And I welcome you, too. Hope you have fun here.

Giving up on the Giants? While you’re at it maybe you should drop the niners too, pick up the Pats, or the NY football Giants. At least until they go downhill in a few years. Are the Lakers your bball team? My favorite soccer team is Real Madrid, what about yours? Michael Phelps your favorite swimmer? Are you sure you want to choose the Sox? How about the Phillies, they’re pretty cool.

As to why there’s “less life here than at McCovey”, I’ve only been posting for a few weeks so I’m not sure exactly, but it’s probably because there are some other really active Red Sox message boards/blogs, like SOSH and stuff. Well, welcome aboard.

Well, it’s the offseason, and the Red Sox don’t have a lot of holes to fill. There are fewer subjects to discuss.

There are plenty of Red Sox forums and blogs out there. You have the individual blogs that (almost) no one reads, and the huge forums like on Boston.com, where discourse is typically crude, chaotic and uninformative. Then you have SoSH, which I read every day. Discussion there runs the gamut from awesome to repetitive (Some big piece of news happened, so let’s all say variations of the same thing for 15 pages). It’s also a heavily policed / moderated forum, unlike OTM, which is more freewheeling and accessible. In short, there is a lot of competition for OTM, which limits the number of people that come here.

Also, this site isn’t an enormous community, like some others on SBN. I kind of like it that way – you get to know regular posters better if there aren’t two hundred of them.

I’m also a little bit to blame. I haven’t been writing with the same frequency as during the season. If there’s less new stuff, then that may result in fewer people coming here.

Finally, we can blame Theo and company. If the Front Office made more trades just for the heck of it, complete with lots of bad or inexplicable decisions, we’d have a LOT more to talk about. But all is well on the AL Eastern front, and all is quiet on OTM.

change my name from giantsloseagain to something like Rockmysocks. I like that name.

Jacoby Ellsbury is like so hot right now, JD Drew is a crock and did you see the catch Coco made? (Did I miss anything?)

I bet you will love the movie Fever Pitch

Welcome to the bandwagon.

You dump so much money and get almost nothing from that player just hurts. Once Zito’s contract is finally gone, I can see the Giants being players in the NL West again. That money could of gone to someone like a CC who can get people out.

to OTM. Don;t bring over a big horde of Giants, though.

Has Kevin Correia signed with anyone yet? (And if not, what are you going to do if he signs with the Sox?)

They are becoming serious contenders for C.C. according to MLBTR