Whither Dr. B?

Thanks to tedfordfan for giving the blog a fanshot on mccoveychronicles.com. "MCC" is pretty much the gold standard of Giants oriented blogs. Grant writes very insightful, funny, intelligent posts and gets great participation from the community.

Just to set the record straight, my disappearance from MCC had nothing to do with any dissatisfaction with the site or any debate I was involved in. I am quite computer and internet illiterate. My daughter had to help me set up this blog. When MCC went to SBNATION, it required a re-registration. For some reason, it wouldn't accept my registration, and I was never able to figure out how to navigate back in. At the time, I was extremely busy with family and work responsibilities and decided to confine my posting to sfgiants.com message board. Even there, I posted much less frequently than before. I have continued to be an active reader of MCC and vote in the polls.

I eventually decided that I wanted to try my own blog whether anyone read it or not. It is very gratifying that people are starting to find When the Giants Come to Town.... and seem to appreciate it. I hope to keep on providing interesting and challenging material in the future. My goal is to write at least one new post per day for at least 1 year and then re-assess at that time.

One more record to set straight: In the 2007 draft, Beau Mills was my first choice, but I really liked Jason Heyward a lot. His scouting video reminded me of a young Willie McCovey! I favored Mills because the Giants desperately needed bats at the MLB level and I thought the college draftee would be ready sooner. As it turned out, Bumgarner was a better choice than Mills, but Heyward is looking like he was the best pick in that entire draft by a fairly large margin.

Anyway, check out mccoveychronicles.com. It's a great website. Just make sure you bring game if you plan to post over there. They'll eat you alive if you don't.