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Typing on the Fringes
batmagadanleadoff Jun 13 2022 10:28 PM |
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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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 14 2022 11:32 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
2009 Typewriter Total Mets Set - Code Name:Vestigial Tails
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Lefty Specialist Jun 14 2022 03:58 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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kcmets Jun 14 2022 07:26 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 15 2022 05:59 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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From our award-winning inaugural Citi Field 2009 Mets set, the understatedly simple yet elegant Vestigial Tails total Mets set:
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 15 2022 09:54 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 16 2022 08:23 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 17 2022 12:15 AM |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 17 2022 12:56 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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 2017 Typewriter Total Mets set - Code: Ack
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Edgy MD Jun 17 2022 01:10 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Hmmm ...
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Edgy MD Jun 17 2022 01:40 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 17 2022 01:44 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 17 2022 10:21 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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This is brilliant as usual. You have a gift, you know.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 18 2022 01:14 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 20 2022 12:04 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Frayed Knot Jun 20 2022 12:28 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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As did his insistence on breaking into verses of THE RAIN, THE PARK, AND OTHER THINGS at inappropriate moments.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 20 2022 12:34 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 20 2022 12:49 PM |
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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. 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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Haggerty was widely considered to be the best baserunner in the system — not merely fast, but skilled all around as a bezrunner.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 20 2022 01:28 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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.
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Edgy MD Jun 20 2022 01:35 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 20 2022 01:40 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Checking, and I see he was actually the first Irish-born Met since 1945, so 73 years.
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Edgy MD Jun 20 2022 01:51 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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?
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 21 2022 05:06 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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...
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Edgy MD Jun 21 2022 06:29 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 21 2022 06:54 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Good Ruggianoing. I remember the granny. And here it is:
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Edgy MD Jun 21 2022 07:01 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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whippoorwill Jun 21 2022 07:04 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 21 2022 07:30 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 21 2022 07:43 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Me too. I can't recall the specific minutia, but I remember liking Dessens.
You haven't seen the majority of the TCG stuff. This thread is an excuse to open the vaults a little bit.
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Edgy MD Jun 21 2022 07:46 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 21 2022 09:59 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 07:39 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Fman99 Jun 22 2022 08:03 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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I love this album cover.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 10:58 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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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?) |
batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 12:29 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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 Old
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Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 12:31 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 12:37 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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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.
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kcmets Jun 22 2022 12:49 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Purple hum, typewriter cards
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 12:55 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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: 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.
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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 |
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Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 01:06 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 01:07 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Yeah, but I specifically didn't want that. I wanted it to look like Moore and Dessens were there together.
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Lefty Specialist Jun 22 2022 03:41 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 04:01 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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whippoorwill Jun 22 2022 05:12 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 05:17 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Like some freaky old-timey carnival act where he pitches baseballs while she writhes on the grass in a sexually provocative manner.
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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--
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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.
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 22 2022 10:22 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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?
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Fman99 Jun 23 2022 05:10 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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. Skeezy guy makes fun of skeezy movie! Come for the (really) cheap exploitation! Stay for the Missing Persons cameos! |
Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 23 2022 05:47 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 23 2022 06:52 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 23 2022 06:53 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Fman99 Jun 23 2022 10:45 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 23 2022 11:39 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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Edgy MD Jun 23 2022 02:39 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 23 2022 02:58 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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kcmets Jun 23 2022 04:43 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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...
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Edgy MD Jun 23 2022 04:49 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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kcmets Jun 23 2022 04:59 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 23 2022 08:41 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 24 2022 02:02 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
ROCK & ROLL BONUS!
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 26 2022 09:47 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 27 2022 07:26 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Fman99 Jun 27 2022 07:36 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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I dig this one man
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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 |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 27 2022 07:48 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Here ya go.
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Fman99 Jun 27 2022 08:04 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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kcmets Jun 27 2022 08:32 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
=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. |
batmagadanleadoff Jun 27 2022 08:38 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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RealityChuck Jun 27 2022 09:55 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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There are playlists of most every Grateful Dead concert at You can also find audio of most of their concerts at
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kcmets Jun 27 2022 10:14 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Jun 27 2022 11:18 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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roger_that Jun 27 2022 11:23 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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whippoorwill Jun 28 2022 05:20 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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 |
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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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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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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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Some would call this an Easter egg. I think of it as a Wester egg.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 06 2022 09:51 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.)
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Edgy MD Aug 06 2022 10:05 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 08 2022 09:50 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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 Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 08 2022 10:42 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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He should be holding a copy of "The Great Gatsby" with all of this west and east eggs talk.
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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!
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 04 2022 01:47 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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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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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.
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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?
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whippoorwill Oct 08 2022 03:21 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 08 2022 03:37 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 08 2022 03:41 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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whippoorwill Oct 08 2022 04:05 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Both of those Doris Day songs are great :)
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 09 2022 11:12 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
1979.1
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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
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Edgy MD Nov 20 2022 10:47 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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Edgy MD Nov 24 2022 03:23 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Nov 25 2022 01:36 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Nov 28 2022 12:39 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Dec 02 2022 01:23 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Dec 04 2022 11:35 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2023 01:09 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Sneak Preview!
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Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 15 2023 03:03 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2023 03:32 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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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.)
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Fman99 Jan 15 2023 05:32 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 06 2023 11:32 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
Off-season stuff.
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 26 2023 01:07 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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 Re: Typing on the Fringes Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 27 2023 12:21 PM |
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Edgy MD Feb 27 2023 10:47 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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batmagadanleadoff Feb 27 2023 11:26 AM Re: Typing on the Fringes Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 03 2023 04:02 PM |
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batmagadanleadoff Mar 02 2023 10:04 PM Re: Typing on the Fringes |
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