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NLDS Wallpaper - Now With More Aspect Ratios!

oo_nrb — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:34:24 -0000

NLDS Wallpaper - Now With More Aspect Ratios!

With the Rockies in the playoffs, a lot of FanPosts were made recently, and so my NLDS Wallpaper post got pushed off the front page. So I'm making a quick FanShot to let people know that I've added standard resolutions to my special NLDS wallpaper now, so if you tuned in yesterday and only saw widescreen, you're in luck today!

Also, I went to go post a FanShot over on The Good Phight that linked to my FanPost over here, however they have a 1-day waiting period before you can post anything. So, if any Rowbots who are also...Phighters?...are reading this, could you go over to their site and post the link? I'll reward you with cookies :) .

NLDS Wallpaper - Now With More Aspect Ratios!

oo_nrb — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:06:09 -0000

Good news, everyone! 4:3 aspect ratios are here! Bad news, everyone: I couldn't find a way to re-organize the stuff on the paper to make it "fit" better to that aspect ratio, so I took the easy way out and just scaled down what I had and added more border around it. Mea culpa. Next time around, I'll develop both ratios at the same time.

If you've got any special resolution requests, let me know! I won't be able to get them done before Game 2, but they'll be in your hands either tomorrow night or Friday morning :) .

Go Rockies!

WIDESCREEN: 1920 x 1200 | 1680 x 1050 | 1440 x 900

STANDARD: 1600 x 1200 | 1400 x 1050 | 1280 x 960 | 1024 x 768 | 800 x 600

MLB Playoffs Might Be Just What Denver Needed Check out this video that CBS4 put together. ...

oo_nrb — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:54:14 -0000

MLB Playoffs Might Be Just What Denver Needed

Check out this video that CBS4 put together. Apparently the Rockies are the #2 tourist attraction in Denver outside of the Zoo. This means that the playoffs create another month of baseball and profit for the city.

Just noticed something on MLB.com last night...

oo_nrb — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:34:10 -0000

Just noticed something on MLB.com last night...

We officially eliminated the Padres from the post-season yesterday.

Kind of a weird feeling, isn't it?

Beat LA! Commemorative Wallpaper

oo_nrb — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:46:50 -0000

Something short and sweet I threw together in just a few hours after tonight's amazing win vs. the Giants. These next 3 dates have been circled on my calendar for a month now. It's time you make sure they are circled on yours.

BEAT LA! GO ROCKIES!

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WIDESCREEN: 1920 x 1200 | 1680 x 1050 | 1440 x 900

August Schedule Wallpaper - Monochrome Madness!

oo_nrb — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:40:20 -0000

Last month was bad...pulling double-shifts at work, my girlfriend coming back early from field training with a badly sprained ankle - throw in a vacation around the All-Star Break and you've got an overly busy month. So just for all you loyal followers out there, I learned how to put textures onto fonts :) .

Let me know what you think of this month's edition! I'm headed to bed for now (3 am and such), but when I come back tomorrow night I'll sit down and watch our boys do battle with the Phillies while making up any special resolutions that people want (jrockies, should I just start making you one each month?) and getting to work on some mobile versions. I've also got a few other wallpaper ideas floating around in my brain...since I have a relatively light workweek, you may just get 3 or 4 wallpapers this time around :) .

Enjoy as always, and Go Rockies!

FULLSCREEN: 1600 x 1200 | 1400 x 1050 | 1280 x 960 | 1024 x 768 | 800 x 600

WIDESCREEN: 1920 x 1200 | 1680 x 1050 | 1440 x 900

Rockies 8, Mets 5: Hammel Shuts Down Mets, Santana Gets Shut Down

oo_nrb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:35 -0000

(for those not sure what this is about, you may want to read this thread first)

Not even a 51 minute rain delay in the 4th inning could slow down the Hammel train tonight as he dominated the hapless Mets lineup through 7 2/3 innings. After allowing only 4 hits until the 7th, Jason finally showed signs of wear as he allowed 3 in that frame, including a 2-RBI double by Angel Pagan. Solid bullpen work thereafter by Chacin, Betancourt, and Street with Daley providing an 8-pitch, 2 hit, 1 earned run hiccup in the 8th.

A solid outing by the Rockies offense as well, with the big power provided by the bat of Garrett Atkins. His grand slam in the 3rd put the Rockies up 5-1, and a two-run shot in the next inning by Brad Hawpe would put the game away for good. After that, the Mets wouldn't sniff a win expectancy over 10% until the 8th inning.

Check after the jump for more WE/WPA goodness, the fangraph, the RowCall, and tomorrow's action.

Atkins was definitely the WPA hero for the Rockies tonight garnering a 0.2929 for his efforts. Two of our biggest bats, Helton and Iannetta, were mysteriously silent last night (Helton's late-game single didn't really impact his WPA that much since the game was already basically in hand). On the Mets side, the big winner was (surprisingly enough) Alex Cora with a WPA of 0.1164. Jeff Francoeur was the single biggest WPA loser of the night (-0.112) except for Mr. Pat Misch who gave up the Atkins salami and received a -0.4112 for it. Here's how the rest of the team faired (and yes, these are all real WPA numbers, as is the FanGraph and everything else).

Rockies Pitchers:

Betancourt: 0.0822
Street: 0.0342
Hammel: 0.0223
Chacin: 0.0081
Daley: -0.0941

Rockies Hitters:

Atkins: 0.2929
Fowler: 0.1218
Hawpe: 0.0941
Tulowitzki: 0.045
Hammel: 0.0215
Stewart: 0.0028
Barmes: 0.0019
Spilborghs: -0.0199
Helton: -0.0264
Iannetta: -0.0764

Mets Pitchers:

Green: 0.0089
Dessens: 0.0068
Santana: -0.0518
Misch: -0.4112

Mets Hitters:

Cora: 0.1164
Pagan: 0.0505
Castillo: 0.0383
Murphy: 0.037
Reed: 0.0198
Sullivan: 0.0148
Dessens: 0.0013
Tatis: -0.0022
Misch: -0.0313
Santos: -0.0379
Wright: -0.042
Francoeur: -0.112

via img.photobucket.com

RowCall: RockiesMagicNumber, Rockie4Ever, holly96, GoRockies!!, Poseidon's Fist, brian8065, Redhawk, ShadowPenguin, WolfMarauder, theoldgrizzlybear, Russ, TuLoRocks2008, Charlie77, BlakeBomber

Tomorrow: The Rockies and Mets play this game for real! Go Rockies!

Some July Wallpaper Coming Soon!

oo_nrb — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:15:15 -0000

I wanted to give everyone a brief update. About two weeks ago I fell victim to a bad computer virus (Win32Trojan.TDSS, if you're interested - Google it if you want, it's real nasty), and earlier this week I had to throw in the towel and reformat my computer. So I lost a lot of stuff, most notably my copy of Photoshop. I'm still waiting for my friend that can get me a good Photoshop hookup to come through, which should be on Friday.

tl;dr: Hopefully I can get a July wallpaper done by the end of the holiday weekend for everyone. Thanks for being patient with me! Especially cause this time it wasn't just me being busy and/or lazy :P .

For posterity's sake (since this has already been discussed in the game wrap), here are our Rockies...

oo_nrb — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:54 -0000

For posterity's sake (since this has already been discussed in the game wrap), here are our Rockies gracing the top story on ESPN.com's MLB section.

Note that even though the Rockies have won 17 of 18 ballgames and are 0.5 games out of the wild card, the team is still considered to be out of the playoff race. Thank you Eastern SPorts Network for that insightful analysis - if you don't mind, we're going to go back to playing baseball now, mmk?

Rockies Wallpapers - June Schedule and a Special Surprise!

oo_nrb — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:46:24 -0000

Here's my laundry list of reasons why this has taken me so long:

1) My girlfriend just left for ROTC field training, so I was helping to get her ready

2) Double shifts at work

3) Summer class w/ 2 papers in 1 week

4) Photoshop makes my computer choke

Go ahead and choose which one (or a combination) of the four you want to be the reason why this is 11 days late. Once you've decided on one, enjoy the wallpaper! I put in twice as much work into this one as I usually do, and I think the calendar turned out pretty good for it. However, my creative juices ran dry for the background, so it's rather barren. Use your imagination :) . Also, the special wallpaper isn't quite done yet (you can choose a different excuse for this one if you want for some bonus points), but will be by the end of the day.

Kosmo, I'm working on your logo request. The trouble is that I need to get it vectored first, because the version I have isn't any bigger than the version here on the site. But since I'm done with papers (at least until Tuesday), I'll have some time to get it done for you :) .

Anyway, onto the wallpapers! As always, let me know if you want one in a specific resolution and I'll get it out to you. C+C is greatly appreciated! And yes, RMN, I did take some inspiration from your "learn scorebooking" post a while back :)

Enjoy, and Go Rockies!

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FULLSCREEN: 1600 x 1200 | 1440 x 1050 | 1280 x 960 | 1024 x 768 | 800 x 600

SPECIAL BONUS WALLPAPER!

To show my thanks for sticking with me through thick and thin. I know that, as Rockies fans, we're all pretty used to adversity, but you all put up with me even when I didn't update for 3 months one time - even the Rockies can win at least once in that timespan! ;)

So anyways, here's one that I think(hope) everyone here will appreciate. I saw the font on a free font website and this image instantly popped into my head. 2 days later, here we are! Again, let me know if anyone wants a special resolution (and jrockies, I've got a special resolution in there for you too :) ).

Enjoy, and Go Rockies!

WIDESCREEN: 1920 x 1200 | 1680 x 1050 | 1440 x 900

FULLSCREEN: 1600 x 1200 | 1440 x 1050 | 1280 x 960 | 1024 x 768 | 800 x 600

SPECIAL RESOLUTION: 1280 x 1024 (jrockies) (note, this is a .BMP and will take much longer to load)