See Ya! The 2007 All-Star Game
This was actually a riff on the 2007 All-Star Game Logo, but I simply chose to reverse it. I figured that the AL would win (they had the past few years). I had also tried to put the clock at the scheduled starting time, and am quite proud of the shadows in the water as well as how the NL guy is stretched flying through the air. The “See ‘Ya” was a homage to Yankee TV broadcaster Michael Kay’s homerun call.
The hardest parts were the uniform, the arches, and under the dock all being so close in color to black and having to zoom in extremely close to color in all the tiny white spots near the lines because Photoshop Elements likes to keep a thin buffer between the two colors, and I hadn’t advanced in the program yet.
Geoff the Ref
Sunday, July 8, 2007
"Geoff the Ref"
It still doesn't count
By Geoff Walter / SNY.tv
Not every player who should make the All-Star team does, and now not every player who makes the team gets a chance to play. The "This One Counts" campaign in which home field advantage in the World Series is given to the winning league made sure of that and helped shift the paradigm from the socialist "everyone gets to play and every team is represented" notion to the capitalist "win at all costs" mentality. The problem is, no matter what they want you to believe, the game still doesn't matter very much. The All-Star game still maintains its stance as a peculiar oddity in which the best and most popular players are gathered together in a single venue that would be impossible at any other point in the season.
Ever since the 2002 All-Star Game ended in a tie, baseball has had the World Series incentive in place, but it's never been a real issue because there have been only eight World Series Game 7s since 1980, and none since the All-Star incentive was established. The American League has continuously dominated Interleague Play and hasn't lost the All-Star Game since 1996, but is it fair that a team that makes it to the World Series with a better record has to spend four games on the road because of a single game in July? Two of the last three World Series have been sweeps anyway, so unless there is a Game 7 in the World Series this year, what's the point?
Wanna argue with the Ref? Don't like the call? Go ahead and make your own!
