Typing on the Fringes

[G-Fafif]

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

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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]

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]

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.

[G-Fafif]

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

Hard to pass over that kind of Egg.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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.

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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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Updates for a rain delay:

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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


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


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


2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1969.3


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


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


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


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


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


2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1960.1


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


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


2022 Typewriter Chewing Gum total Mets set - Code Name: Rock and Roll Part 2; Subset - The History of Pop Music (1950-1985) - 1970.2


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


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

[batmagadanleadoff]

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.

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


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


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


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


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


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


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

[batmagadanleadoff]

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


1950.1


1968.2


1983.2


1974.1


1960.3


1987.3


1965.3

[batmagadanleadoff]

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


1992.2


1981.1


1956.1


1967.2


1962.2


1987.2


1973.1

[whippoorwill]

Some interesting matchups there

[batmagadanleadoff]

Some interesting matchups there

Like? Go on.

[whippoorwill]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 :)

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1979.1








1979.4 (The Studio 54 card)

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

1990.3

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