Tag: Sports

What are your interests? Would you like to be notified of events in your city that matches your interests? Eventful.com has a TON of events. And you can create custom calendars based on a keyword. You can create custom calendars…

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…

If you could see any sports event from the past, which one would you want to see? I’d have to go with a World Series from the deadball era of baseball (pre 1918). Since we are in that time era,…

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…

Today Chicago reveals their new logo today for their bid of the 2016 Olympic games. The previous logo featured a torch. (Critique of that logo available at Previous torch Chicago Olympic logo). The International Olympic Committee allows the torch to…

I hope Chicago is getting their act together on their new logo. The bids are due to the International Olympic Committee a week from Thursday! You’d think the Chicago bid would include their logo somewhere. (FYI, the logo pictured above…

What a name. In Italian, Saltalamacchia means “Salt wing stains.”

You too can immediately have a cool last name! Just add “ko” to the end of your last name, and POW, you are now cool. Try it now. “Hi, I’m Matt Maldreko.” I’m gonna start writing in “ko” after my…

America’s Funniest Home Videos becomes A LOT more funny once you own your own video camera. (hint, watch the show with the sound OFF, their stupid commentary ruins the videos). Whenever there is a Cubs or Sox game during work,…

What in the world is this supposed to be? “This is the vision at the very heart of our brand,” said London 2012 organising committee chief Sebastian Coe. (from Yahoo’s coverage). Seriously. I want to know what these shapes are…

Most favored to road team: Mike Everitt (Road team wins 61.8% of the time) Most favored to home team: Tom Hallion (Home team wins 72.2% of the time) Lowest average run total: Doug Eddings (7.9 runs per game) Highest average…

(Matt Stairs’ rookie card in 1993) I’m dedicating today, May 25, 2007 to the Major League ballplayer Matt Stairs. In the past week, the 39-year-old journeyman has hit 4 homeruns. That is hilarious for a number of reasons: 1) That…

Here’s a classic from my video archives. My twin brother Erik “The Hammer” Maldre accomplishes the first ever half-court run in the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk by going through half of the court’s wickets IN ONE TURN! Here he…

The Summer Olympics come every four years. The cicadas come every 17 years. That makes them the Olympics TO THE EXTREME. Here are some cicada postcards for you to collect: The cicada high jump The cicada 100 meter sprint The…

I like to keep very detailed scorecards. I’ll jot down lots of extra information. View the series in high-res in my flickr “Baseball Scorecard” set (or just click each image below to see the hi-res version). You can also hear…

Ironic sans had a funny post that if he were the leader of a foreign nation, he would develop a bomb and call it the f-bomb. Then, “Then I‚Äôd get a little giggle every time it was reported in the…

Here’s some ideas of projects I’d like to take in my next ceramics class: 1) Funny trophies There are absolutely no trophies in the world with a statue of a croquet player. That must be fixed. 2) Chicago molds It…

If Chicago gets the 2016 Olympics, it would be very interesting to see the olympics in another city first. That way you know what to expect when the games come to Chicago. Plus then we could meet that weird block-shaped…

You can make your croquet set out of plastic water bottles and dowel rods. Brilliant. Read the how-to at the DIY Network episode DIK-201. Surely this must make for the most lightweight croquet set ever. (other than mini croquet sets…

Which player has the best name in the Minor Leagues? Minors Moniker Madness

Is there a book with a compilation of the Bazooka Joe comics? In high school I collected Bazooka Joe comics and covered my entire locker door with those comics! (see photo above). The only thing that comes close to a…

Chicago is currently making a bid for the 2016 games to the U.S. Olympic Committee. Show your support by voting on the official Chicago bid website at: chicago2016.org. When you vote it asks you to describe, in 25 words or…

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…

In addition to tracking the typical stats from a baseball game on a scorecard, why not add some fun stuff too.

Yesterday we learned that the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881) Rutherford B. Hayes is the least searched-for president online. But now he is my favorite, because he loved to play croquet. Here’s some more trivia about our nineteenth…

(This post is supposed to appear on Tuesday, December 12, but since I mention this in my funny auto-reply email away message at work, i’m posting it earlier) On this day in December 12, 1930, Major League Baseball changes a…

Only eight players have hit 20 or more triples in one season since 1945: 23 Dale Mitchell 1949 22 Snuffy Stirnweiss 1945 21 Lance Johnson 1996 21 Willie Wilson 1985 20 Cristian Guzman 2000 20 George Brett 1979 20 Willie…

(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:…

The nine essential items every ninja needs from amazon.com: [asa]B0002GSK2C[/asa]A must have for any ninja, or ninja in training! And very comfortable. I have a pair of tabi socks already, but I like them so much that a second pair…