Youk Of The Nation

What do they lose? No one is going to stop being a Red Sox fan over this. If they do, they werent a serious fan to begin with.

This makes no sense at all. The people who are in charge of the on-the-field decisions, i.e. the GM and his staff and the coaches, have nothing to do with the decisions in the booth. This are two completely separate situations, and honestly, none of us knows the exact reasons behind Orsillo leaving. Maybe he wanted too much money and they wanted to spend it on improving the team? Maybe he was sexually harassing someone. (I highly doubt that, in fact I'm sure that isn't it, but just as an example of something they don't want to publicize). Maybe he's buddies with Remy but a jerk to everyone else? Maybe there are possibly dozens of behind-the-scenes reasons we as fans are not privy to? I think people who are frustrated with how bad this season has been are using this as another chance to complain about the Sox, but complaining about them making changes to the broadcasting staff as if it's taking away time or effort from managing the team is just ridiculous. It's the same as saying "why is the FBI spending money on (blank) when the CIA needs to fix (redacted for national security)." Yeah, they're technically part of the same government, but they are different departments.

Gameday just updated. Injured leg. Did it look bad?

I've only got Gameday to go on right now. Why is Craig in? Did Ortiz get hurt, or is it just a "take him out with the lead and let him rest" situation?

Yeah, in 44 AB. I'm not getting excited about that. I fully admit I was wrong about JBJ though, I thought he'd never mature into a major leaguer, apparently all he needed was the lower pressure of a season probably going nowhere.

Jackie Bradley Jr. might hit 500 XBH before Ortiz hits 500HR, holy s*** is this guy on fire.

Apparently so! 497!

It is a text filter setting, if you make a post with every letter capitalized, it changes it to lowercase. It's meant to save us all the annoyance of those who type with the Caps Lock key set permanently at "on".

The Phillies are just the worst. Meanwhile, Bartolo Colon just threw a CG SHO for the Mets, what the f***. That division is just weird.

I wasn't including Red Sox players, the Sox always have one or two boring-white-guy names on the roster. Johnny Damon springs to mind.

Adam Morgan, winner of the coveted "Whitest, Most Boring Pitcher Name" Award for 2015.

I know, every time I find myself making a late period joke, I usually abort.

Once in high school, I was at lunch when a friend of mine sat down at our table. We asked why she was late to lunch and she said "fifth period went late today". I of course, being me, said "whoa, fifth period of the day? How have you not bled to death already?" I don't remember much after that.

Also potato chip grease. I really need to find a job. I'm down to the last 10% of my savings, it might be time to rob a casino.

Oh, I wasn't asking you to change, I was just curious if there was a reason. Like maybe you were a quadriplegic, typing by blowing into a tube and there was a glitch that caused periods to be entered whenever you inhaled at the end of a sentence, or something.

Overthinking it, dude.

SoxHop, you're a good poster and I like you. However, I have to ask: What is with all of the extended ellipses? Every one of your posts has more periods than an entire season of The View. It's very odd.

And given the way guys who are way past their prime seem to play with New York, he'll carry them through the playoffs this year and win the 2016 Cy Young.

I'm listening on the radio while doing logic puzzles online.

6 posts and "slug" has been in five of them. Also, you pulled a GabeKaplerLuvr, which is never good. I'm going to do something I don't usually do and ban you ahead of time since there is almost no chance that your time here will end well.

They have statistical support too, I just didn't post links to dozens of different things. Like I said, there is a huge and important difference between a majority of older people being anti-gay/woman/social equality/whatever and a majority of anti-whatever people being older. One is a statistic and the other is an incorrect generalization. I should also add in case you got the wrong idea, I don't believe anyone on this site is like that. You and VA have made that pretty clear in the past whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, and I have a hard time imagining VA being against women's rights.

I'm not saying that everyone over 50 is against those things. I'm saying that a great deal of the people who are against those things are over 50. There is a big difference between those two. The percentage of people overall who are biased that way is thankfully a minority, but many of them are older. I think even you would agree that some of these people simply grew up in a different time, and as we all know, it's tough to radically change your beliefs when you're 70 or 80 years old. My grandfather won't even change his mind about cell phones, let alone social progress.

If you can make a legitimate argument against the end of segregation, LGBT equality, and women's rights, then by all means go ahead. I was simply using them as examples of the evolution of communication and thought, because I foolishly assumed that no sane person on this board would argue against considering them "progress".

Well, I'm going to take the information from dozens and dozens of scientific studies conducted by linguists, sociologists, psychiatric experts, and anthropologists specializing in communication, and weigh them against people who have "a story" about how they remember people communicating much better when they were younger, and form my opinion accordingly. Every generation remembers their early years through rose-colored glasses. "When I was younger, people were nicer and talked more with their voices! Also, racism, sexism, and segregation were far more prevalent, homosexuality was treated like an evil disease, environmental protection was basically nonexistent, and teenagers still had stupid slang and talked about dumb s***, but still, we were better!". "No, the 80's were better!" "No, the 90s!"...and on and on and on. Each successive generation is more intelligent, more confident, more imaginative, lives longer, and becomes less discriminatory. The "gays=bad" and "women as second-class citizens"-type social views among the over-50 crowd are going down slowly (mostly as the really old ones die off), but among my generation they're about as common as the KKK is in the general population. That kind of tearing down of social injustice doesn't happen due to an inability to communicate well. It happens because the rapid speed of discourse available to us allows us to discuss these issues without having to leave the comfort of our homes. (Or toilets, for you disgusting people who use your laptops and phones in the bathroom. Seriously, you are a terrible human being).

But in most cases, they are saying the same things that they would have been saying out loud anyways. Teenagers and early-twenty-somethings are not, on the whole, engaging in deep, meaningful conversations about social issues or quantum physics. Altering the means of communication doesn't alter the value of it. I see plenty of people every day having conversations, all phones and the internet do is allow that communication to continue once they have left each other's sight. People decried every new method of communication or method of distributing information. The spike in cheaply available novels in the 19th century was paraded as a sign of dwindling intellectualism and a blow to the respectability of women. Newspapers, the telephone, the radio...this happens every time something new comes along, and every time it passes without the fabric of human relationships crumbling around us and plunging the world into anarchic chaos. We will be fine. Society is, at it's core, a single, giant, complex organism. It will evolve and so will we, and we will retain our humanity. People are still capable of love, humility, good deeds, and justice.