“Do You Go to FanGraphs at All?”
If you’re a regular reader of the site, you probably heard this phrase, uttered the day after All-Star rosters were announced. In case you’re not, or you simply forgot about it, Daniel Murphy was upset that his teammate, Anthony Rendon, didn’t land a spot on the National League All-Star team. Someone asked him why. This was his response.
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 16, 2017
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The hilarity of this was not lost on us. Up until that point, the most ubiquitous catchphrase associated with FanGraphs was when Tony Reali (who at the time, ironically, was mostly known as “Stat Boy”) proclaimed, in response to the mere mention of FanGraphs by Pardon The Interruption co-host Tony Kornheiser, “We’re all gonna go dateless!”
A small quantity of t-shirts with this catchphrase were printed and given out to staff members at the time. I wasn’t privileged enough to receive one myself, but I have seen them in the wild.
Back to the present, you can imagine how the “Do you go to FanGraphs at all?” line was received on social media. Michelle Jay, who is tasked with coordinating and tracking our social media exploits (among other things), was agog over it. And then, the suggestion — should we make a t-shirt out of this public mention of the site? Why yes, yes we should. Behold:
Like our other recent t-shirt creations, this shirt is a Canvas Jersey T-shirt, and as you can see, it comes in black. The black, to me, is notable, as we’ve never made a black t-shirt before. The shirt, also like our other recent t-shirt creations, was designed by Aaron Gershman of Creative Sentencing. You should definitely hire Aaron for your next design project.
If creating our first black t-shirt wasn’t cool enough, these t-shirts are also now available for purchase, just in time for the postseason! Truly this is the most wonderful time of the year!
To recap, Daniel Murphy mentioned FanGraphs in public, and now we’ve made t-shirts commemorating this occasion, and we would like you to purchase them. Have a great day!
Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.
Stick a Bible verse at the end condemning homosexuality and you get mass appeal.
One battle at a time, friend.
I thought he just wanted to make a “mass” joke.
It should read: “Do you even Fangraphs, bro?”
Ya was my first thought. But wouldn’t be able exact quote. They can make both.
Agreed.
Yes – that would be an amazing shirt. And if they had a fuzzy likeness of a certain Hryce Barper in the background that may or may not be confused with another guy with a similar sounding name, I might have to redo my whole weekend wardrobe!
“That’s a Fangraphs question, bro”
That sounds like the title of a great Notgraphs article, which would constitute various questions followed by declarations of whether that was indeed a Fangraphs question.
Only with the blessing of Harper tho, and not sure he’s an avid reader of the site.
This is a great opportunity for Fangraphs to consider having a % of the proceeds be donated for the relief efforts in Puerto Rico.
I love Zimmerman and Scherzer reacting positively while Bryce seems to have no idea what is going on.
Scherzer looks more like “Fuck is Murph going on about FanGraphs AGAIN??”
My hope is that this sparks a competition amongst fangraphs reading players as to who can get a t shirt made from their quote
Have at it. Always good to have ideas in the queue. 🙂
Time for a new run, Large already sold out.
And Mediums! We need more shirts!
Yes, will be reordering as soon as we can.
While you’re at it, can you bring back the “We’re all gonna go dateless” shirts?
And bring me back some “We’re all gonna go shirtless” dates!
Get more! I was considering purchasing, but medium is sold out.
Love the idea of a fangraphs shirt. I won’t wear one that quotes a bigot though. Sorry, not interested.
Why is Daniel Murphy a bigot?
Google it.
I have a website as well. If it’s mentioned by Richard Spencer, I would be ashamed. I sure as shit wouldn’t go out and get shirts made with his quote on them.
Kinda bummed that there was never an official t-shirt for the Corey Kluber Society.
Also kinda bummed that there was never an official gathering of the Corey Kluber Society, a la the classic Tom Hanks “Mr Belvedere Fan Club” sketch on SNL.