WHYGAVS is:

I've been toying around with a mission statement/manifesto type post for a little while now, but in light of DK's blog post yesterday morning on Pirate fan polarization and some of the questions raised in one of my interview posts with Huntington, I think now is as good a time as any. If you've been reading for a long time, much of this post might seem obvious to you, but the reality is that I've got nearly six years worth of posts spread across two sites and it certainly can't hurt to lay this all out in one place. At its core, WHYGAVS is what it's always been: a place for me to talk about the Pirates as a Pirate fan. Certainly the readership is bigger and I've gotten a chance to write for bigger outlets and the team has given me a chance to do things like see Pirate City from the inside or talk to Neal Huntington and that makes it impossible for this to be the exact same blog that it was when a 20-year old blogging out of my dorm room, but at the core i...