Grant Brisbee
{{short description|American sports writer and editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Grant Brisbee (born October 31, 1977){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/us/22sanfrancisco.html |title=With the World Series Champs in a Slump, a City Suffers |date=August 21, 2011 |first=Jesse |last=McKinley |work=The New York Times}} is an American sports writer and editor. He is the founder of McCovey Chronicles, a San Francisco Giants-focused site, and served as its lead writer from 2005 until 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2018/2/14/17005102/mccovey-chronicles-site-news |title=McCovey Chronicles chronicles: Some site news |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |date=February 14, 2018 |work=McCovey Chronicles}} From 2011–19, he served as a national baseball writer for SB Nation.{{cite web |url=http://blog.sbnation.com/2011/3/31/2082348/sb-nation-proudly-announces-baseball-nation |title=SB Nation Proudly Announces Baseball Nation |first=Tyler |last=Bleszinski |date=March 31, 2011}} Since 2019, he is a staff writer covering the Giants for The Athletic.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/791951/2019/01/30/grant-brisbee-why-im-joining-the-athletic/ |title=Grant Brisbee: Why I'm joining The Athletic |date=January 30, 2019 |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |work=The Athletic}} He graduated from San José State University with a B.A. in English/Career Writing in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.sjsu.edu/english/community/Spartan_Tablet/Spartan%20Tablet%20Fall%202015.pdf |title=The Spartan Tablet |date=Fall 2015 |work=Department of English and Comparative Literature |publisher=San Jose State University}}
Career
Brisbee grew up in Burlingame, California{{cite web |url=http://sfist.com/2004/12/02/bay_blogger_thursday_night.php |title=Bay Blogger Thursday (Night) |date=December 4, 2004 |work=SFist.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203122000/http://sfist.com/2004/12/02/bay_blogger_thursday_night.php |archive-date=February 3, 2016 }} and started his writing career at Southern Oregon University, where he wrote for the Siskiyou, the university's newspaper.{{cite web|url=https://www.sbnation.com/authors/grant-brisbee|title=Grant Brisbee|publisher=Vox Media|work=sbnation.com}}
Brisbee began writing about the San Francisco Giants in the alt.sports.baseball.sf-giants Usenet group in the late 1990s.{{cite web |url=http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2005/8/24/20469/2582 |title=Gameday Open Thread, 8/24 |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |date=August 24, 2005 |work=McCovey Chronicles}} He started his first Giants blog, "Waiting for Boof", in January 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2005/1/10/231442/721 |title=First! |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |date=January 10, 2005 |work=McCovey Chronicles}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2013/1/25/3916538/lessons-learned-from-10-years-in-blogging |title=Lessons learned from 10 years in blogging |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |date=January 25, 2013 |work=McCovey Chronicles}} He launched McCovey Chronicles in January 2005 as the second blog under the SB Nation umbrella, which now maintains over 300 sports-related blogs.{{cite web|url=http://www.voxmedia.com/who-we-are|title=Who We Are - Vox Media|work=voxmedia.com}} Brisbee started writing nationally for SB Nation in 2011. In 2018, he stepped back from day-to-day operations of McCovey Chronicles to focus on national baseball writing. In 2019, he left SB Nation to resume writing about the Giants for The Athletic.{{cite web |url=https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2019/1/30/18202403/still-do-not-understand-why-the-site-is-called-mccovey-chronicles-instead-of-mccovey-cove-chronicles |title=Goodbye forever, McCovey Chronicles |date=January 30, 2019 |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |work=McCovey Chronicles |publisher=SB Nation}}
Brisbee has been featured multiple times as a Giants correspondent for MLB Now on MLB Network.{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/video/?query=grant+brisbee |title=Search Results for: grant brisbee |work=MLB Advanced Media}} He is an occasional guest on KNBR radio.{{cite web |url=http://www.knbr.com/?s=grant+brisbee |title=Search Results for: grant brisbee |work=KNBR.com}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://sabr.org/latest/brisbee-wins-2015-sabr-analytics-conference-research-award-contemporary-commentary |title=Brisbee wins 2015 SABR Analytics Conference Research Award - Contemporary Commentary |date=March 13, 2015 |work=Society for American Baseball Research}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/12/15/7380643/winter-meetings-mlb-trade-rumors- |title=Rumors, rumors, every where, nor any drop to drink |first=Grant |last=Brisbee |date=December 15, 2014 |work=SB Nation}} From 2017 through 2018, Brisbee co-hosted Giants Outsiders on NBC Sports Bay Area, a live 30-minute Giants post-game show.{{cite press release |url=http://www.csnbayarea.com/press/nbc-sports-bay-area-launches-giants-outsiders-monday-june-26-hosted-grant-brisbee-and-therese |title=Nbc Sports Bay Area Launches "Giants Outsiders" On Monday, June 26 Hosted By Grant Brisbee And Therese Viñal |date=June 22, 2017 |publisher=NBC Sports Bay Area |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705191736/http://www.csnbayarea.com/press/nbc-sports-bay-area-launches-giants-outsiders-monday-june-26-hosted-grant-brisbee-and-therese |archive-date=July 5, 2017}}
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.{{Cite web|title = Baseball Nation predicts the World Series|url = https://www.sbnation.com/2012/10/24/3549608/baseball-nation-predicts-the-world-series|website = SBNation.com| date=24 October 2012 |access-date = 2015-09-21}}
References
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External links
- {{Twitter|grantbrisbee}}
- [https://www.mccoveychronicles.com McCovey Chronicles]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/grant-brisbee/ Grant Brisbee - The Athletic]
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Category:People from Burlingame, California