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Swan Swan H wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I want to see a '73 field shot and see if Swanny and Z briefly met each other forty years ago. I also went on between home and third, Zvon. There was a small gate just at the home plate side of the dugout, and I guess they decided that rather than have people get hurt jumping the fence they opened the gate and onto the field we vandals went. Wow. We were in close proximity. That was a crazy game (they all were pretty crazy- see Bud/Rose fight). The crowd in the stands, made up of many like me who came down from other upper sections of the stadium (MezzBX-left field-slept over at Shea for a block of all three tickets for around 22 bucks. TOTAL. $7.50 @), became a sea of unruliness with bodies swaying in motion. We were so crammed together that if one person moved, we all had to. Do you remember late in the game when the wall to the makeshift box seats along the first baseline collapsed (I think the 1st base side went first) and they had to delay the game while the fans who poured out (it literally looked like they poured out) were stuffed back in and the lil wooden wall was propped back up. It was so surreal.

Tejeda 1 Murphy 2.2 Wright 1.3 Lagares .5 Niese 1 Carson 1 Atchson 1.4 Familia 1.6

This was one shitty game. BOOOOOOO!

Edgy MD wrote: Zvon wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Good job, Coach. Coach once told a story about getting hit by pitches. Does anyone remember this? It was freakin hilarious. I only remember the last line and how much it cracked me up. Sure, he used injuries to curry favor with women. If he saw a girl he liked, he'd lean into a pitch and win her sympathy. One time, he wasn't in the game, and wanted to make an impression so he fell down the dugout steps. And... AJ Ellis puts a cherry on it. He and Danson (I think) were talking about how Coach was known for being hit by pitches. I don't know if they were talking about a record, like 'in a game' or a season, but there was something about his last at bat. Don't remember exactly what was said but Ted says something to the effect the last pitch wasn't easy to get hit by, and Coach said, "Yea, I had to dive for that one."

TransMonk wrote: Mark Ellis? C'mon! The ol' "little guy hits his first two home runs of the season" trick. Lagares with his 1st ML hit. Woohoo.

OOO, Lyon snappin off some curves too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Good job, Coach. Coach once told a story about getting hit by pitches. Does anyone remember this? It was freakin hilarious. I only remember the last line and how much it cracked me up.

The ol' "little guy hits his first home run of the season" trick.

That one curve ball almost paused before it snapped, like Kerhsaw does.

OMG. U see that curve ball to Duda? Thats sick shit he's got there.

Nice hitting Mr Captain Wright.

Murphy brings home Carson. Well done. Tie game.

Great catch by Tejeda

Niese is knocked outta the game by a batted ball off his foot. Gah.

Find that strikezone Jonny. Wow, I could hear Ethier jawin with the ump like hes mic'd.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Is this thread weird enough yet? lol.

Wow. That is a kool story. I also got a clump of '73 soil. I was very close to third base for the last out and it was covered by vultures in what felt like a split second, piling on. I don't remember anyone going for home.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: TransMonk wrote: Having the salaries in the KTE is great. Thanks! Agreed. Nice, subtle touch. As always, a great job. tyvm

And I still have some Jeff shit up my sleeve.

This ones weird. I saw the guy with Grohl and just had to try and stick 1/2 a Millan head above that mustache.

Where'd you get that pic of Felix? Im having a hard time finding a decent selection of Felix heads. Also, did you add that body to the head or did it come with it? And my last shopquery is : On the Jeff/Stones Urinal Job, did you add the grain effect to Jeffs head or add it uniformly throughout the image? The head is from the Felix Millan Little League site, here: http://www.eteamz.com/felixmillanlittleleague/news/ There's also a nice picture there of Felix with his family at spring training. The body is Robert Redford from The Sting. I couldn't find any other pictures of someone playing poker and facing the right direction, and this one only seems to exist in black and white, so I had to color it in. That's kind of the definition of borderline obsessive right there. And I applied the grain just to Jeffy's head, to match the grain in the picture. It's "film grain," to be exact. I made a duplicate layer, applied the grain, then reduced the transparency of that layer to tone the grain down a bit. The hardest part was actually matching the tinting of the original. It would have been a lot easier if I'd desaturated the original and re-tinted the whole thing at the end. How are you getting drawing effects like Felix in the boat? Using filters in the program and tweaking those, or doing any drawing of your own? Amazin, the work with the Redford body. And you put him in orange and blue. Awesoooome! The "borderline obsessive" business: thats not a bad thing if you channel it into something like this. I have no doubt that being a bit obsessive over detail makes me a better photoshopper, and graphic artist in general. For this kind of thing I embrace the obsession. The Jeff grain : you are damn good. For the Felix portrait: First I used the PsP "contour effect" on Felixs head. Sometimes this creates a very nice outline drawing of an image- but it didn't here- so I just kept the overall outline and removed all lines within the face. I had to [crossout]hand draw[/crossout], ugh, I mean mouse draw the main details like eyes, nose, mouth. Then I added some lines and details on a separate layer to try and make it look like the original artists style. Then I applied a "motion blur" (at an appropriate angle) to that layer and it made the lines look smoother, less pixely, and more like the guys style. Thnx for the link to the Millan site

Ceetar wrote: HaHA. Amazin!

I'm sure there's a story behind this. Most awesome. Where'd you get that pic of Felix? Im having a hard time finding a decent selection of Felix heads. Also, did you add that body to the head or did it come with it? And my last shopquery is : On the Jeff/Stones Urinal Job, did you add the grain effect to Jeffs head or add it uniformly throughout the image?

Cardnerd!? I'm a cardnerd! Yay! Excellent quiz. It was right in front of my face and I didn't have a clue.

I like. With kool reports like this I may never have to visit CBSsportline again.