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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Please allow me to waste a little bandwidth here. Will someone tell me exactly what we are supposed to post on this site?
You guys have something to say about every thread. Third World Plays, bleeding heart articles, "what ifs", any mechanics question which was discussed previously (even though many people are new to the site and there is no search funtion), and any other subject deemed taboo by the lords of the web site.
I think people are just trying to post things that they feel are interesting, and hoping to instill that interest in others. One needs not particpate in any thread that does not interest them.
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Post whatever you'd like. It's a free site.
But forgive some of us dinosaurs our occasional grumbles of disappointment. You see, a long time ago when the earth was flat and McGripes and Sleazeteamz turned into little league sites, someone actually asked some of us to come to this site, post and help establish the forum. One of the selling points was that it would not be a Sleazeteamz or little league type forum. "Besides," it was thought, "the 60' guys already have three sites, umpire.dork, McGripes, and Sleazeteamz to go to. Maybe just this one site can be for non 60' umpires."
We responded and for some time this site was free of "are the hands part of the bat" and "poof rule" debates. Then gradually, over the past two years or so, the overflow from other sites settled in and more and more space is being taken by little league type posts and even non-little league threads get involved with little league philosphies.
"But you don't have to read those threads", you say. Well, yes, we do have to read some of them to find out what they are. And then there's the others that start out as normal threads and get turned to little league thread. We don't know that's going to happen until we read them.
Is it a big deal to waste five or ten minutes a day reading crap? Not really. But some of us remain, never the less, disappointed that the one internet forum that was free of little league banter is no longer so blessed.
True, it's a bit silly to pine over such things, but if were unemotional types, we wouldn't be baseball fans, would we?
So, post away. Anything you'd like will be just fine. We'll try to keep our wimpering to a minimum, like I do when I see another condo development replace a pine and fir forest on the hillside.
(NB: I use "little league", without caps, as a generic term.)
[Edited by GarthB on Nov 30th, 2005 at 08:13 PM]