when we bought him that fatty ass gift card.

But hey there can never be too many thanks - thanks Grant for being the only good thing about this organization. Except maybe Cain and Lincecum. And the garlic fries. Ok and Jon Miller. Anyway you know what I'm saying.

If it wasn't for Grant's gift with words I wouldn't be blogging here. He did coin my username, after all.

Seriously though. Prior to me coming over here, I thought all sports blogging was a bunch of myopic jerkoff males with their heads so far up their asses they can't see how awful their opinions really are. Little did I know we can have fart jokes, genitalia jokes, puns, music posts, recipe swaps, oh and that baseball stuff too.

Grant, you rule.

Hear, hear. Also here, here, and here.

Grant is awesome every damn day. He's up there with Jon Miller and Dave Fleming when it comes to my enjoyment of Giants baseball.

His posts are an outstanding complement to the more straight-forward coverage we get from the beat writers.

but can Grant play CF?

I was at Safeway last night, and saw Mr and Mrs Magowan in the produce area, she was squeezing cucumbers with a faraway look on her face, and Pete said, "Sabean told me he got an offer to swap Grant for a player to be named later, he wants to kick the tires on it, what do you think?" and Mrs Mac said, "and ruin what little pleasure I get from your stupid team?", and I sure agree with her. Grant's a keeper.

I'll leave the long (read: Intelligent) posts for guys like HTS and E, but I just want to say that last year Grant turned what would have been a terrible season into the best time I've ever had following the Giants. That Dodgers fan is spot on - Grant is why we get 1,500 comments on gameday threads while the most recent Fanpost at True Blue LA is 16 days old (the one before it is this).

They really think I'm the best writer in SBN? I'm awfully flattered.

Paboperfecto, or should I say, Grant!

Isn't the "Grant Appreciation day" supposed to take place at the end of the season as a way to thank our leader for getting us through a season of horrible baseball. Great Going, now he ain't going to give us crap this season.

What do Grant, RBIs and Wins by relievers have in common?

And while much of that is testiment to the wonderfully wacky Giants fans and their penis jokes who frequent this site, I know that if it weren't for Grant there never would have been such a gathering of irreverent (I almost typed irrelevant) malcontents. And, of course, their penis jokes.

His wit and insight attracted us all here in the first place. So. Yeah. That's my appreciation.

I don't know about you guys but I swore allegiance to this site when a Gameday headline was "Lincecum Harder."

First, let's be clear. The 'one character flaw' they're referring to is Grant's penchant for peeing in jars of baby food, resealing them, and donating them to poor hospitals. Read something other than the Springfield Shopper sometime. Besides, being a Giants fan isn't so much a character flaw as it is a character defect.

Nevertheless, huge thanks to Grant for this site and his work. I was out of the country from the 20th to the 31st, but picked up a bacterial something the last day I was away, so I have been violently sick all this week and with the help of mega-antibiotics, am no longer a brochure for plague death. (And my birthday was Wednesday, so: Worst. Ever.) Anyway, the point is that reading Grant's stuff this week has been the rare bright spot for me this week, as has been some of the stuff I have been able to read from others on here.

Thank you all.

Kitspool should still keep up the annual party.

And, really, if we care about Grant, we could all start doing the peeing in baby food thing so as to minimize the chances of his getting caught.