batmagadanleadoff

You didn't ask me but I got lotsa ideas. Here's one: I'd put up an installation with one Topps baseball card for every single Met ever. The cards would be organized alphabetically by the last name of each Met, and would be reorganized every time there would be additions to the exhibit. For the Randy Bobbs and Billy Cowans and Dave Schnecks and Bob Friends etc., who never got a Mets card, I'd pay Topps to go into their photo archives so that they could create cards for this installation. Every Met would be on that wall. I love the idea, but would do the wall chronologically (but would have a corresponding list by name that would get updated with every new addition). Chronological's OK. But aesthetically, I'd like it more when the card styles and player eras are all mixed up. I'd like to see a Stengel Met right next to a Valentine Met, for example. That's the specific reason I went alphabetical. Also, I'd change some cards each year. Because, assuming this exhibit was real, when you first add a player to the existing exhibit, it would logically be his debut card. But a future card of his might be more appealing. Jason my blog partner has long advocated a wall in which every Met's name is engraved, like the Vietnam Memorial but only less depressing, he claims. I like that, but I think I like this one better, especially the creation of Topps cards for the non-Toppsers. Shoot, they create sad looking cards on the video screen for the guys who don't have them, so yes, do it up right. Dave Schneck. How did Dave Schneck never get a card? And since we're paying Topps to create authentic looking cards for the Toppless Davey Schnecks, I'd have Topps dip into the ol' archives once more to redo some of those ugly capless and headless shots, especially the ones where the Met isn't even shown in the proper uniform.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: themetfairy wrote: And there is no Mrs. Met merch yet. I didn't notice myself, but I was at yesterday's game with a friend who REALLY wanted a Mrs. Met shirt. It seems like they re-introduced a potential icon but they have no game plan for promoting her. What? Doesn't everyone own this big vinyl beach ball? Doesn't everyone get to snuggle and sleep with Lady Met?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: themetfairy wrote: And there is no Mrs. Met merch yet. I didn't notice myself, but I was at yesterday's game with a friend who REALLY wanted a Mrs. Met shirt. It seems like they re-introduced a potential icon but they have no game plan for promoting her. What? Doesn't everyone own this big vinyl beach ball? Doesn't everyone get to snuggle and sleep with Lady Met?

themetfairy wrote: And there is no Mrs. Met merch yet. I didn't notice myself, but I was at yesterday's game with a friend who REALLY wanted a Mrs. Met shirt. It seems like they re-introduced a potential icon but they have no game plan for promoting her. What? Doesn't everyone own this big vinyl beach ball?

themetfairy wrote: I would love to see promotions for all fans in attendance. Not the first 10,000, etc. Let the guy who's caught working late or the family stuck in traffic know that even if they get to the game late they will still get their items. They should make more than enough for every attending fan and sell off the excess at the gift shop. The Mets don't pay to manufacture the giveaways anyways: the advertising sponsor does.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Change the fa�ade of Citi Field so that it looks more like Shea than Ebbets Field. Lighter colored bricks, and big corrugated tin rectangles. And what the heck, some neon baseball players too. This idea isn't so far fetched, and to a degree, kinda do-able. They could remove random bricks from the existing facade and replace them with pastel colored orange blue and green bricks that match the colors of the old Shea shingles. Those shingles varied in size. The Mets could mimic this effect by installing several bricks of the same color next to each other to create pastel colored rectangular sections of brick in different sizes. On second thought, I don't know that the replacing bricks idea would work so well. Most of the existing facade is windows and openings instead of wall and surface.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Change the fa�ade of Citi Field so that it looks more like Shea than Ebbets Field. Lighter colored bricks, and big corrugated tin rectangles. And what the heck, some neon baseball players too. This idea isn't so far fetched, and to a degree, kinda do-able. They could remove random bricks from the existing facade and replace them with pastel colored orange blue and green bricks that match the colors of the old Shea shingles. Those shingles varied in size. The Mets could mimic this effect by installing several bricks of the same color next to each other to create pastel colored rectangular sections of brick in different sizes.

Ceetar wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'd hate to see the the Mets bumping up against Rush, but I'm long since over FAN. I realize that this is supposed to be a prime example of the Wilpons ruining everything but I couldn't give two shits. WFAN is awful. Doubly so with Doris dead and their highest profile personality being a sleepwalking blowhard. Yeah, maybe they land some place with a weak signal, but we'll see. Mostly this, but i don't miss Doris. Her phlegmy breathing made me queasy. Cumulatively, I doubt I listened to more than two or three hours of non-Mets themed programming on WFAN in my entire lifetime. If Mike Francesca is supposed to be the arrogant blowhard that everyone knows him to be (and Francesca is) why would anyone listen to his show? You don't think the "Two guys yelling at each other" format was something the media stations pulled out of thin air do you? I don't even care because it's irrelevant to my listening interests. To me, that show was a waste of time -- it's listening to a bunch of morons pontificating on things that they're clueless about. It's one less great movie I'd otherwise never get to see, or one more great book I'd never get to read.

themetfairy wrote: You didn't ask me but I got lotsa ideas. Here's one: I'd put up an installation with one Topps baseball card for every single Met ever. The cards would be organized alphabetically by the last name of each Met, and would be reorganized every time there would be additions to the exhibit. For the Randy Bobbs and Billy Cowans and Dave Schnecks and Bob Friends etc., who never got a Mets card, I'd pay Topps to go into their photo archives so that they could create cards for this installation. Every Met would be on that wall. I love the idea, but would do the wall chronologically (but would have a corresponding list by name that would get updated with every new addition). Chronological's OK. But aesthetically, I'd like it more when the card styles and player eras are all mixed up. I'd like to see a Stengel Met right next to a Valentine Met, for example. That's the specific reason I went alphabetical. Also, I'd change some cards each year. Because, assuming this exhibit was real, when you first add a player to the existing exhibit, it would logically be his debut card. But a future card of his might be more appealing.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: If I ran the Mets, I would create a position called vice president of tradition and fan experience, and GFAFIF would be the only person interviewed. He would have an office next to mine and authority to roam the stadium and order changes to anything and everything, except for the fridge of Diet Coke in my office, my lone act of rebellion. G, what would you do, assuming you accepted my job offer? (Pay is somewhere between David Wright and Juan Lagares, closer to Lagares.) You didn't ask me but I got lotsa ideas. Here's one: I'd put up an installation with one Topps baseball card for every single Met ever. The cards would be organized alphabetically by the last name of each Met, and would be reorganized every time there would be additions to the exhibit. For the Randy Bobbs and Billy Cowans and Dave Schnecks and Bob Friends etc., who never got a Mets card, I'd pay Topps to go into their photo archives so that they could create cards for this installation. Every Met would be on that wall.

Vic Sage wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'd hate to see the the Mets bumping up against Rush, but I'm long since over FAN. I realize that this is supposed to be a prime example of the Wilpons ruining everything but I couldn't give two shits. WFAN is awful. Doubly so with Doris dead and their highest profile personality being a sleepwalking blowhard. Yeah, maybe they land some place with a weak signal, but we'll see. Mostly this, but i don't miss Doris. Her phlegmy breathing made me queasy. Cumulatively, I doubt I listened to more than two or three hours of non-Mets themed programming on WFAN in my entire lifetime. If Mike Francesca is supposed to be the arrogant blowhard that everyone knows him to be (and Francesca is) why would anyone listen to his show?

G-Fafif wrote: The Wilpon/Wilpon era accelerated the deMetsification of the franchise. Banner Day had been allowed to lapse while Doubleday was still around. Old Timers Day disappeared while Doubleday was still around. Blue and orange was blackened while Doubleday was still around. So it can't all be blamed on the second W.... As far as I'm concerned, eff Wilpon was the de facto majority owner since the early 90's Al Harazin era. eff's been running the team ever since. By then, Doubleday was so repulsed and demoralized from having been outmaneuvered and outlawyered out of his majority share of the team, that the publishing heir essentially threw his hands up in disgust and walked away from the Mets. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Citi Field is soggy free. The seats are numbered accurately. The divider-less urinals flush OK. And the elevators don't get stuck in between levels. Puddles form and sit like crazy in the front rows of Promenade well after a decent rain. Gotta be careful on some of those staircases that lead to the seats behind home plate on that level. Less soggy than good old Shea, to be sure, but not sogless by any means.... Well then they were too cheap too put a retractable roof on the joint. MODS!! Please move this post to the Done Wrong thread.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I like those little outlines of the channels in the rounded-corner rectangles to look like tiny TV screens. I'm trying to remember the distinction between the black number on the white background vs. the white on black. Was one network and the other local? One VHF and the other UHF? UHF was every channel above 13. I can't think of the word for it but the channels in the white background weren't available, at least in the NYC area. Or sometimes they'd come in with heavy snow, ghost imaged, and without sound. But usually, those were dead channels. VHF in the NYC area was six working channels 2, 4, 7, 5, 9, 11 and 13. And in the pre cable era, that was about as good as it got. Out of town channels. That's what the white background channels were.

The "C" is for color. Wow!

Edgy MD wrote: I like those little outlines of the channels in the rounded-corner rectangles to look like tiny TV screens. I'm trying to remember the distinction between the black number on the white background vs. the white on black. Was one network and the other local? One VHF and the other UHF? UHF was every channel above 13. I can't think of the word for it but the channels in the white background weren't available, at least in the NYC area. Or sometimes they'd come in with heavy snow, ghost imaged, and without sound. But usually, those were dead channels. VHF in the NYC area was six working channels 2, 4, 7, 5, 9, 11 and 13. And in the pre cable era, that was about as good as it got.

This player appeared in a Topps baseball set in two different seasons: once as a Met and once as a Cub. But he only played in actual MLB games for one of the two teams. The Mets and the Cubs are the only organizations this player ever belonged to. "What the guy above me in the Cards uniform just said. Except I've got the repeating consecutive letters in my last name only". bump Damn I know his face. The next clue is in this anagram: A Citi Field Hookworm Intro Hi (Randy) Bobb. A Citi Field Hookworm Intro is an anagram for On A Rookie Card With Tim Foli That's a clown anagram bro! lol. I missed this answer. GJ on getting the Bobb G. A Randy Bobb sighting! On the Mets 32 man roster!

] He's our Tug The white structure, is that a house trailer kinda thing? It's hard to tell from the Lute Barnes photo. But the Mets had a white clubhouse there with what looked like aluminum siding. That clubhouse was there from when the Mets moved in in 1962. The clubhouse might be the white structure in the Barnes photo. I noticed it was up off the ground, but I guess every structure down there is. I was curious if it was mobile, possibly screwing up the consistent nature of the Sadeki Spot. Here's one partial view of the clubhouse. There are better views, especially from the Stengel years.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ] He's our Tug The white structure, is that a house trailer kinda thing? It's hard to tell from the Lute Barnes photo. But the Mets had a white clubhouse there with what looked like aluminum siding. That clubhouse was there from when the Mets moved in in 1962. The clubhouse might be the white structure in the Barnes photo. The structure in the Barnes photo might also be a trailer, as you suggest. I see that it's raised. (perhaps on wheels?)

] Zvon wrote: He's our Tug The white structure, is that a house trailer kinda thing? It's hard to tell from the Lute Barnes photo. But the Mets had a white clubhouse there with what looked like aluminum siding. That clubhouse was there from when the Mets moved in in 1962. The clubhouse might be the white structure in the Barnes photo.

Zvon wrote: He's our Tug The white structure, is that a house trailer kinda thing? Which picture?

This The Man From Topps photo of this Met pitcher expands the view of the Sadecki spot, much like the hurler's personal assortment of baffling and screwy pitches expanded the strike zone for those unfortunate hitters who batted against him. Who is he?

Zvon wrote: Is that a real beard? Dave Kingman. Try and pull it off and you'll find out. Zvon wrote: As a collector of Met pics that is an amazin' pic of Shneck. Which one are you talkin' about? The b&w with Staub and Milner or The Man From Topps shot?

Who is this bearded Met with the impish grin and David Wright's future uniform #?