the Recent Events In Selling Everyone's Shit to Make AI Slop As Well As Other Terrible Things has had me thinking over my own digital footprint and I realized that while I still own my domains, i can't actually access or control anything that appears on the old website.
it is frankly a horrible mess and it's not secure, and also someone is making money from the shit ads it's serving. the posts are there, though, and i'm trying to grab the text from my own favorites in the event that i decide to break the links and make it go away forever
occasionally people have mentioned favorites of theirs to me that i had forgotten, so if any jump out in your memory, now's your chance to make sure that at least i have the text saved. otherwise, it'd still be on the internet archive (for as long as that exists, sheesh, bleak times).
lol, i know, and i think everyone remembers the same two or three favorites anyway.
someone mentioned one that they really liked to me like six months ago that i had totally forgotten about, so i thought i'd ask, even if it was all a million years ago.
I really wish I could remember more!! The one on the 82nd win in 2013 comes to mind. Your writing was such a pivotal part of that year for me. First winning season in my lifetime
This. It encapsulated everything I felt about him. He was OUR guy that we had waited for. A side note, your tweet on Opening Day in 2018 that said Andrew McCutchen mattered is one I've remembered too.
that post (@sofloscott.bsky.social just mentioned it, too) is actually the only reason anyone knew about whygavs; deadspin picked it up and it was my first really big traffic day and things took off from there
i'm trying to run down the entire road to 17 and the entire "count up" sequence to 82 wins, those two series are, i think, the best stuff i did on the site.
i think the one about the 95 opener still exists, that one was probably on blogspot! i just saved the blogspot site from a weird broken redirect from one of the old widgets.
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someone mentioned one that they really liked to me like six months ago that i had totally forgotten about, so i thought i'd ask, even if it was all a million years ago.
This is the one that sticks out to me.