Chris Etling. I too have been a fan since the inaugural season, as my father and I switched our allegiances once baseball came to Phoenix. Growing up, I followed the Reds like he did, and my first real memory of baseball seems to be the '90 World Series, when I was 5 years old. Barry Larkin and Ryne Sandberg were my favorite players as a kid, although I don't really remember why other than they played the game "right."

Once the Diamondbacks showed up, things became much easier. I attended my first-ever baseball game about three months into their first season, a win against the Rockies. Brian Anderson pitched and won, and Tony Batista homered, but that's all I recall.

Since moving to Flagstaff, the last game I was able to attend was a Randy Johnson start in 2004 that a friend and I won free tickets to. Unfortunately, I also have yet to pick up any Sedona Red merchandise, so my closet still sports some strange purple and teal colors.

As I think I mentioned here once before, I was at work the night of Game 7 in 2001. On the plus side, the place was absolutely dead. We had a TV on in the front of the store and what few customers (and employees) we had were all bunched around it, and no one left for a second from the seventh inning on. I remember talking about how Soriano's homer in the eighth might spell the end of the season, just because the game was so tight and we knew a certain Enter Sandman-loving reliever was coming in the ninth, but things didn't quite work that way.

These days my activities are cyclical. I've moved up to Flagstaff for college, entering my final year of classes in a journalism degree with a news emphasis and English minor. I'm the editor-in-chief of the Lumberjack newspaper on the side, and work for a third party company in grocery stores to make actual money whenever I can get it. I still root for the Suns above all else, but the Diamondbacks are the only team even close to dethroning them from the top spot. On the side, I'm an avid sports gamer -- all the big sports in the video game world, and basketball/volleyball/racquetball/ultimate Frisbee in the real world. I also do a lot of writing on the side.

That's about it for me. More than you all ever wanted to know, I'm sure.

Well, although I think it might be more appropriate for Seton Hall or dbackskins to be at the top of this list, I'm here at work on a slow day, and might as well be next.

My name is Matt, and I'm an IT consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area (Where it is more fun every day to wear my D-Backs gear and pity/mock the Giants fans. It's wonderful).

I grew up in AZ, and have many fond memories of BOB and the D-Backs, like going to the tours of the stadium before the inaugural season in 1998, my brother and I going on $1 hot dog day and making ourselves sick, and blaming Brian Bruney for every bad thing that happened in 2004 (Whether or not it's true--I still hold him singlehandedly responsible).

I left Arizona to live in Brazil from 2002-2004, and plan on teaching my son (to be born on June 23rd!) to be a fluent Portuguese speaker. After Brazil, I graduated college and moved for work here to the Bay Area. I am actively trying to get back to my desert motherland at all costs.

Jim, I really enjoy your blog. It's really lots of fun, and makes me feel a little more connected to my people in AZ. Thanks for everything you do!

and I too am a Diamondbacksaholic. That's hard to do up here in the Bay Area, but I can tell you there are few, if any, Dbacks fans up here more passionate about the Dbacks. (At least those unrelated to our players, ie Byrnes's family.)

I am actually what many may consider to be a bandwagoner, having become a fan during the NLCS of '01. But in my defense, I didn't really start watching baseball until then, when we finally had DirecTV. Oh sure we'd watch a weekly game on FOX, maybe, and always the World Series, but I didn't get passionate about it until I could actually pick which game I wanted to watch. Luckily, I chose to follow the Dbacks through World Series victory, and my love of baseball was born.

Interestingly, my first time attending a baseball game was a Diamondbacks game by chance, as part of a fundraiser. We had bleacher seats but before the game I made my way down to the Dbacks dugout area and - also by chance - was able to get Luis Gonzales's autograph (and, through him, my favorite player Craig Counsell's). Since that moment, I officially became a life-long Diamondbacks fan, and I've also met some great people. If you're ever in San Francisco at a Dbacks game, chances are you'll find me near the dugout before the game! (Crap, I still need to get tickets for the next series... but I'm thinking they aren't hard to get this year...)

On a personal level, I graduated college several years ago and I work in the IT industry, to an extent. I have several part-time IT jobs working for a school district, a non-profit, and independent clients. I'm also very involved in Power Soccer. If you missed Jim's story on it in January, I highly recommend searching for it.. but, I'm biased. ;)

I look forward to reading about the rest of ya'll, especially since I think I missed this thread last year. :)

I live near Greenville, South Carolina with my wife and 3 children. I teach children with Mental Disabilities and Autism. I am also a Dbacksaholic! I have been a Diamondbacks fan since thier inception. I usually try to listen to their games on MLB.com and follow along with MLB Gameday. Sometimes the 10:05 ET starts are a little tough.

I grew up as a military child moving from place to place. In the early 70's my family used to go watch the Padres play when we lived in San Diego (they were horrible but I was able to see Dave Winfield as a rookie and watch Willie McCovey at the end of his career.

Until 1998 I was a White Sox fan. My grandfather was a White Sox fan and my dad liked the Cubs so it was an alternating thing.

My favorite player was Harold Baines who the White Sox kept trading away along with anyone who could pitch. I got tired of the Sox not playing to win. The Diamondbacks came along at the right time.

I decided I would jump the White Sox ship and something about the Diamondbacks just jumped out to me. Even though they were pretty bad that first year I was hooked. The Diamondbacks have given me back a passion for the game that the Sox had sucked out.

I have seen the Dbacks a couple of times in Atlanta over the last couple of years. It is something me and my boys enjoy doing. We were able to see Micah Owings destroy the Braves last year. I look forward to hearing from you all over the next season! Go Dbacks!

Hello, my name is Devin, and I'm a Dbacksaholic, among other things. I've been a D-backs fan from day one, ever since my dad picked up t-shirts for the whole family the day they first announced the logo.

My family has always been pretty big sports fans- we run a fantasy football league each year, I (sporadically) write a Diamondbacks blog myself, my mom comments here, and my sister writes her own blog about the Seattle Mariners. Before the Diamondbacks came into being, baseball was pretty much second to football in my eyes- that's American football, in deference to our host. But I did like baseball still, and spent my younger years wandering back and forth between cheering for the Cubs, Dodgers, and Rockies, as circumstances called for. Yeah, I know, sorry about those teams. It's just a matter of how (and where) I was raised. I'm 100% D-backs now, for over a decade. But I did grow up following watching some great players, thanks to WGN and later ESPN, and now I have an annual rant where I complain about how the Hall of Fame *still* hasn't voted in Andre Dawson. (Seriously, guys, next year? He's earned it.)

Since the D-backs started playing, baseball has quickly usurped the throne as my favorite sport, and my brain is host to a number of favorite memories, from convincing my (non-baseball fan) roomate to stay up and watch a 16 inning game against the Dodgers my freshman year of college, to sticking around a blow-out game long enough to see Mark Grace pitch an inning, to, of course, Gonzo floating a single into the outfield and the fans going crazy. I haven't gotten to actually attend a game since 2003- we beat the Dodgers- but that should change this year.

Outside of the Blogosphere, I live in Utah with my wife, though we're both looking forward to moving back to Phoenix next month, and fully anticipate that we'll soon regret that, once we are reminded just what Phoenix summers are like. That'll probably just hasten my urge to figure out where I want to move to go back to college, so it should work to my advantage in the long run. Much of my free time is spent in particularly nerdy pursuits, such as books, D&D, PS2, and my newly discovered fondness for baking.

And there you are. Or I am. Whichever.

and I'm a baseballaholic.

You could read a more expansive personal bio in my profile, but that doesn't really cover my baseball love.

I grew up in a family that was indifferent to baseball, and largely sports as a whole, so how I came to like it is a bit of a mystery. My grandma loves the Dodgers, having lived in the LA area for almost the same amount of time as the team until recently when she moved out to Arizona. Baseball was always on in her home, and though I didn't grow to love the Dodgers, the game slowly planted roots in my brain.

My step-dad and brother are football men. I like football too, but the truth is that when I was a kid all I wanted to do was play baseball. My friends on my street would all play hours of home run derby and other variants of baseball, and though I was a terribly fielder I was a pretty decent contact hitter.

The Diamondbacks came in to existance in 1998, as we all know, but since I lived down in Yuma I largely didn't care. I have to admit that I watched some games, but loved the general game more than any one team. I pulled for the Tigers as a kid, though not in any form of seriousness, simply because they were terrible in the mid to late 90's, but even when 2001 came I wasn't a hardcore D'backs fan.

I watched the playoffs and World Series, to be sure, and was excited at the possibility of an Arizona team winning a championship, but it really didn't affect my life too much. The roots grew in a bit more during that season, but I was still more of a fan of general baseball, and a casual fan of the Diamondbacks at best.

Fast forward a bit to the summer of 2003, the year of the Baby Backs. For some reason, this team fascinated me. How could essentially AAA team compete on a major league level. I bonded with one of my jazz teachers over the team, talking about the previous day's box scores along side the history of jazz. This was probably the first year that I could truly say I was a fan, and this grew more and more after this point.

I think a large thing that was putting me off for throwing myself completely in the Diamondbacks fandom was simply that I didn't know if I would stay in Arizona. I could still move away, who knows, but I could also see myself staying Phoenix for the rest of my life, something I couldn't do even a few years ago.

So mine's not the most interesting of stories, and I don't really have a whole lot of reason to like the team, but I do. I still love general baseball, and have little "fan crushes," if you will, on various other teams (Tigers, White Sox, and various others at times) but the Diamondbacks are my team.

and I'm a D-Backsaholic. Man that feels good to get off my chest. They say admitting you have a problem is the first step. So anyway where to start, where to start.

I grew up in rural Southern Indiana. My family was never a really big sports family. My father played D-I basketball and he was a casual viewer but my sisters and mother have zero competitiveness in them. I grew up playing every sport I could find a league for and I enjoyed baseball but basketball was my first true love. As time progressed and the game changed to the way it is today I started looking for a new sport. I discovered baseball. I love a game of strategy and numbers. Well anyway I decided to look for team exotic to all of the Cardinals fans. Well I lived in Scottsdale for about 16 months when I was really young and the DBacks were a young team. So I jumped on the wagon just before the 2001 season. (great timing) My fondest memory of the WS is jumping up and down in a quiet house at 1 in the morning trying to stay quiet and then wearing my fitted hat a size to big to school the next day. It felt amazing to show my team off.

Well I kinda lost interest through '03 and then in '04 joined my first fantasy league. Needless to say that reawakened my interests and I've been stuck on the DBacks ever since.

Now a days I'm finishing up my freshman year at Seton Hall University as an International Relations major. I spend most of my free time lurking around on here and watching movies. When I get out into the real world if there is any possible way for me to work in my field and make some good money in Phoenix I would be ecstatic. Although I'm not sure if my girlfriend (a relationship I don't see ending soon) thinks too highly of that plan. But to wrap up starting my second year with you all, love my DBacks and plan on getting rich and owning them someday. :-)

Love hearing details about everyone's lives and getting to know you all on a personal level. Here's to a great season of fun and us enjoying each other's company.

and I am a Dbacksaholic. I am also a Washington Redskins addict. (Which informs my username, obviously)

I live in Tucson, AZ, and work for a small aerospace company as an optical laboratory assistant and computer engineer, while working on my degree in international affairs. I speak English, Spanish, and am in the process of getting my ass kicked by the Arabic language. I also understand some Italian and can swear in Russian.

Having been born in Washington, DC, (Well... technically northern Virginia) I was born a citizen of Redskins Nation. I saw my first baseball game when I was 5 and living in Lowell, MA. It was Yankees-Sox at Fenway, but at the time I think I was more excited about getting to eat a hot dog. My father's family is mostly made up of New York Italians and former Dodgers fans; they all eventually migrated to the Mets (hate the Yankees!!) and the Senators. My mother's family are Irish farmers from Illinois and White Sox fans. However, I was never really a baseball fan until awhile after I moved to Arizona, the Dbacks were formed. Even then, I didn't become a true Dbacks aficionado until early in the 2001 season. One of my favorite Dbacks memories involves discretely listening to game 6 of the World Series while in Phoenix watching a friend and teammate of mine in the finals of a debate tournament. (Also did track, x-country and wrestling -- but never coordinated enough to do anything involving a ball) While my friend was taking time to prepare for his next speech, I broke the silence to announce the Dbacks' score to the room (I think it was 10-3 at that time). The previously still room of observers erupted in cheers and high-fives, but my friend was not particularly appreciative of me for interrupting his prep time.

I've been a strict and devoted Dbacks fan since '01; even enduring the hell of '04. I discovered Jim's blob during either May or June of last year, and I am.... err... probably one of the most prolific posters on gameday threads. (It's clear that I go for quantity over quality) Additionally, if I should get into a contentious argument with anyone, and get emotional about it, don't take it personally -- because I won't. I WOULD note that it's more likely to occur if you attack my Dbacks, though. ;-)

I'm even more excited about this season than I was for last year's, and I think we really have a great shot to make, if not win, the World Series this year. Win or lose, the 'Pit is great fun for giving us all the ability to talk to other Dbacks fans from across the world.

Hello, my name is John (formerly johngordonma) and I'm a DBacksaholic.

Born to native Kansan parents I grew up in Tucson in the 80s a Royals fan. I grew up hearing stories about the Kansas City Athletics and Frank White and Hal McRae's younger days. The '85 WS is also indelibly etched in my memory: Saberhagen, Brett, Wilson, Quisenberry, Black, Balboni, Howser larger than life figures at age 6.

I loved watching baseball, but like many others here, loved playing it even more (and still do)

I was thrilled to get a team in '98 (it's hard enough rooting for a perennial cellar dweller, it's even harder to do it when you only get to watch a handful of White Sox-Royals games on WGN through the course of the year). It was even more exciting as a Royals fan to have an owner who actually cared about winning (who knew?!).

I finished college in '01 and moved to Phoenix where my love for the D-Backs was sealed with a championship kiss.

Now I live in Princeton, New Jersey with my wife and two kids (4 and 2) where I'm a pastor at a local church. Princeton is a great place to be a baseball fan. Equidistant from NYC and Philly, the area is populated with an abundance of baseball fans: Phillies, Mets, and Yankees (in order of allegiance).

Found Jim's site a year or two back and it's been a lifeline for a lone D-Back fan.

Not rally, lol.I'm Hannah ,here in sunny Manchester in the UK.I'm known all over the net as hotclaws and some people in "real life" even call me that.

I can't work any more, I've got a messed up back.When I did, i had my own business as a Tarot card reader, but I've done lots of other things, including working for Tony Wilson in the Factory and supervising a sex chatline.
I got into baseball coming home late from shifts and finding American sports on TV in the early hours.
I support the D'backs because when we heard there were to be two expansion teams ,my bf and I said we'd pick one each and follow them from the start.How to choose? I was frightened of snakes so wanted the Devilrays but he liked thier colours better and I was already into purple because of supporting the Vikings , also I had a Diamondback mountain bike so I got them.I never fail to remind him it was his choice,lol.I'd like to think I'd be as loyal to the Rays but I'm glad I didn't get them.
It was kinda lonely being a baseball fan over here until I found the snakepit.Now, i'm not just yelling into space and scaring the cats when I watch.
I follow the game in the internet, usually lying in bed,with a cat or two helping by lying on my legs, a can of cider or beer handy, and my fingers twitching to post.
I had internet problems lst year because my service was set to automatically shut down to refresh for 15 mins at 3.00Am our time, which was frustrating.It was no good complaining to the company, it's a cheap intranet service run by a real hard faced bitch,me! Actually,it's a great comunity project set up to provide a cheap service for people on low incomes.I got a new techie on board and got it fixed in the off season.
I come from a family of mill workers, a real Lancashire lass and have always lived in Manchester.

I've got a BA but have never used it for a job.
I have high hopes for this year, i believe we will go all the way with just a little luck.
P.S. have I ever mentioned that I love Mark Reynold?

Name's Chad and I run an insurance agency over in Peoria. When I'm not working, I spend my time commuting back and forth to Scottsdale while hoping there's a Suns or DBacks game playing on KTAR. I am going back to school this summer to get my RN degree. I'm recently separated but have a wonderful 13-month-old boy to pass on my baseball fandom.

I grew up near Chicago in a family full of rabid Cubs fans. Sometimes I think Harry Caray and Budweiser actually helped in raising me. We moved to Phoenix in 1985 and I still stuck with the Cubs until I found the baseball stats on the sports page. I somehow got hooked on these guys up in Seattle named Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr. even though I had never seen them play.

In 1993, I joined the Navy at 18 and somehow got stationed near Seattle. The Mariners were absolutely horrible then but their magical season of 1995 got me hooked for life. For a city that never had a good baseball team, 1995 was the promised land.

Finally, MLB put a team in Phoenix and I started to follow them. It also helped that my chief just happened to be related to Mr. Colangelo. We'd spend hours talking baseball and about how much we missed the desert (stupid me). Anyway, I finally got out of the Navy August, 2001 (good timing for many reasons) and watched the 2001 run from my spot behind the bar. No turning back after those playoffs.

Favorite AZ players are Mark Reynolds, Chris Young, and Brandon Webb.

Hi! My name is George, but lots of friends call me by my nickname "Muu". I'm 22y old and live in Belém - Brazil, where I'm graduating at UFPA (Federal University of Pará) as an Accountant =P
I first started as a NFL fan back to 97, rooting for guess who? Denver Broncos LOL. But then in 2000 a friend asked me if I knew anything about baseball, and after I said that I didn't he invited me to play it on a team run by the japanese community at Castanhal, a city near Belém where I was living with my mother and sister. From that day on, my life was baseball, and I started to read/watch everything about it and how to play it properly... then I got my directv on and saw Randy pitching a game against the Giants... guess it was love at first sight? hahahahhaha with the dbacks of course =p
Now I'm a dbacks addict, I cant miss not even 1 game or at least read/watch/listen about it when I miss.
Btw, now I have my own baseball team: the Belém Búfalos. We play against the japanese teams over here, we won the "Norte/Nordeste" championship in 2006, and in 2007 I pitched for a team from Rio de Janeiro (The "Cariocas") at the 1st National Championship for non-japanese players, where we finished in 4th place (I was the losing pitcher at the semi-finals hehehe, but overall my stats were 9 IP 11 H 5 ER 2 BB 7K... not that bad I think...)

As a pitcher, its not a surprise to say that my favourite players are Brandon Webb and Big Unit, but as a former catcher I should mention that I'm a big fan of Snyder, to me he's the most underrated C from MLB and I hope he gets the attention he deserves, he's great =]

Hey Jim, I couldn't finish it without mention your blog... It's my prime source of informations about our dbacks ^^ every single day I make this "trip" with my browser: 1 - azsnakepit.com / 2 - mlb.com / 3 - foxsports.com / 4 - si.com / 5 - cbssports...... hahahhaha figure how much your blog mean to me? =p
think I started to post comments here in 2006, dunno, but I'm a reader since a long time ago =p ur work here is just awesome...

aff... cansei de escrever em inglês...
sorry about my poor english =X

Que a temporada seja ótima pro nosso DBacks!
Vamos lá Cascavéis do Arizona! hehe ^^

I am the once and future Peachy (Man Who Would be King, anyone?), but normally go by the more quotidian Nathaniel. I recently graduated from the University of Chicago, and am now bumming around thinking about the future. (Not as exciting as it sounds.)

I grew up mostly overseas, so I never had a hometown team in any professional sport, although I saw a fair amount of the Giants and A's as a little chap while visiting family in the Bay Area. When the last round of expansion franchises came out, I said, 'self, let's pick a team'... and very fortunately, as with hotclaws, the choice fell on Arizona. Every time I think how close I came to pledging my loyalty to the Rays, I get a little shudder of terror and disgust.

Formerly npineda but I thought I would be clever and hide my last name. I was featured in the Randy Johnson trade article in the Republic, where I was quoted as saying 'Randy's my mom's age', a fact that my mother has not let me live down since.

I've been a D-Backs fan since the 00 season, when I started getting interested in Baseball again after taking a couple years off in high school (ah, young rebellion). My fondest memory of the D-Backs is my mom doing play by play over the phone on the night of Game 7 of the World Series, because the power had gone out in Yuma during a later summer storm early fall storm.

I met Jim when I was working at Those Who Should Not Be Named, and had been a fan of the Snakepit for about 6 months prior to that. I used to fill in on occasion as a contributor, but I'm usually so drunk by the end of a game i'm useless for a post game summary.

I'm a Fantasy Addict and like to stir the pot on the Purple vs. Sedona Red debate whenever I can. I'm also a cook and have debated my own blog about fantasy sports and bar eats, but, my motivation level goes up and down for that.

And ... Umm ... I Love Lamp.

I'm a huge D-backs fan and have been visiting the Snakepit (mostly lurking) for over a year. I live in Salt Lake City, UT but lived in Phoenix before that. I'm currently a finance controller for an IT company and have 3 kids. My two sport loves are soccer and baseball. Two totally different sports - love the passion and flow of play in soccer and love the strategy and tradition of baseball.

I played baseball as a kid growing up and loved the Phillies and Giants. Mike Schmidt was my baseball "hero" growing up at 3rd base. After moving to Arizona I instantly became a Dbacks fan.

My greatest memories include being smart enough during the Braves-Dbacks 2001 NLCS to drive to Bank One Ballpark and line-up for World Series tickets the night we clinched --- and then being dumb enough (at 12:30am) after several hours in line to only buy 2 (limit was 8 - could have paid for season tickets with proceeds). But I'll never forget game 1 of the World Series, being there in person.

My greatest Dbacks memory, however, isn't one moment, but all the games I was able to attend with my daughter (age 6 at the time). Back in the day we used to park at the mall downtown and take a shuttle/bus to Bank One Ballpark -- I can remember having 4 weekends in a row where we didn't have to buy tickets. People would literally walk up to us and give us a pair of tickets. Something about taking a kid to a game that must spur the best in people :) -

I've also been fortunate enough to attend games at Camden Yard, Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. If I can somehow make it to Yankee Stadium this year I'll be in heaven. There's something about baseball that is so unique and can't be touched by any other sport.

It's great to meet and interact with others who share a similar passion for the Dbacks and baseball.

I watched a big chunk of the team when they were the AA El Paso Diablos, before the franchise was sold and the team was sent away. (I should've gotten more autographs when I had the chance -- all I have is a baseball signed by Erubiel Durazo. Oh well.) I'm not online during most games, but I'll drop in from time to time.

I live in Bug Sur, CA, and my great great great great grandfather was a confederate general in the civil war. I live in a cabin in the woods with a dozen stoves that all burn whiskey until heaven freezes over.

I love baseball, books, and broads that don't try to tan my balls and make a wallet out of them.

... and I'm a DBacksaholic. I grew up as a football fan -- my Dad was a student at Notre Dame when I was born and we lived blocks from the stadium. Still love them, even through lousy seasons.

I worked at Dukes Stadium in ABQ when the Dodgers were there as a farm team; Steve Garvey was the star that year. I started following the Dodgers until we discovered WGN and the Cubs. Had a neighbor who was a major Cubbies fan and we would watch the games. So I had a good baseball foundation by the time we lived in Phoenix and the Dbacks came into being. My husband got us all TShirts the first day they were available, and was even quoted in the newspaper about the team. We have all been crazy DBacks fans ever since. Our first game as a family was to see the Cubs; we were all there when Mark Grace pitched an inning, too. One of my favorite times was being at the game with my two exchange students, one from Japan and one from Germany, and having the Japanese girl explain the game to the German girl. They both said that being at Bank One was "like being at a movie." My son posts here, and he writes a DBacks blog; my older daughter is a fierce Mariners fan and also writes a blog. My grandson's middle name is Ichiro.

Thanks to the wonder of MLB Extra Innings, I get to see lots of DBacks games, though I live in the middle of nowhere.

And I'm a DBacksaholic from Reading in the UK

I got D-Backs fever during the 01 World Series when I was sat doing my homework at 2am and my choices on TV were limited, so I put on the baseball. I'd played cricket since I was little but always saw baseball as 'glorified American rounders' But when I watched that 01 series I just got hooked. Now every chav (see pikey/townie/any form of teenager who hangs around causing trouble) wore a Yankess cap so I wasn't about to support them, so I chose the D-Backs as my team in what turned out to be a great choice.

I've yet to see a game but have recently started playing for the Thames Valley Bisons and hope to one day head over for a Diamondbacks game.

Outside of Baseball I'm an avid Reading Football Club fan having stood on the terraces (and more recently sat) since 1995, seeing the team go down, up and up again (I have a habit of picking rollercoaster teams) I graduated from Lancaster University in the summer with a BA in History and am working for this year in IT to save money for my postgrad Masters course in broadcast journalism which I hope will one day lead to me covering sports on TV or radio. In the past I've also been a music radio DJ doing a live radio show for 3 years at Uni and working the Download Music Festival at Donnington Park which was surreal to say the least! Other then that I enjoy nothing more then video games, specifically Football Manager, Out of the Park Baseball or Halo 3

Phew...and that about that :D

Sorry, had a bad MP3 moment.

My name is Jim (a.k.a. IndyDBack), and I am absolutely a DBacksaholic! I currently reside in a suburb of Indianapolis, IN, patiently waiting for my retirement from the FAA (air traffic controller) so I can get back to the Homeland of AZ!

My love of the D'Backs started in 1995, basically from the moment the franchise was announced - having grown up in Tempe, any team in AZ (aside from the evil and despised Wildcats) was going to be mine. I have been to BOB/Chase Field a few times, but most of my live D'Backs games have been at visitor's stadiums, mainly Cincinnati & Chicago. My favorite non-WS winning moment was when Mark Grace went to the mound in 2002 and did his impression of Mike Fetters during a blowout to the Dodgers.

Im Brian, and I strive to be the 64th poster on every thread.

Raised in Tucson, but never much of a baseball fan, or sports really, until the latter half of the '00 season. That next season I watched from first pitch, and well, you could say it was a pretty good time to become a fan.

Living in Las Vegas right now (a little yuck), spending my days walking through the Mojave desert looking fir Desert Tortoises and listening to baseball on my XM (thankgod for satelite radio!). Trying to make the move back to southern AZ in about 6 months. Just a wedding (mine) and a field season in 115 degree temps to get through before that happens .

Kudos to everyone who contributes here. My buddy (tabe1978) turned me on to this place two or three years ago, and it is by far the most superior fan site I have ever seen. I laugh at all pretenders. Keep up the good work, Jim and everyone. Thanks for helping to make me a lifelong d-backer!

I'm probably the only Bosnian that likes baseball :)

I grew up watching European football (soccer, you'd call it) and basketball, and I first got introduced to the NBA in '93 (I was 12) and I've been a Phoenix Suns fan ever since.

The last few years I've been getting into other American sports, and being a Suns fan I thought it was only natural to follow other Arizona teams.

I subscribed to MLB.TV last season and I've watched a lot of DBacks games since then, including the amazing run last season. MLB.TV is great for me, since all the games are out of market :)

I recently stumbled across this blog, I liked the writing, so I made it a daily stop. Keep up the good work.

but I don't live on the second floor. I'm a freshman in high school in a suburb of New York City, and I've been a DBack's fan since 1998, when I saw Randy Johnson trounce the Mets in Shea Stadium. MLB.TV keeps me updated, even though those 9:40 starts ruin my GPA. I live in a world where the only choices are Yankees and Mets, so I'm glad to connect with fellow Diamondback fans.

I became aware of the planet MLB as a ten year old boy in the SF Bay Area.

There was a Bonds in the outfield then , too.
His name was Bobby.

...what the @#$% happened with the Rockies last fall?
NL West TempestTeapot case in point?

My name is David Quinlan and I am a die hard dback fan as well! I am not new here and usually every day I would come and read the recap but I finally decided to sign up. I am 21 years old, have been married for 2 years, and my son will be turning 1 this coming Tuesday. I reside in southern new mexico…..

Hey, My name is Sergey, I live in Alaska….yeah, i know, a d-backs’ fan from….alaska…. Anyways the first year i started really watching/paying attention to baseball was in 2001….happens to be the d-backs’ year. Luis Gonzalez is by far the best, still, in my heart. I’ve lived through the terrible several years since then, but here we are. Go D-Backs!!

and I like baseball, posting a lot, and annoying ’Skins.

Hi! I’m luckycc, but I’ll also answer to Char. I co-own a blog, Chicks and Sticks, which focuses on baseball purely from a fan perspective – nothing near as in depth as we get on the ‘Pit. Oh, and if the name didn’t give it away, yes, I is a girl. I was raised in Phoenix, moved Tucson to attend U of A, got my degree in journalism and I’m still in Tucson, procrastinating grad school.

I’ve been a baseball fan for…one year. I saw the Dbacks win the World Series, just happened to be watching a game over at my grandparents’ when Randy Johnson pitched his perfect game, but still, wasn’t interested. Then in October 2007, I got bored. Wound up watching the post-season that year and it was like flipping a switch. I was hooked and I’ve been obsessed ever since. I don’t know or understand everything about this game yet, but for my money it’s the best sport there is. Now, if only I can find someone to come see spring training with me…

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Cody Ulm. I’m definately a Denver Broncos fan first, as you can tell by my name, but I’m, no question, a D-Backs fan second and I love going to baseball games much more. I’ve always been a D-Backs fan but not a huge one until about 4-5 years ago when I realized I couldn’t make it through the summer without some kind of sports fix. I went to a few games the inaguaral season and few more after that but for the past couple years I’ve been going to 20-30 games a season and all the playoffs games. I always by the cheap seats and sneak closer and I’ve became a self proclaimed “pro” at it.

As I’m leaving high school, I would love to have a job in baseball, not playing it of course. It would be my dream to be some sort of front office official and I’m going to take sports management classes to follow my dream. Right now, I write for the school paper and I’m the unofficial D-Backs writer, even though no one reads it anyways.

As soon as the baseball season ends, I begin the countdown to next season as my life seemingly revolves around baseball and football.

and I am a Snakesaholic. I moved down to Phoenix to go to ASU in 1998 from Sacramento. I was always a baseball fan but never really held onto the A’s or Giants. I have two first baseball memories. 1) Going to a Jays/A’s game in 1986 and rooting hard for Toronto because I liked blue better than green. 2) Going to the Cubs/Giants playoff game in 1988 when Will Clark singled up the middle to win the game. I was also at the infamous earthquake game in the Battle of the Bay.

When I moved to Phoenix I started working as a valet in the player’s lot at the BoB. We would get various perks from our job, but my key was free tickets from the 6th inning on. Sure I’d only get an inning or two, but it’s all I needed to be hooked on the Snakes. For the past 11 years I have been as diehard as it gets. I had season tickets for 2007 and 2008. In my mind, buying season tickets for a team means you have truly arrived as a fan.

Unfortunately, this year I had to cancel my tickets as I am moving for law school in July. It will be hard living in a city (wherever that may be) where I can’t just plop down after a day’s work and watch 9 glorious innings of D’backs ball. As of now, that means Salem, OR so let me know if there are any other Snakepit friends in that area.

Slim Shady. I’m a die hard D’backs fan. Baseball comes first followed by the NBA and then the NFL. I’m from the northen part of the country called Wisconsin. I became a D’backs fan because of the 01 World Series. At that time about the only things I knew about the MLB was that Barry Bonds broke the single season homerun record and that you weren’t supposed to like the Yankees.

Since the Yankees were in the World Series I cheered against them and cheered for the team playing them. With that being said if any of the other 15 teams in the NL had gone to the World Series that year I might have become a fan of that team. Some years later I got my first D’backs hat to solidify them as my baseball team. I still like that hat and the old colors versus my new hat and the current colors.

My username has a story behind it. My friend had broken one of his legs and his doctor told him it would take x amount of time to heal, I don’t remeber how long. When he went to get the cast off his doctor said that it needed some more time to heal. When my friend told me that I said as a joke “those dam doctors need to get their facts straight.” When ever I was with my friend walking to my car, to a game, or wherever, I would say as a joke" You’re walking slow, I blame your dam doctor." When he did get his cast off and something bad happened I would sometimes say “I still blame your dam doctor.” And it has become a joke ever since. My favorite D’back is Brandon Webb and his number is 17 and to be a little bit more creative I used it twice.

dam-doctors-17-17, dam- dr.s-17-17, dam-drs-17-17, damdrs1717.

and I am a D-backsaholic. I found this site about 3 or 4 years ago and found out through emails with Jim that our season seats are in the same section and same row, although I have never met him—but I enjoy his writing and D-backs enthusiasm (as well as that of many other regular posters) enough to make this a daily stop to see what is going on in D-back world. I am much more of a lurker and sort of live by the “only speak when you really have something to add” mentality, which in my case isn’t that often but I have known to be lured into posting something in response to diamondhacks usually disagreeing—who doesn’t? :) I think the D-backs are an organization that are really trying to do everything right both on and off the field—the management of Josh Byrnes & Derrick Hall are top notch and now that Moorad is out of the way, perhaps we won’t have many more bad contracts and can continue to build around a lot of young talent. Go D-backs!

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not many of those around these parts! ;)

and I have been a Dbacksaholic ever since my father took me to see Opening Day when I was 8. I still remember the parachutists landing on the diamond through the open roof. I have a piece of the purple and teal ribbon streamers in my house somewhere.

Baseball (and sports in general) has been something special I have done with my father ever since my parents divorced when I was 3. My first baseball memory is Dad splurging for Dippin Dots ice cream at a Phoenix Firebirds game and eating it on the outfield grass.

As my handle suggests, it did not take long for the Diamondbacks to earn my fan allegiance and have kept me loyal ever since 1998. 2001 shall forever remain ingrained in my memory as something special that I did not quite understand at the time but my parents made a very large deal out of.

I currently reside in Missouri where I am a broadcast journalism major and pine for the ability to watch the DBacks and Suns on a regular basis. MLB radio singlehandedly eased my transition to college even though I was following our decline.

I was at the game in Busch Stadium when the past season’s playoff hopes died, as I recall we lost 12-3. I have also seen games in Kansas City and Atlanta. My favorite player bar none is Stephen Drew, and I still do not understand why some call him “Wolf.”

I should play, since the original was posted (and closed) before I was here.

I’m Emily, finishing up my first year of college in Flagstaff, planning on transferring to Tucson in the fall. I grew up in Gilbert, went to Highland High School (since we’re apparently on a run of happy high school reminiscence) I’ve been a baseball fan since…always; it’s the only sport my dad ever played, and my mom is completely sports-illiterate. I played softball from the time I was 7 until my sophomore year of high school (blew out my knee pitching…sad day) and would’ve gone to UA to pitch instead of NAU for music. Man, things sure do turn around quickly, don’t they? As soon as the Diamondbacks came to town, I was hooked (or as hooked as an 8 year old can be). I even loved them in ’04 when they lost to the Marlins on my birthday.

Random factoid: At 6’ tall, I have always been the tallest girl I know.

Cibola, what what!?

My name is chris and am a huge baseball fan. I am big into baseball stats and love reading Baseball prospectus and have owned every book since 2002’s version. I love the stat VORP and use it quite. I also play OOTP whenever I can, those of you not framiliar with this baseball simulation should check it out.

Off the internet I am in the United States Air force stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson as a fuel systems mechanic on whatever air crafts base I am stationed at, it is a very physically demanding job and I tend to work long hours near the end of the weeks but you can’t beat the job security, steady pay check, and just being apart of these aircraft and what they do to win our wars.

Hope to becvome a productive member here.

I went to Bradshaw Mountain high school in Prescott Valley AZ then went the University of Arizona, I have lived in Cape Cod Mass for the past 4 years, I will be moving to the San Francisco area in June, finally back to the west coast. I will actually get to watch some games, be a bigger part of the game day threads and try to see all the dbacks vs giants games. My best baseball moment, (besides WS in 01) in spring of 1998 my brother and I got to shag balls for Sammy Sosa who was taking extra bp on a field behind HoHokam park where the cubs train. I got two autographed bats and threw about 25 balls over the fence to all the other kids who didn’t get to come on the field.