Batman and Robin

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Ted Berg

I’m just going to go ahead and steal this Amazin’ Avenue fanshot by kingcritical. I think they’ll be cool with it:

Inspired by this post, for what it’s worth.

Presenting: Das Nürnburger

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Ted Berg

At participating German McDonald’s restaurants:

Why yes, that is three bratwursts on a roll. It is also Das Nürnburger.

Via Catsmeat, an incredible gallery of fast-food products only available in other countries. As he points out, the Tender Beef Pentagon from KFC looks a hell of a lot like a repurposed Crunchwrap Supreme. And man, it might be worth traveling to Japan to try the Cheese Catsu Burger.

Crazytime

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Ted Berg

Via Joe Pawlikowski.

Photo of me and Carlos Beltran

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ted Berg

Not sure where Cerrone got this photograph for MetsBlog, but that’s my hand and our microphone indicated by the red arrow:

I’m prone to mild claustrophobia so I usually just sort of stand in the back and listen during these things, but in this case I needed Beltran miked up because we’re working on the video bit. I pulled the SNY mic flag off because Kevin Burkhardt was sitting right there and we thought it would look dumb on video if there were two SNY mics coming at Beltran from different directions.

But the main thing — and you can’t really tell this from the photo — is that my hand and microphone were extended out directly over and about ten inches above Beltran’s troublesome right knee.

It’s tight in that scrum and I had to strain in all sorts of odd ways to avoid being in the camera shot, plus I have the MS, which makes my hands a little numb and prone to dropping things. I stood there white-knuckling the mic, absolutely terrified that I would drop it and hit Beltran’s knee in just the right spot to knock him out for the season.

I didn’t, so all’s clear.

Boomer’s ink

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ted Berg

This comes from Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson on Twitter, via our man Chakrabs. On David Wells’ forearm, a tattoo of Wells pitching to Babe Ruth:

Selfish Carlos Beltran signs autographs for kids

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Ted Berg

Meredith sends along this picture of indifferent, me-first* Carlos Beltran signing autographs for little kids in Port St. Lucie:

She adds: “While Carlos was moving between fields today, a group of kids asked him for autographs. He said, ‘Walk with me’ and proceeded to sign for them throughout his walk to the main field, even stopping for a couple of photos, and making sure that a fan asking for Carlos to return a borrowed pen got it back.”

*- It’s probably been long enough since I’ve posted one of my numerous defenses of Beltran that I should mention that when I call Beltran selfish or lazy or disinterested or soft in this space, I am being sarcastic. You might have figured that out from the title of the post, but I wanted to cover my bases.