Baseball & Chicago (intersection of tags)

(See the mockups at unlikelymoose.com) The Chicago Cubs and the Rickets released a photo mockup of how Wrigley Field will look like with the Jumbotron and additional ads. However, they didn’t put real ads in their mockup. They put cute…

8-year former White Sox player A.J. Pierzynski is a class act to run a full-page ad for local fans in the Chicago Tribune at the end of 2012. I tip my hat to him. But I also give AJ two…

Maybe part of America’s economic problems is related to the rising salaries of professional sports players. Their salaries are completely wacked. Thus high-level execs of companies feel like they should be making lots of money too. Thus the average worker…

It bothers me so immensely when Wrigleyville residents complain about “how hard” it is to get home on game days. Um. Wrigley Field was here WAYYY long before any of its residents. 100% of the people who live in Wrigleyville…

Did you know the great third baseman Luis Salazar of the 1989-1992 Chicago Cubs also played for the 1984 Padres? The despised 1984 Padres that beat the beloved Cubs in the 1984 playoffs. Luis Salazar even played three games in…

Can you yell at a Hall of Famer from the upper deck and have him wave back at you? How much info can you fit onto a scorecard? Do worms celebrate National Gummi Worm Appreciation Day? What does the world’s…

Here’s a comprehensive a list of ballparks that have wifi. If you have any updates, please let me know in the comments below. MLB baseball stadiums with wifi: Atlanta Braves (Turner Field) — Free Arizona Diamondbacks (Chase Field) — Free…

The aesthetic forms of the signature are very intriguing. When I paypal’ed $1.74 to the seller, I included the following note: Thanks for selling this card. It has to be one of the coolest signatures ever. It’s like a work…

My 50 most interesting photos posted in 2010 The following set was automatically created by dopiaza’s set generator. It’s a really cool script. Every day it checks the popularity ranking of all my photos I posted in 2010 and then…

The Wrigley Field rooftops are struggling financially as the Cubs suck. “There’s a lot of money going out and only some coming in,” said Rich Zasiebida (in a Tribune interview), managing partner of the Skybox on Sheffield, 3627 N. Sheffield…

West Side Grounds where the Cubs last won the World Series in 1908 is still a park. Or at least on Google Maps it looks like a park. It’s only a couple blocks from the Polk stop on the CTA…

Quiet Metra train The platform is completely empty at the 103rd street Metra station at 10:17pm on a Tuesday night. As the train arrives, I’m the only one to board the only open car on the train. While looking for…

An eBay seller is trying to sell some “Chicago Cub Half Dollars from 1907 and 1908.” Only thing is that they are not Chicago Cub Half Dollars. They are merely normal half dollars from 1907 and 1908–the years the Cubs…

A new social media bar appears on spudart.org featuring many of the social media places that I participate in. Please feel free to connect with me via any of these social media: Blogs Spudart blog Spudart’s image clippings and notes…

Even as a big Cubs fan, I’m glad only one Cub made it to the All-Star team. I’d even be happy having no Cubs on the team this year. If your team sucks, you don’t deserve to have an All-Star.…

How do you quickly sell tickets on Craigslist? Offer a discount for something the buyer must do during the event. Put the discount in the title. I had four cubs tickets I needed to unload for a game this week.…

October 2008. A week after the Chicago Cubs disgraced themselves in the playoffs. Less than one month before the Obama election. I’m hungry. For lunch. I leave work and walk through the the Tribune Tower lobby. Occasionally in the lobby…

The architect’s rendering of the rink at Wrigley Field for the Winter Classic. (Handout photo/NHL) With the Wrigley Field being iced over from the Blackhawks game on January 1, they are going to let regular people ice skate on it…

While Joe Biden was smacking down Sarah Palin on the Vice-Presidential Debates, the Chicago Cubs were suffering their second playoff loss to the Dodgers. Since Biden was so dominating, he should have gone over and played for the Cubs! They…

There’s an “OFFICIALLY LICENSED CHICAGO CUBS 3-COIN SET” being sold that features three accomplishments by recent Chicago Cubs players. But uh, hello. Alfonso Soriano did not join the 40-40 club while with the Cubs in 2006. Soriano got 40 homers…

photo courtesy Library of Congress What if this was the regular road uniform for the 2008 Cubs? Goodbye red, white, and blue. Welcome pure charcoal gray.

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

With the millions of dollars that baseball players get paid, you’d think there would be a good sizable list of players who contribute to their presidential candidate of choice. There’s not. In fact, there are only two current major league…

Cubs playoff tickets. A great thing to have. Game four. Certainly there would be a game four, right? Not with these Chicago Cubs. They got swept by the Arizona Snakes in three games. Ouch. It‚Äôs certainly disappointing to see the…

Here’s a photo of Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano posing during “picture day.” It makes me wonder if this is a Chicago Cubs internal “picture day” (for marketing materials) or a MLB.com “picture day.” Given the ivy background, I would think…

There should be a list of the official team colors for professional teams. So I’m starting one here. I’m accepting the colors for any team in the NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA. Seeing that I’m a designer for the Tribune,…

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2006. list of four-letter words with three vowels (6,163) I’m just amazed that this is number one. Wild Chicago Archives (4,353) No suprise here. WTTW should have…

(photo under creative commons license from dgphilli) Here’s all the stats the Cubs had leaders in for the 2006 season: SLG %: 9th-Ramirez .561 Total Bases: 8th-Ramirez 333 Homeruns: 9th-Ramirez 38 RBI: 6th-Ramirez 119 Extra Base Hits: 6th-Ramirez 80 Games:…

Yesterday my family had first row seats in section 224 at Wrigley Field. Sounds like great seats, nobody in front of you to block your view. Think again. There’s a busy walkway in front of the first row where people…

When you go to Google Maps and look up the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field), it looks like a toilet. How appropriate.

On Saturday, April 22, 2006 the Chicago Cubs had a garage sale at Wrigley Field. Here’s the scoop on what was sold, the atmosphere, and a guide on how to attack events like this in the future: What was sold…