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I stopped in the web site BaseballFever.com earlier today looking for that Play-0-Graph image and when I go there its like walking into a baseball library. Like I've always been when in walk into a real library, I can't resist looking around (taking some books off the shelf) and absorbing the info (reading bits and pieces of this and that). I always end up spending more time there than I intend. So, I run into this: Scheffing was a manager once? I never knew. Now that I think of it I know nothing of this guy aside from his time with the Mets.
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dinosaur jesus wrote: Zvon wrote: What amazed me, in the original pic, was that it showed that fans have been nickled and dimed through-out history. I've seen set-ups like this before in old photos, but always thought they were just outdoor boards that were there to view for free. But they were free, weren't they? I mean, there's the display right downtown for everyone to see. And the full details in the Evening Telegram was stuff you couldn't put on a board anyway--the game write-up, the sportswriters ragging on McGraw for playing Beals Becker instead of Josh Devore, etc. That's what I thought, and always thought. But reading that article and seeing the admission prices in the photo makes me think they somehow made it so only payees could be in front of that board. That does appear to be outdoors.
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In 1884, three telegraph operators came up with a plan. They painted a ball field onto a large poster, which they placed in a theater in Nashville. One went to Chattanooga and telegraphed the plays back to the theater, where the second read them while the third moved cards with the players� names around the poster. The theater soon sold out, so they moved to the much larger opera house Then electricity entered the picture. In 1891, Samuel Mott, a former Edison employee, received a patent for his system (right), involving light bulbs and motors. In 1894, when their local team beat New York, the crowd at Ford�s Opera House in Baltimore was driven into a frenzy by the Compton Electric Base Ball Game Impersonator. And that year yet another new technology was introduced: android robotics. Born in the late 1880's. Amazin'. "Game Impersonator"-ha! "android robotics" in 1891? Great article, thnx4sharing
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Lefty Specialist wrote: It's always fascinated me that 100 years later, people in their offices watching GameCast are seeing essentially the same thing as those people were, just on computer screens. And without hats. What amazed me, in the original pic, was that it showed that fans have been nickled and dimed through-out history. I've seen set-ups like this before in old photos, but always thought they were just outdoor boards that were there to view for free.
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Continuing with the Monty Python theme. We didn't really crush em last night, we nipped em. So tonight we destroy them!
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Mets2013: Photoshops; Tributes; Funnies: post em here.
Zvon replied to Zvon's topic in New York Mets Talk
The first 1000 fans to arrive at the IGT tonight get these neato Harvey handout posters! -
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I have to include this pic of Gardners catch for the record. I'm a big fan of the leather and it was an amazin' catch.Don't expect me to be all photoshoppinTributin' it up though. To me it doesn't look as impressive in pics and replays as it actually was, for some reason. Below is the best pic out there atm.
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Edgy MD wrote: Keith being Keith. Cliche, but apt, I think. I'm sure when it was brought to his attention that he used an old baseball phrase with such ill timing, he realized how this could be true and winced. But I think to portray it as anything more than what it was is going overboard. Stupid? No. In appropriate? If you want to make it so. I heard it on broadcast and didn't make anything of it at all.
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The Capts got class. GIF: A nice moment, David Wright hugs a young Mets fan after the Mets win against the Yankees. Shout out thnx to MetsKevin11 for the .gif
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Murphy 1 Wright 2 Niese 3.5 Lyon 1 Parnell 1 Valdespin 0.5 OE: I glossed right over Valde. You guys are right. He deserves some brew. He got on and scored. He did his job there. I really wanted to give the pen more suds than one each.
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She looks way hotter in this one.
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This is, or was, the true test for Bobby Parnell. Couldn't be any more pressure packed. I have a new respect. GREAT JOB MR. PARNELL!
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That 1-2 pitch. Great pitch. How did he not swing? Popped up. OUT!
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Very nice K. 2 out, Skank on first.
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Bare down Bobby. Or bear down Grizzly.
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Can hear both "Lets Go Mets" & "Lets Go Yankees", alternately. Thats that kinda thing that I love about these games.
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Edgy MD wrote: Big Parnell moment here. Real big. This here's the real test. 3 outs. That's all we need. 3 outs.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Great turn at bat for Valdy by the way. Josh says it allowed him to clap his hands as he scored the go-ahead run. Shut up, Josh. With his fist out and allAdat. You can hit him in the head, body, balls, don't matter. He won't get it. But then, neither did Manny.
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I can't wait til they make a Mets jersey to commemorate my plaid flannel shirts from the 70s.
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WHOA. Wright HBP! Off his elbow. Shakes it off.
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Muffy hits it ON THE NOSE! Mets take the lead.
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How on earth did they get Bax at home? He had a good jump and it was such a slow grounder. Yea, replay shows out from a diff angle.