Ummm, I don’t even know what to say to that.

Sure, there are reasons unbeknownst to fans why they don’t like or even loathe a player. Heck, how I feel about Braun really is due to a myriad of things and not really one concrete reason. However, I think a blog meant to center on intelligent conversation (that was the tagline at one point right?) should focus not just on personal preferences for a team/player/coach/whatever, but on analysis on why that feeling may or may not be well-founded and possible solutions to problems therein.

Also, a blog centered on intelligent conversation shouldn’t be based simply on conflict. Conflict is not intelligent conversation on a normal basis. It is instead fighting and blowing up over the littlest of details (I’m fine with being a hypocrite right here, just listen okay?). As someone currently doing research on one of the biggest conflicts in world history, I think it’s safe to say that conflict really hasn’t solved anything; instead, conversation, diplomacy, and being open to new ideas is really what helps anyone in the world. Anyone who thinks that bringing about conflict makes things more fun (like I assume this blog is supposed to be for most of us) should probably be more involved in something like UFC or politics than baseball.

Even when I try to set aside my personal relations to Jay, that was a pretty rude retort on your part to what he said. He only made two comments to what you said and other people did argue a similar point. I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but I’m sure that his problem isn’t that you “bitched” about a fourth strikeout from Cam towards the end of the game when he could’ve been pulled (which I’m sure we all have done – whether it’s Cam or not – at one point or another), but that this is consistently the manner in which many of us see you interacting on the site. I will be the first to admit that anyone continuing to stress the same point over and over is one of the most annoying things.

Mayhaps we should all think about what we say at least a little bit before we say it. We could possibly get a little more of the fun atmosphere from last year back that you seem to miss so much if we weren’t all fighting over crap, trying to decipher what others are saying, or having to deal with constant trolling.