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I Give Up Day 2019
Centerfield Jun 18 2019 08:37 AM |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 18 2019 08:52 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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41Forever Jun 18 2019 08:54 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Benjamin Grimm Jun 18 2019 08:58 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 18 2019 09:16 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 18 2019 09:18 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 18 2019 09:21 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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seawolf17 Jun 18 2019 09:31 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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No shit; I'll be there Friday too. See you there.
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 18 2019 09:38 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Jun 18 2019 09:40 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 18 2019 09:55 AM |
=seawolf17 post_id=13370 time=1560871864 user_id=91]No shit; I'll be there Friday too. See you there. |
Edgy MD Jun 18 2019 09:46 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Centerfield Jun 18 2019 09:50 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I'm sure if we throw in Edwin Diaz, we'll get a team's #1 prospect as well as another first round pitching prospect.
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 18 2019 10:07 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Can see it delaying our flight and getting rained out.
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ashie62 Jun 18 2019 01:07 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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HahnSolo Jun 18 2019 02:40 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Vic Sage Jun 18 2019 02:47 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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TransMonk Jun 18 2019 05:36 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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MFS62 Jun 18 2019 07:21 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Edgy MD Jun 18 2019 08:04 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
I think it's my I Double Down Day.
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G-Fafif Jun 18 2019 08:49 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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metirish Jun 19 2019 06:50 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Centerfield Jun 26 2019 07:35 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Fman99 Jun 26 2019 07:39 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 26 2019 09:26 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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nymr83 Jun 27 2019 05:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Centerfield Jun 27 2019 08:05 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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G-Fafif Jul 05 2019 09:11 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Edgy MD Jul 05 2019 09:38 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Fman99 Jul 06 2019 04:44 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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MFS62 Jul 06 2019 05:03 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Jul 06 2019 07:35 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 24 2019 08:38 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Jul 25 2019 08:16 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 25 2019 09:40 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Centerfield Jul 31 2019 11:34 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Methead Jul 31 2019 11:48 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 31 2019 12:02 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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seawolf17 Jul 31 2019 01:20 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 31 2019 01:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Frayed Knot Jul 31 2019 01:24 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Jul 31 2019 01:56 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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ashie62 Jul 31 2019 02:00 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Centerfield Jul 31 2019 03:31 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Edgy MD Jul 31 2019 05:14 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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nymr83 Aug 02 2019 07:01 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Lefty Specialist Aug 02 2019 07:10 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 02 2019 08:29 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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LWFS Aug 02 2019 08:26 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 03 2019 02:00 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 03 2019 04:27 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 04 2019 11:33 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 04 2019 01:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Blah, blah blah. Have some Batman cards. This three pack includes a 2nd series Jacob deGrom variation and a Batman69 insert.
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kcmets Aug 04 2019 02:28 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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smg58 Aug 04 2019 04:05 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Aug 04 2019 04:20 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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nymr83 Aug 04 2019 06:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 05 2019 01:03 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Aug 05 2019 02:04 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 05 2019 07:16 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Thanks, right back atcha. What I wanted to say in the other post in this thread is to follow up on not being so concerned about the other teams, yet. I don't fret about the Mets, as you say, lost opportunity to move ahead of the DBacks the other day because that Mets loss will hurt them just the same even if the DBacks had lost on that day. I think this is all a convoluted way of really saying, "Just win, baby". I mean, to use an extreme example that still kinda makes the point, a team that loses on Opening day is behind half the teams in the league, assuming every team starts on the same day. See what I mean? So what.
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nymr83 Aug 05 2019 08:50 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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yeah, i'm on board with "just win", gone are the days of 100 win teams missing the playoffs with 4 divisions and no wildcard. win enough and you'll get there. it probably needs to be at least labor day before i worry about what the other clubs do every day
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 05 2019 10:17 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yeah. At some point, that NGB stuff will defniitely matter. I just don't believe we're there yet.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 07 2019 12:50 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 19 2019 02:38 AM |
Holy News flash! The Mets don't give a shit whether or not youse gave up. This sweep was so enjoyable that I think I'll give youse all another three pack.
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Edgy MD Aug 07 2019 12:53 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 07 2019 12:56 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Silly you! The Bat-Villains don't appear on the Batman69 inserts.
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G-Fafif Aug 07 2019 12:56 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 07 2019 12:58 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 07 2019 01:20 PM |
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G-Fafif Aug 07 2019 01:08 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 07 2019 01:25 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 07 2019 01:29 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Edgy MD Aug 07 2019 02:10 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 07 2019 03:27 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 08 2019 09:42 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Give up on giving up, youse all. Here's a three pack to fill in today's Mets baseball-less void. More Gomez than you can handle, an alien invasion and another trip into the time machine set for 1969.
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G-Fafif Aug 08 2019 10:09 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Aug 08 2019 10:37 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Aug 08 2019 10:37 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 10 2019 01:15 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Aug 11 2019 03:40 PM |
Introducing the Batman Now Highlights subset. Don't give up, yet.
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G-Fafif Aug 10 2019 03:08 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 10 2019 04:38 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 12 2019 11:05 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Diaz gave up yesterday's last coffin nail but you can still count on more Batman cards. Today's release features Flexible Flexen paying homage to Batman and your favorite baseball team in alternate releases. Which one's your fave? Ask Harry if you can't decide. Harry doesn't mind. He won't even bother to make the scene.
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Edgy MD Aug 12 2019 11:16 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
I like everything but the poor resolution on the player subjects.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 12 2019 11:48 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I know what you mean. It's an intended effect. I'm going for less detail on the players. But the effect appears exaggerated on Flexen because the original image had lighting issues (lotsa white). But I went with that image anyways because I was looking for a very vertical player photo, a straight up image -- that is, an image where the player's arms aren't extended out. I needed that orientation because the Batman stuff was wide and would take up a lot of the real estate.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 12 2019 12:08 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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How's this? TV Guide Flexen Mets '66 Flexen Edgy Flexen
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Edgy MD Aug 12 2019 12:56 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 15 2019 08:04 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 15 2019 08:05 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Lefty Specialist Aug 15 2019 08:30 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
This team reminds me a bit of Flowers for Algernon. I fear we're in the later chapters.
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seawolf17 Aug 15 2019 09:04 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
GET BACK HERE, ALL OF YOU. THIS ISN'T OVER UNTIL WE DECIDE IT IS.
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kcmets Aug 15 2019 10:32 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yeah, I threw out Sunday. #lgm #ygb #ymdyf
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stevejrogers Aug 15 2019 10:45 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 15 2019 01:17 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yeah. Only the last Flexen card had tweaks to sharpen the image a bit. I posted the other two cards (the first two Flexens) so that you could compare all of the cards in the same post. And I know all about that ball. It drove me nuts. I think it's Flexen's right hand that's really the problem with the source image. Because art imitates life. A couple of years ago, I read an article on Paul Lukas's Uniwatch website on the topic of b&w image colorizations. From time to time, Lukas would post old time baseball b&w images and invite his readers to colorize the photos. Occasionally, Lukas would run an interview with one of his colorizing contributors. In this particular interview, the reader explained how colorizing those photos requires scrutinization of every single pixel, and he then noted how, when he's colorizing, he'd always notice minute details in the subject photo that he'd never otherwise notice had be just been looking at the photo casually. So yes, I know about that ball. The problem comes mainly, from the source Flexen image. I tweaked the card again. I sharpened Flexen just a tiny bit more and I enhanced the pinstripes and skyline logo. I could make Flexen as sharp or as fuzzy as I wish. It's just the look I was going for. I also changed the background color to create more contrast around the ball. But I see your overall point about the somewhat (lack of) sharpness or detail on the players. I'm aware of it and for every card I've made, I've always fidgeted with the player, trying out different looks. But the fuzziness is intended. It was the original look I was going for. But I might make the players a bit sharper going forward because the cards have evolved. They've gotten busier, and so perhaps, the players do need a little more detail to stand out from the other stuff. Edgy Flexen (Pink) Edgy Flexen v1 (Yellow) Original Flexen
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ashie62 Aug 15 2019 03:32 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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whippoorwill Aug 15 2019 03:56 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 15 2019 05:40 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 15 2019 06:46 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 16 2019 07:56 AM |
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Well if you like pink, then I've got the Batman card just for you. It's a two-fer tonight, for the two Mets that homered in tonight's game. And if one of these cards reminds you of a certain 70's Red Sox reliever with the porn star name, you're not alone. Added Bat-Bonus: the card debut of Batgirl, fittingly, in the 3rd series -- an homage to Batgirl's TV debut in season three of "Batman".
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G-Fafif Aug 15 2019 06:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 15 2019 10:12 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 15 2019 10:13 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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G-Fafif Aug 16 2019 04:13 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Zvon is alive and well on social media. Dick Grayson says Z was delighted to learn SNY helped itself to a few of his Fantazy card images for a segment on the 1969 NLCS the other night. I'm guessing they were plucked by an intern who didn't realize “BOB MURPHY DOES INTERVIEWS” might not have been issued by Topps, but it was exciting to see.
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MFS62 Aug 16 2019 04:49 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 16 2019 05:57 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 16 2019 06:27 AM |
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D'oh! See what I mean? I told you you notice everything.
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Lefty Specialist Aug 16 2019 06:11 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2019 03:23 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Today, on Makeover Monday, we revisit, and revise, Aaron Altherr.
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Lefty Specialist Aug 19 2019 06:20 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2019 06:31 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Altherr''s thrilled that he gets to stand so close to Batgirl.
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Edgy MD Aug 19 2019 10:05 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Lefty Specialist Aug 19 2019 11:10 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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She's too torrid for tots and for guys hitting .085. To put it in perspective, that's only 85 points higher than I, a middle-aged guy with glasses and negligible foot speed, would hit against major league pitching.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 20 2019 10:49 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Here at the Batcave, we take all of our reader mail quite seriously. And thanks to some tips from our avid readers, we've decided to tweak some of our earlier releases. It's Tweaky Tuesday and we've tweaked the lunchbox ad on Brandon Nimmo's card for and Stephen Nogosek's body. Nogosek's sleeve patch now rocks like the Batusi. Plus, as an added attraction, a new release form the 3rd series, now available at a store near you.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 20 2019 11:04 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Lefty Specialist Aug 20 2019 11:36 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2019 08:41 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's all about Batgirl in the 3rd series of Batman Mets cards, in stores now. And we've got the Batgirls for you.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 25 2019 11:33 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Aug 25 2019 04:18 PM |
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It's Readers' Mail week here at the Batcave and we get mail. Lots of it. A loyal follower, Roger Kaputnik, writes the following:
Dear Roger: Thank you for your interest in our Batman line of Mets cards. Casey Stengel would've been amazed at these cards had we printed them in 1966, during the Batman craze of that year. But we think you're a bit over concerned. You worry too much and you should never worry. Instead, try and exhibit some of that patience Batman is well known for. Patience has helped Batman escape many jams, including the Riddler's never-ending diabolical plots to end the caped crusader's run as Gotham City's premiere crime fighter. We think your patience will be rewarded. Meanwhile, now is as good a time as ever to explain our guidelines for deciding just who from the Batman TV show universe gets to appear in the "says box" of our Batman Mets cards. Our "says box" guests include every single headlining special guest villain -- every version of every special guest villain. That means all three Mr. Freezes, all of the Catwomen -- especially all of the Catwomen, including the Lee Meriweather Catwoman who never appeared on the TV show but starred in the 1966 Batman movie -- because we believe that one can never get enough Catwomen, and ... wait for it ... patience, Roger ... both Riddlers. That would include the Frank Gorshin Riddler. So as you can now see, your patience will be rewarded. Also appearing in the "says box", will be every recurring character on the Batman TV show, including, obviously the terrific trio of Batman, Robin and Batgirl. We won't, however. include any of the special guest villains' henchmen and henchwomen, underlings and molls, unless they were given a leading or distinctive role in a particular Batman episode. So don't worry and again, thanks for writing. And as a special treat for taking an interest in our Batman Mets cards, we've enclosed a new as yet unreleased furshlugginer Batman card with this letter for you to enjoy. It's a sneak preview just for you. We're also returning your Gomez card, which we're confident you will enjoy more than ever, now that we've clarified some of your concerns. So thanks again and please continue to collect our Batman cards. Collect them all! The Bat-Staff.
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kcmets Aug 25 2019 02:16 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 26 2019 08:57 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 27 2019 08:08 AM |
Zack Wheeler gets the makeover treatment on Makeover Monday. We've busied up his card a bit, one of our earlier 1st series releases, now consistent with the 3rd series release and the current trend of our Batman Mets cards. And we've unfuzzied Zack himself a bit so youse can see him better. Check out Zack's new and improved interlocking NY Mets cap logo!
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ashie62 Aug 26 2019 07:53 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 27 2019 02:48 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Makeover or tweak? We gave up trying to figure this one out. Alls we know is that we made Tom Terrific Terrificer. Take that, Tom Brady.
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LWFS Aug 27 2019 08:41 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 27 2019 09:49 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Well, if youse are gonna trickle back in here to give up, or at least contemplate giving up -- which is revocable, ya know --- youse can at least enjoy the latest Batman Mets cards while you ponder your dwindling rooting interest. What with Tuesday almost over, we'll squeeze in one more for Tweaky Tuesday before the clock strikes midnight even though we're pretty sure this Jacob Rhame redo really should be released on Makeover Monday. Sigh? Or die?
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 28 2019 09:19 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's Readers' Mail here all week long. Just in case youse didn't hear it the first 31 times we here at Typewriter Chewing Gum mentioned it. And we get lotsa reader mail. Today, we have the perfect Batman Mets card to go along with your breakfast. If you're a late riser.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 29 2019 11:18 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Another Tweaky Tuesday means another tweak. Today, Gil Hodges gets the tweak treatment. I never realized until just now that Commissioner Gordon wasn't the only one with a direct red phone hot-line to the Batcave. Apparently Gil and President Nixon also had one. Tricky Dick, I get. Because who knows what national emergency the caped crusader would be needed to solve, especially if one of Gotham's super-villains decided to cross state lines? But what would Gil need one for? He had Tom Seaver.
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G-Fafif Aug 29 2019 07:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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LWFS Aug 29 2019 08:06 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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nymr83 Aug 29 2019 08:21 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Fman99 Aug 30 2019 04:45 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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ashie62 Aug 30 2019 05:50 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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seawolf17 Aug 30 2019 06:35 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 30 2019 11:39 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 31 2019 01:29 AM |
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Me too! And youse still have the Polar Bear to follow, given up or not.
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Ceetar Aug 30 2019 11:44 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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kcmets Aug 30 2019 11:45 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 30 2019 12:15 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 31 2019 01:29 AM |
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I dunno what Beckett's got or what's "out there". But the Alonso HR record-breaker highlight card is a brand new first day release. So it's a total rumor or someone's been hacking into my computer. And if I've been hacked, I'll get Batman on the case and then those hacking fiends will be in big trouble. I'll tell you what ain't out there and no one here's got. Batman Mets All-Star cards. It's a special subset that's being test-marketed in Latin America only, especially to capitalize on the red-hot Argentine and Mexican Bat-Markets. Argentina, especially, is mucho loco for Batman. These cards are sponsored by Canal TV (¡Tu TV guia favorita!) and aren't available stateside. I'll see what I can do about gettting youse a sneak peek, though.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 30 2019 01:37 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I wouldn't pay to watch that.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 31 2019 09:31 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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G-Fafif Aug 31 2019 10:57 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Sweet song for sweet times.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 31 2019 11:09 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 31 2019 11:45 AM |
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Did you just post a youtube video of The Archies Sugar, Sugar? Unbelievable, given the Batman card I was just about to post. Either your powers of telepathy are off the charts or you just might be the guy who hacked into my computer to get that Alonso Highlight card before its intended public release. This is a job for the Dynamic Duo to investigate as Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara are clearly in over their heads on this one.
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G-Fafif Aug 31 2019 11:24 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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G-Fafif Aug 31 2019 11:35 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 31 2019 05:00 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 01 2019 09:05 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
You can look. But you can't touch. Test market All-Star cards for the Latin American market is what we've got for youse today. But if youse wanna lay your actual hands on one of these babies, youse are gonna hafta get your passports in order because these All-Star cards, starring MLB's All-Stars, aren't available at a store near you. Either that or check ebay. Whatever. Holy Caramba!
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MFS62 Sep 01 2019 09:30 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 01 2019 09:58 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Holy Stumpers! It's The Riddler! I give up. What do these cards have to do with give up day?
Meanwhile, this song is so infectious, I must've clicked on the youtube link at least three times since FAFIF posted it. Now if you wanna see and hear what America was listening to in 1969 when the Mets were romping to their World Series crown, check out this Dick Clark video. Where have you gone, Ratso Rizzo? Plus, the obligatory Batman tie-in.
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MFS62 Sep 01 2019 11:21 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 01 2019 11:57 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Bat-Bump.
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MFS62 Sep 01 2019 12:01 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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G-Fafif Sep 01 2019 12:16 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 02 2019 04:06 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Sep 04 2019 09:45 PM |
It's a Labor Day skeleton crew here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, but not even that is gonna stop us from fulfilling our Makeover Monday obligations because what we lack in numbers and manpower on this National holiday, we make up for in diabolical geniusness!. And this one was a long time coming. We hated this card from the get-go --- and so did Roger Kaputnik, who's been mailing us at least a letter a week imploring us to make-over Mickey Callaway. Roger finally wore us out. We gave up, Roger. Plus there's that bundle on postage we're saving on return letters to you, Roger. So here's your new Mickey Callaway. It's a win-win all around. We save on stamps. And the Mets save a few bucks by keeping this baseball walking dead man around till season's end.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 02 2019 10:15 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's not that much past midnight, but still, it's Tweaky Tuesday just the same. And right on schedule, we've got a Tweaky Tuesday Batman card just for youse loyal followers, which might actually be a makeover for Makeover Monday, in which case we'd be a day late. Or six days early. Which we can't figure out. Whether we're early or late or whether the new Tomas Nido is a tweak or a makeover. But who cares? We give up. We just wanted to change that Nido which was brutal on our eyes. What were we thinking? Who knows? We give up, again. Just like we gave up when ol' Roger Kaputnik pestered us until we fixed Mickey Callaway's Batman card. And just like we gave up the day before when that Riddler poster persisted in wanting to know why anything. We simply gave up on him. We sure do a lot of giving up in this thread that's all about the Batman Mets cards that we've been making this Summer. Why do we give up so much? Beats me. We give up! Why do we give up so much?
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Edgy MD Sep 03 2019 05:50 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 03 2019 07:43 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Thanks. But I might hafta tweak Nido again. That new background is swallowing up Robin's cape.
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I can't speak for everybody, but I think most of us are more interested in his scaly shorts. Thankfully he didn't assume the full crouch while playing catcher, or one of his little guys might have escaped.
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Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 03 2019 08:22 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 03 2019 09:44 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Is that you, Fonebone? That's some Bat-coincidence because we ordinarily answer reader mail on Fonebone Friday, and today, as you know, is Tweaky Tuesday. But we'll make an exception for you and your exceptional questions, Fonebone. So first, what's with the league leader rooks? We've never heard of that. I suppose you call your rookie cards "league leader cards", Fonebone. This is so Bizarrro, we can't wrap our heads around the notion. Where did you grow up, with your Bizarro rooks for league leader cards, Metropolis? Perhaps, you'd be interested in our upcoming 2020 line of Superman Mets baseball cards? Anyways, to answer your question, yes, Typewriter Chewing Gum will release league leader cards in a future series. It's a project that's currently in development. And quite frankly, we're debating whether to produce league leaders from the 2018 season, in which case, youse'll get a whole lotta deGrom, or whether to produce league leader cards from this season, in the off-season traded/update set, in which case youse'll get a whole lotta Alonso, and probably a McNeil sighting and some deGrom. We can't decide. And we're gonna make checklists too. And we've got a diabolically fiendish plot to include some non-existing cards in our checklist so the kiddies, and the adults, like you, Fonebone, will continue to buy our Batman cards in order to obtain those impossibly elusive cards which don't exist so as to complete their sets. Haha hooohoooha. Oh boy, the Joker would love this idea. See what happens when you hang around Gotham City's super villains as much as we do? You can't go through life being a goody goody Batman all the time. Where's the fun in that. Jesus H. Christ, do you believe that Bat-lunkhead keeps on turning down the Julie Newmar Catwoman? Oh my, what I would do for that pussy .... cat! We got the fake checklist idea from the 1948-49 Leaf baseball cards, our all time favorite baseball card set. We love the imperfections of those cards, the off-register variations, the garish hand coloring of the black and white photos, all of which foreshadowed, probably unintentionally, the pop art movement that would explode onto the scene a few years later. Anyways, Leaf didn't put out a fake checklist. That would've been too brazen, though not brazen enough for us here at Typewriter Chewing Gum. No, what Leaf did was to simply not produce cards for some of the consecutive numbers assigned to the cards. So collectors kept on collecting in vain for that non-existing number nine, etc. Anyways, what say you, Fonebone? League leaders, or, excuse me while I vomit, "rooks" from the 2018 season or from this season? Team cards? We're thinking on this one. Anyways, again, thanks for your interest in Typewriter Chewing Gum, Batman and the New York Mets. And as an added bonus, we've included an All-Star card insert. They're not available here in the US of A. Maybe when the electorate comes to its senses and decides not to sit out this upcoming presidential election like they sat out the last one, the most important presidential election of their lives what with an open seat on the Supreme Court and about 100 lower court vacancies waiting to be filled -- all lifetime appointments, mind you -- and finally votes this disaster out of office, we'll make our All Star cards available here in the USA, at least in the blue states anyways. Thanks for your interest. The Bat-Staff
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HahnSolo Sep 03 2019 08:25 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I was wrong. It was 99.9%.(See link below). Meaning that a team in that situation wins that game 999 out of 1,000 times. Maybe more often than that, maybe a lot more often, even by orders of magnitude, depending on how many digits after the decimal you calculate for and what those digits are. I mean, it could be 999 million out of 999 million plus one, theoretically.. But let's stick with 999 out of 1,000, because that's what we know. So how often is a team up by six runs heading into the bottom of the ninth? A coupl'a times a season? Meaning a team will lose that game once every coupl'a hundred years. Meaning that the odds are that you won't ever get to see that kind of a loss in your lifetime.
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Vic Sage Sep 04 2019 07:54 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yeah Alonso's HR was a Warner Wolf, "turn your sets off there" moment.
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Centerfield Sep 04 2019 08:45 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Frayed Knot Sep 04 2019 10:17 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
And consider that the pen -- three guys combined -- got only ONE out in that 9th inning.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 04 2019 10:23 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Excellent point, overlooked in the grand disaster of it all.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 04 2019 10:29 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Although,. having lost that game in walk off fashion, the Mets could have only gotten one more out. Excellent point, still ....
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seawolf17 Sep 04 2019 10:53 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Frayed Knot Sep 04 2019 11:39 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Fuck that! Just getting in would be an accomplishment and show some fight (particularly now), as would winning the WC play-in game.
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G-Fafif Sep 04 2019 11:55 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Same, basically. I was legit mad Sunday night (when Familia sucked at CBP) for the first time all season. Earlier losses, given their hopeless context, didn't rile me up in earnest. The losing streak at home last week was more absorbing than angering. This one took me back to a void I last truly experienced 18 Septembers ago.
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No, you're totally right there. He's skewered either way, which is why managing sucks and the media suck more. I'm just saying the whole "as a closer, I can't protect a lead that isn't a save situation" thing is bullshit.
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Centerfield Sep 04 2019 12:25 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Remember that like it was yesterday. Thanks for bringing all of that pain back Greg.
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Anytime!
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That was. a great read, as always. All those connections and associations. The gears were really turning. Hey, a loss is. a loss. Just pretend the Mets lost 3-2, deGrom kept 'em in there for the. bullpen to blow it. Which is what happened, but on a humongouser scale.* * 166 keystrokes to type this post on my smartphone. I fucking kept track!
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Frayed Knot Sep 04 2019 12:49 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 04 2019 12:54 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Because he read FAFIF or independently?
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 05 2019 06:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
On the same day that the Beatles 50th Anniversary release of Abbey Road is announced, we've got just the tweak for youse on Tweaky Thursday. It's too bad that we thought of that Beatles bit that's taking place behind Corey Oswalt before we thought to produce Batman69 inserts. What a lost opportunity. But we've got some Batman69 insert surprises coming your way real soon. Which reminds me, where did that Fonebone feller go off to? We're still wondering whether he'd like to see league leader cards -- excuse me, --"Rooks"-- from the 2018 season or from this season? Printing deadlines and all, ya know, Fonebone?
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 05 2019 06:57 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 06 2019 01:16 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Yesterday's Abbey Road 50th Anniversary release announcement got us here at Typewriter Chewing Gum in our own 1969 50th anniversary mood. And what a year that was. Beginning with Led Zeppelin's album debut and a Jets Super Bowl victory and ending with an at their peak Rolling Stones free concert at the Altamont Raceway that was, albeit, marred by just a few minor fracases. And we've got another Batman69 insert to fill our '69 jones. (We should've saved that Jones line for the release of a Batman69 Cleon Jones card, which is coming in the future what with the Mets nailing down three all star roster spots in 1969, including Jonesie the batting title contender. We'll hafta work on our timing a bit.) And not just any old insert card, but an insert within an insert. That's right. Batman69 inserts meet our All-Star cards inserts today, as we take you back to RFK Stadium for the 1969 All-Star Game, featuring that year's big deal, Ted Williams, who put on a baseball uniform once again to manage the host city's Washington Senators, (old friend Frank Howard homered before the home town crowd in that year's mid-summer classic). It's Jerry Koosman's Batman69 All-star card. And check out the fancy embossing on this doozy. Raised bat logos and stars and lettering. We went all out and spared no expenses on this card, which, embossing wise, was inspired by the White Album cover, speaking of the Beatles. Of course, "all-star card" designation prevents us from selling that card stateside. Contracts. Test market. Latin America. Youse know the drill. Lucky youse have me, though, to give youse a sneak peek so's youse don't have to travel to Mexico to buy this baby, where in 1969, Americans took their kiddies there for family vacations and spent their honeymoons there in places like Acapulco and Cancun. Today, though, to tell you the truth, and don't tell anyone I told youse so, I don't think even Batman and Robin would wanna step foot there.
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Ceetar Sep 06 2019 02:15 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Howie doesn't follow Greg (or Jason) on Twitter, but I suppose he could be reading the blog independently. also read many of the 'expert' analysis of the 2018 postseason and you'll see plenty about how the Red Sox pen was 'not good' and going to expose them. Similar for the Astros the year before.
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apmorris Sep 07 2019 10:45 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 07 2019 12:55 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Welcome back, Maury.
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Frayed Knot Sep 08 2019 07:51 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Gary mentioned 'winning 3 of 4' last night as probably the minimum pace they'd need to maintain - and that sounds about right. 16-5 to close it out from here would leave them at 88-74, maybe enough to sneak in.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 09 2019 10:43 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Today's brand new card release features the Power/Speed champ of the Batman/Mets universe. But wouldn't you know it, as this card was in development, we here at Typewriter thought of yet another candidate who might vie for the Power/Speed championship of the Batman/Mets universe. This means that there'll be a future card coming, along the lines of today's release -- which won't settle the question of who's the Power/Speed champ of the Batman/Mets universe but at least youse'll have some more eye candy to eyeball while the Mets fade and Pete Alonso hasn't hit a homer in what's goddamn ages for him -- about three games. And while it's true, just like we said, that you won't find anyone who ever played for the Mets on this card, we didn't say anything about Mets royalty.
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seawolf17 Sep 09 2019 12:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 10 2019 05:21 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Big day here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, makers of the finest Batman-Mets cards in the whole wide world. And after yesterday's glorious Mets win -- beating their wild card DBack rivals while Jake deGrom advanced his Cy Young award case and Pete the Polar Bear Alonso smashed not one but two round-trippers to put him on pace to not just tie, but to set the all-time single season rookie HR record - well nobody's giving up today.
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Fman99 Sep 10 2019 05:48 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 10 2019 08:38 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Don't worry. It's made out of stretch lame. It'll stretch.
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Centerfield Sep 11 2019 08:03 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Frayed Knot Sep 11 2019 10:13 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yup! Not that that stops many football "analysts" from discussing which of the 0-1 teams are facing "must win" games this Sunday, but many of them are a special breed of dummkopf and they have much air time to fill. I mentioned earlier in the thread about Gary throwing out the number "three of four" down the stretch as a likely minimum target. At the time there were 21 games left which I then translated to 16-5 (.761 win pct). That was on Sunday morning prior to them losing the final game against the Fillies at which point you're up to needing four of every five (16-4). The good news is that we're 2-0 since then (thanx to some brilliant IGT'ing) bringing us to a 14-4 target. Not sure how much that improves the odds over 16-4, but it's something. Doable? Probably not, but stranger things have happened. Would be nice if we didn't have the Dodgers next and the Braves last in that lineup, between them taking up fully one third of the remaining 18 games, but we do. @Rox (3) @Reds (3) and Marlins (4) make up the rest. It also doesn't help that the two big teams are, to a small extent anyway, battling each other for the home field rights in a theoretical NLCS Game 7 some six weeks from now. Dodgers currently hold a four game edge in that 'race'
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Centerfield Sep 11 2019 10:27 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 11 2019 01:42 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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That's right. The TV Batgirl's look was based heavily on the 1966 comic book reboot of Batgirl, which, going around in circles, was released to coordinate with the Batman TV show. I didn't include it in my Flores baseball card, but in the lower right hand corner of that Batgirl costume sketch is a handwritten "OK" notation, indicating that the sketch was approved by the TV show's executives. I tweaked the Flores card. I changed the text alongiside the Batgirl sketch and I lightened up some of Flores's facial features.
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kcmets Sep 11 2019 01:49 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=21528 time=1568222474 user_id=68]This take two of three is moronic. What's a team that wins the first two games of a three game series supposed to do: lose the third game on purpose to fulfill the two out of three trope? Or not try as hard with two wins already in the back pocket? |
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So then why do they say "let's take two out of three"? It's dumb. Now winning two out of three is good because if you win at that rate all season long you've won 108 games and you're a goddamn juggernaut. Like the '86 Mets. But taking two out of three is backwards looking. A professional Major League baseball team that wins the first two games of the series and then loses the third should be fucking livid pissed in the hours immediately following that third game defeat rather than rationalizing and saying "oh, well, we won two out of three".
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kcmets Sep 11 2019 02:07 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I agree, that's not the part I'm disagreeing about haha...
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 11 2019 02:11 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Oh I know. You're disagreeing with the part of my post that any other person would know by now is tongue in cheek.
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Edgy MD Sep 11 2019 04:48 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Yeah, purple and gold isn't so great for hiding in shadows, but the TV show had it right. Like Donnie Osmond, Prince, and Magic Johnson, Barbara Gordon belongs in purple.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 12 2019 07:24 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
We're closing out the third series of Batman cards with a card featuring the star of the series -- Batgirl. Typewriter Chewing Gum will then be taking a brief hiatus. But we'll be back with a first look at the brand new fourth series real soon. Meanwhile, we've been up to our Bat-Ears in Batman history this whole summer. So much so that I couldn't help but pick up this terrific DVD boxed set of the Batman TV show.
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Centerfield Sep 12 2019 04:02 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 12 2019 10:52 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Me too. And what a glorious game the Mets played today. I knew I was going to miss today's game so I taped it for later viewing. But I didn't watch my tape either because I didn't have the time so I settled for a coupl'a internet highlight packages. Great to see Lagares with the breakout offesnse. I've been down on him for a coupl'a years now. Understandably, right? We said we were gonna take a brief hiatus here at Typewriter, but we can't help ourselves. We stopped by the ol' Bat-offices just for some housecleaning but we decided to bring back the Batman Juan Lagares card in honor of today's hitting sensation. It's a Batgirl card and she's the star of the 3rd series so this all works out. Batgirl just might turn out to be the good luck charm the Mets need. Confy bashsed his 30th today, too, with a little help from Batgirl, I'd like to believe. Where does she come from and where does she go? We're all Batgirl this week. I'm still processing Edgy noticing that TV Batgirl's colors are also LA Lakers colors. Never thought of that one.
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kcmets Sep 13 2019 12:31 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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If they sweep the Dodgers maybe you can 'date' two semi-supermodels sometime this year. There a few do-nothings in Stockholm that owe us a few favors and such.
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Frayed Knot Sep 13 2019 01:08 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Hey, it worked for Gary w/Lagares yesterday:
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Frayed Knot Sep 17 2019 03:39 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Fixed it for you.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 20 2019 10:12 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's Fonebone Friday! We were supposed to be gearing up for the fourth series of Batman cards when we decided, instead, to go down memory lane.
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Ceetar Sep 20 2019 12:30 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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who's having otherworldly performances? Alonso and McNeil but like, Alonso is good and we knew that. Even if this is otherworldly, there's no reason to not expect worldly next year. I'm not ready to play fantasy offseason yet, not really my thing anyway, but this was expected to be a mid-80s team, and seems to be headed that way. If you believe some in the talent of some of these guys, it's easy to see where they're good next year. Hell, it's easy to think the juiced ball and specifically the damage to the slider as a whole affected the Mets more than other teams, in how it hit Thor and Diaz. There's a lot of talent on this team. They gotta replace Wheeler, but most of it's staying put. Brodie has roughly a billion different things he could do to improve this team too.
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kcmets Sep 20 2019 12:50 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
=Ceetar post_id=22395 time=1569004206 user_id=102]Brodie has roughly a billion different things he could do... |
Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 20 2019 08:20 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 21 2019 09:23 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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What kind of a masochist are you? Your friend, Karbunkle
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Chad ochoseis Sep 22 2019 07:15 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
The Mets going 6-1 and the Nats going 2-6 is a longshot. But it's not that much of a longshot.
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Fman99 Sep 22 2019 07:41 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Edgy MD Sep 22 2019 07:44 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Yeah, I'm just here for the cards.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 23 2019 08:21 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Holy Space-Time conundrum! We packed Batman into the DeLorean time machine and set the dials for Washington D.C, Summer of '69. Batman's mission was to snap up some pics of all-star and emerging Mets batting stud Cleon Jones at RFK stadium for our Batman69 All-Star cards. (available only in Latin America. All-star cards. Test Market. Contracts. Lawyers.) What we forgot was that this Batman, the Adam West version, is strictly a 1966 guy. So he didn't take with him, one of those modern digital cameras with unlimited memory that every nine year old has today so long as they have a smartphone, which they do, which we figured Batman would have in his vaunted utility belt. No. Instead he took a 1966 vintage Minolta camera with, get this, a spent roll of film and enough leftover film for just one snapshot. He couldn't take a modern camera. Shark repellent and anti-radioactive spray he took with him. But not a freakin' modern camera. So Batman gets there, and he's got one shot to get a good shot of ol' Cleon. But wouldn't youse know it -- Cleon wasn't cooperating. Cleon gave us his back, the ol' cold shoulder. Wouldn't give Batman the time of day. Maybe Cleon's a Superman guy. Who knows? Well, Batman did the best he could. Then he came back and went out looking for one of those Kodak kiosks where they can develop your film in 24 hours. Youse don't know what we'se went through with this card.
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Lefty Specialist Sep 23 2019 08:35 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
So we're basically hoping for a 5-game sweep by the Phils over the Nats while the Mets run the table.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 30 2019 05:52 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
We were tweaking Jason Vargas the other day, when it was announced that Ric Ocasek had died. So we took a little turn with Vargas's tweak and decided to car it up with his new card. So have some new old eye candy. Eye candy-o. (groan).
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 04 2019 08:44 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's Fonebone Friday and we're still in a tweaky kind of mood here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, makers of the best Batman Mets baseball cards in the whole wide world. And on this Fonebone Friday, it's Callaway went Thataway Day. And to celebrate, we've got a coupl'a subtle tweaks of ol' 36 himself, Mickey Callaway and OG 36, the Kooz, whose number's gonna be retired pretty soon, even if Gary Carter is whining publically to Dick Young that his #8 should be retired first, because what the hell did Jerry Koosman ever do for the Mets that Gary Carter himself didn't do 20 times over, sez Gary Carter. So good riddance to Mickey and happy 36.
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Edgy MD Oct 11 2019 09:59 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Dear Typewriter,
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Ringo, Ringo Ringo. You know what they say about 1966, dontch'a? That 1966 was the year of the three B's: Batman, the Beatles and James Bond. We love us some Ringo here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, makers of the finest Batman Mets cards in the whole wide world, including a 2019 highlhights card featuring Noah Syndergaard's domination of the Cincinnati Reds when he shut them out and homered, to boot, to acocount for the only run in a 1-0 Mets win. But if we were casting the Batman TV show, we would've set our sights on the on the brink of superstardom Warren Beatty. With Beatty in the role, the contrast between Two-Faces' two half-faces -- the beauty and the horror--would have been stunning. We made the Syndergaard highlight card back in the dead of Summer. Most of the work was done during that scorching heat wave on what was the hottest day of the year one weekend, when outside, it felt like about 110 degrees and that you were literally inside of a broiler, if you hadda be outside. This card ended up taking about 10 or 15 hours to make, its production stretching out over a whole week. If we knew ahead of time what we were getting into with this furshlugginer card, I don't know if we would've bothered. But we think its a beaut, so we're glad for that.
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Edgy MD Oct 12 2019 10:36 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
The coup de grace is the IDEAL logo.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 12 2019 01:47 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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The Golden Age of The Simpsons - Bill Clinton's first term. That's just awesome.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 18 2019 08:54 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
This baseball card comes with its own video insert. Buy it at a store near you.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 23 2019 01:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I dunno, but those are just regular ol' splats. Maybe it was Berle, himself.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 24 2019 10:12 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
A new release and a tweak. Happy Fonebone Friday!
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 25 2019 08:36 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
He's one of those silhouetted generic baseball action figures that I include in all of the base set Batman cards. He can be anybody you want him to be. Willie McCovey. Tim Harkness. Ginger Baker. Anybody. Here's that whole scene:
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How's this? I put the whole baseball action scene in there. I think the problem was that without the charging base runner for context, the first baseman looks more like a surfer. [YOUTUBE]SrmAs4rkRi8[/YOUTUBE]
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Edgy MD Nov 01 2019 12:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
That Penguin rally invokes Barry Goldwater's famous quote from his nomination speech: “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 06 2020 01:24 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Mets gotta represent.
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They'll be amazing, amazing, amazing, and this year I want you to follow 'em. They'll be known in all the periodicals because they'll be in South America — New Year's Day will be their best game. This year will be over in a hurry. —Casey Stengel, 1969 |
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We finally got Cleon to smile for the camera.
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Tune in tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel, as we here at Typewriter Chewing Gum will preview another Batman card from our line of All-Star Latin-American market only test issue cards. Once again, it's gonna be another mash-up of All-Star cards and Batman69 cards. Plus, we're going "Special Guest Villain" with this next one so stayed tuned! It's three subsets all rolled into one card.
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 22 2020 11:16 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Typewriter Chewing Gum celebrates the 1969 All-Star Game's Mets connected hometown hero with this mash-up of Latin-American market All-Star cards, Batman69 cards and the Special Guest Villain line of cards. And check out our guest villain's 4.000 slugging percentage and 5.000 OPS for his all-star effort. That's a good night's work.
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 22 2020 11:25 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 31 2020 08:48 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Typewriter Chewing Gum is pleased to announce a new and exciting subset to our line of Batman Mets cards -- You Look Familiar! This subset is further subdivided into two other subsets (subsets within subsets) -- Space and Clarksvllle. So without further ado, let's break out the first You Look Familiar! card, Space variation. Also, Bud Harrelson gets a face-lift and a video accompaniment.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 01 2020 03:00 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Yesterday's Typewriter Chewing Gum launch of the new Batman subset -- You Look Familiar! went over so swimmingly well, that we're gonna treat youse all to another sneak preview -- a Super Bowl weekend preview -- again, from the Space line of You Look Familiar! Look for more of these in specially marked randomly selected future packs of Batman Mets cards at a store near you -- now in three varieties -- Space, Clarksville and Balloon.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 06 2020 11:06 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Lotsa news at Typewriter Headquarters - still home of the finest Batman Mets cards in the world - but not for long. We're building a new home to make your favorite cards. We're getting so many letters, so much fan mail here, that the old place isn't big enough to hold all your mail. It's like the Miracle on 34th Street with all the bags and sacks of mail we're getting. Especially after that Joan Collins You Look Familiar! - Space card. Wowza! Just wait until we start breaking out the Julie Newmars. Meow!
You mean like this baby that combines our league leaders subset with the Batman69 line? More of these to come, including 2019 league leaders.
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And coming soon, Tommy Davis to be featured on a Batman Mets card. Wait, you must mean J.D. Davis, not Tommy Davis, right? Nope, we mean Tommy Davis. Not Rajai Davis? Tommy, not Rajai. Well how could this be, you wonder? Tommy's long retired, so he wouldn't be on a 2019 base card. He was on the Seattle Pilots in 1969, and was not a member of the Amazin' Miracle Mets. That rules out a Batman69 card. So how would Tommy Davis be featured on a 2019 Batman Mets card? You'll have to stay tuned in here. It's all part of our exciting new subset. We love subsets.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 09 2020 11:23 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's time to break out some more from our You Look Familiar! subsets --(now in four, four, four varieties -- Space, Clarksville, Balloon and Silence). So without further ado, let's do this.
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Seriously wtf |
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 10 2020 07:31 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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I was asking whether it is time for a 2020 thread (like we do with other annual CPF thread titles) rather than continuing a 2019 thread. Nothing more. Nothing less. And certainly not a reason for anyone to get bent out of shape. |
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 15 2020 10:50 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
We here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, makers of the greatest Batman Mets cards on this planet also read The Athletic. And we've been digging that Joe Posnanski piece on ol' Tom Terrific, references to which, are circulating on this forum as we write this post. This got us in the mood to honor the greatest Mets ever so without further ado, it's another Latin-American market only all-star card from our quite substantial stash of unreleased Batman cards. Our all-star cards link up with our Batman69 line for this Tom Seaver in a mashup of subsets. Did we ever tell youse how much we like subsets? Because we do. And coming soon, a look at the most overlooked Mets 1969 all-star in another mashup of our all-star cards and our Batman69 cards.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 19 2020 02:37 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 21 2020 02:14 AM |
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Hey Joe: Where you goin' with those letters of yours? We here at Typewriter Chewing Gum do not disappoint. We've got another league leader card for you. And a checklist! We produce checklists here at Typewriter Chewing Gum. You asked and we delivered. This checklist is for the Fourth Series. The Fabulous Fourth Series! It's Fab, sez we. The Fab Fourth! And we think youse are gonna love the fourth series! Because it's fabulous, did we say? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Coming attractions here at Typewriter Chewing Gum include another all-star card (Latin-American test market, sorry folks!) all mashed-up with our Batman69 line for a look at the Mets most overlooked 1969 all-star. And coming soon, Tommy Davis stars on his own Batman card as we introduce a brand new subset -- which we're very excited about. Plus, we'll be going through the entire 4th series (the Fab Fourth series - card by card by card. This exciting presentation will include special guest commentary by Timothy Leary on mid-60s psychotropics, Tom Wolfe on 1966, with special emphasis on Batman, The Beatles and the New York Mets, and Roger Angell on the 1966 Mets and their future. And yes, Tommy Davis. Not J.D. Davis. Not Rajai Davis.
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All in due time. We'll be showing off that particular 4th series checklist back when we riff through the 4th series itself. Meanwhile, we hope you're buying packs of Batman Mets cards at a store near you. The more packs you buy, the likelier you are to pull a checklist. And look for these other coming attractions coming soon: the most overlooked 1969 Mets all-star although if we keep calling him the most overlooked 1969 Mets all-star, he'll end up being the most looked at 1969 Mets all-star. But if you gotta look at our all-star Batman Mets card to look at the most overlooked 1969 Mets all-star, well that's a win-win. And look for Tommy Davis, the 1967 one-year Met on his own Batman card. And more Mets, more "You Look Familiar" subset cards, more league leaders and more surprises. And Tommy Davis.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 21 2020 08:12 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Feb 24 2020 08:23 PM |
It's Fonebone Friday over here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, a subsidiary of Plasticine Industries and the makers of the best Batman Mets cards in the whole wide world. And that could only mean one thing: more league leaders cards and more checklists. So here we go:
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Lefty Specialist Feb 21 2020 08:25 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 22 2020 10:48 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Hey! You're giving us too much credit for trying real hard to be trendy or something. We're not eschewing anything here at Typewriter Chewing Gum, a subsidiary of Plasticine Industries -- where anything goes! Nope. We're not eschewing anything at all! We're just looking for Mets at the top of the leader boards is all it is because the only leader cards we're producing for this Batman set are leader cards with Mets on them. Like the leader card below featuring the plain' old vanilla Home Run category. And have another checklist while you're here. It's a good thing you're into blown up Batman cards for your walls, although from your past posts that I've read over the years, it's even money if your wife lets you even store a blown up card in the broom closet. But still, it's a good thing you're into blown up cards because in our coming-soon McDonald's-Monopoly Batman game, we'll be giving away blown up versions of our Batman cards to some lucky winners. I hope your walls are big, like art museum big, because these blown up Batman cards are gonna be even bigger than the Tabloid Derby winners on display in Stockhlolm. So be on the lookout for Bat-opoly game pieces at a McDonald's near you or in specially marked packs of Batman cards. And look for more Batman cards coming your way. More of everything. Including Tommy Davis and the most overlooked 1969 Mets all-star. And the return of The Cereal Killer! And a challenger to the Kathy Kersh power-speed crown! Plus Thomas Wolfe, Timothy Leary, Roger Angell, Dick Cavett and Ringo Starr on our Fabulous Fourth Series - the Fab Fourth Series! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! And more special guest villains! And so much more!
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2020 09:54 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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We updated The Archer's league leader card to bring it more in line with the look of the other league leader cards -- an always evolving process.
You sound like you're into the rogue's gallery of Batman villains. Which is a good thing, we here at Typewriter Chewing Gum believe. Because without Gotham City's super-villains, there'd be nothing for Batman to do, and therefore, no mid-60s TV show phenomenon, and no Batman Mets cards some 50 years later. Some actual proposed villains that missed the TV cut were The Scribbler, (a failed pop artist), Dr. Somnambulus and Lady Macbeth. Upon learning that ABC was planning to produce a Batman TV show, Frank Sinatra did everything in his power to land the role of The Joker, which he desperately coveted. It was already too late, as Cesar Romero was one of the first actors signed up for the show and the network was extremely pleased with its casting catch. There are no reports of decapitated horse's heads ending up in the beds of any ABC execs. Spencer Tracy was first offered the role of The Penguin, but apparently, ol' Spence didn't quite understand how the show worked. Spencer insisted on being able to kill off Batman as a condition to taking the role.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 26 2020 10:05 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Looks like it's League Leaders month all month long at Typewriter Chewing Gum, a subsidiary of Plasticine Industries, and still, the makers of the finest Batman Mets cards in the whole wide world. And today, we mash-up our subsets once again, for a Batman69 look at some league leaders with a Mets flavor. And a twist of Batman, too. Look closely and you'll see that we squeezed in four league leaders on the card below - instead of the usual three, thanks to a third place tie. Lucky youse. That's one more league leading major leaguer for the same price.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 26 2020 09:22 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Not any more. Plus, befitting of a King, we put the real gold, not just the color gold, into Tut's garments and jewelry.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 04 2020 11:52 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
What comes after Super Tuesday?
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 05 2020 11:59 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
It's Terrific Thursday, here at Typewriter Chewing Gum and we're still celebrating 1969 all the rest of the week. Just like we said we would. Today's Batman69 release mashes up with our league leaders subset for another Metsian card. And as an added bonus, today's card goes to four. Four, as in fourth place -- instead of the usual top three finishers in the statistical category. Take a good look at that card and youse can figure out why we went to four. How else d'yas think we could make that card Metsian? That's one more disembodied head than the usual number for youse lucky youses.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 06 2020 10:11 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Did youse all forgot that today is Fabulous Friday and that we here at Typewriter blah blah blah are celebrating 1969 all this week not including Stormy Monday and Super Tuesday which was just as bad as Stormy Monday and not really so Super for Elizabeth Warren? And did youse all see the all-night long love fest for the persistent Senator from Massachusetts? Liz is as beloved on MSNBC as she is on this here forum. They poured out their hearts for Liz all night long straight through the whole lineup from whoever replaced Chris Matthews all the way to Brian Williams. The evening was so heartfelt, so melancholy, you woulda though they killed JFK all over again.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 17 2020 01:35 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Hey youse baseball starved fans! Already sick of those quarantines and social distancing? Wouldn't you like your kids to be back in school already so they don't drive you nuts 24/7, hogging the bathrooms and your TV remotes and eating all the potato chips which you can't replace so easily anymore because who the hell wants to go out there? Need a baseball fix in these troubling coronavirus times? Well we here at Typewriter Chew have got just the thing for youse to pass the COVID-19 blahs. It's another Batman card. And a brand new subset. And we love subsets. So let's introduce our newest baby --"Mets of the Batman TV Show Era". The Batman TV show debuted in January of 1966 and aired it's last brand new episode in March of 1968, just before the start of that year's baseball season. So if you were a Met during either the 1966 or 1967 seasons, don't be surprised if one day, youse catch yourselves on a Typeweriter Chew Batman Mets card.
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 18 2020 11:42 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
A Transylvanian Count? The Old West? Civil War outposts?
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 25 2020 12:20 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Today's secret word is "Flrbbbbb!"
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 01 2020 09:55 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Batman and Robin and the folks here at Typewriter Chewing Gum remind everybody to stay safe and healthy and to social distance and to wash your hands often.
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 01 2020 12:33 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Hey Edgy! You out there. I have an assignment for you. Or anybody else that wants to play.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 01 2020 01:00 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Burt was the guy whose father was murdered by Jesse James on The Brady Bunch, but I mostly remember him as "Old Man Quigley" on All in the Family.
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Edgy MD Apr 01 2020 01:45 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Burt played an old man for a lot of years. He's like the male Ellen Corby.
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Edgy MD Apr 02 2020 10:03 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
I don't think of The Blue Blazer applying the Golden Sombrero
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MFS62 Apr 03 2020 06:41 AM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
If you wanted a wrestler turned actor (instead of an actor who looked like a wrestler) in those days, it was usually Mike Mazurki:
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That's funny you said/wrote that because last night I was googling "Blue Blazer" for ideas or inspiration on how to dress this villain. I was also wondering if "Blue Blazer" is some sort of wrestling term. I don't know much about wrestling. I know and have heard of the stuff that everybody probably knows, like a half-nelson and Hulk Hogan and Gorgeous George. My 4th grade buddy was a big Bruno Sammartino fan. And Gorilla Monsoon, too. Back in the 4th grade. Anyways, it turns out that "Blue Blazer" is the name of an actual modern-day wrestler. Did you know that?
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I didn't, but ... I have a friend named Mark who was and is a real subversive. He eventually went to work for WFAN, but that was ironic, because in the early years of the station, he made great hay out of prank-calling them. On one occasion, he put on his best Bronx accent and carried on for about 15 minutes about how everybody says that nobody can beat Tyson, but he's seen this fighter coming up who would mash Tyson to pieces. Every time the host would try to get a name out of Mark, Mark would talk over him, saying this guy was more nimble than Ali but his punches more devastating than Foreman. He had Schmeiling's brutality but Norton's reach. Again, the host would ask for a name and Mark would wax on about his last three opponents leaving the ring in a stretcher. Finally, the host pinned him down, "You got me interested," he interjected, but who is this guy? Give me a name!" "A name?" Mark responded, as if it hadn't even occurred to him. "Yeah, a name. I assume this guy has one." Mark paused a beat, but didn't crack. "His name is ... Da Blue Blaza." "The what what?" "The Blue Blazer! He absolutely destroyed Sergeant Slaughter last week." "Wait a minute ... YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A WRESTLER?!?!" I'm not doing it justice, but we kept a tape of it and it many pairs of pants were ruined when it was played back. Anyhow, since then, I pretty much call all fictional wrestlers "The Blue Blazer."
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batmagadanleadoff Apr 03 2020 02:30 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
That's a funny story. Patch that tape into the forum.
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Oddly enough Owen Hart was known as one of the biggest pranksters and jokers in that WWF locker room. And now I want to see an in his prime Sarge (early to mid 1980s) square off with a towards the end Owen. Or even Bret. Unless Sarge did time in Stampede (The Hart family's promotion in Calgary) I don't recall much interaction with Sarge and any of the Harts.
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Damn gimmick cost him his life. RIP Owen
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2020 04:09 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Hey youse Mets fans! Need a baseball fix. A fix from the coronavirus blues? A baseball fix to while away the time while the Mets self quarantine? Well Typrewriter Chewing Gum is bringing back the reigning Power/Speed champ of the Batman Baseball cards -- Kathy Kersh -- Miss Rheingold '62 -- B-List Hollywood man-eater of the mid-60s and for a brief while -- Ms. Burt "Robin the Boy Wonder" Ward. Why, youse may wonder? Because Kathy's got some competition for the power speed champ of the Batman Mets cards universe. And youse can get to crown the champ. But that part's coming soon. Same bat-channel.
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Edgy MD Aug 22 2020 08:25 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
I wonder if Robin and Cornelia had a double wedding with Batman and Morticia.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 25 2020 07:51 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
The phone lines are now open. The Bat-Phone lines, that is. So does Julie Newmar de-throne Kathy Kersh as the new Power/Speed champ of the Batman Mets cards universe? Tell us here at Typewriter Chewing Gum who and why and you may win a fabulous prize. Act now, while supplies last.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 27 2020 12:35 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
Meanwhile, this one's a dead heat. We might hafta have a Power/Speed champ tiebreaker if this holds up.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 25 2021 01:19 PM Re: I Give Up Day 2019 |
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Holy shades of 2019!
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