The McCoveys Award Ceremony and Clambake
by Natto on Nov 3, 2008 12:49 PM PST
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PrintThe moment everyone has been anticipating has finally arrived! The votes have been counted, and the results are in. Here are your winners for the 2008 McCoveys:
Outstanding Newcomer
FairweatherFan
The voting began as a heated race between can of corn, but as it progressed, FairweatherFan pulled away and took a decisive lead. But who was that mysterious stranger seen logging in and voting for FF multiple times?
Most Informative Poster
xanthan
xanthan's story is an inspiring one. He was an ordinary computer considered to be obsolete but rose above and beyond his original programming, providing the world with baseball knowledge and BayCityBall .gif banners and finding love in the process. Dreamworks is already working on the animated adaptation starring Shia LaBouf.
Most Amusing Poster
Natto
I'm pretty sure this guy was a fake poster.
Most Spirited Poster
tk
Never has an election been more heated. The candidates were literally neck and neck. At one point, it seemed as if tk would pull ahead of tk, but in the end, tk proved to be the true victor, winning us over with her awesomeness and spectacularity.
Best Gameday Image
This one was actually incredibly close. Final count: Dancing Goofus with 69 votes, Old Folks with 68. In the end, I think we can all agree that when Goofus dances, nobody wins, especially those sitting around him. Heh.. 69....
Best non-Gameday Image
This race was also pretty close, but the Lasorda-bashing Phanatic truly won our hearts and gave us that warm, ooey gooey feeling all righteous men and women get whenever they see Pure Evil get the crap kicked out of it.
Best Fanpost
1) Rohlinger called up
2) Beat LA Rally thread
3) PLEASE CONFIRM FOR AN ARTICLE?
These were the top three Fanposts of the '08 season. If we've learned anything from this year, it's that the Midwest is a surprisingly good source for Giants transactions. I'm going to put links to them in the wiki, although who knows when I'll actually do that.
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I actually have a prize for those who won: I'll draw a cartoon version of you for use as an avatar. Or if you'd rather not show your face, I'll draw a random suggestion - a scene, person, thing, whatever - that you make, like penguins eating Neifi Perez or something. So there are your winners for the 2008 McCoveys. Congratulations all!
This FanPost is reader-generated, and it does not necessarily reflect the views of McCovey Chronicles. If the author uses filler to achieve the minimum word requirement, a moderator may edit the FanPost for his or her own amusement.
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In the case of Most Amusing Poster, I’m willing to draw something for howtheyscored, as he came in second place to me. I draw myself all the time anyway.
You only won Most Amusing Poster because Gov. Brother of Natto from Florida swayed the election in your favor.
No, my Crazy Crab bobblehead is not for sale.
Even despite my infinite humbleness
If you’re down to draw something involving my cat and me, there’s just no way I could say no to that.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
Hooray!
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 4, 2008 7:08 PM PST up reply actions
I’m also glad that you remembered Kuga’s name.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 4, 2008 7:11 PM PST up reply actions
Natto was just going for realism.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 4, 2008 10:43 PM PST up reply actions
I didn’t know that Sharpie ink flaked like that.
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.
It does if you put enough on there.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 4, 2008 11:02 PM PST up reply actions
The voting began as a heated race between can of corn
Heh…heated.
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 3, 2008 1:01 PM PST reply actions
Blech… a heated can of corn? Does that make it twice as gross?*
*Note: This comment reflects entirely on corned can, and in no way on can of corn.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
Whoops. I guess that’s kind of like corned beef… probably… something like that… more likely, I’m just not very careful when I type things online.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:28 PM PST up reply actions
Wait..
I thought his gave you that “warm, ooey gooey feeling.”
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
I still don't get that confirmation post....
My brain hurts after re-reading it…
Down in Front Meat!
If I had human emotions, I’d probably feel pretty good right now.
#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball
Well I sincerely hope somebody alerted the police.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
Now that’s the lamest joke I’ve made in a long time.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
Two… two and a half. I made a pretty lame joke to myself when I was driving home from work alone in my car.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
But you promised us clams.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby
I’ll settle for punch and pie
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Draw me!
I’ve always loved your art — not sucking up, I promise. And I’ve never been cartooned before. Will you give me anime pigtails? Can I have a Brett Tomko jersey? Maybe too much detail…
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
Here you go
I forgot what Tomko’s number was when he was with the Giants, so you’ll have to settle for a Padres jersey. :/
Refresh
You probably caught it during one of my deletion/reuploadings because I kept fixing minor things.
HEE HEE!
that is awesome!! Thank you!
TOMKO! Squee!
(he was 35 and 50. He dropped one of those in his last season as a Giant in hopes that the new number would bring him better luck. It didn’t.)
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
by tk on Nov 5, 2008 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
As runner up in the Outstanding Newcomer contest, I wish to now declare my availability for any vice presidential openings that may arise.
Do I gotta pay for my own ticket to the clambake? What if I don’t actually like clams?
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My adopted son Matt Downs. Lost in the wilderness of mediocrity.
Or you can just prepare your own.
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Nov 4, 2008 7:46 AM PST up reply actions
Hey!
I want a cartoon! Can I get one for my win last year? I know it was last year but maybe you can just make it half a cartoon or something…
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Losers and past winners can have me draw a stick figure that may or may not resemble them. The cartoon will be of them enjoying their favorite activity*.
* Your favorite activity is eating pie.
As both a loser and a past winner...
can I get two stick figures?
Then I could rub them together and make a fire.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
As winner of Best Front Page Poster for five years in a row — extending back to the Boofies — I, too, demand a free caricature.
ahaha, that’s great.
/cranky lawyer guy point!
#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball
* applauds *
Thanks for being generous with the hairline.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 5, 2008 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
Not Christian Slatery enough.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 5, 2008 2:10 PM PST up reply actions
not Hennessey enough.
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
by tk on Nov 5, 2008 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
Surprisingly...
I don’t have the same clout that Grant has.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Now there’s a top-notch reference with two degrees of separation.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 5, 2008 7:14 PM PST up reply actions
He’s wearing the 8 thousand dollar Sacks 5th Thriller Palin jacket!
Radical!
#1 JUDY STEFFES FAN
My favorite pie is (name of pie flavor)
Bay City Ball
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