Skip to main content

Sluggo,
I’m a moderator...so allow me to moderate. I see you’re a new member and want to welcome you to the HSBBW. Thanks for asking the question. I hadn’t heard of the incident with Mrs. Biggio. Thanks to FrankF too for the “Rest of the story”. Going back to the first part of the thread I can see why you felt the way you do. To compound matters you’re a new member and probably feel a little intimidated about venturing out and asking a question. A few weeks back I challenged new members to ask questions and explained there were no dumb questions. I also challenged us old times to make those new members feel good that they had asked. Sorry...I still think it's a good plan. We members of the HSBBW (new and old) have to understand the public forum like the HSBBW is at the mercy of whoever chooses to “click on”. To defend some of the old timers like myself, we have read many posts that are carefully planned to touch a nerve with others...and we jump. I know in this particular instance that was not the intent. On the HSBBW message boards we ALL have to give the others the benefit of the doubt. If we get involved in one-upmanship, we all lose. This board is about young players, their families, their game of baseball and how to make their time from youth baseball to the major leagues as great as it can be, even if it ends prematurely.
We will always have “conflicts” because we all have different personalities and we all have the floor at the same time. To make this thing work like it has for many years, we all have to step back at times...take a deep breath, and say.........nothing at all.
Thanks,
Fungo
Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

I don't understand why TRhit always gets a pass on his behavior? I have see people who post here that get hammered for saying far less than TR says on a regular basis. I AM FROM TEXAS, AND TR HAS PICKED FIGHTS WITH MOST OF US THAT ARE FROM THIS GREAT STATE. When will TR be held to the same set of standards as the rest of us?

Come on MN-MOM make him pay for all the stuff that he starts.
txdad06,
Exactly! I appreciate your example. Thanks for reinforcing the point I'm trying to make. I go through all this explaining about all these different personalities and how we have to accept people as they are and right off the bat you want everyone to act like a Texan???? noidea
Last edited by Fungo
Fungo!!!!!

Act like a TEXAN?

Just accept me as I am. I don't like the way a particular person talks to me or others, so I decided to say something about it. Am I wrong? NO! I will not sit back and let TR take his pot shots! Take me for who I am, or don't talk to me!

itsinthegame... I will visit where I choose to visit thank you! I have no problem with people from any state, my problem is with people who use this forum to take pot shots at others.


You all have read TR's posts and while some of them are very informative, he doesn't have the right to say some of the things he does!!!!
txdad06

Not piling on and I get your point. I get Fungo's point too. I think he means that the board is made up of folks with all sorts of frames of reference and we (me included) should take the info for what it is and just strain it through a "tone filter"

TR has the right to say it. We may not like how he says it but a little less sensitivity to the tone is required. I throw my self in that pile as well.

Personaly, I thought Sluggo, like Mrs. Biggio, needlessly took a shot to the back of the head. Don't let it bother you.

By the same token if a posters profile lacks proper retnal scans, family lineage, residential or employment history for the last decade then so be it. I guess if that is commented on for the 475th time then so be that as well, as tedious as that is.

It's a message board. It is what it is. Take the information, give the information, laugh along, just don't take it personally. Merely suggestions.
Last edited by Dad04
Dad04...

I agree with ALL of your post! But you have to agree that the double standard does exist. If we let people say harsh things to others and let them slide because "that's just the way he/she is" then we are enabling that person. Everyone in here should be held to the same high standard, no matter what your name is or who you are.
txdad06
I do agree that some posts would offend MOST parts of the free world, maybe not all though.

Yes, I know for a fact new posters, lots of parents and PLENTY of kids have asked a question, gotten a harsh answer and never posted again. That's a shame.

I just don't know how to legistlate manners.

I suppose you can feel free to comment directly on a harshly toned, or wise assed comment. Just be prepared for the inevitable harshly worded retort, then just leave it at that.
Last edited by Dad04
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×