SB Nation User Blog: DougieWentDeep

Who is your daddy and what does he do?

DougieWentDeep — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:42 -0000

Alright, so I'm not really interested in your daddy, but after seeing the OTM book club idea and remembering that Talking Chop did this from time to time, I would like to know how the OTM members spend their time when not focused on baseball. I figure that the offseason would be as good of a time as any to do this since some, including myself, don't tend to follow the day to day stuff of baseball nearly as much as when the season is going on. So what exactly do we do during the offseason? I think this would give us a good chance to get to know our fellow OTMers, instead of just knowing things like Drugs is the guy that loves stats, or that NG is an undercover troll posing as a true fan.

So what do you do? I don't care what it is, if you like playing hopscotch in your free time or reading My Little Pony comics, good for you. The more variety the better. I'm always looking for new books, games or music to look into so if anybody felt like volunteering their current interests perhaps we can find more in common than just a love for the Sox and Peanut Butter.

Here is what I currently do to keep myself busy:

What am I playing: Currently I'm going between three games: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Borderlands and Dragon Age Origins (all for Xbox 360)

What am I reading: I've been on a fantasy binge because I'm trying to write a story of my own, I am currently finishing the book Redwall (read once growing up) and will move onto the trilogy Gotrek and Felix (part of the Warhammer series)

What am I listening to: I've been loving up this band The Format and the lead singers second project called fun.

What am I watching: Just finished the short-lived series Wonderfalls and first season of Cheers. Finishing the second season of Pushing Daisies. Not a big fan of movies now a days.

Don't feel like you need to elborate if you want to post, I just have a long lunch break to fill up and am interested in what the rest of this community does for fun.

Alright, well if anybody feels like sharing go for it. If there is anybody that is a big gamer and wants to get a game or something in through Xbox Live my gamertag is HookrsAndSpdrMn.

The sweep of the O's 9/20/09 in pictures (minus the beach ball, sorry crabchowdah)

DougieWentDeep — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:27:16 -0000

Having just emptied my camera of its most recent pictures, I've decided to share with you pictures to compliment crabchowdah's lovely piece over yonder. The day was very lovely, hits were aplenty and I apparently only got tan on the left side of my face. For those of you who could not bask in the win as chowdah and I did, hopefully these pictures can give you a glimpse.

Let's start it off with this fella:

Dice-K K'ed 5 Orioles batters while scattering 8 hits and a walk over five and a third. One of those hits unfortunately resulted in 2 of the 3 runs the Orioles would scratch out against Dice-K that afternoon. That's okay because the offense jumped out with 3 runs in the top of the first inning and never trailed, ending the day with a 9-run, 14-hit jubilee.

Let's get the rest of the Dice-K pics all out there now:

and one more...

"that'll do pig, that'll do..."

Did somebody say they wanted some defense shots of the baldest, most scrappiest (non-Eckstein style) second baseman around? I know I sure do. (Sidenote: Did you know David Eckstein was married in a galaxy far far away?)

i missed the nice Double P Dusty P turned, but here's this sort of action shot:

might as well throw a quick warm-up shot up in the mix:

Enough with the D...let's see some O vs the O's

Not his homerun shot, but it'll have to do:

Victor Martinez is not impressed with Matt Wieters:

This was not Youk's finest

JD and Mikey Lowell are in a same picture together so I'm just going to label it "fragile":

More Pedruggernaut shots, you say? Sure, have at them:

Seriously, Martinez still isn't impressed:

Now let's bring it home with some relief work:

And here's the obligatory "OMG-he's-delivering-the-ball-while-looking-at-the-ground" moment that every announcer in baseball still feels like commenting on even though he's been pitching in the majors for the past three years. Three cheers for the broadcast booths getting new material!

"Mr. Simpson, I don't use the word 'hero' lightly, but you are the greatest hero in American history."

all pictures via www.sicklygazelle.com, a humble little site that has not been updated in eons, take pity on it.

That about does it for my day at the park Sunday. Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed being there.

Kotsay

DougieWentDeep — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:17:11 -0000

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet on the site, but with the recent trade I think we should be talking about our new asset. And that asset is Jamie Kotsay, Mark's wife. Red Sox Nation may very well now claim the membership of the hottest wife in major league baseball.

via umpbump.com

And...

via umpbump.com

My roommate is a brave's fan so he showed me these a while ago, so if you have already seen them, sorry for the redundancy...but then again, one can never get enough of a good thing.