Results of the USSM Dave Cameron Scholarship Drive
DMZ · December 12, 2008 at 1:40 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Including donations outside Pledgie and my match of the first $500, I’ll be cutting Dave a check for
$8,826.76
to support his college education.
Really. $8,826.76.
I am filled with gratitude for you all.
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It’s a shame this opportunity to help Dave came up when the economy was so bad. I was delighted to be able to contribute, but the iffiness of my job meant that I contributed less than I really wanted to. Nevertheless… what a great community, and Dave deserves every penny (and more) that was raised. This makes me proud of everything USS Mariner.
Fantastic! Makes me proud to be a part of this community!
Saying this was well deserved, would be an understatement. I’m very happy to see Dave’s efforts being truly valued by the readership here.
WAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Damn, my check just cleared bank today.
Can you at least put the old paypal up so I can give him some beer money to go with the classes?
Congrats Dave! You deserve it!
One heck of a community we have here. Makes one proud to be part of it.
Doesn’t Dave also get $1,000 for being runner up in that contest, so, in essence, he got the scholarship anyway?
I don’t know what to say. I’m honestly speechless. Thank you all so much.
The college scholarship people actually gave me $2,000 as a “we’re sorry for how this went” runner up bonus, so all total, the total is almost $11,000.
You guys are amazing. I have no words.
How did you end up with 76 cents on the end? That’s strange.
How old is Dave?
Paypal takes a percentage.
Im in school too, otherwise I would have donated. Dave actually deserves it though. One day I want to be as dedicated to something as Dave is to USSM!
Also, people donated non-whole dollar amounts even before the PayPal cut. I think to be clever but I’m not sure.
Sweeeeeeet! Congrats, Dave! Makes me extremely pleased to know that you came out ahead after all… We don’t need no stinking scholarship! 🙂
In all honesty, we sincerely appreciate all that you and Derek (and Conor and Jeff and the mods and everyone else) do to keep this place running and stocked with excellent analysis. This site truly has no competition, and we’re glad you guys put such effort and care into it. Thanks.
More than glad to help, Dave. Good luck in your studies.
And thanks to Derek for putting it all together.
Ah yeah forgot about the paypal tax.
What a wonderful way to honor a servant like Dave who has given so much to so many. I too am proud to be a part of this community and thrilled with this richly deserved response. I only wish that his WHIP was a little lower.
probably unrelated… definitely unrelated but [deleted, unrelated]
Although, based on last year’s ERA, I think he has some talent and should have a good season… 😉
Amazing.
Congratulations!
So, wait, Dave, you made out better than you would have if you’d won the scholarship contest in the first place?
Awesome. Truly. Glad to be a tiny piece of it, and you deserve every penny. Use that education well.
That’s wonderful. Congratulations, Dave!
All gave some, some gave all.
Good luck!
Congrats Dave. Be sure to do something smart with that cash before you do what I’d do with a check for $8000. You know, spend it all on hookers and blow.
Hey, if it helps get him through school, who are we to judge? I doubt the hookers will help, though, and I’m sure Mrs. Cameron would agree.
“Tug McGraw, asked what he would do with the salary he would make as a pitcher, said, ‘Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.’â€
— Louis Menand. 2007. ‘Notable quotables’. The New Yorker, 19 February, p. 188.
(Pasted from http://www.highlevelresearch.org/Yorksite/Quotes.html )
It’s almost the polar opposite of an Ichiro quote, but equally amusing.
I imagine currency conversion rates account for most, if not all, of those cases.
Congratulations, Dave. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations, Dave. Good luck.
Wow. I’m so happy to have been a small part of this.
The power of the blogosphere — and USS Mariner — has truly asserted itself. I wonder how well this would have gone had a mainstream newspaper columnist tried to launch a similar drive. My guess is that they would have reached fewer people — and fewer people invested in Dave. Today, the blogosphere, I believe, eclipsed the mainstream in terms of pured targeted reaching and drawing power.
Dave, I’d say, “go on and do great things” … but you already are. Your awesometasticness knows no bounds.
Congratulations!
Congratulations. I regret that I was too strapped myself to help, but it’s good to see our collective gratitude for your work bring you some actual benefit. 🙂
Dave, thanks for all the great work. You and Derek are not only the best Mariner coverage around (to the point that immortal heroes Thiel and Stone are stealing from you), you’re the best baseball coverage around, period, and my friends from other teams admit it.
As for the decimals, I tacked 47 cents onto my donation for reasons that I cannot explain.
Ditto. I made two donations, but I wish they’d been about three times the size.
wow! great job! i bet you make your wife proud.
That is a lot more then I thought it was, and I am more then proud of all of us. No, we didn’t make our own 10 grand, but it’s still a damn fine effort.
Our little “grass roots” campaign has demonstrated what the power of a true fan community can do. Good work all.
@MKT:
Tug McGraw was once asked, “Which do you prefer playing on, grass or artificial turf?” His response: “I don’t know. I’ve never smoked artificial turf.”
Congrats Dave!
I’ve been reading/commenting on this site daily since 2006, and the quality of Dave’s work has never dipped below fantastic.
Congratulations, Dave. You earned this.
Congratulations, Dave! You guys do so much work on the blog to entertain and inform us, it was a pleasure to be able to chip in my little bit! It probably should have been more!
/cheer
Congrats Dave!! Well deserved!
Glad this really dumb story had such a happy ending. Glad to contribute- will do it again in the future. I f’ing love USS Mariner.
@ five number ones:
I’ve been obsessed with 47 since I read The Long Walk by Stephen King when I was a kid. My alarm is set for 6:47 am.* I occasionally run into other 47philes. Nice to meet you.
*and, of course, I hit the snooze bar 5 times and get up at 7:23. Of course
Seriously, this might be the greatest offseason in Mariner history.
This is fantastic.
In and of itself, this is quite the story. If there is a journalistic entity out there that follows the web … this is the kind of story they should report on. It actually might be interesting to see how much money you raise from ads, vs. straight donations, vs. apparel issues, vs. beer money, vs. the scholarship. It wouldn’t surprise me if the last two were actually the most profitable, and might lend a good economist with some better ideas about how to earn a small amount of cash from a good blog.
Dave, I am incredibly happy to see people recognize you, even in small ways, for the contribution you have made and to assist you in being able to increase your skills.
For all of the USSM authors, I hope y’all see this with a sense of pride. We all know the site is not a money maker (even if you include the amount that was raised for Dave, if you balance that against time invested), but I hope this indicates that there is an appreciation, even a monetary appreciation, for what you provide.
Finally … I have no idea if the scholarship people learned anything about their process. As many people indicated, it seemed a poor choice as a way to determine a scholarship. However, if they feel the need to continue on in this fashion, I have a suggestion … instead of just votes, do a matching scholarship competition (with a reasonable limit on individual donations). That way, EVERY blogger wins, to a degree. Plus, they really would only get people ‘voting’ who truly wanted to support the individual.
Congrats Dave! If you ever have any issues as you pursue your higher education, let me know. It’s my field of study and work, and I would be happy to share my wisdom if it can help!
I barely posted last season, but I still read USSM every day. Congratulations, Dave, it’s well-deserved.
It’s a really good idea, but with one bad attribute: blogs with rich readers would have an advantage. E.g. blogs whose readers are mainly students would likely get lower donation amounts than blogs whose readers are … (insert job title of overpaid fat cats or idle rich).
Yeah … I think the per-donation limit would have to be $5 or $10. Certainly, this would not completely overturn the advantage, but it would help, combined with the same kind of features they used to limit voting by individuals.
Of course, better yet might be to get voting to narrow it down to 5 or so, then actually have some kind of panel of experts determine the winner.