Rant: Caring more about politics than baseball

[thrill]

Discussing baseball should always been more important (and more of the focus) than discussing politics. Always.

I think it is. It's just that it's politics playoff season and baseball isn't doing [expletive] for another week, so it'll get better from here.

[Jocephus]

i've left before on my own volition and realized it made no difference because no one ultimately cares about peoples opinions on here. its an outlet, sometimes emotional. and if you ask me the baseball forum has just as much ferocity among its various topics but its just different, probably 'cause at the end of the day we are talking about a sport, and in particular, the team we actually *enjoy* for a variety of reasons.

strangely enough the posts that say how much the board sucks now and how its so awful are the ones that make me re-consider my "membership" more so than a thread that gets hot one way or the other. but then i realize, again, no one cares, so i stick around.

[go birds]

no one is saying the board sucks and is awful

[Jocephus]

hyperbole, but the implication is there. kind of a "back in my day". at least thats how i interpret some of it. and i feel like that sentiment is cyclical (as i've experienced it before)

[MrCrowesGarden]

hyperbole, but the implication is there. kind of a "back in my day". at least thats how i interpret some of it. and i feel like that sentiment is cyclical (as i've experienced it before)

At least we're past the point of making a post saying "I'm leaving!!!" . Well, I hope we're past that point.

[jim]

The offseason is like 5 months long. What are we gonna do, spend 150 days talking about Jed Gyorko? The nice thing about a general purpose message board is that people can suggest any topic they want, and everyone can either participate or not, based on their level of interest.

When baseball comes back, there will be more focus on baseball topics. I guess we could just shut down GRB the day the Cardinals are eliminated and take it out of mothballs during spring training, but I don't see the point.

I know it's not everyones cup of tea, but November is the AFL, Dec-Feb is the Caribbean leagues, college baseball starts this weekend... There is baseball all year. Last year I know I had a winter league thread but it wasn't generating much interest.

[GeddyWrox]

I don't post as much in baseball talk as a lot of others because my understanding of the game just isn't on par with most of the other posters. But I read almost every topic from beginning to end.

I post in Social a lot, and of late, quite a bit in the political topics. I tend to do so more here than anywhere else because of the caliber of posters that represent all sides of the topics at hand. Yes, the board leans left. But there is a balance that exists here that doesn't elsewhere. It's the relative civility that others have mentioned. Even though it gets heated sometimes, there isn't even 1/10th of the nastiness here that you get in public message boards and comment sections. I get so disheartened by what I see in those comments. By and large, I don't get that same feeling here, even when we're debating something very heated. And I appreciate the hell out of that.

[jim]

I understand that some people really do get a lot out of BT without posting much. Baseball really isn't that complicated, even though I've seen efforts to make it so, so nobody should be bashful. Far more likely that I post something genuinely stupid in politics than anyone else posting something genuinely stupid in BT. But I know some people just like to read, I do that with alot of the off season moves because I don't know that much about trade values and building a team etc... I tend to squawk more when I'm watching a player, or discussing in game strategy etc.. because that's my comfort zone.

But nobody should ever feel like their understanding isn't "on par" as you say rox, because I'll bet it is or at least a closer than you give yourself credit for.

[wart57]

I don't post as much in baseball talk as a lot of others because my understanding of the game just isn't on par with most of the other posters. But I read almost every topic from beginning to end.

I post in Social a lot, and of late, quite a bit in the political topics. I tend to do so more here than anywhere else because of the caliber of posters that represent all sides of the topics at hand. Yes, the board leans left. But there is a balance that exists here that doesn't elsewhere. It's the relative civility that others have mentioned. Even though it gets heated sometimes, there isn't even 1/10th of the nastiness here that you get in public message boards and comment sections. I get so disheartened by what I see in those comments. By and large, I don't get that same feeling here, even when we're debating something very heated. And I appreciate the hell out of that.

I agree, the comments on facebook and other message boards are horrible. Folks trying to say the most terrible things they can think of just to piss other people off.

[Tim]

So just so I got this right, someone is offended by what someone else wrote in a political forum after they voluntarily clicked on the thread and read it?