Five for Phight-ing: The Good Phight Celebrates Its First Five Years

by WholeCamels on Jun 27, 2010 9:59 PM EDT

The year was 2005... a gallon of gasoline cost $1.77. The world said goodbye to Pope John Paul II. And a young Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd taught America to laugh with one simple question: "You know how I know you're gay?"

Also, five years ago today, with this post from our old friend dajafi, The Good Phight was born. Here's a "charming" snapshot of how we looked five years ago, thanks to the Wayback Machine. Much, much credit to the SBNation tech crew for sprucing things up for us...

This has been a labor of love for your Original Four -- dajafi, David S. Cohen, jonk, and myself -- and I think I speak for all of them when I say it's been a unique privilege to "be with you" over these past five years as we've seen the Phillies transform from talented underachievers to World Champions to perennial pennant contenders. We've seen the arrival and emergence of Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Cole Hamels. We've bid farewell to the legendary Harry Kalas. We've welcomed our new team members PhillyFriar, Wet Luzinski, and taco pal. And seen Matt Swartz become a real baseball analysis fancy pants, joining the crew of Baseball Prospectus. PS - Matt, I'm sure you got a new phone because I noticed you haven't answered my calls lately...

Over the next few weeks, we'll be doing a review of our favorite posts from the past five years. Feel free to share yours with us, as well.

Lastly, thanks to all of our loyal readers for making this so enjoyable. Your comments and input make this all worthwhile.

Love always, WholeCamels

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go figure. one of the original posts complained of jimmy rollins not being a productive leadoff hitter. . . Who woulda guessed. This was during his career-long stretch of swinging at fastballs over his head. sigh

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by layout ultimate on Jun 27, 2010 10:30 PM EDT reply actions

yeah, but where were we with “Let’s sign 42-year-old pitcher Jamie Moyer to a 5-year deal?”

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 28, 2010 6:41 AM EDT up reply actions

I quite enjoyed the post complaining about the trades of Byrd and Polanco with Ugie Urbina as the linchpin… whoops (no fault of Dajafi, clearly no one knew Ugie did Jason Vorhees impersonations in his spare time).

by Cormican on Jun 28, 2010 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Being rather late to the party myself and someone who doesn’t know much about sabermetrics at all, all I can say is congratulations on 5 years and thanks again for having me here.

by RaptorLC on Jun 27, 2010 10:36 PM EDT reply actions

Here here

Congrats to you guys! Thanks for everything you do. And here’s to at least five more years (and at least another World Fucking Championship)!

by ajay on Jun 27, 2010 10:46 PM EDT reply actions

Nice work!

5 years is an eternity for blogs. This blog is a testament to your dedication.

"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"

by psuphiman80 on Jun 27, 2010 11:14 PM EDT reply actions

This blog is a testament to your ~~dedication~~ obsessive insanity :)

by jemagee on Jun 27, 2010 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s kind of awesome that two of the posts on our first page are basically excuses to rag on Ed Wade. I think Cohen and I each got something like an extra ten healthy years of life when the Phils canned his ass.

by dajafi on Jun 27, 2010 11:56 PM EDT reply actions

As if anyone needed an excuse to rag on Ed Wade…the guy did parachute himself into a tree once.

Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!

by EREX21 on Jun 28, 2010 7:11 AM EDT up reply actions

I found my way onto this site during the incredible run in 2008. I just started posting recently. I just wanna say thanks for some great reads, and for making it even more fun being a Phillies fan. Nice work to all.

by aPHILLYated on Jun 28, 2010 3:43 AM EDT reply actions

Same here (though I’ve been posting for more like a year). Great site with lots of funny/informative posters and blog lords.

by Cormican on Jun 28, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

I had run out of places that would allow me to post

by jemagee on Jun 28, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Awwww… they did not love your sunny disposition the way we do here?

by dannijd on Jun 29, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions

egad, I had nearly forgotten this

also, huzzah for skirting intellectual property issues such that SBN sites clear work-based interwebs filters. What a boon to my productivity this site has been.

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 28, 2010 6:06 AM EDT reply actions

Was the Chris Wheeler lexicon an original post here, or something linked to? I think today is the day to salute our blog overlords for being “really special.”

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 28, 2010 6:43 AM EDT reply actions

No, it wasn’t…

by jemagee on Jun 28, 2010 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Congrats, guys. Obviously really impressive how the site’s grown up over the intervening time frame, and I know I speak for everyone in the community when I say that we’re all proud to be a small part. Now let’s break out those old posts, huh?

by PhillyFriar on Jun 28, 2010 7:36 AM EDT reply actions

I have to say that I rather like the old layout by comparison. Much cleaner, although I suppose that’s partly because with very little traffic in the early days there also was very little advertising.

The new software is incredible for comment threads, though. Much props to SBN for that (if it’s their own?).

by phatj on Jun 28, 2010 9:51 AM EDT reply actions