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Tom McGrath

@tcmcg.photo
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Just another dipshit from Chicago. Bits and jokes and jokes and bits. Photos, sometimes acting, mostly nonsense. Banner image thanks to @chgohoods.bsky.social

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 10m
It’s 6/8, right? That’s a fun wrinkle.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 15m
It could be me mis-perceiving tone. I’m in a Mood besides.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 15m
WHY IS IT NOT THIS
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 23m
Yup! She’s on our side.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 29m
Ooooooooo
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 33m
For 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 3h
Well, they couldn’t after some 12-year-old dropped them.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 13h
Jesus, guys, there’s even an arrow pointing at him.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 14h
Did Iowa find a suitcase of points they forgot they had stashed in the back of the closet or something?
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 20h
Well, that explains that experience. Never had it before. Don’t care for it!
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 22h
Because 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 23h
Can you get sleep paralysis during a nap?
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
Rest’n Peats, y’jagoff. (Complimentary)
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
I 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.”
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
This was a University Archives event, besides.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
And I pregamed this with a 60-minute Ryan Field Commercial so I’m going to lie down in traffic.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
hhhhhhhfuckit
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
Extremely Do Your Job Coded
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
All right, now hit something, Sox
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 09/10/2026
SHIT
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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 09/10/2026
the 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
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
DOUBLE-BARRELED SHOTGUN ALERT
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
You 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
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
I promise I’ll stop yammering about the NUMB stuff eventually. When it stops being hilarious.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
Hang on, that’s not right, I didn’t pitch it when I was a freshman, that seems unlike me.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
This 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)
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NUMB: You Should Be There - Tommy Doles, OL
YouTube video by TCMcG Photography
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
Son of a bitch, that link has no preview.
“Cleats to Beats” - Aditi Foster (WLAX) is going to don a sousaphone.Aditi and Ben looking comfortableJoe Spivak gesturing in cutoffs
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
In related news, Joe Spivak (WWE’s Tank Ledger) Gets It: www.instagram.com/reel/DeR2jSI...
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
The “wait, no, we’re just little birthday boys, stop being mad at us” tone is extremely funny at this point.
New Ryan Field on Twitter:

“NUMB did a fantastic job welcoming opening night crowds in the festival grounds before the Penn State Game.
The crowds were excited to have the band with them as a part of the pregame festivities.”

[photos of the band outside the stadium]

“And then NUMB led the #WildcatWall in bringing the thunder, starting with the electrifying team walk out and then throughout the game to bring @NUFBFamily a home field advantage that shocked the football world”
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
I was invested in yesterday’s game, but posting throwback intros wasn’t sufficient, apparently. We have adjusted and regret the error.
Selfie in a white Sox shirt jersey. You can see Beckham 15 in the mirror.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
I do my best
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 08/10/2026
Ah, well, get em tomorrow, Sox.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
The best part is that this house backs up onto Higgins, and I have no idea how it doesn’t cause 1,000 accidents.
Foreground to background: sidewalk, grass, fence, … castle??Looking over the fence at a garage with a turret and arrow slits?Car shed thing and the south side of the castle garageTurret close up
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
It’s MADDENING, and there has to be consequences someday
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Aw, bugger. An absolute hero
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
I know this house! And yes, the neighborhood is lousy with Chicago Borg Cube Georgians that have all sorts of crazy shit appended to them.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Sassy! Don’t mess with the band. www.espn.com/college-foot...
ESPN screenshot: “#4 Ball(er) State: Speaking of ESPN Analytics, the Ballers are listed as having a 1% chance of winning at
Northwestern's new $875 million Ryan Field. On a positive note, that's 1% better than the chance the Northwestern band had of being allowed to play during pregame festivities at the stadium's opening last week.”
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
"Angry and confused?" I bet!
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
DEEPLY 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?...
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Tri-Park Miniature Golf Invitaional 2005
YouTube video by Tom McGrath
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Oh, 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
As long as we're celebrating intro videos, this Blackhawks one is a contender for apex-tier.
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Panicstreak @panicstreak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not a Sox fan but whoever did this and the old Blackhawks pregame one deserved awards. youtu.be/4kYpiZX3YrA?...
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Chicago Blackhawks`The Orchard`HD
YouTube video by kevin turner
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Oh, 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Every 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
That'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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
If 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.
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
To 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_zSxjAH8
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NUMB 24-25 Intro Video (Updated 9.2025) "Once Again, Here We Go"
YouTube video by TCMcG Photography
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
PLAY. THE. HITS. WHITE SOX: youtu.be/Jttj2N55UGU?...
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White Sox Intro Video
YouTube video by Will Luera
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo · 07/10/2026
Something 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!
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