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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 13 2022 10:28 PM


Topps did/does a bit of that with the "Topps Total" set, which did a nice job of catching everyone.



The 2019 Topps Total set, for example, has the only Mets cards of Adeiny Hechavarria and Rajai Davis, and 2020 has Walker Lockett and Brad Brach.




Yes, but nobody covers the Citi Field Mets in cardboard better than Typewriter Chewing Gum. At Typewriter, every Met gets a card, even the fringiest Mets. Every Met. Every year. And to prove our point, we're opening up our vaults to feature a fringy Citi Field Met "all typed up". Pat yourself on your back if you can remember anything about any of the Mets to be featured in this thread. And watch this space. If youse ain't collecting Typewriters, you won't be able to flip through your baseball card collections to remind yourselves of these fringy Mets because they ain't appearing in any other sets -- at least not as Mets.



2015 Total Mets Set - Code Name: Neon

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whippoorwill
Jun 14 2022 08:46 AM
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Typewriters are the best!

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 14 2022 11:32 AM
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2018 Typewriter Total Mets Set - Code Name: Puppet, Pauper, Pirate, Poet, Pawn and King



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 14 2022 02:55 PM
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2009 Typewriter Total Mets Set - Code Name:Vestigial Tails



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Finally, a Mets fringe player from this thread that I remember something about. Vaguely. Brown committed some kind of base-running screw-up, I think. It may have been the last out of a close game. Something like that. Three games, six plate appearances, total. That's Emil's Mets record.

Lefty Specialist
Jun 14 2022 03:58 PM
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We need a Mike Glavine card.

kcmets
Jun 14 2022 07:26 PM
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Both cards are kinda ugly, The Life cover knock-off is nice.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 15 2022 05:59 AM
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From our award-winning inaugural Citi Field 2009 Mets set, the understatedly simple yet elegant Vestigial Tails total Mets set:



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"Form and function in a baseball card. Clean lines, uncluttered imagery and they flip well, too". One word -- Bauhaus!



Yours truly,

Roger Kaputnik


we bring you another blink and you missed him Met on the fringes -- the first Mets player you can rightly call "Casey of the Mets" (career Mets line - 4 IP). What took 'em so long?





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Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 15 2022 06:53 AM
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Hey I think I was at The Casey Fossum Game

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 15 2022 09:54 PM
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Luis Hernandez had all off 44 AB's for the Mets in 2010. That's more playing time than Fossum's 4IP, but still, that's a fringe Met if I ever saw one. So whaddyouse know about Luis Hernandez? I dunno how youse are even gonna distinguish him, let alone remember anything about him. Doesn't every team have a Luis or a Hernandez on its 25-man every single season? Luis was carded in a 2010 Typewriter Total Mets set, code named Rock & Roll. He was fringy, but every Met still gets a card. And isn't that the point?





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Edgy MD
Jun 16 2022 08:45 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Luis' name is unfortunate, because as anonymous and interchangeable as it seemingly makes him with dozens of other Caribbean infielders named Luis, Hernandez, or Luis Hernandez, the way his Met career ended should be the stuff of legends. Of course, the timing wasn't much either.



With an anonymous Mets team struggling to get back to .500 before running out of season, with Jerry Manuel a dead man walking as he brought the team home, it had been five days since Luis had seen his name in a lineup card. But for some reason, Manuel thought he could get it done that day against Tim Hudson, and inserted him at second, batting eighth, because that's where veteran backup infielders getting a spot start in September hit.



In his second at bat against Hudson, he got a 1-0 fastball inside, driving it of the handle of his bat, down into his foot. He collapsed in pain. Jerry came out with his trainer, hands in his back pocket. Hernandez got up and put some weight on his foot. He tried to suppress his grimace, and told his manager he's OK. What else can you expect a veteran AAA guy to say? When he sees his name on a roster, he can pretty much make out where the words "Non-Tendered" and "DFA" have already been written and erased a half dozen times next to it.



Managers have a responsibility here. Trainers do also. They can't x-ray the foot on the spot. The player is not going to be honest, so the call is theirs. They spend the next five minutes doing the pantamime of professionalism. "What do you think? I dunno. What do you think? I dunno."



Luis spits, curses his anonymous name, and assures the trainer he's fine. He's not fine, and in fact has broken at least one metatarsal bone. Possibly two, I'm not sure. But life is hard and it won't get any easier begging out of the game. Jerry rolls over and lets Hernandez make the decision for himself, because that's who Jerry is. He's wants you to think he's a gangsta, but he's a go-along-to-get-along figure like so many placeholder managers before him. Luis wins the nominal argument, but damned if he's going to prolong this agony. He's going back in there swinging.



He's a switch hitter, batting lefthanded, so there's no way he's going to let the righhanded Hudson surprise him inside again. But that's just what Hudson tries to do. Doubling up inside is really what a pitcher is supposed to do after successfully jamming a batter on the previous pitch. But Hernandez is almost insulted. At least, that's what the 9,000 or so of the 33,000 in attendance who were actually in their seats remember. Hernandez then proceeded to crush a low drive down the rightfield line. It was into the wind, but that made little difference. Rightfielder Jason Heyward made a perfunctory jog toward the fair pole, said a futile prayer that the ball might hook foul, before watching the ball fly 20 rows back inside the pole.



While Heyward comforted himself with a reminder that the Braves were fighting for first place and the Mets were limping home 10 games behind them, forced to start soon-to-be-forgotten AAAA infielders, Hernandez winced in blinding pain one last time as the reverberations vibrated down to his foot. "Oh, yeah," he thought, "that fucker is broken."



As ephemeral as his major league existence generally was, at this moment, it pretty much had the integrity of a soap bubble — floating beautifully for an instant in the sunlight, but it's doom promised at any moment, it's ultimate forgettability all but assured. Luis would in fact, exit the game and his Mets career the next half inning, with only two more plate appearances (for Texas) two years down the road to come before he would be forced to hang 'em up.



This was, effectively, it. The last time he would "run" the bases as a major leaguer. Any manager understands the drill when an obviously wounded player hits a homer. Let your guy get to first before replacing him with a pinch runner. But Jerry Manuel wasn't just any manager. Some say he was charitable that day, letting Hernandez soak in whatever glory was left in his career as he hobbled around the bases in obvious discomfort. Other said he was cruel, with Joaquin Arias already set to replace the wounded Hernandez, just standing there watching the journeyman grind bone against bone with each crippling step.



Most said Jerry was indifferent. Aloof. He had checked out and this is the sort of glorious but morbid spectacle you get when you're watching a team play out the string on autopilot as a doomed manager just sits there and feels sorry for himself.



It might have been 30 seconds, or it might have been 30 minutes, but Luis Hernandez completed his macabre circuit, giving inattentive fans a chance to return their focus to the ghoulishly heroic spectacle before them. They stood on their feet and cheered as he crossed home plate. His teammates were gentle with their congratulations, somberly knowing — as everyone in the park not named "Jerry Manuel" knew — that something was wrong. Almost luridly so.



Hernandez continued his listless trot toward the dugout and down the tunnel and into the greatest of Mets history, and ultimately, the vaguest of Mets obscurity. Giving his all in the most lost of causes — he became the strangest of heroes, in some measures never to be forgotten, but in most, rarely to be recalled.



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 16 2022 08:23 PM
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Great reporting there. And while you're on the mend, maybe you can give us another in depth write-up on our next fringe Met -- Joaquin Arias -- conjured up by your own last post. Just 30 Mets AB's, all in 2010, Arias was a midle infielder who didn't do much of anything. He was the player to be named later that the Rangers got from the Yankees when they sent A-Rod and his gazillion dollar salary to the Bronx. Arias is featured on Typewriter's 2010 Rock and Roll set because, natch, that was the set for the 2010 Mets. Whachyouse got on Arias?



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Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 16 2022 08:48 PM
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I have vague memories of a guy who hit a home run with a broken foot in a Jerry Manuel hame but that was well done. You should graft on his vital statistics-- date of birth, perfunctory stats. Etc, and submit as a SABR bio, give that story a little life

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 17 2022 12:56 PM
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From 2017's Ltd. Potato Knishes set, Tommy Milone. A coupl'a starts. an 8.56 ERA. And then he was gone. I think 2017 was the year when all of a sudden it seemed as if the Mets were going through a zillion pitchers a season. Still are. So whachyouse got.? I think I remember Mike Trout taking Milone deep, like in left the yard deep.





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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 17 2022 01:03 PM
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From 2017's Ltd. Potato Knishes set, Tommy Milone. A coupl'a starts. an 8.56 ERA. And then he was gone. I think 2017 was the year when all of a sudden it seemed as if the Mets were going through a zillion pitchers a season. Still are. So whachyouse got.? I think I remember Mike Trout taking Milone deep, like in left the yard deep.





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Typewriter is extremely generous to Mets fringe players. We carded Milone on three different sets in 2017. That's probably three more Mets cards from Milone than you'd find anywhere else.



2017 Typewriter Total Mets set - Code: Hoosier

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2017 Typewriter Total Mets set - Code: Ack

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Edgy MD
Jun 17 2022 01:10 PM
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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I have vague memories of a guy who hit a home run with a broken foot in a Jerry Manuel hame but that was well done. You should graft on his vital statistics-- date of birth, perfunctory stats. Etc, and submit as a SABR bio, give that story a little life


Hmmm ...

Edgy MD
Jun 17 2022 01:40 PM
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Handsome Ack card.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 17 2022 01:44 PM
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Yeah, Ack is one of the Best Typewriter sets. Nothing comes to Wonderama, but pretty good

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 17 2022 10:21 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

Handsome A ck card.


Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Yeah, Ack is one of the Best Typewriter sets. Nothing comes to Wonderama, but pretty good


Thanks. While I was working on that set about five years ago, I sneak previewed it for Zvon and he thought it was the best Typewriter set ever.



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Fman99
Jun 18 2022 04:12 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

Luis' name is unfortunate, because as anonymous and interchangeable as it seemingly makes him with dozens of other Caribbean infielders named Luis, Hernandez, or Luis Hernandez, the way his Met career ended should be the stuff of legends. Of course, the timing wasn't much either.



With an anonymous Mets team struggling to get back to .500 before running out of season, with Jerry Manuel a dead man walking as he brought the team home, it had been five days since Luis had seen his name in a lineup card. But for some reason, Manuel thought he could get it done that day against Tim Hudson, and inserted him at second, batting eighth, because that's where veteran backup infielders getting a spot start in September hit.



In his second at bat against Hudson, he got a 1-0 fastball inside, driving it of the handle of his bat, down into his foot. He collapsed in pain. Jerry came out with his trainer, hands in his back pocket. Hernandez got up and put some weight on his foot. He tried to suppress his grimace, and told his manager he's OK. What else can you expect a veteran AAA guy to say? When he sees his name on a roster, he can pretty much make out where the words "Non-Tendered" and "DFA" have already been written and erased a half dozen times next to it.



Managers have a responsibility here. Trainers do also. They can't x-ray the foot on the spot. The player is not going to be honest, so the call is theirs. They spend the next five minutes doing the pantamime of professionalism. "What do you think? I dunno. What do you think? I dunno."



Luis spits, curses his anonymous name, and assures the trainer he's fine. He's not fine, and in fact has broken at least one metatarsal bone. Possibly two, I'm not sure. But life is hard and it won't get any easier begging out of the game. Jerry rolls over and lets Hernandez make the decision for himself, because that's who Jerry is. He's wants you to think he's a gangsta, but he's a go-along-to-get-along figure like so many placeholder managers before him. Luis wins the nominal argument, but damned if he's going to prolong this agony. He's going back in there swinging.



He's a switch hitter, batting lefthanded, so there's no way he's going to let the righhanded Hudson surprise him inside again. But that's just what Hudson tries to do. Doubling up inside is really what a pitcher is supposed to do after successfully jamming a batter on the previous pitch. But Hernandez is almost insulted. At least, that's what the 9,000 or so of the 33,000 in attendance who were actually in their seats remember. Hernandez then proceeded to crush a low drive down the rightfield line. It was into the wind, but that made little difference. Rightfielder Jason Heyward made a perfunctory jog toward the fair pole, said a futile prayer that the ball might hook foul, before watching the ball fly 20 rows back inside the pole.



While Heyward comforted himself with a reminder that the Braves were fighting for first place and the Mets were limping home 10 games behind them, forced to start soon-to-be-forgotten AAAA infielders, Hernandez winced in blinding pain one last time as the reverberations vibrated down to his foot. "Oh, yeah," he thought, "that fucker is broken."



As ephemeral as his major league existence generally was, at this moment, it pretty much had the integrity of a soap bubble — floating beautifully for an instant in the sunlight, but it's doom promised at any moment, it's ultimate forgettability all but assured. Luis would in fact, exit the game and his Mets career the next half inning, with only two more plate appearances (for Texas) two years down the road to come before he would be forced to hang 'em up.



This was, effectively, it. The last time he would "run" the bases as a major leaguer. Any manager understands the drill when an obviously wounded player hits a homer. Let your guy get to first before replacing him with a pinch runner. But Jerry Manuel wasn't just any manager. Some say he was charitable that day, letting Hernandez soak in whatever glory was left in his career as he hobbled around the bases in obvious discomfort. Other said he was cruel, with Joaquin Arias already set to replace the wounded Hernandez, just standing there watching the journeyman grind bone against bone with each crippling step.



Most said Jerry was indifferent. Aloof. He had checked out and this is the sort of glorious but morbid spectacle you get when you're watching a team play out the string on autopilot as a doomed manager just sits there and feels sorry for himself.



It might have been 30 seconds, or it might have been 30 minutes, but Luis Hernandez completed his macabre circuit, giving inattentive fans a chance to return their focus to the ghoulishly heroic spectacle before them. They stood on their feet and cheered as he crossed home plate. His teammates were gentle with their congratulations, somberly knowing — as everyone in the park not named "Jerry Manuel" knew — that something was wrong. Almost luridly so.



Hernandez continued his listless trot toward the dugout and down the tunnel and into the greatest of Mets history, and ultimately, the vaguest of Mets obscurity. Giving his all in the most lost of causes — he became the strangest of heroes, in some measures never to be forgotten, but in most, rarely to be recalled.



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This is brilliant as usual. You have a gift, you know.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 18 2022 01:14 PM
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It was the end of the line for this fringe Met who, by the time he put on the blue and orange, was playing on fumes only, his gas tank practically empty and the needle in the red. Just a few weeks in a Mets uni and then retirement. His career, in the main, was well documented though, much of it played under intense scrutiny and a bright spotlight. So whachyouse got on fringe Met Rick Ankiel, pictured below on a 2013 Typewriter Total Mets set card, code named The Wonderama (or Has Anybody Here Got an Aardsma?)





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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 19 2022 04:19 PM
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It's Grand Slam Sunday here at T.C.G. and today's fringe Met is Taylor Teagarden, the eight game Met, pictured on a 2014 Total Mets set, code name: Welcome to Kiner's Korner. I'm Ralph Korner. Whatchyouse got?







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Edgy MD
Jun 19 2022 04:31 PM
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Rick Ankiel was almost doomed to end his career as a Met, being originally from Port St. Lucie and graduating from PSL high.



He indeed had little left, but he was, in a weird way, the right fit for a team starved for outfielder and professional polish.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 20 2022 12:04 PM
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If Teagarden stumped youse, maybe this fringy Met won't. Colin Cowgill's sizzling spring training earned him a spot on the Mets 25 man Opening Day roster in 2013 and also, an Opening Day start. But 61 at bats later, he was a goner, relegated to fringe Met history. Me, I sometimes conflate Cowgill with our previous fringer, Teagarden. Maybe it's that they each have compound worded last names, I dunno. Pictured here on a Typewriter 2013 Total Mets set trading card, code named The Wonderama (or Has Anybody Here Got an Aardsma?), whachyouse got on Cowgill?





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Edgy MD
Jun 20 2022 12:25 PM
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A 2013 opening day grand slam, along with a double earlier in the game, provided about 90% of his Mets value.



A pointless double L in both his first and last names gave him a reputation as a notorious L-hoarder, and that is believed to have contributed to the thinking behind his mid-season trade

Frayed Knot
Jun 20 2022 12:28 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

A pointless double L in both his first and last names gave him a reputation as a notorious L-hoarder, and that is believed to have contributed to the thinking behind his mid-season trade


As did his insistence on breaking into verses of THE RAIN, THE PARK, AND OTHER THINGS at inappropriate moments.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 20 2022 12:34 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

A 2013 opening day grand slam, along with a double earlier in the game, provided about 90% of his Mets value.



A pointless double L in both his first and last names gave him a reputation as a notorious L-hoarder, and that is believed to have contributed to the thinking behind his mid-season trade


I'm declaring you the winner of the Cowgill fringe contest. I mean, what else is there on Cowgill? I probably conflated Cowgill and Teagarden because they both hit grand slams in their first games as a Met.



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Catch the theme? Grand Slam Sunday? Grand Slam Debuts? At Citi Field? This guy?



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 20 2022 12:42 PM
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Sam Haggerty was a Cleveland Indian prospect who finally broke through as a major leaguer in 2019 with the Mets But after four at-bats, he was a goner, his place on the fringes of Mets history firmly engraved. He's remained in the majors every season since, never accumulating more than a few dozen at bats in any season, fortifying his fringiness. Picture on Typewriter's beloved 2019 total Mets set, code named Holy Curt Gowdy!, whachyouse got on Haggerty?



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Edgy MD
Jun 20 2022 01:13 PM
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Haggerty was widely considered to be the best baserunner in the system — not merely fast, but skilled all around as a bezrunner.



A 2019 Mets team going into September was still on the fringes of the race, but had a really bad run of baserunning mistakes, and pressed the Haggerty button — a particularly rare Esix Snead of a move where a dude is called up specifically to run the bases. The Sons of Rod Kanehl.



But here's the thing — Syracuse manager Tony DeFrancesco had his own way of going about shit. Rather than call a player into his office and play a teasing game with him before letting know he's been promoted to The Show, Tony liked to let the player know in front of the whole team while addressing his squad before and after the game. This way not only did the player get the support of his teammates, but the teammates also get the vicarious thrill of "Hey, I've played alongside this dude all year, and seen how hard he's worked, so maybe my work will be recognized as well, and I'll get my call. Besides, I've played with this guy since we were 18. I've met his folks, and I have a crushy-wushy on his sister, so good on him!!"



I had watched a few videos that year of DeFrancesco doing just that, and it had pretty much worked out as scripted. But not so much with Haggerty. Sam had only been with the organization for one season after coming over from Cleveland in the Kevin Plawecki trade. And he had only been called up from Binghamton to Syracuse for a week or two. If anybody in that clubhouse was invested in anybody's career besides his own, Haggerty's wasn't at the top of the list. DeFrancesco was acting all dramatically, and saying that he got a call from Mickey Callaway and Callaway wanted a guy who knew what he was doing on the bases. And then he said the word "Sam" and my God, he got the softest and most embarrassing round of applause.



It was early September, and I guess the players all realized that if wasn't their name being called then, it wasn't going to happen this year at all, and "Fuck! I'm a minor league free agent at the end of the season, so this looks like the end of the line. And who the fuck is this Sam guy anyhow? It's that guy that's been using Matt Kemp's old locker?! Fuck him! Any asshole can run the bases!"



It was like that scene in The Kominsky Method when Sandy announced that one of his students got a gig as a regular on a TV show and all the other students provide the most miserable congratulations ever. That's what Haggerty got as a sendoff to the big leagues.



Haggs, for his part was uses almost exactly according to his mandate, making about 80% of his appearances as a pinch-runner — particularly used to replace ... I wanna say Todd Frazier? I imagine he ran for Wilson Ramos on occasion as well.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 20 2022 01:28 PM
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Holy Moley, Edgy! I think we've discovered your niche. Fringe Mets. This stuff is great. I think you know more about Haggerty than Haggerty himself. I remember the base running stuff (look at Sam's card; he's taking a lead off a base) but nothing about Syracuse.



Whachyouse got on P.J. Conlon, fringy Mets reliever pictured on a 2018 Typewriter Total Mets Set - Code Name: Puppet, Pauper, Pirate, Poet, Pawn and King





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Edgy MD
Jun 20 2022 01:35 PM
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P.J. Conlon — the first Irish born Major Leaguer in like sixty years. Born, in fact, on Falls Road in Belfast — ground zero of The Troubles.



His family fled to The U.S. to raise him in a safer environment. When he made his debut, a big contingent of extended family came out to support him, despite being largely baseball-illiterate and an auntie or somebody held up a picture of beloved Capuchin Saint Padre Pio to bless him whenever he was on the mound.

Edgy MD
Jun 20 2022 01:40 PM
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Checking, and I see he was actually the first Irish-born Met since 1945, so 73 years.



Here's the auntie, who I screen-capped at the time.



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Edgy MD
Jun 20 2022 01:51 PM
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And you know, shut my mouth. I found the video on Haggerty, and his teammates are more or less supportive. Maybe I remember the other players getting bigger hands earlier in the season, but it sure sounds loud enough now. Maybe the organization has amplified the applause in the interim, but more likely I've misremembered.



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2022 11:04 AM
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Let's rock 'n roll again. Today's fringy Met is also a recidivist Met. One lone at-bat in 2002 when the Mets called Shea Stadium their home and then a few dozen more in 2010 right across the parking lot at Citi Field. Whachyouse got on Gary Matthews, Jr. pictured on a Typewriter 2010 Rock and Roll trading card?







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Edgy MD
Jun 21 2022 12:19 PM
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Gary is one of several Members of The Burnitz League — Met outfielders we had both before and after they were good, although he was never that good for very long, only shining in perhaps two or three seasons. His outfielding and switch-hitting distinguished him from his father, but his father was much more consistent year-to-year with the bat. His one All-Star/near Gold Glove season got him a big old contract from the Angels, and then he immediately declined both offensively and defensively, because by some cosmic law, things break that way for the Angels. In fairness though, his decline was probably pretty predictable, at least offensively. The Mets got him in a contract dump, the Angels sending a wheelbarrow of cash along with him in exchange for swingman/not-a-Broadway-star Brian Stokes, who quickly pitched his way into oblivion.



He was one of two recidivists — along with Mike Jacobs — in the 2010 Opening Day lineup, when the original plans didn't work out. The 2010 Mets were starting to taste the austerity of 2011, so in truth, the original plans didn't go very deep, but it was Angel Pagan he was subbing for to start the season.



He did quite well, at least on Opening Day, garnering a single, a double, and a walk, because Mets simply tend to do well on Opening Day, by some other, more lovely, cosmic law.



But he immediately (like, literally from Game 2 on) slumped into the fading player he seemed to be when he was dumped, and though he might have had some reserve utility when Pagan returned, you didn't get the idea his heart was in it, and his mid-season release was a surprise to none, except insomuch as Mike Jacobs lasted a month longer and they received cash for his contract.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2022 01:59 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Good reporting. I could swear I already told you that in this thread before. Eight games and 22 at-bats is all Justin Ruggiano would get out of his brief and fringy stint in the orange and blue. Whachyouse got on Justin, pictured below in a Typewriter Total 2016 Mets set, code named Sludge? And do check out the perspective foreshortening on Justin's baseball bat. His head appears to be longer than his baseball bat. Is that even a baseball bat or is Justin holding a long can of beer?



[FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52163842439_17dabc82d3_b.jpg[/FIMG]

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 21 2022 05:06 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Wore No. 1, looked great for one or two games--just enough to make you believe maybe, he was really something--then had one of the most violent and painful-looking collisions with an outfield wall I can remember seeing, and if I'm not mistaken that was the end of him as a Met, and probably, a big-leaguer

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 21 2022 05:12 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

As usual I remembered the sequence of events wrong... But I was right about the collision...



http://www.beta.mbtn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ruggiano.jpg>



His big hit was after he returned from this injury--a monster grand slam off Bumgarner back when he was the best pitcher in the world.

Edgy MD
Jun 21 2022 06:29 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I think you're sort of right though. He hit the Injured List twice in succession. I think he hit the granny in between, and then got reinjured in a non-contact injury (shoulder?) that was a lingering effect of the collision.



Good job. I was coming up empty.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2022 06:54 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Good Ruggianoing. I remember the granny. And here it is:



[YOUTUBE]ouahz614V90[/YOUTUBE]



Lotsa fringy Mets with big homers for their legacies. Guillermo Heredia did it a few years ago during the short covid season. And this might end up being Nick Plummer's legacy.



We're gonna expand our definition of "Fringe Met" for the purposes of this thread because if I keep on posting players who were three week/10 at bat Mets, everybody's gonna mostly get stumped most of the time. So we're now gonna define a fringe Met to include any Met for which no MLB licensed baseball card (non-regional) exists.



Our newest fringe Met was a two year Met, a reliever mainly, who never pitched more than a coupl'a dozen innings in any of his two Mets seasons. Elmers Dessens rocks the TCG Rock and Roll set, below. Whachyouse got?



[FIMG=500]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52164122233_3eeed5a327_h.jpg[/FIMG]

Edgy MD
Jun 21 2022 07:01 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Mexican.

whippoorwill
Jun 21 2022 07:04 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Candy-???

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 21 2022 07:30 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

The Glue Gun. I wanna say this chubby palooka was in his moment, the best reliever on the entire club. Wore no 64.



Also how come we've never seen the Rock m Roll set before

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2022 07:43 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

The Glue Gun. I wanna say this chubby palooka was in his moment, the best reliever on the entire club. Wore no 64.


Me too. I can't recall the specific minutia, but I remember liking Dessens.


Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:



Also how come we've never seen the Rock m Roll set before


You haven't seen the majority of the TCG stuff. This thread is an excuse to open the vaults a little bit.

Edgy MD
Jun 21 2022 07:46 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Joined the Mets at the butt end of a long career, and I'm pretty sure he either went to the Mexican League after, or played in the WBC for Mexico after. Maybe both.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2022 09:59 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Candy-???


[FIMG=444]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2606/9196/products/thecars-candy-o_x700.png?v=1624145833[/FIMG]





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Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 07:39 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I like it in spirit, but the layout composition that places the model underneath his butthole is kinda kreepy, to say nothing of her childlike proportions to him.

Fman99
Jun 22 2022 08:03 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes


Candy-???


[FIMG=444]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2606/9196/products/thecars-candy-o_x700.png?v=1624145833[/FIMG]




I love this album cover.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 10:58 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

I like it in spirit, but the layout composition that places the model underneath his butthole is kinda kreepy, to say nothing of her childlike proportions to him.




[FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52164122233_3eeed5a327_h.jpg[/FIMG]



I think the card pretty much works out but, yeah, there's definitely a subjective element to all of this. We could've put the model farther back in the photo, say closer to the infield dirt, and then it might've worked out more to your liking. She wouldn't be so close to Dessens, and objects appear smaller the farther back they are, which would allow us to keep these proportions.



But there were two design challenges to constructing this card. First, we wanted her as close to Dessens as possible in order to strengthen the connection between pitcher and model ... to make it appear as if each was not only aware of the other's presence, but as if they were both on the field together in unison. Yes, she appears to be looking up Dessens's "butthole", but that was kinda by design. (Design!, Get it?) We embraced the so-called creepiness of it. We're TCG and we don't necessarily strive for wholesomeness all of the time!



Also, we wanted the model to appear fully, that is, not cut off by the borders of the card. We wanted to see her entire body. We felt, for example, that it was crucial to see both of her shoes. To have the card borders crop off part of her lower leg would diminish her sexiness ... her visual appeal. And that explains the model's size. (It's not really model, but a Vargas Girl illustration, right?)



We think the proportions work out because there's no way of telling, at least from the card, how tall the model is supposed to be. On the Cars album cover, you can estimate the model's height because she's laying on an automobile, and so the the car is a reference point to determine the model's height. You know how big the car oughtta be and so you can take it from there. But on the card, there are no reference points like an automobile hood. And there's no requirement that the model need to be as tall as Dessens. I took a closer look after you posted, and I was trying to remember what I was thinking when I made this card a few years ago, and I remembered, again, that I wanted the model to appear on the card fully. She could be a tad larger, but then her legs would extend beyond the borders where a part of her leg would disappear. So that's the story.

Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 11:18 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97015 time=1655917112 user_id=68](It's not really model, but a Vargas Girl illustration, right?)



Well, Vargas used actual models as subjects for his illustrations. In this case, he used Candy Moore. Often confused and conflated with the Candy Moore who played Lucy's daughter in The Lucy Show, this Candy Moore was mostly known for her work as a Vargas model, as a photographic subject on several Rick James record covers, and for her turn as Diedre in the Oscar-spurned 1981 celluloid feature Lunch Wagon.



[YOUTUBE]iKbJJ_vcgVw[/YOUTUBE]



Skeezy guy makes fun of skeezy movie! Come for the (really) cheap exploitation! Stay for the Missing Persons cameos!

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 12:29 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

I like it in spirit, but the layout composition that places the model underneath his butthole is kinda kreepy, to say nothing of her childlike proportions to him.


Slightly, ever so slightly bigger model. Noticeable? Meaningful? Don't forget - Dessens is a very chunky guy, and he's about six feet tall, too.



New

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Old

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Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 12:31 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I'd put the car and model behind him on the infield, and his name in the lower left hand corner. But you do you.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 12:37 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

I'd put the car and model behind him on the infield, and his name in the lower left hand corner. But you do you.


But the car's an outline illustration. Don't you think it should be an actual car for your idea to work? Also, there's only the hood of the car to work with. The car would have to be high up on the card, against the card border(s), appearing as if the missing part of the car got cut off or cropped out by the edge(s) of the card.

Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 12:46 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Your point is valid, but it's what I'd go for.



Here's the contact sheet Sr. Vargas allegedly used for reference.



https://postpunkmonk.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/candy-0reference-slides.jpg>

kcmets
Jun 22 2022 12:49 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Purple hum, typewriter cards

Razor lights you'll bring



[YOUTUBE]YEkGqb2wu5k[/YOUTUBE]

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 12:55 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

Your point is valid, but it's what I'd go for.



Here's the contact sheet Sr. Vargas allegedly used for reference.



https://postpunkmonk.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/candy-0reference-slides.jpg>


I made this rough draft, below, before I saw your contact sheet post. Apparently, I was drafting and you were posting more or less simultaneously.



Here it is:



[FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52165828378_d228627526_h.jpg[/FIMG]



This doesn't really work. Plus, three sides of the car are missing, not just two. So putting the car in a corner of the card wouldn't solve the missing car thing.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 01:04 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 22 2022 01:06 PM

The problem with the contact sheet images, at least as I see it, is that the images aren't instantly recognizable. Most rock and roll fans, especially those that are, more or less, in our age group, will recognize the Vargas illustration immediately and know the source. That Cars album cover is iconic and widely considered to be one of Rock and Roll's great album covers. The photographs -- not so much. In fact, Vargas had tinkered with the photos in arriving at his final drawing so much, that it's hard to even make the connection that the actual model is the same person in the illustration.

Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 01:06 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

No, indeed. I thought it might help you extend the car if you wanted to go there.



Another option is to put Ms. Moore car-free on the outfield grass.



I just like how the ultimate illustration is a combo of at least three of those shots.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 01:07 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:





Another option is to put Ms. Moore on the outfield grass.




Yeah, but I specifically didn't want that. I wanted it to look like Moore and Dessens were there together.

Lefty Specialist
Jun 22 2022 03:41 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Wow, we're so far down the rabbit hole.



It's like we're in the rabbit's sub-basement, where he keeps his carrot seeds, his 7-year-old tax returns, and his female disguise in case Elmer shows up blasting (Fudd, not Dessens).

Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 04:01 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Nice.

whippoorwill
Jun 22 2022 05:12 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Lol I love this Candy-O retrospect!

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 05:17 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes


Edgy MD wrote:





Another option is to put Ms. Moore on the outfield grass.




Yeah, but I specifically didn't want that. I wanted it to look like Moore and Dessens were there together.


Like some freaky old-timey carnival act where he pitches baseballs while she writhes on the grass in a sexually provocative manner.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 22 2022 06:10 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Maybe the answer lies not with Candy-O, but with Dessens. It's *obvious* you're on the right track with this thing--

it's that you must find the Elmer that, yes, glues this genius inspiration all together, and brings to lfe this magnificent artistic vision, making it into into the gallery-worthy, jaw-droppingly stunning combination of fringe Mets, iconic rock albums, baseball cards, and big pointy tits that we all know it can be! Seek your answer in Elmer, FOR THE LOVE OF ART.

Edgy MD
Jun 22 2022 08:51 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

He's not wrong. Putting aside any dividedness over the black jerseys, that white-fronted hat is totally ass, and nobody disagrees with that. How married can you be to that photo? Looking for an alternate Elmer would open up all sorts of possibilities to you.



https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/elmer.png>



Don't let good be the enemy of great.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 09:56 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jun 22 2022 11:59 PM

Using the stadium walls for signage is, for me, the option of last resort. It's the easiest card to make in this set because the available photos that lend themselves to this kind of card are plentiful. Once I did two or three of those kinds, it became boring and for the most part, devoid of any creativity. They look nice enough but they're variations on the same theme. BTDT. I'll do them when I'm stuck, or if there's a specific image that I really wanna include in the set, but for the most part, I'm trying to come up with other ideas. Which isn't that easy because the source photos don't always cooperate. Most of the photos available on the web are game action shots and after you've seen a few of them, they become repetitive. The same exact shots from the same exact angles.



[FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52166708243_a19eaf615f_h.jpg[/FIMG]



[FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52167186185_81d74ae675_h.jpg[/FIMG]



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2022 10:22 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Maybe the answer lies not with Candy-O, but with Dessens. It's *obvious* you're on the right track with this thing--

it's that you must find the Elmer that, yes, glues this genius inspiration all together, and brings to lfe this magnificent artistic vision, making it into into the gallery-worthy, jaw-droppingly stunning combination of fringe Mets, iconic rock albums, baseball cards, and big pointy tits that we all know it can be! Seek your answer in Elmer, FOR THE LOVE OF ART.




Or, you know, it doesn't even have to be Elmer. Which 2010 Met would pair up the best with Candy? Lucas Duda? He seems too shy for her. She might eat him alive and then take all of his money, like Kathy Kersh on Burt Ward. But they look like a good match, at least visually and that's all we're going for here - the visual. The cards don't talk. Jerry Manuel? Jay Horwitz?

Fman99
Jun 23 2022 05:10 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97015 time=1655917112 user_id=68](It's not really model, but a Vargas Girl illustration, right?)


Well, Vargas used actual models as subjects for his illustrations. In this case, he used Candy Moore. Often confused and conflated with the Candy Moore who played Lucy's daughter in The Lucy Show, this Candy Moore was mostly known for her work as a Vargas model, as a photographic subject on several Rick James record covers, and for her turn as Diedre in the Oscar-spurned 1981 celluloid feature Lunch Wagon.



[YOUTUBE]iKbJJ_vcgVw[/YOUTUBE]



Skeezy guy makes fun of skeezy movie! Come for the (really) cheap exploitation! Stay for the Missing Persons cameos!



The reason I am the way I am is because when I was 8 years old, and this movie came out, this is what all women everywhere looked like to me. In some deep, recessed part of my brain, they all still do, God bless them.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 23 2022 05:47 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I love this Typewriter Chewing Gum Rock n Roll set and would literally buy the entire set for real money and frame it and hang it my office, for real. It's the best thing since sliced (Wonder) bread, and a pity we had to wait 12 years to see it.



Signed,

Roger Kaputnik



P.S.: They'd be better if they all included a snippet of a lyric, an album title or quote associated with the rnr property that tied it to the Met or action in baseball, even with a dotted line, like the Turner one, but not be so obvious so as also to reveal the band or album. Would inspire thought and discovery

Edgy MD
Jun 23 2022 06:52 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I understand the redundancy of the walljob. I was just trying to throw out the opportunity of using an alternate photo. I wouldn't presume to suggest my knick-knack card belongs in your set.



Say what you will about the above cards not thrilling you, but you just made a legend out of Nick Evans. A LEGEND!

Edgy MD
Jun 23 2022 06:53 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

And yes, I do want these printed on cardboard.

Fman99
Jun 23 2022 10:45 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Yeah these are all fucktacular.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 23 2022 11:39 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

"Evans eyes the incoming ball like the Nirvana baby reaches for the dangling dollar--they're young, they're trying--but trickery and failure and heroin and suicide may await them both and this is in our own faces and yet clear that Evans' fate as a Fringe Met awaits and that Baby Nirvana is doomed to come of age as an American voter in time for Donald Fucking Trump to be president and all we can do is say 'Oh well. Whatever. Nevermind.'"



--Joe Schlabotnik, Famous Art Critic

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 23 2022 02:19 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

This thread's never gonna be the same after it was visited upon by the great carny act of Candy and Elmer. He pitches and she wriggles on the ground beneath him, sexually, tantalizingly. Then Candy mounts Elmer and still fully clothed, dry humps Elmer while he throws perfect strikes on the black every single time. Then, Elmer simulates an orgasm by squirting glue from a bottle of Elmer's Glue. For five dollars, you can follow Candy & Elmer into the big tent where, under dim lights, they repeat their act, but this time, naked. And for real.



Pity the fringe Met that's gotta follow that act. It's like following Jimi Hendrix at Monterey. Talk about an antit-climactic letdown. And to make matters worse, today's fringe Met is pictured on what is perhaps, TCG's most understated card set ever, the 2011 set, code named Come Fly with Me. So whachyouse got on Val Pascucci?





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Edgy MD
Jun 23 2022 02:39 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

You can spot a fake rock fan a mile away when somebody mistakes Jimi Hendrix' guitar-burning antics as having occurred at Woodstock, rather than Monterey.



What's lesser known is that his pyrotechnics were a lately conceived initiative of one-upmanship that he came up with as a way of topping Pete Townsend, who had demolished his guitar at the end of The Who's set, two spots earlier.



What's even more lost to history, though, but delightful to those who delight in such things, is that The Grateful Dead did an utterly unmemorable set in between the two heavyweights.



But at least The Dead lived on. The unhappy assignment of following The Experience went to The Mamas & the Papas along with Scott MacKenzie. Some sources say they opened with TM&tP's backing MacKenzie as he sang "(If You're Going to) San Francisco." Other sources say MacKenzie came out at the end and they closed with it.



I'm guessing the latter. I'm sure sharpie knows for sure.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 23 2022 02:58 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I think that originally, The Who was scheduled to perform right after Jimi. But Townsend was against that, vehemently so, having seen Jimi live many times in England. So I think that they were allowed to flip a coin to determine which of those two acts would go first. The Who won and decided to go on stage sometime before Jimi.

Edgy MD
Jun 23 2022 03:50 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Anyhow, Val Pascucci was a perennial minor league homerun champ, who may or may not have retired with the All-Time minor league record. For all I know, he still has it now. He plowed through multiple organizations, but drank his only big league burgundy during a stretch with the doomed 2004 Expos.



He came over to the Mets playing first and right and a smattering of left and third, but it's no fun waiting for a young wonder like Ike Davis or a superstar like David Wright to get hurt, so he moved on to the Los Angeles system, after which, Wright and Davis got hurt and hurt and hurt.



In a virtual trade, the Mets replaced him as their AAA cleanup hitter by signing the very similar résumé'd Mike Hessman away from LA, but a year away from his friends in New Orleans proved too lonely for Val, and so he returned the next year to re-join them in Buffalo. And because injuries did continue, he got his first big league chance in seven years, hitting a single Met homer, which our own A Boy Named Seo celebrated by singing Val's trademarked fan chant from his days in NPB.



Upon his retirement, he spent several seasons as a minor league batting coach in the Mets system.



[YOUTUBE]zUzjuc0NNeU[/YOUTUBE]

kcmets
Jun 23 2022 04:43 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:
The Grateful Dead did an utterly unmemorable set in between the two heavyweights.


Did they ever do a memorable set? Did anyone in attendance ever remember one?

I only saw them once. I think it was after the first World Trade Center bombing and it

took like an hour to get into The Garden. My dead-head friend and I were pretty greased

and gassed. He slept through half the show. I could have, but someone had to be in charge.

I still razz him about that... my only trip on the bus...

Edgy MD
Jun 23 2022 04:49 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I would have no way of knowing.



My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know.

kcmets
Jun 23 2022 04:59 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Followers always boasted that if you went to see them three nights in

a row they'd not play the same song twice. But who would know?

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 23 2022 08:39 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Jon Rauch was tall. Still is, I'm guessing. But what else youse got on Rauch, pictured below on a pair of Lucky Strike Mets 50th anniversary panels from 2012? Use the slider at the bottom of the post for optimum viewing. These babies are wide.



[FIMG=888]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52167778582_14eeec80ad_k.jpg[/FIMG]

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 23 2022 08:41 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

[FIMG=888]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52167778597_628d8c784a_k.jpg[/FIMG]



I had to split the photos into two posts because the forum software provides only one slider per post, instead of individual sliders for each image.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 24 2022 02:02 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

ROCK & ROLL BONUS!



While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life!



No fringe Met in this post.



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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 26 2022 09:47 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97157 time=1656038394 user_id=68]
Jon Rauch was tall. Still is, I'm guessing. But what else youse got on Rauch ....



Rauch the Met was best known, I think, for a hazing incident that went off the rails. Rauch came upon rookie Matt Harvey napping in the clubhouse and decided to pour a bucket of ice on Harvey's chest, which had the expected effect of rudely awakening Harvey. Rauch's ice attack also ruined Harvey's smartphone. Harvey didn't react well to the incident and challenged Rauch to a fight. Rauch backed down and walked away from Harvey, who at the time, was the more popular Met with his teammates -- a budding star with his whole career ahead of him.



Thank you for playing. All contestants will receive consolation prizes provided by Bissell Inc., The La-Z Boy Chair Company, and Amana Refrigeration. Your host's wardrobe was furnished by Dicker & Dicker of Beverly Hills. This is Johnny Olson.

Edgy MD
Jun 27 2022 07:26 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Sorry to be late to the game.



When Jason Bay smashed into the left field wall trying to corral a deep drive by then-Red Jay Bruce, he was knocked silly by the collision as Bruce circled the bases for an inside-the-park homer.



As Bay was removed from the game and slowly escorted off the field by teammates and trainers, a small but meaningful wave of boos accompanied him, some boobirds joining the chorus slowly as the scene progressed, emboldened by the first wave.



Maybe several Mets stood up for their teammate. Maybe David Wright and R.A. Dickey gathered a throng of writers around their lockers to discourse on how disappointed they were with Mets fans, but the guy I remember was Jon Fucking Rauch going on a Twitter tear later that evening, back when the 140-character limit forecably tempered your tweeting posture, hammering out in a string of four or so tweets how thoughtless and shitty those fans were being.



My other automatic memory of Jon Rauch, besides the hugeness and the neck tats, is that I know that his name is pronounced John ROWSHE, but every time I read it, my mind mentally pronounces it as Jon RAWK, before I mentally correct myself.

Fman99
Jun 27 2022 07:36 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes


ROCK & ROLL BONUS!



While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life!



No fringe Met in this post.



[FIMG=566]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52170405128_0ce0939630_h.jpg[/FIMG]


I dig this one man

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 27 2022 07:45 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 27 2022 08:01 AM



ROCK & ROLL BONUS!



While we're waiting on Jon Rauch stuff, a bonus card. The Mets and Braves set up a field to play baseball on the front lawn of some rock and rollers. It's a return to old-timey baseball, where the fans get to watch the game from fair territory. Bring your kiddies! Bring your couch! Guaranteed to have the time of your life!



No fringe Met in this post.



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I dig this one man


That's one of my faves. It came to me in stages. The original source photo had an outfield wall in the background. The wall was in two sections. Originally I had put the front side of the CSN album cover on just one section of the wall. Later on, I remembered that that CSN album was a gatefold cover: it opened up and presented a wide view continuous photograph taking up both the front and back sides of the album cover. So I put that whole gatefold cover in there, but only occupying the left side of the outfield wall, which was sectioned off from the rest of the wall. And the more I stared at that version, the more it looked like CS&N were watching the game from the field itself. So I rearranged the placement of the gatefold album to the current state of the card - with the gatefold album cover obscuring the entire outfield wall. Now it looks like the house is on the field. Cool! I did another card in that same style. I'll post it in a few minutes.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 27 2022 07:48 AM
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Here ya go.



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Fman99
Jun 27 2022 08:04 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Yeah man another good one. I love that album.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 27 2022 08:06 AM
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=Fman99 post_id=97507 time=1656338665 user_id=86]
Yeah man another good one. I love that album.



Me too. The cards don't always reflect my rock music tastes. I've put some bands in there that aren't my cup of tea because they're historically significant or immensely popular or colorful, etc.



That album was recorded in one day -- one session. It was Black Sabbath's first album so they were likely pressed for time and money. Wanna know on what specific day BS recorded their debut album?



On the same day that the Mets won the last game of the 1969 World Series.

kcmets
Jun 27 2022 08:32 AM
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97508 time=1656338760 user_id=68]On the same day that the Mets won the last game of the 1969 World Series.



This has come up before, but I don't remember the how or why. But a fun fact.

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 27 2022 08:38 AM
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=97508 time=1656338760 user_id=68]On the same day that the Mets won the last game of the 1969 World Series.



This has come up before, but I don't remember the how or why. But a fun fact.


I remember when it came up before because I'm the one that posted it before. I never read anything that made this Mets/Black Sabbath connection but I remember once reading something on BS that mentioned that BS recorded their debut album on October 16, 1969. I then made the Mets connection myself, because I know that date and its Mets relevance all too well. And this anecdote has stayed with me ever since.

RealityChuck
Jun 27 2022 09:55 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

I would have no way of knowing.



My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know.


There are playlists of most every Grateful Dead concert at https://www.setlists.net/ and elsewhere.



You can also find audio of most of their concerts at https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

kcmets
Jun 27 2022 10:14 AM
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They were always big on that, right? Set-lists, bootlegs and such. My

friend mentioned above has like 200 cassettes of concerts he collected

from the pre-internet daze...

Edgy MD
Jun 27 2022 11:18 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

I would have no way of knowing.



My experience is that friends of mine who were followers would return from the show and tell me it was great. I'd name a song or two I knew (and maybe even kind of liked) and ask if it was part of the set list. They never seemed to know.


There are playlists of most every Grateful Dead concert at https://www.setlists.net/ and elsewhere.



You can also find audio of most of their concerts at https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead


I understand that the setlists are available online, but these conversations typically occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s, and I really was just making polite conversation.

roger_that
Jun 27 2022 11:23 AM
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I lived with a bunch of Deadheads in college--a more obsessive, trivia-driven bunch of guys I have never met, and never want to meet, and I say that as an umpteen-time winner of baseball trivia contests in bars all across this country. Jesus, give it a rest, man--no one gives a damn about whether they played "St. Stephen" before or after "Uncle John's Band" on Tuesday night. Once in the early 70s, one of them dragged me to a Dead show at the Felt Forum where I got to understand what the term "Grateful Dead" really meant. I wished I'd died--that thing went on and on, everyone standing up and clapping for hours, high as the moon, taping and trading tapes and nodding wisely to each other throughout the interminable set.

whippoorwill
Jun 28 2022 05:20 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Lol

The band or the audience?

Or both?

batmagadanleadoff
Jul 04 2022 11:09 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Jul 22 2022 01:07 PM

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I love this Typewriter Chewing Gum Rock n Roll set and would literally buy the entire set for real money and frame it and hang it my office, for real. It's the best thing since sliced (Wonder) bread, and a pity we had to wait 12 years to see it.



Signed,

Roger Kaputnik




Dear Roger:



The 2022 TCG set is finally under development. It will be code named Rock and Roll, Part 2. Because you have been such a loyal fan of our trading cards over the years, we are sending you some advance cards for your pleasure and to show off to your friends. These cards will not be available to the general public for a few months. So go ahead and brag about that.



Yours truly,

TCG



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Johnny Lunchbucket
Jul 04 2022 11:12 AM
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Wow!! (I mean, Hey!) being it's Rock nRoll Part 2

batmagadanleadoff
Jul 20 2022 03:56 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

The Typewriter Chewing Gum 2022 total Mets set is now available at a store near you. And what a set it is. We anticipate that with future updates, it might turn out to be the largest TCG Mets set ever. The set will include base cards for every player, even the fringiest Mets:



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...base card variations:



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...teammate cards:



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...MTV cards, an exciting subset that will take collectors back to the glorious days of pop music video (look for the MTV logo on these cards):



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...Brogna Boys cards (dead Brogna Boys, too):



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...old friends:



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...and a chance to acquire a unique one of a kind trading card (POP. - 1). But you'll need to score our Willy Wonka style golden ticket first, for a chance to claim this unique card, featuring Led Zeppelin. We've sprinkled several golden tickets in our card packs. (Odds: 1 in every 15,000 packs). The first collector to mail a golden ticket to our offices will win the unique trading card:



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And many other surprises and features. Like digging into our fascination with Chicago's corporate logo style album covers. And the Brandon Nimmo walls of 45RPM history. Plus Max Scherzer gets assigned to the Andy Warhol rock and roll desk.



It's all happening. Now!

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 06 2022 05:20 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 5 time(s), most recently on Aug 30 2022 09:17 PM

We're busy bees over here at TCG what with the flurry of new Mets arriving at the trading deadline. We like trades. Because more trades means more cards. And more cards means more money for us and our overlords over at Plasticine Industries. We've started our update set for the new 2022 Mets. And we'll have alternate cards for some of the other Mets who appeared in the base set. Plus extras. And surprises. So go out and buy those packs of cards. You might even get a golden ticket and win a one-of-a-kind trading card featuring Led Zeppelin's private reunion concert held at our offices earlier this year. Here's a sneak peek at some of our updates.



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G-Fafif
Aug 06 2022 07:48 PM
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Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 06 2022 09:51 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes



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Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.


Good one. Touche. (It's supposed to rhyme with "To Shea". It'd be obvious if I could put an accent mark over the e but I've already spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to type the e with the accent mark. The unicode is U00E9 but I can't get it to go. So I owe you an accent mark. I can type a section mark --§ -- or a paragraph mark --¶ . But that e with the accent has me stumped.)

Edgy MD
Aug 06 2022 10:05 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

If you have an Apple keyboard, typing OPT-e gets you the accent mark, and then the next letter you type will appear under the accent mark.



It may work on PCs, too. I'm not sure.

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 08 2022 09:50 AM
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Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.


But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction.



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G-Fafif
Aug 08 2022 10:32 AM
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But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction.


Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 08 2022 10:42 AM
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But I could, just the same, take it in a somewhat more easterly direction.


Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.


He should be holding a copy of "The Great Gatsby" with all of this west and east eggs talk.

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 08 2022 04:36 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edited 4 time(s), most recently on Aug 31 2022 02:53 PM

We're updating our Rock and Roll Part 2 total Mets set. Ol' Jake wasn't eligible for inclusion in the base set, having not pitched a single inning by the time that set went to press. You gots to play you're way into the sets. Which Jake definitely did, this week. NL PLayer of the Week, maybe? The Sky's the limit with Jake.









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batmagadanleadoff
Aug 09 2022 05:35 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Updates for a rain delay:



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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 02 2022 03:23 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

With more free time than he anticipated these past few weeks, we here at TCG asked Starling Marte to host our newest and most exciting subset of our Rock and Roll Part 2 2022 total Mets team set -- The History of Pop Music (1950-1985). It's a bold set of cards, and there are more than 100 cards in the subset alone. Marte was truly honored to be asked to participate in the creation of this subset. We're proud to offer youse a random sampling of just some of the cards in the set. Go out and buy the rest of them. Collect them all!



2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1965.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1978.2

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1954.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1982.2

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1969.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1959.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1979.2

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 04 2022 01:47 PM
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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1983.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1967.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1981.3

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1976.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1952.1

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2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1971.3

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 05 2022 12:13 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

The 2022 Rock and Roll Part 2 set is officially in the books. Here's a random sampling of some of our Update set cards.



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Typewriter Chewing Gum 2022 Total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2

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Typewriter Chewing Gum 2022 Total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2

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Typewriter Chewing Gum 2022 Total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 06 2022 02:18 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Youse seem to be in the mood for some more cards of Sterling Marte against a backdrop of hit pop music singles covering the years 1950-1991.



2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1989.1

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1950.1

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1968.2

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1983.2

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1974.1

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1960.3

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1987.3

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1965.3

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 08 2022 03:12 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I wasn't planning on posting any more of these Starling Marte History of Pop Music cards. But when I didn't post any more of these yesterday, look what happened to Scherzer and the Mets. Causal? Coincidence? I ain't superstitious. But why take a chance again?



1978.4

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1992.2

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1981.1

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1956.1

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1967.2

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1962.2

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1987.2

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1973.1

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whippoorwill
Oct 08 2022 03:21 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Some interesting matchups there

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 08 2022 03:27 PM
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=whippoorwill post_id=110447 time=1665264096 user_id=79]
Some interesting matchups there



Like? Go on.

whippoorwill
Oct 08 2022 03:30 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind.

Love her; can't stand him.



But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes.



Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.



Maybe it really is a perfect matchup

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 08 2022 03:37 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes


Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind.

Love her; can't stand him.



But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes.



Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.



Maybe it really is a perfect matchup


Yeah. This is totally understandable and expected. Everyone has different musical tastes. I myself don't necessarily like all of the songs I included in these cards. I'm simply going for a sampling of the given year's hits. Little Richard and Doris Day had huge top of the chart hits in 1956. I'll say this much: both of those songs still hold up some 60-65 years later. Can't say that for a lot of the "alternative" artsy rock and roll that became popular in the very late 70s and picked up steam throughout the 80s and early 90s.

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 08 2022 03:41 PM
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=whippoorwill post_id=110452 time=1665264619 user_id=79]


Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.








This is interesting. He was obviously a pop music giant. But he wasn't a tremendously gifted guitarist. There's a school of thought that says he was mainly lucky. He broke through covering and reinterpreting black music. Many believe that that wasn't so original and if Elvis didn't come along, someone else eventually would have, pretty soon and essentially duplicating Elvis's act.

whippoorwill
Oct 08 2022 04:02 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

I have known many woman older than I who truly were nuts about him.

I was just 18 when he died and though I didn't dislike him, I wasn't thrilled.



I'm surprised by the later rockers that said he influenced them

I think you're right; it was a matter of time before a white boy (read ‘safe') emulated the music of the black man.



Although hilariously, he proved to be anything but innocent

whippoorwill
Oct 08 2022 04:05 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes



Well Doris Day and little Richard come to mind.

Love her; can't stand him.



But I guess that makes it a weird twosome in just my eyes.



Elvis is the perfect mediocre for me.



Maybe it really is a perfect matchup


Yeah. This is totally understandable and expected. Everyone has different musical tastes. I myself don't necessarily like all of the songs I included in these cards. I'm simply going for a sampling of the given year's hits. Little Richard and Doris Day had huge top of the chart hits in 1956. I'll say this much: both of those songs still hold up some 60-65 years later. Can't say that for a lot of the "alternative" artsy rock and roll that became popular in the very late 70s and picked up steam throughout the 80s and early 90s.


Both of those Doris Day songs are great :)

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 09 2022 11:12 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

1979.1

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1979.4 (The Studio 54 card)

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 10 2022 12:48 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Starling Marte and his Heavy Friends - The History of Pop Music



1990.3

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batmagadanleadoff
Oct 22 2022 07:18 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

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Oct 26 2022 12:44 PM
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Nov 06 2022 02:23 PM
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Nov 07 2022 01:40 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Nov 10 2022 09:40 AM
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batmagadanleadoff
Nov 12 2022 02:58 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Nov 15 2022 03:57 PM
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Edgy MD
Nov 15 2022 04:14 PM
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I always dug that Fiona Apple debut. But that video, apart from being wildly incongruent, feels offputting like an American Apparel ad.

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 17 2022 11:47 AM
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batmagadanleadoff
Nov 18 2022 12:31 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Nov 20 2022 09:28 AM
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Edgy MD
Nov 20 2022 10:47 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

LOL "Two Tribes."



Konstantin Chernenko may have only led the Soviet Union for a year, but he got into a Frankie Goes to Hollywood video and got his picture on the sleeve of the record.

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 23 2022 03:54 PM
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Edgy MD
Nov 24 2022 03:23 PM
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I've always loved that Sparkletones clip, and because of it, I always run around with crazy little mamas.

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 25 2022 01:36 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Edgy MD wrote:

I've always loved that Sparkletones clip, and because of it, I always run around with crazy little mamas.


It's from the Ed Sullivan show though ol' Ed appears to be cut out. I think Brian Setzer maybe got his whole act from that clip.

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 28 2022 12:39 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Dec 02 2022 01:23 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Dec 04 2022 11:35 PM
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batmagadanleadoff
Dec 07 2022 01:54 AM
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batmagadanleadoff
Dec 19 2022 09:46 AM
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batmagadanleadoff
Jan 14 2023 12:10 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Coming soon, an exciting new off season set from the folks at TCG. Because we needed a place for Highlights and Leader cards. Code name: Rum Raisin. Watch this space for our sneak preview.

batmagadanleadoff
Jan 15 2023 01:09 PM
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Sneak Preview!

2022-23 Typewriter Chewing Gum Limited Mets set - Code Name: Rum Raisin. Available now at a store near you.





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Johnny Lunchbucket
Jan 15 2023 03:03 PM
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I was expecting rum raisin to adopt the pink and brown scheme of Baskin-Robbins

batmagadanleadoff
Jan 15 2023 03:32 PM
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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I was expecting rum raisin to adopt the pink and brown scheme of Baskin-Robbins


Why?



(Beginning in grade school, when I first discovered Baskin & Robbins, and then for at least 10 years, their Pralines and Cream was my favorite ice cream flavor. B&R blew anything Carvel out of the waters. Hadn't heard of Haagen Dazs yet. It probably didn't even exist at that time.)

Fman99
Jan 15 2023 05:32 PM
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Sneak Preview!

2022-23 Typewriter Chewing Gum Limited Mets set - Code Name: Rum Raisin. Available now at a store near you.




Pretty slick

batmagadanleadoff
Feb 06 2023 11:32 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Off-season stuff.





We gave our understated and hastily prepared 2011 set (Come Fly with Me) a badly needed makeover with just a few simple tweaks.



Before:



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batmagadanleadoff
Feb 26 2023 01:07 PM
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Watch this space! Coming soon, Typewriter Chewing Gum's last off-season set covering 2022. We're celebrating 1959 and so should you. Thrilling thrills, rookies and all-stars and the whole gang of Mets. Because some like it hot. Watch this space for the latest, code named Chevy to the Levee, including, probably the last cards TCG will ever produce of Jacob deGrom in a Mets uniform.



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batmagadanleadoff
Feb 27 2023 09:23 AM
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Edgy MD
Feb 27 2023 10:47 AM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

Tommy.



I'm looking forward to the Frankie Alvarez rookie card.

batmagadanleadoff
Feb 27 2023 11:26 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

Tommy.



I'm looking forward to the Frankie Alvarez rookie card.


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Edgy MD
Feb 27 2023 12:54 PM
Re: Typing on the Fringes

That Álvarez card has seen some hard times.

batmagadanleadoff
Mar 02 2023 10:04 PM
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