Welcome "WillTheThrill" to the Board!

[Bear]

Welcome "WillTheThrill" to SFGF. Tell us a little about yourself and how you found us on the net? Enjoy yourself and remember we have only one BIG rule. Post often and remain active. :)

[SF Kid]

Another Giants fan with a very appropriate name!

Welcome. :toast:

Spread the word about the forum and let's make this a great Giants baseball site! ;)

[WillTheThrill]

Thanks, guys!

I've been friends with 'McCovey' for almost twenty years, we met in college. He invited me to the board recently. I probably won't be super active, posting-wise, because I'm really busy with school. (I went back recently to finish my degree after being away from school for almost 15 years.) But I'll be "lurking" and reading, and I WILL post once in a while... I promise.

My Giants "history"...

My Dad was born and raised in S.F. and he was 13 years old in 1958 when the Giants moved out west. He saw Mays and McCovey and Marichal and all those guys when they were in their primes. I am sooooooooo jealous!

We grew up in the Bay Area, and my Dad took us to games from the time I was a toddler. I've been a Giants fan since the LeMaster, Jack Clark, Darrell Evans, John Montefusco, etc., era. My Giants "claim to fame" is that I saw Ed Halicki's no-hitter at Candlestick Park on 8/24/75. (My older sister's birthday is 8/20, and her birthday wish was that she wanted to go to a game.) That was the last time a Giant threw a no-hitter at home. I have to admit that since I was only six, I barely remember it. But I know I was there! And I was aware at the time what an amazingly rare thing it was to see.

I grew up watching games at Candlestick and on KATU-2, but really became a HUGE fan in the Roger Craig "Humm Baby" era... and so of course my favorite player was Will The Thrill Clark. I was actually at that Giants/Astros game where he hit the upper-deck walk-off home run to win the game. I screamed so long and hard that I couldn't talk above a whisper for a couple of days. :-) And I also went to Will's last home game as a Giant. It was really sad, but every single time he came to bat, there was a standing ovation.

Oh, one last thing... when I was a little kid, maybe 9 or 10, I met and got Vida Blue's autograph and shook his hand. I literally didn't wash my hands for like a week after that. :-) Blue was my favorite Giant before Will Clark.

Anyways, I'm excited about the post-Bonds era and I hope the Giants can make some big signings this offseason and improve the team.

Talk to y'all soon!
WillTheThrill

[Bear]

We will not hold your friendship with McCovey against you. God knows if we did people would hold my friendship with the Kid against me and that would never do. Also McCovey is not half as bad as the Kid which is saying a lot.:eek:

[SF Kid]

Humm, baby! :D

Yep that was a classic time for the Giants.

[McCovey]

Welcome to SFGF, WillTheThrill! :beerbang:

Yes, I've known Will, for long time. He knows his Giants baseball. By all means when you get some time after school is done post when you can.

[Bear]

Welcome to SFGF, WillTheThrill! :beerbang:

Yes, I've known Will, for long time. He knows his Giants baseball. By all means when you get some time after school is done post when you can.

Can I assume this is not "Bombers"?:confused:

[WillTheThrill]

I'm outta' here, guys. Quitting the board. LTR hijacks EVERY SINGLE THREAD and turns them into a fight. Then he doesn't let it go, will not stop until HE gets the last word.

And Bear has the unmitigated gaul to blame ME.

Bear is a passive-agressive, tin-plated tyrant. I can't stand him any more. So I'm gone.

It's been nice knowing (most of) you.

If anyone wants to get ahold of me... EXCEPT for Bear or LTR... contact McCovey. He knows me in the "real" world. And I post sometimes under "ScottA" in the talkbacks on Andrew Baggarly's blog.

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[BeALotOfHappy]

Goddammit