What was your first post? (on your current ID)

[TyWebb]

Scrolling through the reference guide for newbies, I started getting nostalgic about my early days here and wondered what my first ever post was on SJ. Took a bit of scrolling, but I found it. Apparently I was trying to give advice on the old Writer's Workshop in 2007 when I barely knew my ass from a hole in the wall.

You are definitely on the right track Troy, and you are starting at the right time. I wish I had started in high school. Just keep writing and keep reading. Everyday. Then keep posting. The improvement will happen faster than you might think. Good luck!

At least I wasn't being a prick, or, as my board nemesis likes to say, a "nonce."

So what was your first post on SJ.com? I know some of you have been through multiple IDs, so you can just stick with your current one if you are that much of a rebel.

 

[QYFW]

I know it was a political post and dooley implied I was a site veteran under a new handle.

 

[CD Boogie]

Scrolling through the reference guide for newbies, I started getting nostalgic about my early days here and wondered what my first ever post was on SJ. Took a bit of scrolling, but I found it. Apparently I was trying to give advice on the old Writer's Workshop in 2007 when I barely knew my ass from a hole in the wall.



At least I wasn't being a prick, or, as my board nemesis likes to say, a "nonce."

So what was your first post on SJ.com? I know some of you have been through multiple IDs, so you can just stick with your current one if you are that much of a rebel.

As far as I'm concerned, you stopped being a nonce when you stopped hammering me about one single questionable post I made that I maybe, possibly regret.

Thankfully that wasn't my first post or my last. Will have to go hunting for my first when I'm at a proper computer.

 

[SpeedTchr]

"Been with Sprint for 13+ years now, and have tried every other provider except Verizon at one time or another. Sprint has served me best for price, call quality and service. $100/month for everything everything, which is great for my job and personal needs."

Oct. 12, 2010

It's been all downhill since then

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I posted on a thread about movie and TV scenes that made me cry.

Going from memory here, it was:

From a League of Their Own, when Betty finds out her husband died with the telegram in the locker room.

My Girl: When Vada tells Macauley Culkin's character's mom that he's doing fine in heaven because her mother, who died in childbirth, will take care of him.


From Different Strokes, an episode where Willis wants to assert his independence as a man instead of a child, so he moves out of the apartment and with a friend who drinks. The two of them drink a bunch, then get in an accident. Willis comes back home injured and humbled, asks Mr. D. if he can help his friend, which Mr. D promises he will, then the phone rings. Willis is given the phone, then finds out that his friend died. He starts crying, and says "look, I'm crying like a little boy." Then Mr. D tells him that he's crying like a man.

A couple of others that I don't recall.

I think it was Simon Cowbell who called it the best debut post ever, or something like that.

Of course, to echo Speedtchr, it's been a long way down from there.

ADD: Steel Magnolias, when Julia Roberts' character dies, and Sally Field is at the funeral saying she wants to hit someone, then Olympia Dukakis offers up Shirley McClain as a punching bag.

 

[MTM]

From July 2006 and "Best quote you couldn't use":

This happened more than 20 years ago and it's still my favorite.
I was a rookie reporter covering a high school basketball team I had only seen once before. In the first game, they had a 6-8 guy who had a great game. He didn't play in the second game.

ME: Coach, why didn't Cady play today?

COACH: Cuz he's a ****ing asshole.

NOTE: It's now more than 30 years and still my favorite

 

[HC]

April 2005, in the Books Thread discussing "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

My first post doesn't show up. Only goes back to February of 2006.

 

[Football_Bat]

Every thread that ended before July 2006 has been purged, so my first post is long gone. But a few older posts from longstanding threads at the time survived, so I think I have a post from 2005 on the Livestrong thread.

 

[HanSenSE]

My first post couldn't have been that great, since no one asked me to fetch them a beer.

 

[User 11148]

Was in 2010, someone said something about Cliff Lee "refusing" to go on short rest in Game 4 of the ALDS. I said it was b.s. Shortly thereafter I was called a troll and a liar.

 

[DanOregon]

Pretty sure it was complaining about Tom Verducci's "number salads" he inserts into every story. You'll be going along and he'll throw in a paragraph with 10 or more different numbers

"Gray has some red flags, including an injury history, a late load to his delivery that stresses his shoulder and arm, and, at 5'10", a lack of height. Only two righthanded pitchers that short in the past 30 years have taken full turns in a rotation at those ages: Tom Gordon and Steve Stone. Gray's workload must be managed closely. On the other hand he is still just 27 years old, he finished third in the AL Cy Young voting just two years ago and he is under control for the Yankees for the next two seasons at ages 28 and 29. He has also been lights out lately (a 1.37 ERA in his past six starts) and has the stuff to last three times around a batting order in a postseason game."

Eliotte took me to the shed (politely) and I felt like I was official.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Heh ... it's been 6 1/2 years since I returned from self-imposed exile and I haven't thrown a tantrum and nuked since.

First post as jr/shotglass was on spnited's RIP thread. Still miss the guy.

 

[Starman]

It was as Wahoo Sam back on the old old Sportspages.com. When was that, 95-96?

I think I was Starman by the time the migration to SJ.com happened.

 

[Donny in his element]

Been here since 2003 when I was a stringer on my college beat and a competing correspondent known here as Mighty_Wingman introduced me. Even the old-timers on the beat were lurkers if not posters.

I've never been a prolific poster -- though my modern like-to-post ratio is stellar! -- but I recall having some beef with hockeybeat.

My oldest post on the current iteration is from 2005 when I asked for suggestions on Myrtle Beach, my Spring Break destination.

Life and career got in the way and I was gone for 5 years before posting on some Jacksonville-related threads in late 2011.

Made my triumphant return upon relocating to the Midwest in the summer of 2012 with a post on the freelance/stringer board about "Journatic."

 

[I Should Coco]

What the hell, I looked it up ... and it was a question about a job opening in January 2009. "You're hired!"

I lurked for a while, then posted this on deskslave's Feb. 18, 2009 thread, "Fewer days or fewer pages?"

Allow this new guy to weigh in for fewer pages, not fewer days.

Once management decides to bag the Tuesday print edition (usually a slim day for news and advertising), it's a slippery slope until you reach the point where Detroit's dailies are at, putting out two or three print editions each week.

Remember, you can always tighten things up for the paper and put additional local stuff (notebooks, standings, stats, etc.) online.

It was cool to see a couple of my old threads, especially the SJ.com Memorial Day top songs countdown. It was one of my few all-nighters, back when posters occasionally did that.

There were a few posts about college football, too.

 

[Bronco77]

First post was in 2014 on June 28 -- my birthday. It was on a thread about the death of David Burgin, a maniacal but brilliant editor I worked for long ago. The post began, "Longtime lurker, first-time poster" as I had been perusing the site for a few years before signing up.

 

[RickStain]

I don't know how to find it now, but I believe it was jumping in on the MLB thread about how Hank Aaron was on greenies.

 

[Spartan Squad]

My first post was on the home bowl thread describing how I backed up my friend's crapper when I was 8. The only thing I left off was needing a stick to break up the turd so we could flush the toilet.

 

[JR]

Heh ... it's been 6 1/2 years since I returned from self-imposed exile and I haven't thrown a tantrum and nuked since.

First post as jr/shotglass was on spnited's RIP thread. Still miss the guy.

Spinited was the man. He came to the SJ outing in Toronto back in the day and HC and I drove down to NYC for a great dinner/pub crawl where he was part of the gang. It's impossible to eat lobster bisque without thinking of Spinited. RIP