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sure, i'll see what i can do...

This is originally from a wallpaper for "MLB: The Show", but I cropped it, fixed it up a bit, made some tweaks, and voila:

Here goes: ...drafting my second fantasy team today. Last time I had lots of resources with like 5 webpages of projections open. This time I'm drafting with nothing except maybe baseball-reference.com for a few... baseball references. ...Nooooooo! I just checked the draft order, and I'm right smack dab in the middle. Since this is a snake round, I'll be in the middle of everything. The last person has more advantage than the middle person, because they have the last pick of the first round and first pick of the second. ...Signs of the apocalypse: "sources" spelled wrong on a towel washing-instruction tag. ...I like this year's Yankee team. Of course, I probably said the same thing about last year's team, and look how they turned out... still, I'm defenitely excited about baseball season! ...Did I mention I was excited about baseball season? ...If global wasrming wasn't real (even though it is), or if we weren't the cause of it, does that mean you would suddenly take care of the environment less? ...Obama in '08! ...Check out everything in my sig. Join/read/comment/mourn (for karma)!

Maybe make Pujols stand out a bit more, at least make the renders on him a bit lighter than around him, especially on his right arm sleeve area. Other than that, it's very nice, good job.

Here you go, campo:

Matt Cain:

Hey, come on man, that's not fair! You should meet some people at my school if you think that's "whack". Besides, that's 100% genuine Lorum Ipsum. Google it if you care. Anyway, new thought: So I'm sitting at lunch, with exactly 2 semi-jerks and 3 fully certified-jerks. Long story. Anyway, I usually eat a lot of food that's the exact opposite of the school lunches - for example, this day I had some raw, dried seaweed (good stuff), soy milk (I just can't stand regular milk, not because I'm lactose intolerant or something), and dried pineapples. So this one kid brings up that "Well, golly, sheaweed, paanayples, n' shoy milk just don't seem like you gowt a life." (Accent slightly exaggerated.) Anyway, that's one of the dumbest, ignorant things not concerning politics (or at least not directly) I've heard in a long time. Makes me mad. Oh well. Life goes on.

Ditto. ...That's about it. ...except check out all the links on my signature. ...no, actually that's still not it: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Mauris augue nunc, suscipit vel, molestie nec, porta ac, dui. Nullam nunc. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam est dolor, sodales vel, lobortis vel. Felt like I needed to say something.

I'm in the mood, who do you want on it?

Here's what I came up with. Let me know if you want to change anything.

Ooh, lah lah, ze thoughts ov ze randomness! ...I wonder if there's a peanut butter tasting convention somewhere... Yesterday I took four kinds of peanut butter and put them on 4 different slices of the same cracker - you'd be surprised how different they taste. God bless George Washington Carver! ...Lately I've been spending a lot of time on an idea, and then when I show it to someone else, they just say "yeah, that's nice, but I don't really care." I'm not really talking about one thing, but about 3 or 4 different things, all in succession. It gets very annoying. ...Wow, baseball is near! ...I really hope the Knicks get into the playoffs - I don't care if they drop out the first round, just to get somewhere and put an ounce of confidence into some of those players. ...Why are people complaining about mlb 2k7 so much? It's a video game - Only 10 years ago the graphics bordered on a toddler's drawings, and nevertheless people where satisfied. The one thing bad about better technology is that older technology that satisfied older generations suddenly becomes "worthless", and they become more spoiled as a result of it. True, I'm part of that generation, but still, give me a break. You want a better realistic baseball videogame? Why don't you make one yourself? Better yet, go out there and PLAY A REAL GAME. ...http://baseballmaniacs.forumwise.com should soon become baseballmaniacs.net soon. Stay tuned. ...I'm going to start a blog soon. Stay tuned. ...The world is ending in 5 billion years. Stay tuned.

Do you want just a sig, avatar, or both?

Try fusing the puma image more in with the background image and the actual background. Also, try putting a slight white or red drop shadow around the cut outs so that it seems more smooth, in addition to making it stand out more. Also, if you have photoshop, I suggest staying with it for now. I've never used PS, only gimp, but I hear that PS is a lot more beginner and user friendly. Also, PS basically does everything gimp does, only with one less step, with the exception of a few stuff.

nice sig tiger! And ron, I suggest making the shadow on ichiro, at least the left one, a bit larger, the text in the middle more readable, and maybe add some sort of icon or imagery, like a seattle logo or something. Though it is one of your best sigs so far, I like it.

here's a better (though not as dirty) baseball: http://www.asdiansi.com/baseball.jpg

I got stuck when we accidentally left the headlights running for 45 minutes, and it drained the battery... we where stuck there for like half an hour until we found someone with jumper cables. However, I can't imagine how the snow is up north there. But then, as we where finally driving back, we saw a guy trying to start his car and a tow truck in front of him, and we thought "Thank god that's not us."

Nice! The font works well, and the background does too. The only thing I would do is change the gerald green on the left, and either make him a bit smaller, or move him to the right. It's kind of awkward with him just being cut off on the top of his head.

Yes! I picked up the New York Times and baseball was on the front page of the Sports section! But I picked up Sporting News, and yes, Baseball was on the front, and yes, there was a 20-page baseball preview, but football is over, yet they have a combined 30 pages of NFL and NCAA Football. ...I was all set to do a big set of screens for MVP, only to realize they where all in the wrong aspect ratio... ...I'm thinking of possibly buying a domain name and server for BM Inc. (see sig.) I think only if I upgrade some stuff it'll become a lot more popular and better... ...I'm hungry. I think I'll go have some peanut butter. Might add a bit more thoughts later...

Amen to that. I've read that book too, that's a great book. The movie is also good, they did well of adapting it. ...Spring Training is in the air! Even though there's about 4 inches of snow on the ground... ...Anderson Verajao hair watch count: 3 ...mlb.com's fantasy player rankings just came out: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/preview/y20...007.html?pos=sp Seems like a decent list... until you realize Wang isn't in the top 20. No, not the top 30, either. NUMBER 36 behind people like Randy, Brett Myers (who's ranked #21 - what's up with that?), or Kelvim Escobar. He's not going to have a 2006 again, but the season was not a total fluke! And the same with Jeter ranked ahead of Rollins. Rollins is an exciting power-speed player, but Jeter is better all-around AND fantasy-wise. probably add a bit more later...

Here's what I could come up with, doomtrain: let me know if you want anything changed...

Sure, I'll give it a shot...

ok, update on my random thoughts: NO SCHOOL!!!! hehe, I'm happy. oh, and as promised, I watched approxamitely the first 5 minutes of the superbowl and saw exactly 2 commercials. Then I went and played some MVP and decided I like baseball a lot better. :)

...I think I might watch about 10 minutes of the super bowl tonight, which I think will be my first time EVER watching the superbowl. (If you haven't guessed already, I'm not a football fan to say the least.) ...The off-season always seems to go so fast. Pitchers and catchers report in 10 days! ...Golly gee gosh, I love baseball. ...Gee Whiz, I love sushi. Sushi is extremely good. Can't get enough of it. I love the futomaki, with some california rolls, and some salmon roe, and octopus, some tomago, and yellowtail, and the shrimp... good times. ...ohmygosh, i have a lot of homework. My stomach hurts at the thought of it... what can I put in my pocket from today's time that will help me on a westward expansion trip in the 1800s? So far, all I could really think of was Ibuprofen.