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One Full Year Of... The ANtics

Can you believe it's been a full year since the ANtics showed up and became a weekly feature on the site?

On July 24, 2005, Episode 1 of the ANtics: "Focus on Fundamentals" debuted, and the A's young stars tried to teach us a thing or two about the core elements of the game.

Since then, in the subsequent 30+ episodes of the ANtics, we've learned that Ken Macha knows Kung Fu, that Eric Byrnes so hates his old team that he's cursed them to sweeps against his current team not just once, but twice, that Stomper prefers warm-weather climates and wants to be assistant GM, that Ellis's shrink calls Crosby "Source of Pain", that Zito needs to keep his hair short in order to play well, that Barry Bonds has a certain attraction to our shortstop's rear, and that Swisher would seriously kill in order to defend his new buddy, Frank Thomas.

Of course, there's been a lot more than just those highlights.

Whether you're new to the site, a consistent regular, or one of my three stalkers... (Hi Nico!), I thought you'd enjoy a trip down memory lane, celebrating one full year of the ANtics. You can even flip page by page, just like a real comic book!



ANtics 2005: A Flip-book for last year's comics.



ANtics 2006: A Flip-book for this year's comics.

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has it been a year?
oh my goodness. I've been on AN for two years now. JCS, that's quite a long time!

I have to go count days.

"The separation between good and great is mental. It's about conviction. It's about commitment. I really believe that." --Barry Zito

by GreenNGoldGirl on Jul 23, 2006 7:42 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow, a year already...
good times. I remember being all excited about the TV debut of ANtics... that was awesome.

And after seeing a mention of Diego in one of the old ANtics, that leaves me longing for "The Adventures of Diego Chavez"... (<ahem> Apricot)...

And I had almost forgotten about Rincon. Man.

by whiteshoes40 on Jul 23, 2006 9:01 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Dude, that's some work...
...to keep it going so long! Awesome!!!
Tony LaRussa:"If you have the horses, you'll win. If you don't, you'll lose." Me: "We're missing some ponies!"

by baseballgirl on Jul 23, 2006 9:26 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

ANtics
ANtics has been one of the greatest additions to AN!  I look forward to the newest version every Sunday.  Keep up the outstanding work louis!
ducks to avoid flying chair

by JLeverenz on Jul 24, 2006 6:18 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Happy Birthday ANtics!!
Great work louismg, keep it up!! :)
There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jul 24, 2006 9:11 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Yay ANtics!
I love these...thanks for the flip book, I wanted to see the old ones. Keep it up!
Forget tomorrow. Let's laugh till we're dizzy.

by Squeaky on Jul 24, 2006 10:54 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

ANtics is great...
Wonderful stuff!  Thank you for your contributions, louismg!

I've been meaning to say this for a while now -- and maybe I'm nitpicking -- but I think the captions would be better on top of the panels instead of the bottom.  It might be just me, but the captions tend to set up the joke better when read before the dialogue, and I think it would flow better when you're looking at the panel from top to bottom than from bottom to top.

Dorian on Bonds: "Still, I love it when Bonds wins at the game that he plays."

by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Jul 24, 2006 2:16 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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