Just getting a feel...

[Shaggy]

Was this section, DBacks section, hopping the season they won the World Series? I curious because I want to see if the teams are doing well, does the forum activity go up?

 

[PDXChris]

This site did not exist yet. Site was founded in 2003, we won it in 2001.

 

[PDXChris]

But if you want to know, the best I remember it was when the Babybacks were coming up.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Was this section, DBacks section, hopping the season they won the World Series? I curious because I want to see if the teams are doing well, does the forum activity go up?

The previous incarnation azprosports.com was hopping.

 

[Shaggy]

Crap that's right. OK how about when the cards went to the Super Bowl? I can't remember looking at the activity on the site. I did go back and check out the Super Bowl post and it had a ton of posts and views. Was the whole forum highly active during that run?

 

[Shaggy]

The previous incarnation azprosports.com was hopping.

So what's the story on that? Did that site change into this one?

 

[Brian in Mesa]

So what's the story on that? Did that site change into this one?

No, at one point both were still up. Skkorp started this one so he could have the board he wanted to have along with some of the rules he wanted to have (NEM-free, more PG discussions safe for all ages, etc).

A thread was started over there directing people to this board and this board just took off from there. Mass exodus from the other site.

 

[thirty-two]

May 2002 is when the board started.

 

[Shaggy]

Doesn't look like it was all that busy. It only it had 11,000 posts back in June 2012.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020607234225/http://azprosports.com/vb/index.php

 

[PDXChris]

May 2002 is when the board started.

But you and I didn't join until 2003.

 

[Brian]

No, at one point both were still up. Skkorp started this one so he could have the board he wanted to have along with some of the rules he wanted to have (NEM-free, more PG discussions safe for all ages, etc).

A thread was started over there directing people to this board and this board just took off from there. Mass exodus from the other site.

NEM. There's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Him and Tangodnzr. For the longest time I never put Tango's name to be "Tango Dancer" I always thought it was supposed to be sounded out like "antagonizer". More appropriate anyway.

Freakin' NEM. What a tool.

 

[Lefty]

NEM. There's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Him and Tangodnzr. For the longest time I never put Tango's name to be "Tango Dancer" I always thought it was supposed to be sounded out like "antagonizer". More appropriate anyway.

Freakin' NEM. What a tool.

I will never forget on the old board during the game-7 World Series game thread, after the Yankees went ahead in the 8th, NEM was going crazy saying how the Diamondbacks choked and would not win. So many people gave him sh*t after the Diamondbacks won. The guy was Mr. Pessimistic.

Also, on the old board Curt Schilling used to post there, which was really cool. What was cooler is when a private board was created and we invited Curt and he would post regularly there. He told us he was traded to Boston and this was six hours before the media found out. I remember he was telling us the Yankees were really interested in him until he met Theo Epstein on Thanksgiving. Those were the times discussing Diamondback baseball.

 

[Brian]

I will never forget on the old board during the game-7 World Series game thread, after the Yankees went ahead in the 8th, NEM was going crazy saying how the Diamondbacks choked and would not win. So many people gave him sh*t after the Diamondbacks won. The guy was Mr. Pessimistic.

Also, on the old board Curt Schilling used to post there, which was really cool. What was cooler is when a private board was created and we invited Curt and he would post regularly there. He told us he was traded to Boston and this was six hours before the media found out. I remember he was telling us the Yankees were really interested in him until he met Theo Epstein on Thanksgiving. Those were the times discussing Diamondback baseball.

Yep. I remember Curt posting here briefly. Also Ron Wolfley on the Cards forum under the username Hardy Brown.

 

[AzStevenCal]

NEM. There's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Him and Tangodnzr. For the longest time I never put Tango's name to be "Tango Dancer" I always thought it was supposed to be sounded out like "antagonizer". More appropriate anyway.

Freakin' NEM. What a tool.

Yes he was but the worst of it, he was right about one thing. Things really got out of hand with him (on Azprosports) when he was ripping the Cards for their offseason signings and praising what the bottom dweller Patriots were doing. The Patriots were bringing in every over-the-hill veteran they could find and most of us just laughed at him and them. And then the patriots became the Patriots because of those signings.

He was still a jerk in so many other conversations but this was a big one and like I said, he called it right. But, me personally, I remember especially tiring over his ongoing protest over every attempt the Cards made to build their own stadium. I think most of those were on Cards Corner though.

Steve

 

[Lefty]

Yes he was but the worst of it, he was right about one thing. Things really got out of hand with him (on Azprosports) when he was ripping the Cards for their offseason signings and praising what the bottom dweller Patriots were doing. The Patriots were bringing in every over-the-hill veteran they could find and most of us just laughed at him and them. And then the patriots became the Patriots because of those signings.

He was still a jerk in so many other conversations but this was a big one and like I said, he called it right. But, me personally, I remember especially tiring over his ongoing protest over every attempt the Cards made to build their own stadium. I think most of those were on Cards Corner though.

Steve

Did you know NEM has his own wiki page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NEM

 

[AzStevenCal]

Did you know NEM has his own wiki page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NEM

Oh man, that's hilarious. Thanks for that. I love that he's been banned for life on his Patriots sites too. Classic.

Steve

 

[Lefty]

Oh man, that's hilarious. Thanks for that. I love that he's been banned for life on his Patriots sites too. Classic.

Steve

Found another site where he once posted. Look at the reply and then his status.
http://www.radiofreeliberal.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34

 

[AzStevenCal]

Found another site where he once posted. Look at the reply and then his status.
http://www.radiofreeliberal.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34

It figures.

Steve

 

[DWKB]

Was this section, DBacks section, hopping the season they won the World Series? I curious because I want to see if the teams are doing well, does the forum activity go up?

I don't know about the Cards or Suns, but there are alternate DBacks specific sites that are fairly popular around the web. I think that takes away from traffic here as the DBacks seem to be second choice sport for posters on this forum.

 

[Shaggy]

Hmm didn't know there were other dback forums.

 

[Phrazbit]

Back then I was posting on the ESPN forums, and it was pretty hopping. The ESPN general boards across all sports were very active... before they got utterly destroyed by trying to turn them into poorly designed facebook style garbage.