Sweet jumping jesus Youk is looking scary! I’m ready for some baseball.
AtheoseFebruary 22, 2009, 8:24 pm
> I’d love to know what lens was used to shoot this.
IBM:
It was a Canon 85mm f1.2L shot wide open on an EOS-1Ds Mark II at ISO 200 for 1/200s.
The EXIF data is retained in the larger image available.
Good eye, Gerb, Close is also an expert with Daguerreotypes, if you didn’t know. In fact, this shot is stylistically extremely close to many of Close’s portraits, and it wouldn’t shock me if they (and others like Close) were an influence. Check them here: http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/09/chuck-close-daguerreotypes.html
(Close is one of my idols, by the way)
Paul: where did you find this image?
SF, did a quick Google search for [kevin youkilis fu manchu] and it was attached to the first site that came up. I initially saw it on the Globe’s Web site, but they combined it with a bunch of other photos from the day, so I went searching through the Web for it. It’s originally a Getty Images photo.
Seriously.
Anytime someone has the sack to go full out Hogan, and appear to be perfectly comfortable with the look, he commands respect. It’s like seeing the elderly guy with the pipe – one doesn’t know if they should laugh at the idea of a pipe, or sit down and listen to the stories from the war. It’s just badass.
BradFebruary 23, 2009, 8:34 am
i agree that’s a memorable quote ag…profound, and thought-provoking, yet direct and to the point…i spit coffee through my nose when i saw the name of the site you sent us to…
dcFebruary 23, 2009, 8:36 am
They’re calling it the Youk-Fu. This keeps getting better and better.
> profound, and thought-provoking, yet direct and to the point
Yes, dc, it is compelling, and I am searching my brain for when the Yankees could claim a similarly personality that could pull off a quote like that without sounding ridiculous.
Jeter? he’s hunted by Sarah Connor.
O’Neill? too angry.
David Wells? tell me you don’t get a “Devil’s Rejects” vibe.
Bernie? Mr. Tambourine Man.
Sheff? *possible* but who thinks of Sheff as a Yankee?
Reggie? he stirred his own drink.
Maybe Lou or Goose… wait — Munson could have said that… and so could have Martin… but we are so “far out of time.”
I’m open to suggestions, including the one where dc wonders if ag is truly a Yankees fan.
Thanks for the link, SF.
I love the shot of sprinter Tyson Homosexual.
AG, thanks for the lens info. I recently bought a used Canon FD 85mm breech mount lens. I love it. But I won’t be doing anything like that soon.
Also, AG, who else in baseball could pull off a quote like that? (I could hear it coming from Kevin Garnett, though.)
Sheff? *possible* but who thinks of Sheff as a Yankee?
I do. I could also see Joe Girardi saying something like that just to build team chemistry and stuff. Rally the troops into battle.
BradFebruary 24, 2009, 8:24 am
“…dc wonders if ag is truly a Yankees fan….”
forgot about that regrettable and obviously incorrect sentiment…allow me to retract it, and humbly offer an apology…
here’s my suggestions:
kevin brown [mean enough, but not yankee enough]
carl pavano [i don’t remember him being on the yankees]
any of the steins [or do you want players?]
sal fasano [too nice of a guy]
mo [no]
unit [mean enough, but not yankee enough]
i surrender…
dcFebruary 24, 2009, 8:41 am
mo [no][doesn’t speak English well enough]
There, fixed it for you dc! ;-) Sadly enough, I could see Manny saying that Ortiz quote as well. Or Kevin Millar… though he wouldn’t make it sound as cool as Ortiz does. That Dominican accent is so badass.
actually ath, my “no” for mo was because the statement just wasn’t mo-like…the public mo that we know anyway…
dcFebruary 24, 2009, 8:57 am
Yeah, that’s one thing I really like about Mo–he quietly goes about his business of being the most dominant closer of all time, without a lot of talk. Granted that may be because of the language barrier… but still.
I think the Yankees are too “professional” to say something so bad-ass.
haha…sure…i guess they just let hank handle that important public image stuff…you know, given that he’s such a gifted, skilled, eloquent, and motivational orator and all…
dcFebruary 24, 2009, 9:42 am
> forgot about that regrettable and obviously incorrect sentiment
dc, please, no apologies. I thought it was hilarious when you said it because it’s sometimes true..there have been many many days where I have wondered exactly that. But I keep coming back around.
27 comments… add one
Dear lord! Don’t ever do that again.
Looks like a Chuck Close painting gone horribly, irrevocably wrong.
al hrabosky?
i see your weirdly facial haired 1b and raise you a bewildered SP….
http://tinyurl.com/bh66z2
I’d love to know what lens was used to shoot this.
Sweet jumping jesus Youk is looking scary! I’m ready for some baseball.
> I’d love to know what lens was used to shoot this.
IBM:
It was a Canon 85mm f1.2L shot wide open on an EOS-1Ds Mark II at ISO 200 for 1/200s.
The EXIF data is retained in the larger image available.
Why do all the red sox players look bad ass and the yankee players looked shocked to be in front of the camera?
Mike, good question. I don’t know. Probably ’cause of this quote. I’ll always have to give propers to Ortiz for that one.
Good eye, Gerb, Close is also an expert with Daguerreotypes, if you didn’t know. In fact, this shot is stylistically extremely close to many of Close’s portraits, and it wouldn’t shock me if they (and others like Close) were an influence. Check them here:
http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/09/chuck-close-daguerreotypes.html
(Close is one of my idols, by the way)
Paul: where did you find this image?
Looks like this is the shooter’s website:
http://www.nicklaham.com/
SF, did a quick Google search for [kevin youkilis fu manchu] and it was attached to the first site that came up. I initially saw it on the Globe’s Web site, but they combined it with a bunch of other photos from the day, so I went searching through the Web for it. It’s originally a Getty Images photo.
Sal Fasano is not impressed.
SF, that photographer should be arrested for making Paula Creamer look like that on his webpage. For shame.
Seriously.
Anytime someone has the sack to go full out Hogan, and appear to be perfectly comfortable with the look, he commands respect. It’s like seeing the elderly guy with the pipe – one doesn’t know if they should laugh at the idea of a pipe, or sit down and listen to the stories from the war. It’s just badass.
i agree that’s a memorable quote ag…profound, and thought-provoking, yet direct and to the point…i spit coffee through my nose when i saw the name of the site you sent us to…
They’re calling it the Youk-Fu. This keeps getting better and better.
> profound, and thought-provoking, yet direct and to the point
Yes, dc, it is compelling, and I am searching my brain for when the Yankees could claim a similarly personality that could pull off a quote like that without sounding ridiculous.
Jeter? he’s hunted by Sarah Connor.
O’Neill? too angry.
David Wells? tell me you don’t get a “Devil’s Rejects” vibe.
Bernie? Mr. Tambourine Man.
Sheff? *possible* but who thinks of Sheff as a Yankee?
Reggie? he stirred his own drink.
Maybe Lou or Goose… wait — Munson could have said that… and so could have Martin… but we are so “far out of time.”
I’m open to suggestions, including the one where dc wonders if ag is truly a Yankees fan.
Thanks for the link, SF.
I love the shot of sprinter Tyson Homosexual.
AG, thanks for the lens info. I recently bought a used Canon FD 85mm breech mount lens. I love it. But I won’t be doing anything like that soon.
Also, AG, who else in baseball could pull off a quote like that? (I could hear it coming from Kevin Garnett, though.)
Sheff? *possible* but who thinks of Sheff as a Yankee?
I do. I could also see Joe Girardi saying something like that just to build team chemistry and stuff. Rally the troops into battle.
“…dc wonders if ag is truly a Yankees fan….”
forgot about that regrettable and obviously incorrect sentiment…allow me to retract it, and humbly offer an apology…
here’s my suggestions:
kevin brown [mean enough, but not yankee enough]
carl pavano [i don’t remember him being on the yankees]
any of the steins [or do you want players?]
sal fasano [too nice of a guy]
mo [no]
unit [mean enough, but not yankee enough]
i surrender…
mo
[no][doesn’t speak English well enough]There, fixed it for you dc! ;-) Sadly enough, I could see Manny saying that Ortiz quote as well. Or Kevin Millar… though he wouldn’t make it sound as cool as Ortiz does. That Dominican accent is so badass.
actually ath, my “no” for mo was because the statement just wasn’t mo-like…the public mo that we know anyway…
Yeah, that’s one thing I really like about Mo–he quietly goes about his business of being the most dominant closer of all time, without a lot of talk. Granted that may be because of the language barrier… but still.
I think the Yankees are too “professional” to say something so bad-ass.
haha…sure…i guess they just let hank handle that important public image stuff…you know, given that he’s such a gifted, skilled, eloquent, and motivational orator and all…
> forgot about that regrettable and obviously incorrect sentiment
dc, please, no apologies. I thought it was hilarious when you said it because it’s sometimes true..there have been many many days where I have wondered exactly that. But I keep coming back around.
THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.