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Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 02:34 PM

Mr. Met looks scary. And kinda hungry. Árbol de Béisbol

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2013 02:35 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Yeah that thing's nice. And that artist is a real genius of design & baseball.

Mets Guy in Michigan Oct 30 2013 02:48 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

So many cool details. Who is the guy up top not in uniform, next to Bartman. Is that Bill James? Love the billy goat, home run apple, Coors Field seat... amazing details in there!

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 03:02 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Only thing missing, I think, is any reference to Negro League ball. So I've got. Swirling circles from the White Sox exploding scoreboard. A Devil Ray and Marlin presented in the style of the Marlins' dancing scoreboard, with a beer and a dog in between. Bill James / Steve Bartman with Rally Monkey / Barry Bonds / Pedro Martinez // Ichiro Suzuki / Mark McGwire(?) / A strikeout plackard / Steven Strasburg(?) Randy Johnson and the ghost of the bird he killed / Coors Field Seat / Joe Carter(?) / Bo Jackson mysteriously missing a leg / Rickey Henderson Declaring his greatestness // Mike Schmidt / Fernando Valenzuela / A banner that may represent generic banners or have a meaning about Bill Short that I'm overlooking / The Original Brewers' Beer Slide / The San Diego Chicken / The Tower Suspending the Roof at Stade Olympique Jackie Robinson / The Cubs' Cursed Billy Goat / A Lighting Tower Representing Night Baseball / Stan Musial(?) / The Puerto Rican Flag / Ernie Banks(?) / Signs Representing Perhaps a Renewed Strategic Engagement by Fans or Maybe the Birth of Strat-O-Matic(?) / Warren Spahn(?) / The Dominican Flag / Mr. Met // Sandy Koufax / The Japanese Flag / Roberto Clemente / The Mets' Home Run Apple / A "Here" Flag Representing...(?) / Ted Turner(?) / Canadian Flag / Henry Aaron / Pete Rose / The Anaheim Scoreboard Structure / Billy Martin Gotta get home. Feel free to correct and enlighten me or take on the lower limbs.

Mets – Willets Point Oct 30 2013 03:04 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 30 2013 03:06 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Who is the guy up top not in uniform, next to Bartman. Is that Bill James? Yes. I saw this yesterday and meant to post it. Thanks to Edgy for picking up my slack. I'm a big fan of Flip Flop Flyball. It's amazing what an Englishman living in Mexico can teach you about baseball. SPOILER: If you scroll down on that link, he actually lists everything in the image (don't look if you want to guess). He also explains why he didn't include the Negro Leagues.

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 03:06 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Trying to make out the textual stuff on the limbs... is that the Mercury Mets logo next to Ichiro's hip?!

Mets Guy in Michigan Oct 30 2013 03:11 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Bo's leg is there. He's breaking a bat over it. I didn't catch the ghost bird over The Unit. Awesome. Those signs are the Bill Veeck innovation of letting fans call the plays, I think.

Zvon Oct 30 2013 04:38 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo!

Mets – Willets Point Oct 30 2013 05:26 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo! Well, we got the Home Run Apple and the Mercury Mets symbol as well.

G-Fafif Oct 30 2013 05:46 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Holy Buck, that thing is great.

Zvon Oct 30 2013 06:10 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo! Well, we got the Home Run Apple and the Mercury Mets symbol as well. Ha, I didn't notice that.Excellent.

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 06:18 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right?

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 06:33 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

OK, continuing on the next branch... Venezuealan Flag (but you'll have to let me know who from Venezuela was in the league back then) / Ted Williams(?) / Lou Gehrig / Mexican Flag / Hank Greenberg(?) / YSI Roof Facade / Jimmy Foxx(?) / Bambino // John J. McGraw(?) / Hall of Fame Plaque / Rogers Hornsby(?) / Joe Jackson(?) / Walter Johnson / US Flag / Frank Chance(?) / Cuban Flag Old Hoss Radbourn(?) / Cap Anson(?) / Pyramid(?) / Cy Young(?) // Connie Mack(?) / Ty Cobb / Honus Wagner(?) / Super Rare Wagner Card

seawolf17 Oct 30 2013 06:35 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right? Lots of Mets content in there... see? Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out."

Zvon Oct 30 2013 06:49 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right? Lots of Mets content in there... see? Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out." Yep, missed that too. Very kool. Whats Alex Trebek doing in between Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron?

seawolf17 Oct 30 2013 06:57 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Zvon wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Has nobody else read the inscription on the second branch down on the right? Lots of Mets content in there... see? Love the music notes at the base of the tree too -- the first notes of "Take Me Out." Yep, missed that too. Very kool. Whats Alex Trebek doing in between Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron? That's definitely Marvin Miller. And the "here" flag comes from one of the ballparks, but I don't know which. The only thing I can think of is the Cubs "W" flag, but that's obviously a "W" flag and not a "HERE" flag.

Frayed Knot Oct 30 2013 07:34 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Signs Representing Perhaps a Renewed Strategic Engagement by Fans or Maybe the Birth of Strat-O-Matic(?) One of Bill Veeck's teams encouraged fans to dictate strategy with their signs. Hit & Run?; Bunt?; etc. Mark McGwire(?) Pretty sure that's Pujols

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 08:56 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

How embarrassing to get buzzed on a top branch guy. OK, I'm buying in and standing corrected on Pujols, and Marvin Miller. Let's take the next two ?s. That last guy on the top branch, I'm calling BS on my Strasburg guess. The eye black tells me that's Bryce Harper. Can I get an amen on that? And can we confirm Blue Jay with the raised arms is Carter?

Zvon Oct 30 2013 09:02 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Edgy MD wrote: How embarrassing to get buzzed on a top branch guy. OK, I'm buying in and standing corrected on Pujols, and Marvin Miller. Let's take the next two ?s. That last guy on the top branch, I'm calling BS on my Strasburg guess. The eye black tells me that's Bryce Harper. Can I get an amen on that? And can we confirm Blue Jay with the raised arms is Carter? Yea, that's Harper. I will not confirm Carter. And I have no idea who else it could be. Now the guy said he drew that but he didn't draw it by hand, did he?

Frayed Knot Oct 30 2013 09:33 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Anyone catch the Doc Ellis reference?

Zvon Oct 30 2013 09:37 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Frayed Knot wrote: Anyone catch the Doc Ellis reference? lmao. Hits:0. LSD Hits: 1

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2013 09:38 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Gotta be Harper and Carter. Yes on the Doc reference. To me, totally insane how he just nails figures like Valenzuela. It's him.

Mets Guy in Michigan Oct 30 2013 09:41 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

I think it's Robbie Alomar instead of Carter. Gotta have another Mets connection!

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 10:01 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gotta be Harper and Carter. Yes on the Doc reference. To me, totally insane how he just nails figures like Valenzuela. It's him. Which is what makes the Joe Carter designation dubious to me. If you look hard, you see, yeah, that's a figure of a person of color, but Carter's about five and a half shades darker than that, and wore a beard during his arm raising trip around the bases. Alomar would seem to have a stronger case, appearance-wise, but doesn't seem to me so iconic as to merit a spot on the tree. Neither does that pose seem to fit an iconic Alomar moment. He wasn't even on base for the Carter homer. Henderson and Molitor were. (And how's that for table setting? There's about 8,000 hits and a ton of walks right there.)

Zvon Oct 30 2013 10:13 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Oh, he's working from bobbleheads. It least for Robbie. Don't know what hes got his arms up about in the photo.

Edgy MD Oct 30 2013 10:28 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Great research. Excellent. We have confirmation. Moving over to the right branch there. The "Short Stinks" banners come from the last game at RFK for the Senators, directed at the owner bringing the team to Texas. (1) Are we in agreement that that's Ryan in the Astros uni? He should have a 34 on his thigh. (2) Is that, in fact, Musial next to the goat?

Mets – Willets Point Oct 30 2013 10:46 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Wow, he even managed to get the Cleveland midges that attacked Joba Chamberlain in there.

G-Fafif Oct 30 2013 11:55 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

You guys realize the artist included an answer key, unless you're just guessing for fun.

Edgy MD Oct 31 2013 06:19 AM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

I hadn't. No fun.

Edgy MD Oct 31 2013 06:22 AM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo! Space is limited, man. Look at it from a Yankee fan point of view. No DiMaggio, no Mantle, no Berra, no Casey, no Reggie, no Jeffrey Maier, no Jeter, no Torre, and no Rivera. Key figures all. Part of the broader story. But no room.

Mets – Willets Point Oct 31 2013 08:18 AM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Edgy MD wrote: Zvon wrote: That's kool and very well done. But only 1 Met and it's not even a player? Booooooo! Space is limited, man. Look at it from a Yankee fan point of view. No DiMaggio, no Mantle, no Berra, no Casey, no Reggie, no Jeffrey Maier, no Jeter, no Torre, and no Rivera. Key figures all. Part of the broader story. But no room. And some teams have no humanoid figures at all.

Zvon Oct 31 2013 12:54 PM Re: Árbol de Béisbol

Árbol de Béisbol

Lets bring this to page two for easy seein'.

Edgy MD wrote: (1) Are we in agreement that that's Ryan in the Astros uni? He should have a 34 on his thigh. (2) Is that, in fact, Musial next to the goat?

1) Yes and yes.
2) I believe so.