Youk Of The Nation

Seriously? Am I invisible?

Okay, first of all, none of this answers the question of why you didn't come here before. Second of all, I don't know if you saw my post in the welcome thread for BDC members, but we really don't want to immediately clutter the board with complaints about a site that is due to not exist in a few weeks. There is no reason other than a desire to stir up old arguments to continue to complain about past events or other users from the BDC boards. That is all over, this is TalkSox and we are not, were not, and will not be involved in that. This is the last time I'm going to explain that. Please do not bring up your problems with other boards again. And once again, welcome to TalkSox.

Only one of them ever stole a bunch of laptops from a middle school, though. A middle school. That's the kind of petty villainy that brings a whole town together in retaliation in a Disney movie.

Pierzynski is the Barney Fife of catchers.

The temptation to wield my power in order to project strength to our newcomers is surprisingly powerful. This must be how the guys working on the Manhattan Project felt.

See? This is the way an adult expresses pure venom for a professional athlete. Simple, yet effective.

I have no problem with people hating players. I've hated players on the Red Sox before, though never as seriously as some people seem to, but the nickname thing is just...lame. Lame, and childish. And I'm not limiting that to the Red Sox, either. I feel the same way about "Spankees" or the like. Doing it to be funny every once in a while is one thing, but sometimes it goes way beyond necessary. We don't get a lot of it here, thankfully, but I'd prefer "not at all" to "not a lot".

I swear on the grave of every member of my family going back a thousand generations, the next person who makes a stupid nickname by combining insulting words with player's names is going to be banned SO HARD that their family will suffer the pain of it going forward for TWO thousand generations. Well, I might be exaggerating, but honestly, cut it out.

Well, this is a new site. We have already agreed not to bring any drama or conflicts from the old forum to the new. While I appreciate your outrage at the idea of an iron-fisted dictatorial moderation team, (being so level-headed and open-minded myself), there's really no reason to rehash any of this. Enjoy posting here and let whatever happened in the past stay there. None of what you mentioned has any bearing on the site, there's no reason to be upset by it here at a fresh new place to post. Welcome!

I only had Gameday for the last two innings of the game. Just watched the video of Pedroia's second home run. How embarrassing is it to give up the homer right after two of your teammates let a ball drop between them like a couple of little-leaguers? The Braves are atrocious.

The Braves now have one more HR than Andrew McCutchen hit in one game yesterday.

Who would have thought that we'd get to a point where we'd rather see the Sox play the Yankees than the Rays or Orioles?

Hard to believe it's only the 4th inning. The Sox have really been grinding the boot heel on the Braves' neck slowly.

Ortiz is pulling a Lowell tonight.

I was also supportive of Hanley, but in my own understated manner. I tend not to loudly support someone, I just stay quiet on the subject. But I never doubted that the signing would work out well, and so far I have no reason to change my opinion.

I spooked my dogs after that Pedroia slam. I was walking them, listening to the radio, and I whooped so loud they both jumped and then stared at me like "why would you do that?"

I always thought of it as a baseball fan thing, but I think it's actually a Red Sox fan thing. No matter how well things are going, we have to harp on the small problems. Sox win the World Series? Spend six hours decrying the bullpen decisions. Sox win a game 25-1? Spend two hours complaining about shoddy infield defense that lead to that one run. Sox go 162-0? Complain about the ugly new road jerseys or something. I think it's just the reflexive response, even after three championships in a decade, to the subconscious belief that the Sox are just not going to win.

I'm becoming a little uncomfortable with how often you bring this up. You know I like women, right?

That's just disgusting. Braves fans have to be on the brink of rioting right now.

I wholeheartedly agree that a losing record does a lot for the publicity of "clubhouse cancers". Look at Harper. Papelbon and Harper got into that little scuffle, as we all know, and it's something of an open secret that most baseball fans consider Harper a douche. But Nats fans love him, because he's a fantastic baseball player, and despite a lack of success, the Nats have been competitive and capable of winning for a few seasons now. But if they were to tank badly for a season or two in a row, I'm willing to bet Nats fans would start grumbling about it partially being due to Harper not being a "leader" or "team player". Everything is rosy when a team is winning, no matter what the player's personalities are like in the clubhouse or on their own time. When a team is floundering, the same flaws (ego, lack of respect for the abilities of others, a disinterest in projecting qualities of leadership) that we are prepared to laugh off as the eccentricities of the rich and/or famous suddenly become justification for vilification. It happens in business and even in families. It's human nature, and it's why I always take reports like the "fried chicken and beer" thing with a grain of salt. (Well, not literally. Salt in beer sounds terrible.)

Wright has really been a somewhat unexpected bright spot. He honestly doesn't deserve to have the W/L record he does, and he's done a great job of keeping the Sox in games so far. It's been a pleasure to listen to, and I'm looking forward to tonight's game. I'm going to be listening on the radio while I walk the dogs for the first few innings, so I hope to come back to a gamethread full of effusive praise for our starter. Don't disappoint me, now. I have so few joys in life.

It was a personal attack. On Farrell, not on you. Within certain limits, everyone here is free to express their opinions, whether they are well-researched and impeccably argued, or just a long string of incomprehensible mouth-frothing curses about some imagined problem. (We get a lot of that in gamethreads when the Sox are losing. I once threatened to cuckold Keith Foulke rather vociferously). You'll find this out as you settle in. To everyone else, we've all called each other whiners enough to blunt the impact of that particular word, so let's not let this spiral into anything and make us look bad in front of company, okay?

When Joe Castiglione mentioned that stat the other day, I couldn't believe it. Literally couldn't, as in I immediately assumed he misspoke and meant 13 or something. I had to rush to my laptop and look it up. That's horrifying.

I've been to Toledo. All I can say is, at least most of the time you're upwind.

The mods were sleeping. Yeah, a separate thread for every time a player does something good might make the forums a bit crowded. No harm done though, it's a simple fix, and everyone will settle into things eventually.