Zvon

Newy, 2 Ks looking. aaaaaaargh. At least make some contact- gimme some hope.

See that 2 strike bunt? Good teams do that kinda thing. I expected them to score but Thor put the hammer down. Very nice.

Boo muff! He hit it hard tho. 1 run ain't gonna do it boys!

Wong sucks. Make it count Muffy.

Ashie62 wrote: Keith is right on calling St. Louis "Pit City" in the summer. It is freakin hot. What was the joke there? Gary made it seem that there was more to the "pit city" nickname.

CURTBOOM!!!!!

G-Fafif wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Nieuwey over Cuddy! Can't sit the three-home run guy the game directly after his historic feat. I'm still a bit surprised. I like it. Mets baseball is back. yay! I thought the game was at 7 so the last hour was a tough one.

So now I got a wacky collection of 83t Seavers. I figure I'll end up making one for the blog as well when I get to the '83s. I am a big fan of this design. I was really out of card collecting alltogether in 83 and hadn't even seen what the '83's looked like til around '86/'87. Dwight Goodens appearance is what got me back into cards in '85 (from 85 to around 94). [fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iuAXnBIlEic/VacJnd3aUSI/AAAAAAAAcS0/75JcDdGz-G0/s682-Ic42/83tTSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xoMdp968uAA/VacJnXyeA3I/AAAAAAAAcS8/ND10m8EUU6M/s800-Ic42/83opcTSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W7_X49MYF8c/VacJqVP_bVI/AAAAAAAAcTo/WzFlBzFciAc/s800-Ic42/83tUD-TSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xUhVbeMqRVA/VacJlT2XWGI/AAAAAAAAcSo/e34k1q_Kh4k/s556-Ic42/83Seaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk] You can see on the 83tUD back they cover Tom from 1967 to 1982. And I'm sure his last Topps card has his complete stats. Why would Topps not have his complete back on the limited card? Or at least up to that year, 83? I think they are intentionally trying to piss me off so I talk about them. DOH! [fimg=400:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iwvVSyDeNzI/VacJpDhmOMI/AAAAAAAAcTU/t05ZL6HOysE/s1024-Ic42/83tUD-TSback.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk]

These are the Archive Mets I got. [fimg=400:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AKLYEQBY0N0/VacJp123MGI/AAAAAAAAcTM/LyZeANHa7X4/s831-Ic42/LagsMook.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] [fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ra3Z8Uug6CY/VabwA21sFyI/AAAAAAAAcOU/7CxolPeYcn0/s554-Ic42/76MUFFY.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk][fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KjlqDieOW_k/VabwB1qnVjI/AAAAAAAAcOI/QP57u4zmmio/s557-Ic42/76deGROM.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] [fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xUhVbeMqRVA/VacJlT2XWGI/AAAAAAAAcSo/e34k1q_Kh4k/s556-Ic42/83Seaver.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] Got two Farrell's, only scanned one. The other is a 1982 on the Reds. [fimg=300:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xh1K41XLqJQ/VacyqNClWBI/AAAAAAAAcVU/3M4tjnjzA-k/s655-Ic42/89WF.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] And I'll need a drumroll for this one. This card has made my season. I keep fighting getting sucked in to this business where they make a card rare out of the chute with a limited run. If someone else got this I'd be bitching. But I got it so I'll jump for joy. 83 gold border Tom Seaver, #23 of 50. [fimg=300:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NqAepwDtYpE/VabwhOWBHII/AAAAAAAAcO4/qBiYKEICAMg/s800-Ic42/TS.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] [fimg=500:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tJv61W-BTmI/VabwGCNylmI/AAAAAAAAcOw/9bKI4tR_CJA/s1024-Ic42/TSback.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk] This type of card is really nice but I'm not out to collect limited cards. That would drive me both crazy & broke. Also, I have a problem with that back. Why would Topps cut off the stats at 1979? From what I can see they did this to retired players with long careers. I don't like it. And Topps continually amazes me with decisions like that. More in my next post, which will show Seaver's actual 1983 Topps cards. To be continued...

seawolf17 wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175. I'll start sorting. I can tell you that I got almost two of every card from the 2 boxes I opened. To put it the other way there were maybe 10 cards that I didn't get doubles of out of 160. I will be happy to trade&mail, but first I have to check with one of my brothers who said he might try and build the set. He wouldn't want to do it thru the mail tho, I don't think, and If he's not visiting again til X-mas he'll have to go to the back of the line. In any case, if all 3 of us work together it should be very doable. I'll work on a list.

I had to go 17 deep to resurrect this thread. And I'm also hijacking it for a while, so there. Had the annual ASG pack party. I've been wanting to get some 2015 Topps Archive. I checked Target & Walmart 4 times since the 1st week in June when they came out and they did not have 'em. Then a few hours before the game one of my brothers calls and says that they have boxes of Archive at Target. So we zipped out there and grabbed some. We also had some 2015 Topps series2. I knew I would like the Archive cards because I was a fan of the primary designs used: 1957, 1976, & 1983. I may come off as a card collector, and I was in the past, but up until I bought some Archive packs in 2013 I had not bought more than a couple of regular issue Topps packs a year-just to see what they looked like. With the emergence of these Mets pitchers I began buying more packs to try and get their rookie cards. The only one already released was Harvey, and incredibly I got that in a pack (I only bought a few 2012 packs-that was very lucky). So I have a nice little collection of newage Metrookie cards. I'll get back to the Mets in a bit. These are how the 2015 Archive look and I really like these cards. I'm going to try and complete the set. I love that '76 Kiner. [fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ubdQIx-1oGg/VacJj_zJLPI/AAAAAAAAcSI/JOe3GLA6dik/s598-Ic42/57BJ.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IopDVGVt7v0/VacJkUN59aI/AAAAAAAAcSM/YyzHWXMsvjs/s589-Ic42/57WB.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3sQpKqrbJQc/Vacyp5VgHhI/AAAAAAAAcVM/r7wRN5U1OlI/s667-Ic42/57MB.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e-orQmbGT4w/VacJkizx1zI/AAAAAAAAcSQ/3QqsC9SZyz0/s590-Ic42/76RC.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l2OcZwCvsHI/VacrsbExyWI/AAAAAAAAcU0/U29uXtgIGr8/s667-Ic42/83LG.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EEfTPQY-ShA/VabwBtdNDOI/AAAAAAAAcOM/jjurW2RO09s/s549-Ic42/76Ralph.png[/fimg:2jscfi90] The silver border is a limited run of 199 printed. Not a Trout collector but that's nice. Maybe I'll start one. What's his rookie card? [fimg=400:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m5mxXepATPU/VacLF4EqPqI/AAAAAAAAcT8/giJUIfQzCKc/s780-Ic42/SILVERtroutWainwright.png[/fimg:2jscfi90] [fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DJioDOGKBjA/VacyqLRUbUI/AAAAAAAAcVY/zMdUY_H9A4U/s667-Ic42/89BBauto.png[/fimg:2jscfi90] Got an autographed Bret Boone. If there are any Boone fans in the audience, I will trade this for a worthy Mets card. ....to be continued (with Mets cards).

Trout. Trouts a superstar. Harpers a shooting star. He'll glow hotter but not for nearly as long.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: I only saw deGroms inning on the mound & interview afterwards. I might try to watch the whole game tonight. Those caps they wore were hideous. Same here. I saw deGrom's inning pitched, and then stuck around until I realized deGrom wouldn't be returning for another inning. Those corporate money grab market surveyed caps baseball's corporate bean counters pushed out ruined my all-star experience. For me the MLB ASG was always about whatever Mets were on the team and the uniforms, the aesthetic spectacle, the pageantry of all those baseball colors, like I probably said in another thread or two. And those idiotic caps, to me, are a stain on the whole thing. Goddamnit. I'm watching the game now-going into the 5th. 1-1. I had this on last night but my brothers and I did our annual ASG/BaseballCard/pack party thing. We were having so much fun yakkin & opening the packs that we weren't watching the game until we saw deGrom come on. And after his interview with Erin Andrews we went back to ignoring the game. I'm gonna have to scan my card haul cause I did great in the Mets department. Game itself has been boring--knowing what's going to happen is a major factor. The pre-game with Rose & the Reds, meh, nice. But it won't change the hole he has dug for himself. Joe Morgan looked surprisingly frail. The tribute to Aaron, Bench, Koufax, Mays & some guy with a pencil mustache was excellent. I enjoyed seeing that, so far, the highlight for me. At least until the 6th. I wanna jump ahead but I'll sit thru this boring badly brimmed bullshit while I scan some cards.

d'Kong76 wrote: So who won? And the extra day off tomorrow is still stupid. Agreed. I like Edgys week off proposal but that's just gonna make the break even tougher on us. I only saw deGroms inning on the mound & interview afterwards. I might try to watch the whole game tonight. Those caps they wore were hideous.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: (As an aside, I'd link to that thread for your benefit if only this search engine behaved anywhere near functional. But this searcher is by far, no question about it, nothing even remotely close, the worst search engine I've ever encountered on any web site. A search that shouldn't take more than 30 seconds, especially when I'm positive of the search terms that should turn up that thread, might take me 10 minutes, or even likelier, forever. So I'm not even bothering.) I did a search and the results were in faster than it took me to read your aside.

Edgy MD wrote: First All-Star ever to fan the side on 10 pitches. Totally fantastic incredibly amazin'. I'm not used to the word history in association with the Mets as much as it has been lately.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zvon wrote: How much did the '94 strike have to do with that? I'd say the strike is about 80 per cent responsible. Another 10 per cent for fatherhood and another 10 per cent for general aging and changing of perspective. The strike effected my love for baseball big time. Well, not my love of the game, my love of big league ball. It took many years to get back to where I am now, and I'm still not 50% the fan I used to be. Always 100% a baseball fan (went to a lot of minor league A.C. SURF games) but being a fan of major league baseball took a big hit. If I didn't feel so strongly about the Mets I don't think I'd have ever found my way back.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Good gravy, Grimm. That's not a tendency; that's Fandom pathology. What can I say? My interest in baseball has become very narrow. I used to be a rabid fan. I followed every team around the league. I knew who all of the starting players were. Who was hot and who was cold. Had informed opinions regarding who should win the post-season awards. Tried to watch every pitch of every post-season game. But that's all gone now. I never would have imagined that I could become as disaffected as I've become, but I have. And if it could happen to me, it could happen to you! BEWARE! How much did the '94 strike have to do with that? Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know who Madison Bumgarner is, and Clayton Kershaw, and Max Scherzer, but if you showed me three mugshots, with them not wearing their caps, I wouldn't be able to tell you which one was which. [fimg=500]https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/c06-v3-scherzer-16-1024x657.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1[/fimg] The eyes would give Scherzer away. Joe Shlabotniks custom Scherzer tattoo. How kool is that?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Are we sure that's the same guy? There can be any number of Richard Smiths, including the famous bull-riding founder of my hometown of Smithtown. I'm sure I must have mentioned: 32 Carnegie Drive. Dogwood Elementary, 1964-1967. Loved it out there. Must be all built up.

Hmm, thank you. I looked in there too but couldn't see a string that made sense. If it's there, I'll find it.

How?

seawolf17 wrote: It's images. Just images. With captions. (And short videos, but whatever.) You need the app to do it on your mobile device, but you do NOT need to join or download anything to look at the pics. instagram.com/wefollowlucasduda instagram.com/mets instagram.com/pizza Thanks brother wolf. So if I stick Joe's handle in there,WALA, I can see his page. Instagram INSTAGRAM.COM Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. Shit, I sure would like to follow, share, and win that deGrom baseball. (can't link pics from there to here, so IMO it sucks.)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zvon wrote: Can anyone explain the new format? I don't even have the sound up. I thought that Fman's post, above, was the explanation of the new format. With the sound up there's not much difference. So it's over? Todd Frazier wins. yay! Good for him. *yawn That was just like watching a video game, and I'm sure MLB would be glad to hear that.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Zvon wrote: Can anyone explain the new format? I don't even have the sound up. Sure! Brackets, so you compete against another player to get to the next round. Instead of the homers/10 out format, each batter has 4 minutes. The get 30 seconds extra if they hit a long-distance bomb. So rather than take pitch after pitch, they might as well swing at everything. No MYS, which is good for everybody. It's certainly more interesting. I don't recognize any of these guys w/o their baseball caps on. Well, Albert I knew.

Ceetar wrote: Zvon wrote: I went to join instagram and they wanted me to d/l and install something. Basically I just wanted to view stuff, but I can't with d/l'ing this .exe. I don't have anything that can be considered an app and I don't understand what I'm installing. So instagram is not a web-site, but a program? Who knows what the deal is? you shouldn't have to download an exe. in fact, don't. it's an phone app invented because iPhones used to take really crappy photos, so this app touched them up by adding filters. it's developed into kind of a picture-oriented social media site. You can download the apk to your phone (or you know, through your appropriate market) otherwise just sorta follow the link posted earlier to see Duda's. or like, Instagram INSTAGRAM.COM Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. to see Lily Rose Depp's. If you create an account and login via instagram.com you can 'follow' people and your main instgram.com page will be a timeline of those peoples recent posts. I don't think you can create an account online though, gotta be through the mobile app. Thank you for the detailed response. Joe Petruccio said to check out his instagram stuff and I was hoping to do that. So it's like a tumblr for iphones?