It’s too bad I didn’t find out about this site until the last few weeks of the season. You’ll see my next year!

But i’ve definately experienced some great moments this year. I know I’ve lagged on my prospect articles, but i do plan on doing some work there. Minor league report cards, top 10 performances, and a top 20 prospect list are all on my to do list.

I must say that the best moment to me this year was going to snakepitfest and meeting every one, especially one person in particular. ;-)

I just want to thank you Jim for giving us a great place to talk about our Dbacks. I’ve been hanging around since the dark ages of Azcentral.com, and it’s remarkable how far the Snakepit, as well as the DBBP has come. Dbacks fans are lucky to have an online presence as good as this.

how I’ll miss you…but that is completely irrelevant. I’m rooting for the Rays from here on out (and I STILL want to call them the Devil Rays. Argh.).

Aaaanyway. It was nice to stumble upon this community back in May-something to distract me from finals and AP tests and give me somewhere to be as much of a baseball geek as I really am. :-) I’ve met a lot of great people through this site, and SnakePitFestapaloozathon was an awesome way to spend the day before my birthday…and I have to say, it was definitely fun surprising everyone. :-)

Any ideas on how to get through the winter? It’ll be a long, cold offseason.

Thank you, Jim, for running such a great site, and thank you, to everyone else, for being so friendly that even some of our losses led to great amusement.

Memorable moments, in no particular order:

• SnakePitFest ranks highly, though Mrew’s birthday slightly trumps it my memory. Good times, and that was a pretty delicious, if illegible, cake.
• Max Scherzer’s major league debut- 13 up, 13 down. Brilliant, and kind of gave you shivers at how good this kid just might be.
• Chris Snyder’s, um, fracture. And the Diamondback Nation winces as one.
• Playing the Brewers, down by five, going into the bottom of the ninth. Probably my favorite second favorite ninth inning rally in Diamondbacks history.
• The month of April.

Not a great season, definitely a disappointing one, but it could have been a lot worse. I enjoyed it, and I can’t wait for Spring Training to start up.

and every year it just gets better. Disagreements and all, I love hanging out here. thanks.

Two top memories that pop into mind:

1.) the 5 run deficiet in the 9th against the brew crew we over came. I was at a bar watching with a friend eating lunch. Our growing excitement caught on with others in the bar that by the time we won it, the whole place was going nuts. We may be a valley of transplants, but I sense this season more than in the past that people are embracing this team as their own finally.

2.) Drew hitting for the cycle.

Thank you to Jim and Chris for everything they do throughout the year. I only made it out to the SnakePitFest game this year, but it was nice to meet so many people on a winning effort. Misty May being there was also a very cool moment that was a lot of fun.

Looking back on the year, I’m saddest about taking EB in the Third Round of SnakePit Fantasy baseball this year, and I was most excited about Alex Romero’s running grab in San Diego.

I think we would all call the results on the field disappointing but I don’t feel that our future is dismal, and I look forward to following the pit and the team over the off season, seeing what events Trash City puts together, and waiting for hope to spring eternal in the … Spring.

Well this season certainly wasn’t what we all expected after such a hot April… but still, it wasn’t half bad. (It was only 49% bad.) There were some phenomenal moments, both good at bad… and I look forward to a winter of discussions; they just start sooner than we all would have liked. :(

I didn’t follow as closely this year as I had hoped, but I always found time to participate here! (Well, except when I was held hostage by my soccer tournament.) I am so proud of how this site has grown this year and how greatly the participation has increased. Thank you all for making this site what it is!

I have met great friends here, thanks in part to the wonderful atmosphere Jim has provided us. Thanks, Jim, for hosting us all and letting us share in its upkeep!

And hey, if our regionals are at ASU again this winter, I will let you all know ahead of time so I can meet more than just Jim and Chris. ;)

You rock and have made this the place to go for D’backs news. Truly is one of the best sites on the SBN network.

the Academy, all of my friends and families, and of course, my dog Mr. Charles Flufflesworth Harriet Wooloo IV.

If I take anything out of this season it will be how glad I was to find this place. I absolutely love all of you guys and look forward to spending a great 2009 with all of you guys instead of the roughly one and a half months I got this season. Love the site!

One being that I signed up on a whim, because soco was ALWAYS on the board while we watched games and chuckled and I was reading over his shoulder and thought, “HEY! NO BASHING COJACK!” to one of his comments and signed up (hence the killer creative name) and got sucked in.

Second memory was screaming “CHAD TRACY” at the top of my lungs and looking down to see the entire kishi-4 corners fan family giving us the oddest look. “Are we getting color commetary?” Then at the end of game chanting, “THREE GAMES UP! THREE GAMES UP!” (Those were the days, neh?) That game was one of the best I have ever been to. It really makes me want to buy season tickets and see if we can build a “Summer Family” (Anyone seen American "Fever Pitch?)

Was finding this site. As a DBacks fan who no longer lives in Arizona, I haven’t been able to follow the team as closely I have in the past. Snakepit made it much easier to feel like I was still a part of the fan community. I wasn’t always around that often but I was great to know the site was always here if I got tire of Phillies news out here in Pa. Thanks a ton to the guys who made this site. I’ll be around next year, I hope everyone else will.

Jim, thanks for building this online Dbacks’ supercollider. We go around in circles and occasionally explode, but it’s (probably) not the end of the world and hopefully, in the end, we all learn something.

Cheers

As always… love the site, love the community here. Missed our favorite grumpy old uncle (Ben) this year, though.

it was a pretty good year. Sure, the results weren’t quite what we were looking for, but half of the fun is the journey, not the destination.

I’m glad I happened to still be in Phoenix for the sococococo’s party. Hopefully no one was too frightened of me and my soulless, devil-worshiping eyes.

The Snakepitfestapaloozathon was worth the drive (even though gas money is a pain in the ass), even if the “surprise” of Emily tagging along was somewhat lost. I seem to remember botching what little surprise was left when I went to meet Jim and pick up her ticket. Remember, you have to yell “charge” at a baseball game every time they play anything but the lead-in where you’re actually supposed to yell “charge.”

I was in Colorado during the epic comeback (all with no outs???) against the Brewers, so I didn’t get to partake in that one. I was around for Scherzer’s debut, though, and that was special. All the while I periodically had recaps, which started off being interesting and victorious, and ended up being interesting and awful. Hopefully they weren’t too jarring of a difference from Jim’s standard that he’s created.

It may end up being a somewhat tumultuous offseason, but Jim has set up a very strong framework here with his work over the past few years, and the rest of you folks have helped build it into a teeming community. Maybe we don’t always agree on everything, but that wouldn’t be any fun anyway.

So as you’re watching Diamondbacks-less postseason baseball, don’t forget to subtract points from OBP for defensive shortcomings, follow the 3.46 + 2 business model, and give more credit for a 10-pitch groundout than a first-pitch home run.

has little to do with a game outcome. The most memorable (and second most poignant DBacks game I have ever seen) was DD’s first game back after thyroid surgery. The ensuing media storm that seemed to build around his first few starts and in every national TV game kind of diluted how special it was to see him come back in the same season. I was not at his return game, but I watched it on TV in awe.

Other memorable moments already mentioned include:
1) Romero’s catch
2) 9th inning stunner against the Brewers
3) The entirety of the month of April
4) Randy getting ever closer to 300
5) Drew’s cycle
6) Connor’s cycle+1

But thanks to Jim for maintaining such a fun on-line community. Finding the Snake-Pit was my highlight of the 2008 season.

Thanks too to the authors who gave us so many recaps and pregame posts. I enjoyed reading them, and missed them terribly when we had off days (although the off0day threads were fun too!). And thanks to all the posters. Since I found the site, our gameday discussions have been an enjoyable part of every game.