This Is A Tragedy

[GrayGhost]

Awful move by the Red Sox. OF course, they always "fire the manager" when things fall apart.

I did just hear from a clip of Curt Schilling, who said there were "camaraderie issues" according to Francona. Course, that's only part of it.

[sycks22]

It had nothing to do with Crawford hitting .240 or Lackey's almost 7.00 era. It was all coaching. What a joke. 2 titles in 8 years and now you're yesterday's trash cuz your team fell a part.

[barrysloate]

Shouldn't topics like these be posted in the watercooler section? We have a forum for sports talk that is hardly ever used.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Shouldn't topics like these be posted in the watercooler section? We have a forum for sports talk that is hardly ever used.

This is exactly what that section was made for.

[oldjudge]

Barry-you are such an old lady

[barrysloate]

If more posters put threads like this in the watercooler section, it would increase the traffic over there. I like the lounge and sports section, wish there was more going on. Maybe some posters don't even know we have it.

[barrysloate]

Jay- I anticipated that would be your response. Hey, you can't always be popular.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

If more posters put threads like this in the watercooler section, it would increase the traffic over there. I like the lounge and sports section, wish there was more going on. Maybe some posters don't even know we have it.

Hi Barry - hope you are doing well. Since I don't post much, I hesitate to give my opinion, but maybe that fact might give some insight. The guys who use these forums are basically interested in vintage cards, so when a topic like this comes up, it's by vintage card guys, wanting to discuss with other vintage card guys, thus an automatic appropriate audience.

Having said that, other forums avoid this sort of thing by having a button for seeing 'all active topics' in ALL sub-forums. Maybe something like that would help you with your forum thread organization concerns.

[barrysloate]

Hi Scott- I'm fine thank you. I actually spoke with Leon yesterday about this and truth is he disagreed with me a bit. My point was he and the other moderators went to the trouble to expand the board, and add more areas for various discussions. So why not use them? This is hardly worth a major discussion, just a passing thought. If I wanted to post about Terry Francona that's where I would have put it. No big deal. Carry on.

[Leon]

My thoughts, when sub-categorizing the whole forum, was to try to keep like topics together. That way if someone is not interested in something they don't have to wade through it. That being said there are so many features in this forum that I am not sure many more are needed. If everyone will try to think about starting threads in the correct places, before they start them, it will help. If it gets out of hand, I, or another moderator can move them. I realize it's a pipe dream thinking people will think before they start threads. This just isn't a big deal on the BIG-DEAL scale. Happy collecting!!

Barry- great minds think alike...and you are always popular with me!!