Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker once declined, then still picked his own alliance.

FIRST asked Andy Baker to build a placebo bot, but then refused to give him credit when it won the Midwest regional.

Andy Baker brought his gracious professionalism today.

Andy Baker once won the Team Spirit Award by himself, at a regional with the X-Cats.

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Andy Baker IS JVN.

Andy Baker makes everyones grandmother proud.

Andy Baker has already built an underwater robot for next year's game.

Andy Baker won a match in 2001 with four stretchers.

Andy Baker was 'done' a week before Beatty.

Bill Beatty has a recurring nightmare that all his qualifying matches are against three team 45's and every person in the driver station looks like Andy Baker.

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In 2005 Andy Baker capped the center goal in autonomous....with two vision tetras, two hanging tetras, and 4 tetras off the autoloader.....in 3 seconds.

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Andy Baker once built a fully working robot with one hand while simultaneously washing farrowing crates, holding piglets and re-ringing sows with the other hand.

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Andy Baker makes Steven Hawking look like a high school dropout.

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Andy Baker knows what Dave Lavery saw at the Virginia Science Museum.

The caption contest scores leave off the real top score each week--Andy Baker's score is really +infinity.

Andy Baker can hold 80 poof balls and deposit them all in the center goal.

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Andy Baker took a week off once, the next week Delphi declared bankruptcy.

Andy Baker doesn't need CAD or CNC machines. He designs everything in his head, and makes gearboxes with only his bare hands and his teeth.

The Northeast Blackout of 2004 was caused because Andy Baker was recharging his robot army.

FIRST will not give the Technokats the Chairman's Award because they're afraid that Andy Baker's cheering will blow the dome off of the Georgia Dome.

Andy Baker can referee, announce, MC, run the scoring system, reset the field, que up teams, and coach all at the same time, but chooses not to so that others get to do something.

Andy Baker once created a perpetual motion machine, but doesn't want to run it because the resulting energy would reverse the rotation of the earth.

Andy Baker actually wrote the Beach Boys song "Kokomo" about Kokomo, Indiana, but he let them sing it instead because he liked their voices.

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Andy Baker has never lost a FIRST match he coached. Sometimes however he chooses not to win.

FIRST used a carpet-playingfield in 1993 because Andy Baker ate the corn.

Once Andy Baker had a meeting with Bill Beatty, and the result was the 2000 FIRST Game.

"Andy Baker" used to be illegal in FIRST competition, per the exotic materials list.

If Andy Baker says "3, 2, 1, Go" every regional across the country starts a match.

Once, during a pre-match strategy discussion Andy Baker made Paul Copioli cry. Then he coached both teams to the win while Paul pouted.

You cannot buy Andy Baker from McMaster or Small Parts.

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Andy Baker moonlights as a record producer, and his first signed act's debut album "Karthik Fever" reaches quadruple platinum in a single day. Somewhere in heaven, Jesus Christ applauds this miracle of miracles.

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Andy Baker and Paul Copioli walked into a bar. The bar exploded because it couldn't handle that much awesomeness at the same time.

From that explosion came a young JVN.

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Andy Baker built a swerve drive that was swervier than wildstang & chief, but he declared "it doesn't have enough balls."
This was the origin of the ball-drive.

Andy Baker once arm-wrestled Raul Olivera; this caused the great Los Angeles Earthquake.

Secretly, every FIRST playingfield is made in Andy Baker's basement.

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Andy Baker sued FIRST last year when it became apparent that their game "Triple Play" was violating the patent of his "Pyramid" game in Cairo.

The Woodie Flowers Award was supposed to be called the Andy Baker Award, but then they realized that nobody could come close to him so they went with "Plan B," Woodie.

Andy Baker eats other people's Nacho Cheese, even though it's not his cheese.

Andy Baker will rip his USB drive out of the port without clicking 'Safely Remove Hardware.' He says that such precautions aren't manly.

Andy Baker already thought of your robot design, but he chose not to use it.

Andy Baker enters a McDonald's without shoes or sandals, and still gets service.

Inertia is a property of Andy Baker

Once, Andy Baker was partying all night with Paul Copioli and Ken Patton, and the sun came up. Andy didn't want to stop partying, so he made the sun go back down. With his mind.

Einstein developed his theory of relativity by watching Andy Baker

Gravity is the scientific term for the attractive force of Andy Baker

One time I had to write a report on "What is Gracious Professionalism?" I wrote down "Andy Baker" and got an A+.

Andy Baker doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Andy Baker built a robotusing only a paper clip, a rubber band, and a pinecone. This robot's name is MacGyver.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a documentary about Andy Baker's childhood inventions.

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The US government wanted to buy the rights to Andy Baker's tank drive system, but backed out when the beta test ripped through the surface of the Earth and formed the Grand Canyon.

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Andy Baker once saved the entire Porsche company by riding one Segway.

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Andy Baker used to have a Blue Ox, but gave it to Paul Bunyan to borrow and never got him back.

Andy Baker can make the green light go on whenever he wants it to by just wishing it and it does.

The first 2 letters of the alphabet were named after Andy (A) Baker (B)

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Andy Baker doesn't do pullups - he pulls the bar down.

Andy Baker makes everything fit in every hole.

:D

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Andy Baker invented the c-section after round-house kicking his way out of the womb.

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FIRST assumes Andy Baker wins every regional by himself, The winners actually are the ones who come second to Andy.

Andy is infact not short for andrew, its short for awesome....i dont know how, but it is.

One time in 1990 Andy Baker Round house kicked Dean Kamen in the face, and out popped FIRST.

Andy Baker doesn't need to design his bot he just yells at the kit of parts and they assemble in fear.

Andy baker doesn't have to AIM High, infact he AIM's low

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Andy Baker runs like his daughter.
Andy Baker wishes he was Chuck Norris.
Andy Baker can't sing.
Andy Baker is a great dad.
Andy Baker rocks the mic, sometimes a little too hard.
Andy Baker is a great mentor.
Andy Baker is setting up for Boilermaker Regional as we type.

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ok this needs to be shut down... AB will become the next CN... and we all know what happened w/ CN =X

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Andy Baker stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

Andy Baker cancelled 'Walker, Texas Ranger".

The Rock smells what Andy Baker is cookin'.

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FYP. Ewwwww! :yikes:

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In 2003 Stack Attack the original name of the game was " Andy Attacks " they changed it out of fear of his wrath and gave him the Woodie Flowers award instead.

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Andy Baker can score when the green light is off and still get the points.

FIRST does not inspire people. Andy Baker inspires people.

The chief export of Andy Baker is shifting transmissions.

Andy Baker does not need joysticks. He just looks at the robot and it wins the match out of shear terror.

Andy Baker scores ten balls in the center goal during autonomous. From each of the six robots. In under three seconds.

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There is no such thing as an uninspired person in FIRST. There are only people who haven't yet met Andy Baker.

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Andy Baker is the reason that FIRST raised the bar.

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Andy Baker doesn't sleep, he designs robots on the insides of his eyelids.

When Andy Baker walks into a regional, not only do contestants stare in awe, but Paul Copioli, JVN, and Bill Beatty actually get down on their knees and pray.

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Andy Baker lives outside of the box. So it's pretty much impossible to not think outside of the box.

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Every web-cast is merely a memory from Andy Baker's brain.

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Andy Baker invented Mark Koors and now has an army of them in is garage. (Mark Koors v2 has omni-wheels!)

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Andy Baker doesn't design and build transmissions, they put themselves together in the presence of his engineering aura.

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It's no secret why it's not called MarkAndy.biz.

Andy Baker is the only survivor of the trio that included the Butcher and the Candlestick Maker.

The earth does not rotate; the sun merely has to go down once a day simply because it cannot compete with the brightness of Andy Baker.

Andy Baker once was offered the title "Chief Delphi" but would not take the demotion.

Delphi offers its employees AndyMark stock.

If Andy Baker lived in Rochester instead of Kokomo, the nationwide engineering curriculum would be known as ABLTW.

www.chiefdelphi.com evolved around the AndyMark.biz banner.

The reason that regionals are Thursday-Friday-Saturday is because on the seventh day, Andy Baker rests.

Andy Baker once tried golfing, but his first tee shot still hasn't come down yet.
In an unrelated story, NASA is wondering why their Mars rover spontaneously exploded.

Al Gore stole the Internet from Andy Baker.

In his spare time, Andy Baker knits sweaters. And by knits, I mean builds, and by sweaters, I mean robots.

Andy Baker can levitate birds, but nobody seems to notice.

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Time waits for no man unless that man is Andy Baker.
Dean Kamen bowed to Andy's prowess after Andy improved upon the Segway by removing a wheel.
Andy Baker's breakfast of choice is Kellog's Nuts and Bolts.

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Chuck Norris fears no man except Andy Baker.

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Andy Baker is so awsome, that his presence alone at the competition caused the scoring system to crash....multiple times...at all 8 regionals.

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The reason you have never seen Andy Baker and Steve Austin (the six million dollar man) in the same room is because they are the same guy.

Andy Bakers is the actual father of Luke Skywalker.

Andy Baker is the only Jedi that is on both sides of the force.

Andy Baker is the actual American Idol.

Andy Baker is also the Canadian Idol.

All the girls with their boyfriend was like Andy Baker. (you know the pussycat dolls song dont cha)

thats all for now kids haha

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Andy Baker blew the Big Bad Wolf's house down.

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Andy Baker rocked so hard as "Ozzy Kamen" once that he killed a man!

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Andy Baker made a boom boom in his pants and no one was brave enough to acknowledge that he did it.

Oh and Andy Baker's pigs do fly.

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Andy Baker is the bar
He is the bar we measure ourselves against
The un-reachable bar from which we get inspiration to keep reaching

Andy Baker is the impossible we try to do.

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Today at the Boilermaker Regional set-up, Andy Baker made a shot into the 3 point goal from the end of the building, on a unicycle facing away from the goal blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back. He used a bicycle kick on the ball.

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A man named Jason Morella was once brave enough to challenge the great Andy Baker.....he lost...

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And I was impressed when I heard that in 2003 he hit the bins in .45 seconds!

Re: Andy Baker
 

Is that from the 2002 Los Angeles regional. If so, and if you could spin the camera 180 degrees on the horizontal plane, you would probably see me. :)

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Andy Baker once balanced the bridge, built a stack of 8 bins, hung from the bar, capped the center goal, got on the puck, scored in the trough all pulled all three goals into the zone. He then made a sandwich. It was tasty. Very tasty.

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Paul Copioil wears Andy Baker Pajamas to bed

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Andy Baker went on Survivor and built a robot out of coconuts and palm fronds.

Andy Baker could have gotten Gilligan off the island.

Andy Baker introduced Pythagoras to the triangle.

Andy Baker only needs one number right to win the lottery.

Andy Baker taught Doyle Brunson how to play Texas Hold'em.

Hoyle checks with Andy Baker before making the rules.

The game Monopoly was created so people can feel more like Andy Baker.

Bill Gates lives in constant fear that Andy Baker will buy him out of Microsoft.

Andy Baker can drive in the carpool lane all by himself.

True story of how the Segway was invented: Dean Kamen was cleaning up after Andy Baker's lunch (we all wish we could, but it's a prestigious job), and saw some doodles on Andy's napkin.

Re: Andy Baker
 

That was week one of that year during practice on Thursday. This is Championship of the same year during the last match of finals on Saturday.

After winning every match for the last five weeks of regionals, Andy Baker played his last official match in the Championship finals, balanced both goals off the bridge under a minute, built 2 stacks of 8 bins and dominated the top of the ramp with his wings (these are real* wings, mind you), hung from the center bar and and capped the enemy goal with the big ball in autonomous, capped all 9 tetras in autonomous, lift the puck 45 degrees off the ground and 8 floppies 8 ft into the air, scored 4 black balls from one side of the trough to the other hanging from the center bar, and pushed 3 goals full of soccer balls while simultaneously touching either end of the end zones.

He then wrote a song for his daughters. They were happy. Very happy.

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Andy Baker built a robot that can build robots.

Andy Baker is the only other person that holds the secrets to the mighty Roundhouse kick.

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Andy Baker's Roundhouse kick makes Chuck Norris' look like a Roundtent kick

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Andy Baker is more dominant than team 71's robot in 2001.

Oscar Meyer Wieners wish they were Andy Baker.

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Andy Baker is Paul Bunyan but the marketing department knew that stories about big kid who wrestles a purple pig for fun wouldn't sell.

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Andy Baker masqueraded as Richard Hatch in the first season of Survivor. He used the disguise because he wanted to give the other castaways a sporting chance.

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Andy Baker once shed a single tear in pity for all of the alliances his team was up against; that tear became Chuck Norris.

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Andy Baker knows what's in the Secret Sauce.

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Andy Baker likes Green Eggs and Ham

Andy Baker is the Hat on the Cat

Andy Baker is the Pop we all want to Hop on

Andy Baker is the 1 and the 2 and the red and the blue Fish

Andy Baker solved the Bitter Butter Battle

Andy Baker.

Enough Said.

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Andy Baker could beat up Bill Brasky

ROTFL!!! :D (If you don't know who Bill Brasky is, google.com it ;))

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Andy Baker made Dave Lavery miss Mars.

One time at band camp, Andy Baker built a robot.

Andy Baker has a hemi, is built ford tough, like a rock.

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New Mottos -

The few, the proud, the Andy Baker

Cross into the Andy Baker

An Army of Andy Baker

:)

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Andy Baker's tears can cure cancer...

It's a $@#$@#$@#$@# shame that he never cries.

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Andy Baker is the force.

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Andy Baker thought up an acronym beginning with M.W. for Mid-West FIRST that was so great, his M.W. fraction immediately conquered the N.E.R.Ds, the M.A.V.E.R.I.C.Ks and the rest of the unorganized FIRST World.

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When the Midwest Starts a community it will be called Andy Baker... no matter what the Abreviation is...

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Andy Baker saw the scoreboard.
Andy Baker saw the referee.
Andy Baker saw the losing team.
Andy Baker was the winning team.

Dog is man's best friend. God is Andy Baker's best friend.

Re: Andy Baker
 

...Until Mark Koors won the regional Woodie Flowers award. Congratulations to you both, and the entire 45 team on the well-deserved Chairman's Award. Good luck in Toronto and Atlanta, and we'll see you at the IRI.

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Never meet Andy Baker to bad he is a part of every FIRST’er why because he is Andy Baker.

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Like Captain Planet, when Paul Copioli, JVN, Dr Joe, Lavery and David Kelso let their powers combine, the result is Andy Baker

(my original intention were that the 5 of them were the power rangers, but then i thought of Copioli as the Pink Ranger and laughed... a lof)

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This event actually occurred in the Miller Time Bar at the Hilton in Milwaukee this year. I witnessed it. I will never be the same again.

BTW - Andy, Thanks for saying Hi to me that night and congratulating our team. You made the other mentors on our team jealous. :D

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Andy Baker once gave me a good rep. When computer saw this it couldn't take it and crashed. I had to wipe the memory before it would turn on agian. True story. :D

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Andy baker is more powerful than Test Shot Baker

(Website has some inappropriate material)

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Andy Baker can do the Cha Cha Cha Slide, the Macarena, the YMCA, and the Cotton Eye Joe dance and sing "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" getting every word and note correct..all at once...while making a robot that can do all of them as well

Andy Baker can dump 30 balls into a corner goal, while making 30 balls in the center goal, and defend the ramp all at once

Re: Andy Baker
 

I so want an Andy Baker t-shirt (C'mon Andy you gotta hook me up man!)

Re: Andy Baker
 

I'm pretty sure FIRST was called SECOND before Andy Baker came along.

Also, check my sig.

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Andy gave MY dad a shirt which I wore to school today :D

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The big bang was due to Andy Baker hitting his alarm clock.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but Andy Baker built the rest of the world in an hour.

Everytime Andy Baker is hit in the head and loses a brain cell, 25 geniuses are born.

Why is the sky blue? Because Andy Baker says so.

Andy Baker can divide by zero.

When Andy Baker washes his hands, it rains everywhere in the world.

If you go up to Andy Baker, before you say a word, he already told you the answer and everything else.

Andy Baker's robots are so awesome he must make them invisible otherwise everyone's head would explode.

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Andy sent me this message last year: "you go, Jenny."
I'm still waiting for him to say it's ok to stop.

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Dean's denim, Woodie's Ponytail, and Lavery's Hawaiian shirts all result from lost bets with Andy Baker; Lavery's hair however, remains inexplicable.

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:eek: 04-06-2006 11:44 AM Andy Baker It's not. Keep going

But Andy, I'm soooooo tired.....

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Huh... Andy Baker seems pretty cool to me, judging from his many admirers on CD.

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Andy Baker can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.

Andy Baker has been caller number nine.

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In 2001, Andy Baker convinced the Team 190 college mentors to drive all the way to Kokomo, IN just to stay at the KokoMotel.

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Hah... I'm sure Andy Baker was pleased when you came? If you came...

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Andy Baker once joined 229 for one day, and after that day they built competitive robots.


True story. ;)

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Andy Baker came to the Greater Toronto Regional without a passport, and his awesomeness convinced George Bush to eliminate the stupid requirement for everyone crossing the border to have a passport or special ID card by mid-2007, thus saving GTR and Waterloo from losing mass quantities of American team registrations.

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Andy Baker is Number Six. There is no Number One.

(Number nine is right out.)

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NASA has the Mars Rover on a lease from Andy Baker.

Andy Baker actually created the first robot, but gave the credit away to prevent traffic jams from FIRST students lining up outside his house for autographs everyday.

The GDC originally planned on having all FIRST teams combine to build a robot to play against Andy Baker's for the 2006 game, but instead made Aim High when they realised there were only 1133 teams in FIRST.

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All lightning bolts used to be perfectly straight until Andy Baker grabbed one from the sky and crumpled it up, and then told all the others to behave the same way or he would destroy them too.

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Andy Baker was the sole person ("The Baker") in the original version of the poem "Rub A Dub Dub", and he wasn't in a Tub, but a really cool floating robot, but to the dismay of Baker himself, the poem was rewritten to include a Butcher, and a Candlestick maker, and the Floating Robot was replaced with a very archaic Tub. This was done because the author said "Robots can't float..." To which Baker said, "Yes they do, and I'll prove it, just put me on Survivor and I'll make a floating robot out of coconuts and float right off the island.
This was never to be the case, as Andy was not chosen to be on Survivor.. :(

Andy Baker was so mad at not being able to prove the author wrong by build his floating robot out of coconuts on Survivor Island, that he invented Poof Balls by pressing all the unused erasers from the used pencils he used to make designs of coconut robots together to make one giant ball!!
Thus we have a new game object for 2006.

Wow.. can you tell I'm bored today?

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Andy Baker had to create his alter-ego, Ozzy Kamen to prevent everyone from exploding with jealousy when they heard him sign. Additionally, Ozzy Kamen is not named after Ozzy Osbourne, in fact it is the other way around.

Clark Kent only pretends to be Superman, but in fact Superman is Andy Baker.

Andy Baker has never missed a Jeopardy question.

The only reason Survivor didn't accept Andy Baker is they wanted it to be a fair contest.

Andy Baker doesn't build robots, robots build themselves because he is nearby.

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There are actually 5 divisions at the championships; no team has ever been brave enough to show up after being put into the Baker division.

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Andy Baker owns beatty (2002).

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Andy Baker proclaimed shortly before the 2006 Championship, "Let there be light!"

And just like that, the black tarps were off of the Georgia Dome ceiling.

Re: Andy Baker
 

Andy Baker is my cousin. He sure seems popular on this site.

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...you have no idea :p

Andy Baker built a flying robot for the 2005 game, but in the spirit of keeping the games fair he decided not to use it

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To make it look like a team, Andy let Mark be in the name AndyMark. In reality, Andy Baker does everything, including assembling all the products by hand.

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Can't say I agree with that! I have seen Mark's wife even working with AndyMark.

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FIRST in attempt to make the competition "fair" is changing their name to SECOND, because it is decidely impossible to come in first in a competition that Andy Baker even thinks about competing in.

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Space only exists because it can't handle the awesomeness of being on the same planet as Andy Baker.

Andy Baker built a robot so fast that it could drive around the world and hit its own back bumper.

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It was particularly awkward in 2005 when this robot got a 30-point interference penalty for hitting itself in the loading zone.