Johnny Lunchbucket

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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I saw a few seconds of a Michael Kay interview with Ron Howard where Ron sez he's a Dodger fan first but once in New York adopted the Mets as his club. During the 2006 NLDS, Ron was interviewed by Julie Donaldson of the defunct (now, not then) Mets Weekly at Shea. The director diplomatically said, in essence, he was a Dodgers fan first, a Mets fan locally. The host tried to rechristen him as a Mets fan since "this is a Mets show," but Ron, smiling but unflinchingly, wasn't having it. The Kay interview seems to have first aired in 2013, so perhaps he's put that Hollywood hogwash behind him. That's pretty much the same story he told Kay. Kay of course tried to get Cunningham to say he was a MFY fan but the best Opie could do was say his son likes them. Apropos of nothing, the actor who played Richie Cunningham Jr. on Happy Days grew up to be a chef/entrepreneur and founded a modern hipster grocery chain called Lucky's Market known for in-store smoked bacon and $2 pints of beer. Fun guy. Also a Dodgers fan, I bet.

Sorry I missed the sabr event this year. I know it was Met-ly in nature, but is it wrong to point out it wasn't a particularly robust lineup? Last year in addition to scrubs like me you had an MLB umpire and Tyler Kepner. This year its Art Shamsky for the millionth time

They saved Eric Hanhold? I know some turnover is inevitable but it's almost as though Brodie Von Whathaveyoudoneformelately is making a show of whacking Sandy's guys.

I saw a few seconds of a Michael Kay interview with Ron Howard where Ron sez he's a Dodger fan first but once in New York adopted the Mets as his club.

I was thinking we could do a post-mortem "Your Own Personal Champion" poll.

Oh I see there's a few hundred covers in every contest, nevermind

Yeah I'm like going through it, I was looking for a collection of all the covers in the contest but don't see one even in this "main" thread http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27460http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27460

Hey is there a thread containing all of the entrants from the contest beginning still out there?

Smith and Bashlor seem to me to be the kind of guys worthy of developing further. I can't think of Adam Warren without hearing Suzyn and John talk about how great he is all the time, so, no.

Was hoping Mookie was coming back but I guess we could use another lefty. It'd be cool if Wilson had to beat out Zamora for the role of Head Freemankiller

Incredibly creative and stupid site with an occasional rip roarer https://66.media.tumblr.com/8cd44e7ae86fb08357912bbec2867c9f/tumblr_pkxz9vGZwA1rmoryfo1_540.jpg>

I'm guessing the Conforto card really isn't focused on his feet but the photo of the Conforto card is. all these nice cards made "flipping" impossible. Were "trick cards" a thing when you grew up? That was where someone would take a pair of scissors & cut off colored team names of a half dozen+ cards and scotch-tape them all to one card so "every color" showed and you always won that flip. In our hood you had to agree to their use before a flip but everyone had a few or were making a few.

I have Kompromat on Rogers

Hey Rogers, vote in the Tabloid Derby!

=Centerfield post_id=1747 time=1548353784 user_id=65] 4 years. $50 million are the early reports.

The better case I make the more votes the inferior cover gets. Friggin Russians

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I do like how Conforto looks like he's hitting a target that was painted on the fence. See? It's much more interesting. Every picture of Zimmo is one of him similing. It's a nice pic but nothing special.

One last plead for BADNESS * Fun-ness: BADNESS -- funnier photo, deeper backstory, funnier pun. SMILE HIGH works on a couple levels but integration with the photo is difficult because there's nothing to indicate this even took place in Denver. The fans are Met fans. It's close, it's good, but it's not Championship Level Tabloidery. * Photography: BADNESS -- Yes, Conforto is contorted but in a way humans can only be for a moment, that's what good sports shooting is. His hat has been knocked askew. And the ball he didn't catch is right there! Shooters will tell you that getting a ball in an action shot can be challenging. The timing was so good you can see butt imprints rippling from the fence. Butt ripples! Hat troubles! Free ball! By contrast a photo of Zimmo smiling is about the only kind there is. It's a nice shot and all but the guy's jogging. Nothing is rippling. * Color: BADNESS -- I love that it's all white and blue, a gloomy, "midnight" blue at that. Newsday is all like, let's make the logo graphics red! and half the headline yellow! Context: Some voters don't buy the argument above that BADNESS is more reflective of the season, and even though that's true, they don;t need to. But to the extent every day's newspaper tells one out 162 stories, BADNESS places its story in much better context. You can look at that cover in 5 seconds not only understand what happened that night but also in the weeks before. SMILE HIGH only tells you what happened that day. It barely has a sense that it's a stitch in history. It's really just GUY HITS TWO HOMERS. You get the sense that if that happened two days in a row Newsday would graphically render it the same way. I'm Johnny Lunchbucket and I approve this message

you get what give!

I already got badness tattooed on my chest

The story of this year was 1) deGrom's starts getting screwed up by the bad offense & ineffective bullpen 2) The horrible May-June stretch, Sandy firing 3) Zimmo's breakout BADNESS checks two of three boxes while the Zimmo cover just one-- and sort of a second, but only an outlier. I salute Newsday for taking their own approach to back covers but to me they lack the gravity that the Snooze and Post traditionally carry, in part because they seem to draw from a wider collection of fonts and styles and colors . As Newsday covers go, SMILE HIGH is about as good as they get but not sure they *need* to highlight the pun by coloring it yellow. It's like a comedian laughing their own joke, saying "do you get it?" BADNESS FTW!!!!1

Al should be a Met HoFer

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