An Abbreviated History of GT
by gallagher on Dec 15, 2008 12:15 PM CST
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By Sean Gallagher
Here's the short version of how we came to be part of this great big, happy SB Nation family:
Step 1: Stupidly decide to start a fan-based unofficial program to sell at the home games of a last-place team.
Step 2: Set up a really sad little website about your hairbrained scheme.
Step 3: Get a bunch of great people to help you out; improve website and paper.
Step 4: Be amazed that people find the paper and the site to be entertaining; continue to press your luck.
Step 5: Get lucky and get asked to work with James Mirtle. Really, I mean who wouldn't trust this guy, right?
The longer version? Well, let's just say that it's far too boring to spell out at this point. Maybe this summer when we're hurting for content we'll bore you with that.
We were able to bring over our archives from our old site, so feel free to kick around those to get an idea of what we're all about. Aso, feel free to lean on the regular commenters because, honestly, they've given us most of our good ideas anyway.
Speaking of our regular commenters, you guys should really like the new layout. Not only is there lots of great team information right here, but we have also been able to archive our old issues of the actual paper on the site.
Even better, you all have the opportunity to take over the site by using the FanPosts and FanShots that are on the right of the page. No need for a message board or for those crappy URL-only links from before. Actually, I'm a little bit afraid of what you're all going to do with those.
So, please test out the new widgets and gizmos and make yourself at home. Old guys help the new guys. As always, we appreciate all of your feedback.
And finally, because I promised it back in the post where we announced we were joining this crew, here's a little Minor Threat for you:
Notice how Ian's mic went out and the whole crowd sang all the words, making it a great concert? Yeah, I chose this one on purpose, because our readers and commenters are every bit as important to the site as those of us who have our names on it.
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Welcome, SLGT!
Great to have you onboard. Gonna have a blast. Anything I can do, let me know.
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by Whale4ever on Dec 16, 2008 8:20 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Welcome
If you have any questions about the new toys feel free to drop me a line.
Also, Fuck Detroit.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
by PPP on Dec 16, 2008 9:00 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
toasted ravioli?
it’s gonna take some getting used to. it’s not exactly bare bones like the other layout
by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 9:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Change you can believe in?
hey sean, I thought you had said that after the switch we’d have to sign up again? But it let me right in. Interesting switch – I don’t know how I’m going to deal with actual statistics on my preferred Blues website though…that’s just weird.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 9:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Nevermind
I forgot I had the same Username over at Vivaelbirdos.com – another SB joint (as opposed to a Spike Lee joint). Hence, the reason for the pain-free log-in. And hence the reason for my Dave Foley-Kids in the Hall signature.
Idea for the next secondary site headline: St. Louis Game Time – Hey Everybody, Look How Hot We Are!
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:02 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
awesome!...and trippy
actual live replies added in without refreshing! I was literally reading Duke’s first post and Gift’s post when Duke replied to his own post and it just appeared on my screen like magic
by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 10:06 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It was magic, Dooks...
Incidentally, when are we having our Duke/Dooks-off to see which of us rules supreme? It’ll be the contest of the century – complete with color-contrasted “Put Up Your Duke/Dooks” t-shirts, posters and other memorabilia.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:46 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Redecorating
Brad, did you move the furniture around? Something looks different.
by Chris Gift on Dec 16, 2008 9:57 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Im confused, as if facebook wasnt taking over my life as it is….
by RFJCC on Dec 16, 2008 10:21 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
We’re not the first and I hope we’re not the last but I know we’re all headed for that adult crash… we’re just a minor threat. We’re just a minor threat!!!!
Minor Threat will forever rule the world. This show looks like a prison riot. Just how it should be.
GO GT!!!!
by Answer Man on Dec 16, 2008 10:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I'm new here too
Don’t ask me any questions about this place yet. It kind of feels like a rental car. It’s pretty cool, but I don’t know how to turn the windshield wipers on.
by Brad Lee on Dec 16, 2008 10:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
it’s the cruise control that’ll really fuck you up
by Matthew Dirt on Dec 16, 2008 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
New place looks pretty spiffy!
And let me try to help christen this new site the only way I know how…
FUCK DETROIT!!!
by CKaelin on Dec 16, 2008 10:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Hey Brad
What kind of sloppy-second shenanigans will be in the hard copy tonight? A Bingo square to be filled in once the 50th “sloppy seconds!” yell comes from someone in the stands? Maybe a-call to-arms for the invention and support of the new word "Phaneuf’ed?’
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Holy crap, a thread that includes both a Minor Threat video AND repeated shouts of “Fuck Detroit.” I think I just found my second-favorite SBN hockey blog!
Welcome aboard, you magnificent bastards. And tell Manny Legace that Avs fans still hate him.
Go Avs! Let's get some goals!
by Joe Dunman on Dec 16, 2008 11:03 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Joe @ MHH, I typically don’t like anyone outside of the “Blues Family” but you might be changing my opinion based on your comment. Good on ya.
by Answer Man on Dec 16, 2008 3:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i like the new look and features… and i am secure in the knowledge that it’s only a matter of time until they get abused. in the meantime, nothing beats going to the game and getting the real gametime experience. i can’t wait to see clarence tonight and get my copy of gametime before watching the blues and yelling that someone needs to fuck up todd bertuzzi. fuck detroit.
by -Jessica- on Dec 16, 2008 12:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
What the fuck- a crazy new look? Minor Threat? Polls? Actual accounts? Actually, I like it all except the opening an account. I’m lazy.
To a new era in Game Time!
by Manbones on Dec 16, 2008 12:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I like Manbones’ avatar. proof that smoking will kill you
by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 5:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Check, check
Is this thing on?
Fuck Detroit
by Poor College Student on Dec 16, 2008 12:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Awesome to have you guys and all your crazy minions.
by James Mirtle on Dec 16, 2008 1:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
hey is it ok to flush the toilets in this new house, because i just left at bertuzzi of a shit in the upstairs bathroom
Ryan Jennings, Fucking Detroit's mother since 1989
by RFJCC on Dec 16, 2008 2:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Redundancy
I think leaving a “bertuzzi” in the upstairs bathroom would have been sufficient.
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Dec 17, 2008 5:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Uhh
By the Blues Cowboy altar, do you mean that table he stands by?
This is weird, I feel like Garth in Wanye’s World 2.
by IrishBlue on Dec 16, 2008 3:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
“It’s like we’re looking down on Wayne’s basement, only that’s not Wayne’s basement…”
“Garth…that was a haiku.”
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 4:47 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
F......
Fffffuck Detroit.
God, it feels good to have a new place to stretch our legs and shout our distain for the Motor City to the world.
P.S. For all you Red Wings fans that show up here – Yserman is a tool. Lidstrom is overrated. Holmstrom did interfer with that goalie. Your sister is a whore. That is all.
by Pagan on Dec 16, 2008 11:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Step 1: Stupidly decide to start a fan-based unofficial program to sell at the home games
of a last-place team.
Step 2: Set up a really sad little website about your hairbrained scheme.
Step 3: Get a bunch of great people to help you out; improve website and paper.
Step 4: Be amazed that people find the paper and the site to be entertaining; continue to press your luck.
Step 5: Get lucky and get asked to work with James Mirtle. Really, I mean who wouldn’t trust this guy, right?
Step 6: Profit
/fixed
.... formerly "Tim" of StLouisGameTime.com
by CrossCheckRaise on Dec 17, 2008 11:32 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Fellow underpants gnomes unite!
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Dec 17, 2008 5:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I just realized that I made my first post on the new site and did not cuse. Which I think was rule #2, Rule #1 is that we don’t talk about the site, right? Anywho; Fuck, shit cock, fanny bandit, detroit, anal, and herpes. Thanks for the new site guys.
by IrishBlue on Dec 17, 2008 3:55 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
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