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Kong76 Dec 06 2008 02:09 PM

Selling something on eBay baseball related? Promote the link here! Also if you're just looking to unload, er, I mean sell something, why not do it here? Anyone want a free Billy Wagner bobble head still in the box for free? I'll even pay the postage!

seawolf17 Dec 06 2008 07:11 PM

If nobody else needs Billy, I'll take it and stick it on MiniWolf's Mets wall.

Kong76 Dec 07 2008 06:16 AM

Good idea! Email me your address and I'll send bobblewags right out.

Kong76 Dec 10 2008 11:58 AM

Last call for bobblewags, I'm breaking his arm and throwing him in the dumpster tomorrow if no one claims him NOW!!!

Gwreck Dec 10 2008 02:12 PM

Claimed! (unless Seawolf still wants him). Sending you a email now!

Kong76 Dec 10 2008 02:34 PM

Didn't hear from sea, I'll send it out the next day or so, arms intact.

Rockin' Doc Dec 10 2008 03:47 PM

KC "...arms intact." Unfortunately, that's more than can be said for the real Wagner.

Kong76 Dec 10 2008 04:05 PM

Breaking his arm and throwing him in the dumpster ... no one gets me anymore.

seawolf17 Dec 10 2008 05:18 PM

Somehow I completely missed Kase's reply. It's all good.

Kong76 Dec 18 2008 02:24 PM

Gw, I didn't forget about you ... I'm sending Fri so long as our office is open!

Kong76 Dec 29 2008 03:55 PM

This was waiting for me at work ... Metty Xmas, again! I have all the SI Mets covers now. I always passed on this because of price (I guess the Yogi/Stengel thing and it's getting old got people to bid and I have my limits for this stuff) and I'm glad I waited all these years. I was the only bidder. It was listed as a newsstand copy (no label) but it turns out it was some ad- vertiser's copy and has an insert in it that only came with the one's distributed to advertisers. My guess is it spent some time in a file or drawer because it is absolutely vibrant for a 45 year old magazine.

A Boy Named Seo Dec 29 2008 04:00 PM

Purty. How many SI Mets covers have there been? 1964... I'm pretty sure we won the battle for New York, right?

Kong76 Dec 29 2008 04:15 PM

I guess there's about 30 of 'em by now. If no one else chimes in maybe I'll post a list with some pics (or update an old kcmets page) over the lonnnggg weekend.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 29 2008 08:06 PM

[quote="Kong76"]This was waiting for me at work ... Metty Xmas, again! I have all the SI Mets covers now. I always passed on this because of price (I guess the Yogi/Stengel thing and it's getting old got people to bid and I have my limits for this stuff) and I'm glad I waited all these years. I was the only bidder. It was listed as a newsstand copy (no label) but it turns out it was some ad- vertiser's copy and has an insert in it that only came with the one's distributed to advertisers. My guess is it spent some time in a file or drawer because it is absolutely vibrant for a 45 year old magazine.

Sharp colors for a 40+ year old mag! Nice find. I've also got all the SI Mets covers and coincidentally, also needed the '64 Sengel/Berra issue to complete my collection.

Here's an often overlooked Met cover:



Gil Hodges reveals on the inside of the gatefold cover.

themetfairy Dec 30 2008 09:59 AM

Nice!

metsguyinmichigan Dec 30 2008 10:16 AM

That's cool! I had no idea Hodges was on that cover. My favorite is the 1983 Tom Seaver cover!

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2008 10:40 AM

An SI Met related trivia question: Sports Illustrated once made a last minute beat-the-deadline editing decision to scrap a ready-to-go cover pairing a Hall of Fame athlete and an Academy Award winning actor in favor of a New York Met. Name the Met, Hall of Famer and actor.

Edgy DC Dec 30 2008 10:49 AM

David Cone.

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2008 10:51 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":1yq23kxg]David Cone.[/quote:1yq23kxg] No. Edgy has an edge, though. I've edited my post to make the question a little bit tougher. Edgy read the easier version.

TransMonk Dec 30 2008 10:56 AM

Ray Knight?

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2008 11:10 AM

[quote="TransMonk"]Ray Knight?

We have a winner. Sports Illustrated doesn't automatically feature the World Series champs on the cover. A team neutral cover before the WS is decided is the typical SI WS cover.

Here's the 1969 WS SI cover, as an example.



By the way, that was Rod Gaspar's only WS appearance.

SI's next issue, reporting on the WS champ Mets featured Lew Alcindor on the cover.

The extraordinary nature of 1986's Game Six compelled SI to run consecutive WS covers that season --- the typical team neutral cover:



and Ray Knight, the following week:

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2008 11:16 AM

If you follow this link to page four of the Met WS issue, you can see the SI cover that Ray Knight knocked off. Here's another example of a team neutral SI WS cover:

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 30 2008 11:22 AM

edit, nevermind. You mean page 6!

Frayed Knot Dec 30 2008 11:42 AM

I remember when SI used to cover baseball.

metsguyinmichigan Dec 30 2008 11:56 AM

The Ray Knight cover is so much better. I used to grumble loudly about SI abandoning baseball, but thought there were more baseball covers than usual this year. A quick and dirty breakdown based on the archives, not counting special issues. Multiple covers for the same issue count once: NFL: 12 (including one in April, which is inexcusable) MLB: 10 (including Johan Santana, which was awesome) NCAA football: 7 NBA: 7 NCAA basebasketball: 5 Auto racing: 4 (shocking) Olympics: 4 Golf: 2 Tennis: 2 NHL: 2 Mostly naked woman almost wearing a swimsuit: 1 I'm sure Tiger Woods' injury threw SI for a loop, since he's usually on the cover a number of times. And the Olympics probably cost the NFL at least three covers, if not all four!

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2008 12:32 PM

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":24m9onpg]edit, nevermind. You mean page 6![/quote:24m9onpg] Page four! I was faithful to the actual print magazine and didn't count the Ray Knight cover and the ad on the inside front cover as pages.

Frayed Knot Dec 30 2008 02:08 PM

Not that the cover is everything, but 10 dedicated to baseball is practically a flood for SI. I remember one year when they only had four and those were the ones they're virtually forced to do like the season preview and World Series. Others years they had more but only because half were either negative (steroids, salaries) or nostalgia ones having nothing to do with today's game. Chris Russo (sports radio here in NY) claims that several SI writers told him that the head honchos over there "all hate baseball". I suspect that's a Russo exaggeration and what they really mean is that they don't believe baseball covers sell ergo they hate putting it on the cover. This year I was almost surprised when they gave the Phillies a cover after the WS because the whole thing ended mid-week and therefore was nearly a week old by the time the next issue came out. Turns out the Brad Lidge cover was only distributed in the northeast and some college football cover went to most of the rest of the country.

SteveJRogers Dec 30 2008 06:23 PM

[quote="Frayed Knot":t9dcladw] This year I was almost surprised when they gave the Phillies a cover after the WS because the whole thing ended mid-week and therefore was nearly a week old by the time the next issue came out. Turns out the Brad Lidge cover was only distributed in the northeast and some college football cover went to most of the rest of the country.[/quote:t9dcladw] It still amazes me that the Chicago White Sox rated only an insert when they won the World Series in 2005 on a cover that was a preview of a big Monday Night Football Colts vs Patriots matchup. I mean the Sox weren't, and never really have been, the Cubs in terms of mass national appeal, but still they did break long stretch with a championship that rivaled the Red Sox from the year before.