Happy Festivus! Airing of Grievances 2024 Edition

[JollyElm]

Two grievances...

WAR and Peace

1. Never in my life has anyone tried to convince me of something or tried to prove they were right by trotting out the theoretical stat of WAR.
I have played baseball and softball my entire life with people who love the game. The number of conversations we've had based on the theoretical stat of WAR?
ZERO!!!!!
Yet, every single thread here immediately (and endlessly) turns into "My theoretical stat of WAR beats your theoretical stat of WAR!!!" by people who seemingly have never dug into the batter's box even once in their lives.
I'll take the 'dirt' guys' opinions about players (especially the ones whose careers we witnessed first hand) over the computer screen 'data' guys any day of the week, because the knowledge of the f*cking game is in their very souls, and not just something read off of their phones.

Stop suckling on the teet of the almighty WAR mother, and come up with something else once in awhile!!!!!!!


2. Lately, it seems that there are more and more new-ish members who constantly flood the board (Collectorism: "Board Swarmers") daily with arguments and BS aplenty.
It's constant!!!!
Seeing their avatar, your only thought is, "Okay, who is this a-hole quoting and snarkily going after now???!!!"

(As you're reading this, I'm sure member names and avatars immediately raced to the forefront of your brain, amirite??)

It'd be nice if those folks would just STFU and help return the site to a more peaceful (with normal bitching/complaining/arguing levels) environment.


And using HAR (holidays above replacement), it's probably best (due undoubtedly to the vast majority of members celebrating this particular holiday) that I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!!
But, to not f*cking rely solely on HAR, I will also say Happy (my preferred spelling) Chanukah!!


And to all, a good end of grievances...