My friend lives in Phoenix and is an Indians fan. She checked out the new spring training facility at Goodyear recently (that the Reds will be sharing starting next spring). This is in front of it. Cool?
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It's a sail to commemorate Columbus' landing in the desert.
"Yes, and it's so important in this sport that the athletes be able to train in the same location." -Cynthia Potter, NBC Synchronized Diving Analyst
by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Mar 4, 2009 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
That explains all the palm trees. In Arizona.
"Sometimes I listen for Griffey’s infectious laugh or Dunn’s humor and wit. But they’re gone." - Dusty
by BK on Mar 4, 2009 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
It's a shiv made from the cover of a baseball.
Writ large. For some reason.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 4, 2009 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
It does look
like someone hit the cover off the ball. Where’s the rest of it?
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Dude.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 4, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
The pod people have landed
In Arizona there is no mafia only aliens body snatchers and pod people
Perhaps a a flatbed truck loaded with cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek convention. One can only dream and hope.
And a man with all the powers of Hell at his command..
…befowling even the sweet desert breeze that whips across his brow.
Dream? Or vision?
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 4, 2009 5:23 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Nick'd and Cage'd
"You never pass up an opportunity to talk to a woman in a red dress." -- Buck O'Neil (1911-2006)
by "Red" Moskau on Mar 5, 2009 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
I can't believe that there is now a baseball interpretation of Brancusi.
Quick, someone do “The Kiss”!
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
holy guacamole
That’s exactly what it looks like.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
It's great...except.
…Brancusi was awesome, and if you wanted to capture the essence of a baseball in flight, it would not be like the essence of a bird in flight.
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
Unless "you" were a Brancusi-inspired hack.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 9:00 PM EST up reply actions
Well
and if you wanted to capture the essence of a baseball in flight, it would not be like the essence of a bird in flight.
Maybe it was this bird in flight.
It does sound like it is an intentional “homage”:
An oversized baseball-themed sculpture atop a reflecting pool. The statue looks like Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space and stands 60 feet, 6 inches tall. That’s the distance between home plate and the pitcher’s mound.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
His 1910 piece 'Sleeping Muse'
Was probably an inspiration for ’Oscar"
and definitely for 3CPO
Perhaps a a flatbed truck loaded with cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek convention. One can only dream and hope.
by Madville on Mar 5, 2009 1:04 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I thought c3PO was inspired by "Metropolis."
But i’d guess that ‘Sleeping Muse’ predates “Metropolis” (which I’ve never seen).
Menace?
’Nukkah?
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 8:58 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
And not so much for the Reds. Coulda used about eight more Bubbles Hargraves.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
Metropolis is pretty darn entertaining
And its so darn Deco
Perhaps a a flatbed truck loaded with cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek convention. One can only dream and hope.
The Tribe's network is doing a "Welcome to Goodyear" show.
They just went to commercial with a “Just what is this thing?” teaser.
Details to follow.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
They called it a "Ziz."
Yeah, cute, right?
Shapiro’s quote about it was awesome: “I love almost everything they’ve done for us here.”
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
A Ziz?
That’s Jewish!
The ziz (Hebrew: זיז) is a giant griffin like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan. It is considered a giant animal/monster corresponding to archetypal creatures. Behemoth, Leviathan and Ziz were traditionally a favorite decoration motif for rabbis living in Germany.
I still don’t get it. Why a ziz?
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Dunno. But I found zis:
The baseball-themed creation will serve as a focal point and meeting place for fans visiting the ballpark. The sculpture is 60 feet, 6 inches high – the distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound.
The $450,000 art work was inspired by the world-renown Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and incorporates the themes of baseball and flight. Donald Lipski was selected to create this public art project by a group of art and architecture professionals, and a panel of community members. Lipski presented the concept and took comments during a public meeting last year. The artist was born in Chicago in 1947. His works have been exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and many other venues.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 10:46 PM EST up reply actions
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2009 10:48 PM EST up reply actions
That cost half a million dollars?
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actually a steal of a deal
considering it is constructed from Area 51 pod parts. rumor is that if you stand within 5 feet of it you can hear a high pitch humming and if you close your eyes you will see an image of Hitler and Humphrey Bogart playing catch.
Soy el niño destructor. I eat kids for breakfast. Roar. - Juan Francisco 'spoken with an Italian accent'
by jacob brumfield on Mar 6, 2009 2:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Aha!
The Ohio connection! Everyone knows the Area 51 pod parts were stored in Hangar 18, at Wright-Pat.
One day I want to get a Las Vegas 51s jersey. Just because the little gray alien head on the logos is so cute.
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My Wright Pat story because everyone cares
Flash back to the summer of 1988, yours truly was selected to participate in a tristate science “camp” at NKU. During out trip to Wright Pat we were being given a tour and I noticed something in a hangar unlike anything I had ever seen, an oddly shaped aircraft. I asked what it was and was basically told not to worry about it. Turns out it was one of these. I got to see it a couple of months before they unveiled it to the public, yay!
I miss the old days of the internet when men were men, hot girls were middle aged men, and hot underage girls were FBI agents.....
You should have sold that info to the Soviets
along with a few of the children
Soy el niño destructor. I eat kids for breakfast. Roar. - Juan Francisco 'spoken with an Italian accent'
by jacob brumfield on Mar 6, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
I knew it!
Alien technology if ever I saw it!
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Hey BubbaFan
I kinda sorta volunteered you to add your AL East preview to my AL Central preview. Here at Red Reporter. At the end of the month.
Interested?
BTW, you look lovely today.
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 6, 2009 12:33 PM EST up reply actions
ummm...
What??!!
Didn’t someone else volunteer for the AL East?
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Nope.
The officially sanctioned Red Reporter team previews were to cover only the National League so I decided to seize this oil tanker Somali-style.
I’ve got the Central. Man Mountain’s got the West.
We’ll post ’em sometime during the last week before Opening Day.
You in?
"If you have a van or a car and it gets dark you turn on your lights that are called headlights but that's a funny name because vans and cars don't have heads. And real heads don't have lights."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 6, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions
Jewish motifs?
in Phoenix?
instead of spending half a million dollars on that meshuggah contraption they could have put in a deli and a shvitz so i could get a good honest sandwich and a steam before catching the ball game. and would it hurt them to put some canopies in the bleachers? all the time im trying to watch the ball game with the sun in my eyes! feh! but no, they cant do this for me.
My millions are unconventional!
by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 6, 2009 12:26 AM EST up reply actions
These guys don't mess around...
This guy used to play with the Maccabi Haifa Heat before he moved to Phoenix…
Perhaps a a flatbed truck loaded with cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek convention. One can only dream and hope.
BAMBOOZLED!
You would think with a play button in center the Mighty Madville had magically commented with a video. But you would be wrong!
Soy el niño destructor. I eat kids for breakfast. Roar. - Juan Francisco 'spoken with an Italian accent'
by jacob brumfield on Mar 6, 2009 4:07 AM EST up reply actions
Reminds me of "The Chosen"
Where the two protagonists meet during a baseball game.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 6, 2009 11:02 AM EST up reply actions
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