This Is A Tragedy

[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.

[GrayGhost]

Well. ON TOPIC. WEEI is now saying that everyone left w "No comment" and Francona may NOT be officially done. Now, some OFFICIAL Word may come in next couple days.

[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!!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

This just isn't a big deal on the BIG-DEAL scale.

I have been making the mistake of going to the link that only gives me the two vintage forums (cards and memorabilia); thus, I have been missing everything in the other sub-forums. That's why I mentioned a 'active topics' button that looks for active topics in all sub-forums. I would use it to see new stuff posted in unrelated forums, without having to check out each one. Just a thought.

Now, regarding that BIG-DEAL scale. Could I see a picture? Because everyone knows a word is worth only one-thousandth of a picture, so you've only given us 10/1,000 of the information.

Scott <=== kind of a big deal in his own mind