About FenwayNation.com

Ernie Paicopolos (BIO)	Ric Glaub (BIO)
Ernie's 1st Column—4/2000	Ric on Duquette—2002

In April of 2000, six months after the Red Sox had lost another ALCS to the Empire (4 games to 1), a group of Red Sox fans grew tired of lamenting over the Olde Towne Team in a low-tech mode. There's just so much angst you can unload at the office water cooler. The times demanded another vehicle to express our obsession with the Red Sox. Thankfully, years before saving the planet from climate catastrophe, Al Gore had the foresight to create the Internet! [Editor's note: We're trying real hard, Ringo, not to let our political biases show here. We can't, however, resist our penchant for obscure Pulp Fiction references].

So, two of these fans, Ernie Paicopolos and Ric Glaub, set out to put together a website that would offer a virtual water cooler for our fellow Sox-obsessed buddies. And, for the first several months, that's all FenwayNation was. Then, somewhere around the time that Al Gore failed to carry his own home state and lost the presidential election, the site shape-shifted into a "one-stop-shopping" venue for all things Red Sox. We started writing scathing commentaries and game summaries, posting reader polls, listing valuable links to media and other Sox-related sites. Then, the "hits" just kept on coming. The site steadily grew in popularity. So starting in January of 2004, we thought, "Hey, maybe we should start counting these hit things—it might be important someday". From January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2007, we logged 14,121,018 of those puppies (the technical term Al Gore gave to "hits"). Now, we routinely get visitors from over 100 countries around the world. I guess this "Nation" thing is for real. We look forward to many more years of service to our loyal readers.