FanGraphs San Francisco Meetup
We’d like to meet you. In person. You know, get to know more about you and what makes you tick. What makes you smile, what numbers to dial.
So we’ve put together a low-key meetup for our friends in the Bay Area.
On Tuesday September 6th, around five pacific time, we’ll gather at the Gordon Biersch Brewery near the ballpark in San Francisco. Our friends at GB will be providing free appetizers, drink specials, and a private space for our nerdly conversations about baseball. We’ll have Stephen Strasburg’s debut on a television or two, at least until the Giants start their game against the Rockies. (In fact, if you want to come early, I’ll be at the bar for the beginning of that Nationals game.)
Attending the meetup will be the following studly dorks:
Grant Brisbee, proprietor of McCovey Chronicles and SBNation writer extraordinaire
Carson Cistulli, NotGraphs destroyer and FanGraphs poet-laureate
Patrick Newman, FanGraphs cameo provider and proprietor of NPBTracker.com
Eric Freeman, Ball Don’t Lie writer, founding member of The Classical and Giants fan
Eno Sarris, tender lover of beers, sandwiches and FanGraphs
Howard Bender, RotoGraphs writer and founder or SF Giants Report
Oh, and a message from Monsieur Cistulli: if someone is willing to house him for any period of time starting Sunday and ending Wednesday, he’s got a nice bottle of prosecco with your name on it. Get all the Cistulli you could want!
With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.
Not too far off of my commute line; I may stop in.
How such events make me wish Nashville was an MLB city… (Dear MLB: It’s a better idea than Portland)
Perfect way to welcome in my new city.
Sit on Gordon Biersch’s front patio for a bit, you have a close-up view of the massive Bay Bridge. It always made me think of that Carl Sandburg poem, Skyscraper.
hmm, the real Steve Balboni actually works for the Giants. probably an expert on beer, too.
He does? Damn, I thought he ascended Valhalla on a Frank White double. I should stop using (and sullying) his name.
yes you should cease and desist immediately. 🙂
actually i was insinuating that perhaps you were he. (not seriously of course).
Wouldn’t miss it
Really excited for this! Glad to see some of you are too.
I’m in. See you all there.
i put on my robe and wizard hat
(just kidding, I’ll be there)
Hurray for the bay!
Let me know when you’ll be passing through NYC.
I’m only 18– can I still attend?
Yes you may! Just no drinking.
What a treat. Strasburg + FanGraphs staff.
Hoping for Boston…
are you coherent right now?
Grant Bisbee is the best writer in the SB*Nation with an astounding following at McCovey Chronicles even in spite of the ennui doled out by Giants these last few weeks.
Brisbee would probably appreciate the kind words, though he’s not from Boston, so there’s no need to drop the “r”s…
Brant Frisbee!
Giants fans needing to drown their sorrows?
Have fun to everyone that will be attending. Would be awesome if there was one in Toronto.
*let the AA jokes roll in*
Do you need RSVP’s to get a handle on headcount? Or is this unnecessary?
Do you guys need RSVP’s?
nah, thanks for offering. I suppose it could get out of hand, but GB is pretty big and we have our own space.
thanks!
I guess I am pretty big. Never thought of it like that.
Sigh, I’ll be at the Coliseum across the Bay, yes the home of the Athletics
Free appetizers and baseball nerds. I may go to this thing.
Wish I could go, but I have a soccer game to play at 7pm that night. It figures it would conflict with the only thing I have on my schedule all that week.
Sounds like a grand old time! I’m definitely in!
Hmmm… I’ll have to talk to the wife and see if she’d be with my boys. But very tempting. I’ll see what I can do.
My wife & I may attend. Hope to see you all there!
Eric Freeman? I thought fangraphs and other statheads liked to avoid the sort of holier than thou sportswriter persona that Freeman uses. You write about sports, don’t Plashcke it up by confusing it as a pulpit.
Looks like a great gathering, but Freeman is a boring elitist. Likes to act the part of culture vulture on twitter, but unlike his basketball comrade Shoals (better writer, highly engaging and approachable on twitter), Freeman is all about being an insider who’s smarter than you. Maybe in person he’ll actually acknowledge people outside his insular clique exist.
wont you come to Mexico City? Sad
Freeman is horrible. Big part of why Ball Don’t Lie hasn’t been nearly as good since Skeets left for The Score. And The Classical? Well, no one is donating to that cause because of him. Not even sure how or why he’s even involved in that project. Shoals is miles ahead of Freeman as a writer and it’s sad that he’s somehow made a career (albeit a sad and a joke of one) by being associated with FreeDarko. Complete joke this guy.
Go A’s!
Thanks for being so constructive, guys.
I wasn’t aware that fangraphs commenters were also Yahoo! sports commenters.
I, for one, think Eric Freeman is a fine writer. I cannot speak to the Eric Freeman in-person experience, but I can’t imagine it’s overly disagreeable.
I smell like cabbage and spit in people’s faces.