06-10-2009, 01:51 AM
<!--quoteo(post=43394:date=Jun 9 2009, 10:32 PM:name=biggz)-->QUOTE (biggz @ Jun 9 2009, 10:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I'm with you, Cigar. There is a lot of negativity going on. I've grown accustomed to the nature of the beast (internet), though. At least on this board most are a productive member, and at least no one gets flamed too bad (from what I've seen). I understand that this group has been together long before I was member, so I don't expect to know every nuance and tic of the community as a whole.
Hope you decide to stick around, Cigar.
Really, though, the draft is a complete crapshoot. Sometimes players drafted early bust, sometimes players that become studs drop.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Exactly how I feel.
We all think we could be the next Red Sox, but with winning comes arrogance and scrutiny over the little things. So as a new person here, I think that you guys have been through it all, and now that we've been a team that has consistently been winning in regular season, expectations are raised. From that comes the bitchiness over results that aren't perfect. And I think that it's the happy-go-lucky, cheery, and hopeful exuberance and is the Cubs fan stereotype, and our expectations are killing that joy in the game.
Yes we want to win, and we expect to win. But I don't think we should all let those expectations get carried away. As a new member, I can tell how much you guys love this place and despite your differences, arguments, and bitchiness, you guys are really good friends. I don't think this board should die a slow death because of shit like this. From the stuff I've heard, there's too many top posters that are leaving because its not the same. I don't know those times, because I wasn't here, but I just wish that everyone can get there again. I love reading everything on here, and it would really suck not to have a place to go because of everyone's negativity that people away. I know I'm new, but I'm just offering my opinion and how I see it here.
As for that Red Sox thing that I brought up. They wanted to become winners, they did. Then they became their worst enemy, Yankee fans. Let's not let expectations turn us Cub fans into deprived, douches that turn White Soxlike.
Hope you decide to stick around, Cigar.
Really, though, the draft is a complete crapshoot. Sometimes players drafted early bust, sometimes players that become studs drop.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Exactly how I feel.
We all think we could be the next Red Sox, but with winning comes arrogance and scrutiny over the little things. So as a new person here, I think that you guys have been through it all, and now that we've been a team that has consistently been winning in regular season, expectations are raised. From that comes the bitchiness over results that aren't perfect. And I think that it's the happy-go-lucky, cheery, and hopeful exuberance and is the Cubs fan stereotype, and our expectations are killing that joy in the game.
Yes we want to win, and we expect to win. But I don't think we should all let those expectations get carried away. As a new member, I can tell how much you guys love this place and despite your differences, arguments, and bitchiness, you guys are really good friends. I don't think this board should die a slow death because of shit like this. From the stuff I've heard, there's too many top posters that are leaving because its not the same. I don't know those times, because I wasn't here, but I just wish that everyone can get there again. I love reading everything on here, and it would really suck not to have a place to go because of everyone's negativity that people away. I know I'm new, but I'm just offering my opinion and how I see it here.
As for that Red Sox thing that I brought up. They wanted to become winners, they did. Then they became their worst enemy, Yankee fans. Let's not let expectations turn us Cub fans into deprived, douches that turn White Soxlike.
I hate my pretentious sounding username too.