The Crane Pool Forum

Vote for the cover that you prefer. Voting will run for seven days.


COOKIE MONSTERS
New York Daily News, May 26, 2023.
Winner of Round 1.10



REGIFTED!
New York Daily News, December 22, 2022.
Winner of Round 1.02

Santa hat Steve tilts the scales

I love the color saturations the News is using, but both of these have a muddled message built around a not-particularly-active action photo. The message of the second cover is more than muddled of course, as it actually turned out to be fake news.

I went with the first cover as the second one features a dude not in a Met uniform who would ultimately never put one on.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:32 am I went with the first cover as the second one features a dude not in a Met uniform who would ultimately never put one on.

I thought COOKIE MONSTERS would run away with this thing for exactly that reason, but at the moment, we're tied at four votes each.

By the way, I'm a fan of teams outfitting their batting helmets with raised insigniae, like the Twins helmet above, and I'm even a bigger fan of teams like the Cubs using sewn insigniae adhered to the helmet.

The helmet is a projection of the cap, and I celebrate any smart and tasteful way a team can find to better honor the design of the cap in the design of the helmet.

I went with COOKIE. It's a solid enough cover. Clean action shot, uncluttered by subheadlines or other images. And Cookie's throwing a screwball or some shit.

REGIFTED is gonna get bounced from this competition eventually. Might as well be now.

Yes I went with Cookie , plus Judge is up top on REGIFTED