Better Know A Citizen - Yickit
Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am
SBG Moniker:Yickit
Name: Eric
Hometown: Fargo, North Dakota
Town I Currently Live In: Washington, DC
Profession: I hope to be a lawyer soon.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: First, Third, Left
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Intentionally pegging a batter in a Wiffle Ball game over the Fourth of July comes to mind, probably because of the fight/argument that came next. I guess that's why drinking and baseball don't mix.
Hobbies: Procrastinating, Reading, Running.
What are you known for around the WGOM? I hope I'm not known for anything.
If you could have a nice, polite dinner with any 3 people - dead or alive - who and why? John Marshall, Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson. I'd want leadership and professional advice, and to see if history's take on these individuals is close to the mark. And an exclusive book deal. Maybe a the rights to produce HBO mini series on each.
If you could pick any 3 people - again, dead or alive - to go out and party (or if you're not the party type, go for martini's or whatever it is you do) who and why? Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Sidney Ponson. Apparently I find bar fights, telephone throwing, and drinking an entertaining way to spend an evening.
Sports Allegiances: Twins, Vikes, Drake Bulldogs, and I guess the Nationals too (Out of proximity).
Favorite Books: Coach, Armageddon in Retrospect, anything Hemingway, The Fountainhead, Anthem, 1984, Oedipus, Chaucer, Samuel Beckett, White Nights, Billy Bud, LOTR, Arabian Nights, Crime and Punishment, Rhetoric, Anied, The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, Without Remorse, Debt of Honor, Into Thin Air, Rainbow Six, Happy Days, Slaughter House 5, Catch-22, Closing Time, The Stranger, A Man Without A Country
Favorite Music: NFG, Taking Back Sunday, Dredg, The Starting Line, The Academy Is, Finch, Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World
Favorite Baseball Movie: Black Irish
Favorite Non-baseball Movie: Vertigo
Favorite Food & Drink: Reuben, Coke
Favorite TV Show(s): Scrubs, Robot Chicken, Nova, The Secret Life Of ___, Man v. Wild, Deadliest Catch
Favorite Twins Player, historically: Rod Carew, and more recently Puck, Shane Mack and Radke.
Favorite Twins Player, currently: Neshek, but basically the entire team (Even Mike Lamb: I admire his angst beard).
Best Twins Memory: Witnessing Delmon Young's first home run for the Twins in Chicago. One of the only high points of that series.
Favorite Sport to Play: Is javelin a sport? Probably football.
Favorite Sport to Watch: Baseball.
If I was commissioner for a day, I'd: Move the Pirates to Fargo. They'd be more popular there. Or for laughs I'd contract the Angels, Yankees, And Bo Sox.
If I had Bill Smith's job I'd: Fire Terry Ryan. And make sure the Twins new stadium gets named Land O' Lakes.
Favorite Ballpark: Camden Yard
Favorite blogs: I read around 100 a day in google reader, but my favorite Twins blogs are WGOM, Gleeman, LENIII, and The Curse of Big Papi.
Will Young went to GW in DC. Does that make you friend or foe? Well I generally like Twins fans, but I generally dislike GW students. Tough call. I don't know Will personally but I can predict whether or not we could be friends based on DC bars. If WYoung hung out at McFadden's we are clearly enemies; if his bar of choice was The Big Hunt we could be friends. Any other bars or no bars at all, then we're frenemies.
100 Blogs & quite the book list - how do you find that much time to read? Caffeine.
Were you ever at the Knapp Center way back with Quantel Murphy and Lonnie Randolph? I definitely was at the Knapp Center way back then. The Bulldogs did not win, but then I don't remember winning a basketball game at home until we beat Iowa. That win erased all the past frustration. I'm sure its a much different atmosphere at the home games now.
Did you ever think the Bulldogs would make it to the NCAA Tournament? Yes, although I was hoping it would have been while I was still attending Drake. Drake going to the dance the year after I graduated was unfortunate, although it was fun being the only Drake fan in Virginia, where everyone for an unknown reason was rooting for Western Kentucky. Until Drake lost. On a buzzer beater. That part sucked.
Map time! Hey, finally another North Dakotan!
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Contract the Angels, Yanks, and BoSox?! I like!
To paraphrase Blazing Saddles:
"You said Crime and Punishment twice."
"I like Crime and Punishment."
I get a kick out of hearing folks in Omaha complain about the winter weather. I like to remind them that it's the same weather as Fargo/Moorhead, except a lot nicer.
How'd you end up at Drake? Couldn't hack it at NDSU, perhaps???
I decided I had to go to a school where I didn't enjoy eating the mascot.
Hey now! At least we weren't worried if the mascot was going to pee on the carpet.
You aren't worried about a Bison peeing on your carpet? I'm a Bison fan. I grew up watching Kevin Feeney run Quarterback sweeps at NDSU football games. Good times. How do you feel about UND?
Nah, I'm worried about a BISON knocking the house over! BISON are big and powerful!
I've got two degrees from NDSU and I went to college when Jeff Bentrim was running sweeps and pitching the ball over the heads of defenders. Very good times.
UND? Never heard of it.
Wow! Another Drake grad. 3 citizens. That's pretty good representation for a Twins blog.
In fairness to the GW bar comment, we need to know your Drake bar preference - West End, Peggies, or the Library.
Ever been to the Alpine and enjoyed an Alpine Cooler?
West End in the morning, Peggy's in the afternoon before it gets busy, and the Library for Monday Night Football so we can play Sink the Bismark. I sent the most time at Peggy's, but I can't stand any of them when they get packed: I'd rather be at Hessen Haus drinking out of Das Boot.
For the record, I like the Library the best.
I liked the Library the best but West End usually had more girls. I've only been in Peggy's 2 or 3 times. That puts Yickit on somewhat shaky ground except that he said he can't stand it when it is packed, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
I already have hotel reservations for Relays 2009 along with my wife and the other two clowns that went to the basketball game with us.
Also for the record, a Google search of Drake University Minnesota Twins has yickit.com as the #1 result. I really thought the WGOM would end up there somewhere too but I didn't see it in the top 10.
WGOM #71. I thought it would be closer to the top ten.
For the record, I like the Library the best.
You da man, Andrew.
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Intentionally pegging a batter in a Wiffle Ball game over the Fourth of July comes to mind, probably because of the fight/argument that came next. I guess that's why drinking and baseball don't mix.
Hey, looks like the WGOM has its very own member of the Ligue family!
Were you a javelin thrower at Drake? (ND doesn't have h.s. javelin, does it? If so, life is even cheaper than I'd imagined in N.D.) I really wanted to try both javelin and hammer, but my collegiate throwing career ended after my freshman indoor season (shot put).
and that's quite a reading list. The Stranger over The Plague??
finally, I gotta ask, 100 blogs per day?? Gee, law school must be really hard. Almost as tough as working for state gubmint.
ND does indeed have high school javelin, or it did when I was in high school. I think they may have gone to a rubber tipped device at some point. Nevertheless, I can tell you that the kid who won the state championship my senior season had the great misfortune of throwing a javelin in a meet that hit and killed a girl who made the fatal mistake of running across the javelin field during the competition.
I didn't throw at Drake. ND still has high school javelin, but as SBG pointed out, after that girl was killed, we moved to a rubber tipped javelin which is slightly less deadly.
Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to read The Plague yet. Its in my book queue, but its a long ways down.
100 blogs and websites does seem like a lot, but most only post once per day, and it takes me anywhere from thirty seconds to at most three min to read the story, so the time it takes really isn't that large. The only TV I regularly watch is Twins baseball games, so the time that most people spend watching TV per day, I am reading.
Law school is only as hard as you make it.
I went into McFadden's twice in my 7 years in DC and left angry at humanity for letting such a place exist on both occasions.
As a rule, most GW students are gigantic douchebags (coincidentally, most are also either Yankee or Red Sox fans).
Definitely not an enemy.
Will neglected to mention that he entered McFadden's angry at humanity.
Vertigo. Excellent, sir. As you may have surmised from my avatar, I'm a big Hitchcock fan. Any other Hitch that you've enjoyed?
North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Notorious would all make my top 100 list--if such a thing existed. Also loved Strangers on a Train, Suspicion, The 39 Steps, Rebecca... Well, you get the picture.
I'm a big fan of Hitchcock. Besides Vertigo, Rear Window and N by NW (in that order) are my favorites, but I like almost all of his films.
North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Notorious would all make my top 100 list
I hadn't realized that Hitchcock had made over 100 movies. Are you counting both versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much as separate films??
(personally, I'm partial to the Stewart/Day version, although it's too bad they didn't bring Peter Lorre back to reprise his role from the first go-around.
Good call on Dredg, they might be my favorite band. El Cielo is just a fantastic album.
Hey Yickit --
Moss just read Slaughterhouse 5, and didn't really get it. That is, Moss doesn't get why it's such a big deal. Moss is just not seeing it. Can you help Moss out??
Just wait until you become unstuck in time...THEN you'll think it's a big deal!