Tony Plush Shirts.

Ahh, Nyjer Morgan, aka Tony Plush. He came into our lives in a late 2009 trade with the Pirates, and was immediately embraced for his hustle, and character. He also made some great catches, which led me to make my first Tony Plush shirt. It's (obviously) based on the MLB logo, but "Tony Plush Baseball" replaces "Major League Baseball." Here was the result:

Come 2010, Nyjer really started to wear out his welcome. His base running errors started happening all the time, and he threw a couple tantrums on the field. One of those tantrums led to him hurling his glove to the ground in disgust, allowing the hitter to hit an inside the park home run. I decided to make a shirt about that, and based it on this picture. Here was the result:


Eventually, after a couple brawls and not improving his base running, the Nats traded him to Milwaukee. They're in a love affair with him right now, but I'm guessing he wears out his welcome soon.

Here's the thumbnails of the shirts. Click them to go right to the product in the store.

Roger is a shark, and Jesus rules.

With the start of spring training my shirt juices started flowing, and I turned out two new shirts in four days. The first is a shirt that I always wanted to do, but never had a healthy J-Flo to allow me to do it. Now that he has risen from the dead, however, I'm proud to introduce my homage to Jesus Flores.



Flores has always been one of my favorites, and I still have a bounty out on Chase Utley for his blatant attack on poor Joey Flowers. So, here's to a healthy 2011 for Jesus, and for him to start smiting some fools. He's got some time to make up for . (Shirt also available for the ladies, of course, and that one says, "Real women love JESUS.")
So... do me a favor, and buy the thing. (God forbid someone cashes in on the Utley bounty, as I'm a broke dood.)

The next shirt was one that I've been trying to do for two years. You see, my wife's favorite player became Roger Bernadina last year. "Make me a Bernie shirt," she'd say. (At least I think that's what she said. I'm about as good at listening to her as Dibble was to listening to Bobby Carpenter.) I made a lame attempt last year, but I really wasn't a fan of it. I uploaded it just long enough to order one, and pulled it. I keep trying to tell the wife that it's a GODDAMN LIMITED EDITION collectible, but I really wanted to make one she'd like. Now, I don't like to brag, but....




BAM. I'm really happy with how this shirt came out. So buy three. (Hey, if I'm gonna get fired for using some company time to make these things, I'm gonna need some of you to pony up some dough.) And for those of you that didn't know Roger's nickname was "The Shark" a good write up about it is here.
So, there you have it. Two new shirts. Buy them. Or I cry. Sniff.

The complete shirt store is here. As always, if you have an idea for a shirt, or want me to use my lame skills for a Nats player you like, shoot me an email. It's on the top right of the page. Or don't. It's cool. I got friends, you know. I don't need validation of my blogs' existence. Sniffle, sniffle. Man... who's cutting all the damn onions around here?

Ryan Zimmerman? Fabulous!

I had a hard time coming up with a shirt for the Face of the Franchise, Zimmy. Zim doesn't exactly ooze charisma, and it's hard to get a bead on his personality. I couldn't design a shirt like Burnett's, or Nyjer's, so I thought I would have to fall back on his name or his number like Jordan Zimemrman's. But then it hit me... his tag on my other blog is "The Non Human" because the kid is incredible in the clutch, and is good at every aspect of the game (lollipop side arm throws excluded). He really does play like a dude who's not mortal. So, a little tweaking of the Superman logo brought this.


I was really happy with how it came out, but still felt the need for a little text on the shirt to explain it better. I actually hunted down the font from the 1950s era Superman comics and wrote out the cheesiest line I possibly could. Is it pretty lame? Yeah, but dammit... I'm pretty lame, and I wanted a shirt that I would like. And I like this lame ass shirt a lot. So much so that it's my current game day shirt. Now, buy one, dammit, and become one of Z's minions.

Sean Burnett is a view askew.

Well, so much for this blog having any semblance of order. The Sean Burnett shirt in this post is actually my latest shirt. (I was going to try and write them chronologically, but that went out the window with post number... 3. I'm a damn fine sticker to plans.)
Sean has always been kind of an enigma to me. He doesn't really look the part of a baseball player. Anytime I look at him in the pen, he's usually wearing a hoody with his hat barely on his head. It doesn't bug me as I've been guilty of this in the past, but my wife always wants to tell him to straighten his hat. In my head I always imagine Sean responding something to the effect of, "Na." Which is cool, cause you see... he be cool. And he knows it. Anyway, even though he doesn't look like a typical player (even in his pitching motion which itself is kinda... crooked?) he's one damn effective reliever. So, I decided he had to have a shirt, and this is what I came up with, the Sean Burnett shirt:






It's not based on any one picture that I saw of him, although I did use a couple to try and get the right amount of tilt on the hat.


I had no luck re-creating the soul patch under his bottom lip, so I just decided his chin hair would be enough. Now show your inner rebel and buy, like, 12. One for you, and one for each of your crew.

The second Drew Storen shirt

I know, I know. I didn't even post the first Drew Storen shirt and I'm already posting about the second. Well, fact is, I'm kind of in a hurry right now and that first Drew shirt was an eye opener and really deserves a lot of attention, much more than I can devote now.
This Drew shirt started out as a play on "Viva El Drew K!" which itself was a play on a nickname Storen had at one point in his life. El Drew K itself is an homage to Orlando Hernandez, a Cuban born pitcher that has the nickname El Duque (The Duke). Why El Duque? Hell if I know, but it sure does make El Drew K witty. I wanted this shirt to be graffiti driven from the start, so a wanted poster with "Viva El Drew K" being scrawled across it popped into my head. It took me about three days to do the poster, and an entire day to decide on a font for the graffiti. Once I had the font, I spent a good portion of time angling the script. This way. That way. Run it by friends. Decide it's good. Change it again. I didn't want to obscure too much of Drew's face, but I thought that the bandits (the "El Drew K Crew") wouldn't really care about that. So, I finally went with what I had at the end of one of the days. The crossing out of the "WANTED" was a very, very last second decision, but one I'm still happy with.

The one that started it all - Tyler Clippard "Fear the Goggles"

I was working on a silhouette of Drew Storen, because of his huge leg kick, when I kinda drifted over to Tyler Clippard. I always liked the guy, and his delivery is so unique that the silhouette idea seemed to fit him better. This was the first design I uploaded to my spreadshirt store, and one I'm still proud of. It's a vector design, which means it's limited to three colors, but those three colors can be changed by me, so there are quite a few variations in the store. Vector graphics are also vinyl like, so no air can pass through he actual print. It's the only vector print shirt I have, as of today. The color here is the one I have for my personal t-shirt.