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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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"?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Edgy MD Mar 31 2018 09:08 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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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.
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G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 09:14 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 31 2018 10:07 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
Poor Mickey. It wasn't his fault.
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G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 10:55 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 31 2018 11:05 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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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.
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G-Fafif Mar 31 2018 11:19 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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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.
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Frayed Knot Mar 31 2018 03:38 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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Yes. By trying to show more they wind up showing less.
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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.
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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".
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Zvon Apr 01 2018 10:19 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.09 1976 vs 2004 |
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lol. If I was quick I'd whip up a .gif of him outrunning cannonballs and musket shells.
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