My Playstation 3 (on which I watch a lot of MLB.tv) has decided to give up the ghost and now just displays this after a few minutes:
Author Archives: Ryan Markel
The Sound of a Pujols Homer
When we were at the Cards/Padres game over Opening Weekend, I decided it would be a cool idea to record some of the ambient noise just using the memo feature on my iPhone.
I had completely forgotten about this until just this morning—and when I checked, I realized that I’d recorded a Pujols home run (his first of this year, actually) and the crowd reaction to it. If you listen very carefully, you can hear the ball jump off the bat.
The fireworks going off made Caleb collapse against my shoulder and cover his ears. I don’t think he had any idea what was going on, but he’s said that he’s happy to go to another game so long as there are no fireworks there. (We were also in Left Field Terrace seats for the game, so we were pretty close to the noise.)
A Glass of Bordeaux
I may or may not have “pocketed” a bottle of wine from the last Happiness meetup. Thanks, Hanni. 🙂
Datsyuk + Helm = Completely Sick Goal
This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in a hockey game.
And this isn’t Datsyuk hotdogging it or showing off. The dude’s got skills. Speaking of which, searching for this led me to this other video.
What if. Exactly.
“We Are Cardinal Nation” Blog Buttons
As a self-proclaimed and fully-fledged member of Cardinal Nation, I have to admit that I really love the slogan the Cards are using for their publicity this year. I also like to promote things I am interested in or care about.
After a lot of searching, I unfortunately couldn’t find an image that was of a suitable size for displaying in my blog sidebar, so what I did is search for the best image I could find from that campaign, put it in the right sizes, and created a bunch of buttons for myself (you can see one in the sidebar of this blog if you go to the main page).
If you want to use these on your own size, please feel free. I’m not making any claim on the images. Here they are, in several widths:
300px
250px
200px
150px
Yes, I do realize that the words and images used in these are trademarks of the Cardinals organization. If you are reading this and you are from the Cardinals organization, please just contact me if you want them taken down and I’ll do it. Better yet, I would appreciate it if you would take these or make your own and host them on the Cardinals website so others can have the opportunity to proclaim their Cardinals nationality.
Ryan Markel 