Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 33mFor those of you keeping track: NUMB marched pregame (yay) but still isn’t part of the Thunderstruck Entrance Tunnel, not that they NEED to be, but it sure seems like they’d be useful there. 0101
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 14hDid Iowa find a suitcase of points they forgot they had stashed in the back of the closet or something? 000
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 20hWell, that explains that experience. Never had it before. Don’t care for it! 010
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 22hBecause complaining is just the best. Nothing gets the amygdala sizzling like being mad and treating reading comprehension like yogurt in the back of the fridge that has the best by date all smudged. 000
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026I was able to pull off my favorite bit yesterday: [Lambeau Field is mentioned] PERSON SEATED NEXT TO ME: “Go, Pack Go!” ME: “Far away from us.” 030
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026And I pregamed this with a 60-minute Ryan Field Commercial so I’m going to lie down in traffic. 100
Reposted by Tom McGrathdr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 09/10/2026the pope (turning chair around): you know who else had an important walk? that’s right, chris widger in game 3 of the 2005 world series. big insurance run in the 14th inning for our sox 57819
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026You bet your ass. Annoying, relentlessly polite, relentless, deeply nerdy, source-citing freaks who give a shit about details and live with the expectation that they’ll get taken for granted, but NOT LIKE THIS, YOU CORPORATE DIRTBAGS sorry sorry we don’t mean to get emotional, we can see both sides 030
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026I promise I’ll stop yammering about the NUMB stuff eventually. When it stops being hilarious. 140
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026Hang on, that’s not right, I didn’t pitch it when I was a freshman, that seems unlike me. 010
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026This has been a thing I’ve pitched for at least TWENTY-FIVE GODDAMN YEARS. We even got started once (2016)… youtu.be/UXWWJmHL_P0 (Tommy Doles) youtu.be/lKb3GBZPIa8 (Clayton Thorson)youtu.beNUMB: You Should Be There - Tommy Doles, OLYouTube video by TCMcG Photography 210
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026In related news, Joe Spivak (WWE’s Tank Ledger) Gets It: www.instagram.com/reel/DeR2jSI...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 200
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026The “wait, no, we’re just little birthday boys, stop being mad at us” tone is extremely funny at this point. 030
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026I was invested in yesterday’s game, but posting throwback intros wasn’t sufficient, apparently. We have adjusted and regret the error. 030
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026The best part is that this house backs up onto Higgins, and I have no idea how it doesn’t cause 1,000 accidents. 020
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026I know this house! And yes, the neighborhood is lousy with Chicago Borg Cube Georgians that have all sorts of crazy shit appended to them. 030
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026Sassy! Don’t mess with the band. www.espn.com/college-foot... 041
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026DEEPLY Amateur effort. My friends and I had a four-round miniature golf tournament every summer at four different courses around where we grew up. They say you gotta start somewhere: youtu.be/nmbRn8zHa_0?...youtu.beTri-Park Miniature Golf Invitaional 2005YouTube video by Tom McGrath 100
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026Oh, for real? For a while it was everywhere, and I suspect there was a market-saturation effect. The movie came out in 2003, and I feel like the tune showed up pretty consistently through the end of the decade. Hell, I did an amateur one with one of those little digital early '00s Sony camcorders. 100
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026As long as we're celebrating intro videos, this Blackhawks one is a contender for apex-tier. 000
Reposted by Tom McGrathPanicstreak @panicstreak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Not a Sox fan but whoever did this and the old Blackhawks pregame one deserved awards. youtu.be/4kYpiZX3YrA?...youtu.beChicago Blackhawks`The Orchard`HDYouTube video by kevin turner 101
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026Oh, this one is top-shelf too. I think Paul Kennedy (late of Northwestern and now some B1G marketing muckety-muck) was part of the team that did this. The logo-sewing concept is an actual stroke of genius. 000
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026Every stadium should have a little Klaus Badelt & Hans Zimmer creche. Klaus Badelt will ascend immediately to Valhalla when it is time. If he did nothing else, He's A Pirate would make him a first-ballot unanimous hall-of-famer. Sports Content Creators should tithe to him. 100
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026That's all by way of saying that I definitely remember one with the Buehrle flip and - I thought - Wise's catch, but also my brain basically has a section entirely devoted to imagining permutations of hype videos, so my memory isn't trustworthy. 010
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026If you search "White Sox Pirates of the Caribbean," there's like a half-dozen of them, and I think they're all different. The oldest one is janky as hell. It might be copied badly from the television, but the timing of the cuts is just abhorrent, relative to today's eyes. It's really adorable. 110
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026To continue my "Stories Are Only Good If I Can Relate Them To Myself" Streak, you can absolutely draw a straight line between that Pirates/Thunderstruck intro and my work w/NUMB: youtu.be/vZ2_zSxjAH8youtu.beNUMB 24-25 Intro Video (Updated 9.2025) "Once Again, Here We Go"YouTube video by TCMcG Photography 020
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026PLAY. THE. HITS. WHITE SOX: youtu.be/Jttj2N55UGU?...youtu.beWhite Sox Intro VideoYouTube video by Will Luera 221
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026Something I didn't consider about Chip Kelly's Operation Mincemeat Offense is that a lot of the sportswierdo fans moved from row 11-ish at Ryan One to an elevated 300-level angle in Ryan Two. He's just giving the fans something neat to see! 010