Daniel Murphy, Making a Travesty of This Whole Playoff Thing

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: You're putting these in the wrong thread. If you want them to be part of the "permanent collection" you should put them in the thread mentioned above.

Thanks. It said archived so I figured it was a closed thread. I never go to that section. I have a thing against this forum's archives, but I see that those are active threads. Are we supposed to post there? It looks like up until your recent post in the Jeff thread, no one's posted there in almost a decade. To tell you the truth, I barely knew that section existed. As far as I'm concerned, when a thread is archived, it might as well be sucked into a black hole the way the search engine here works. Nice find.

I was just poking around that thread after following up on the link from your message above. Man that Dinosaur Jesus is a real pro at this.

[Benjamin Grimm]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: As far as I'm concerned, when a thread is archived, it might as well be sucked into a black hole the way the search engine here works.

You can find things in the archives using Google.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Hope this doesn't jinx the Great Murphy, but look who's on this week's cover of SI:

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Trivia: Who was the last Mets position player to appear on his own SI cover -- not a group shot?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Sports Illustrated covers used to be great because they let the photos speak for themselves. Now the shot is only one element in some overall design strategy, and so it's ok to completely mess with it. Not a good cover IMO.

I think the last solo Met was uh, Piazza

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Sports Illustrated covers used to be great because they let the photos speak for themselves. Now the shot is only one element in some overall design strategy, and so it's ok to completely mess with it. Not a good cover IMO. I think the last solo Met was uh, Piazza

Also a WS preview. Since this cover, there were a few group shots (2006 - Capt. Red Ass) (2007 - Minaya and Mets) and pitchers (Johan, Dickey in civvies and Harvey) but no position players.

SI covers blow compared to what they once were. They're cluttered messes nowadays that look like sports versions of Cosmopolitan Magazine. The Murphy cover's not that bad actually -- relatively speaking. I've seen much worse among recent ones.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Geez that Piazza cover is also awful. "New York Special Edition" makes me think there was probably an alternate cover they issued for college football fans that week. Regionalizing covers of course was terrible thing too. I know only too well the era of the weekly print product has long since left us.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Geez that Piazza cover is also awful. "New York Special Edition" makes me think there was probably an alternate cover they issued for college football fans that week. Regionalizing covers of course was terrible thing too. I know only too well the era of the weekly print product has long since left us.

That was a special cover for, I think, NY only. The regular cover, again, if I remember correctly, was of an NFL quarterback -- I'm thinking a Chief or a Raider. Inside that mag, the contents was the same no matter what the cover. And there were two versions of the "NY" cover. Here's the other:

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[batmagadanleadoff]

This was the regular issue for that week for every state but NY.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Trivia: Who was the last Mets position player to appear on his own SI cover -- not a group shot?

I thought you were going to ask when was the last time SI had a baseball cover that wasn't the obligatory 'Preview' issue.
I was going to guess early '90s.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: Trivia: Who was the last Mets position player to appear on his own SI cover -- not a group shot? I thought you were going to ask when was the last time SI had a baseball cover that wasn't the obligatory 'Preview' issue. I was going to guess early '90s.

You mean who was the last Mets position player to make the cover of SI (not a group shot) -- on a regular issue as opposed to a WS Preview?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This was the regular issue for that week for every state but NY.

I had classes in college with that guy.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know this Ben Reiter guy from Adam, but how strange and exciting that Tom Verducci didn't get that assignment.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Trivia: Who was the last Mets position player to appear on his own SI cover -- not a group shot? I thought you were going to ask when was the last time SI had a baseball cover that wasn't the obligatory 'Preview' issue. I was going to guess early '90s. You mean who was the last Mets position player to make the cover of SI (not a group shot) -- on a regular issue as opposed to a WS Preview?

No, I'm merely being a cynical wise-ass by implying that the last time SI had a baseball cover other than their yearly 'obligation' issue was at least 20 years ago.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That 7 train suddenly looks so old. Is that what the 7 train looked like in 2000? Time is flying.

[Elster88]

I hope Murph does the whole travesty thing again. Two hard hit singles is nothing to fart at but I liked when he was doing his Beltran impression.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: That 7 train suddenly looks so old. Is that what the 7 train looked like in 2000? Time is flying.

Ah, the World's Fair Redbirds. Yeah, they were phased out just after this time (2001 or 2002, IIRC).

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: That 7 train suddenly looks so old. Is that what the 7 train looked like in 2000? Time is flying. Ah, the World's Fair Redbirds. Yeah, they were phased out just after this time (2001 or 2002, IIRC).

Train buff, you?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: That 7 train suddenly looks so old. Is that what the 7 train looked like in 2000? Time is flying. Ah, the World's Fair Redbirds. Yeah, they were phased out just after this time (2001 or 2002, IIRC). Train buff, you?

Not SO much. I just remembered the retirement, and also, not too long ago, I read a kids' book about them to YoungerPooper, then got curious and did some more research.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: That 7 train suddenly looks so old. Is that what the 7 train looked like in 2000? Time is flying. Ah, the World's Fair Redbirds. Yeah, they were phased out just after this time (2001 or 2002, IIRC). Train buff, you? Not SO much. I just remembered the retirement, and also, not too long ago, I read a kids' book about them to YoungerPooper, then got curious and did some more research.

Ah! The World's Fair. Makes sense. Because when I wrote that that train looked old, I didn't mean that it looked old by today's standard, but that it looked old for 2000. It definitely looks like something out of the Wagner administration.