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Athletics Nation Gets Its Millionth Comment

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Yes, I know it isn't like it's 100 billion comments...

But early today at approximately 1:21 p.m., whiteshoes40 made the one millionth comment on Athletics Nation.  Congrats on being that special shopper, whiteshoes40.

Yes, Athletics Nation started on November 6, 2003 and in less than five years, enough A's fans have felt compelled enough to chime in one million times, in diaries and FanPosts and gamethreads and interviews and DLDs.  It's probably technically over a million if you include the original typepad version of the blog and the initial scoop version.  But this includes at least the last three years.

I'm extremely proud to have started all of SportsBlogs Nation with this blog.  The Oakland Athletics were the epicenter of it all.  And that's how it should be, not that I'm biased at all.  Heh.

I want to say thank you to all of you who make AN special - all the front pagers - Nico, baseballgirl, monkeyball, louismg, notsellingjeans, tajadib, grover, salb and devo.  I also want to thank Billy Beane, Lewis Wolff and all of the A's organization for giving Athletics Nation some amazing interviews over the years.  But most of all I want to thank every single A's fan who makes AN so unique and beautiful.  Yes, this community is a beautiful and unique snowflake, contrary to what Tyler Durden says.

Thank you for supporting this community through everything and continuing to make this the best sports community on the Net.

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1,000,001th

ooh, so can I claim to be the 1 millionth and one?

 - been watching this site ever since the Mulder&Hudson trades. Good job, Blez. It’s an awesome contribution to not just the [more nerdy] fanbase, but also the team in general. I’m sure Mrs. Duke and Mr. Ziegler have told the team about this!

by rollierollieOxenfree on Sep 18, 2008 11:19 PM PDT   0 recs

Probably not Mrs. Duke. :(

But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.

by Jennifer on Sep 19, 2008 7:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Congrats to AN and to Blez!

This blog has been a part of my everyday activities ever since I discovered it 4 years ago. Some of you I have met at games and Fan Day and others I have had a good time in discussion with. This is definitely my favorite sports blog and a great source of information. Great backstage access and insightful interviews.

Again, congrats to everyone………Go A’s!!!!!!

by mrod on Sep 19, 2008 11:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Congrats, AN!

I wonder how many blogs can say they’ve reached 1,000,000 comments? Not many, I’d assume. Here’s to the second million!

by danmerqury on Sep 18, 2008 11:29 PM PDT   0 recs

Yay Blez!

[Crosby] "Guy that has driven in some big runs for the A's over the years" - Vince Cotroneo

by WaddellCanseco on Sep 18, 2008 11:32 PM PDT   0 recs

It's official

We’re old.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 18, 2008 11:35 PM PDT   0 recs

That line probably makes up

7K of the comments.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 18, 2008 11:55 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No.

“Game over” does.

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Sep 18, 2008 11:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Why not both?

Me telling people they’re wrong probably took up another 1200 comments.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 18, 2008 11:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Is that all?

You have 11,402 comments, total … seems to me that more than 10% of them were you telling someone they were wrong …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 2:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

How many are there with

Nico telling people “you’re”, not “your”.
(How many other grammatical blunders went unnoticed?)

How many of mine went unnoticed? (What? Huh? You’re still here?)

How many mention “goat”?

All these stat heads and I can’t this kind of info. For shame.

(OK, on one of my really bored days, I started to check the “record” of each front-pager- how many games the A’s won or lost on days their thread turn came up. I think I got to May 3. Then the phone rang. Then I got hungry).

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Sep 19, 2008 6:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Got one better then "goat"

How many mention “pony”?

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:07 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I missed ...

see below …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 10:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The winner for best up and comming comment would by

“AN 3 can Kiss my ass” and it’s cousin “AN 3 can kiss Sal’s ass”.

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Sep 19, 2008 8:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

747 included pony ....

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 10:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

666 (before this one) mention goat ...

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 10:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Sep 19, 2008 10:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

LOL

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Sep 19, 2008 10:23 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

nice ...

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 11:15 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

LOL

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 1:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

don't you mean "uddered"?

It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Sep 19, 2008 2:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This isn't the tit-for-tat section

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 4:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

there’s a number of those

"The Athletics at Fremont" is really bad

by ArakSOT on Sep 19, 2008 8:28 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

But I have heard that

1,000,000 is the new 500,000 of comments-so we aren’t as old as it seems.

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Sep 19, 2008 8:50 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Does she get a prize?

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Sep 18, 2008 11:38 PM PDT   0 recs

If we were still making and selling AN swag I could offer her something

But we’re really not any more. Unless someone knows someone who wants to take over making and selling shirts for the site….anyone, anyone?

by Blez on Sep 18, 2008 11:44 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was thinking of something more unreasonable,

like a date with Ryan Sweeney or whoever.

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Sep 18, 2008 11:58 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well I could ask Ziggy

but I doubt his wife would approve ;-)

by Blez on Sep 19, 2008 12:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Can you pass on my e-mail address to your wife?

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 2:32 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Who's e-mail address are you going to send me?

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Is this a tit-for-tat thing?

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Sep 19, 2008 7:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I generally dislike tats in those locations

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:06 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well, tats on tits tend to change

locations over time.

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Sep 19, 2008 7:08 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

AARTTROTM

(Attempt At Returning Thread To Relevance Of The Month)

"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL

by oblique on Sep 19, 2008 9:30 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You're referring to ventral thoracic drift

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:14 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

As enspoused by

Sir Isaac Newton.

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Sep 19, 2008 7:17 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You're discounting modern medicine's ability

to counter the effects of gravity.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:19 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Particle physics?

Graviton verses silicon?

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Sep 19, 2008 7:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I read it as it happened

When I asked her how she felt, she said she was just relieved that it was all over, and now she can get back to doing the little things to help the team win.

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

by 67MARQUEZ on Sep 18, 2008 11:42 PM PDT   0 recs

Really? Then I have an admission. Go Team!

The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus

by The Dogfather on Sep 19, 2008 7:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Here's the scary part from my angle:

I now have 1% of all AN comments ever made.

I really need to obtain some kind of “life.”

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Sep 19, 2008 12:11 AM PDT   0 recs

Wow ... you are prolific ...

though you’re actually a bit under 1% … you were looking at your total SB Nation count, not your AN count …

In just over a year you’ve just about matched what some of us have taken 4 years to accumulate …

Speaking of which …
Monkeyball 25k
Jennifer 25k
salb918 16k
devo 11k
grover 11k
PaulThomas 10k

The 6 of us (and there are plenty of others in that range) account for over 10% of all of AN’s comments … wow …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 2:30 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That total doesn't even include AN v1.

But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.

by Jennifer on Sep 19, 2008 4:23 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yikes

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:06 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It would be hard to include those.

I can’t remember the number of times I posted as Joe Morgan or one of Jim Mecir’s body parts. Those were the days….

But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.

by Jennifer on Sep 19, 2008 7:15 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

We were young, full of life, anonymous.

Kinda like a masked orgy.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:18 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Where did time go?

I was 19 when I started posting. 19!

But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.

by Jennifer on Sep 19, 2008 7:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I have to admit, I'm surprised by Salb's total

Jennifer’s always had a mouth on her.

PT, I think you’re right. You need a life… or drink more. Or have more sex.

Devo would suggest combining the last two.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 7:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Combine them in an evening ... not so much at the same time ...

it gets messy … I’m not into that …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 11:08 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

i'm beating you, grover, and PT

15,557 +1, and i was posting on old AN as well…

the question is, at what rate is PT gaining on the rest of us?

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Sep 19, 2008 10:09 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Assuming everyone except PT has been posting for 4 years ....

and PT has been posting for 1 year … and rounding everyone except PT to their nearest multiple of 4k …

Those with ~25k are posting 6k times per year and have a 15k lead …

Those with ~`15k are posting 4k times per year and have a 5k lead

PT is posting 10k times per year …

at those rates it will take PT to overtake those in the first group and less than a year to pass those in the second group …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 10:24 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

PT is the Joe Charbonneau of AN

It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Sep 19, 2008 10:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I resent that :/

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Sep 20, 2008 12:15 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Look on the bright side: at least you'll get a song written about you

It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Sep 20, 2008 10:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I only have 4032 comments

I better get started on the next million to see if I can get into the top six next time…

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Sep 19, 2008 11:11 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Top 6 is:

Nico
monkeyball
Jennifer
Poppy
salb918
xbhaskarx

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on Sep 19, 2008 11:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's pretty impressive that Blez started all this and he isn't even in the Top 6

[Crosby] "Guy that has driven in some big runs for the A's over the years" - Vince Cotroneo

by WaddellCanseco on Sep 19, 2008 11:39 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He's probably not in the top 20 ...

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 11:46 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Is Cindi #7?

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Sep 19, 2008 5:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I've got a pretty good...

fanpost to comment ratio: 88/3630. I’m sure there is better, but I just set the bar. 1000 comment minimum.

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on Sep 19, 2008 1:31 AM PDT   0 recs

How nice of you to set the bar so low

109 posts/11764 comments.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 1:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I assume you saw the word "ratio" in there...

I know you have more fanposts and comments… but, my ratio is WAY better. Quality versus quantity. Sorta like OBP versus BA. You hit a lot. I hit homeruns.

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on Sep 19, 2008 2:00 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

prolly more like SLG versus BA...

another comment for me. YAY! Just lowered my ratio.

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on Sep 19, 2008 2:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I've actually always thought a lower ratio (of diaris to comments) was a good thing ...

as my ratio is even lower than grover’s … but to each his own …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Sep 19, 2008 2:32 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

from the guy with a 25 diary/fanpost to 15,558 comment ratio.

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Sep 19, 2008 10:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Than whom, Grover?

It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Sep 19, 2008 2:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That's Nico's bit, monkeyboy

My internal spell check was a tad slower than my “Post” click.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 4:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

We're viewing this info differently

You’re using the data to suggest that your comments are of a higher quality. I’m saying that your ratio means you post too much.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Sep 19, 2008 6:58 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

i judge my comments by the responses they get...

and look at all the responses!!! LOL

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on Sep 20, 2008 8:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I will acknowledge, however, that your diary/fanposts...

are of a high quality, better than Foolish’s and that you did express admiration for at least one of my previous diaries (if I recall correctly without looking it up).

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

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