By Chris Quick on July 16, 2010
Dear readers, I’ll be away from BCB for the next week or so because of vacation. I’ll be, as they say, going off-the-grid at least until next Friday. Looking forward to catching up on my summer reading (Catch-22 by Joseph Keller and a short story collection of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick). In the meantime, [...]
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By Chris Quick on April 6, 2010
I’ll be posting some Lincecum thoughts later today but I wanted to give a quick update on Bay City Ball. You’ll notice a new nav-bar at the top of this website. I’ve been asked by Rob Neyer of ESPN to join the ‘SweetSpot Network’ — a collection of baseball bloggers covering, eventually, every team in [...]
Posted in Off Topic | Tagged site changes
By Chris Quick on November 27, 2008
Wishing all the BCB readers and other Giants fans a very happy Thanksgiving. We’ve got a lot to be thankful for — Grant points out an excellent case in particular — and I hope that everyone has a safe, happy, and fruitful holiday. It’s the time of year to catch up with loved ones and [...]
Posted in Off Topic | Tagged happy holidays, PIE+
By Chris Quick on October 28, 2008
I’m in the process of changing over the theme design for BCB today, and as a result, things may look broken now and then. The new theme should be great once I get it up-and-running but it might be a little bumpy in the meantime. To Do List: 1. Change link and menu colors 2. [...]
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By Chris Quick on October 2, 2008
I’ll be away from BCB for the next week and a half. On Saturday, October 4th, I’ll be getting married and then me and the future wife — I’ll have to get used to saying that — will be heading off to Jamaica for a weeks worth of (hopefully) sun. If I tried to bring [...]
Posted in Off Topic | Tagged married, omg
By Chris Quick on August 5, 2008
A quick site note, I updated BCB’s version of Bad Behavior this afternoon and I’m running into some problems with the comments. Bad Behavior is a php-based solution that deters spambots from clogging up this site. I’m working to resolve this issue shortly but until then, trying to post comments will just spit out an [...]
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By Chris Quick on July 23, 2008
You might notice that BCB looks a little different today. I’ve decided to change the layout because I was starting to run into some problems with our past theme. Mostly minor stuff. This theme is a lot like the last one, it’s pretty basic and simple. That’s what I enjoy about webpages. Give me barebones [...]
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By Chris Quick on July 9, 2008
Apologies to anyone who tried to access the site earlier this morning. Our host was having some hiccups that caused us to go down for a little bit. I use Dreamhost to host BCB and overall, I’ve had pretty good results with them. They tend to have small patches of downtime which can be frustrating [...]
Posted in Giants, Off Topic | Tagged bad announcers, site stuff, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on June 23, 2008
CNN USA Today MSNBC — Carlin certainly needs no introduction from me or anyone else. He was iconic. He was a comedian that I think everyone knew about, even if they didn’t follow comedy (which always seemed weird to me). You’ll probably read a lot in the following days about how shocking or revolutionary he [...]
Posted in Off Topic | Tagged george carlin
By Chris Quick on May 23, 2008
A quick word, I’ve enabled a caching plugin this morning. It should increase the load times and responsivenesses of the site. I’ve read some things that say a user could get served a ‘blank page’ now and then, and it if it happens to you personally, please send me an email with your problem so [...]
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