Well I have my first profile banner at TV.com. Originally I was going to have some kind of over-lapping & fading in and merging of images, but then I realized I don't ever do that nor do I have the style of multiple over-lapping images. Shown are the White Sox 1987-90 home and road jersey graphics, along with a stupid sign and a pic of Old Comiskey Park in the late 1980s. That spot is the parking lot now, and there's a concrete home plate & batters box where the real one once stood. They even painted the old foul lines in the parking lot, which back in the day, were just painted old water firefighter hoses. The ballpark faced northeast, which is a lot better I think, than the stupid southeast exposer U.S. Cellular Field has (which is absolutely hell on leftfielders in early / late season late afternoons. It also had picnic areas under the outfield bleachers fenced off with chicken wire, as well as the bullpens hidden under there as well (I find bullpens idiotic on the field).
I like the look of the old ballpark, upper deck roofed outfield seats, 3-angled outfield walls instead of a symmetrical rounded wall, everything's green and the upper deck seats were a lot closer to home plate. The fact of the matter is, due to luxury seating at the Cell, which forces the upper deck to be moved farther back. The last back row upper deck seats at Old Comiskey were actually closer than the front row upper deck seats at the Cell. If I were to design the next White Sox park, I'd make it exactly like Old Comiskey, and put the luxury boxes on the roof above the upper deck.
Eventually I'll be rotating banners when I get a hankering to create something, and yesterday's Sox home opener really put me in the spirit. It's so nice to be able to listen to White Sox games again with Steve Stone as color analyst. The difference between him and departed / now ESPN employee Chris Singleton is night and day. Singleton sucked, and apparently he got on play-by-play man Ed Farmer's nerves and was rather passive aggressive.
In other news, the NCAA championship was last night and I didn't watch because the team I picked to win it all in most of my brackets was North Carolina. I couldn't believe they were down 40-12 in the 1st half against Kansas, it made me want to vomit. Eventually they got within 4, but were out of gas by then. As for my brackets, Team Snow Storm & Team Bozo ended up with 98.9%, with a perfect Final Four & national champion, including tie breaker scores within 5 on Snow Storm and 2 on Bozo (76-69 to the real 75-68 final). Turns out these were the last two brackets I filled out and just barely got them in on time. Meh.