6/10 v Nats

[Bellhorn04]

Alright, I'll also say this. Maybe this is just sleep deprivation making me want to be more reasonable, but I don't think people should be run out of here because they're pessimistic, or have their fanhood questioned. I think pumpsie is clearly passionate about the team and gets stressed probably watching and hoping the team wins. I think he's excessive with the pessimism, and he almost seems to rub it in whenever a negative prediction is right, and that's a real crock, but you guys telling them to leave and censoring their voice, that's just as annoying.

 

This isn't like Muggah, where he was making unprovoked attacks on people. I haven't really seen pumpsie call anyone a "rump swab" for having an opposite opinion.

 

Emmz, I agree. There are always going to be optimist and pessimist views and if people are staying within the rules you can't just tell them to go away. The rest is up to the mods.

[a700hitter]

There is no Sox reporter named McAdams.

It was some guy with a beard. I thought that was his name. He was on with Holley, Merloni et al. I give them such little credibility that I don't even know their names.

[a700hitter]

Emmz' date=' I agree. There are always going to be optimist and pessimist views and if people are staying within the rules you can't just tell them to go away. The rest is up to the mods.[/quote']Pumpsie is okay. He has a different point of view rhan many. But a Red Sox team that is 4 or 5 games under .500 at Fenway is good reason to be pewssimistic. I canKt remember when the Sox fielded a team with a better road record than home record, and I certainly don't remember them playing under .500 at home, and this is my 46 year following the Sox. I don't think there is cause to think the season is over yet, and Pumpsie is still probably holding out some hope too.

[a700hitter]

Please save me that better record ********. We are definitely a better team than the Nats and Marlins. I don't give a s*** what the record says. Just like some of our players are better than their stats show.

We have no reason to believe that the Sox are a better team than the Nats after they swept us out of our house. They are built on young solid, if not spectacular, pitching throughout their rotation. They have young top talent all over the field, and they have a budding 19 old Super Star inHarper. That kid has tools and heart. Strasburg is on his way to being shutdown #1 stud pitcher. Injuries are not an excuse for the Sox. The Nats hav lost their big $ guy, Werth for most of the season. He was off to a much better start in 2012 than 2011. They just got Morse back-- arguably their best hitter in 2011. They lost their starting catcher for the season and they are without their closer, Storen until July. We have no argument to make here in favor of the Sox. None.

[a700hitter]

There is no Sox reporter named McAdams.

Sean McAdams is a sports writer for the Providence Journal. He has been covering the Red Sox for many years. He ha coordinated the Boston Red Sox Sports Writers annual awards dinner. I believe that has also subbed for Remy on Sox broadcasts on at least one occasion.

[ibot2much]

Sean McAdam ( no "s") works for the Boston Herald. He was FORMERLY employed by the ProJo

[VA Sox Fan]

It's not what you say, but how you say it that makes you sound like a tool. You always replace people names with something that attempts (but fails) to be derogatory. You make yourself come across as someone who actually enjoys the losses. Maybe you do, but I actually think that it's your wierd coping mechanism in that to try to get over a loss you deride everyone and everything on here and to do with the team.

 

It's s*** that we lost again. It's s*** that it is the same problems again. It's s*** Aceves cant even save one innings never mind a game when it matters. We are all pissed of at it, but to come in here and pretend to revel in it to make up for you own disappointment isn't what these forums are about.

 

Excellent post.

[a700hitter]

Sean McAdam ( no "s") works for the Boston Herald. He was FORMERLY employed by the ProJo

No "s" unless one is talking about Sean McAdam's column or show etc.

[ibot2much]

Sean McAdams is a sports writer for the Providence Journal. He has been covering the Red Sox for many years. He ha coordinated the Boston Red Sox Sports Writers annual awards dinner. I believe that has also subbed for Remy on Sox broadcasts on at least one occasion.

 

Yea..you are right. One uses the apostrophe to show possession of the show or column. Otherwise, no.

[a700hitter]

Yea..you are right. One uses the apostrophe to show possession of the show or column. Otherwise' date=' no.[/quote']Does it annoy him if people refer to him as McAdams?

[mvp 78]

Sean McAdam ( no "s") works for the Boston Herald. He was FORMERLY employed by the ProJo

 

This. If you're going to rip a guy, at least spell his name right.

[ibot2much]

Does it annoy him if people refer to him as McAdams?

 

I don't know. Next time I see him, I'll ask him. I imagine it would be a common mistake.

[mvp 78]

I don't know. Next time I see him' date=' I'll ask him. I imagine it would be a common mistake.[/quote']

 

When he's been on the radio, he gets annoyed if callers add the s.

[a700hitter]

I don't know. Next time I see him' date=' I'll ask him. I imagine it would be a common mistake.[/quote']He's lucky anyone talks about him at all coming from a paper from a horse s*** town like Providence. He shouldn't mind.

 

When he was with the Providence Journal, he was corresponded with me on email regarding some questions I had about the Sports Writers Annual Awards Dinner. We exchanged a few emails. He was very responsive and polite.

[a700hitter]

When he's been on the radio' date=' he gets annoyed if callers add the s.[/quote']

Since I doubt he reads us here, I will continue to refer to him interchangeably as McAdam, McAdams, MacAdam and MCadams depending on my memory and manual dexterity that day. Most people who know him should know who I mean. Feel free to correct me as this is a very important matter.

[a700hitter]

This. If you're going to rip a guy' date=' at least spell his name right.[/quote']And when you rip me, keep in mind that my name is not Gramps, and if you want some one to suck your cock as your wife. It's not appropriate here.

[ibot2much]

Feel free to correct me as this is a very important matter.

 

 

OK. Glad you acknowledged that you were wrong. Takes a big person to be able to do that.

[a700hitter]

OK. Glad you acknowledged that you were wrong. Takes a big person to be able to do that.

I'm wrong about a lot of little things as they hold little consequence and even less of my attention. Yet, I don't think I am wrong about you.

[mvp 78]

And when you rip me' date=' keep in mind that my name is not Gramps, and if you want some one to suck your cock as your wife. It's not appropriate here.[/quote']

 

Which you deserved as it came after a personal attack that had nothing to do with the Sox. Question my Sox thought processes, fine. Talk s*** about my personal life and you're clearly just a troll. I ignored it the first time you remarked about the issue. I didn't ignore it the second time.

[a700hitter]

Which you deserved as it came after a personal attack that had nothing to do with the Sox. Question my Sox thought processes' date=' fine. Talk s*** about my personal life and you're clearly just a troll. I ignored it the first time you remarked about the issue. I didn't ignore it the second time.[/quote']That post was beyond any reasonable civil discourse and completely immature.

 

Yes, my post was slightly snarky, but not a personal attack. I put a smiley face at the end to convey that it was just a sarcastic joke. You had made a stupid uninformed inaccurate remark that I responded to by telling you that you should have known better considering your profession. I am paraphrasing my remarks. There's plenty of snark by you that is aimed at others on this board. If you can't handle some aimed your way with some level decorum, then you should be careful not to direct any at others.

[ibot2much]

And when you rip me' date=' keep in mind that my name is not Gramps, and if you want some one to suck your cock as your wife. It's not appropriate here.[/quote']

 

The KING of COCKSOX has spoken

[a700hitter]

The KING of COCKSOX has spoken

I knew that I wasn't wrong about you.

[mvp 78]

That post was beyond any reasonable civil discourse and completely immature.

 

Yes, my post was slightly snarky, but not a personal attack. I put a smiley face at the end to convey that it was just a sarcastic joke. You had made a stupid uninformed inaccurate remark that I responded to by telling you that you should have known better considering your profession. I am paraphrasing my remarks. There's plenty of snark by you that is aimed at others on this board. If you can't handle some aimed your way with some level decorum, then you should be careful not to direct any at others.

 

If you can't understand the difference between a personal attack (which you started) and talking about the Sox, I'm sorry for you.

 

Furthermore, you stated that only public companies have shareholders which is not true as privately held companies can also have shareholders. As I don't know how the ownership structure of the Sox was formed, they may not have shares. However, you ripping me personally about not being licensed (yet) is ********. I've busted my ass studying for the exams. If I don't pass, so be it, but for you to rip me over it is just as immature as my response.

[a700hitter]

If you can't understand the difference between a personal attack (which you started) and talking about the Sox, I'm sorry for you.

 

Furthermore, you stated that only public companies have shareholders which is not true as privately held companies can also have shareholders. As I don't know how the ownership structure of the Sox was formed, they may not have shares. However, you ripping me personally about not being licensed (yet) is ********. I've busted my ass studying for the exams. If I don't pass, so be it, but for you to rip me over it is just as immature as my response.

I never said that only public companies have shareholders. I am aware of the different types of business organizations. Unlike a public company, a privately held company's fiduciary responsibility to it's shareholders is quite different than it is for a publicly held company. In a publicly held company there can be a conflicts between the duty to the consumer and the obligation to the shareholders. In a privately held Company, the primary responsibility of the business is to the customers of the business. Without the customers, payrolls and vendors don't get paid and the private shareholders make no profits.

 

I think you were a oversensitive about the remark, and your response was vulgar and uncalled for over-reaction.

[mvp 78]

I think you were a oversensitive about the remark, and your response was vulgar and uncalled for over-reaction.

 

And by playing semantics, you think it's ok to rip on someone's life outside the board. Sad, really.

[a700hitter]

And by playing semantics' date=' you think it's ok to rip on someone's life outside the board. Sad, really.[/quote']I never said that I thought that was okay. As I said, I meant it as a joke, hence the smiley face, but I also realize that jokes can be taken as pokes by the person on the receiving end. I also realize that a joke that is interpreted as a poke is usually the fault of the person making the joke. If you had thought I had gone into territory that was off-limits, you should have said so. That would have set the boundaries going forward. Your response was just not justified. You are rationalizing.

[Emmz]

And by playing semantics' date=' you think it's ok to rip on someone's life outside the board. Sad, really.[/quote']

 

Sorry, but if you can't take any humor on the chin, don't dish it bro.

[VA Sox Fan]

I don't understand where the mvp78 and a700 disagreement started. Was it in another thread or am I missing something here?

[FredLynn]

Alright, I'll also say this. Maybe this is just sleep deprivation making me want to be more reasonable, but I don't think people should be run out of here because they're pessimistic, or have their fanhood questioned. I think pumpsie is clearly passionate about the team and gets stressed probably watching and hoping the team wins. I think he's excessive with the pessimism, and he almost seems to rub it in whenever a negative prediction is right, and that's a real crock, but you guys telling them to leave and censoring their voice, that's just as annoying.

 

This isn't like Muggah, where he was making unprovoked attacks on people. I haven't really seen pumpsie call anyone a "rump swab" for having an opposite opinion.

 

Thanks Emmz. I am always willing to listen to reasonable criticisms such as yours and I will make an effort to rein it in a bit. Yes, I am passionate about the team as we all are (except Jacko). When criticisms are presented constructively like this they are easy to digest; when someone comes on here and calls other posters idiots or *******s, thats really not a constructive criticism, its a personal insult. Very few of us know one another well enough to determine who is or is not an idiot or an *******. I think its fair to say that many if not all of us ACT that way here sometimes, but thats different than actually being one. Sandusky is an *******. He has lots of company, but I am not in the subset. Probably none of us here are.

Have a good day.

[Bellhorn04]

I don't understand where the mvp78 and a700 disagreement started. Was it in another thread or am I missing something here?

 

Same here.