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[Edgy MD]

Mr. Met looks scary. And kinda hungry.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah that thing's nice. And that artist is a real genius of design & baseball.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

So many cool details. Who is the guy up top not in uniform, next to Bartman. Is that Bill James?

Love the billy goat, home run apple, Coors Field seat... amazing details in there!

[Edgy MD]

Only thing missing, I think, is any reference to Negro League ball.

So I've got.

Swirling circles from the White Sox exploding scoreboard.

A Devil Ray and Marlin presented in the style of the Marlins' dancing scoreboard, with a beer and a dog in between.

Bill James / Steve Bartman with Rally Monkey / Barry Bonds / Pedro Martinez // Ichiro Suzuki / Mark McGwire(?) / A strikeout plackard / Steven Strasburg(?)

Randy Johnson and the ghost of the bird he killed / Coors Field Seat / Joe Carter(?) / Bo Jackson mysteriously missing a leg / Rickey Henderson Declaring his
greatestness // Mike Schmidt / Fernando Valenzuela / A banner that may represent generic banners or have a meaning about Bill Short that I'm overlooking / The Original Brewers' Beer Slide / The San Diego Chicken / The Tower Suspending the Roof at Stade Olympique

Jackie Robinson / The Cubs' Cursed Billy Goat / A Lighting Tower Representing Night Baseball / Stan Musial(?) / The Puerto Rican Flag / Ernie Banks(?) / Signs Representing Perhaps a Renewed Strategic Engagement by Fans or Maybe the Birth of Strat-O-Matic(?) / Warren Spahn(?) / The Dominican Flag / Mr. Met // Sandy Koufax / The Japanese Flag / Roberto Clemente / The Mets' Home Run Apple / A "Here" Flag Representing...(?) / Ted Turner(?) / Canadian Flag / Henry Aaron / Pete Rose / The Anaheim Scoreboard Structure / Billy Martin

Gotta get home. Feel free to correct and enlighten me or take on the lower limbs.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Who is the guy up top not in uniform, next to Bartman. Is that Bill James?

Yes.

I saw this yesterday and meant to post it. Thanks to Edgy for picking up my slack.


I'm a big fan of Flip Flop Flyball. It's amazing what an Englishman living in Mexico can teach you about baseball.


SPOILER: If you scroll down on that link, he actually lists everything in the image (don't look if you want to guess). He also explains why he didn't include the Negro Leagues.

[Edgy MD]

Trying to make out the textual stuff on the limbs... is that the Mercury Mets logo next to Ichiro's hip?!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Bo's leg is there. He's breaking a bat over it.

I didn't catch the ghost bird over The Unit. Awesome.

Those signs are the Bill Veeck innovation of letting fans call the plays, I think.

[Zvon]

That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo!

Well, we got the Home Run Apple and the Mercury Mets symbol as well.

[G-Fafif]

Holy Buck, that thing is great.

[Zvon]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo! Well, we got the Home Run Apple and the Mercury Mets symbol as well.

Ha, I didn't notice that.Excellent.

[Edgy MD]

Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right?

[Edgy MD]

OK, continuing on the next branch...

Venezuealan Flag (but you'll have to let me know who from Venezuela was in the league back then) / Ted Williams(?) / Lou Gehrig / Mexican Flag / Hank Greenberg(?) / YSI Roof Facade / Jimmy Foxx(?) / Bambino // John J. McGraw(?) / Hall of Fame Plaque / Rogers Hornsby(?) / Joe Jackson(?) / Walter Johnson / US Flag / Frank Chance(?) / Cuban Flag

Old Hoss Radbourn(?) / Cap Anson(?) / Pyramid(?) / Cy Young(?) // Connie Mack(?) / Ty Cobb / Honus Wagner(?) / Super Rare Wagner Card

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right?

Lots of Mets content in there... see?

Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out."

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right? Lots of Mets content in there... see? Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out."

Yep, missed that too. Very kool.
Whats Alex Trebek doing in between Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron?

[seawolf17]

Zvon wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right? Lots of Mets content in there... see? Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out." Yep, missed that too. Very kool. Whats Alex Trebek doing in between Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron?

That's definitely Marvin Miller.

And the "here" flag comes from one of the ballparks, but I don't know which. The only thing I can think of is the Cubs "W" flag, but that's obviously a "W" flag and not a "HERE" flag.

[Frayed Knot]

Signs Representing Perhaps a Renewed Strategic Engagement by Fans or Maybe the Birth of Strat-O-Matic(?)

One of Bill Veeck's teams encouraged fans to dictate strategy with their signs. Hit & Run?; Bunt?; etc.

Mark McGwire(?)

Pretty sure that's Pujols

[Edgy MD]

How embarrassing to get buzzed on a top branch guy.

OK, I'm buying in and standing corrected on Pujols, and Marvin Miller. Let's take the next two ?s. That last guy on the top branch, I'm calling BS on my Strasburg guess. The eye black tells me that's Bryce Harper.

Can I get an amen on that? And can we confirm Blue Jay with the raised arms is Carter?

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: How embarrassing to get buzzed on a top branch guy. OK, I'm buying in and standing corrected on Pujols, and Marvin Miller. Let's take the next two ?s. That last guy on the top branch, I'm calling BS on my Strasburg guess. The eye black tells me that's Bryce Harper. Can I get an amen on that? And can we confirm Blue Jay with the raised arms is Carter?

Yea, that's Harper. I will not confirm Carter. And I have no idea who else it could be.

Now the guy said he drew that but he didn't draw it by hand, did he?

[Frayed Knot]

Anyone catch the Doc Ellis reference?

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Anyone catch the Doc Ellis reference?

lmao. Hits:0. LSD Hits: 1

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gotta be Harper and Carter. Yes on the Doc reference.

To me, totally insane how he just nails figures like Valenzuela. It's him.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I think it's Robbie Alomar instead of Carter. Gotta have another Mets connection!

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gotta be Harper and Carter. Yes on the Doc reference. To me, totally insane how he just nails figures like Valenzuela. It's him.

Which is what makes the Joe Carter designation dubious to me. If you look hard, you see, yeah, that's a figure of a person of color, but Carter's about five and a half shades darker than that, and wore a beard during his arm raising trip around the bases.

Alomar would seem to have a stronger case, appearance-wise, but doesn't seem to me so iconic as to merit a spot on the tree. Neither does that pose seem to fit an iconic Alomar moment. He wasn't even on base for the Carter homer. Henderson and Molitor were. (And how's that for table setting? There's about 8,000 hits and a ton of walks right there.)

[Zvon]

Oh, he's working from bobbleheads. It least for Robbie. Don't know what hes got his arms up about in the photo.

[Edgy MD]

Great research. Excellent. We have confirmation.

Moving over to the right branch there. The "Short Stinks" banners come from the last game at RFK for the Senators, directed at the owner bringing the team to Texas.



(1) Are we in agreement that that's Ryan in the Astros uni? He should have a 34 on his thigh.

(2) Is that, in fact, Musial next to the goat?

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Wow, he even managed to get the Cleveland midges that attacked Joba Chamberlain in there.

[G-Fafif]

You guys realize the artist included an answer key, unless you're just guessing for fun.

[Edgy MD]

I hadn't. No fun.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo!

Space is limited, man. Look at it from a Yankee fan point of view. No DiMaggio, no Mantle, no Berra, no Casey, no Reggie, no Jeffrey Maier, no Jeter, no Torre, and no Rivera. Key figures all. Part of the broader story. But no room.