The thread for images so cool that they belong in this thread

[Matthean]

Upper left has to be one of the worst photoshop jobs.

[Toddzilla]

On the other hand, she looks fantastic for a broad who's been through 21 miscarriages

[tucker rocky]

baseball tree.jpg

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John Montgomery Ward, New York Gothams/Giants
The flag of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, representing baseball's roots
King Kelly, Chicago White Stockings
Great Pyramid of Giza, where the Chicago White Stockings visited on their world tour in 1889
Old Hoss Radbourn, Providence Grays

Connie Mack, Philadelphia Athletics
Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers
Honus Wagner, Pittsburgh Pirates
Wrigley Field's win flag
The T206 Honus Wagner card

The flag of Cuba, representing the first Cuban players (Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans) in the majors in 1911
Addie Joss, Cleveland Bronchos/Naps
The flag of the United States, representing the national anthem being introduced at games
Walter Johnson, Washington Senators
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Chicago White Sox
Rogers Hornsby, St. Louis Cardinals
Eddie Grant Memorial at the Polo Grounds
John McGraw, New York Giants

The frieze from Yankee Stadium
Babe Ruth, New York Yankees
Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics
Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers
The flag of Mexico, representing Mel Almada, the first Mexican in the majors in 1933
Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox
The flag of Venezuela representing Alex Carrasquel, the first Venezuelan player in the majors in 1939

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers
A goat. You know why
The Crosley Field floodlight, the first ballpark to have lights
Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals
The flag of Puerto Rico, representing Hiram Bithorn, the first Puerto Rican in the majors in 1942
Willie Mays, New York Giants
The "Infield Back?" and "Yes" and "No" signs from the St. Louis Browns' Grandstand Managers Day
Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs
Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves
The flag of the Dominican Republic, representing Ozzie Virgil, the first Dominican in 1956
Mr. Met, New York Mets

Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers
The flag of Japan, for Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in 1964
Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates
Home Run Apple from Shea Stadium
The HERE flag from Baltimore Memorial Stadium where Frank Robinson hit a home run out of the stadium
A green weenie
Marvin Miller
The flag of Canada, representing the Montreal Expos, the first non-US team in the majors
Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves
Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds
The Big A from Anaheim Stadium
Billy Martin, New York Yankees

Montreal's Olympic Stadium
San Diego's Famous Chicken
Chalet and beer mug from Milwaukee County Stadium
Nolan Ryan, Houston Astros
Short Stinks banner from RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. unfurled by fans at the last game before the Senators were relocated to Texas by owner Bob Short
Fernando Valenzuela, Los Angeles Dodgers
Charles O. Finlay's orange baseball
Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia Phillies

Rickey Henderson, Oakland Athletics
Bo Jackson, Kansas City Royals
Roberto Alomar, Toronto Blue Jays
A cloud from the ramps at the SkyDome
One of the purple row seats from Coors Field
Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks, with a (live) dove on his head

Bill James
Steve Bartman
Anaheim Angels Rally Monkey
Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants
Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox

Cownose ray, from the Rays Touch Tank at Tropicana Field
Beer and hot dog, just because
The Comiskey Park pinwheels
A Marlin from the home run sculpture at Marlins Park

Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle Mariners
Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals
Bugs (above Albert's head) from game two of the 2007 ALDS at Progressive Field
A King's Court sign from Safeco Field
Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals


The text on the tree, from top to bottom:
My oh my!: Dave Niehaus
9-6-2: The Jeter flip
Mercury symbol: Mercury Mets on Turn Ahead the Clock Night
42: Jackie Robinson's number retired league wide
He is... safe! Safe at the plate: Sean McDonough's call of Sid Bream scoring the winning run in the 1992 NLCS
.649: Montreal Expos' win percentage in 1994
Merci Expos: on the video screen at the Expos' final home game
2,131: Cal Ripken passes Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played
Hits 0 LSD hits 1: Dock Ellis' no-hitter
I donÕt believe what I just saw!: Jack Buck's call of Kirk Gibson's home run
Three and two to Mookie Wilson: Vin Scully calling the game six of the 1986 World Series
61*: Roger Maris breaking the single season home run record
Holy Cow!: Phil Rizzuto's call of above home run
California: baseball moves west
1/8: Eddie Gaedel's number for the St. Louis Browns
The art of fiction is dead: Red Smith writing about Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World
A million butterflies: Vin Scully calling Sandy Koufax's perfect game
If it stays fair...: Carlton Fisk's home run
2,130: Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played
BB and LL: Bustin' Babes and Larrupin' Lous, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig's teams on their 1927 barnstorming tour
Diamond: Who's on first?
No gambling allowed: because no gambling was allowed
But I've got an awful lot to live for: Lou Gehrig's speech
Yes, kid, I'm afraid it is: what Shoeless Joe supposedly said when asked if it was true
8.17.20: Ray Chapman dies.
M.C.B.B: The Philadelphia Athletics' $100,000 infield: Stuffy McInnis, Eddie Collins, Jack Barry and Frank Baker
Jan 28, 1901: American League founded
M.F.W: Moses Fleetwood Walker of the 1884 Toledo Blue Stockings, the first African American to play Major League baseball until Jackie Robinson
Feb 2, 1876: National League founded
Sash: word used in a telegram by Jim Devlin of the Louisville Grays to indicate that he willing to throw a game for money
Tinker to Evers to Chance: From "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," a poem by Franklin Pierce Adams regarding the Chicago Cubs infield turning a double play
Notes: Take Me Out To The Ball Game

And in the background: palm trees for Spring Training, and autumnal trees of the World Series and the end of the season

[sterlingice]

I love this

SI

[ISiddiqui]

Should be Trout instead of Harper, but it's ok, I guess

[sterlingice]

I think they were trying to get something from every team and, sorry, Trout got pre-empted by the Rally Monkey

SI

[molson]

My zombie apocalypse team: Walter White, Steven Colbert, Darth Vader. I figure we'll kill and consume Colbert early on, and then White, Vader and I shall probably be able to destroy all of the zombies a few minutes later, and then we'll rule over the remnants of human society for quite some time.

[cuervo72]

I'm always skeptical of things like this and the "what's your porn name?" that end up giving info that could be used to crack security (especially the porn name, considering "first pet" is a damned common security question). Not that birthday isn't accessible elsewhere (like oh, on internet forums).

[DaddyTorgo]

I'm happy with my team, lemme tell you that!!! A smoking hot woman, a superhero, and someone who's great with knives...

[CAsterling]

Damn I wish I was born on Dec 14 and wearing a grey shirt.
As it is I get Dr Gregory House, Mila Kunis and Captain Jack Sparrow....not exactly my dream team

[Matthean]

Scully, Snoop, and Hulk.

[Suicane75]

Dexter, Darth Vader and Seth Rogen. Seth and I are gonna have a good time till D&D get annoyed and kill us too.

[spleen1015]

Dexter, Iron Man & Mike Tyson.

My only problem with this is Dexter probably kills Mike Tyson instead of zombies.

[Apathetic Lurker]

Interesting....Spock, Walter White and Vin Diesel....

[MacroGuru]

Yeah, I'm screwed...

Tyrion Lannister, Spock and Brad Pitt...really, Pitt did nothing in WWZ, Spock? Is a Vulcan neck pinch going to stop a zombie and then Tyrion...my hell, he won't be able to outrun shit!

I'm a dead man with that crew....

[Butter]

I had House, Spock, and Angelina Jolie. So, unless I'm planning on adopting a lot of kids with mysterious ailments who don't want to feel free to express their emotions, I'm a dead man.

[Apathetic Lurker]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

Yeah, I'm screwed...

Tyrion Lannister, Spock and Brad Pitt...really, Pitt did nothing in WWZ, Spock? Is a Vulcan neck pinch going to stop a zombie and then Tyrion...my hell, he won't be able to outrun shit!

I'm a dead man with that crew....

No you aren't ...When the zombies stop for a Tyrion snack you can book on out of there....

[Apathetic Lurker]

Miley Cyrus might be the best defense against zombies......Even zombies are going to be afraid of her tongue

[Bobble]

Sheldon, Jackie Chan, and Batman. So, I got two bad-asses (Jackie Chan and Batman) and two brainy dudes (Sheldon and Batman). Jackie Chan will acrobatically hold off the zombies with a mop handle while Sheldon and Batman craft a bat-copter out of a lawnmower and aluminium siding. I'll sip on cold coffee I looted from a Tim Horton's and then we'll all fly off to safety in the bat-cave. No prob.

[Coffee Warlord]

Dexter, Hulk, and ... Snoop Dogg?

Well. Dexter will kill Snoop. Hulk will obliterate every zombie on the planet, and preferably kill Dexter too.

Then me & Doctor Banner can retire to New Zealand.

[saldana]

i have nancy botwin AND angelina jolie (along with Spock), so basically, he can go fight the zombies (especially if it is Zach Quinto Spock...he doesnt care about those two anyway)....i will be busy going out in style

[mauchow]

Doc House with Harry Potter and George Takai. Assuming Harry gets his spells. We are GOLDEN. See you on the quidditch field fuckers.

[cartman]

[Honolulu_Blue]

I have Captain Picard, Superman and, uh... Seth MacFarlane. I assume, as comic relief, Seth will die quickly and it will be up to me, Picard and Supes to take care of things. We've got this shit handled.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by saldana

i have nancy botwin AND angelina jolie (along with Spock), so basically, he can go fight the zombies (especially if it is Zach Quinto Spock...he doesnt care about those two anyway)....i will be busy going out in style

Lesbian three-way. Hawt.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

I have Captain Picard, Superman and, uh... Seth MacFarlane. I assume, as comic relief, Seth will die quickly and it will be up to me, Picard and Supes to take care of things. We've got this shit handled.

I see you are on a nickname basis with Superman there. Must be nice.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

I see you are on a nickname basis with Superman there. Must be nice.

It is. And Picard prefers that I refer to him as Jean-Luc or "Johnny".

[Desnudo]

[nol]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

I'm always skeptical of things like this and the "what's your porn name?" that end up giving info that could be used to crack security (especially the porn name, considering "first pet" is a damned common security question). Not that birthday isn't accessible elsewhere (like oh, on internet forums).

I'm never going to fall victim to identity theft or my mother's maiden name isn't Taylor!

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by nol

I'm never going to fall victim to identity theft or my mother's maiden name isn't Taylor!

SI

[Draft Dodger]

Brad Pitt, Jack Sparrow and Mary Louise Parker. Sadly, pretty sure I wont be the one she picks to help repopulate the earth.

[Suicane75]

No, but assuming Sparrow gets offed fairly easily since he isn't a land dweller, you'll get first dibs on the daughter of Bradd Pitt and Mary Louise Parker. It isn't a bad consolation prize. I've read worse forced breeding erotica.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Dexter, Hulk, and ... Snoop Dogg?

Well. Dexter will kill Snoop. Hulk will obliterate every zombie on the planet, and preferably kill Dexter too.

Then me & Doctor Banner can retire to New Zealand.

This was me, cept instead of Snoop I had ScarJo

[Kodos]

http://www.huntingnetwork.com/publis...a-Power-Outage

[cartman]

[korme]

haha

[Matthean]

Found locally.

[QuikSand]

A burger so awesome it apparently has to be prepared by a bona fide superhero. Killer.

[Matthean]

It is from a place that won best new restaurant and best BBQ. It is called Meat!, and they simply list drinks under the vegetarian section of their menu.

[Suicane75]

[Brownkeg8]

usually those big burgers don't look appetizing, however that one passes the eye test.

[cartman]

[tucker rocky]

Originally Posted by cartman

How about a nice game of chess?

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by cartman

Feels like trying too hard

[Toddzilla]

Originally Posted by cartman

I love this movie so much....

[PilotMan]

This is pretty sweet.

Facebook Data Provide The Most Accurate NFL Fandom Map Ever Created

[cuervo72]

I think I mentioned that article when it came out; I thought of it again when the Forbes list of most valuable franchises was released. Always amazes me that theRedskins remain high on that list (2nd, I think for the NFL) when they really don't have a national following anymore.

[PilotMan]

Yeah, I think I missed it the first time around. I was reading the article. This kind of stuff is right up my alley. Demography was always something I was interested in when I was in college.

[OldGiants]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

I think I mentioned that article when it came out; I thought of it again when the Forbes list of most valuable franchises was released. Always amazes me that theRedskins remain high on that list (2nd, I think for the NFL) when they really don't have a national following anymore.

A few notes:

1) Value comes from being second or third in lots of counties. That isn't shown here. Being second in the NY-NJ area is far more valuable than owning where the buffalo roam.

2) Look at all the Dallas territory in the South, Virginia in particular. That's where the Black population lives in majority status. Never forget the vicious racist past of The Foreskins. When Dallas came into the league it was the first team in any sport to market its black stars and they were rewarded with huge support in the Black population. That remains to this day. Any black football fan my age walks around in a Cowboys jersey, not a Foreskins. In fact it hurts them when they see a young black kid wearing a Griffin jersey. Time passes, but many wounds are deep.

3) What is the dark blob in Florida? The Bears? I can't make that one out.

[cuervo72]

Right - I am aware of that racial element re: Redskins/Cowboys. And I can get being second or third in an area. But what the Redskins always seem to claim is that they still have a strong presence in the Carolinas and the South in general - roots stemming back from even before the Falcons. But if you look at that map and more so the rankings later in that link, that just doesn't seem to be the case (granted, that list may be less than scientific). Even for CAR home territory, WAS is behind DAL, PIT, and NE. And other than BAL, that's where they have the best representation. So I'm not seeing the breadth of fan base.

Yet they are always right behind DAL in the rankings. Ahead of NE (popular and in a major city), NYG (huge market), and PIT (huge national presence, but in a small city). Like you say, there could be an argument that the Jets would be more valuable, even as the second fiddle in NY. Or CHI.

I know the Redskins own their stadium, but really - that place is a bit of a dump, in an area with crap-all around it. I guess it's just because WAS "owns" a number of very rich counties?