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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=33151 time=1583875665 user_id=68] =Centerfield post_id=33147 time=1583875171 user_id=65] I mean, the gist of this seems to be: Male sports writers think locker room access is crucial. Sure, some women may get harassed a bit, but it's not bad and much better than it used to be. In the end, hanging out with naked dudes gives me insight, and that makes me a better writer.

=Centerfield post_id=33147 time=1583875171 user_id=65] I mean, the gist of this seems to be: Male sports writers think locker room access is crucial. Sure, some women may get harassed a bit, but it's not bad and much better than it used to be. In the end, hanging out with naked dudes gives me insight, and that makes me a better writer.

The Athletic asks: What is the best batting order for the 2020 Mets? https://theathletic.com/1666438/2020/03/10/what-is-the-best-batting-order-for-the-2020-mets/https://theathletic.com/1666438/2020/03/10/what-is-the-best-batting-order-for-the-2020-mets/ Excerpt: A batting order can be constructed in hundreds of thousands of ways — 362,880 to be exact — and for the Mets, almost none of them feel just right. This is largely a good problem for New York to have. It is difficult for the Mets to figure out how to build that everyday lineup, not because of a dearth of options, but because of a surplus. “We have a lot of guys that profile hitting in the top just because of their ability to get on base. We have a lot of guys that have the ability to drive in runs, hitting in clutch situations and with runners in scoring position, that can hit in the middle,” manager Luis Rojas said. “We've thought about it. There's so much depth that you can almost play around a little bit with the lineup. But we're not there yet.” I've written occasional posts here over the years, opining that the #2 hole is the most butchered and misunderstood slot in a baseball lineup. I guess I should take that back now, because according to this piece, that's not true anymore. MLB, not surprisingly, given the explosion of data and the proliferation of statheads with advanced math degrees now working in baseball, has figured it out -- and that your best hitters should be at the top of the lineup, including at the #2 slot. In fact, one current trend is to bat your best hitter second, not third or fourth. The reasoning is that the #3 hitter gets to bat more than any other batter, with two outs and nobody on, the most inefficient circumstance there is as far as run expectancy goes. Then there's the obvious fact that the #2 slot will get more PA's than the #'s 3&4 over the course of a season. Pete Alonso, for example, batted almost as many times from the #2 hole as from the #3 hole last season.

[fimg=666]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/cropped-mrc-banner.jpg[/fimg] Ooooh! A Kathy Kersh sighting! Still earning her Batman cards power/speed championship title. But I don't get the concept. Why do we need an off-site site?

=Centerfield post_id=33112 time=1583862699 user_id=65] I didn't say women don't belong in the locker room, I said interviews don't belong in the locker room.

Did youse all forgot that today is Fabulous Friday and that we here at Typewriter blah blah blah are celebrating 1969 all this week not including Stormy Monday and Super Tuesday which was just as bad as Stormy Monday and not really so Super for Elizabeth Warren? And did youse all see the all-night long love fest for the persistent Senator from Massachusetts? Liz is as beloved on MSNBC as she is on this here forum. They poured out their hearts for Liz all night long straight through the whole lineup from whoever replaced Chris Matthews all the way to Brian Williams. The evening was so heartfelt, so melancholy, you woulda though they killed JFK all over again. Anyways, we're closing out the work-week with another Batman69 card. Mashed up with our all-stars for another look at a 1969 all-star. (All-star cards mean Latin American market, no matter whether it's a 2019 all-star or a 1969 all-star -- youse know the drill). Plus we're taking those two mashed up subsets, and mashing them up with a third subset -- as we go Special Guest Villain on our Batman69 all-star card. And this card comes with its own video. So enjoy the show and look out for more upcoming Batman cards coming soon to a store near youse. [YOUTUBE]Nri3o0KFg-8[/YOUTUBE] https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49627502232_46d87b4d9a_c.jpg>

It's Terrific Thursday, here at Typewriter Chewing Gum and we're still celebrating 1969 all the rest of the week. Just like we said we would. Today's Batman69 release mashes up with our league leaders subset for another Metsian card. And as an added bonus, today's card goes to four. Four, as in fourth place -- instead of the usual top three finishers in the statistical category. Take a good look at that card and youse can figure out why we went to four. How else d'yas think we could make that card Metsian? That's one more disembodied head than the usual number for youse lucky youses. Today, we take a look at 1969 defense through the prism of modern sabrmetric stats that didn't exist back in 1969. And whaddya know? Sabrmetrics supports those old observations that Clete Boyer and Hal Lanier were among the finest fielders of their day. At least as far as this leaderboard goes. Lanier was sorta a Rey Ordonez of his time. A brilliant fielder and a dreadful hitter. So dreadful that quite a few baseball historians think that Lanier, singelhandedly prevented the powerhouse 60s Giants from competing with the league's World Series bound elites. Those Giants were just lousy with Hall of Famers. They had more Hall of Famers than most teams had all-stars. But they also had Lanier. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49623409236_8b2b320445_c.jpg>

What comes after Super Tuesday? Wonderful Wednesday, Terrific Thursday and Fabulous Friday! And what a rest of the week we here at Typewriter Chewing gum have in store for youse! We're celebrating 1969 all the rest of this week with our Batman69 line of cards. Lucky youse! First up, it's our Wonderful Wednesday entry. We're gonna sock it to youse with a straight up Batman69 card honoring the top ranked Nielsen rated show of the 1968-69 TV season and the 1969-79 TV season. That's some two year run. And if you Venn diagram the 1968-69 and 1969 TV seasons, whaddya get? 1969, that's what you get. And isn't that the point of our Batman69 line of Batman Mets cards? Plus, the boys at R&D over at Plasticine Industries told us that The Archer is suddenly hot and that the heads at Plasticine wanna make more money. Isn't that also the point? They were pretty clear about what they were getting at. More Archer means more money. And we take our marching orders from Plasticine, so we squoze in The Archer into our latest offering. Tune in tomorrow, Terrific Thursday for some more Batman69. Same bat-time. Same bat-channel. And that's the truth. Pfffffft! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49618668486_b981969eb1_c.jpg>

You would think Ideal had the mid 60s tv show market locked up for their card board games. But it turns out that those three, Get Smart, F Troop and Batman were the only three I found, so far. Milton Bradley made most of the card board games for mid 60s TV shows, as far as I can tell. If I used that Get Smart game, I'd have to repeat the Batman game image to make the match I might, but I'm trying to avoid repeating images.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49512142337_c6a7aae18e_c.jpg> Uncle Miltie did such a swell job of introducing our Balloon line of You Look Familiar cards that we've asked him to introduce our Silence! line of You Look Familiar cards. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49610609211_7fbe9edd71_c.jpg>

With just one season under his major league belt (but what a season!), Polar Bear Pete is already being compared to all-time great, Willie Stargell. Peak Willie Stargell. 1971 Willie Stargell. The best Willie Stargell that ever was. At least according to the Topps 2020 Heritage Then & Now subset. And Stargell hadn't even shifted over to 1st base yet, either. [fimg=500]https://cconnect.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-Topps-Heritage-Baseball-Cards-Then-and-Now-Alonso-Stargell.jpg[/fimg]

Just great. It's 14-1 against Trump but I'm the only one here who gets viciously insulted from here to high heaven and China for disagreeing with Betsy DeVos's policies.

Dont'cha just hate anachronistic photographs? I especially hated it in Ken Burns's Baseball documentary. And I hate 'em on baseball cards that are supposed to capture a specific date or time. Check out that 1969 patch. [Fimg=377]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UlQAAOSwtzJeV3Gm/s-l1600.jpg[/Fimg] Or maybe, this is just a shameless, thinly veiled plug for one of my Batman cards. At Typewriter Chewing Gum, we get our pictures right because we're a stickler for those kinds of details. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49538502543_088eff89b7_c.jpg> The two Seaver pics were taken milliseconds apart and are from the same pitch being delivered.

If you're feeling a bustle in your hedgerow, it must be the newly released 1971-based 2020 Topps Heritage baseball cards. Paging Vida Blue. Vida Blue. [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/poUAAOSwnQFeVvbo/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=477]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UgIAAOSwq-JeWHa7/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ybcAAOSwRY1eVYHt/s-l500.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mN8AAOSwxOleVzqK/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/deoAAOSwWapeVuUa/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Xk8AAOSwv-5eWFx-/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YQoAAOSwboFeVvON/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=377]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9bYAAOSw-F1eWGUY/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=377]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/trsAAOSwgaxeV0DF/s-l500.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ANIAAOSwc2ReWKO3/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=377]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cMwAAOSwCnpeVzd3/s-l500.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=377]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ii8AAOSwym1eVzS0/s-l500.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=577]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BowAAOSwFqJeVwD4/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IrMAAOSwIxVeV3Hg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UlQAAOSwtzJeV3Gm/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=277]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5CAAAOSwETBeWRIU/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG]

Trump posts in the Baseball Forum. My favorites. The Trump option, of course.

You've got to be damn good and damn lucky to win a Cy Young award, let alone two in a row. In short, so much has to go your way. Of course, deGrom, over the last two seasons combined, was about the unluckiest pitcher in the history of the world. So who the hell knows?

Edgy MD wrote: Niekro looks to be under the power of dark forces. Not any more. Plus, befitting of a King, we put the real gold, not just the color gold, into Tut's garments and jewelry. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49590791237_cbdaefa034_c.jpg> [FIMG=393]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49587995508_21b6ef89fa_c.jpg[/FIMG]

Edgy MD wrote: Niekro looks to be under the power of dark forces. Source image: [fimg=393]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49588450243_5f241f0c94_c.jpg[/fimg]

Looks like it's League Leaders month all month long at Typewriter Chewing Gum, a subsidiary of Plasticine Industries, and still, the makers of the finest Batman Mets cards in the whole wide world. And today, we mash-up our subsets once again, for a Batman69 look at some league leaders with a Mets flavor. And a twist of Batman, too. Look closely and you'll see that we squeezed in four league leaders on the card below - instead of the usual three, thanks to a third place tie. Lucky youse. That's one more league leading major leaguer for the same price. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49587995508_21b6ef89fa_c.jpg>

Edgy MD wrote: Who did the bulbous cheeked illustrations? Tom Richmond [fimg=444]https://i2.wp.com/www.tomrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/car20.jpg?ssl=1[/fimg] [FIMG=444]https://i2.wp.com/www.tomrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/plant.jpg?ssl=1[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://i2.wp.com/www.tomrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/car10.jpg?ssl=1[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://i1.wp.com/www.tomrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/vbuono.jpg?ssl=1[/FIMG]

=MFS62 post_id=32295 time=1582640285 user_id=60] Batmags, before you continue reading, sit down. OK, sitting? Good. I actually liked that one. (I didn't want you to faint) Later

Curious, this general "aw, this is charming" vibe to the discussion about it... compared to the what-a-fuckup perception surrounding Yoenis' adventures in the Boar Wars.... Because Bumgarner didn't sustain season ending injuries while roping? Not that this would be the most logical rationalization.

Edgy MD wrote: Though I didn't give Art Carney proper respect in the Guess Who Died thread, I'm all about The Archer. We updated The Archer's league leader card to bring it more in line with the look of the other league leader cards -- an always evolving process. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49580081552_d48b4cca13_c.jpg> [FIMG=272]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49558361611_3e0f767125_c.jpg[/FIMG] Edgy MD wrote: Good Fake Bat-Villains The Grandmaster: Meticulously schemes against Gotham City and Bat-Man, carefully getting all his pieces in place, anticipating several moves ahead, before swooping in for the checkmate. Cliffhanger: Batman is forced to play a game of chess against his own Bat-Computer, with himself, Robin, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara as pieces! Proposed Actors: Russell Johnson, Howard Keel. The Cereal Killer: So hopped-up on Sugar-Snaps, the Cereal Killer makes Frank Gorshin look positively somnambulent, as he poisons the breakfasts of several Gotham VIPs, threatening global stability as Gotham is about to host The World Meeting of Bankers, for whom skipping breakfast just isn't an option. Cliffhanger: Smothered in a three-story box of Toasty Oats, lined with a sealed bag, and denuded of their signature utility belts, Bat-Man and Robin's only hope of getting out before suffocating is to find the massive, secret prize and utilize it in their escape! Can they track the CK to his lair from the address on the giant proof-of-purchase seal before breakfast is served all across the city?!! Proposed Actors: Burt Lahr, Earnest Borgnine. The Vixen: Dressed like a she-fox by day, she glams herself up and goes undercover a night, seducing Gotham's wealthiest and most gullible, who find her charms irresistible. Once she has them alone, she sprays them with a hypnotic foxy-toxin, which not only renders her marks unconscious, they wake up thinking that they've had a wonderful evening, and feel irresistably compelled to send her their most prized possession as an affectionate gift. One each day until the spray wears off. Cliffhanger: After accepting a date with the mysterious and alluring Ms. Foxcroft, Bruce Wayne leaves Alfred and Robin stunned when he attempts to mail the Bat-Mobile to her hotel. This will not only cost them a key part of their arsenal, but blow their covers as well. Is Bruce bluffing, or has he gone batty?! Proposed Actors: Kim Novak, Sofia Loren (in which case, her civilian name would be "Signorina Volpe.") You sound like you're into the rogue's gallery of Batman villains. Which is a good thing, we here at Typewriter Chewing Gum believe. Because without Gotham City's super-villains, there'd be nothing for Batman to do, and therefore, no mid-60s TV show phenomenon, and no Batman Mets cards some 50 years later. Some actual proposed villains that missed the TV cut were The Scribbler, (a failed pop artist), Dr. Somnambulus and Lady Macbeth. Upon learning that ABC was planning to produce a Batman TV show, Frank Sinatra did everything in his power to land the role of The Joker, which he desperately coveted. It was already too late, as Cesar Romero was one of the first actors signed up for the show and the network was extremely pleased with its casting catch. There are no reports of decapitated horse's heads ending up in the beds of any ABC execs. Spencer Tracy was first offered the role of The Penguin, but apparently, ol' Spence didn't quite understand how the show worked. Spencer insisted on being able to kill off Batman as a condition to taking the role.

Edgy MD wrote: Are the Marlins really going back to teal tops and the off-center fish insignia again? Goddamn disgrace as far as I'm concerned that the Marlins ditched their original Marlins Stadium art deco unis. Fucking philistine Jeter and his matching ego to have to have his own fucking unis.

I'm back and forth on Alonso's power output for 2020. Juiced ball or not, Alonso was baseball's best HR hitter last year, outhomering everybody with the same ball everybody else hadda hit. And Alonso didn't get any home field help, having to play half his games in Citi Field, a stadium that takes homers away from hitters. Plus, I read a study a few months ago where Alonso didn't get much help from the juiced ball. Alonso justs swings as hard as hell and he's already mastered the right angles to swing at to maximize HR output. Plus, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence in the form of Alonso's peers whispering among themselves that Alonso's already baseball's best HR hitter. So we'll see. I expect a decline in HR output, attributable more than anything else to the ever-swinging pendulum swinging back to pitchers, who"ll have figgered him out some in this tit for tat leapfrog game of baseball intelligence. I mean -- 53 HR's is hard to top, no matter whether you have your whole career ahead of you, or whether you're some Daniel Murphy, peaking late, with most of your career already behind you.