Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Move Over Punxsutawney Phil
Monday, October 12th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityWayland Eugene Nelson
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Steve Trout
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: 
(17 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)
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To avoid any confusion, Mr. Trout is not actually a giant white paper fish.
Felix Fermin
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (18 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)
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Mr. Fermin is a throwback to the days of NerdBaseball on MySpace. In 1996, Mr. Fermin was nearly traded to the Yankees for Mariano Rivera. After that same season, he ended his career with a total of four home runs in 2,767 at bats.
Ryne Duren
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (14 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)
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And don’t forget to vote for the 2009 Nerd All-Star Team. Only a few days left…
Thanks to the reader who tipped us off to Mr. Duren. Unfortunately the nerd archives were Duren-free, but I was able to track this image down online.
Bruce Bochte
Monday, July 6th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (15 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)
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And don’t forget to vote for the 2009 Nerd All-Star Team.
Not to be confused with Bruce Bochy, the manager of the San Francisco Giants. In researching the nerds that I post, I rarely find a player whose career takes more than a few minutes to digest. However, in the case of Mr. Bochte, there is a LOT going on. He made the all-star team in 1979. His career OPS+ is 113, over the course of almost 6000 plate appearances. However, Mr. Bochte off the field seems to be a fascinating character.
Nerd Baseball All-Stars 2009 Voting
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000The real All Star game is coming up in a little over a week. To celebrate, we will announce the 2009 Nerd All-Stars, based on voting here. Our team will be a regular, NL nine player starting line up (no DH, the game is in St. Louis after all). The team will be selected based on overall nerd rating, so get your votes in.
Ernest Riles
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityWhile not a nerd, per se, I just had to share what might be the most inexplicable baseball card in the nerd archives.
Click the stars to vote: (12 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5)
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Seriously. What is going on here?
1) According to wikipedia and baseball-reference, Fleer misspelled Mr. Riles first name (Ernest, not Earnest).
2) He was obviously posing in his batting stance. Whose decision was it to let his head overlap the border, but let the bat get cut off so it looks like he’s in some strange yoga pose?
3) Really? You can’t show his whole body? Is there a precedent for this type of photo cropping?
4) Did someone take a landscape shot of the outfield grass, and then photoshop Mr. Riles into it, except they didn’t know how to resize the second image?
I demand answers. And despite having a career OPS+ of 89, Mr. Riles deserves better.
Factorial Cup Sign-up
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000I set up the Factorial Cup. Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn’t have inside the park home runs as a stat, so we’re using outfield assists right now. Maybe we should change it to hitting for the cycle?
League ID: 239063
The password is: !
Obviously, since I’m putting the info here, the league is not restricted to nerd baseball contributors. It’s an auto draft, so if you feel strongly about getting certain players, set up an auto draft list. Remember, at stake is the title of Most Exciting Nerd.
Why can’t U.S. curses be like this?
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000I saw this on BTF today.
Japanese baseball fans in Osaka hope to have lifted “the curse of Colonel Sanders” when a statue of the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder rose from the sludge of a local river after a quarter century.
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Baseball lore in the western city recalls how the drunken supporters “liberated” the bespectacled figure from a restaurant and threw him from a bridge into the grey waters of the Dotonbori river, hours after their first ever victory.
Since that crazy night the team’s fortunes have sunk as fast as the life-sized statue.
