SI tries cloning

[Simon_Cowbell]

July 17, 2006

June 18, 2007

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

OK, you see these two covers as being the same?
Don't see it myself.

 

[Your Huckleberry]

Guess they didn't have any good ideas in their weekly budget meeting.

 

[jgmacg]

Don't look at me. I pitched Michael Phelps.

 

[SF_Express]

OK, you see these two covers as being the same?
Don't see it myself.

I dunno, F-B. Two group portraits, same team (New York, of course, which makes this more glaring). Not the same-same, but out of all the sports world, this treatment seems a little redundant to me.

 

[Ira_Schoffel]

It ain't the same, but it's very, very similar. Same team. Same concept. Less than a year apart.

I'd be very surprised if no one in the office said, "Hey, doesn't this look like ..."

 

[Double Down]

Don't look at me. I pitched Michael Phelps.

Does he have a secondary skill? Like pitching? Because the Mets can do it all.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Pulled it out of my mailbox at work, and my first thought was, "I've seen this before..."

 

[Football_Bat]

This happens at my paper about three times a year.

 

[Double Down]

Pulled it out of my mailbox at work, and my first thought was, "I've seen this before..."

I think the Mets are just scared to appear on the cover alone. Must be some kind of social anxiety disorder.

 

[Your Huckleberry]

Nice Double Down. Very nice.

 

[jgmacg]

Don't look at me. I pitched Michael Phelps.

Does he have a secondary skill? Like pitching? Because the Mets can do it all.

In addition to being the World's Greatest Athlete, Phelps also has some very interesting new insights into the Koran, Bob Barker, Jessica Alba, Yuengling, You Tube and the Sopranos. I thought it was a slam dunk.

 

[Double Down]

It also seems he just took a buyout from the Baltimore Sun, according to a thread on the j-board. So I'm convinced.

 

[OnTheRiver]

This happens at my paper about three times a year.

Sounds like you guys care a lot about the Mets. A lot.

 

[jgmacg]

It also seems he just took a buyout from the Baltimore Sun, according to a thread on the j-board. So I'm convinced.

He's already got a call in to the Plain Dealer.

 

[21]

Pcloned.

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

I never thought of the previous Mets cover, but now that you mention it, that's pretty remarkable.

But aside from the cover, what'd you guys think of the story?

I thought it was sort of a waste of Gary Smith's prodigious talents to tell the story of Omar Minaya, who seems to be a pretty nice guy from a pretty tough background and...well, that's about it. Smith pulled out all the stops trying to make Minaya's rise a better story than it is, but not even he could pull that off.

Your thoughts?

 

[BigRed]

Pulled it out of my mailbox at work, and my first thought was, "I've seen this before..."

I think the Mets are just scared to appear on the cover alone. Must be some kind of social anxiety disorder.

What a horrendous headline.

No outlandish statements there.

No kidding. Um... Rey Ordonez, Edgardo Alfonso, Robin Ventura and John Olerud are the BEST INFIELD EVER?
What kind of crack was floating around the SI newsroom that week?

 

[SCEditor]

The Best Infield Ever? How'd that work out for my mighty Mets?

 

[John Taylor]

hell, how'd all that pitching work out for George? Meanwhile, he must have forgotten that you can't have enough pitching going into this season.

Oh, and screw Omar Minaya by the way. I haven't read the story yet, but does it mention the masterful job he did emptying the Expos/Nationals farm system?