Andy Baker

[JVN]

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.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

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.

[Dave Scheck]

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.

[MissInformation]

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.

[Aburame Shino]

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

[Travis Hoffman]

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.

[Billfred]

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.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Billfred

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

FYP. Ewwwww!

[Dan Richardson]

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.

[artdutra04]

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.

[Adam Richards]

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

[Billfred]

Andy Baker is the reason that FIRST raised the bar.

[petek]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Andy Baker is the reason that FIRST raised the bar.

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.

[Ricky Q.]

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.

[Jay Trzaskos]

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.