If the Banner thread is a Rant...

[Joe Shlabotnik]

You need to move the last week of game day threads to rants.

Jeesh.

[planet planet]

I don't know, I see the difference as the baseball threads are either ranting about or supporting LaRussa (i.e. Baseball Talk), while these threads are rants about posters on a message board.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I don't know, I see the difference as the baseball threads are either ranting about or supporting LaRussa (i.e. Baseball Talk), while these threads are rants about posters on a message board.

Well yersterday's game day thread was 17 pages of not much substance other than overall ranting and trying to exorcise the demons this season has unleashed. I understand people's frustrations but come on, deal with it already. There was nothign constructive or alltogether new in there or in many of the other GDT's lately.

IMO.

YMMV.

BWTFDIK?

[maddash]

I don't know, I see the difference as the baseball threads are either ranting about or supporting LaRussa (i.e. Baseball Talk), while these threads are rants about posters on a message board.

Well yersterday's game day thread was 17 pages of not much substance other than overall ranting and trying to exorcise the demons this season has unleashed. I understand people's frustrations but come on, deal with it already. There was nothign constructive or alltogether new in there or in many of the other GDT's lately.

IMO.

YMMV.

BWTFDIK?

For the most part, I think the complaints about Tony in that thread (and on this board) have been very specific and very reasonable. I didn't see any "Tony sucks" or "Tony is the reason the Cardinals suck this year" posts, I saw posts directed specifically at an in-game move and references to Tony's past gaffs. The posts I read were constructive in that they questioned the benching in relation to degree of the "sin" Ryan committed and Tony's proclivity to use non-traditional strategies in the game himself. They were also altogether new in that this is the first time (as far as I remember) that Tony has benched a player in the middle of a game this year like he did with Ryan.

I think when Tony is questioned, some people have the tendency to fall into these old traps of spouting off Tony's record and past success, and how that somehow makes us unqualified to question his moves.

[Cronos]

I didn't see any "Tony sucks" or "Tony is the reason the Cardinals suck this year" posts

I definitely saw some of that in subtext, but no more than there usually is so I didn't really care that much.

[Michael]

Threads like this should not be posted in BT. This has nothing to do with discussing baseball.

[sighyoung]

Well yersterday's game day thread was 17 pages of not much substance other than overall ranting and trying to exorcise the demons this season has unleashed. I understand people's frustrations but come on, deal with it already. There was nothign constructive or alltogether new in there or in many of the other GDT's lately.

My T. J. Hooker picture was high quality posting, and you know it.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

My T. J. Hooker picture was high quality posting, and you know it.

Well, you got me there I suppose.