Grant Brisbee

Grant Brisbee (born c. 1977)[1] is an American sports writer and editor. He has been the lead writer for McCovey Chronicles, a San Francisco Giants-focused site, since 2005, and has served as a national baseball writer for SB Nation since 2011.[2] He graduated from San Jose State University with a BA in English/Career Writing in 2009.[3] Brisbee is also a fan of the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors.[4]

Career

Brisbee grew up in Burlingame, California[5] and started his writing career at Southern Oregon University, where he wrote for the SOU Siskiyou, the university's newspaper.[4]

Brisbee began writing about the San Francisco Giants in the alt.sports.baseball.sf-giants Usenet group in the late 1990s.[6] He started his first Giants blog, "Waiting for Boof", in January 2003.[7][8] He launched McCovey Chronicles in January 2005 as the second blog under the SB Nation umbrella, which now maintains over 300 sports-related blogs.[9] Brisbee started writing nationally for SB Nation in 2011.[2]

Brisbee has been featured multiple times in Jonah Keri's podcast on Grantland[10][11] and as a Giants correspondent for MLB Now on MLB Network.[12] In 2015, Brisbee was awarded the SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in the "Contemporary Baseball Commentary" category for his article "Rumors, rumors, every where, nor any drop to drink" about his experience at the 2014 Baseball Winter Meetings.[13][14]

In 2012, Brisbee correctly predicted a four-game sweep by the San Francisco Giants in the 2012 World Series, in contrast to the other writers polled by SB Nation, who all predicted a Detroit Tigers victory.[15]

References

  1. ↑ McKinley, Jesse (August 21, 2011). "With the World Series Champs in a Slump, a City Suffers". The New York Times.
  2. 1 2 Bleszinski, Tyler (March 31, 2011). "SB Nation Proudly Announces Baseball Nation".
  3. ↑ "The Spartan Tablet" (PDF). Department of English and Comparative Literature. San Jose State University. Fall 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Grant Brisbee". sbnation.com. Vox Media.
  5. ↑ "Bay Blogger Thursday (Night)". SFist.com. December 4, 2004.
  6. ↑ Brisbee, Grant (August 24, 2005). "Gameday Open Thread, 8/24". McCovey Chronicles.
  7. ↑ Brisbee, Grant (January 10, 2005). "First!". McCovey Chronicles.
  8. ↑ Brisbee, Grant (January 25, 2013). "Lessons learned from 10 years in blogging". McCovey Chronicles.
  9. ↑ "Who We Are - Vox Media". voxmedia.com.
  10. ↑ Keri, Jonah (October 21, 2014). "Jonah Keri Podcast: Andy McCullough and Grant Brisbee". ESPN.com.
  11. ↑ Keri, Jonah (April 15, 2014). "Jonah Keri Podcast: With Special Guests Alex Anthopoulos and Grant Brisbee". ESPN.com.
  12. ↑ "Search Results for: grant brisbee". MLB Advanced Media.
  13. ↑ "Brisbee wins 2015 SABR Analytics Conference Research Award - Contemporary Commentary". Society for American Baseball Research. March 13, 2015.
  14. ↑ Brisbee, Grant (December 15, 2014). "Rumors, rumors, every where, nor any drop to drink". SB Nation.
  15. ↑ "Baseball Nation predicts the World Series". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
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