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.