Labor Day seems like a good day for a countdown thread...

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

And the other World Series champion Met #7.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Are those Ed's real hands? I've shook hands with him and I
don't recall them being quite that huuuggee.

[Fman99]

On, please. On this board???? There's no question of what to show:

Yeah all the love for Hubie, Jose, Kevin Mitchell, etc., and with all due respect, this ain't the HubieBrooksPool.

[dgwphotography]

[fimg=1000:3l6lfjtl]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d80/dgwhitham/607208.jpg[/fimg:3l6lfjtl]

[Ceetar]

[Edgy MD]

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

dgwphotography wrote: [fimg=1000]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d80/dgwhitham/607208.jpg[/fimg]

FOUL! Flagrant misuse of opposing team players!

[Benjamin Grimm]

So... posting a photo of Mickey Mantle would be a faux pas, I assume?

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Maybe Mickey Mouse.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mickey Way. Mickey Way the candy bar? The judges take that....?

[Frayed Knot]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: dgwphotography wrote: [fimg=200]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d80/dgwhitham/607208.jpg[/fimg] FOUL! Flagrant misuse of opposing team players!

He's a National so that makes 7 his tragic number.

[Lefty Specialist]

HahnSolo wrote: Zvon wrote: The card has not been released yet. Sneak peek! Those are some Monstrous hands.

Why on earth would Ed Kranepool (or anyone else for that matter) be having dinner at second base?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Daniel Murphy's done that a few times. He forgets that there's a game going on and orders delivery.

[dgwphotography]

d'Kong76 wrote: Are those Ed's real hands? I've shook hands with him and I don't recall them being quite that huuuggee.

That's most likely a product of the photographer using a wide angle lens, probably 24mm or 28mm in Ed's picture, thereby exaggerating the size of anything closer to the camera.

Here's an example of what different focal lengths can do to a portrait. While the model's head and shoulders are roughly the same size in every photo, look at how the focal length emphasizes or de-emphasizes the size of her nose:

[fimg=1000]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d80/dgwhitham/Portrait-Focal-Length-II.jpg[/fimg]

[A Boy Named Seo]

so which one's the real model?? /headexplodes

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know! The upper left and lower right look like two different people!

[dinosaur jesus]

That explains this, then.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think I prefer her at focal length 70mm, by the way. That will be my favorite focal length.

[dinosaur jesus]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think I prefer her at focal length 70mm, by the way. That will be my favorite focal length.

Beer goggles are usually at 70 mm. It's not a coincidence.

[Guest d'Kong76]

dinosaur jesus wrote: That explains this, then.

That's really flashing some leather!

[Guest d'Kong76]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: so which one's the real model?? /headexplodes

I like her eyes the best in 50mm so I'm going with that one.

[Edgy MD]

That's the one that medaled in the Mens 440 at the LA Games in 1984. OHHHH!

[G-Fafif]

Based on a conversation I had last night in Promenade...

Magic Number Fever: CATCH it!

Jason Phillips (Taylor Teagarden, eat your specs-free heart out)
Kevin Plawecki (over one of Charlie O'Brien's incarnations)
Rod Barajas
Mike Fitzgerald (sorry, Ravishing Recker)
Butch Benton (8 Games, 1980; Johnny Monell, too, I suppose)
Duffy Dyer (1 Game, 1968; or Joel Youngblood, the emergency catcher who was never deployed)
Choo Choo Coleman
Jesse Gonder
Jerry Grote
Gil Hodges (64 Games as a Dodger)
Rick Cerone
John Stearns
Ramon Castro
Greg Goossen (in for more obvious choice of Don Dyer; see 18)
Todd Hundley
Gary Carter
Todd Pratt (or Travis d'Arnaud, if you insist on being contemporary)

Edited September 22, 2015 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

...Mike DiFelice
Chris Cannizzaro
Henry Blanco
Vance Wilson
Mackey Sasser...

I don't think we've ever had a catcher who wears No. 1...

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ...Mike DiFelice Chris Cannizzaro Henry Blanco Vance Wilson Mackey Sasser... I don't think we've ever had a catcher who wears No. 1...

Bobby Pfeil would've, if asked (I've decided).

[G-Fafif]

Also, Mookie surely caught a first pitch as coach while wearing 1.

[Lefty Specialist]

So what if you play with the focal lengths and distort the size of.......um......something other than her nose?

(debates taking up photography as a hobby)

[Frayed Knot]

dgwphotography wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Are those Ed's real hands? I've shook hands with him and I don't recall them being quite that huuuggee. That's most likely a product of the photographer using a wide angle lens, probably 24mm or 28mm in Ed's picture, thereby exaggerating the size of anything closer to the camera.

That's what Anthony Weiner was looking to do as well.

[dgwphotography]

Frayed Knot wrote: dgwphotography wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Are those Ed's real hands? I've shook hands with him and I don't recall them being quite that huuuggee. That's most likely a product of the photographer using a wide angle lens, probably 24mm or 28mm in Ed's picture, thereby exaggerating the size of anything closer to the camera. That's what Anthony Weiner was looking to do as well.

Yes, but the physics of lens design can only go so far...

[Zvon]

The card has not been released yet. Sneak peek! Those are some Monstrous hands. Why on earth would Ed Kranepool (or anyone else for that matter) be having dinner at second base?

Cause he's hungry.

Daniel Murphy's done that a few times. He forgets that there's a game going on and orders delivery.

My jokes topped before I even deliver it. DOH!

The fisheye lens does make his hands look like it's clobberin' time.

I didn't notice this when putting the card together (or I probably would have corrected it)but wtf is going on with his fingernails?
I wonder if that happened when I boosted the saturation.

Next time one of you guyz run into Ed: ask him if he ate that entire meal or did they just take the pictures and cart it off.