Why do we love Net 54? Why do we all keep coming back?

[the 'stache]

160,877 members, of which a whopping 64,758 are active-more than enough people to fill Yankee Stadium. 116,690 threads with 893,523 posts. All this hubbub over a bunch of long dead people on pieces of really old cardboard. If somebody were to stumble across our little corner of the virtual universe, and take a peek behind the wizard's curtain, they would not find the Great and Powerful Oz. They'd see discussions about T202s, W555s, cabinet cards, type collecting, and one old poster, "Archive", with entirely too much free time on their hands (I mean, 58,919 posts. Jesus, man, go outside and see the sun once in a while!). They'd see modern day poets. They'd read about a bunch of people engaged in an epic fight with some monster. They might wonder why somebody didn't buy that Joe Jackson fella some shoes (especially after his teammates got paid all that extra money at the end of the year). And they may opine that spending a few million bucks on a little picture of some guy named Honus was wasteful, especially when a shiny new one costs only a dollar or two. Yet despite all these seemingly mundane topics, Net 54 keeps drawing people in like so many moths to the flame. It keeps putting the butts in the seats, so to speak. And more trickle in every month. Why? What is it that keeps us all coming back? If you were asked by somebody that is unfamiliar with this forum why you are here every day, rain or shine, what would you tell them? What is it about Net 54 that we love?