>>>>mfc's THIS WEEK IN METSTUFF

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This post was postponed from earlier in the week.

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Crazy weekend for Mets fans. But hasn't it been a crazy season?

The Mets won the first game of the Subway Series and then dropped the last 2, the final game in controversial fashion.

I'm not going to get all into the Harvey business. Like our skipper says, it is what it is. All I can say is thank God we don't have to depend solely on The Dark Knight.

 Matt Harvey is an incredible talent but we have been blessed with a number of very talented pitchers. So if Matt has to be shelved or be limited in his output we still are in great shape with Colon (the good Colon), Niese (the un-mopey Niese), Syndergaard, and deGrom (who I feel might even be a better pitcher than Harvey). And on the whole the bullpen has been very good.

Considering I'm not making any cards for the two losses against the Yankees I just wanted to get that out of the way.

It would be impossible to talk Mets without bringing that up . I had never seen anything like the shit storm on social media after that game. Just some more craziness in this crazy season.

At least not yet :)

I hoped for 2 of 3 against The Yanks so we still are in fine shape. Great shape, actually. We could play .500 ball from here on out and the Nationals would have to win all their games.

Here are the cards for the Mets lone win in last weeks Subway Series:

What a klutchkaBOOM! Uribe has been vital. He injured his collarbone in the recent win vs. the Braves and I really hope it doesn't keep him out long. We need this guy healthy and available. 

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For Mondays win against Atlanta:

Eight home runs since coming up on July 24th.

Project that!

Murph, what are we going to do with you?

If you didn't rack up these two RBIs your card for this game would have been quite embarrassing. The caption could have read : MURPHY OUT WITH HEAD UP HIS ASS.

What were you thinking there?

Feel free to explain in the comments section :)

Photography by

Jim McLsaac

The Subway Series logo used on the mfc Subway Series cards is from Newsday. 

(with some mfc alterations)

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The Mets magic number is 6!

Happy Birthday Wally!

[UPDATE]

The Mets magic number is 5!

Photo courtesy of

HEARTBREAKING CARDS OF STAGGERING GENIUS

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I'm getting a little nervous...

Not worried though.

But the end of the week we should be poppin' the bubbly.

FKN FRDY FRMN!

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From last years mfc Season Set:

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Yogi

mfc Special Report

 It's over. :(

We have lost Yogi Berra.

Maybe my absolute favorite character of the game.

I wish I had made more mfc cards for him but looking back I had made one at every opportunity.

A small man who was truly a giant of the game, a simple man who could hit and catch and talk funny.  Yogi's life might be the best example of a person living the American Dream. He will be forever loved and remembered.

R.I.P.

It's a sad, sad day in Metland.

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I only heard about this sad news just a few minutes ago. I have always planned on having a special page for Yogi as I have mentioned on past posts and I still will. This would not be that page. 

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>>>>'68 mfc 3-D Tommy Davis Plus

I didn't think I'd find a good photo of Tommy Davis batting to use but I did. There was a very suitable one in an old Mets yearbook (thank you again Wayne). I have to wonder if these photos were taken close to the same time by the same person. They very well could be.

It's close to the original pose and makes a nice improvement on the 68t 3-D card. I guess it was the lighting that made Topps go in and re-draw Tommy's face. 

Since that was not released as such, I figure Topps would have gone back in and tried to improve the initial work that makes him look like he's wearing a mask or something. But who knows with Topps. They did some wacky stuff back in the day.

Topps also inserted a generic background, one they used for a number of the '68t 3-D cards.

 You can see it's a Mets home uniform but that certainly is not Shea in the background. The same background was used as the Dodgers home field. 

So of course I'm going to fix that and make it Shea Stadium.

I used an old shot of Amos Otis for the background, using all kinds of tricks to remove Otis and then applied a motion blur side to side to simulate the 3-D card look. 

This is the source photo of Tommy batting. There was not enough existing background to use and that's why I had to use the Otis background. I also had to create extensions to the bat and the unseen part of his hand & bat. 

All together this all equals up to Tommy Davis's mfc 3-D card.

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I've tried a little experimentation. Using today's advances in graphics and animation for the home computer I feel like I should be able to expand on what I've done and go a step beyond, making some kind of animated effect that would lend itself to the 3-D look.

.Gif cards are a nice example of going a step beyond reality and more into the realm of fantasy. In real life we had Sportsflicks and that was a form of animation, although it rarely had more than 3 separate images in succession. .Gif cards can go from two to hundreds of images, or in this case, frames. 

So I tried to mix my .gif card making with the blur backed background that simulates the 3-D look. My goal was to blow your socks off with a new kind of 3-D .gif card. Unfortunately you'll have to settle for this not so amazing result. This is close to what I was aiming at. I had hoped just a little bit of movement would enhance the 3-D effect.

But I may be on to something. What I'd like to do is couple the moving background with a moving foreground, say a batter swinging the bat and hitting a ball. Six to twelve frames of the swing should do. The result won't look like a simple .gif because the batter and the background will move independently. I have an idea how this will look but I won't really know until I try it, and I'm sure somewhere down the line I will.

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The Magic Number is: 9!

The New York Mets take on the New York Yankees tonight in game one of a three game set. The Yankees are playing for their playoff lives and the Mets are just hoping to stay the course and widen the gap between them and the competition.

These should be some excellent games. 

LETS GO METS!!!!!!!!!!

Lets light up the city in orange and blue.

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A special report from MFC central:

The Mets bullpen cart through history.

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