You were chiding the gloom and doomers, no? That's certainly the way I took it, as evidenced by your ALL CAPS phrasing. Fun win last night. Carry on.
He was, and as I said clearly, he's not the only one who has been doing so. It needs to stop. As I also said very clearly, people are always more than welcome to attack individual posts (but not posters), negative or otherwise, and allow whomever posted them a chance to defend what they posted. That leaves room for debate and a back and forth, and it's what this place was built on.
When people complain about or criticize the team, they are not criticizing or personally attacking other posters. The players, manager, and front office are public figures who (most of whom) make obscene money and that kind of criticism comes with the territory. They'll be just fine. I mean obviously it's not an unmitigated disaster in Sox Land right now, but it ain't all unicorns and show ponies either. As much as I love the Sox, there is plenty to criticize, just as there is plenty to praise. I wish more people held this view and posted accordingly.
When people complain about the complainers in a passive aggressive way that doesn't address a particular post, it's just noise for the sake of noise, and doing it that way doesn't allow for any debate with the undefined people that they disagree with. It adds nothing of value. If someone thinks a particular post deserves scorn, and addresses it directly, that's a different story, make the poster defend it and be ready to defend your own take. Simple as that.
I really tried to be diplomatic in my original response, as the board is as bipolar right now as I've ever seen it in my 21 years here, which sucks, and there's more than one reason for that. I'm not going after any one group or individual, in fact I'm not going after anyone, it's nothing personal. We can all always be better. The bottom line is that too many otherwise decent discussions are getting derailed with worthless sniping from multiple directions, and it needs to stop.
Anyway, folks can feel about me what they will, and question my motives, I don't care, I have pretty thick skin. If anyone thinks this needs to be discussed further, I have an inbox.
Back to baseball....