Opening Day picture diary
by Deanna on Apr 3, 2007 1:14 AM PDT
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PrintMariners blogizens don't seem to enjoy picture threads as much as AN folks do, and let's face it, A's players are cuter than Mariners players, so I figured I'd drop in here and share some of the pictures I took of your green and gold guys at Opening Day today at Safeco.
Seriously, I was almost worried the game would go on 0-0 forever for a while there. Felix really was just on fire though, and Danny Haren had that one bad inning, and that was really it. I like that Jay Marshall guy though -- sidearm/submarine lefties are so rare! Seeing Travis Buck's debut was pretty exciting too. He seems to fit in with the team just fine, hairstyle-wise at least.
I'm sure y'all will go on to win the rest of the Mariners-A's games, unless we somehow manage to dispel the Cupcakes Curse tomorrow. I guess we'll see.
Anyway!
Scoreboard operators don't know how to spell
Marco Scutaro can't stand still in the team lineup
Travis Buck and Mark Ellis join the rest of the A's starters on the field
Bobby Kielty is also bored with the ceremonies
Caps off for the national anthem
Mark Ellis
Swisher looks like he's going to launch himself into space
Melhuse :)
Milton Bradley
Shannon Stewart
Danny Haren
Mike Piazza
Swisher watching a ball go into the dirt
Swisher and Lachemann (awww)
Crosby and Chavez (awww!)
Travis Buck at third base!
Chavez: "So, what do YOU do with all of your golden gloves, Ichiro?"
Ichiro: "I hit singles in mine. All the time."
Jay Marshall
Last but not least, the High Socks Brigade:
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HIGH SOCKS!!!
Love IT! Great shots! Thanks for sharing. Appreciate it as always!
by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Apr 3, 2007 1:26 AM PDT reply actions
Just saw a comment online about high socks
Apparently the idea of knee-pants (the pants that came down just over your knees with socks travelling from your knees to your shoes) was originated in the 19th century to economize on clothes-buying for the boys. You could buy over-long "knee pants", and keep "accordianing out length" as the boy grew. I guess the same idea would economize on athletic uniforms: as long as all players were within, say 5'2" and 6'2", they could all wear the same "knee pants", with the short guys having a bit more "bunching" between waist and knees, but otherwise...."One Size Fits All".
by One won lost won on Apr 3, 2007 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Little known fact
Back in the 19th century, players used to just leave their pants out on the field when they went into the dugout to get their turn at bat.
I bet Crosby shaves everything tmrw.
any takers?
The Chavez/Ichiro pic is my fav
I guess I love how two players, on two competing teams, from two totally different cultures, can enjoy something within a game together like that. It's, like, the best of the human spirit, or something. It goes to show: we're all the same on the inside.
That's how I see it, anyway.
Actually, it's my favorite too
but I couldn't really give one good reason why, mostly a combination of things, none nearly as good as yours.
Like, "Wow, that really sucked, but Chavvy's still laughing about it," (it was right after the second Bones error) or "I bet they are talking about their collections of golden gloves," or "Wow! Ichiro is smiling!", or "Huh, did Chavez steal Swisher's 'Making Out In Japanese' book and is trying some moves on Ichiro?"
:)
Thanks, Deanna!
Crosby (as Chavy hands him his glove): "I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this, but okay..."
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(I kid.)
Crosby has a George W. Bush face on.
thanks, great shots
MaEl's shoes are distracting.
They are.
I was just thinking the same thing. Is that Asics?
Great pictures, Deanna. Thanks!
Reebok
by Helloooo 1st on Apr 3, 2007 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Ahhhhh, yes.
Thank you. : ) Anyway. Too much color for my liking.
Comparing this years opening day after
loss hangover with last years......not as bad this year.
Yeah, him too.
I still think he looks like Dubya pouting about something.
Awesome pictures!
The Haren one is great, as is the Chavvy/Ichiro one. Thanks so much for sharing on AN! And Jay Marshall is becoming one of my favorites, too.
I owed you one for spring training :)
And, I'm really glad people here enjoyed them!
Jay Marshall is neat. I hope he sticks around in the majors, because he'll be fun to watch.
those are amazing photos!
Just curious -- which camera do you use?
I like how the photos of Ellis make it seem he's around the same height as Crosby and Buck. Having shook Ellis' hand and spoken with him I know that he is alot shorter than his official 5' 10"...
Nikon D50 dSLR
I got it last August, and my first weekend of shooting pictures was a sunny set of games against the A's back then too. They're just a lot of fun to photograph, moreso than any other team in the league as far as I can tell.
I actually still don't have any decent lenses for it -- my zoom is a 70-300G 4-5.6, which means I pretty much depend on sunlight and proximity. What happened at the Opening Day game is that they actually rolled back the roof for the first half of it, then put the roof back on once it started getting dark and cloudy and ominous.
As for Ellis, that's actually entirely unintentional, but you're right. I think it's that I tended to catch him at angles where he's either standing closer to me or further away from me than other players and both ways make his height look different.
"Swisher watches a ball in the dirt" Stee-RIKE!!!
what is joe f kennedy
doing in the fourth photo....
He's asking a very specific part of his body
to Live Long and Prosper.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 3, 2007 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions
But why are his fingers taped together?
Were they broken? Was that his problem?
Those are his belt loops
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 3, 2007 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
uh... I knew that...
I was... uh... just checking to see if anyone else knew that... yeah.
Update for FSU
the "new comment thingie" (by the way, it's called "the new comment thingie") has come back after a long absence for some reason.
Strangely
the NCT started working for me last night too, but only sporadically. I guess I'll just add it to the bug list.
(For anyone who cares, this regards the new AN feature of "One New Comment by mikeA" in the bottom right browser window corner, and whether it will work in Firefox as it does in IE. The answer is: if it feels like it.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 3, 2007 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Haren rockin' #15
Just don't know about that one yet
Cupcakes' New Pitch???
is Cupcakes going to be throwing a SWEET new pitch this year? enter the frosting ball....
by IsotopesWinAGame on Apr 3, 2007 11:33 AM PDT reply actions
I don't know
I'm worried that he'll leave one of those over the plate, and it'll get creamed.
Thanks, Deanna!
We likes pichurs. Hope all's forgiven, at least until you select your next ACC* all-star team. ;-)
Great pix, Deanna!
And thanks for stopping by.
thanks for the great pictures!
i'm so happy baseball is back! helllsss yeah.
the "i hit singles in mine. all the time." comment was hilarious... like the commercial right... hah
Hey... where are the new A's commercials???
by ConditionOakland on Apr 3, 2007 4:30 PM PDT reply actions
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