Thank You

Kishi is gonna be SOOOO pissed that you forgot to mention him as an author.

Just kidding. But seriously, I can’t recall somebody thanking the Snakepit as thoroughly as this. 90% of your gratitude should be directed at Jim, who, when he’s not being grouchy about your posted pictures or my off-topic conversations, pours his heart and soul into this site. (As well as most of his free time)

I dunno about anyone else, but I really appreciated your being here. I really think it makes this site successful when we can bring Dbacks updates to fans from elsewhere — whether they’re in Tucson, Las Vegas, New Jersey, or even Britain, Brazil, Singapore or Bosnia. Be sure to stick around over the offseason and next year, but also explore some more of the SBN in-season blogs, too. Behind The Steel Curtain is a very popular SBN site; dunno if you’ve been there yet.

Just edited in with an “I guess”? You’re dead to me, Wailord! Dead to me!

it’s possible that the Wailord Jinx only applies to an odd-aged Wailord. We could go 162-0 next season.

Truly, I couldn’t do it without all the other editors and authors. It was very helpful to have regular recap help this season, so big, big props to Azreous on Wednesdays, and the rotating roster of recappers on Sundays. The nights off definitely helped keep my sanity intact, and freed me up to do other pieces. Hopefully we can work something similar out next year.

I haven’t really spent much time on other SB Nation sites, but I sense they all do tend to take on the personality of their creators – which makes sense, as like attracts like. For instance, if you don’t “get” irony and sarcasm, then you won’t enjoy this site as much as you might. I’d never claim this site is for everyone, but the odd mix of personalities and characters seems to gel surprisingly well for the most part.

It’s been a sucky year in some ways, but the Pit has been a welcome release, even when the baseball team has sucked farts out of dead dogs. And not just online, but at Torospalooza, SnakePitFest, SocoFest, Jennystock and the upcoming AFLFest. Sharing my Diamondbacks fandom with others is always a pleasure, and I can’t wait for Opening Day 2010.

Again, thanks to everyone. You make the SnakePit what it is. I just hold the coats and serve the drinks. Sodas for you, Wailord and Emily. :-)

This thread :) echo’s my own sentiments.

I’d like to extend my own thanks especially to Jim, Jenny and everyone else who helped me out when doing fancast earlier this year. I’m sorry it went down the tube :( but if the conditions are right I’d love to pick it up again.

It’s wierd being a day behind baseball news (due to the time difference) but this site has always made me feel like a true fan of the team each and every morning I log on.

So much credit has to go to all the authors, editors, people who show up in the GDT and obviously to Jim. To do so much unpaid work for a website out of love for your team is amazing and if everyone walked away from the site tomorrow there would be an amazing archive of analysis and opinions for people to look at for years to come.

So here’s to the Pit’ for today and tomorrow.

Cheers!

Forgive my old school message board nerd terms! :S

The fun I had here nearly masked the awfulness of the season. Thanks to everyone who helped make this place what it is.

Following up on some of yesterdays discussion (and to prove that I’m not totally an old grouch, a few tips from an old coach:
You said you have a problem of frequently grounding out to short. This is usually a result of two swing flaws: opening up your shoulders too soon, and pulling your head up during the swing. My quick suggestions:
1: don’t try to pull the ball, or ‘overswing’ at it. or lunge.
2: keep your weight back, and use your legs to generate power.
3: focus on putting the center of the bat through the center of the ball. Try to time the swing with the pitch so that your hitting it in the center of the plate. Line drives are good.
4: Take a couple of BP sessions where you ONLY try to line the ball to right field (you won’t be able to do it every time, but it should help you keep your head down on the ball).
5: accept that not everyone can be a great hitter, and instead try to be a productive hitter. If a sacrifice will help your team, do your best to do it.
Hope this helps you, and that you have a good season.
(now, get back to your homework, kid)

I agree with everything you’ve said,it was a bit lonely over here being a D’backs fan until I found the Snakepit.I do think of you guys as friends and this is one of my favourite sites ever;humorous,friendly,nerdy,well informed.I appreciate all the work that goes into it from the write ups to the stats to the tiniest comment from a lurker.

reminds me of this post.

We love you too :)

thanks to all for a great site.

… is that it has morphed from a one man show (albeit an excellent one man show) to a real team effort. It’s a great cast of characters here and the face to face interaction a lot of you now have has really added to the overall welcoming feel.

Thanks to the whole team (but always, thanks to the special grandoompa of them all Jim).

because SnakePitFests are so much fun that you’ll want to go over and over. Going to SPF and meeting people make the GDTs even more interesting.

tonight was the first night of my new softball team. Last week (diff team, similar roster) I was [0-6, 4K, GIDP]… this week was much better [4-6, 2BB, 0K] with the two outs being popups… yeah. I’m pretty much Señor Bigshot at this point.

with some lame ass comment about how nice it is to be here and that it’s a welcome refreshing change from the crap that you read on the newspaper boards in the vain hope of finding intelligent conversation….because that just wouldn’t be me.