Negative posts

by Vacafan on Sep 14, 2005 6:49 PM PDT

I'm having a great time watching the game and watching the posts ... both positive AND negative. But you know what's just as bad as listening to people bitch and moan about the A's? People who bitch and moan about the people who bitch and moan.
It's currently 3-3, by the way. But you "positive thinkers" need to relax a bit as well. Some people show their emotion by getting angry and saying things they don't really mean. You, on the other hand, choose to stay positive. That's great ... but don't get upset because everyone's not like you. Your positive "vibes" and all that other stuff doesn't effect the game one bit .. just like the negativity doesn't. This is a forum for everyone, like it or not. So stop crying about it. People express their passion in many different forms. Some get excited, some (like a certain 3B I know,) choose to stay calm. Whatever. But it makes it fun, so lighten up.
Remember one thing ... guys like Oaktoon and the rest LOVE THE A'S JUST AS MUCH AS YOU DO.
So whining about the whining is every bit as chicken-s#$%! Go A's!

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Amen

and Hallelujah

by 415goas on Sep 14, 2005 7:05 PM PDT reply actions

Completely agree

Just cause I think Chavvy is a puss doesn't mean I don't love the guy and root for him....I just think he doesn't sack up often.

The people that complain about the complainers remind me A LOT of right wing religious radicals....We're not preprogrammed robots, people, we have emotions!

Go A's

I'll try not to swear.

by Tony on Sep 14, 2005 7:13 PM PDT reply actions

You caught me

I'm actually Pat Robertson.

Fearing Mecir since 2000.

by salb918 on Sep 14, 2005 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Well Pat

I'm pleasantly surprised you're an A's fan.

I'll try not to swear.

by Tony on Sep 14, 2005 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Hear Hear

by OaktownTribesman on Sep 14, 2005 7:27 PM PDT reply actions

affect

not effect.

McGwire's 70th HR ball: $3,000,000. Yankees payroll: $208,306,817. Thousands of jubilant A's fans parading down Broadway after a WS victory...priceless! -AG

by sf drift king on Sep 14, 2005 7:56 PM PDT reply actions

Thanks, I always get that wrong.

VacaAsFan

by Vacafan on Sep 14, 2005 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Ironically...

This diary is complaining about the complaining about the complaining.

by Elephant on Sep 14, 2005 7:56 PM PDT reply actions

are you complaining

too?

by Brian in 317 on Sep 15, 2005 7:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Oh no!!

There's more moaning on AN than in a Jenna Jameson movie!!!

by Hit4TheCycle on Sep 14, 2005 7:57 PM PDT reply actions

Now we have moaning about the

complaining about the complaining about the complaining.

I'd like to be the first to congratulate the ANer that is first to do a little bitching about the ANers moaning about the ANers complaining about the ANers complaining about the ANers complaining about the negative postings.

...and of that I'm positive.

"Who in the hell are these guys? ...the only name I recognize is Zito!" ...A'smA's-zing!

by A s Eh on Sep 15, 2005 6:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Tough, vacafan

I get sick of the some of the constant negativity that occurs when we get in a slump, so I tune out AN.

I don't choose to be around constantly negative pissy people offline, why would I chose to be around such people online?

I sipped the Kool-Aid, and it tastes gooooooooood!!!

by kaweahkaweah on Sep 14, 2005 9:05 PM PDT reply actions

Hear hear

Negativity sucks.

by ArakSOT on Sep 14, 2005 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Thank you

for being an adult and tuning out the negativity, rather than joining the AN politburo to have the whiny people banned. You've got a choice here on the internet: read or don't read. It's up to you.

by EastBayTeam on Sep 14, 2005 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions

huh?

I can't follow this conversation. Who's getting banned? Why? Huh? What politburo?

I think people who compare a blog where everyone can post freely (except for peer pressure) to Soviet Russia should be banned and sent to a gulag. Or Guantanamo. Yeesh. There's no oppression on AN, there's just varying numbers of people telling each other to shut up because they irritate each other. Are we going to ban that? Ban banning?

Gawd I'm confused.

by Apricot on Sep 14, 2005 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions

My point is

the "negativity" posters have as much passion and love for their team as you do. You don't like the way they express it .... that's fine....you're certainly entitled to feel that way. But if they want to express their passion in more "negative" ways, then so be it.
A "glass half full" outlook doesn't win any ballgames, just as much as an honest "call a spade a spade" outlook doesn't lose any, either.
All I'm saying is let people express their frustration ...if you don't want to read it, then don't read it.

VacaAsFan

by Vacafan on Sep 15, 2005 4:38 AM PDT up reply actions

I want the A's to win the World Series every year

and denounce those things that block it from happening.

Am I positive?
...or negative?

or simply abhorred by the indifferent "Happy happy joy joys?"

Are the HHJJs negative by their indifference to the A's making changes that make winning easier?

If a HHJJ was wandering in a daze on the fast lanes of the freeway the other HHJJs would call the commuters negative, complainers, and whiners and claim their HHJJ brethen possesses mucho good vibes.
<Sorry. The only good vibes possible here is if that HHJJ has a looped version of the Beach Boys Good Vibrations plugged in on continuous play>

"Who in the hell are these guys? ...the only name I recognize is Zito!" ...A'smA's-zing!

by A s Eh on Sep 15, 2005 6:53 AM PDT reply actions