NY Mets Twitter Takes

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stroman is the same numbskull who changed his number out of resect for Jose Reyes even though no one asked him to

[metirish]

What else is Buck going to say I suppose

[bmfc1]

Is Buck saying that we shouldn't doubt that they will fall further below .500?

[Edgy MD]

I think he's saying that no team should take them for granted and that no follower should doubt that they are a threat to win on any given night.

[bmfc1]

Thanks so much for Buck-splaing to me. I know what he meant but I also know how I interpreted the quote.

[metirish]

Throwing this in here as Doc gets mentioned

[MFS62]

Dear Mr. Morrow.
Koufax' last year, he was 27-9, with a 1.73 ERA (190 ERA+) and struck out 317 batters.
We would wish every starter on our staff would "fizzle" like that.
He retired early due to injury.
Crack a book, asshole.
If you have trouble reading, maybe your eyes are blocked.
Try pulling your head out of your butt.


Strongly worded letter to follow.
Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is this the actor from Northern Exposure?

[Edgy MD]

No, this is a different Morrow.

Here's the Exposure guy.

[metirish]

Some great logos

[nymr83]

I like the classic Padres logo best. The Oriole is nice too

[nymr83]

Dear Mr. Morrow.
Koufax' last year, he was 27-9, with a 1.73 ERA (190 ERA+) and struck out 317 batters.
We would wish every starter on our staff would "fizzle" like that.
He retired early due to injury.
Crack a book, asshole.
If you have trouble reading, maybe your eyes are blocked.
Try pulling your head out of your butt.


Strongly worded letter to follow.
Later

Koufax was the best pitcher on the planet, maybe ever (until Pedro 1997-2003 at least), for 5 years in a row. Gooden had ONE year at that level.

[metirish]

Trying to figure out the one next to the Giants ?

[Frayed Knot]

Trying to figure out the one next to the Giants ?

Mariners, with Neptune's trident as the M

[metirish]

Trying to figure out the one next to the Giants ?

Mariners, with Neptune's trident as the M

Thanks ,definitely changed , and the Phillies logo is different

[Frayed Knot]

I think the Phils logo was meant to display brotherly love.

The classic ones are usually the best: Mets, BoSox, Reds, A's, O's, Cards. And the Rangers one is pretty good.

[DocTee]

That Pirates logo is incredible.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mets skyline logo is underrated.

[metirish]

Win Twins is wild

[Edgy MD]

I like my logos to be set against a circular outline so that they can serve as an on-deck circle.

If stitches arc across the background, to have the circle represent a baseball, all the better.

And if your team wears white shoes, you'd better make damn sure that they appear in the logo.

Lastly, it's pretty cool that two different baseball team logos feature dudes shaking hands, coming together, and leaving bygones in the past.

[Frayed Knot]

Win Twins is wild

The Twins have a version of that logo -- where the twin with M on his uni is shaking hands across the river with the one with StP on his -- in the scoreboard area of their new(-ish) stadium.
It's exactly the kind of personal touch that was completely missing in the early years of CitiField where being in the stadium showed almost no indication of which team called it home.

[metirish]

That's really great , I'm loving this logo info

[Edgy MD]

The Twins logo is so sweet that it inspired Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson's logo when they reunited as The Replacements.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Win Twins is wild

The Twins have a version of that logo -- where the twin with M on his uni is shaking hands across the river with the one with StP on his -- in the scoreboard area of their new(-ish) stadium.
It's exactly the kind of personal touch that was completely missing in the early years of CitiField where being in the stadium showed almost no indication of which team called it home.

I think it's still missing. Citi Field leaves me cold. It's just a mishmash of mismatched and absurd contrived parts. The Shea bridge? Of course. Because when I indluge myself in joyful and nostalgic recollections about old Shea Stadium, the first thing I always think of is a fucking bridge. Citi Field is a soulless characterless stadium. But whaddya expect when, after eff got to put his Brooklyn Dodgers touches onto the new stadium, all 250 of them, his idiot tyrant failson son Jeff was left to pretty much design the rest of the stadium? And if I didn't know that, I woulda thought that Homer Simpson designed Citi Field. And those hideous original scoreboards. Was there ever anything more hideous in a stadium? Especially a modern stadium. Oy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That Pirates logo is incredible.

Of those logos, I think of the Pirates logo more than any of the others. I'm not necessarily saying it's the best of the bunch, but I miss it the most and I think of it everytime the Mets play the Pirates and I see their more modern logo. Which I dislike.



The newer logos tend to be fiercer, angrier. I prefer the more innocent, Eisenhower era friendly logos. I miss the old (other Pirate) Buccaneers logo, too.