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but it was like a zillion years ago.

how long has Rajai been wearing the stirrup socks? Has he had them all season, or did he start partway into the season?

I ask, because I’m hoping it was mid-season and I can use it as evidence in my extremely unscientific study proving that wearing good socks correlates to awesomeness in the game.

I’m designing my new motorcycle leathers. It’s a red/white “Speed Racer” theme. Long story short, MikeV, V = Roman Numeral 5, Lots of people in the group I ride with are named Mike, so I am “Mike Five” to make things easy. Play on words, Mach 5 becomes Mike 5, and here’s the design I came up with:

Thoughts?

I literally typed in athleticsnation.com into the address bar however many years ago it’s been and found this site. I remember the first diary I read was asking for Chavez to be traded for prospects. I found that idea so crazy that I didn’t come back to the site for almost a year. Funny how things change..

Some guy on FARK.com talked about AN during an otherwise-boring Red Sux/Yankees circle-jerk, so I checked it out and eventually got hooked. The Farker in question turned out to be The Dogfather, so you all can blame him.

AN and I got off on the wrong foot. See, I came here to sell this. Tough crowd. They set me straight. But they learned to accept me. Some even purchased this. But even if I sell every last one of these, I will still come back.

I can’t remember exactly how, but I think there was a passing reference in the Chronicle, or possibly in a comment on sfgate.

I believe I was looking up info on our recently called-up rookie, Huston Street, and one of the first things I saw was a link to an AN interview with Huston. Good times.

A few years ago, for some reason, I wanted to know something about the Chad Harville trade (yeah, I know). AN was one of the first results.

And I was looking for something Eric Chavez related…shocker, I know. And here I am, almost 10,000 comments later (this is comment 9913…). Sigh.

-Cindi

But it was way before there was an SB Nation :)

I accidentally stumbled upon this site. I was doing image searches for Golden State Warrior pictures (since I needed them for a school project) and I really dug through a bunch of pages. I realized that it read “www.goldenstateofmind.com” on a ton of the photos that I found. I began “lurking” for quite some time before I finally decided to join. Then, I realized that it was just one community and there were a ton of other blogs. I am happy that every one of my teams had a blog. I joined every one of them right there and then.

Mets rookie Jonathan Niese left Wednesday afternoon’s win over the Cardinals with a strained hamstring.

Niese suffered the injury while covering first base, and then collapsed when trying to throw a practice pitch.

He needed assistance to leave the mound in the second inning, and the pitcher joins a long list of injured teammates.

Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez had played in 314 straight games before sitting out Tuesday night’s game.

It was the longest streak of consecutive games played in San Diego baseball history.

Mets second baseman Luis Castillo sprained his left ankle after slipping and falling in the dugout on Tuesday night.

Castillo grounded out in the seventh inning and was on his way back to the bench when he slipped down the dugout steps.

Astros reliever LaTroy Hawkins has been fined by Major League Baseball for comments made about an umpire after a July 27 game in Chicago.

“When a player, a coach or a manager criticizes an umpire, that speaks to the integrity of the game,” vice president in charge of discipline Bob Watson said.

Hawkins has been on the disabled list since July 28 with shingles.

“I don’t think the fine is appropriate,” Hawkins said. “I won’t tell you how much I was fined, but it wasn’t appropriate. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime.”

Hawkins was thrown out of the game on July 27 for arguing balls and strikes.

The Rangers thought they had a deal for Roy Halladay, but the pitcher reportedly nixed the trade.

Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi told Texas that they wouldn’t be accepting any package because Halladay would not waive his no-trade clause to go to the Rangers.

There is a very real chance that Jarrod Washburn could return to the Mariners as a free agent this winter.

Seattle traded Washburn to Detroit just a few hours before last Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline.

Washburn has made it clear that the Mariners will be among his preferred destinations if he becomes a free agent.

Tampa Bay’s B.J. Upton wasn’t happy with manager Joe Maddon’s decision to drop him to seventh in the order.

“I’m a little upset but I guess I brought that on myself,” Upton said.

Maddon admitted that the decision to drop Upton in the order was a long time coming, and that he hopes to take pressure off of the center fielder.

Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is waiting for the legal process to help him obtain more information about his 2003 test results.

It was revealed last week that Ortiz failed a league-wide drug test back in 2003, but what he tested positive for is not yet known.

Jose Reyes is headed back to New York to have more tests on his troublesome right hamstring.

Reyes had been rehabbing in Port St. Lucie, and the Mets only revealed that the shortstop was suffering from some discomfort.

“He has a good day and then he has two bad days. It’s just not getting better,” Chris Leible, one of Reyes’ agents, said. “Jose is more frustrated than anybody that he’s not feeling better and not able to get out there and play.”

Sorry, I am bored.

i was searching around specifically for A’s “things” on the net and somehow stumbled upon AN in the formative stages.

And…..(holds back emotions) my, my life has not been the same since. (runs to hide)

I think it was Oaktoon or Reztips…

mlbtraderumors.com kept talking about it.

I lurked for a little bit, joined under a name that had _s and ?‘s in it which i found didn’t work properly, lurked a bit more and joined under this one.

I’d like to delete that old name too, so i can use my main email address for this one.
It was six_bullets_or_only_five? ………..or something like that.

I looked at AN for about 5 minutes and left. Than a couple months later I was linked over here by some other blog and started reading here.

Am I the only one for finding AN through Wiki?

I’m really happy to have found all these great insightful folks.
Only wish I could have found out sooner.
Now if we can just get Cardenas to hit something in Sacramento…

I think I had heard of AN once or twice through Google, but Will Leitch raved a few times about how he reads Athletics Nation every day because of how well written it is, so I decided to read more.

(although I could have the whole memory a$$ backwards).

I lurked for a long time. Finally I saw a couple of people who made me think “well, I can’t be worse than THAT” and they were all treated well (it was actually the first time I ventured into an internet family…) so I dove in.

I joined December 2005, I don’t remember how I found AN but I think it was probably a yahoo search (since that is my main search engine).

I’m UID 3901 and I have 2401 comments. I never knew what UID meant, thanks for the info guys. Does anyone know how many registered users AN has?

The blurb about sending Eric Patterson down says,

The 26-year-old was doing well at the Triple-A level, but will hand second base duties back over to Mark Ellis and Adam Kennedy.

Obviously, they just read a list somewhere that labeled Patterson as “2B” and haven’t a clue what positions these guys actually play in real life.

at age 59 today. CNN link