Bagley Bags Bizarro Sports Illustrated Cover

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The Most Badass Thing I Have Ever Seen
Published 5/21/2008 by Sooze (noreply@blogger.com) at Babes Love Baseball
... Illustrated. The Incredibly Awesome and Amazing Mark Bagley combined two of the sweetest things in the universe for the cover of the mag, which will focus on the "Bizarro Baseball Season” including the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees swapping places. This marks the first time a DC comic character has appeared on the cover of SI, and hopefully it won't be the last. For the record, we totally called it. [Comic Bloc] | [Mark Bagley Interview] | [Super Punch] | [Comic Box]

SI Has Comic Book Cover; Ads For Wild X-Ray Specs in Back
Published 5/21/2008 by Rob Iracane at Walkoff Walk
... Okay, that's an awesome rendering of an obvious fantasy world by DC Comics guy Mark Bagley. Remember folks, it might only be May 21st but that ...

Sports Illustrated Turns Carl Crawford and the Rays Into Superheroes
Published 5/21/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
Filed under: Rays, AL East, MLB Media Watch, Tampa BayThere's no doubt that one of the biggest stories of the baseball season thus far has been the move of the Tampa Bay Rays from the cellar to the top of the American League East. They're eight games over .500 and a game behind the Red Sox, a state of affairs best left to comic books before this season. It seems Sports Illustrated agrees. SI hired comic artist Mark Bagley to do the cover, gave him a brief idea about what they were looking for and he went to town. That's Derek Jeter being crushed by a slightly exaggerated in the ...

SI turns the Tampa Bay Rays into comic book heroes
Published 5/21/2008 at Big League Stew
I might as well go ahead and say it. I am love with this week's cover of SI. So much has been made about SI's slipping grip on its influence in the sports world. A lot of the criticism has been accurate. What used to be the highlight of the magazine arriving in the mail every week has sort of been reduced to just another event in the 24/7 news cycle that runs our sports-obsessed lives. But to do something like get superstar artists from DC Comics to draw a cartoon Carl Crawford lifting a cartoon Derek Jeter over his head while Bizarro looks on in disbelief? Well, that's just any ...

Comic Book Resources: Bagley Bags Bizarro “Sports Illustrated” Cover
Published 5/22/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... —The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Comic Book Resources: Bagley Bags Bizarro “Sports Illustrated” Cover B.J. Upton gets hit by radioactive fly. The result: The first comic book cover in SI history. [image] ...

Bizarro World
Published 5/22/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
Check out the sweet cover art for this week's SI. Here's a philosophical question: am I a bigger comics geek for getting off on the fact that Mark Bagley did the cover or am I bigger baseball geek for immediately noticing that the Rays and Yankees are wearing the wrong uniforms for a game in Yankee Stadium? Tie breaker: I noticed that Jeter's name was on the back of his jersey too, and that's just wrong, man. (link via BTF, where some hardcore comics opinions can be found in the thread for those interested)

Pickoff Moves
Published 5/22/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... Maybe the Cindy Crawford reference is dating me (quite a bit, actually, and no, I have no idea whether Ms. Crawford ever actually appeared on an SI cover), but Sports Illustrated has commissioned a Marvel Comics illustration for their May 26 issue, for the lead story of the bizarro scene in baseball, particularly the AL East. Mark Bagley had almost no time to turn this one around: ...

Longoria & Pena Lead Sweep of O’s; Rays Best Record in AL, Tied for MLB lead.
Published 5/25/2008 by Tommy Rancel at Outs Per Swing
You can’t just put it in park right there; you’ll blow your transmission. I had it in my mind I was going to score.”-Carlos Pena on the game winning run. Courtesy of Yahoo! Sports  Rays 5, Orioles 4  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)—Evan Longoria drove in the winning run with a double in the ninth inning, giving the Rays a three-game sweep of the Orioles. Carlos Pena drew a one-out walk in the ninth off George Sherrill(1-1) and ...