mfc Season Set Highlight Card: Thor fries Fish

Great performance by everyone involved.

Bruce hit a homer(*grabs chest*)!

Conforto blasted one that almost hit the Shea bridge.

Rene Rivera showed why he's Thor's personal catcher, gunning down two Marlin runners in the 3rd inning. 

Thor went a full seven and Salas and Reed out of the pen closed the deal in style.

Great game. Lets see some more of these.

Yo Mets, you need to more than just blast home runs. Mix in some small ball. Like the first inning tonight.

Cabrera drops a beautiful bunt single, Yo follows with a single moving Asdrubal to third. A fielders choice and Fish error plates Cabrera, leaving Cespedes at 3rd and Bruce on first. Walker singles, driving in Yoenis. Bruce takes second. Duda singles, loading the bases. CONFORTO WALKS in a run! 

That made it 3-0 Mets. And we almost scored more but Walker was thrown out at the plate.

I want to see more of that. We can not survive by the long ball alone.

LETS GO METS!

mfc 2017 BORDER DESIGN #1 & the Updated '17mfc CESPEDES card!

Using the 2017 Topps border as inspiration I have come up with this design for the 2017 mfc Mets Season Set cards. I can't say this is the final version. There's is plenty of time between now and the '17 season and I'm always messing with stuff. I'm not totally satisfied with it. But I've also been working on it off and on all day and I'm sick of looking at it. ;) Maybe if I step off a few days I'll view it differently. Any suggestions or criticism is welcome.

Photo by Steve Moore

 I do like this though. It contains elements of the Topps design, includes a border based on that design, and I unscrunched the best logo known to man and the universe, which was a priority. With this more horizontal/verticle layout (as opposed to the Topps slant) I can complete the font work much quicker. It also provides plenty of space for the player picture, always a concern for me.

Hearing Cespedes during the press conference this afternoon really pumped me up for 2017.

Cespedes: "..Godwilling, I will finish up my career with this team."
Alderson: " Godwilling and a no trade clause, by the way."

  LGM!

CESPEDES, A NEW YORK METROPOLITAN FOR FOUR YEARS!!

The waiting was, of course, the hardest part. But we didn't have to wait all that long. I figured this wouldn't be resolved until after the New Year, but here we are, not even December yet and we have the gift that hopefully keeps on giving, Yoenis Cespedes.

So now we can all relax and enjoy the upcoming holidays with talk of "will we get Yo back?" off the table. I didn't think we could get him to take four years (@$110 million). I figured five minimum. This is a great deal and fantastic news! Thank you for pulling this off Mr. Alderson! And thank you for deciding to stay, Mr. Cespedes! You have made all Mets fans very happy campers. 

Already the 2017 season is going well and it's not even 2017 yet. I like.

I didn't see the Topps 2017 baseball card design until I heard the news about Yo earlier today and decided I had to make a card to celebrate. Overall it's a great design. 

But I have my little idiosyncrasies. Once again, as in 2016, Topps messed with the best logo known to man and the universe. This time they scrunched it! AHHHH! 

Also, no defined border.

So more than likely the final MFC design for 2017 will add a border of some kind and I'll most certainly be unscrunching the logo to make it as Gotto intended, circular. 

There's an outside chance I might design a 2017 Season Set border from scratch. The angled font and logo were particularly painful to reproduce. Topps is getting difficult ;) .

The card above is just a quick mock up job to add to the celebration.  

When re-worked this card will be numero uno of the mfc2017 Mets Season Set!

WooHoo!

LETS GO METS!!

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Topps gets a free commercial. 

Coming in February :)

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Photo of Yoenis Cespedes by Steve Moore