stevejrogers

Koosman 20th win celebration over whatever that blue mess is.

2004 is trying too hard to be a 1980s brochure or prospective cover.

I also want to defy batmags’ expectation that the season’s record will determine the winner!

LOL! Very true. Though my point is that finding things about transient establishments like it seemed to be, especilly in the nascent, pre Yelp/Trip Advisor/Wikipedia/Google days of the information superhighway, finding anything out about non-iconic decades old places or chain locations can be like a needle in a haystack and certain data can get lost to history. Case in point, took me forever on a project that I never got around to finishing to get anything on what became of the Manhattan night club The Mirage. Even when finally finding out that today its called Terminal 5, their social media interns, or whomever runs their Facebook page, didn’t have a clue about, or knew who could help me with, the whens and hows it evolved over a 20 year time span. Granted there were ways I could have done deep dives down rabbit holes in official archives and records for property ownership, official titles and such, but the project didn’t need THAT MUCH involvement, especially when done for free (ditto trying to look up proof of existence of a strip club that may or may not have existed in the Jackson Heights area in September of 1999).

Next door. This is right around the corner of the RF Gate, space formerly used as offices for Citi’s company for event planning.

I still don’t know what it says about me and my facination with the history of restaurants, bars, clubs and other like venues that, despite it most assuredly didn’t survive the year, at least under the name Air Strip, that I’ve wasted minutes on search engines over the years trying to find anything about this near by Shea/Citi, most likey divey and dumpy, strip club. But to no avail.

2000 may be too busy, but its a great blend of previous year’s highlights and preview of what could be.

1991 is more aesthetically pleasing with the fireworks at Shea, understated for late 80s/early 90s font, and more featured players depicted.

2017 is a better version of the college brochure that the 2010 one is.

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: Supposedly his Evil Twin brother is opening something in Brooklyn. It would be hilarious if they opened a brewery across 126th street, or in the Amway storefront. Ridgewood apparently, is where Evil Twin will open this summer. Meanwhile, Mikkeller NYC will indeed be open at 10am on Thursday. yay! I might make it out there on Saturday. Debating with my cousin about actually buying game tickets, or hanging out there and McFaddens (always wanted to see if they low key it as the game is being played) for the entire time!

G-Fafif wrote: though points for capturing a blip when Jeff Francoeur and Oliver Perez were considered marketable. Ditto Jason Bay! I completely agree, does seem more like a prospectus folder, or a campus admissions booklet cover than a publication meant for memorabilia.

1970, no explanation needed!

2002. 1977’s looks too rushed but done to capitalize on the one change that could be deemed as positive.

‘89 kind of has that quality the the 1967 one has. Ever upward, all that. Sadly things did fall apart starting that year. Buddy on the 1990 cover...eh, hasn’t aged well, and very late 1980s “style.”

I dislike ‘96 from the standpoint of “who!?” looking at the pics. I mean WE HERE know those depicted, but not a ton of clues, unless you had the physical copy and you could line up faces, positions, etc. It is amusing that in the 1970s they dabbled with different covers for the revised yearbook, but wouldn’t again until the mid to late 1980s. Off hand, no clue if Keith is in the revised edition, or if it came out just before June 15th (its boxed up somewhere, waiting for me to unload it online in some fashion), but it is amusing that as the year was wrapping up, you could buy freshly printed official merch with Neil Allen depicted. Which kinda proves a point I made some time ago that Allen was more along the lines of Proven Crap (servicable enough part, but not a “build a staff/bullpen around” piece) when traded, as opposed to the forgettable nobody that some label him as when harking back on the move.

Ceetar wrote: oh. they don't know yet. Not privy to any insider info here. Sounds like they're having issues with the city/license/whatever. Annoying! They should be ready when I come there! I come all this way... = Joking aside, I wonder what the issues would be? And if it would be easier for an established area brewery like a Queens, Third Rail, LIC Project, etc to get in as opposed to a company coming in from Denmark. Though they do have locations in California, so I don't know.

The Rangers are adding the Dilly Dog, which is a cored out dill pickle, stuffed with a hot dog, then battered and fried. No clue if its good or bad that they aren't incorporating Bud Light and "DILLY, DILLY!" in with that. Either way, they are truly NOT a friend of the crown! I mean the ad campaign hasn't gotten that stale and obnoxious yet, has it? =

Ceetar wrote: tomorrow? I meant when is Mickkeller open. I might be at Citi for either the Monday or Tuesday game.

Ceetar wrote: The Mets are having an event tomorrow to show 'what's new' to the media (And not me this year, not that I'd justify taking a day off to go, but boo, that was a fun event) so expect some of that. Mikkeller, btw, is probably not going to be open for OPening Day. BOOOOOO! Any word on when?

Stout by the Library/GCT is a Met friendly bar

Frayed Knot wrote: I remember, in the midst of one of the Los Mets screeds, finding pictures from a Los Mets promotion back during sometime in the 1970s Kinda shot a hole in those arguments that it was all a creation of Omar Racist Productions Inc. I usually went with a better observation, from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s the Mets produced a Spanish version of the yearbook. Its hard to find bigger examples from a PR perspective when it comes to courting the Latin American audience!

Afro in its full glory

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: That might be the greatest baseball card in history. Even where it's bad, it's bad to a great degree. And even though it's a bogus picture since Gamble was never allowed to wear his hair like that under the Steinbrenner regime. He joined the Yanx in November of '75 [a trade w/Cleveland for Par Dobson] and again at the mid-season trading deadline in 1979 so maybe that card is a late season issue 1979 version Its from the 1976 Traded set that was issued prior to the 1977 season, so the cap is an airbrushed Cleveland one.

Just hitting me how anti-the trade Val was back in the day. At least in thinking that the haul of Carlos Gomez, Philip Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra was too rich to give up. And now he’s the Santana Appreciation thread starter