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Hint: he's the one who looks really enthralled with the proceedings. I'll post the answer in a few hours.
For those who have never met Magpie in person, here is a close-up:
Now it should be easy.
Should I be offended if I know who they are? ;)
Gerry has it. Here's a close-up:
From Magpie's vain attempt at vulturing my win: I was at the ball park, doing my STATS gig, taking abuse from Fordin, and just making a few notes.
IOW, Magpie's a STATS Inc scorer. Now you know, and, as we've all been taught, knowing is half the battle.
I don't see Wilner (it looks like Sawkiw is the one standing in the radio booth), but Scott Carson is in the Sportsnet booth and he's posted here a few times.
That I did not know!
I didn't expect to like GIlmore Girls, and the first time I watched an episode was while compiling tapes for a friend living in Japan who was complaining about the lack of good english-language TV available over there (he can watch Knight Rider twice a day, though) -- we decided to play a bit of a mean joke on him and send him hours and hours of material that he could not possibly be interested in. The Calgary Stampede parade. Seventh Heaven. Passions. We saw an ad for Gilmore Girls and thought "aha, that's PERFECT", and then we watched it and were totally hooked.
And so was he -- he requested that we continue to record and send it.
On the other hand... Picture of the Day Mojo! All right! And I need some, way more than Burley. And I trust you all notice NFH didn't waste it on me during a day when a Blue Jay might need some.
That's not my regular seat - that's the area for "visiting print media" but there's generally a free phone line there. (The latest theory, by the way, is that the STATS phone has been installed at our old seat, instead of the one we're sitting in this year. There is a seating plan.) So the people on my right are unidentified Chicago reporters. Elsewhere in the front row - yellow shirt is the National Post's baseball writer, and to his right I believe we have the Canadian Press. The empty seats heading off to his left are for the Globe, the Sun, and the Star. Hey! Where are those guys? I think this was Sunday's game (the Zaun injury game), so Larry Millson was definitely in the house. I seem to remember Baker and Rutsey being around as well. There's the official scorer down there all by himself at the end of the front row - it looks like Joe Sawchuk. And I see Jerry Howarth in his yellow shirt in the radio booth
The general area where I'm perched is where the STATS seat was for most of the 1990s. I actually belong in the second row, roughly behind the guy in the blue shirt. Which is where you'll find Fordin and the mlb.com guys. If I'd only been there you never would have found me. Erik and Ryan and the Jays PR crew are in the second row as well, right by that second little staircase. They moved the STATS seat up beside them for a couple years (they used to rely on us for pitch counts, now they're keeping track of it themselves.) Since then, they've closed off a little area and turned it into the GM's game-watching room.
do you make official scoring decisions for STATS Inc
"Official" is whatever the official scorer says it is, and everybody records that. STATS has also been tracking lots of "un-official" stuff since day one - each pitch, where balls are put in play, were the runners moving, did the catcher block a ball in the dirt, how many times did the pitcher throw to first... One of these days I'll put up one of our scoresheets. I'm interested in all the different ways of scoring, and I'm hoping the POTD mojo comes in handy.
really enthralled with the proceedings
Strange seat. Guys I didn't know. Team was losing.
I'm glad there's a road trip coming up. I want to give Fordin some time to forget this...
The original circa 1990 STATS seat, which is more or less where I thought I was in this picture, is actually out of sight in the bottom left corner.
Off to my left is the contingent from the Star and the Sun. I can't be sure, but that might actually be Dave Perkins in the yellow shirt. He still drops in from time to time.
If you look in the top right hand corner, you can see Amercia a.k.a. "World's Biggest Fan" and her "I love Eric Hinske" sign :)
"We're proud to present on the WB:
Another bad show that no one will see!"
I wouldn't say it was the greatest, but I do have fond, fond memories of that show. One particular storyline about a bee flying around the studio sticks out at me...as well as the copyrights to the Happy Birthday song.
