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Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

1976

16 votes

2004

2 votes

Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2018 04:44 AM

1976 2004

seawolf17 Mar 31 2018 05:31 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Mr. Met is going to get my vote pretty much every time, especially over whatever 2004 is.

SteveJRogers Mar 31 2018 05:41 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

2004 is trying too hard to be a 1980s brochure or prospective cover.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2018 05:46 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

what's 2004 trying to tell us with "BASEBALL"?

Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2018 06:15 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

A lot of these later covers suffer from the existence of digital photo editing tools. It allows the cover designer to easily go overboard. I think the "graph paper" idea is pretty creative, but unfortunately it's not executed all that well. The 1976 Bicentennial cover is one of only two yearbook covers to feature Mr. Met, and both are in the cartoon form. I suppose it's inevitable that the costumed Mr. Met will appear on a cover, most likely during one of the down periods when there aren't any star players for the team to highlight. The other Mr. Met cover has already appeared in this competition. It's the 1963 cover which currently has a healthy lead over 2017 in Round 1.05.

d'Kong76 Mar 31 2018 07:04 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

I have Bicentennial Mr. Met in the Final Four in my bracket pool.

41Forever Mar 31 2018 07:20 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Not sure the tri-corner hat came out well, but I remember buying that at Shea as a kid, attending with my Grandmother and thinking it was the coolest thing ever!

Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2018 08:29 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

I kinda like that the blue on Mr. Met looks like it was colored in with a felt-tip marker.

G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 08:50 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

The i-word seems apropos here: the 1976 cover is iconic. There's no doubting what year its from. It could have been cribbed from some kid's banner, and that's a compliment. Plus, you've got that mailing address. It's just so good-spirited...the Spirit of '76! There are two particularly appealing images within the 2004 grid, both of them unfortunately presented, like all the others, as postage stamps. had they featured either the Shea 40th anniversary patch or Piazza accepting walkoff congratulations (which ended a game I had to leave early), it could have been a contender. Hell, if they had composed the cover with the Leiter pitching picture facing the Piazza swinging picture -- two verticals -- it would have been not only featured your two stars, but it would have echoed the neon figures from the Shea patch. Instead, it comes off as homework hurriedly completed on the bus. This one will cover the spread and then some on merit. In this battle of election years, the vote is for 1976.

Edgy MD Mar 31 2018 09:08 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I kinda like that the blue on Mr. Met looks like it was colored in with a felt-tip marker. There's something charmingly DIY about being about to see the artist's pen strokes. Of course, before the year was out, the whole organization would become not-so-charmingly DIY.

G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 09:14 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Edgy MD wrote: Of course, before the year was out, the whole organization would become not-so-charmingly DIY. My only reticence in voting for 1976 came from knowing there is a page within devoted to Mickey Lolich inside instead of a page devoted to Rusty Staub.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 31 2018 10:07 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Poor Mickey. It wasn't his fault. .

G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 10:55 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Poor Mickey. It wasn't his fault. It wasn't. Just tough to look at the '76 yearbook this week and think about who's not in there. I was at a fever pitch the entirety of the 1975 season. Staub-for-Lolich, as soon as it happened, brought everything down a notch in advance of '76. But not Lolich's fault, just as it's not Mr. Bicentennial Met's.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 31 2018 11:05 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Poor Mickey. It wasn't his fault. It wasn't. Just tough to look at the '76 yearbook this week and think about who's not in there. I was at a fever pitch the entirety of the 1975 season. Staub-for-Lolich, as soon as it happened, brought everything down a notch in advance of '76. But not Lolich's fault, just as it's not Mr. Bicentennial Met's. I didn't think you were taking it out on Mickey. (If you wanna pretend that Staub was a '76 Met, pull out his '76 Topps card. It's my favorite Staub Mets card.) I just felt like sticking up for him, some, because Mets fans of that generation sure do have it in for him. Lolich, in '76 was an extremely solid back of the rotation pitcher for what was baseball's best staff. Those '76 Mets were very competitive and gave us fans many thrills, including Koosman's Cy Young caliber showing and the pleasure of hearing or reading the words Kingman and Maris in the same sentence for much of the season. I voted for the '76 cover for pretty much the same reasons already stated.

G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 11:19 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I just felt like sticking up for him, some, because Mets fans of that generation sure do have it in for him. Lolich, in '76 was an extremely solid back of the rotation pitcher for what was baseball's best staff. I believe I learned the phrase "snakebit" from Bob Murphy that season, because he applied it so often to Lolich's lousy luck, pitching well, not getting run support. He'd be using it for Koosman a year later.

Frayed Knot Mar 31 2018 03:38 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Benjamin Grimm wrote: A lot of these later covers suffer from the existence of digital photo editing tools. It allows the cover designer to easily go overboard. Yes. By trying to show more they wind up showing less.

Zvon Mar 31 2018 03:57 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Waaaaaay too much wasted space on the 2004 YB cover.

Lefty Specialist Apr 01 2018 09:47 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

I was thinking, "A lot of missing pieces, just like the team portrayed in it". Boy, think what an easy target Mr. Met would have been for the Redcoats in the Revolution. He wouldn't have survived Lexington or Concord with that giant noggin. Despite that, I was in the Spirit of '76.

Zvon Apr 01 2018 10:19 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004

Lefty Specialist wrote: I was thinking, "A lot of missing pieces, just like the team portrayed in it". Boy, think what an easy target Mr. Met would have been for the Redcoats in the Revolution. He wouldn't have survived Lexington or Concord with that giant noggin. Despite that, I was in the Spirit of '76. lol. If I was quick I'd whip up a .gif of him outrunning cannonballs and musket shells.