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It'd be real swell if this post could be in any of the other zillion threads about the minty Shea walls of early '67. I don't know why they hafta get locked up. Of course if they weren't locked up, we wouldn't need a zillion threads on this. We'd have just the one and that one thread would have all the pictures and posts you'd wanna look at if you were interested in minty walls. Not that I could find any of 'em anyways -- at least not in 10 or 15 minutes -- because the search engine here sucks even more than Donald Trump. Someone'll tell me to look for 'em on Google. Yeah, sure. Like that ever works more than four percent of the time I can tell you from experience.


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
Me and my mom. She thinks everything on the computer is Google.


Your mother doesn't wear army boots, but she sounds a bit like this characterization of Mike Francesa.

As Bill Buchanan, the Francesa impersonator famous within this community for his "Mike Zaun" videos, once put it to me, "The way he views the Internet is - he literally views the Internet as one person, and that one person has made fun of him, and he does not like that one person."


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
She thinks everything on the computer is Google.

Ya mean it isn't?


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Curt Simmons, 4/20/67, toothpaste colored wall!

It was toothpastish for Seaver's first start, and more than likely 2 days before when Don Cardwell pitched opening day at Shea. So we know it was that strange hue from April 13 to April 20, 1967.

In this game Simmons faced off against Tom Seaver at the start of the second homestand of the season. After leaving his first game with the score tied 2-2, Tom got no decision. Here, in his second ever MLB start against Simmons, Tom picks up his first career win! The soon to be franchise allowed one run on 8 hits in 7.1 innings. New Met Tommy Davis hit a double and smacked a homer over that bright, glaring, blindingly light outfield wall. Mets won 6-1 :)




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Was the color just primer, or did somebody actually think that was a good look?


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Mets Guy in Michigan wrote:
Was the color just primer, or did somebody actually think that was a good look?


You can find the answer by searching for the hundred or so other related threads, which were rudely and pointlessly separated from each other, and then buried in some unsearchable archive (unless you consider having to spend more than 20 minutes at least, a reasonable use of your time to find an old thread) so that inevitably, some well-intentioned poster like you would come along and not know the answer to something that was discussed and pondered from here to eternity. Or try to find those killed threads with the equally pointless and mostly useless forum search engine.


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
Mets Guy in Michigan wrote:
Was the color just primer, or did somebody actually think that was a good look?


You can find the answer by searching for the hundred or so other related threads, which were rudely and pointlessly separated from each other, and then buried in some unsearchable archive (unless you consider having to spend more than 20 minutes at least, a reasonable use of your time to find an old thread) so that inevitably, some well-intentioned poster like you would come along and not know the answer to something that was discussed and pondered from here to eternity. Or try to find those killed threads with the equally pointless and mostly useless forum search engine.


Wow. Have a cocktail, dude, maybe, find some undies that fit, because yours are clearly bunching up in your onion hole.


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Adolfo Phillips strikes a pose in front of that wall.


I wonder if that's before or after Leo told him, "You're my second cleanup hitter" when he made him the eighth hitter in the batting order.

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Fman99 wrote:
batmagadanleadoff wrote:
Mets Guy in Michigan wrote:
Was the color just primer, or did somebody actually think that was a good look?


You can find the answer by searching for the hundred or so other related threads, which were rudely and pointlessly separated from each other, and then buried in some unsearchable archive (unless you consider having to spend more than 20 minutes at least, a reasonable use of your time to find an old thread) so that inevitably, some well-intentioned poster like you would come along and not know the answer to something that was discussed and pondered from here to eternity. Or try to find those killed threads with the equally pointless and mostly useless forum search engine.


Wow. Have a cocktail, dude, maybe, find some undies that fit, because yours are clearly bunching up in your onion hole.


I doubt that you're right about anything here. I guess maybe I need to use those little funny face symbols or those squiggly line things that are like internet symbols of expression on account of all you can do is read but not see the writer's face or hear his voice to get other mood cues.

Hey, I think this is the first time you ever addressed a post to me in like seven years or something. The last time you wrote a post to me, I'm pretty sure the Mets were still playing at Shea. What gives?


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I keep meaning to gather everything I have on the toothpaste walls. I've saved all pics & baseball cards I've come across. I'm sure we've all seen them at some point here. There was a thread on facebook that I popped into, but have lost track. Must be the Shea page.

I may have been the one to introduce the theory that it's a primer coat. Looks similar to that type of coating but I see no reason that it would stay that way for any more than a 48 hour period. Although I suppose since the team was on a home stand the work (which must have been behind schedule to start with) might not have continued until they took to the road.

One of the main reasons I thought this was the black distance markers. If that's a primer coat, those aren't black numbers but the old white numbers covered with black tape to create a mask, which is something typically done to cover stuff you didn't want the paint to hit. However, if it is actually that toothpaste white/green color by design they would have had to paint the numbers black because the white ones would be lost in the white/green.

My theory is plausible but I believe the accepted facts are that it was intentionally painted that color.

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I think I understand what Batmags is saying about old threads/topics. I had always hoped the CPF would end up like a BASEBALL FEVER site but just for the Mets, where you can find all this trivial (& mainstream) Met history in one place. And it kinda has to some extent, lots of great info shared here (and stored), but it is soon lost because at a certain point you can no longer find it. Newcomers will never see this stuff (although in this case the toothpaste walls probably do not really generate interest. Yet I'm fascinated by it. If I ever met Tom Seaver he would think I'm bonkers because the first thing I'd ask him is:"What was up with those OF walls during your 1st MLB start at Shea?".)


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There was also a thread called "Only the Wall Was White" that I can't find. "Only the Wall Was Aqua Green" was a reference to that.


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It's not hard when you use Google:

http://archives.thecranepool.net/17000/f1_t17065.shtml

http://archives.thecranepool.net/22400/f1_t22455.shtml

Sheesh.


I use google for everything but it never occurred to me to use it for searching the CPF. If it works that's great.

I don't mean to be difficult. If we are looking for new members here, which I always assume we are, they won't be aware of all the deep info this place holds (not to mention using google to search the CPF). On first glance it looks like a little private Mets club. I remember when I first found this place I lingered for quite a while, almost a year, until I felt like I was comfortable enough with the crowd to infiltrate.

I'm not complaining. I'm just sayin'.


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People sometimes forget that you can search google for site-specific results. For
example if you google...

zimmo site:thecranepool.net

...you get a nice return of possible clicking options.


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d'Kong76 wrote:
People sometimes forget that you can search google for site-specific results. For
example if you google...

zimmo site:thecranepool.net

...you get a nice return of possible clicking options.


yeah, that's an awesome underappreciated thing. A lot of times you're better off doing that than trying to use the sites built-in search.


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When I tried to search the archives with Google, I get this:

Account suspended
Account for domain archives.cranepoolforum.net has been suspended

What am I doing wrong?


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d'Kong76 wrote:
People sometimes forget that you can search google for site-specific results. For
example if you google...

zimmo site:thecranepool.net

...you get a nice return of possible clicking options.


This search format isn't turning up that "Only the Walls were White" thread that Edgy and I remember. In fact, I'm aware of this Google search format for specific sites, and over the years, I'd say that the success rate at finding threads and posts from this forum is easily less than 50%.


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Sorry, just a suggestion.

OE: I meant it more for searching here instead of using the search.


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