Thanks, Ballpark Blueprints! Now back to some free book reviews I never seem to finish… And the stuff for sale on that site is nerdy cool - I think these would make fantastic birthday gifts for a spouse/partner/relative/old friend. If nothing else, I’d recommend those stadium reviews. They also have comments which vividly demonstrate why sites with comments usually run spam filters. They’re appropriately mean to Carl Pohlad, not mean enough to the Dodgers (hello, Chavez Ravine), and entertaining reading even if you have no interest in a stadium-diagram tie. The company website has some neat stadium reviews, here. $25 is a bit high for a coffee cup, but those will last forever if you don’t drop them and somebody after you’re dead will think it’s an absolute thrift-store/garage-sale find. And face masks! Personally, I think the coffee cups are their best deal. Then haunt their house going “don’t throw away stuff dead people put in frames, gotcha!”īallpark Blueprints also has some sheet-aluminum stadium posters, which is even Nerdier (and more expensive). Send the new frame owners on a total Da Vinci Code chase. What more secrets lie within? I should print up a bullhonky treasure map leading to a sidewalk sewer drain, or something like that. Someday, when somebody’s disposing of my stuff after I’m dead, they may want to use this frame for a wedding photo or whatever, maybe a painting of their constantly flatulent dog, and they’ll be intrigued to find there’s a jigsaw puzzle behind it. So, instead, the Target Field poster is on top of that jigsaw puzzle (it’s why the frame doesn’t quite fit). James at first thought I could just throw out the puzzle (we have several of these), but agreed with me that it’s bad mojo to simply toss out wall kitsch your ancestors put some effort into. Really, too neat a poster for sticking thumbtacks in, so I put it in the frame you see here. It’s printed on very sturdy paper, mailed in a cardboard poster tube inside a larger box that could probably withstand the outer reaches of a nuclear explosion (we will be using this tube/box for sending small candies & sugary cereal to sweets junkies we know in Denmark). It’s a little pricey, so far as a poster goes (but absolutely comparable to those Trek posters, price-wise, at $50). You know what this poster absolutely reminds me of, now that I mention nerds? One of those “blueprints” you can buy online diagramming the NCC-1701. A park ranger zipping open your tent at 8AM to ask “do you want to hear my lecture on invasive tree beetles” is totally awesome, in our book.) we may be nerdy on different things, but true Nerds appreciate nerdiness in all its forms. James is also a nerd, one of the reasons we get along. It’s two guys with graphic-arts degrees, as far as my intrepid journalism of a few internet searches can tell, who are definitely Nerds. No, they’re hand-drawn pseudo-schematics made from widely-available photos and in-person visits. These aren’t actual architectural schematics of Target Field (I’d assume those are strictly the property of Populos/HOK, or the Metropolitan Sports Commission). (When you’re married to someone who tolerates your interest in sports, you don’t move into their dead parents’ house and start putting up sports crap all over everywhere unless they also think it looks pretty neat.) (Pinstripe Alley’s excellent former overlord Tanya Anderson got one of Yankee Stadium a few years back – PA has always had very good writers about a very annoying team.) I said, “sure,” and got this in the mail two days later. The company does exist, it’s not address phishing. Some people at a place called “Ballpark Blueprints” offered me a Target Field poster. (Our wonderful former Blog Pope, myjah, got some very cool free bobbleheads, which she wrote about here.) Most are from gambling sites looking to do a cross-promotion, that sort of thing. Having an easily-found email address listed on a blogsite means, you get offers for odd stuff.
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