Andrew visits with SBG Nation Citizen FirstTimeLongTime and gives us all a better look at our citizen from the East.

We're back with a new installment of Better Know A Citizen. Today's profilee is one of our new Citizens - meat. For those other new guys out there (or you old timers who haven't done this yet) email sbg-bkac[at]hotmail[dot]com or andrew[at]stickandballguy[dot]com to get signed up.

The 2007 Postseason ("It's A Crapshoot!") has given us another comment to go up in the SBG HOF and Museum (and Gift Shop and Café and Planetarium). Everyone's favorite Russian Literature-studying Marine CarterHayes posted his 1000th comment after Game 4 of the World Series

Today's plaque is from a relative newcomer to the Nation.  davidwatts hasn't necessarily been a Citizen as long as some of the other honorees, but for the time he has been here he's been quite prolific. In just over 9 months, dw posted is 1000th quote with this  comment during Game 2 of the NLDS between the Phillies and [...]

Whiffers is the genius behind today's showcase comment. This comes from the game thread on August 10th, 2007, of what was a fairly diappointing game on the Twins' part from what I read. Game 115 of the 2007 campaign was not only a 10-1 loss to the Angels, but it was also the return of [...]

Next in our continuing celebration of the half-baked crap that floats around our small portion of the internet, we have brianS and his take on Tejada and Tyner from the August 22nd, 2006 Gamelog.

Or: Andrew's Attempts to Rationalize the Colts' Chances Under the Guise of Analysis
As this year's NFL playoffs approach, I thought I might have a look at the AFC side of things, specifically the Patriots' division and the Colts' division. As the #1 team in the NFL and the #1 contender, one of these two [...]

I've always found statistics lacking when it comes to describing what is happening on the base paths. Consider a single with a man on first as compared to a single with the bases empty. After the hit, the batter gets a tiny bump in is batting average and +1 on his total bases [...]

Name: frightwig
Hometown: Bremerton, WA
Town I Currently Live In: relocating to an undisclosed location in Oregon
Profession: dedicated parental unit
Bats: R
Throws: R
Positions: corner IF/OF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I was good enough to be a regular starter for my county youth league teams, but I was never an All-Star. I don't recall being the [...]

Name: SoCalTwinsfan
Hometown: Born - Salt Lake City; Raised - All over. If I must pick, I'll go with Nampa, Idaho
Town I Currently Live In: San Bernardino, Cali
Profession: Sports Page Designer. Mainly, I design the national sports pages (Baseball and NBA/NHL) and the agate page (Scoreboard) for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which has [...]

Name: Erik Dikken
SBG Moniker: kg2005
Hometown: Renville, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Brookings, SD
Profession: Computer Science student, Software Quality Assurance student at Daktronics, Inc
Bats: With a 9-iron
Throws: Picture Johnny Damon
Positions: 2B, CF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Last year in softball I had a .700 OBP. Nevermind my OPS [...]

Name: Will Young (pronounced "Will Young")
Hometown: Richfield, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Saint Paul, MN
Profession: Making Events Occur Smoothly
Bats: Both (more power as a righty, better bat control as a lefty)
Throws: Left
Positions: Pitcher and First Base through Little League, Left-Center in Softball
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I threw 3 perfect innings in the Little [...]

Name: Sheenie
Hometown: New Orleans "The Big Easy", LA
Town I Currently Live In: Just up river... St. Paul, MN ... I actually only moved 1 block closer to The River
Profession: I work at a law firm
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: 2nd base and outfield and catching, basically whatever position is needed on a rec. softball team
Greatest [...]

The Inaugural SBG Convention was a smashing success. SBG already wrote his review, so I won't repeat everything he said. I'll simply add the pictures I took. All the pictures can be clicked on for larger views. They're after the jump.

Name: Seth Stohs
Hometown: Perham, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Warroad until Sept. 18th, then Bloomington
Profession: Product Planner
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: when I was young, I played Shortstop. In high school, played 3B, SS and pitched some. In college, I was a really good scorebook keeper and occasional pinch hitter!
Greatest Career Achievement in [...]

Name: Whiffers
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Town I Currently Live In: Plymouth, MN
Profession: Sales Analyst-type employee
Bats: R
Throws: R
Positions: 3B, 2B
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: A Willis Reed moment in Babe Ruth baseball against my team's biggest rival—playing on a sprained ankle, I had a couple hits, stole a base, and a Punto-style [...]

Name: Andrew
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Town I Currently Live In: Des Moines, Iowa
Profession: None, currently, but I've got interviews at a few companies Downtown coming up.
Bats: S. I really only hit lefty to pull something down the line or thrown down a drag bunt.
Throws: R
Positions: 1B, OF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Hit [...]

Name: GreekHouse
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN (although I was actually born in Fargo, ND)
Town I Currently Live In: Ames, IA
Profession: Math PhD Student
Bats: R
Throws: R
Positions: 1B,3B,DH
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: When I was in college, I was nicknamed "The One Man Home Run Derby". When the fence was up on the women's softball [...]

So, I guess I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I did, but I'll share what I've got. Also, I took my smaller, less fancy camera because I was taking my good one to the US-Brazil game, so the zoomed-in shots are a little grainy, but that's a price I'm willing to pay [...]

Name: Twayn
Hometown: Fort Recovery, Ohio
Town I Currently Live In: Champlin, Minnesota
Profession: Communications.
Bats: Low in the order
Throws: With elbow pain.
Positions: That’s a rather personal question, don’t you think? Oh, you mean...?! Second base and emergency outfielder.
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Batting sixth in the lineup when our Little League team was decimated by [...]

Name: Moss (as conferred by SBG, and it has nothing to do with Randy Moss or with the green growth)
Hometown: Winsted, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Golden Valley, MN, one-time home of Torii, Sid and TK (does Death Star live here too?).
Profession: Patent attorney for a pharmaceutical company.
Bats: Weakly -- struck out a lot. [...]

Name: Algonad
Hometown: Algona, IA (Ed's Note: This is where I currently, and begrudgingly, live right now - Andrew)
Town I Currently Live In: Chanhassen, MN
Profession: Finance
Bats: Poorly
Throws: Equally poorly
Positions: 2B, OF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I think I lead the conference in stolen bases and runs scored but had one [...]

Name: Banjo
Hometown: Hoyt Lakes, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis, MN
Profession: Small Business Owner
Bats: L
Throws: L
Positions: 1st Base, Right Field
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I was HBP 13 times in Cadets, the equivalent of Little League and took a high, infield fly ball on the noggin. (That might explain [...]

In honor of El Presidente's career-high and club record 17 strikeouts, I present to you each and everyone one in order. Enjoy.

#1 - Brad Wilkerson. 2nd out of the 1st inning

Name: Beau
Hometown: Coon Rapids, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Buffalo, MN
Profession: Director of Social Services in a nursing home
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: First base, catcher
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: My last year in AAA (12 years old), we were playing in the final regular season game, one we needed to win to win the division. We were facing the champion of the other division (a team we’d later lose to in the tournament championship). In the top of the final inning, we were down 4-3 with two outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd. I worked the count to 0-2, before lacing a double over the center fielder’s head. We held on to win 5-4 and take the division.

Name: Aaron Gleeman
Hometown: St. Paul, Minnesota
Town I Currently Live In: Minnetonka, Minnesota
Profession: Hand model
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: Second Base
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I once got beaned in the forehead by a pitch, dropped into an unconscious heap at home plate, woke up to a couple dozen people standing [...]

I just got back from Lollapalooza yesterday night. The two girls who invited me are huge music people, so I wasn't really sure if I would get the same level of enjoyment out of it. I'm a music person, but with my bad knees and ankles I'm not so much of a concert [...]

Name: Ian
SBG Moniker: BeenAroundAwhile Guy
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Tacoma, WA in a few weeks
Profession: Creative Writing major
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: Third base, outfield
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: I hit 1.000 for almost an entire season of coach-pitch... I think I went 0-3 in the last game. Struck out the side in my only [...]

With Alex Rodriguez hitting his 500th home run over the weekend, he became the second new member of the 500 Club, joining Frank Thomas who hit number 500 at the Metrodome on June 28th. I wondered what year had the most new members of the club. It turns out that two people have [...]

Name: James
SBG moniker: davidwatts
Hometown: Madelia, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Albert Lea, MN
Profession: radio guy!
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: C/1B/rover outfielder
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: I was a catcher in Little League. In the Consolation playoff game, I threw out 2 base runners while trying to advanced on passed [...]

Name: Big Mak (or Ray Felix)
Hometown: Marshall, MN (world headquarters of Schwan's Ice Cream)
Town I Currently Live In: Evanston, IL
Profession: Graduate Student at Northwestern University (Chemistry)
Bats: R (singles hitter, good patience)
Throws: R (not very well, shoulder is suspect)
Positions: Corner outfielder (wait, a glass-armed outfielder with [...]

Name: zooomx
Hometown: St. Cloud
Town I Currently Live In: Alexandria
Profession: Restaurant Manager
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Positions: played them all, began with SS, CF and Pitcher. The first baseman's glove came with the extra 50 pounds
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: played men's fastpitch league and tourneys at the [...]

Name: Dean E. Carlson
SBG Name:Freealonzo. I was friends with Alonzo Newby as an undergrad at the U. During the Gopher academic scandal it looked like Clem was setting up Alonzo as the patsy. At the same time I was looking for a nom de web and came up with Freealonzo. Been [...]

Name: E-6
Hometown: Mankato, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis (Northeast)
Profession: Artist / Restaurant drone
Bats: R
Throws: R
Positions: 1B
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Sofball/T-ball: State Babe Ruth Champs (13-year old.) We beat Edina in Edina. I was 3 for 3 with a walk in the title game.
Hobbies: Music, the [...]

Name: Nick N.
Hometown: St. Louis Park
Sports Allegiances: Minnesota Twins, Gophers sports teams, Tennessee Titans
Favorite Book: Goodnight Moon
Favorite Baseball Movie: Major League
Favorite Non-baseball Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Food & Drink: Chicken wings and beer.
Favorite TV Show(s): The Simpsons.
Favorite Twins Player, historically: Puckett.
Favorite Twins Player, currently: Not Nick [...]

Name: New Britain Bo
Hometown: born in Sioux City; father in USAF- spent time in/around airbases including Panama- settled in Park Rapids, MN. After college, 18 years in Scandia, MN; then to Hartford, CT (last 3.5 yrs).
Bats/throws: R/R.
Positions: 2B, SS. Aggressive at base-paths.
Sports allegiances: Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts, New Britain [...]

Name: Barry Hess (bjhess)
Hometown: Pipestone, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Owatonna, MN
Profession: Freelance web developer. My first website is Scrawlers. It's in the very early stages. The idea is to have a community that writes 100-word stories as an exercise in writing constraints. Eventually we'd like to create the feel of a [...]

Name: AMR (My initials. I'm not hiding, I just don't want my boss to google my name once and see my wasted time when I should be studying for exams. So I guess I am hiding.)
Hometown: New Ulm, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Brooklyn Park, MN
Profession: [...]

Editor's Note: Andrew strikes again with a preview of the crucial matchup between Ghana and the US in World Cup Action. Thanks, Andrew!
Game Time: Thursday, 9 AM Central, ESPN
Last Games: US 1, Italy 1. Ghana 2, Czech Republic 0.
What to Expect from the US: The US defense will have an entirely different look [...]

Editor's Note: SBG's soccer expert Andrew continues his coverage of the US in World Cup play. Here is his writeup of the US/Italy match. Thanks, Andrew!
Expert? I'm flattered, but I'm just a normal guy trying to keep up the proud tradition of "half-baked crap". Where to start? I suppose with [...]

Editor's Note: Andrew from Home is Where the Heart Is continues his coverage of the US in the World Cup for us with a preview of Saturday's Game against Italy. Thanks Andrew!
Game Time: Saturday, 1:30 Central, ABC
Last Games: USA 0, Czech Republic 3 and Italy 2, Ghana 0
What to Expect from the [...]

Editor's Note: Last weekend, I offered people the opportunity to guest write if they wanted to here at SBG. Long time reader and fellow blogger Andrew took me up on the offer and is writing about the US in the World Cup. I'm ignorant about soccer and this is the biggest sporting [...]