I'm sorry you guys feel it's so bad, but I honestly think you're both exaggerating a bit, unintentional though it may be. And I've been trying to clean up the non-relevant discussions and keep things on topic, but I'm only one man.
I have to agree somewhat. These past two months the board has gone from having intelligent discussions to devolving into little better than the MLB.com boards. Every thread ends in a juvenile "blame the Lerners/Kasten/etc." Or even worse, the "If they don't resign Dunn, I'll never have anything to do with this team again." Heck, one of the more enjoyable diversions of the board, YNOT, went from barely being posted an hour before it closed to totally disappearing. People have become overly obsessed with GDT records, etc. I'd say it was an influx of people from Strasburg/Harper as the timeframe matches up, but the posters have stayed the same.
Bottom line, I think the teams consistent horrid play combined with starting the season so well and thus raising expectations has upset the level of discussion this forum was so excellent at providing. It's certainly not a knock on this forum either, as first and foremost it's out of any individuals hands and secondly can only be expected given how the team has performed. I do think the obsession with the Lerners has gotten ridiculously out of hand, given there are plenty of other teams with similar payrolls. If we were at $10m and the second lowest at $40m, it'd be valid. But again, there is no "fix" to this issue that doesn't severely mitigate the freedom of discussion on the boards, which would be worse than the problem it seeks to redress. The end point is simply that I don't think those complaining are overly exaggerating, but that the only way things improve is when the team itself improves.
