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2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge


1967 13 votes

2019 3 votes

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 08 2019 04:54 AM

THE CHAMPION

New York Mets 1967 Yearbook



http://ultimatemets.com/covers/yearbooks/1967.jpg>





THE CHALLENGER

New York Mets 2019 Yearbook



http://ultimatemets.com/covers/yearbooks/2019.jpg>

G-Fafif
Apr 08 2019 06:51 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Great idea to keep the Yearbook Cover Derby up to date.



2019: Talk about a bet-hedger. You were just blessed with one of the greatest pitching seasons in modern baseball history and instead of truly spotlighting the pitcher (a la Seaver and the 200-strikeout record in 1975), you position as him first among a bushel of equals. Yay, deGrom is in the foreground, but, oh, we have to get portions of ten other guys in there because we're marketing the whole team, not just our best player. I'd guess this had something to do with not wanting to present deGrom heroically across the entire season in case negotiations went awry (don't know what the publication deadline was), but it's not like his Cy Young didn't already happen and they didn't schedule a celebratory bobblehead for it. I sort of dug the multiple player treatment in 2016 because it was a team effort to win the pennant but this mostly feels like nobody wants to pick a side or alienate any possible purchaser. "We need to satisfy the Wilson Ramos customers."



1967 can rest easy for another season.

whippoorwill
Apr 08 2019 07:27 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

I just don't like the little kid ones

Centerfield
Apr 08 2019 11:55 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Is that really the cover? With half faces and three headless Mets across the top?



It kinda reminds me of the Mike Wazowski magazine cover from Monsters Inc.






http://i.imgur.com/l6rX6mx.png>

dgwphotography
Apr 08 2019 12:14 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Here's the full, uncropped cover:




[attachment=0]2019Metsyb.jpeg[/attachment]



https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489

Edgy MD
Apr 08 2019 01:23 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Wheeler | Rosario | Lowrie



Nimmo | Ramos | Conforto (kinda small-lookin')



McNeil | Diaz



Syndergaard | Cano



deGrom



MIA (in approximate order of profile on 2/1): Céspedes, Matz, Familia, Alonso, Lugo, Frazier, Lagares, Gsellman, Vargas, d'Arnaud, Smith, Avilan, Broxton, Davis, Guillorme, Nido, Peterson, Wilson.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 08 2019 01:39 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

The only noteworthy omission is Cespedes, and it's understandable.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 08 2019 01:45 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge


Here's the full, uncropped cover:





2019Metsyb.jpeg





https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489


Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update.

G-Fafif
Apr 08 2019 02:15 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Good to see all who were intended to be presented in full. Still think they should have Jaked it.

dgwphotography
Apr 08 2019 02:17 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Benjamin Grimm wrote:


Here's the full, uncropped cover:





2019Metsyb.jpeg





https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489


Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update.


Yep - I see it :-)



Now I have to rip this cover apart. I can only assume Marc Levine took each of these portraits, and frankly, they're horrible. Shot with too wide of a lens so the curvature makes their stomachs bow out, and Thor's head looks just odd...

Edgy MD
Apr 08 2019 02:20 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Yeah, McNeil looks more than a little bell-shaped. I had to stare for a bit to figure out it was him.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Apr 08 2019 02:48 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

How did McNeil get in the second row? Matz and Familia are prolly pissed off

G-Fafif
Apr 08 2019 02:57 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

50th anniversary of 1969 would have been a decent theme, too.

whippoorwill
Apr 08 2019 03:55 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

The only noteworthy omission is Cespedes, and it's understandable.


Forgot all about him

Edgy MD
Apr 08 2019 06:22 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

How did McNeil get in the second row? Matz and Familia are prolly pissed off


You know who's probably really furious about it?



Yasiel Puig.

Lefty Specialist
Apr 08 2019 06:32 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

So THAT'S what Jed Lowrie looks like.....I was wondering who the guy was that was wearing Wilmer's uniform.

Edgy MD
Apr 08 2019 06:42 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

If you keep staring at Ramos, his arms get beefier.

Lefty Specialist
Apr 09 2019 09:32 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

Edgy MD wrote:

If you keep staring at Ramos, his arms get beefier.


Like a pair of canned hams with tattoos.

Centerfield
Apr 09 2019 04:48 PM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge


Benjamin Grimm wrote:


Here's the full, uncropped cover:





2019Metsyb.jpeg





https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/new-york-mets-2019-yearbook/t-36992142+p-5850128900504+z-9-2101724489


Thanks! I looked for a better image online but couldn't find one. I'll replace my image with that one, but you may have to clear browser cache to see the update.


Yep - I see it :-)



Now I have to rip this cover apart. I can only assume Marc Levine took each of these portraits, and frankly, they're horrible. Shot with too wide of a lens so the curvature makes their stomachs bow out, and Thor's head looks just odd...


Wow. Great analysis. This is absolutely correct.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 16 2019 07:39 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

The winner, and still champion, is the 1967 Mets Year Book, with the cover by Willard Mullin. Maja can keep her shower curtain for another year.



http://ultimatemets.com/covers/yearbooks/showercurtain.jpg>

Lefty Specialist
Apr 16 2019 08:31 AM
Re: 2019 Yearbook Cover Derby Challenge

What exactly is Gelbs grabbing for there?