Aaron Boone tosses his hat in the ring with a picture so thoroughly uninteresting, it boggles the mind. Boone’s on a bus, I guess, touring Cactus League parks for ESPN? And so he wants to include a little of it in the picture? From there, what does this picture tell us? They got a shitty parking spot? There is indeed a baseball park there? They arrived good and early?
Hate you so much, Aaron Boone.
A question like the following could be a useful litmus test when deciding whether or not to tweet that fresh new phone pic: “Is it conceivable that anyone anywhere could possibly find this interesting?” If the answer’s “no,” don’t hesitate to take a breather and sit out a round. Anyway, thanks Rhea Hughes.
The opportunity cost’s the thing here. “Oh, Cardinals legend and potential Hall of Famer Jim Edmonds is in Cardinals camp talking with the outfielders? Great! I’d love to see!”
And then, that.
Joel Goldberg’s back. The twitpic is good, the tweet’s even better. Bruce Chen’s just chilling out for a photo shoot and Joel’s hashtagging like you wouldn’t believe. #BelieveIt
Everybody’s tweeting out lineup cards now and you know what? I’m fine with it. There’s something romantic and beautifully dated in this digital age about the lineup card. It strikes me as worth preserving for whatever reason. And better yet, it offers information during Spring Training when a writer decides to share it. With 314-player rosters, knowing which 9 will start that day is interesting.
But this is unacceptable. Can’t make out some of the names, it’s not framed well and Todd Rosiak couldn’t be bothered to take another stab. The lineup card twitpic has become a genre unto itself, and this was the worst I could find of it.
Memo to Dan Kolko of MASN: You might have more professional goals to cross off that list but you already crossed one major threshold. You’re a Major League beat writer. So get up out of the dugout, walk up to the batting cage where freaking Georgetown is taking rips, and snap a decent picture. And if some eager-beaver Sports Information Director or someone tries to tell you to get back in the dugout, remind him you’re in the Big Leagues. Lanyard-whip that SID if you must.
Can’t thank Jim Salisbury enough for capturing the Bad Spring Training Twitpic essence here. “Very cool” indeed, Jim.
Plainly evident Roch Kubatko took the batting cage for granted. Quick zoom and bam, snapped his twitpic. Problem is, you have to respect the batting cage. You have to. Kubatko didn’t and now the bar’s cutting Nick Markakis’s neck off, it’s blurry, and the netting’s really not helping either.
Kevin McAlpin of Atlanta sports radio station 680 The Fan contributed this shot. I’m not even really sure what to say about it. He says it’s Chipper and Uggla, and he suggests it’s Jair Jurrjens on the hill but we don’t even have a positive ID on the team that’s pictured here. Impressive stuff.
