When and from where did you join the Royals Blogosphere?

I don’t remember who ran it or how I got to it, but that’s the first Royals blog I followed. RR was one of the links from it, and I remember thinking the guys here were a little more snarky and cynical (I also learned that grudz69 really enjoyed his victory scotch). I quickly came to lear that RR was almost always more correct with its analysis. Example: the Pine Tar Rag thought the Gathright trade was awesome, folks here were less enthusiastic. I’ve since learned 1) the now-defunct Pine Tar Rag guys were way too optimistic, and 2) snark and cynicism is a good way to keep being a Royals’ fan in proper perspective.

Just found this one day upon my recently ended unemployment. Was bored with cleaning the apt. when the wife was gone, had just gotten back from an interview, had just moved away from Missouri and needed to find an inter-webs “home away from home, for the royals info”

Started reading RR and finally joined just a little bit ago after deciding that even if I post something retarded because I don’t know enough about baseball……hey it’s over the internet, I sound like a retard anyway.

it’s kind of still around, only more professional looking

what rob & rany were doing back in the early 2000s was pretty groundbreaking… it was basically a blog before blogs had really been invented, though it was also incredibly primitive, as they were just posting material onto rob’s robneyer.com page

i don’t think there was even a comments function, or, in fact, any way to see old posts

the first thing I did other than reading was join the royals fans group on yahoo, this was probably around 2001-2

then in 2004 I started a royals blog on blogger, and also started posting on royal board

… transitioned to royalboard.

Found SBN when powermizzou and tigerboard were blocked at my work (but somehow RockMNation wasn’t). And that’s how I found royalsreview. I’m just a lurker. Don’t post because I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about when it comes to sabremetrics.

And up came Rock M Nation. That led to me joining all the other blogs for my teams of choice. Best meek google search to kill time ever. Makes work less boring. While Arrowhead Pride is just way to big to really keep up with, and I just lurk there, RR, Rock M Nation, and Third Quater Collapse are all great blogs that I can (somewhat) participate in.

is the only blog I really followed and only for anaysis on Royals players… wow, I didn’t really look around too much, but this seemed more informed (and it was). That and Rob and Rany. I posted a bit before last season (in 2007 I was pretty active as a commenter), but only really got going last season with regular FanPosting… somehow, Kyle Boddy thought I knew what I was talking about, and the rest is (incredibly trivial) history.

I think maybe some guys at Royals Corner (Scout) started linking to stuff here? I don’t even remember when I started posting here. My memory is getting foggy.

Royalboard – that brings me back.

I remember that I almost always agreed with a guy named PatTabler.

Ha! That was me ;) I was a young, stupid kid back then, spouting off a lot. I’m sure I posted a lot of dumb stuff back in the day. I used to post there pretty regularly until they changed formats. I remember PittsburghPARoyal always stirring stuff up (I’ve seen him pop up in a lot of forums) and RoyalinLenexa loving every move the Royals ever made. Good times.

back in college, and gradually moved to royalboard.com. I enjoyed royalboard.com despite bopper/Big Bopper and the flame wars between RoyalInLenexa and PittsburghPARoyal, but strayed away after their transition period and went to the new scout board. I went back for a while early last year, but there just weren’t enough regular posters over there.

Can’t really remember how I found it, but it was my introduction into the entire blogosphere as a whole.

They had that old link box on the right, which is how I found Royals Review, among other Royals blogs.

RA was my primary read for awhile, until the offseason of that year and the Meche signing. Then, RR became my primarily RR read.

and leading up to the baseball season i realized that I was going to miss the entire season, I literally watched opening day in a “bar” in the Wichita airport. I dont remember how I came across the last post or 2 of Rany and Rob, from there I pretty much have been following RanyontheRoyals from its inception, from there I found this place. I pretty much read everything I could get my hands on last summer since I couldn’t actually watch baseball, turns out baseball isn’t popular in Germany, and especially not the Royals… I know feel bad for forcing my German friends to adopt the Royals as their baseball team.

So anyway in the last year I have made strides in the Sabermetric world, and I just ordered the Jonah Keri/Baseball Prospectus book on not actually knowing anything about baseball, probably should have bought that before frequenting this place.

Anywho, this place now consumes way too much of my time.

Wait a Minute, what is OBP?

ahha

Rob ‘n Rany being the first, and all the messageboards/forums. First posted on Royals Corner last year, but don’t very much at all. Someone (Retro I think it was) linked to something here before Christmas, and I have been posting ever since.

I like the quality of discussion here far more than anywhere else. Not to criticize others, but Royal’s corners has way too many a-holes for my liking. Which is a shame, because their are good posters too. Here, i think pretty much everyone contributes, at least in a small way (like me).

To do with the Royals playing Boston on national TV on opening day 2007. When I heard this was going to happen, I started researching the team on the net and liked what I found. I still followed the team casually before this, but my enthusiasm hadn’t recovered from the ’94 strike season.

Of course, I go all the way back to the beginning and the glory days of the ’70’s and ’80’s when we were among the elite in all of MLB, but I moved to Alaska in ‘78, making it difficult to follow them as closely as I had. The ’80 Series was a big highlight and disappointment at the same time. I watched most of the ’85 Series with people who couldn’t have cared less who won, but I was going nuts.

I got married in ‘89 and still kept up via box scores and the like, but after the ’94 season I fell out of touch. The worse the team got, the less I followed them. I’d look at the standings and the occasional box score, but I didn’t know the roster or who was managing, etc..

It was satellite TV that gave me hope of following the team more closely. I found out I couldn’t get the MLB package on Dish Network, but that led me to mlb.tv. I bought the radio feed first. That was when I started searching the net for Royals information and I think that’s how I found RR.

I can’t remember how long I lurked, but it didn’t take long for me to register and start spewing idiocy onto this well written, very courteous (by internet standards) board. That was early in the ‘07 season. I now follow the Royals more closely than I ever dreamed I would. I was somewhat aware of sabremetrics, but I was still a BA/HR/RBI and WL/ERA guy when I looked at stats. I really appreciate the work you guys do on the stats here on this board. I don’t claim to fully understand everything, but I do have a much better appreciation of sabremetrics than I ever thought I would.

There is one other board I post on regularly (not even sports related) and they keep track of first posts. Is there any way to dredge up my first post here? I’d be curious to see what inspired me to join the fray.