Topps find the time to shoot him in a Detroit uniform?

Haven't you run Bob Miller out here before?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "With these powerful eyeglasses, I can see that one day, I'll be a furshlugginer NY Met".

That's big Frank Howard.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: What is a Sadecki Spot and can we discuss it in mixed company? Start reading beginning on page four of this thread.

I tried that first and still couldn't figure it out.

[Zvon]

It's the thing coming out of Clendenons ass.

[Met Hunter]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This former and Toppless Met seems to pique Edgy's interest every coupl'a months.

Gary Kolb

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "With these powerful eyeglasses, I can see that one day, I'll be a furshlugginer NY Met".

I got to meet Big Frank when he made an appearance at a West Michigan Whitecaps game. The team has "Tiger Fridays" where they give out a bobblehead of a former Tiger and the player is there to sign autographs.

Howard looked kind of frail, and was missing a chunk of one of his ear lobes -- I'm guessing skin cancer, but don't know for sure -- and was possibly the nicest guy ever to everyone there. I asked him to sign my Mets history book, and he said the years in New York were the best of his life.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I met Hondo too one time. He was touring liquor stores in the Mid-Atlantic states as a spokesman for Jim Beam. I was a cub newspaper reporter with a camera determined to get a story, he answered a few questions but made sure to thank the good folks at Jim Beam like he was a Nascar driver. He ruined every candid I tried to snap by turning and facing me with a huge shit-eating grin. Opined that the difference between the best and worst teams in the league was "2 or 3 players." He was really charming, gave me a signed Jim Beam baseball I kept on my desk for years.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I met Hondo too one time. He was touring liquor stores in the Mid-Atlantic states as a spokesman for Jim Beam. I was a cub newspaper reporter with a camera determined to get a story, he answered a few questions but made sure to thank the good folks at Jim Beam like he was a Nascar driver. He ruined every candid I tried to snap by turning and facing me with a huge shit-eating grin. Opined that the difference between the best and worst teams in the league was "2 or 3 players." He was really charming, gave me a signed Jim Beam baseball I kept on my desk for years.

A Jim Beam baseball?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

A baseball with a Jim Beam logo on it

[dinosaur jesus]

A Jim Beam baseball: twelve ounces of Jim Beam, a dash of Campari, and a Frank Howard autographed baseball. Shake gently and serve over shaved ice.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I met Hondo too one time. He ... [o]pined that the difference between the best and worst teams in the league was "2 or 3 players."

In baseball especially, I always believed this to be true. And that's comparing the best to worst -- teams that might be separated by as many as 30-35 games in the final standings. I secretly believe (not so secret anymore, I guess) that the difference between two teams 10 or even 15 games apart in the standings is very negligible, with sheer random luck usually accounting for most of the gap.

[batmagadanleadoff]

You probably wouldn't be able to guess who this former Met is even if I gave you his name.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This throwback is captured by The Man From Topps throwing the ball back. To Ray Sadecki, most likely.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm gonna guess that Butterball, photographed above in 1962, was in fact standing at the Sadecki Spot, and that the Mets, since then, changed the back fence and built the mysterious cage structure that, from our photos, first appears in the Westrum shot minus the tarp.

I base this on the line in the grass --- it's jutting out from near the corner where the two back fences meet and angling toward the field. It's in every photo.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I'm gonna guess that Butterball, photographed above in 1962, was in fact standing at the Sadecki Spot, and that the Mets, since then, changed the back fence and built the mysterious cage structure that, from our photos, first appears in the Westrum shot minus the tarp. I base this on the line in the grass --- it's jutting out from near the corner where the two back fences meet and angling toward the field. It's in every photo.

I'll concede to the lead off man. So we have the evolution of the Spot. I move that Sadecki keeps title of the spot until some one else is pictured there twice. Then we will have to put it to the people for vote. Three times takes the title.

Whoa on that pic of a grey Grote! Thats a good close up. The #6 guy looks a little like Millan. But he never wore 6. hmm. So theres water on the one side, looks like it could be a cement area, parking lot maybe, on the other side. I'm gonna make a diorama of the spot.

[Edgy MD]

Considering that Ray was the answer to last night's trivia question and it seemingly stumped the entire booth until Gary came in at the end with a Sadecki guess that he had no faith in. All hail Sadecki. Something should be named after him. Everybody with more than 600 innings should have some eternal honor.

[batmagadanleadoff]

"Like I can't do whatever Sadecki can do"!

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Glass and Tug McGraw at some other cage near a tall conical structure.

[Edgy MD]

Not lefthanded, hotshot.

And Suzi Sadecki > Sarah Seaver.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "Like I can't do whatever Sadecki can do"!

I'll be damned! Well, Seaver has plenty of things named after him. The stadium, the road near the stadium, that area in the park, the,...wait! None of them have been named after him!

This is gonna put Tom over the Top. But he can only go on one of these cards. You make the call. Which looks kooler?

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: John Glass and Tug McGraw at some other cage near a tall conical structure.

The Glass Menagerie?
The Glass Cage?

[Zvon]

This guy was a Met. Not a Met player. Played for the Braves for 10 years. Managed a Met minor league team. Was a coach on the big club for a few years.

[HahnSolo]

That would be Bruce Benedict.

[Zvon]

HahnSolo wrote: That would be Bruce Benedict.

first case of clap I could find^