SB Nation User Blog: El Person

Quiz From Hell

El Person — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:44:40 -0000

Quiz From Hell

I hate you, jcb9.

If the Giants had the offense of each of the above teams, where would they be according to the...

El Person — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:32:23 -0000

If the Giants had the offense of each of the above teams, where would they be according to the Pythagorean Theorem?

W-L is for the end of the season.

Why?

El Person — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:03:00 -0000

This is the most soul-crushing defeat I've ever faced. For three straight days, my heart's been broken. This is worse than the second-to-last game of 2004. It's almost as bad as that dream I had about the 2002 World Series not being cancelled.

It's at times like these that I ask, "Why?" Why am I emotionally entangled with the doings of 25 men I will never meet and have no connection to? This is especially pertinent, given that I have a lot of more important things (school), and I spent the evening in bed sick. Stress is the last thing I need.

Right now, I want to stop being a Giants fan more than anything, even more than for the Giants to win every game the rest of the way, including the playoffs. For we will meet disappointment eventually. Or, at the very least, I should like to be an idiot frontrunner who has no real attachment to any team. But this is out of my power.

Why? Because fandom is like life. Both can be pleasurable, but both are in the end suffering. nd if we understand this, we can end the suffering of fandom and reach enlightenment.

If only...

I'm back!

El Person — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:42:52 -0000

Remember me?

I thought not.

Actually, I'd be surprised if anybody did in fact remember me. So surprise me. Please?

MCC Newsletter

El Person — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:59:31 -0000

A few days ago, I proposed a MCC Giants newsletter. It was somewhat well-recieved, so I'll go into a little more detail on it. I'm not really sure what the method of distribution would be or even the final layout, but here's what I'm looking at, in terms of features:

Post of the Week: The best post on any Giants blog for that week. This may possibly morph into Posts of the Week.
Special Feature: An original essay by one or more of the editors. This may possibly morph into Special Features.
Blogs of the Week: A few (let's say 3 for now) Giants blogs that we at MCCN (an abbreviation for the newsletter I just invented) like.
Calendar: What's coming up over the next week in Giantsland.
Featured Giant: A Giant we really like and don't think gets enough attention. This may possibly morph into Featured Giants.

So, give some feedback on the proposed sections and maybe propose some of your own. Also, give ideas for target audience and distribution. Oh, and if you'd like to be an editor, say so.

Radio Pregame Show

El Person — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:18:02 -0000

Am I the only one out there who listens to the radio pregame show? I, personally, tune in every day, and enjoy the whole hour (except maybe the broken English of Felipe Alou, but that's gone now). I only discovered it last year. How long has it been out there?

Overrated

El Person — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:45:03 -0000

Today, I got to thinking about how overrated the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is. I usually try not to do that, since it usually results in my getting extremely worked up over almost nothing. Today though, I decided to blow off the steam wth this poll.

Poll

How many of these rivalries do you think are overrated?

Yankees-Red Sox

14 votes

Giants-Dodgers

5 votes

Cubs-Cardinals

9 votes

Yankees-Mets

5 votes

Cubs-White Sox

2 votes

Giants-A's

28 votes

Dodgers-Angels

18 votes

81 votes | Poll has closed