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Mets team photo shot today

metsguyinmichigan Sep 15 2010 02:23 PM

Multiple tweets about the Mets having their team photo shot today -- and the players wearing the pinstripes, which, of course, they should be. But does anyone else think it's odd that they shoot the team photo in the waning weeks of the season and not much earlier? Or do you think they take them multiple times during a season?

metirish Sep 15 2010 02:25 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

I guess taking it at the start of the season is worse because players get traded, dumped and so on....my question is this...who is the photo for?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 15 2010 02:25 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

I would think that they'd do one in spring training, and another one mid-season. (For the revised edition of the yearbook; you know, I really miss the old-style yearbooks.) I can't imagine why they bother now, when nobody really cares about the team. What are they going to use this photo for?

Edgy DC Sep 15 2010 02:26 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

I think, yes, they take them a few times during the year. It's nice that Mike Nickeas gets to keep a photo with a real big-league team if he never returns. It's sucks that Justin Turner doesn't.

themetfairy Sep 15 2010 02:29 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Any fights during the photo shoot?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 15 2010 02:31 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

No. Fathers-in-law weren't invited.

metsmarathon Sep 15 2010 02:49 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

was frankie?

batmagadanleadoff Sep 15 2010 03:00 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Does anybody here remember the details surrounding the Mets recall of a specific team photo/calendar originally designated for sale to the public? Hint: Think Mackey Sasser and Frank Viola.

seawolf17 Sep 15 2010 03:05 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

metsmarathon wrote: was frankie? One of the tweets made a joke like "Not pictured: F. Rodriguez." I can't see any way he would have been invited.

Ceetar Sep 15 2010 03:46 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I would think that they'd do one in spring training, and another one mid-season. (For the revised edition of the yearbook; you know, I really miss the old-style yearbooks.) I can't imagine why they bother now, when nobody really cares about the team. What are they going to use this photo for? The World Series highlight DVD. I imagine they schedule the late season photoshoot for any rookies or what not that may make the team and just didn't bother canceling the thing.

G-Fafif Sep 15 2010 03:53 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

This is an annual September rite of passage to reflect the callups if not the ultimate 2010 reality (whose face will you recall first when asked to hark back to this year -- Joaquin Arias or Jeff Francoeur?). In 2003, Pedro Astacio came out of DL mothballs to join the team picture, but not Mo Vaughn. He was off posing with his money...and who he gave it to, one dollar bill at a time.

Rockin' Doc Sep 15 2010 08:40 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

seawolf17 wrote: was frankie? One of the tweets made a joke like "Not pictured: F. Rodriguez." I can't see any way he would have been invited. The Mets can always add Frankie's mug shot as an insert if they need him in the photo.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 17 2010 12:15 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Does anybody here remember the details surrounding the Mets recall of a specific team photo/calendar originally designated for sale to the public? Hint: Think Mackey Sasser and Frank Viola. Here's my next hint: "Fuck You".

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 17 2010 12:53 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Does anybody here remember the details surrounding the Mets recall of a specific team photo/calendar originally designated for sale to the public? Hint: Think Mackey Sasser and Frank Viola. Here's my next hint: "Fuck You". Stumped

batmagadanleadoff Sep 21 2010 09:46 AM Re: Mets team photo shot today

No. Really. Fuck You.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2010 09:57 AM Re: Mets team photo shot today

So my Billy Ripken guess isn't going to work.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 29 2010 08:21 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Gwreck Sep 29 2010 09:37 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Edgy DC wrote: So my Billy Ripken guess isn't going to work. I believe the second word on his bat was "face" and not "you." I have no idea why I remember that.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 30 2010 09:18 AM Re: Mets team photo shot today

The first printing of the Mets 1991 calendar was recalled -- most copies destroyed. Nobody noticed until after the calendars were printed, boxed and shipped to Shea Stadium for public consumption that in the split second before the team was photographed, Mackey Sasser stuck his middle finger behind and above Frank Viola's head. This put a smile on Todd Hundley's mug.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 30 2010 11:09 AM Re: Mets team photo shot today

He puts the Sass in Sasser.

metsguyinmichigan Sep 30 2010 12:21 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Life before PhotoShop!

G-Fafif Sep 30 2010 01:16 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

A sign the Mets would be giving us the finger for the next six seasons.

HahnSolo Sep 30 2010 02:15 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

The bigger surprise is that he didn't do it to Jefferies. Oh, and those unis were hideous.

HahnSolo Sep 30 2010 02:16 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Back to the original question...the team photo shoot included a video segment where the Mets thank their fans. Caught that at the game last night.

Rockin' Doc Sep 30 2010 07:44 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

Sasser's timing is pretty amazing when you consider that he likely triple pumped that bird before he got it off.

Frayed Knot Sep 30 2010 07:52 PM Re: Mets team photo shot today

My next guess was going to be Kiick and Czonka