Benjamin Grimm

GameDay wrote: In play, run(s)

cooby wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: That means I might be able to listen to the last couple of innings during my drive home from work. good luck with that PA Boy I'm close enough to New York City that I can pick up the broadcast, with occasional static, from WOR 710.

That means I might be able to listen to the last couple of innings during my drive home from work.

Apparently Facebook, as powerful as it is, hasn't yet taken over the weather. Game is delayed in starting because of rain.

Do the Russian bots have any prognosis regarding when the game might get underway?

MLB.com says the game is delayed.

Bumping this to the new page. Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cast your vote!

Cast your vote!

dgwphotography wrote: My first thought is that either of these covers will make to the next round, while a more deserving cover with a tougher draw will be one and done... Could be, since there's still a long way to go, but that hasn't happened yet. These polls so far have been heavily lopsided, with the losers getting very little love at all.

I'm at the office today, so I'll just go with GameDay. If I was at home, and the only one within earshot, I'd do the Facebook streaming.

41Forever wrote: Do the News and Post today even have a sports cartoonist? Heck, an editorial page cartoonist? The News never replaced Gallo as the sports cartoonist. (I wonder how many, if any, papers have one anymore.) The News does have an editorial page cartoonist. His name is Bill Bramhall and he's generally pretty good. I don't know about the Post.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Then 81 has that weird, lil ghoul with giant hands in the red dress who looks like she actually wants to eat a stew filled with human Mets players. I love that take on Basement Bertha! I've been familiar with her for virtually my whole life, so it didn't occur to me how strange she would look to someone who doesn't know her. 1981 is, undoubtedly, a weird cover and I don't know what its chances are in later rounds, but I do kinda like it. At least, it got my vote in this round. I hadn't realized until today, but the yearbooks had gone with artwork on their covers from 1962 through 1968, then switched to photo covers through the 1970s (with the exception of the Bicentennial Mr. Met in 1976) and then reverted to drawings and paintings for a four-year stretch from 1980 to 1983. After that, it was either photos or logos all the way, with the exception of the 1987 revised edition, which we haven't seen yet. The 1981 cover is the final one to feature spoken dialog in a word balloon. I doubt it will ever happen again, although I'd love for the 2027 yearbook to feature a Willard Mullin style cartoon of Baby Met grown up to be a senior citizen.

It's nice to see Basement Bertha and Yuchie again.

I like the idea of a single photo on the cover (see 1971 and 1978 for example) but 1998 doesn't have a particularly good photo. I have mixed feelings about Bill Gallo. In the overall world of cartoonists, he's probably in the middle of the pack, at best. But I always admired how he was (as far as I know) the last of his kind, a sports section version of a political cartoonist. He was still doing it decades after it had gone out of style pretty much everywhere else. So I'm glad that Gallo got to do a Mets yearbook cover, and that he's represented here in this competition. These covers are being presented in random order, with the sequence of the matchups determined by a seat-of-the-pants Excel algorithm that I came up with. It's just chance that this one Gallo cover appeared before any of the six Willard Mullin covers, and that we're almost halfway through the first round without having seen Mullin yet. That will change tomorrow, when our first Mullin cover will step up to be evaluated.

Our sixth first-round poll has ended, resulting in a 13-3 victory for the 1991 Original Edition, eliminating the 1989 Original Edition. ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO: ELIMINATED:

1981 1998

86 pitches. I figured he'd get the sixth inning, but Mickey probably wants Harvey leaving on a positive note.

That's correct. I just don't feel like bothering to install an app and verify my account and all that for just this one game. So I'll just follow along with GameDay.

cooby wrote: Un effing believable. I can't listen on Sirius either, because they only carry 2 games a day now. And through this whole foray I have discovered we are paying $1000 a year! I'm peeking in from time to time on the MLB website: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-mets/2018/04/03/529479#game_state=live,game_tab=,game=529479

Mickey has said that it would not be influenced by the hitting ability of his pitchers.

This game is actually not going to be televised at all by the Phillies. They have two stations that their games appear on, and one will be showing the Sixers and the other will be showing the Flyers. If I want to watch the show (since the game is blacked on on MLB for me) I have to stream it from the local station's website.

If not a magazine article, it would make for a fine blog post.

If this Yearbook Cover Derby has nothing else going for it, G-Fafif's daily comparisons of the two competing covers is always worth the price of admission. Maybe even worth twice the price of admission!

Great.

And I really doubt that these guys have any idea who Salty Parker was.