Posts Tagged ‘score’

Fred Manrique 2.0

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 by Nerdicus Finch

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I was extremely disturbed to see that Mr. Manrique has been knocked out of the #1 all-time spot by Kent Tekulve 2.0. So I thought I should remind everyone of Mr. Manrique’s greatness. Vote anything less than 5 stars at your own risk.

“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.

Frank Viola

Monday, August 10th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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“Funny” Cards, Volume 2: I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by Nerdicus Finch

A few weeks ago, we kicked off Nerd Baseball’s periodic “Funny” Cards feature with my incredibly literal take on Steve Trout. Now we have another attempt at humor by my 11-year-old self.

There are so many disturbing things about this particular “funny” card. Here they are, in no particular order (feel free to add your own in the comments):

  1. The fact that there are two Kenny Rogers, one who pitches and one who sings is probably the most obvious joke I could have made. It’s hard to overstate just how unfunny this is.
  2. For some reason, I drew a bass guitar. I don’t think Kenny Rogers was a bass guitarist. I don’t think he was an anything guitarist. 
  3. I bothered to draw tuning pegs on the headstock of the guitar, but didn’t bother to have the guitar strings attach to the tuning pegs.
  4. I didn’t bother to look for a non-action shot card of Rogers to use, which could have produced a much more realistic guitar playing impression. Instead, I used this card, so it looks like he’s throwing the guitar, rather than playing it.
  5. Kenny Rogers was playing major league baseball in 1991. Didn’t he play last year?

 

Yikes.

Yikes.

Alex Cole

Monday, March 16th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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For those of you who didn’t read the text, we learned that in his first season, “Alex became such a hero in Cleveland that the mayor issued a proclamation at City Hall citing ‘his outstanding base stealing accomplishments and the recent excitement he has brought to the city.’”

Unfortunately, his bright star quickly burned out in Cleveland. After stealing 40 bases in 63 games in 1990, he stole only 27 (while being caught 17 times) in 122 games in 1991. He was traded from the Indians to the Pirates after 41 games in 1992.