Mets holiday cards

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Wishing you a Happy Holiday and an Amazin� New Millenium. That is the message that was printed in the holiday card that went out in December 1999. And, yes, the Mets misspelled millennium. Then again, they got one run out of a grand slam. Is that a black card with the Mets logo inside of a snowflake? That sounds very right. The place where I worked had a former employee who had gone on to temp for the Mets and she sent us the card. It hung in the reception area well after the alleged millennium kicked in. I judged it up for grabs and I grabbed it.

Of course that Mets card was black, it being 1999 and all.

[fimg=444]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7464/16044764385_0e7e470083_o.jpg[/fimg]
Courtesy of the batmagadanleadoff collection

[G-Fafif]

Now that I see it, I'm like, "yeah...that's what it looked like."

To be fair, I didn't memorize the text, either, but dug it out to look it up five years ago while recalling what it was like coming down from the most invigorating season ever.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Now that I see it, I'm like, "yeah...that's what it looked like." To be fair, I didn't memorize the text, either, but dug it out to look it up five years ago while recalling what it was like coming down from the most invigorating season ever.

I don't know where my card is. But I do have a photo scanned into my PC, as you can see.

You think Leigh Castergine gets a card from the Mets this month? She got one last year.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Now that I see it, I'm like, "yeah...that's what it looked like." To be fair, I didn't memorize the text, either, but dug it out to look it up five years ago while recalling what it was like coming down from the most invigorating season ever. I don't know where my card is. But I do have a photo scanned into my PC, as you can see. You think Leigh Castergine gets a card from the Mets this month? She got one last year.

Has it been established the Mets still send actual cards? I thought the e-cards took their place to be green or save green.

I'm guessing if there's a mailing or e-mailing list, the person responsible for keeping it up to date is the person who has legal action pending against them.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Has it been established the Mets still send actual cards? I thought the e-cards took their place to be green or save green.

I assume they still do, but I don't know for sure. Any season ticket or plan holders here? Did y'all get any holiday cards from the Mets this month? (Or maybe the Mets aren't broke enough to have ended their card tradition, but too broke to send partial plan holders a holiday card, in which case, you partial plan holders wouldn't necessarily know anymore).

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Has it been established the Mets still send actual cards? I thought the e-cards took their place to be green or save green. I assume they still do, but I don't know for sure. Any season ticket or plan holders here? Did y'all get any holiday cards from the Mets this month? (Or maybe the Mets aren't broke enough to have ended their card tradition, but too broke to send partial plan holders a holiday card, in which case, you partial plan holders wouldn't necessarily know anymore).

I do have a pending order for tickets. Which reminds me, they're a freaking christmas present, where are they?! I don't know if it comes with a card, I declined the 'holiday box'

[G-Fafif]

I seem to remember last year there being a bit of kvetching that the holiday tradition had been breached...though it's a reasonably kvetchworthy breach if so.

I could be conflating or confusing it with the Mets deciding to not send out media guides and instead send out thumb drives in deference to the environment.

[Zvon]

On the day that Hello Dolly premiered in movie theaters, the Mets sent out this holiday card: [fimg=655]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8624/16042119331_2cfd545d42_o.jpg[/fimg] Courtesy of the batmagadanleadoff collection

Wow. This is an excellent Shea image that I've never seen. TYVM BMLO

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Trying to come up with something that covers both biggies. No, Festivus is not yet big enough. [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Sl-qUmuKvcg/VJEfYGZdAMI/AAAAAAAAWOg/IzqA6wlJPUo/s576/2014Xmas-001-cpf-z15.png[/fimg] The menorah is disproportionately large. A Festivus Pole would be fun, and maybe work in a little Kwanzaa somehow? Maybe he should throw in a lasagna in there too. Plus one of those roasted pigs with an apple in its mouth. It's too cluttered as it is.

I'll re-work that any way you see fit. I've already worked on it a bit, added stockings and added a version with a white backdrop (I'll post that when complete). Made a separate Christmas one that I hope to make a snowGif.

The menorah is big, but due to an issue in balance and the fact that other things in there cant be obscured, I basically had only two choices. The first version had the menorah under METS, small (I think I saved a copy, and Ill post it just to see). But too small, I thought, so I looked to display it bigger somehow. I thought it too small in relation to the tree- I'd like the exposure to be equal. But to get the menorah to be seen around the tree, I had to make it big like that (and exceed past the border, which I did not want to do in this case-but had to) but it's thinness keeps it balanced.

I'm against adding Festivus or Kwanzaa symbols or poles or whatever, but if that's what you guys want, I'll get it in there.

That's the uncluttered version Bats. Ha. Of course I will unclutter it if that is desired.

I tried getting it some parts of the tree come forward.
This was posted on the cardBlogThing last night (no CPF on this).
[fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RWax6sCALi4/VJE8JN0VWKI/AAAAAAAAWPM/9PbzIwbBLIk/s576/2014mfcHappyHolidays-z15.png[/fimg]

Picasa did one of those auto things--not sure why or how this happens, but they take a few of your pics and make a .gif from them. It ends up in my Picasa album. They did this:
[fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-za0jMKkhqv8/VJE9raYoWLI/AAAAAAAAWPY/fIjckFfjnDY/s576/2014Xmas-001-z15-MOTION.gif[/fimg]
Would be pretty kool if I didn't have the site logo and name on the outside.

[G-Fafif]

Checked with a Season Ticketholder buddy:

It has been a long time since I received a paper card from the Mets. Don�t remember if there was a reasoning (if there was, no doubt flawed) that they stopped doing so.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gas for Jeff's Escalade is expensive!

[Zvon]

This is an earlier version with the small menorah. Actually, it looks good but my thinking was that there might be a problem with it being too small. The menorah being in the foreground does give it a balance. I don't like the bells there but I wanted them in there somewhere. This was done before I thought to add the CPF thing. That NY wouldn't be in there. I wouldn't go w/that gray background either. I'd try a lighter one w/o the big menorah up there.

Hey, I can just make alts and then use whichever.
[fimg=300:2djh7r2l]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0n8zveMQsNU/VJIQ-2majVI/AAAAAAAAWPo/MdomPnr_Rk0/s576/2014Xmas-smmehorahTEST-1.png[/fimg:2djh7r2l]

Or we can scrap that design altogether. The only reason I went right to work on that was because I still had the layer work from the 2010 Xmas avatar.
[fimg=100:2djh7r2l]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BBDr_5z8CW4/VJIWnwNQTRI/AAAAAAAAWP4/e6eUYArNets/s594/2010XmasAV.png[/fimg:2djh7r2l]

[Guest cooby]

I like it!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Zvon wrote: [fimg=300]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0n8zveMQsNU/VJIQ-2majVI/AAAAAAAAWPo/MdomPnr_Rk0/s576/2014Xmas-smmehorahTEST-1.png[/fimg]

Very nice!

[Zvon]

I'll go with that and fix the background. Are the bells okay there?


Actually, if I was designing a greetings card I don't think I'd make a logo lookin' thing like this. But I had nothing in mind and that old work handy (& hadn't done anything for Christmas-graphic or otherwise-totally not into it this year). I'm glad this came up cause its getting me in the spirit of things with a week left to do something about it.

[Edgy MD]

There's a reason he does design and I, um, don't.

[fimg=400:cc7io2ty]https://metsinpeace.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/metsholiday.jpg[/fimg:cc7io2ty]

Oh, well. I guess I can say that I gave it the Binghamton try.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Trying to come up with something that covers both biggies. No, Festivus is not yet big enough. [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Sl-qUmuKvcg/VJEfYGZdAMI/AAAAAAAAWOg/IzqA6wlJPUo/s576/2014Xmas-001-cpf-z15.png[/fimg] The menorah is disproportionately large. A Festivus Pole would be fun, and maybe work in a little Kwanzaa somehow? Maybe he should throw in a lasagna in there too. Plus one of those roasted pigs with an apple in its mouth. It's too cluttered as it is. I'll re-work that any way you see fit.... That's the uncluttered version Bats. Ha. Of course I will unclutter it if that is desired. I tried getting it some parts of the tree come forward. This was posted on the cardBlogThing last night (no CPF on this). [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RWax6sCALi4/VJE8JN0VWKI/AAAAAAAAWPM/9PbzIwbBLIk/s576/2014mfcHappyHolidays-z15.png[/fimg] Picasa did one of those auto things--not sure why or how this happens, but they take a few of your pics and make a .gif from them. It ends up in my Picasa album. They did this: [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-za0jMKkhqv8/VJE9raYoWLI/AAAAAAAAWPY/fIjckFfjnDY/s576/2014Xmas-001-z15-MOTION.gif[/fimg] Would be pretty kool if I didn't have the site logo and name on the outside.

Don't listen to me. But if you did, and you hadda work with the Mets skyline logo, I'd ditch the xmas tree and menorah altogether. It's too busy with those elements and in the end, you can't see either one too clearly. I'd swap out the baseball seams for some holiday wreath. And maybe add some falling snow. Or frost. Or ice on the buildings. I dunno.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Checked with a Season Ticketholder buddy: It has been a long time since I received a paper card from the Mets. Don�t remember if there was a reasoning (if there was, no doubt flawed) that they stopped doing so.

Bastards. First Tidewater. Then WFAN. And now this. Bah!

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Trying to come up with something that covers both biggies. No, Festivus is not yet big enough. [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Sl-qUmuKvcg/VJEfYGZdAMI/AAAAAAAAWOg/IzqA6wlJPUo/s576/2014Xmas-001-cpf-z15.png[/fimg] The menorah is disproportionately large. A Festivus Pole would be fun, and maybe work in a little Kwanzaa somehow? Maybe he should throw in a lasagna in there too. Plus one of those roasted pigs with an apple in its mouth. It's too cluttered as it is. I'll re-work that any way you see fit.... That's the uncluttered version Bats. Ha. Of course I will unclutter it if that is desired. I tried getting it some parts of the tree come forward. This was posted on the cardBlogThing last night (no CPF on this). [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RWax6sCALi4/VJE8JN0VWKI/AAAAAAAAWPM/9PbzIwbBLIk/s576/2014mfcHappyHolidays-z15.png[/fimg] Picasa did one of those auto things--not sure why or how this happens, but they take a few of your pics and make a .gif from them. It ends up in my Picasa album. They did this: [fimg=300]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-za0jMKkhqv8/VJE9raYoWLI/AAAAAAAAWPY/fIjckFfjnDY/s576/2014Xmas-001-z15-MOTION.gif[/fimg] Would be pretty kool if I didn't have the site logo and name on the outside. Don't listen to me. But if you did, and you hadda work with the Mets skyline logo, I'd ditch the xmas tree and menorah altogether. It's too busy with those elements and in the end, you can't see either one too clearly. I'd swap out the baseball seams for some holiday wreath. And maybe add some falling snow. Or frost. Or ice on the buildings. I dunno.

The addition of a wreath is a great idea. Seams can go or stay, but I think a wreath around the entire border might look excellent. I did do a version with the skyline partially in it (it could be seen thru the tree but I didn't think it was working- but if it has to be in there, I'll find a way. Sure, the menorah & tree can go)

Like I said, I'll scrap that whole design if that's not agreeable. It's up to you guys. I'll put anything in it you want. And there's certainly plenty of time to figure this out. I'm not sure if you want to print em or what but we got a late start and as suggested, we can aim for 2015 on this. By then maybe we'll be able to add a 'lil pennant to it (dare I say a WS trophy!!)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I tried something different� I wanted to try to make it look like someone had painted the Mets logo on a snowball. I don't think it quite worked.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: There's a reason he does design and I, um, don't. [fimg=400]https://metsinpeace.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/metsholiday.jpg[/fimg] Oh, well. I guess I can say that I gave it the Binghamton try.

That's actually a great start Edge. If you are working in layers, throw a drop shadow on the layer with all the gold in it. That'll make it pop right up.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I tried something different� I wanted to try to make it look like someone had painted the Mets logo on a snowball. I don't think it quite worked.

That looks like a snowball to me. But...green!!??AAAAAAHHHHHH!

[Edgy MD]

What color should the drop-shadow be?

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: What color should the drop-shadow be?

Something dark, I would think. But Id test light as well. Whichever makes it stand out best.

edit: btw, if you can do this with your program, see if you can make the drop shadow a little blurry through feathering (hopefully there's a feather measurement deal when you get a box open for the drop shadow)

[Ceetar]