Wholeheartedly agree. There is alot of baseball to be played this year, and frankly, some people just take the whole thing too seriously. This week, a family member had a medical scare. That is real life. This is baseball. Take that shit to Metsblog, you will be welcomed with open arms.

The AA gamethreads are really becoming comparable to MetsBlog et al. The lamest point was the Lincecum/Hernandez game where certain users were throwing a hissy fit laced with non-contributing nonsense only to love the Mets when they won. You said it before CPP when did becoming a fan mean never being able to take a loss or a rough patch? Being a Mets fan over being a Yanks fan used to mean something at the start of the Millennia, I think the fanbase lost that.

I don’t think anyone wants to discourage passion, or saying someone is incurably terrible at what they do. But wishing physical harm is taking it just a notch across the line.

I agree. I would recommend: If watching the game isn’t fun, then don’t watch it. And certainly don’t come to AA to type threats in caps, and swear, and otherwise disrupt the discussion of the actual game.

Eric even had to scold AA users earlier this season for unnecessary cursing/threats. How many times are we going to have to do this?

Sadly, I’ve stopped going to the game threads. In part, because I’ve been very busy as of late. But also in part because I am not at all tempted to read/contribute to them. And that stinks.

the game threads have been less fun recently. there’s no reason to treat every error, strikeout, or bad managerial move as if it just cost the team the world series.

I’ve avoided game threads for this very reason. I envy those people whose worst agony in life is witnessing a bad pinch-hitting substitution.

However:

…the angriest fan base of a first place team in professional sports history.

But it’s good to know that there are people who would at least like to try to keep this place from turning in to a black hole.

It’s obvious that people work hard and put in a lot of time to make this a place to go for prevalent conversation and infomation and a place like this can go south very quickly if not policed by their own.

We all can get emotional sometimes because we care (perhaps a little too much), but the sentiment of the post is spot on.

Rec’d

Since we had to listen to Steve Phillips blather on the other night. But you’re absolutely right, I don’t even remember half the things I wrote the other night, and though I’m sure none of it was intended to be malicious, I was certainly contributing to the fervency.

they should mike me at Dodger Stadium the last few nights. I’ve uttered indecencies that would make your incivilities blush.

i love some good invective as much as the next guy, probably a whole lto more actually, but its got to be GOOD invective, ie funny and original. so maybe more ‘gee i’d love to see things from jerry manual’s point of view but i cant seem to get my head that far up my own ass’ and less boring old ‘F*** JERRY F*** OMAR F*** MY LIFE.’

sorry i just added that last one because i was thinking about the line from the movie superbad.

Fuck Jay and Silent Bob. Fuck them up their stupid asses.

Sorry, I agree with Catsmeat wholeheartedly but at the same time I do approve of the indiscriminate use of profanity in certain situations.

After Monday night and some of the other soul-crushing defeats we’ve suffered this year, it was rather refreshing to lose conventionally last night.

-jokes
-obviously absurd statements that are funny
-playful sarcasm
-gifs
-Lou
-civility
-WPA updates

But I might’ve called Willie Randolph a piece of you know what when the topic of Jerry vs. Willie came up. I’m sorry if someone was offended.

I also apologize for being right.

I completely agree. We cant win every game especially with the fluxuating lineups. I was searching blogs today and came across a very funny Mets blog http://mcisemo.blogspot.com/

I guess the guy just created it but i couldnt agree with him more!