What Does Your Avatar Mean?
by prettyinpurple on Feb 23, 2010 8:56 AM MST
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PrintThe sequel to Andrew T. Fisher's "What does Your Name Mean?".
Everybody should have an avatar.
If you don't, get one. (Really, it would be nice, but I guess you don't have to. But if you don't you can't be a part of this fanpost!)
Okay, avatars are a way to represent or even picture oneself. So, explain how/why you chose your avatar. Is it just a picture of one of your favorite players or moments? Is it something that you feel represents you/your likes/background? An actual picture? Where was it taken?
Have fun!
Eat. Drink. Be Merry. But the above FanPost does not necessarily reflect the attitudes, opinions, or views of Purple Row's staff (unless, of course, it's written by the staff [and even then, it still might not]).
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But what does your username mean?
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 9:35 AM MST up reply actions
Her blood really is the color of silver.
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Yes, because I'm an alien.
I guess.
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:07 AM MST up reply actions
Where did you find that avatar?
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My avatar was first a cartoon me I made.
Then I photoshoped a Rox hoodie (hopfully the one I’m going to buy) onto it.
My last one was the MLB power pro pic of Kaz Matsui. Mlb Power pros is my favorite baseball video game.
(By the way I made my cartoon in weeworld. I also made another in meez, which has Rocckies jerseys, if any of you are interested in making a cartoon you.)
This is R year!
Do you have a link to meez or weeworld?
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Mine is the Dexleap
because it was awesome.
by phishbate on Feb 23, 2010 9:10 AM MST reply actions 2 recs
I could watch this video all day.
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Looking at this
Dex could have just leveled Chase for being in the basepath.
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 9:36 AM MST up reply actions
But then Utley would have had to leave the game and wouldn'y have been part of the 3 run 9th inning for the Phils
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 9:58 AM MST up reply actions
I was there.
I was amazed at that move, and still am.
Wouldn’t Dexter have been called for interference if he’d leveled Utley?
"You have no other choice, you MUST go on." Stanley Milgram, "Obedience to Authority"
Exactly
If the fielder is in the basepath you can do whatever you want to them.
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 11:06 AM MST up reply actions
Unless East-coast umps were working the game.
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That's a myth
The fielder has the right to the ball. The runner has to make an attempt to get out of the way. It’s an annoying rule, but it’s the rule. The logic behind it is that the fielder can’t control where the ball goes.
I hate the Red Wings.
The way I understand the rule is that if the fielder has the ball,
the runner can be called for interference if he levels the fielder. However if the fielder doesn’t have the ball then the runner has the right to the basepaths and can do whatever they want to the fielder (as long as the fielder is in the basepaths).
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 12:37 PM MST up reply actions
It may be different in the big leagues
Every other level of baseball and softball that I’ve been involved with, the runner has to give the fielder the chance to get the ball. If the fielder has to stop, though, the runner can be called out and the ball ruled dead due to interference.
One caveat is that the fielder can’t just stand in the basepath, such as it is. It’s up to the umpire’s discretion then as to whether it’s interference or obstruction.
Another sticking point is that, any place on the field where this could potentially happen, there is not set basepath. It’s determined by the path that the runner takes. The only set basepath is for the batter-runner from home to 1st base.
Finally, this only applies on batted balls, as I understand it. Obstruction/Interference is the most confusing rule in the book. It’s pretty discretionary.
I hate the Red Wings.
I was actually looking for the rule earlier and couldn't find anything concrete when it came to deatials
I think your’e right when you say that it’s pretty discretionary, especially when trying to determain whether a fielder needed to stand in that spot to field the ball.
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 1:26 PM MST up reply actions
I was an umpire
The fielder has a right to field a batted ball, the runner must avoid him, even in the basepath. Rule 7.08b.
You and wtnelson are right
Thanks for the info.
“A runner who is adjudged to have hindered a fielder who is attempting to make a play on a batted ball is out whether it was intentional or not.”
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 6:23 PM MST up reply actions
Then I got screwed in high school
I got leveled while fielding a grounder
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 23, 2010 11:00 PM MST up reply actions
While were you
“IN THE ACT OF FIELDING”? That seems to be the vague line determining whether or not you can level to fileder.
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 11:51 PM MST up reply actions
Yeah, I'm not really sure whether the ball had reached my glove or not
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 24, 2010 12:05 AM MST up reply actions
I learned that the hard way in high school playing second base
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 23, 2010 10:59 PM MST up reply actions
Actually no
He’d have been out. The fielder has a right to the basepath if he’s making a play on a batted ball.
oh my gosh that awesome. how did u do that???
Why is spring taking so long???
by CO.ROXaholic on Feb 25, 2010 1:07 PM MST up reply actions
My avatar is one of the lighthouses in Rhode Island
The bridge in the background is the one I have to drive over every day in the summer when I work in Newport RI. I just think that the bay is really beautiful and it reflects where I’m from.
Here’s a wider view.
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 9:44 AM MST reply actions
I almost made this one my avatar but I think I decided against it because it was too hard to see what it was when it was smaller
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 9:59 AM MST up reply actions
That's beautiful..
do you have any old maritime stories about that lighthouse or area?
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That one (Rose Island Light) dosn't have as many stories as some of RI's lighthouses because it's in Narragansett Bay instead of on the coast.
But it still has some history.
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 11:46 AM MST up reply actions
Thanks for sharing, that was a neat piece of history..
I was especially impressed with the daughter’s quick thinking in the 1890’s..
Keeper Curtis and his wife, Christina, had to go ashore one day. They left their daughter, Mabel, alone on the island. Thick fog suddenly rolled in. Young Mabel couldn’t get the fog bell mechanism started, so she grabbed a hammer and manually rang the bell, approximating its official time sequence for several hours until her parents returned.
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That's dedication
Can you imagine how boring hitting a bell with a hammer for several hours would be?
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 12:19 PM MST up reply actions
I know a couple of two year olds that would love it.
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That is pretty I awesome. I won't lie
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 24, 2010 9:36 AM MST up reply actions
Mine was taken at Coors on opening day last year
I was visiting home, and took my (then) fiancee to her first Rockies game. She brought along her camera and took several pictures of the opening ceremonies and game. Later, after I had registered here, I was looking through her camera and thought that one would make a good avatar. I need a new one; perhaps nest time I make it to Coors I’ll take another.
by controlled_slide on Feb 23, 2010 9:49 AM MST reply actions
My avatar says
clapclap-clapclapclap-clapclapclapclap-TULO
The Colorado Rockies aren't a team, they're an armada.
Hey, you changed it from that Favre jersey, am I right?
This is R year!
by prettyinpurple on Feb 23, 2010 10:22 AM MST up reply actions
I always
have had an avatar of myself. Unless you don’t believe that it is a photo of me.
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Mine is pretty simple
A picture of me under an arch at Palantine Hill in Rome. One of the best days of my life
Attention Whore.
Is that your philosopher pose?
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 11:08 AM MST up reply actions
that was my "I'm in Historian Disneyland" pose
pretty much in awe at everything I witnessed that day…
Attention Whore.
Kinda how I felt walking around in England
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:20 AM MST up reply actions
Nice picture
Historian Disneyland? I gotta remember that one.
The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
by rockieprogress on Feb 28, 2010 12:27 PM MST up reply actions
Mine is me after a hilly bicycle ride
at the top of Box Hill, as featured in Jane Austen’s Emma – I’d done 46 miles by this point, including six of the famed Surrey hills, and I was close to death. But it’s still one of the most flattering pictures of me, so go figure!
Looking again, it's not taken on Box Hill at all :(
Box Hill was one of the hills climbed that day, but we finished up at Newland’s Corner – here’s the view we had (not my pic):
All right I want to go back RIGHT NOW
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:29 AM MST up reply actions
I'll go with you
I’ve always wanted to go but never have been.
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 23, 2010 11:30 AM MST up reply actions
You know you'd all get the warmest British welcome
By which I mean a handshake followed by an hour’s sitting on opposite sides of the drawing room commenting on how wet a February it’s been.
As soon as I have enough money I'm going back
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:41 AM MST up reply actions
to England or Rome?
Maybe we should do a Grand Rowbot Historinerd Tour.
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:47 AM MST up reply actions
either one
I just want to go back…
(and now you have me looking at kayak.com for cheap flights)
Attention Whore.
Yep, exactly what I was doing yesterday
All of which are still out of my price range. Curses.
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:53 AM MST up reply actions
I'm imagining a shield wall of Welsh and Saxons in that valley.
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Fair enough, though it's in Surrey
Not many Welsh. Though actually my best friend, who I was riding with that day, is Welsh, so you may be onto something.
It could have been Welsh..
before the Saxons overran it.
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Death looks good on you?
Hmm. You might want to have that checked out.
I can haz NL West title?
by Silverblood on Feb 23, 2010 11:08 AM MST up reply actions
Perhaps a more honest answer would be that roughly at that time
I was at my slimmest :) But even so, the combination of red face, tired eyes and open mouth works out better than I might have expected. Vain, moi?
My picture...
Is an actual picture of me. I thought it was cool, no real story behind it. I dance a lot, dance — legs, you know, kind of go together. I guess since that’s the popular thing to do I’ll put the bigger image…
"And I'm sick of all my judges/They're so scared of letting me shine/but I know that I can take it/So long as somebody takes me home every now and then" -- The Killers
Hmm.
I guess mine was inspired by Kazimir Malevich’s “White on white,” one of the pinnacles of modern art.
Saved by the buoyancy of citrus.
Manzoni
is a badass.
Saved by the buoyancy of citrus.
In so many senses
But I’m not sure you all want to see that sort of thing in avatar form. So I’ll stick with a vanity pic :)
If I had to choose a modern artist it would be Joanne Gair.
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Modern art
is neither modern nor art. Discuss. Of course, I will get into an debate over modernist and post-modernist literature.
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(Refrains from Russ-esque rant on modern vs. contemporary art)
Saved by the buoyancy of citrus.
mine is the Dex Knows guy from the yellow book commericals
Dex Knows
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -C.S. Lewis
Chief Sitting Bull
I started blogging on FanNation, which is an SI fan website. (Not to toot my own horn, but I got the prestigious FanNation 2009 Blogger of the Year award from a group of fans that decided to give out awards. OK, that was to toot my own horn.)
Unwittingly, I used a series of avatars of guys with crazy hair, starting with notorious Slap Shot goon Ogie Oglethorpe. There was an ongoing commentary on my hair, which kept up when I changed it to a picture of Willie Nelson (which, incidentally, is my name). A few days later, I switched to another Slap Shot character, the immortal Clarence “Screaming Buffalo” Swamptown.
A guy that was new to the site started calling me “Big Chief”, and I jut kinda ran with it. My current Sitting Bull avatar has been in use for quite sometime, and I only change it for special occasions. It’s uniquely mine, and I use it for an awful lot of things now. I even incorporate “Big Chief” into my FanNation username these days.
I hate the Red Wings.
Pretty sure mine is my face
yup.
I, for one, am optimistic about the future. And I'm not one to be optimistic about anything.
by fantasyfencing on Feb 23, 2010 12:23 PM MST reply actions
changed it up
south park superfan
Stan Marsh is a Rockies fan.
by fantasyfencing on Feb 23, 2010 6:57 PM MST up reply actions
Mine is self explanatory
My favorite player celebrating with pure jubilation as the Rockies clinch their first ever National League Championship. This picture epitomizes the 2007 run for me.
Mine was created by Charlie77
it represents my living near a beach in San Diego with the Rockies logo on the surfboard(even though I don’t know how to surf)..
pretty cool and thoughtful of Charlie
Troy Tulowitzki - Best SS in the MLB - 2010 MVP
"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
Thanks, that was nice!
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Mine is the "Knight who says, 'NEE!'"
I love Monty Python, and will stop everything if a “Flying Circus” rerun is on. Also has to do with an inside joke when I worked as a consultant for a government agency that has an acronym pronounced ‘NEE’
Don't hate the player, hate the game, except all Yankees players.
Mine has been the same since I registered.
Back in 2007 during the September run, I decided I needed a Rockies userpic for my livejournal account, so I searched and found an awesome series of various MLB userpics by lj user lost_americana, and so when I registered here, I just borrowed that one for my avatar.
Mine's simple
I was out in Montauk (well close to it) and I saw a bench in the middle of nowhere, so I felt the need to carve something in it. I just wrote Montauk, but I could’ve done something better. I liked how it came out, and it’s a nice simple thing to use as an avatar without showing yourself. It’s a shame the beach there is getting so eroded, it was a nice beach there and there’s excellent surf.
Impossible not to have positive thoughts.
I want Sam Deduno to pitch already.
Huge waves there today according to my wave app..
10 ft, and 7 ft tomorrow
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Hello
I would like to say that the avatar I have chosen has a simple explanation. It is a picture of a bedroom in Colorado Springs that I visit when traveling away from school for two or so days every month. Below is a larger version.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
by jrockies on Feb 23, 2010 5:56 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
That is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen
Out of curiosity, whereabouts in Colorado Springs? I’m originally from down there and visit every now and again.
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Is it baseball yet?
Security/Widefield Area
or just north of Fountain
Thanks for all the comments everyone, I really like it too. I have a somewhat similar setup at my house in Golden, although not quite as nice.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
Fountain is the best site I visit on my job
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 1, 2010 7:07 PM MST up reply actions
What do you do in Fountain exactly?
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
Monitor the groundwater around that fuel filling station and tank farm, just SE of the main exit off I-25
They had a leak from one of their tanks a few decades ago, and my company gets to clean it up. I come by to check the system monthly and spend a day or two sampling groundwater quarterly. It’s a great backdrop, between the river and mountains
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 2, 2010 7:51 AM MST up reply actions
Very cool
I know exactly where that is. The area is great too.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
Wow, you should marry Drew Barrymore.
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I should add
If it is framed on the wall it is signed. Henry Aaron’s famous blast, Todd Helton jersey, Ted Williams, shaking Babe Ruth’s hand, one Sky Sox team picture (1995?), a hand drawn Rockies Logo signed at a Colorado Rockies/Colorado Springs Sky Sox game.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
Mens Olympic Curling Team....
….was selling “Hurry Hard” condoms as a fund raiser and I was just doing my part to promote.
I change mine frequently. The avatar I mean.
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
—Rogers Hornsby
I have to ask
The mens Olympic curling team is selling cleverly named condoms as a fund raiser? Details, pleaseandthanx.
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck
a sponsor
http://www.usacurl.org/usacurl//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=351&Itemid=1
NBC Chicago:
The U.S. Curling Team is co-sponsored by the “Hurry Hard” Condom.
Yes, you read that right. The “Hurry Hard” Condom, named after the phrase curling teammates yell to encourage faster sweeping in front of the stone, was debuted in December by the Chicago-based Kodiak Technology Group.
Read the whole story: NBC Chicago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/us-curling-team-sponsored_n_465363.html
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
—Rogers Hornsby
My best friend
is my avatar. I (rather poorly) Photoshopped an 2007 NL Champions hat on him after that magical season. I have plans for an update before the season starts this year, so stay tuned!
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck
My avatar is Mr. Rockie, a picture I found when googling "Colorado Rockies".
I’ve used Tulo, Todd, Dex and myself. I think I like Mr. Rockie best as he seems to suit my personality.
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983
Mine is somewhat self explanatory...
a picture of the wife and I atop of the Sports Column down the street from Coors. It was taken the night of Game 4 of the World Series. I could update it with a better picture of the two of us… but this was as close as it got to seeing the Rox that magical season for us (being from southeast Nebraska) so I’ll just leave it.
I got nothing.
Mine is Spilly's famous 14th inning walk-off grand slam!
I took this picture of the Jumbotron, right after Spilly RAN around the bases!
Welcome to the Row
Do you have any more pictures from that night?
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 24, 2010 12:00 AM MST up reply actions
Yes I do!
Thanks for the welcome! I have been reading The Row for over 2 years now, and I figured it was about time to contribute! I probably take way too many pictures, if thats possible, at every game I go to and when he hit that slam, I took a bunch. What a good game!
by Roxlunchbox on Feb 24, 2010 12:23 PM MST up reply actions
You should post them on Photobucket or Flickr and share with the rest of us.
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Mine is a castle in the most beautiful place I have ever been
the tiny town of Bled, Slovenija
Here are some more pictures I took:
There’s no real link to the Rockies, but when I signed up for PR, I had just moved and didn’t have any pictures on my computer except the one that became my avatar.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 23, 2010 11:13 PM MST reply actions
Wow awesome
Did you get to go on that island?
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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 24, 2010 12:04 AM MST up reply actions
Yes, but only by paddle boats - motor boats aren't allowed on the lake
I have a good picture with Rowbot kiraly41 on the island, but I’m not sure he wants his face shown.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 24, 2010 12:08 AM MST up reply actions
Mine is pretty obvious.
A picture of me and the love of my life.
by CentralCaliRox on Feb 23, 2010 11:33 PM MST reply actions
It's a picture of me
from August 2007. I still look kind of like this, but this was right after working at a summer camp so I was thinner and more tan and actually look pretty decent.
"Admirably obsessive." - Uni Watch, March 24th, 2009
Is it baseball yet?
Cafferys Ale
Mine is after the best beer in the world, IMHO. Hate Coors/Molson/Miller for the fact they won’t import it to the US.
Mine
Mostly means that I’m a dad :) I need to get this updated to show both kids (also have a two month old boy). This is my favorite photo, when my daughter was younger (she’s 2.5 now)
The Casual Observer - a web magazine with an eclectic mix of sports, politics, fiction, and other weird sh*t.
Mine is pretty self explanatory
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
--Reds outfielder Adam Dunn, on the girl scout cookies he keeps in his locker
My avatar is me sleeping (from exhaustion, not drunkenness as some have postulated)...during a Hurricane Katrina work trip in 2007.
It was the only picture I had on my computer of me in a Rockies cap…so by default it became my avatar.
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Good thing you did
Without being able to clearly see in the picture that you are wearing a Rockies hat, I wouldn’t have known what team you root for :)
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 24, 2010 11:39 AM MST up reply actions
Love that place
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
poor life decision is the title of mine
I photoshopped a t-shirt design. I am finishing up with my PhD in aerospace/mechanical engineering in the next couple of months, and my friends and I all joke that grad school was a poor life decision.
3 out of 4 sounds so much better than 2 out of 3...
by realmenwearpurple on Feb 24, 2010 11:51 AM MST reply actions
The orginal said "really cool waterslides"
3 out of 4 sounds so much better than 2 out of 3...
by realmenwearpurple on Feb 24, 2010 11:52 AM MST up reply actions
Super poplar Woot shirt GET
I love that site.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
by A.J. Haefele on Feb 24, 2010 5:09 PM MST up reply actions
as someone in grad school, I agree
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
--Reds outfielder Adam Dunn, on the girl scout cookies he keeps in his locker
Mine is Calvin and Hobbes
because I like to think of myself as someone who has studied the philosophy of the Dynamic Duo over the years and if I had to pick a religion, it would be that of C&H. There’s just so much good stuff in those comics that stretch far beyond being funny that the older I got, the more I started noticing the reading between the lines and picking out the lessons to be applied to my life. Ruv u, C&H.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Yeah
I wrote an article about the best comics EVER a while ago, and I put Calvin and Hobbes at #1.
Calvin’s dad is a very under-rated character.
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Mine is just a sea turtle
I got it from the sample photos on my computer. I think it suits me.
Foxes are naughties
I like the turtle
"I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck.
by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Feb 24, 2010 9:51 PM MST up reply actions
Mine is an autographed baseball
I got 18 rox to sign the ball at Spring Training last year. Hector Gomez is on the sweet spot.
Is it Opening Day yet??? See you at Coors.
Mine is me with my second daughter at her first baseball game
We were in the Rockpile, and I liked the shot – it was cute.
"Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa." ~Bob Veale
"Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug."~Mitch Williams
The future looks bright, Rox - BRING ON 2010!!!
Mine
is a hot dog in a baseball hat. Started back in the post pic of yourself thread…
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith
still waiting for you
put the HOT in that dog :)
Troy Tulowitzki - Best SS in the MLB - 2010 MVP
"With a guy like Melo, it’s tough to stop him with one person. You can’t. I don’t know one guy who can stop Melo on a consistent basis."-CP3
Brad Hawpe - Will prove the doubters wrong
PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?
just got back
from visiting family in New Mexico. Hoping to show off “Rockies Dog 2.0” soon!
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith
Yeah
Mine is Tulo hitting the shit out of a baseball.
I mean, say what you like about the tenets of Rockies baseball, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
by squalene203 on Feb 27, 2010 7:17 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
Mine is now the picture I took when we dropped “Devil” from the Rays name and I had to take the name of of our club- house door.
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
—Rogers Hornsby
Now this is awesome
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK
Thanks. I dig it.
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
—Rogers Hornsby
My avatar is now the epitome of awesomeness
It’s so awesome that it awesomed your face off
It awesomed your MOM
I can haz NL West title?
Thanks to Muzia for kickass avatar of my undying love Greg Reynolds
....shutup
Mine is the Casper Minor League Team Logo... for now apparent reason.
Adkins was my number 1 pick in fantasy league in 2009......Ouch!
I loooooove that logo
been debating buying a Ghosts glow-in-the-dark cap for a couple of years now
Iron Maiden? Excellent!
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