Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.21 1989 EspaÃ±ola vs 1990 orig

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Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.21 1989 EspaÃ±ola vs 1990 orig

1989 EdiciÃ³n EspaÃ±ola 6 votes

1990 Original Edition 13 votes

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 12 2018 04:35 AM

1989 EdiciÃ³n EspaÃ±ola

1990 Original Edition

SteveJRogers
Apr 12 2018 06:06 AM
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Iâ€™m going with 1990 having a theme.

41Forever
Apr 12 2018 06:25 AM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 12 2018 07:14 AM

We did have some stud pitchers! Who is that under Sid?

SteveJRogers
Apr 12 2018 06:35 AM
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41Forever wrote:
We did have soem stud pitchers! Who is that under Sid?

Bobby O

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 12 2018 06:38 AM
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I also went with 1990. I like the way that Frank Viola seems to be breaking the plane.

cooby
Apr 12 2018 06:47 AM
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Sid on both. Hard to decide

Edgy MD
Apr 12 2018 07:02 AM
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Neither seems particularly inspired, but I'm a sucker for a Mets logo on a baseball.

G-Fafif
Apr 12 2018 08:23 AM
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So this is the middle of the road, where the latest early yearbook meets the earliest later yearbook. Appropriate, then, that it's a multicultural event. Let us reach across the diamond of time and shake hands with our younger and older selves.

I'd never seen the Spanish edition of the 1989 annual before this tournament. It's a sharp presentation. Kudos for a whole other cover, unlike 1988's replica design. I like the dashboard gauge. The Mets weren't particularly Los Mets in 1989, so I don't know how they arrived on the players they featured. Surnames notwithstanding, Hernandez and Fernandez never came across as the least bit bilingual, but they were Met All-Stars, and that should be enough. Ditto for Strawberry and Cone.

The first yearbook of the 1990s made a good, clean pitch, too. In those days, every five games was a spin through a veritable dream rotation -- and when it wasn't, specifically when Gooden went out in mid-1989, we messed around for only a few turns before going out and grabbing Viola. Two Cy Youngs striding tall, flanked by four other accomplished starters, leaving it to the Mets fan to ascertain what the cover was getting at. Pretty solid, much like the Mets' pitching depth heading into 1990 (yet somehow we fell way behind the Pirates and never put them away when we had the chance; so much for 75% of the game).

I like both covers. I'll go with the specificity of 1990 over the randomness, as intriguing as it is, of 1989 en EspaÃ±ol.

cooby
Apr 12 2018 08:27 AM
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Close up Sid

A Boy Named Seo
Apr 12 2018 08:46 AM
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I wanted to vote for 89 but it's so generic.

d'Kong76
Apr 12 2018 10:08 AM
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I could have voted for either against each other and settled on '89.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 12 2018 10:10 AM
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The winner of this competition is fated to face the juggernaut that is Baby Met.

d'Kong76
Apr 12 2018 10:28 AM
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It will be hard for any year to beat the over-sized baby in metal spikes but
it certainly won't be one of these tighty-whitie covers.

Centerfield
Apr 12 2018 11:14 AM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:

1990 Original Edition

I'd swear that the Gooden picture they use is an '85 Gooden image. Think he went with longer hair after that season.

seawolf17
Apr 12 2018 11:23 AM
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1990 seems too busy. I like the simplicity of the 1989 design.

batmagadanleadoff
Apr 12 2018 11:42 AM
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These are uninspiring choices. I went with the '89, though I could've voted for the '90 just the same. I just gave these yearbook covers the quick look-see and decided I liked the spanish one better. I went with my eyeballs, without much thought. I'm wondering if eff and jeff took over the yearbook duties during this period because they got dumbed down big time, AFAIK. These are the yearbooks where Mets answered vapid Playmate of the Month type questions and responded much as you'd expect MLB'er's to respond, rubes that they mostly are, with several Mets naming scumbag money laundering swindler and bullshit artist Donald Trump the person they'd most like to meet.

The 1990 Mets went heavy with their starters in their ad campaigns and promotional materials. Armed and Ready, including jumbo sized advertising posters featuring their aces throughout the city.

[fimg=664:2eaiuywm]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vEUAAMXQcVNQ8yIG/s-l400.jpg[/fimg:2eaiuywm]

batmagadanleadoff
Apr 12 2018 11:47 AM
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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
These are uninspiring choices. I went with the '89, though I could've voted for the '90 just the same. I just gave these yearbook covers the quick look-see and decided I liked the spanish one better. I went with my eyeballs, without much thought. I'm wondering if eff and jeff took over the yearbook duties during this period because they got dumbed down big time, AFAIK. These are the yearbooks where Mets answered vapid Playmate of the Month type questions and responded much as you'd expect MLB'er's to respond, rubes that they mostly are, with several Mets naming scumbag money laundering swindler and bullshit artist Donald Trump the person they'd most like to meet.

The 1990 Mets went heavy with their starters in their ad campaigns and promotional materials. Armed and Ready, including jumbo sized advertising posters featuring their aces throughout the city.

[fimg=664]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vEUAAMXQcVNQ8yIG/s-l400.jpg[/fimg]

Does anyone know what that ad tag line's supposed to mean? Getting home after the game? When should they get home? Where the hell was Don Draper?

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 12 2018 11:59 AM
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They're not going to score any runs. Won't make it around the bases to home plate.

RealityChuck
Apr 12 2018 12:20 PM
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I'll go with the diagonal over the Wes Anderson design.

seawolf17
Apr 12 2018 12:40 PM
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Also, six starting pitchers on the 1990 cover is kind of interesting, considering the year that, say, HoJo was coming off in 1989.

batmagadanleadoff
Apr 13 2018 09:47 AM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:
They're not going to score any runs. Won't make it around the bases to home plate.

Naturally.