Thank you for stepping in. Much needed post. Just thinking, perhaps the best way to help the site would be to break down posts into more categories. Not sure if that’s possible, of course, but it might help. Breaking it down into fantasy questions, head to heads, etc might help to filter out people who are just hellbent on trashing every comp post. Or you could just make everyone who violates your rules look at this picture I found while gooling Tommy Hanson: http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebsm/tommyhansen/tommy_hansen_1.jpg

Doubt he wins it but has to be in consideration. Yes, his team is struggling but thats really out of his control.
3rd lowest AL closers era after nathan, rivera
tied for 3rd among mlb reliever K’s broxton, wuertz, tied w/ soriano

Skipped AAA and pitched his way onto the mlb team due to injuries to pitchers such as Joey Devine.
was a 24 yr old sp in AA this time last yr, but got blasted and switched to relief. He was older than most other A’s reliever prospects at the time w/ Carignan/Webb/Lansford/Hrod in AA, Demel/Italiano in high A. So if he didnt switch to relief he might have been off the prospect radar due to age and struggles. Maybe even repeating the AA level as a 25 yr old in 09.

It’s a blog. Skip posts you don’t like.

I personally enjoy almost any spirited debate, even if I think (like with Dewey Finn) that the opinions stated are wrong.

I thought the post itself was funny (of course, I wrote it, but still), and is this such a serious venue that an occasional post can’t be humorous, or have inside jokes?

I’m not going to grovel and ask for forgiveness, if it was my mock Dewey & King Billy post that is the reference point of this post; no one was actually upset about it but one person, who apparently is on some sort of one-man crusade maybe. Dewey & King Billy thought it was funny, and I was mostly poking fun at what I perceived to be their quote-unquote formula: King Billy posting a fairly normative ranking, Dewey putting together an idiosyncratic list and then just posting seemingly arbitrary justifications when pressed (Josh Thole is going to bat 340 in the majors, etc). I was just satirizing them, which doesn’t seem so scandalous to me.

I can see John’s point on why he started this site, but he shouldn’t be surprised that the fanposts takes on a life of his own; that’s where all the action is. Just look at the amount of discussion that takes place in the right hand menu, where posts regularly get 40 to 100 comments, as opposed to the posts on the main page, which get like 5 to 20 normally. I’m just saying, other than when John is posting grades or top 20s for various teams, 90% of the traffic is generated by people checking out and contributing to the fan posts.

It’s John’s blog. Live by his standards. If you don’t like it, don’t post. It’s hard to understand people not accepting and respecting this simple idea.

I missed all the fun. Some flame wars are like a car wreck. Sometimes you have to rubberneck. Although I was really pissed at the yobboes rubbernecking on 13 in Md yesterday at some wreck. Move along folks.

if you ban someone can they not just create a new profile and join again? If so… then what is the point of banning…