McCovey Chronicles

[sharksrog]

Is everyone here familiar with The McCovey Chronicles, the most famous of the web sites/message boards covering the Giants?

I believe both Mark and Mordy have posted there on occasion, and Mordy was once in fact a cult hero there.

The McCovey Chronicles held a mixer in Walnut Creek at (appropriatedly) McCovey's Restaurant. The mixer was held on August 1st of Tim Lincecum's rookie season, and Tim himself beat out the Dodgers.

The cry upon the game's final out came as a surprise even to those eating, drinking and watching the game on the many screens at McCovey's.

I believe it is one of the posters at The McCovey Chronicles who gave Tim the nickname "Big Time Timmy Jim." That's not a nickname one hears a lot regarding Tim, but it does appear along with "The Freak" in Baseball-Reference as one of Tim's nicknames, apparently having replaced "The Franchise."

Anyway, the point of this is that Grant Brisbee, the founder of "The McCovey Chronicles," is now the head baseball writer for SB Nation and has appeared twice -- with the Bay Bridge, Yurba Buena Island and the Port of Oakland in the background well below -- on Clubhouse Confidential.

To be honest, Grant is pretty good. Something like Bill James, he quietly and in a non-threatening way comes across as a guy who deeply knows what he is talking about. Unlike James, Brisbee isn't a top sabrmetrician, but he certainly does understand the language.

Probably worth taking a look over at SB Nation, which is where I am headed right now myself.

[sharksrog]

By the way, the Giants are Brisbee's team, so it is unlikely we will see that dreaded East Coast Bias in his writing.

[sharksrog]

A great line about Brisbee over at SB Nation goes something like, "Brisbee graduated from San Jose State, where he was considered the next Kevin Frandsen by absolutely no one."

[rxmeister]

I've made over 20,000 posts at McCovey Chronicles so you know I'm familiar with it, Rog. Grant is just a superb writer, probably better than most if not all of the writers covering the team. I have the best of both worlds, because that's a younger college type crowd where i can be silly with, while this is a sight where people more my age post. I don't remember Mordy being a hero there, but I sure do remember YOU being one, Rog. They all respected your knowledge and stats based discussions, and even now wonder where you've gone. I always thought it was strange, that you preferred posting on the AOL board where posters used to argue and name call you, and not post on McCovey where they all appreciated you. I figured it had something to do with the formats of the board, because that one is more for one liners and short paragraphs, while this one is more for making detailed observations.

[sfgdood]

yikes...if it's all about one liners and appreciating stats geekery, well it probably isnt for me. I have nephews of the college age that i can be silly with when talking Giants baseball...although one got poisoned by his A's fan father...blechh

~Dood

[sharksrog]

Mark -- I've made over 20,000 posts at McCovey Chronicles so you know I'm familiar with it, Rog. Grant is just a superb writer, probably better than most if not all of the writers covering the team. I have the best of both worlds, because that's a younger college type crowd where i can be silly with, while this is a sight where people more my age post.

Rog -- Man, that's a TON of posts, Mark. That's even more than I've made on THIS board.

Mordy became a hero there when a post talked about Tim Lincecum coming out of retirement to pitch in front of Mordy's great grandchildren. You kind of had to be there, but one poster said something like, "I don't even know who this Mordy is, and already I love him."

You did hit the nail on the head about why I no longer post there. It just got to be more or less comparable to a tweet-fest, when I like to be more contemplative.

I did attend that get-together at McCovey's, and really enjoyed it. The best story I picked up there was from a young girl writer for some obscure internet site covering the Giants. She talked about how she was going to sit on the bench in Spring Training to interview Sergio Romo, but Sergio told here it was too dirty there and brought her a chair from the clubhouse. She wasn't a beauty, so it was simply the gesture of a chivalry, one we probably wouldn't expect from a future major leaguer.



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[sharksrog]

Randy -- yikes...if it's all about one liners and appreciating stats geekery, well it probably isnt for me.

Rog -- Go take a look, Randy. It isn't anything close to what you're thinking. Do you think that if that were what is was, Mark would have made 20,000 posts there?

If I read something like this and didn't know anything about it, I would probably go and at least take a glance. If nothing else, you're got Mark telling you what a fine writer Grant Brisbee, the creator of the site, is. And in Grant you've got a guy who has gone from creating a strictly Giants board to both writing and appearing on television nationally.

Perhaps you shouldn't be showing a West Coast Bias here, Randy.

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