Well, I was waiting for Boof, see…

I don’t remember how I first heard of (at the time) Waiting for Boof – probably a link from alt.sports.baseball.sf-giants back in the day. I used to check it occasionally, but wasn’t a religious reader or anything. I started following McCovey Chronicles more closely when I discovered RSS. I read Grant’s posts through RSS, but rarely checked the comments and was barely aware diaries/fanposts existed.

I first registered in 2006 when Grant did a post about terrible ads KNBR runs during games – I simply HAD to let the world know my opinion of the Tap Plastic jingle and that boring guy talking about screwcap wine. I then proceeded to not comment a single time for a year and a half.

I first started peeking into gameday threads in the second half of last year – I also moved back to the Bay Area around the same time. I suppose being back made me want to connect to other Giants fans.

Then, at the beginning of 2008, I was looking for a fantasy league, and thought MCC would be a good place to find one. But, as I said, I was barely aware of fanposts, so I tried emailing Grant to see if he thought there would be interest. He patiently explained to me that I could probably find plenty of people with a fanpost, so I did. I started reading more and more stuff, more and more comments….and then the season started and I got completely and hopelessly sucked into the gameday threads, and McCovey Chronicles became about my favorite place on the web.

to read waiting for boof. I came over here back before Grant became the rockstar, sellout Giants blogger he is today (IE: when athleticsnation readers were spamming the site out of anger that Grant stole their format [true story] and when Grant begged Josh from hollywood to post a diary so mcC didn’t look so pathetic [also a true story])

I was kinda out of baseball for a few years while I was in college — I still really liked the game, but I didn’t follow the Giants that strongly — so I wasn’t around during WFB. I really can’t remember how I found McC, or why I joined, but I think it was pretty soon after the site came to SBN. I think probably the first couple of Giants blogs I read was this site and OGC’s, since he’s been around for a bit, too.

But mostly I came for the penis jokes.

Started reading Waiting for Boof in late 2002(?), I think. Not sure how I stumbled across it, but I think there was a link on the old Baseball Primer site.

I decided to check it out when I found out that it was Grant’s blog (I remembered him from the newsgroup days). I stayed because the user dialogue is more civil and funny than all the backbiting bullshit on most of the sports message boards.

I came to McC for the waters.

on the sports boards and someone linked to Lookout Landing (it was the day Felix Hernandez took Johan deep last year). The entire 4 or 5 gameday threads were hilarous. I went back to the site the next day and noticed the sister sites at the bottom and then McCovey Chronicles and then I clicked it and then I lurked for a while and then I registered and now I kinda lurkpost.

Huge Broncos fan.

Then I started to check out the other boards they had and had to sign up here. Big Giants fan, even though I grew up in Toronto. The Giants have always been my NL team. Will the Thrill was my favourite player growing up.

I’m not sure I am here.

Was doing a search about something Giants baseball and clicked on one of the search results.

I was a reader of John Sickels (Minor League Ball) and when he came over to SBN, I realized there was a Giants site as well. I got lucky since it turned out that the owner of this site was incredibly funny and mildly intelligent (j/k). After just reading for a while I finally decided I had two cents to contribute.

I started reading WFB around ’04. I found it either via random Google searching or the Giants community on LJ. Like the say, the rest is blustery. Wait.

A combination of the winter baseball jones and leftymalo… with a soupçon of the idiotic commenters elsewhere.

At one point in time there was a link on SFGate to here and another Giants blog site, I don’t remember what it was. I lurked on both sites for about a year, and decided this group of people were definitely a better match for my warped sense of humor.

TK and I were going to a game a few years ago, 2006 I think. I remember it was a Cardinals game. She told me about this blog called McCovey Chronicles and how she was going to meet up with some dudes from the blog. Deadteddy8 (as he was known then), Grant, Goofus, GiantJim (is he still around?) and someone else was there. After the game we went to the Hi Dive on the Embarcadero. I poked around on the blog for a few days after that game and liked what I saw. I joined the site after one of Grant’s especially funny posts, where I ripped off one of his phrases for my username.

Needed more Giants discussions in my life. While away at college I was starved for the Giants, while having to listen to conversations about the Angels. I somehow stumbled up this site, read a post by someone, disagreed, and tried to send a response, but the 1-day waiting period killed that. Regardless, I am new here and really enjoy the site in general. I never really followed the minors until I arrived here. Looking back, I wish I would have chose a different name…
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Left home for college in 2000, found myself in the middle of Dodgers (and later, bandwagon Angels) territory for a couple of years. Lurking around message boards was a way to stay in touch with the Giants world. Never got around to joining any sites, because they were either a chaotic mess (sfgiants.com) or had the feeling of a private community.

Fast forward a few years, back home, stumbled upon WFB/MCC sometime around the SBN switch and found the combination of commentary and humor to my liking. Sometime in the middle of 2007, I was finally compelled to register and post and have pretty much hung around ever since.

a buddy turned me on to it in early 2006 (he doesn’t post too much here anymore because he got a real job.) I checked it out and actually thought it was kinda lame. I came back on my own after the season started and got hooked.

Matt Morris promptly signed with the Giants after I joined.

My old college roomate read Dodger Blues and he actually somehow discovered this site through there. He told me about it because he knew I was the Giants fan of the apartment, and the rest is herstory.

I had changed jobs in 2005 (retired from one and started another with a Tribal Government) and my new job put me in an office. The first year I was all excited making changes and trying to learn the job, so I was busy. But then it started to slow down.

I had never really had a straight office job before. Most of my life was in Sales, Sales Training and IT. So I had all this time on my hands, and being a Giants fan, I started looking for something to do when I ran out of work.

I found a few sites that were not very good at all, but I also found El Lefty Malo.

I hung around there for a while, but did not post much, and it wasn’t really my style. One day he had a post that linked to one of Grants post’s on McC. Turned out that I liked the interaction here better, and I freakin loved the Gameday threads.

Now my job has come full circle. I had an two Assistant ‘s and with the economy tanking, there is only me in my office and I’m running around like a chicken with my head cut off :-)

I was a regular reader of GSWB (what GSoM was before they moved to SBN in early 2007 if I remember…). Found this site by looking through the sister sites of SBN and I’ve been lurking here ever since as I never had time to post because of something called college. But now that that’s over, I’ll try to comment a bit more.

I think it was back in 2003 or so, my buddy Brian (a Padre fan) told me about a Giants blog called waitingforboof. I said, “Cool, what’s a blog?” (true story) Being such a blabbermouth, it’s hard to believe it was actually a little while after the “user comments” were added before I signed up and started “contributing”.

Grant’s been trying to get rid of me since, but I keep reminding him of those pictures and I pretty much get to do whatever I want.

Toward the end of the 2008 season, I found a link to Athletics Nation on a MLBlog and I thought it was a cool blog. Then I went to the SBN site and found McCovey Chronicles.

I was reading Glenn Dickey’s site. He directly recommended the McCovey Chronicles as the best Giants blog out there. Now I don’t have to read his columns any more.

Love Grant. Love how fast information comes in from all the readers.

mentioned it one day in the dining hall my Junior year of college. I trolled around for a while before finally deciding to speak up.

When I first got out of college, I started getting back into baseball, probably as a means of giving me something to think about other than “Where the F am I going to get a job?!”. But I didn’t really feel the need to read lots of baseball websites until I was in China, which is very definition of a baseball desert. I think I started reading stuff like Baseball Analysts and the Hardball Times then on to Only Baseball Matters then El Lefty Malo and finally here.

I have no clue when I migrated over here. I started out my Giants fandom on the official boards, then moved to another board when the fail of the official board became too much to take. Then the other board started failing it up, so I moved over here and I’ve been here ever since. :’)

I wish I could remember exactly when I made the switch though. I’m sure I could go find my first ever comment, but I probably lurked for months before I ever made an account.

My brother turned me on to the site. He used to comment very occasionally, but I don’t think he has since the day 26 months and 4 days ago when his son was born.

I can’t remember exactly when I started reading but I remember that this happened early on in my McCC career, along with the t-shirts. I was in grad school at the time and living in seattle, so it spent a lot of time watching games on mlb.tv and doing the gameday thread at the same time.

I did a google search for mc covey, looking for the restaurant information for a lunch meeting. I bookmarked the page and became a lurker for a year then joined the 08 game threads. My knowledge of the farm system has grown in leaps and bounds because of this site. thanks

I just showed up here at one point in, I think, 2005. But once I was here I was hooked. Grant and everyone else helped me survive living in LA for 2 years after college.

I first heard about it when DrB (where is he now?) mentioned it on the giants official message board, where I lurked. I came over and eventually stopped visiting the board entirely b/c of some big advantages here (moderators over there, etc). Although I do miss reading those posts (forget what they were called, by candlestick mike I think if anyone else remembers them) about the dodger conspiracy, starring frequent posters on the board.

But I stayed despite not finding him/her

/kids with Grant…

I found out when someone told me about this site in early 2008. I lurked in the background until one day in August I decided to join because I liked the humor here. And despite the fact my second favorite team is the Red Sox, I felt welcome here unlike other sites I read (not a sports site) where people have been banned because the mods disagreed with their opinion.

I started lurking about 1/2 way thru the 07 season, my first post was a crappy bocock joke sometime at the start of this season. I have no idea how I got here. I think it came after I’d lurk around the warriors SB site for draft info and optimism. I stayed for the wit and have learned leaps and bounds about the farm system and how to be a GM and whatnot.

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I remember when you first joined. You were so cute, using RBI’s to prove that Rowand > Bonds, or something like that. :)

Anyway, I discovered this place thanks to my dad, who’s been following Grant since the days of Boof. My first comment was a misspelled, mildly funny sex joke, which got no response. Seems fitting.

Started posting on the mlb board looking for playoff tix in 2002. Work & real life caught up to me in 2004, but by 2005 I had time to post again. But had to migrate to another board because MLB site was craptacular by then. Other board got a little * so I moved over here after hearing good things from other Giant fans/posters.

I’m here to keep up with the Giant fan base as I haven’t lived in the bay area since my pre-teens (I’m 30 years old now). Everybody’s insight & analysis is much appreciated.

I don’t think I post anything substantial since moving over here because 1) yall cover all the good points 2) takes a lot of time just reading all the good points 3) work is catching up to me again 4) when I do have time, by the time I get two paragraphs into something really mind-blowing (oh yeah, mind-blowing!) I end up finding a counter-argument against everything I just wrote so I delete it. So I just come up with something like the comment below.

I’m here to kick ass & chew bubble gum.

That laser hair removal machine for “only $999” is so not in the Geneva Conventions.

I read and posted on BruteSentiment’s SF Dugout board before it got taken over. After checking out a few other Giants boards, I picked this one for some reason. Probably the humor.

A few years ago I was trolling for rumors around the trading deadline, linked to this via the Gate (it was to the right of one of Jenkins’ columns, listed along with several other blogs), and eavesdropped on an Open Gameday Thread when Armando Benitez was called in to pitch, and found the reactions/contributions to be some of the funniest stuff I’d read in a long time. It made (and still makes) the rough times much more bearable.

I knew Grant when he was a dopey little kid

And have been a big time lurker ever since. I think I simply googled SF Giants Blogs and came across this community. I comment here and there but not enough for anyone to recognize my handle as a regular. I used to be intimidated by the site and worried my english would be critiqued or I would add nothing to the discussion so I rarely posted. Now I am usually too busy to post as much as I would like. I can say that this site has helped develop my Giants fandom significantly and for that I thank everyone. Shout out to Steve S for the Minor Lines which are like crack to me.

I first came here because…….. of a computer?

amirite?

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/comments/2006/1/25/164544/178/85

My comment:

"tap plastics = satan
Tap….Tap Plastics…the fantastic plastic place!
Lord am I sick of that jingle and its crappy generic reggae-ish beat.

I’ve also grown quite tired of hearing about the benefits of screw cap wine. Honestly, I don’t give a crap. Also, if the wine is hard to find in stores, as the ad says, why are you advertising it constantly? Perhaps you should put the money from your advertising budget into distribution. Feh, I say.

Oh, and the beer commercials featuring one of the KNBR hosts whose name escapes me, about how whichever beer it’s about is a real man’s beer, not a wussie’s beer. Especially since, in one version, one of the wussie qualities listed was the basket catch. Um…it’s a GIANTS GAME. The basket catch was the trademark of WILLIE MAYS. Dude."

That’s the kind of in-depth analysis about weird, pointless crap the McCoven have come to expect from me! I’m just sorry there were no references to Brad Wellman or Kim Batiste.

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I found this website while skydiving. Over Iraq. With bikini-clad babes. Through a hail of gunfire. While drinking margaritas. I looked down, and there was McC. True story.

I stayed because someone had the audacity to proclaim that Lowry is overrated due to his win total (14), and that wins are no longer a good indicator of how good a pitcher truly is. I fought that battle, proclaiming the greatness of Lowry, because he IS a winner. Sure, I lost that battle, but I’d like to think I won… Some other battle.

As I stuck around, I learned things like win totals really DO help overrate a pitcher. And after occasional postings on sfgate.com, I found I really enjoyed the civility of this board. Now I stick around the site because I like to contribute stupid comments that can be ignored by the public at large, or make smart-ass remarks that get misinterpreted.

You all are welcome for my contributions.

I can’t remember how I found the site originally. What I can say I usually read and lurk at sites and did so here for years before posting. Why I started lowering the property values posting here I can tell you. I was very dissatisfied with both what the front office was doing and a lot of fans that just wanted to vent but not talk ball between ventings. This site also allowed the SABR fans and the traditionalist to co-habitat in a large, happy and mostly dysfunctional family way so it feels like home. The Mod’s have been waiting for me to shut up and stop torturing the accept English grammar and spellings ever since.

I started reading WFB in 2002 or 2003. I think I stumbled across WFB from Baseball Think Factory or Primer, but can’t recall exactly. I immediately saw something different than other baseball writing. The combination of writing skill, baseball and irreverent humor remains unique. I was an instant fan and kept reading WFB and then made the switch to McC.

Over time, this site has attracted like minded posters/commenters who help make it the hilariously special place it is. Oh, and we talk about the Giants here.

a friend of mine asked me to check ot OBM, because John was a friend. Found El Lefty Malo from John’s site, then found MCC from Lefty’s. still dig all three.

…who came here from Daily Kos? In 2005 Kos did some pimping for the then-new SBNation blogs, and that’s what got me to check it out.

My first comment was a sarcastic complaint about Felipe’s handling of the pitching staff. Good times!

I honestly have no memory how I found this site, but came across it a few weeks after it launched in 2005, and instantly loved the sense of humor of Grant and the (then small number of) commenters. My first post was about how weird it was that there was rain in San Diego during the Pads-Giants game. It was the first of thousands of posts, 98% of which are weak jokes or poorly informed observations about baseball stats and strategy.

In mid-2006, I was visiting a friend sitting in View Reserve 312 or 313 or so, and in front of her was a very nice woman wearing a t-shirt with a lot of writing on the back. My friend suggested I read it, so the nice woman leaned forward so I could see it all. It concerned an angel getting its wings ripped off when a dodger scores, and ending with the famous “It’s science.” She told me her deadbeat son who worries her endlessly wrote it and told me the name of the blog, and I joined up that night. My 4th year here… “that is in no way depressing.”

I don’t come here. It’s too sarcastic for me.

I actually found this place while looking for Giants blogs. Got sucked right in.

I found out about MCC through a Yahoo! thing that I put on my home page. It was for the Giants and McCovey Chronicles kept coming up so i checked it out. I guess I liked it enough to stay on.

I was desperately looking for all the niners-related pre-draft stuff I could find, and Fooch linked to this place on the front page. He was talking about how the forthcoming SBN make-over would make NN look like McC.

So I checked out McC, found there were actual active gameday threads, and have loved it ever since. It makes watching a Giants game even more fun than it already is.

I can’t remember how I found onlybaseballmatters, but it was in ’05 sometime (I think) and then months later I found Lefty and thence on to here. I am almost sure I started out searching for something about Lowry and Tomko. In quotes.

I think I have mentioned before that I am new to the game. Was introduced to it after the cancelled WS. Fell in love with it and pretty quickly sucked up all my friends’ knowledge for the game. I was fiending for more, followed some link “the heavily trafficed McCovey Chronicles”… Lurked for a few months in 06. Still only have less than 200 comments. There was a game day thread where I mentioned being female and all hell broke lose. Pretty funny for me actually.

The lolcats

I combined my answer to this thread with my answer to the First Post thread.

I came for the fanfic.

It said for a good time go to this website… I am still waiting for the other promised stuff.