Post by sharksrog on Feb 18, 2013 10:28:29 GMT -5
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.
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.