Hey everyone,

I recently registered, though I've been lurking around for some time.  I first found the site sometime at the end of August last year, I think from a string of sites starting at THT.  

I've from the Bay Area, but am currently up in college in Oregon.  The nearest teams are the Kaiser Volcanoes (A - summer season) and the Portland Beavers(AAA), and it seems everyone roots for the Mariners.  Games against Seattle are both fun, and horrific since the A's finally get on TV, but I have to watch with a hostile crowd.  It was quite a relief, then, to find a place where I could take refuge, if only online.  It quickly became a daily stop, and my most reliable resource for game info, A's info, and baseball info.  

I just finished plowing through Aces, which seemed like as good excuse as any to do the whole introduction thing.  It's an awesome book, and made me much more appreciative of the fact we still have a guy like Zito on the team (who I apparently share a birthday with).  More than anything, though, it made me pretty sad that a group that close to each other and us had to be broken up.  Though the future seems more bright than dim, 2004 definitely signaled the end of a era.

Anyway, I can't say I'll be posting too much, but I'll be here.