Trent Steele wrote:I feel terrible now.

Stop bringing real life into the internets

Exactly. Let him be our 2007 sheehan. No one's waiting at his studio apartment every day ready to smash in the windows of his used ford fiesta with a pipe. He wrote some annoying shit and put himself on our radar and now bsg needs this for the stretch run

Phylan wrote:edit: oh and ONE MORE THING if the Phillies do make the playoffs come to Independence Mall, Baumann and I are sworn to play Rhianna's "Umbrella" on mandolin and banjo and you can post it in this thread and humiliate us or whatever

I do appreciate that levity, but I'm pretty sure none of us will give a shit about any of this once the Phils are in. It's just really annoying to have our buzz killed in the meantime.

FTN wrote:

BDawk wrote:Floppy, you still haven't told us all how to feel about this and I'm getting anxious.

i'm still on the fence. it would be easy for me to tell everyone to attack. and i know you'd listen. but it may time to lay down our arms. we can't let an internal war overshadow the accomplishments of the team we (most) love.

as you wish, m'lord

Phylan wrote:Maybe it's not your fault then, but it's a predictable result of posting like every other sentence he writes in here and taking it all 1000% seriously. The obsessive quality of it all is off-putting.

He is a perfect example of an attitude towards baseball analysis that I abhor. He happens to write about the team I follow. He is not just some local guy running a blog. He writes for ESPN.com and is interviewed on the radio to provide expert analysis. Obsessively documenting bad/annoying writing on the internet about the Phillies is one of the main things we do on this board. There are probably dozens of threads like this. You just happen to know someone personally who is providing the content.

The response from criticism of his over the top negativity in his awful spring training article was that we didn't understand that he was a gifted storyteller and fans who didn't like the negativity were being elitists by telling everyone else that they should not be negative (when he was the one telling everyone that they should not be optimistic). That made me really irritated. The over the top poor me I love Dom Brown ESPN.com post made it worse. I started paying more attention to what he wrote and saw lots of examples of bad writing, elitism, obsessive over-the-top negativity, etc. Rather than attacking someone personally or calling them names, etc., when I criticize/mock those who write about the Phillies I prefer to use their own words against them. That requires a lot of examples and he keeps providing them.

Phylan wrote:a predictable result of posting like every other sentence he writes

THIS IS A LIE. WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH BANDWIDTH

Woody wrote:

Phylan wrote:a predictable result of posting like every other sentence he writes

THIS IS A LIE. WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH BANDWIDTH

OK that was pretty funny.


Whatever phdave. There's another Crashbag tomorrow so you can get back to the copy+paste grind. Thanks for the ~pageviewz~

Phylan wrote:

Woody wrote:

Phylan wrote:a predictable result of posting like every other sentence he writes

THIS IS A LIE. WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH BANDWIDTH

OK that was pretty funny.


Whatever phdave. There's another Crashbag tomorrow so you can get back to the copy+paste grind. Thanks for the ~pageviewz~

I'm glad you are finally thanking me for the attention.

I really loathe reading the Crashbags. I hope you people appreciate what I go through.

curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

FTN wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:
I'm sure etched chaos or somebody will come in and refute this and say he wishes he were dead or something but those kinds of things are as much a joke to everybody else here as they should be to you

im sure etched chaos wouldnt be joking though. im glad he lives on the opposite side of the atlantic ocean.

I'm a right bitter angry fuck, I was made for Philadelphia sports.

Phylan wrote:Thanks for the ~pageviewz~

In all seriousness, you should be thanking him. I hadn't visited your site in a long before reading this thread.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled mockery.

jeff2sf wrote:curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

Remember when you thought Joe Table was LA Exile

Woody wrote:

jeff2sf wrote:curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

Remember when you thought Joe Table was LA Exile

I mean, I've never seen them together

Woody wrote:

jeff2sf wrote:curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

Remember when you thought Joe Table was LA Exile

wait really? why?

I just think this Baumann is very funny. Like Dave says, all you have to do is post his own words. It's parody all on its own.

I agree with Dave in that this guy represents much of what I find funny about baseball experts. There is a lot of other stuff like Scouty talk and announcer guys and it's fun to goof around with it.

right now, it just seems this Baumann cat is just trolling and it's not as much fun. but for a while there reading his stuff was way funny. I don't go to the site. I'm not THAT interested. So I appreciate the stuff Dave quotes on here.

td11 wrote:

Woody wrote:

jeff2sf wrote:curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

Remember when you thought Joe Table was LA Exile

wait really? why?

laexile never said a single funny thing. table's posts to hilarious posts ratio is probably the highest of anyone on the site.

i have no sympathy for a guy who makes it seem like being a phillies fan during their best decade in history is a chore. good for him if he's an ok dude irl.

i too have thoughts on the matter

i, however, do not

both big reno mahe fans

FTN wrote:

td11 wrote:

Woody wrote:

jeff2sf wrote:curious, when, before this thread, did we learn that phylan's crash burn.

Remember when you thought Joe Table was LA Exile

wait really? why?

laexile never said a single funny thing. table's posts to hilarious posts ratio is probably the highest of anyone on the site.

I agree. So why did Jeff think he was laex?