Archive for January, 2010

Lee Tunnell

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Mr. Tunnell was arrested in October of 2009 for allegedly soliciting an internet prostitute.

Teddy Higuera

Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Nerdini Alfredo

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Teddy Higuera

Why?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

I just found out that the Mets traded for Gary Matthews Jr.

As I was halfway out of a third floor window, a co-worker shouted that the Angels were set to pay $21.5 million of the $23 million remaining on his contract. So I shimmied back off the ledge, and ran over to this computer. I had to figure out if maybe this wasn’t that horrible. I mean, $1.5 million over two years could be good, right?

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Renaissance?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000

We all know that nerds in baseball are on the decline. Hopefully, this trend is about to stop. Yesterday, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays signed 16 year old Czech phenom Štěpán Havlíček. After seeing what he looks like, I am very much looking forward to his first baseball card. Havlíček is on the right.

Ron Davis

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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“Funny” Cards, Volume 4: By Request Edition

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by Nerdicus Finch

Recently, I Love Nerd York City posted a great Steve Lake card (remember the guy with the bird on his shoulder?) and speculated as to whether or not the ultra-literal “funny” cards that I made in my younger days included a Steve Lake card, seeing as how Mr. Lake’s last name is also a noun.

The name rang a bell and, searching through my stack of “funny” cards, I found one that I had made featuring Mr. Lake. I’m sure you can guess what it looks like. I hope Mr. Lake brought his hipwaders to the ballpark that day.

Wayne Garland, Bob Grich

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Did anyone else read “Highlights” magazine when they were a little kid? One of monthly features was a “hidden pictures” page, or a “spot the differences” page, where they would show you two pictures that were almost exactly the same…but with several slight differences. These usually included someone’s eyes looking in the opposite direction, or having a button missing from their shirt.

Anyway, all these years later, fate intervened and put these two cards one on top of the other in the Nerd Archive.

garland, wayne_1grich, bob_1

Big Mac

Monday, January 11th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

Hey all, sorry for the absence of a new nerd this morning. The Internet was down at work, prohibiting me from accessing the online nerd database. I was planning on posting when I got home, and then the McGwire “story” happened.

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Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

I was planning on a post congratulating Barry Larkin and Roberto Alomar on becoming the newest first-ballot-hall-of-famers, and Bert Blyleven on finally getting the call.  Whoops.

Anyway, here’s the nerdiest card from a hall-of-famer that I could find through a very quick google image search.

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Thanks to Night Owl Cards for this image.

Dale Mohorcic

Monday, January 4th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

mohorcic, dale2

Considering the man in this picture is just wearing a Yankees t-shit, I thought that maybe someone bumped into the photographer, resulting in a casual fan appearing in Mr. Mohorcic’s place.  This, however, is not the case.  Two amazing stories about Mr. Mohorcic from Wikipedia (though neither explain the t-shirt wearing):

1)  In a 1987 game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Mohorcic was accused of doctoring the baseball. Umpires found no evidence of wrongdoing at the time, but after the game Mohorcic complained of a sore throat, and was admitted to a hospital where it was discovered that he was suffering internal bleeding as a result of having Crohn’s disease and taking the pain reliever naproxen. It was erroneously reported by Peter Gammons that Mohorcic’s bleeding was caused by swallowing sandpaper.

2)  Mohorcic played the part of Angels starting pitcher Dave Spiewak in the 1988 movie The Naked Gun.