BYOB: Build Your Own Bobblehead
Posted on June 19th, 2008 – 11:51 AMBy Michael Rand
If another round of midweek, non-televised afternoon Twins office baseball isn’t enough for you — updated ground rules in just a minute — please do enjoy a feature we found whereby you can create your own bobblehead. Warning: If you use a ridiculous picture of you on your honeymoon wearing light-up shades, there is a 75 percent chance you’ll look like Chris Sabo. In any event, when you create the bobblehead on the page, it actually bobbles. This here is just a static image; we encourage you to complete the bobblehead journey and send us, via e-mail, the resulting image. Maybe we’ll put together a little gallery later today. One can’t tell. (Also on that link is the personalized message feature that is hours of fun). OK, the ground rules for today’s office baseball:
1) If Delmon Young is batting, and you’re following the game via some sort of livetracker, and “Pitch 1″ is “in play” with “out(s) recorded,” laugh ironically at this commercial and forward it to two friends.
2) Get the defibrillator ready for your coworkers: Joe Mauer is playing a day game after a night game.
3) If Carlos Gomez gets on base, speak in nothing but onomatopoeia to your boss until the inning is over.
4) If the Twins win and move above .500, tell six random people, “I never gave up on them.”
15 Responses to "BYOB: Build Your Own Bobblehead"
The Twins are who we thought they were.
If Michael Cuddyer strikes out on a slider, go to your co-workers’ cubes that are eating lunch, nod at their meal and say “I had that last week and it gave me the Hershey squirts pretty bad.”
If you’re listening to the radio broadcast and John Gordon says there’s a delay in the action because security is dealing with a particularly disruptive 9-year-old in the stands whose dad forgot to give her any cash for souvenirs or nachos, point at me and laugh.
Rand
I thought you always pictured yourself in an Atlanta Braves uniform. Now you have the chance and you go with the Twins? Little Michael Rand is disappointed.
“Little Michael Rand is disappointed.”
I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about people’s privates on this blog.
Last year Rand posted a picture of his own balls in his wife’s hands*, so I’m pretty sure all bets are off.
*The vice was just off-camera
“Little Michael Rand is disappointed.”
Let me rephrase that.
Michael Rand circa 1988 is disappointed.
From the landing page:
“Bobble Yourself”
Well, there goes my afternoon.
Comcast and BTN finally come to an agreement - http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/20569814.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:3
Nathan, you think this is some sort of “news” site or something?
Anyway, Germany is up 2-1 over Portugal at the break. The machine marches on…
Make that 3-1
Interesting question: is the Germany-Portugal match on in the Strib newsroom? And if so, who is the angriest about it?
Germany?
Portugal?
Who do you think you are, Carmen San Diego?
I just assume that Reusse is always the angriest about everything.
