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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Braves and The Man in Black … back to the good stuff
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DADGUM, as per your 8:15 a.m. post on previous blog _ DING DING DING!
After going to bed last night feeling as if I needed to shower following the crass exchanges I took part in, and feeling entirely displeased by the recent direction of the blog, and specifically the interesting and engaging bloggers’ frustrations over that direction, I agree: Time to step back and regroup.
So for now, I’m taking your suggestion. No more mud-slinging, and I STRONGLY URGE THE REST OF YOU TO DO SAME. I realize this isn’t going to get through to one or two unnamed individuals, but I implore all decent folks to PLEASE READ DADGUM’s POST FROM THIS MORNING and follow suit. I know I will.
With that in mind, please don’t read into any lack of responses from me toward those individuals. They know where I’ll be all week if they care to take this up personally, but for my part, I’m not going to sully this fine place anymore with the sophomoric back-and-forth. Done.
SO ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE, let’s get back to what we were doing for months and months, before those two arrived. And guys like DON, you’re more than welcome to come back and point out how bad the Betemit trade was.
In retrospect, I didn’t know how good we had it when the spitting matches were about baseball matters. Please come back, Don, and I mean that. Besides, you had a pretty valid point, but just wore us out with it. But come back, and feel free to wear us out with it again. It’s MUCH preferred to the petty, dumbed-down discussions we’ve had for the past few days with folks who don’t care about the Braves or The Man In Black. I mean, on the one had we have Braves, BBQ, Cash, Hank, Led Zep, Steve Earle, etc.
And on the other hand we have … well, you know the silly alternative of recent days.
It’s too easy to sit behind a keyboard and be someone you’re not, to be the bully when you can’t be in real life. But if there’s no response from those you’re targeting, only an addled mind could continue down the road of back-and-forth exchanges without the “forth” part of the equation.
So again, I urge all the good folks who’ve been driven away in recent days, come back and let’s get this thing back on track. Not a word of response to the little ones. And those who want to continue the mud-slinging and threats, my personal e-mail address is dobrien@ajc.com _ feel free to write.
Again, I’ll be at the ballpark all week. But as for the blog, no one here likes you. Trust me on that. You’re not welcome here. Stay if you want, but I’m sure there’s other blogs where your kind hang out. Find one.
I’m not going to waste this space and the good forum we had. I can’t blame decent folks for cringing and staying away after re-reading some of the utterly classless and witless comments that have made it through the filters and into this space in recent days. We don’t mind getting a little rude and crude, but within reason and on topic. Not squabbling like, seriously, 7th- or 8th graders. I mean, the level of insults here of late wasn’t even up to high school exchanges.
So ignore them. They’ll post here under their usual couple of names and under several other screen names, surely all day today (they either don’t work, or have jobs that aren’t very demanding). But it’ll be obvious it’s the work of sad, desperate people. No need to continue to encourage them anymore. Let them crawl back into their holes or sling mud at me and, perhaps, a couple of you. No worries.
Andruw first back-to-back 40-homer seasons by an Atlanta player…. Chipper out of the lineup yet again…. Smoltz 15 wins…. Braves with a sliver of a chance _ but not really _ to finish at .500…. A chance to gain some small measure of revenge against the Astros by keeping them out of the postseason. The Mets’ chances in the first round, given a September slumber that’s so similar to Braves’ seasons past….
There’s any number of topics to discuss. Have at it.
