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But, I would know less about baseball, so, I guess it's working the way it's supposed to.
I can still remember where I was when I first opened the Giambi/Mabry thread. It was the day before I left on a backpacking trip around Europe.
Best Primer memories? Mine has to be the 2003 playoff chatters. His father is the district attorney!
EDIT: Changed unoriginal joke.
And I'm sure it was terse and to the point.
:-)
Here's to another ten and then some! Y'know, if it can survive that long without being a business in any real sense of the word.
You mean stripped of its trolls.
Been coming here since 2002 myself. Today, I'm proud to say I'm part of the best NBA discussion on the internet.
My BBTF highlights:
Hall of Merit threads on the Negro Leagues.
Poop threads
Ball in the crotch thread
Soccer thread
Migrating here from the ESPN Classic Baseball Game message board with Gaelan.
Also, I've probably met about 20 primates by now and not all of them have been terrifying. So that's something!
Also, I've been to a Primer wedding, and invited to another. That betters the number of weddings I've been invited to from other friends and family. Perhaps I'm just not that popular.
Option J.
There's a great deal of good and a fair amount of bad here.
1. The steroid threads are awful: bad faith, sophistry and the worst kind of linguistic nihilism--on all parties. They're not discussions; they are blood feuds.
2. There's a couple of bomb-throwers who are allowed free rein in politically linked threads and single-handedly get them shut down but do not get disciplined.
3. The site lost a large amount of it's chaotic fun and flair with registration. Probably posters too; I know, just from my experience, that I rarely go through the trouble of registering to join a site I've no experience with.
4. Internet dick-waving in general. I can't even parody the levels some people here attain, but god, I try. But like I said, it's not a BBTF problem specifically--it's just one I hope it would eclipse.
5. Minor complaint--I read a lot of BBTF on my iPhone. The extra wide posts--occasionally on the main newsblog and ALWAYS on Gonfalon Cubs or Sox Therapy--are impossible to read without super-zoom in and side scrolling.
6. I haven't been given my Marlins blog yet.
That being said, there's still a ton of good here and it's by far my favorite timewaster/harnesser. I almost never RTFA, but that's because I'm mostly interested in the twists and turns of the discussion boards.
And Mike Crudale.
I read some on my phone, and I haven't found any significant difference b/w the blogs and the main page. It would be nice, generally, if all the pages had some auto-wrap function so that they'd fit whatever screen I'm reading on, but I don't think that's peculiar to the blogs.)
I remember after the Red Sox eliminated the A's in the playoffs in the "Derek Lowe gesture" series, the game thread devolved into a hilarious Simpsons thread. I remember my contribution was "they weren't saying boo, they were saying Eric Boo-yrnes, Boo-yrnes!"
The Old School Baseball Primer thread was epic.
2002 was my last year of grad school in Irvine, and I agree, the Halos are hosed until I get a gig at UCI.
Happy birthday, BTF.
For Mrs. killah's sake, I hope this isn't an alternating occurrence.
It is probably nicely formatted statlines. Those kind of elements will not be reflowed by the browser, but shown at the original width, they look fine on a computer as they're not wide, but on a narrow screen they will mess up the layout.
I remember when I had to explain to my girlfriend that I was going to an Orioles game to meet up with some guys I met on the internet. It took her awhile to wrap her head around that.
It lost the fun and flair quite a bit earlier. The last few months prior to registration there was just stupid chaos left.
I love this place soooo much.
Yeah, what sort of weirdo goes to an Orioles game?
Oh, and ruining my productivity. That too.
And even then, the vast majority of the "flair" was anonymized name-calling and gay jokes. Registration saved the site, just as Dan says.
it is weird when you meet primates in the real world and they call you by your screen name. It makes me feel like one of the Little Rascals.
Of course, Primates are the only people who refer to me by my initials, so it's one of those "Catfish" Hunter tests, for how I know people.
All hail the Near-Man Woman Repeller's Club.
One complaint: I still can't understand the hubbub for Pavement. I've tried to listen, they're cromulent, but they don't grab me at all.
Been a great time and a great service provided by you lot.
To 10 more.
Thats why you should post under your real name like the rest of us.
Yeah, I would hate that.
Would it be all right if I called you Mr. Day instead?
(Just guessing).
Agreed.
Say, whatever happened to Gary Santerre?
Should we be sacrificing virgins in his honor? I mean, just to tie this back to Primer...
Was there a period where you could still post without registration but could register? I have a May 2004 "join date" but I can't imagine that I didn't use this site at all from March to May.
I definitely miss the ability to drop a one-liner under a celebrity's name. Not so much because I did it so often, but because I often got some pretty gut-busting laughs from other people who did it. As with most public places, it only takes a small number of jerkasses to ruin it for everyone.
More like, "Be old!"
Less than a month. Behold!
Thankfully, I've learned some stuff since then.
I have been here maybe 8 of the 10 years, since I found out somewhat obliquely that Tangotiger had posted one of my long-ago Sportsjones columns here, and lurked to read what people were saying. I can honestly say that I never posted as the Admiral or as Mike Piazza :)
My favorite thread was one pre-registration where the whole site crashed and only one thread stayed open, and if you weren't already here you couldn't get back in – but a lot of people were logged in, and John Brattain was there, naturally, and the whole thing was funnier than the outer regions of Hell. Impossible to describe exactly ...
Oh, that and "The Death of Derek Jeter".
Suitably shamed. Though I couldn't figure out how to tell them 'here's some money from Baldrick.' Oh well.
At first I thought you meant only 8 or 9 folks whose posts were not just snark and political nonsense, and I thought, "Sounds a LITTLE low." but now I take your point.
There's a little birthday present from the bourbon samurai on its way from paypal.
Me too. Rectified now though.
I sincerely believe that rsb and Primer have made me a better scientist.
Yes, that can be interpreted in many different ways.
Really? Huh, I was here then... I don't think I ever picked up on how new the site apparently was.
I miss being able to post as certain writers, while attempting to ape their style. But the actual baseball-to-######## ratio got pretty low before registration, and the balance is much better now. I laugh a lot, sometimes out loud, at posts I read here. It can be a little embarrassing, depending on where I am.
Yeah, all that goes for me, too. I definitely remember when the Prospectus letter happened.
I remember a cease and desist letter--but I was not around that early. Was there a later, more serious--as in, actually lawyered up--letter? Because I remember letter arrives--everyone at Primer gets a good laugh--site switches to baseballthinkfactory.
Baseballprimer.com was definitely the operative site through, say, 2004, right?
God, I loathe prospectus over that. So, so little.
jim and staff know when you contribute. that's how you get that little green badge next to your handle. is that what you meant? the support link is inside the 'stuff' menu at the top of the home page.
9.5 years of mostly lurking...
It's pretty impressive what 10 years can do to Jim Bowden's reputation.
Also, I am flabbergasted that BBTF and Sid Fernandez, active professional player, existed at the same time.
To quote the lesser cartoon Billy (and Dolly and Jeffy): That's my remembery.
yes, and also the Nomar saves 2 women from drowning thread
EDIT: coke to TVerik
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