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Warren wrote: Looks like two different efforts, unless he had a quick smile. batmagadanleadoff wrote: Different takes. Compare Yogi's grips. I've got to have the B&W version somewhere. I'll look.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: I'll share (or re-share) some of my colorizations here, sans the MFC logo or my sig. I don't recall ever sharing this one, especially full sized. Ashburn doing what he did alot. I'd love to make money through my color work but then I couldn't share it in this manner. Once the image is out there, especially a big bare version like this that would print up excellently, it's worthless. It's flown the coup. Bye bye Richie. Jeez, this is so good, it's even better than a real color photograph. How the hell do you do that? Determination and an eye for detail. I see now, at this size, there's some real light blue in Ashburn's uni that should have been removed. That's only supposed to cover the pinstripes. Oh yea, and you need to be real anal, lol.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Though the Failing Ultimate Mets Database and the Fake News Mets by the Numbers don't include him, Olympic gold medalist and Nazi humiliator Jesse Owens was ... briefly a coach for the Mets! Yeah, it was as a spring training instructor, but still! Here is as as newly signed player coach Yogi Berra and GM George Weiss celebrate his first day by attempting to cripple him. Another take, different angle --- Jesse smiling, and in the background, Howard Cosell smoking a cigarette, and Johnny Murphy [fimg=777]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4593/39524553381_5ab073d91d_b.jpg[/fimg] Looks like two different efforts, unless he had a quick smile. Did they keep on raising the bat every time?

Edgy MD wrote: I am reading what you type. I promise. Don't mean to get all huffy. It's just my blood rises a little when I think about Dowd and his doings. He has a solid noose around Pete's neck without resorting to underhanded maneuvers. Then why does he? He's a cun........dickhead.

cooby wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: ^ Lol on the horns ^ ditto. Also love the sideways look LOLOL The picture is perfect. The expression on all their faces. Look at Warthen! He's like WTF? Ha, perfect.

d'Kong76 wrote: I like both of these, went Blunder. *Z starts changing this years vacation plans.

cooby wrote: I keep getting Ray Ramirez and Ray Romano mixed up. Yes, he's gone, Zvon I voted for Blunder even though I don't like the negativity, I really don't like that pic of DeGrom It's about freakin time. Yea, deGrom looks like a grouchy old man, lol.

Edgy MD wrote: I don't know. If you're confident in the information, and it's relevant to the question at hand, you share it. And as it turns that he has the source to back it up, I'm not sure what the problem is. Then you're not reading what I type. Dowd should share his info through the proper channels, not as radio gossip. Maybe he did, and if he did I wouldn't be considering it to be gossip ( there's no evidence of that), but that radio thing, THE TIMING! Pete was just about to be allowed back into a baseball spotlight and Dowd smacks him down, while making it sound like the allegations of statutory rape were a side bar ("....isn't that lovely?").

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: {....the Dowd Report is 28 years old, and in substance, it's held up. Every part of it.} But doesn't that only deal with his gambling? Sure, but this is information that Dowd appears to have gotten as a sleezy little bonus during the gambling investigation. He may have even passed it on to authorities. If all he did was pass it on to authorities, the proper thing to do, I would not be typing all this. But come on. Dropping a bomb that he was doing 12-14 year old kids flippantly on a radio talk show, and considering the timing, it's akin to propaganda. I don't like Dowd. Not too thrilled with Petener either, but I have to respect his baseball accomplishments. And after '73 he'd have had to accomplished a lot to rise to any level of respect in my book.

I'll share (or re-share) some of my colorizations here, sans the MFC logo or my sig. I don't recall ever sharing this one, especially full sized. Ashburn doing what he did alot. I'd love to make money through my color work but then I couldn't share it in this manner. Once the image is out there, especially a big bare version like this that would print up excellently, it's worthless. It's flown the coup. Bye bye Richie.

Ugh, I really have no desire to be reminded of the fall of Thor and have that in my face next time I visit headquarters. But yet, it was something that happened, so I'll have to think about it. Okay, times up. How dare they accuse Noah of blundering! Okay, he did, but keep that in small print and off the back page. This was the last game I covered at MFC. That sucks too. Ray Ramirez is gone, right? [fimg=500:1dzl39dl]https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-07WukSeOjFg/WQZMpgUpnnI/AAAAAAAAwjQ/UXbjAayoQc8VYLCdYeJav1Q3ZSfuhvq2QCPcB/s640/2017mfcSL-ThorPain-z17.png[/fimg:1dzl39dl]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets have shopped Matt Harvey, but it’s unclear if Pittsburgh is interested in the 28-year-old. Harvey for McCutchen? Hmmmm... I think I'd be okay with that! I'd do it in a heartbeat. That'd be a steal and a half! But also, sadly, a reflection of how far Mattman has fallen. I hope this kind of talk motivates Matt, as opposed to making him a sulking sissyboy.

Edgy MD wrote: {....the Dowd Report is 28 years old, and in substance, it's held up. Every part of it.} But doesn't that only deal with his gambling? Rockin' Doc wrote: Having sex with a minor, half his age when he was a married father of 2 children; what a degenerate, scumbag Pete Rose was (is). Betting on games, being a prolific liar, and an egotistical ass pales in comparison to statutory rape. I totally agree, as I said up there^. Well, kinda said. I thought the Dowd thing just dealt with his gambling issues. Then after that we learned what a liar and BIG headed idiot he was.

Hey Ceets, is your avatar from one of the Final Fantasy vid games? I just completed FF1 and am currently playing FF2 on an emulator. I got the FF2 bootlegged version that was canceled here in the states and only released in Japan until some later anniversary issue. I've only ever played the one released on Sega Genesis, I think it was FF7. I'm gonna run thru 'em all, in order, over the next year or so. These early versions are great, glitches and all. But FF2 was a serious departure and bombed in Japan. It tasks me sometimes, but I am enjoying it. It's from Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest. I've played FF1,4,6,7,8,9.. and then sorta ran out of time. I'll get back to them. FF1 rocks. i've messed around with 2 and 3, but never finished them. I think I rented 2 once from Blockbuster when that was a thing and got pretty far along, but that was it. No final fantasy was on Sega. Nintendo only until 7, which was on PS1. GAMING TIME OUT! I don't recall having a Nintendo system at that time. If I do recall correctly it was a cartridge game tho. I had a PS1 but that was disc games, right? Could there have been a converter or something? Whatever FF game I was playing, I rented it and got into it so much I couldn't return it until it was completed (It was late two weeks, I think). I had to pay fiddy bucks in late fees! I COULD HAVE BOUGHT THE DAMN GAME FOR THAT MUCH!!!! Here's me and my girlfriends son playing on the Sega Genesis system. I'm doing my impression of Doc, and Ethan ,...I can't tell. Might have been his impression of a Starting Lineup Mets figure. Look at all that music I had another shelf of albums that is not in view, and more cassettes in cassette cases. Okay, back to your regularly scheduled FAKE NEWS

Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: not able to run it as it deserves. lol. it's their business. it's a business. they can run it anyway they want and _it_ and _us_ deserve literally nothing. A big market city does deserve a big market team, IMO. Hey Ceets, is your avatar from one of the Final Fantasy vid games? I just completed FF1 and am currently playing FF2 on an emulator. I got the FF2 bootlegged version that was canceled here in the states and only released in Japan until some later anniversary issue. I've only ever played the one released on Sega Genesis, I think it was FF7. I'm gonna run thru 'em all, in order, over the next year or so. These early versions are great, glitches and all. But FF2 was a serious departure and bombed in Japan. It tasks me sometimes, but I am enjoying it.

The rescinded HOF honor was the Phillies/Pete Rose. Yup! Why did they do this? This broke a few weeks before the ceremony date: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20208447/woman-accuses-pete-rose-statutory-rape I see he admits to having sex with the girl, but thought that she was 16 at the time (not that that makes it right. He was a married man). And then she says they had sex in other states besides Ohio? Boy, that young gal gets around. Did Pete pay for the travel expenses? She doesn't bother to say, as well as which states they found hay to roll around in. Sounds a little fishy to me. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if he did know she was younger and still decided to dip his stick. Dowd's statement that Rose boinked 12-14 year old girls (plural) sounds like nothing but trumped up bullshit. But then Rose won't answer any questions about it under oath? More fishy business. If that's true, I feel its a way worse offense than his gambling. It'll be interesting to see how his suit against Dowd goes. I've already gone on record saying he won't get in until after he's pushing up daisies. Then at some point he will get in, warts and all. Don't mean to sidetrack the thread. Carry on.

I'll used this space more productively by saying I don't think that's dirt Edgy. Just the orange kinda bleeding. But then again, I need new glasses.

If we scored 6 runs in the first, second, or third I'd have to go with IN THE BIG INNING. That would have made it just the best in these days of wise-ass headlines. But we didn't. Goin Grandyman!!!!!!!!!!!

HahnSolo wrote: The Yankee is Jeter right? Rose's HOF induction was cancelled shortly after news of his promiscuity with underage girls as a player broke. Oh, I forgot about that. Yep, that'll do it.

SteveJRogers wrote: HahnSolo wrote: The rescinded HOF honor was the Phillies/Pete Rose. Yup! Why did they do this? John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Dodgers did a Jackie Robinson statue that's as good as any fake plaza with a stupid 42 Ha!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: 41Forever wrote: Centerfield wrote: Think of the absurdity of our situation. In other cities, the owners are criticized for artificially limiting their payrolls to $197 million. Revenues are soaring, but player salaries are capped. This is greedy and unfair. In Flushing, the Mets have one of the highest revenues in baseball. But they went "over-budget" at $155 million, and are threatening to reduce payroll further. I don't know if it's fair to point out the revenues without noting the expenses as well. None of us have access to the Mets books, but expenses go beyond player payroll.... I don't understand your stubborn and desperate determination to defend the Mets owners at all costs. And the thing of it is that you have even less evidence to support your position than the supposedly scant evidence you claim CF has. It's not necessary to inspect the Mets books with forensic expertise. The existing evidence, which is more than anecdotal, is devastatingly powerful. The Mets payroll is expected to rank around 20th this season, less than most teams, including the poor Kansas City Royals even though the Mets play in the world's greatest city. They sign a top tier still in his prime free agent, on average, every 10 or 15 years. And since Fred Wilpon assumed control of the team's day to day operations more than 35 years ago, the Mets have just two first place finishes. How the hell do you defend this record? Why aren't the Mets outspending most of MLB's other teams every ... single ... season? If they don't have the money, then the ownership is incompetent. If the Mets do have the money, then the owners are cheap. It's not that complicated. Bingo, bongo, swish! < That means "right on brother".

Benjamin Grimm wrote: You said "sliding pond!" I haven't heard that term since I was a kid. Is it a Long Island thing? I think most people call it a "slide". I used to wonder why we called it a "sliding pond". Maybe we were just mispronouncing "slide-upon"? I don't know. The term just came to mind as I was typing. I did live in Smithtown in the mid 60s, right off 25A.(64-65. Just my luck. During the Worlds Fair. My folks still took us to it at least 3 times. Maaaaan, I loved the 64-65 NYC Worlds Fair. It was like walking into the future).

Topps is showing off the design for the 2018 base set, though a checklist isn't available at this point. The design seems uninspired. The company appears to be in a rut for the last three sets. No Mets cards to display yet. But this link is fun, showing the designs from 1951 to present. https://www.cardboardconnection.com/evolution-topps-baseball-cards-1951-2017 I like the little swirly sliding pond thingy around the logo. I must need new glasses. At first I read his name as **** Frazier. DOH! And after that speech I just laid on Batmags. Foooor shame. OE: Are the Skanks using the Mets colors? They better go blue and orange for our boys or I won't buy a single pack.

Ashie62 wrote: Duda? Really? good lord I have seen enough of that show. As the creator of the slogan I LOVE THE GLOVE™ I have to say that Duda's fielding has REALLY improved over the years and if he hits 30 dingers and drives in 80 for the length of his next contract, I'd be okay with that. But seeing what Dom Smith can do for us trumps that thought.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Harvey's got a lot to prove. Another year like the last one and he could be looking at Palookaville. I wouldn't offer anything until he proves there's a little more than fumes in that tank. Personally I don't think he'll ever be the pitcher he was in 2013 or even 2015. Sometimes the body betrays you. .....Palookaville. lolol