Did anyone else here post on the old AOL Angels message boards?

[Taylor]

I did in mid 90s.

Angeldihard was my name.

 

The Internet was around in the mid-90s?

[the14thjoey]

You guys were dicks back then. Still are.

[Erstad Grit]

I was esiggsonhalofan and fintowin. I think I made a really stupid comment about belcher winning 20 games as fintowin and changed my name after. Hey I was like 13.

[ten ocho recon scout]

cubswin.com has an entire seperate forum for ranting

CubsOracle makes AO look patient and saint-like

dodger oracle works in lucho libre references to their board.

[Doug Van Oort Sr]

Posted back on the LA Times message board back in the 90's and early 2000's before Chuck created Angelswin.com.

[YouthofToday]

I started on Angels message board with the old Scout.com ones (I believe) about a decade ago.

[Splint7438]

Are we talking about the old aol "newsgroups"? Because I used to post in there. Tho back then there was a lot more activity in the Disney groups as I recall.

[Inside Pitch]

Are we talking about the old aol "newsgroups"? Because I used to post in there. Tho back then there was a lot more activity in the Disney groups as I recall.

 

Nah, the Grandstand was a sports based group of forums with individual team folders.  The Angels board over there was at it's peak between 95 and like 2001-2, a lot of really knowledgeable and extremely funny people on that board.  Somewhere around 2001 or so they started to over-moderate the boards and it went downhill fast.   AOL was also a source for STATS Inc proprietary information which was pretty much worth the AOL subscription alone.  They had their own message board and many of the original STATS Inc people including Bill James, and John Dewan would post there which was tremendously insightful.

 

BTW, I remember YOT from the Scout,com boards, I think True Grich was there as well - there are a few other names I recognize from that board that post here. 

[Rochambeau]

By the time AOL opened their boards I was already posting on Usenet. This was in the days pre-www. I didn't like the AOL boards because it was like one big rant thread after another.

It wasn't until my service provider stopped carrying Usenet that I ended up here.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Rochambeau

[Tank]

I think I still went by Haloswin in those days...  I started using Inside Pitch right around the time I started doing the CBSSportsline/Real Fans Network Angels pages.   I still remember the days of usernet when many of the guys from USSMariner were like 13 and like everyone else in Seattle had seemingly just discovered baseball   They were some of the biggest homers back in those days.

 

i miss those days. we used to post on the aol board, plus the grandstand board, which was much more active. 

 

one of my favorite days was april 1st one year when we all took on fake mookie screen names and bombarded several message boards around the league. it was out tribute to mookie, who was one of the mods for the mariners board.

 

there used to be some crazy stuff on that mariners board. remember how they complained about having a right handed first baseman and that somehow meant more runners would be safe at first? there were a ton of m's homer chicks on that board. they even gave out awards one year for the best poster, etc. Too funny.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Tank

[Splint7438]

Knowledgable and funny people? Well that leaves me out.

[Inside Pitch]

i miss those days. we used to post on the aol board, plus the grandstand board, which was much more active. 

 

one of my favorite days was april 1st one year when we all took on fake mookie screen names and bombarded several message boards around the league. it was out tribute to mookie, who was one of the mods for the mariners board.

 

there used to be some crazy stuff on that mariners board. remember how they complained about having a right handed first baseman and that somehow meant more runners would be safe at first? there were a ton of m's homer chicks on that board. they even gave out awards one year for the best poster, etc. Too funny.

 

"MDIC" -- we all had it on our signatures for like like two weeks -- then we sprung Mookie Day on her on Halloweeen.  We had fans from every team involved..  It was pretty comical..  

 

I don't believe people would believe half the shit that went on in the M's board under the direction of the "sewing circle".   The poems about the players, the contests about who could write the best song about the players, the poems about the players to the tune of pop songs...   They would argue the most inane things then get completely enraged when someone would point out the obvious..   Angels fans were the bane of their existence.

 

Cheap entertainment at its finest.

[Tank]

"MDIC" -- we all had it on our signatures for like like two weeks -- then we sprung Mookie Day on her on Halloweeen.  We had fans from every team involved..  It was pretty comical..  

 

I don't believe people would believe half the shit that went on in the M's board under the direction of the "sewing circle".   The poems about the players, the contests about who could write the best song about the players, the poems about the players to the tune of pop songs...   They would argue the most inane things then get completely enraged when someone would point out the obvious..   Angels fans were the bane of their existence.

 

Cheap entertainment at its finest.

 

one of my fake screen names i used only to post in poem form. i'd make them up at school or at home, sometimes just a poem, sometimes from a song all of those ladies would have known.

 

the awards they gave out were called "Posties", as in best posts. they really liked coach966 and thought he was the nicest one of us (which he was). 

 

MDIC - lol. that was so awesome.

[Inside Pitch]

one of my fake screen names i used only to post in poem form. i'd make them up at school or at home, sometimes just a poem, sometimes from a song all of those ladies would have known.

 

 

I'm pretty sure it was MookySpice, a play on the Spice girls and a name they thought was a dig at them - they hated us so very much.   Coach is on twitter...  I'm surprised he hasn't found his way over to these boards.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Inside Pitch

[Richard]

Used to post on the Myspace group years ago. That's about it.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Richard

[papawealey]

i used to be on the ESPN board a lot. i do remember a lot of wahoo trolling the mariners board back in the day...

[Tank]

I'm pretty sure it was MookySpice, a play on the Spice girls and a name they thought was a dig at them - they hated us so very much.   Coach is on twitter...  I'm surprised he hasn't found his way over to these boards.

You have remembered well, grasshopper.

Coach is also on Facebook. Fun to keep up with him.

[Tank]

JonahFalcon

 

MikeyBronx

 

dear lord the yanks board was a looney bin

Once in awhile someone would post stuff from the Yankees board on the espn boards. Holy mackerel. One the best threads was about how much they hated Sosh because he always had the Yankees number. It was priceless.

[Chili83]

Used the AOL board a little bit but mostly the Angel-run board. My first insight as to how nutbar the interweb could be was on that board with many a "eff you chili44 chilly (person misspelled it despite having written it correctly a second earlier) daves sucked and is a peace of sh!t and your a peice of sh!t!"

 

Later on attending the playoff get-togethers and trying not to laugh at the number of guys with "badass" something-or-other in their user names, only to see that they were five-foot nothing, 98 pound dweebs. And, of course, the incomparable Justin.