Sports & Baseball (intersection of tags)

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…

In case you’re wondering how much baseball cards cost nowadays. If you buy a box of packs, here’s how much they’ll cost: 2011 Topps Baseball Cards Series 1 Blaster Box 10 packs per box, 8 cards per pack 80 cards…

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…

Ken Griffey Jr retired today. He was the biggest deal coming up in 1989 when I was in 8th grade. His ’89 Upper Deck was THE card everyone wanted. He lived up to all the hype and then-some (well, only…

Other than NASCAR, baseball is most like croquet. Both baseball and croquet has the main objective of the player to go in a circle by reaching certain stations along the way. Baseball you you go in a circle and touch…

Baseball has more in common with NASCAR than another sport. Both baseball and NASCAR involve getting around a circle as fast as possible. That’s really the point of baseball. To run around in a complete circle. I can’t think of…

The celebrated homerun As the previous post mentioned, the main point of baseball is one of avoidance. You hit the ball where it escapes your oppoents to you have enough time to run around in a circle. Whereas other sports…

Baseball is a game of avoidance The main idea behind baseball is that you hit the ball where the opponent isn’t, so you have time to run around in a large circle. All other sports have the goal to get…

MLB.com has a game called

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…

Not only can you win $1,000,000 if you pick a player for 56 consecutive days that gets a hit, but you also get virtual trophies. MLB.com has a trophy room for your accomplishments in Beat the Streak. I won trophies…

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The first year card for a baseball player tends to be his most valuable. But you have barely any stats on that card. What’s the fun in that? Oh yay. One season of stats. That says barely anything. But the…

. I encourage everyone to write MLB.com customer service: There’s a graphic on the homepage of mlb.com for the All-Star Game Final Vote. It features buttons of 10 final players on the voting card. The graphics on these buttons are…

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.…

MLB.com has a game called Beat the Streak where you try to put together a hitting streak to beat baseball’s legendary record of 56 games. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit.…

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.…

Baseball fantasy leagues can be too much work. My brother and I have our own league every year–just the two of us. We get all the best players. It’s fun. But this year we are mixing it up. No players.…

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…

It’s a countdown day, 10/09/08! 10… 9… 8. What are we counting down to? Here’s some ideas: 25 days until the USA National Election for President 301 days until the G.I. Joe movie The countdown to the cubs winning the…

A random snail mail letter was sent to me from a six-year-old thinking I work at the corporate headquarters of McDonalds. He has some incredible ideas for a McDonalds playground design with crazy tubes, slides, and mazes of various levels.…

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…

Imagine if someone counted the number of mustaches in every year Topps made a baseball card set. Then there could be a line chart to display the mustache trends in baseball through the years. What year do you think was…

Six stolen bases is the most in one game done by Otis Nixon (1991-06-16) and Eric Young (1996-06-30). Baseball-reference has a great tool called the Play Index where you can look up all sorts of crazy stats. While watching the…

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.

It would be really cool if people could leave public comments on ebay auctions. I’d love to leave a comment on a goofy auction. Or better yet, I could release my angst when someone outbids me. I recently I was…