Jun 12 2012 11:21 AM
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Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread
| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2012 11:21 AM |
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| Edgy MD Jun 12 2012 11:27 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Craig Swan is a guy who I like almost none of the available photos. The childish goodtime grins clash with the adult mustaches for a perpetual losing team to suggest to me a guy who parties with Ron Burgandy too much, and doesn't take his job particularly seriously.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2012 11:32 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 12 2012 11:33 AM |
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I was gonna remark on that Swan photo, you always see that one and never any action shots.
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| TransMonk Jun 12 2012 11:32 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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That's really cool. Thanks for sharing it.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2012 11:35 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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I think that in general, the Mets cheaped it up on the photos. Design, too, probably. Perhaps they wanted to avoid licensing fees, I'm guessing. With the Mets, I'm always imagining that there's a teen-ager in the family long on designing aspirations and short on talent who nevertheless gets these gigs so that the team can pinch a few more pennies. Whatever, they often relied on their in-house head shots to produce this run of tickets. It's a shock to me that the organization even put out these tickets, with a different image for each game.
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| Benjamin Grimm Jun 12 2012 11:36 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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That really is classic Darryl. The Swan photo looks like it might have been lifted directly from the 1976 yearbook. (I'm sure it was in a yearbook; I'm less certain of which one.)
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2012 11:46 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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The Expos had a similar ticket run in 2003 to commemorate their 35th anniversary. Most of the images used were dynamic action shots.
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| Gwreck Jun 12 2012 12:00 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 12 2012 12:00 PM |
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I understand why there's no Jose Reyes or Carlos Beltran in there, but I don't know why Billy Wagner is on Armando Benitez's ticket.
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| Edgy MD Jun 12 2012 12:00 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Stronger design, too.
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| HahnSolo Jun 12 2012 12:27 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Nice spreads, BML. Not the best Ray Knight photo either.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2012 12:32 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Swan looks like he REALLY wants you to come hang out in the sauna with him.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2012 12:33 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Doesn't he always? (/rolls eyes)
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2012 02:12 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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| G-Fafif Jun 12 2012 03:12 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Expecting Butch Bentonian things from Luis Rosado...or am I expecting Luis Rosadolike things from Butch Benton?
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| seawolf17 Jun 12 2012 09:22 PM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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A number of teams this year had licensing deals with Topps and used card images on their season seats.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 13 2012 10:11 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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I believe that the Cubs are the only team that issued Topps produced season tickets this year. It is a trend, though. Other teams that produced Topps themed season tickets in recent years include the Padres (2007/8?), Reds (2010) and Braves (2009). Billy Williams's '61 Topps card appears on the ticket for the Mets 6/26 game at Wrigley; Jim Hickman's '70 card appears on the ticket to next day's Mets/Cubs game. Thus, Hickman's image appears on tickets for two different teams this season (Mets and Cubs). Some of the more ambitious season ticket issues for this season include the Yankees' -- 39 images representing some of the organization's greatest moments:  and the Dodgers, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dodger Stadium, also with a greatest moments tickets set.  These two ticket sets were produced so that any image might appear on any given ticket.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 13 2012 10:21 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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You'll notice how the Dodgers and Yankees (cf. Mets 2012 Mets tickets) produced their ticket images in monochrome or sepia tones (probably to overcome the fact that some of the source images were in color while others were in black and white) thus creating consistent imagery.
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| Edgy MD Jun 13 2012 10:26 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Yeah, there's definitely some things I like about the Mets design, but in general, it's the weakest on the page here so far.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 13 2012 10:37 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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The Mets had the right idea. But the execution was lacking. And those pictures. Action shots that are so tightly cropped so as to be rendered pointless. And so many shots look like they were lifted from the Stars of Tomorrow section of old Mets yearbooks. Look at Mazzilli's ticket ferchrissakes. He's probably the biggest heartthrob in team history and the Mets couldn't have found a geekier photo of the Italian Stallion if they tried to.
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| Edgy MD Jun 13 2012 10:43 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Yeah, go whole hog with this classick:
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| batmagadanleadoff Oct 14 2012 05:55 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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Texas Rangers 2012 season tickets commemorate team's 40th anniversary. Here's a few:
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| Ashie62 Oct 14 2012 11:21 AM Re: Mets 2012 Season Tickets: A Flickr Spread |
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The Sepia ones are great.
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