Meet up in real life

From Wiki Gonzalez

Primates have met up in real life several times. Two notable meetups were the 2004 SABR convention in Cincinnati, where Chris Dial laid waste to the local watering holes, and the following year's shindig in Toronto.

Another group of Primates has met sporadically in Washington, DC. These meetings have been attended by Dan Szymborski, SM in DC, Joe Dimino, sjohnny, Answer Guy, Rally Monkey, Will Young, Curt, Eugene Freedman, and RB in the UK along with others that I'm unfortunately forgetting. In fact, Gary Geiger Counter and Phil Coorey once travelled great distances to meet the gang for a Red Sox-Orioles game.

The Chicagoland Mafia meets fairly regularly, usually every month or two.

A number of NYC area Primates Repoz, GGC, Rauseo, Jay Jaffe (http://www.futilityinfielder.com/blog/blog.shtml), Alex Belth (http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/197192.html), Derek Jacques (http://weblogthatderekbuilt.blogspot.com/), Roadblock Jones, Steve Keane (http://www.theeddiekranepoolsociety.blogspot.com/), C. Price (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/member/3809/), Clifford Blau (http://mysite.verizon.net/brak2.0/tiegames.htm), Greg Spira (http://www.sabr.org/cmsimgs/spira_at_reds_game_close_up.JPG), Steven Goldman (http://www.yesnetwork.com/yankees/pinstripedblog.asp), Cliff Corcoran (http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/261791.html), two different dudes named Murray and others have met up at the monthly baseball meetings at the boppin' Coliseum Book Store (http://www.coliseumbooks.com/index.shtml) on 42nd st (psst, pssst...come on in, check it out...check it out...sukky, fukky, 50 bucky!) in NYC.

On June 4, 2005, Primates met at a bar (Game On!) outside Fenway Park for a Boston Meetup. Present were GGC, Fly, Chris P, Darren, Villageidiom, Phil Coorey, Biff, Mikael, and HCO.

On September 22, 2005, members of the Chicagoland Mafia traveled north of the border (Milwaukee, that is) for the Great Milwaukee Meetup.

The Seattle Area Primates often meet up as well. They are the most close-knit group of primates. Most of them have been to at least one member's home, invited, of course. They are noted for their sobriety and their affection for Red Robin.

On July 8, 2006, the Toowoomba Meetup because the first Southern Hemisphere meetup.

Bay Area Primates have had a few meetups at Lefty Odoul's, a downtown SF sports bar, as well as a mildly boozy Primer Tailgate before an A's game.

Other smaller meetups have occurred in North Carolina (Mike Emeigh, John Murphy, Jimmy P, and Chris Dial have met each other in the area) and San Diego. The first San Diego meetup occurred, appropriately, at a fish taco restaurant. As a best practice, Primates should take pains to organize their meetups at places/times/events that reflect the unique nature of their town/city/municipality.

At one time, Primates tried to agree on a national meet-up day via Meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com), but the results were unsatisfactory or inconvenient.

There are two members of BTF who meet up every day. This is because they live together. One of these members is not Rowing Girl.

It's rumored that meatwad and Pops Freshenmeyer have met up. DTM may have also been involved.

Bud Selig has yet to appear at any meetup to which he has been invited.

Shredder and scotto have been known to see indie rock music together.

References

• Aaron's Really Long SABR Convention Recap (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/newsblog_discussion/the_hardball_times_aarons_really_long_sabr_convention_recap/) - July 20, 2004 thread kicked off by an Aaron Gleeman article. Other famous Primates comment.
• SABR35 pre-convention thread (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/discussion/27733/) and post-convention thread (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/discussion/31470/)
• HCO's photos (http://digamma.net/personal/content/images/boston_meetup_20050604/) from the Boston BTF Meetup on June 4, 2005.