Why are you here?

How did you know I was wearing my jersey with my name on the back?

Really, I am.

but i became sicker when a friend referred me to the mccoven a couple years ago. haven’t looked back since.

being 2,000 miles away from the giants has only made me love them more. i have one friend in louisiana who likes the giants. the rest of my friends just think i’m insane 6 months out of the year.

It had a bunch of funny people talking about baseball, and I liked reading about the Giants. One day, the site had a link to this place called McCovey Chronicles.

And here I am. Standing in your doorway. I’ve always been standing in your doorway.

I was desperate for some offseason baseball talk. Stuck around for the lulz.

I got super into the Giants in high school. As always, I started to look to the internet for more discussion. Posted at first on the official board in 02-03, but moved to a much smaller, private board at some point. It began to get full of weird drama after awhile, so when I found out about McC (I think in 2006?) I started posting here and then kept posting here and then posted a little more and then posted a lot more and then I became a mod. It was cool.

Came here for the minor league news—I loved how Steve S compiled all the minor league stuff into one
daily post.

Not sure what got me reading Grant or the Diaries, but something prompted me to try a free sample and I ended up with a McC Premium-sized habit that I’ve been unable to shake.

After my friend laughed at me for all the RBI, runs and pitching win beliefs, he introduced me to these newfangled stats to underscore just how completely awesome and dominant Barry Bonds was. He’s an A’s fan, so there was also much discussion of Rickey Henderson.

I don’t remember how I found the McCovey Chronicles. I like to think Grant found me, but then his lawyer sent this strongly worded letter so, for legal reasons, Ask Jeeves led me to the McCovey Chronicles.

I was a regular on the old Livejournal sfgiantsfans community with Baron, Natto, and jcb9, and just eventually migrated over here with them. We even used to have our own gameday threads.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT GOD DAMMIT GIANTS!!!!!!!! and so since then i felt like this was the place for me to let off some steam about how bad the giants were doing in 2009…

And it was pretty smart of me to do, since i’ve become the person at MCC to just OT the fuck out of every thread….

But hey, in all honesty, i love it here, the people make it pretty awesome, and i absolutely love reading Grant’s posts even though many dont think i pay much attention to what he says. Also it was pretty sweet getting pwned in 2009 when i talked bout how the Freddy Sanchez trade was good and how i didnt care about the stats…

But originally i would hang out at the giants site message board which wasn’t fun

A couple of years ago I was living in the DC area. I heard a guy on the radio talking about MMA named Luke Thomas and he was talking about his site Bloody Elbow. So I searched out Bloody Elbow, made an SBN account and started commenting there.

 For some reason though I stopped commenting there and forgot about SBN altogether. Then I started talking to someone at the old Awful Announcing blog and he said he regularly read the sites over at SBN. It reminded me I still had an account there. So I started searching the other sites on the SBN platform and found McCovey Chronicles during June of 2009. I started commenting in the open threads and have never left.

I don’t remember anymore. That was another life, another world.

I always liked the Giants, which was somewhat of a marvel growing up, as I did, in St. Louis. But my dad was an SF native so the Giants were my No. 1 team. But I certainly also liked the Cardinals and generally was just a casual fan. Watched a couple of games a year, occasionally checked the standings, and that was about it.

Then came the 2002 playoffs. I think I watched one game of the NLDS against the Braves, but when it was Giants-Cardinals, St. Louis was in a fever pitch and my high school classmates in St. Louis turned on me. Apparently it was sacrilegious to root against the Cardinals and the sainted ghost of Darryl Kile, who meant that it was St. Louis’ DESTINY to win it all that year. and I had a choice: get serious or get out. I found out there’s nothing can make you a diehard quicker than being hated for your allegiance by everyone around you. The heartbreak that followed the NLCS only deepened my obsession. I’ve always been really into English classes and literature, and the Giants were like one great big Shakespearean tragedy or something. I was hooked.

I don’t remember exactly how I found McC, but it was sometime during my freshman year of college. I came to a Bay Area school, excited that I would finally get to hang out with MY kind of sports fans… and was distraught when it turned out that none of the people who became my good friends really liked sports all that much. McC was a coping mechanism and it turns out that Grant’s writing + internet and looking up stats + baseball = one hell of a drug.

Moved away from the Bay Area, and was looking for an internet community of Giants Fans.
Found this place instead.
Enjoyed the writing and discussion and never left…

“… and tell me where I may find James Kirk.”

is an A’s fan and would not shut up about Athletics Nation. I checked it out and said “I wish there was a Giants one”, and then there was. I have been making at least one not well thought comment about every six months or so, under numerous Call Signs, because it took me forever to come up with Dead Rebel, and I think its a very cool name. Very, very, cool. Almost Uber-Cool, like mccoveychronicles.com.

My earliest Giants memory is walking out of game 3 of the NLDS, extremely upset because the season was over and I wouldn’t get to see Shawn Estes pitch anymore….I was 8, and I still don’t understand my logic on that one.

I was ages 7 through 15 in the successful season of 1997-2004, and being a very outgoing child, during that period I began to experiment with baseball. I played. I attended. I watched. Soon, I was addicted. (Actually, I think I started playing tee-ball at 4, much too early an age to be introduced to such an addictive substance) My addiction grew. One day, my friend linked me to “this funny dude’s blog.” However, I see this not as a blog, but as BAA, Baseball Addicts Anonymous.

I definitely was reading and thought “what the hell is electronic mail?”

My dad’s from SF and Carson City is Giants territory so I’ve been a Giants fan forever. I found this place via random google searches, lurked around for a while, and then finally showed my face a few weeks after the World Series when Seattle friends were sick of me talking Giants baseball and I was still covered in Series glow.

For some reason, I’m still here.

SF Native, sports-loving family with 1986 being my first year in little league, it was easy to be a Giants fan, but hard to get a #22 jersey. I got to one game of the 1989 WS, Game 4, in Oakland. Terrible. I kind of liked the Bash Brothers until that point. Now, I despise the A’s. I never played ball beyond LL as I had another mistress named football, but I still bled Black & Orange. I joined the Giants Foreign Legion when I went to college in San Diego. We Hooligan’d Up Jack Murphy/Qualcom to the Nth degree with What’s the Matter With Kotsays? and other such awesomeness. Game 6 2002 was shaping up to be an epic celebration in Vegas, but it was not to be. Returned to SF in 2004 and wanted to find some “real” Giants coverage, you know, fringe-y, but not lunatic fringe-y and stumbled onto SB Nation and MCC somehow. Thought mesokrabby sounded funny and accurately described my attitude as a Giants fan in 2004, so I went with that.

I remember being a little kid and sitting in the “Family Pavilion” out in right field at Candlestick. I remember one game where I got lost in the bathroom at Candlestick and my dad finding me in a random stall. I also remember a home run ball going through my dad’s hands and landing a couple rows back as someone else got the home run ball.

Unfortunately the first year I remember starting to watch the Giants was the dreaded 93 season. I remember after the Salomon Torres game crying afterward and my dad saying to me, “Get used to disappointment with the Giants. They’ll always break your heart.”

I am in Oregon. I just had an It’s-It.

Success.

I lurked the Giants board on ESPN for years, even though I 1) never wrote anything and 2) didn’t like most of the posters there, even the pro-Giants ones. It was also troll-heavy, and at some point the censoring become nothing short of ridiculous. If I recall correctly, someone got banned for mentioning the last name of Steely Dan’s lead singer (figure it out).

Someone there had linked to WFB. Read it on occasion, then it became MCC. Liked this community better. Stuck around.

’nuf said.

But I didn’t really invest myself into them until the strike shortened season when Bonds and Matt Williams (especially Williams) was gonna challenge the HR record. Ever since then I’ve dedicated every baseball season to living and dying by the Orange and Black.

This site… I think I found this on a link from Merkin’s giantsboard.com website or the old old school espn.com giantsboard (where there I’m dub07). :/

i was all up in the Warriors that year, i could feel it brewing early, like the Giants last year…..once i found the warriors on SB Nation and Fast Break, it didn’t take but a day to find all the sweet Giant spots….now they are way to politically correct at the Dubs site but it is still good….

MCC is the KING of the INTERWEBZ

GRANT AS COURT JESTER

During the 2007 season my buddy who is a DBacks fan sent me a link to AZSnakepit. Seeing their site I figured there must be a Giants equivalent. I quickly realized you nerbs knew more about stats than me so I just started making ‘TWSS’ comments all over the place.

and then when there was a separatist movement to the Giants Virtual Forum, i lurked there for a while and then lurked here for a good 2 years. Then joined here finally to post in the Alderson/Sanchez trade freakout threads.

it is required you follow MCC and the Grantfather

I’m glad I didn’t used to post on old Giants forums.

I joined McC sometime in 2005, I think. I vaugley remember the Boof site.

As far as baseball in general, I played baseball in my youth and always loved the game. The numbers side of baseball always drew me in. I used to play baseball sims (like Sierra’s Front Page Sports) for hours and hours when I was younger. I would spend huge blocks of time creating teams and tweaking rosters. I wasn’t as much into baseball during highschool, but after I graduated I got back into the sport. Mostly from reading BBTF and Baseball Prospectus.

BP’s “Baseball Between the Numbers” was a like a gateway drug. I read it several times and I think it did a great job of laying out some of the basic saber stuff. I started blogging in 2006 and since then I’ve thought more about baseball than any other time in my life. I think what I like about baseball the most is that it’s a good catalyst for me to learn how to do other things: stats, graphs, trying to learn R, writing. There’s always something to learn.

I think my wife thinks I’m crazy.

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US authorities have seized the domain of the hugely popular sports streaming and P2P download site Rojadirecta. The site, which is one of the most visited sites on the Internet, lost its .org domain which now redirects to a notice from DOJ/ICE. Rojadirecta is an unusual target because two courts in Spain have ruled that the site operates legally, and other than the .org domain the site has no links to the US.

This was back before they became the Rangers and even before they became the Twins. Then we moved to San Francisco and lo! There was a team there! In 1974, we went to a Sunday doubleheader and never looked back. The mister got a book from the library called “Percentage Baseball” by Earnshaw Cooke and he never looked back. All the stats analysis and jobs with the Giants and A’s back a couple of decades ago came about because my dad was a Nats fan and I watched games with him.

Then I discovered this place and now need to get a jersey with my name on it right after I get the replica WS ring.