An homage to the classic Kurosawa Akira movie "Seven Samurai" with members of the San Francisco...

An homage to the classic Kurosawa Akira movie "Seven Samurai" with members of the San Francisco Giants replacing the samurai. It started out with the Matt Cain/samurai picture and really came together when Aaron Rowand was christened a "warrior".

from left to right
Tim Lincecum: Alien Cyborg
Matt Cain: yojimbo
Barry Zito: monk
Omar Vizquel: Taiko drummer
Brian Wilson: Irish samurai
Aaron Rowand: warrior
Bengie Molina: armored samurai

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nice!

Idolizing the Nuschler Face since April 8, 1986 / GIANTSPACE™ returns!

by SoFa King Mike on Apr 4, 2008 10:50 PM PDT reply actions

So are they going to win games for us and then realize that we didn't deserve to win games?

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by groug on Apr 4, 2008 11:37 PM PDT reply actions

At least I didn't choose Ran

or we'd all die at the end of the season.

SAVE_US.RAY
Get yer Nattowear

by Natto on Apr 5, 2008 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Barry Zito is staring through my soul...eerie.

by Grant Brisbee on Apr 5, 2008 3:51 PM PDT reply actions

Omar has already done that

And is laughing at what he saw. What a jerk!

¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco?

by hairball on Apr 6, 2008 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Nice work!

by SF Pete on Apr 5, 2008 3:52 PM PDT reply actions

hmm...

something's not quite right. I know can you draw Barry Zito with a little more suck next time?

Flossing a dead horse

by kenshin1 on Apr 6, 2008 3:13 PM PDT reply actions

Is now desktop background

¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco?

by hairball on Apr 6, 2008 7:26 PM PDT reply actions

Very awesome. I never noticed the Fanshots stuff until today!

No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball

by Skaldheim on Apr 9, 2008 5:30 PM PDT reply actions

Wilson looks like he's asking "Can I take your order?"

The rest of it is pretty awesome, especially Cain as Mifune, and Zito.

2008: My previous assessment may have been overly optimistic.

by EliminateMe on Apr 10, 2008 10:41 AM PDT reply actions

I still insist that Matt Cain is sexy and exciting in this universe.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 21, 2008 7:37 AM PDT reply actions