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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5423121, member: 966"] You cannot have intelligent, informed, high-level discussion without truth, objectivity, and varying perspectives. Your version of “spewing negativity” is very simply only Your perspective. This is a sports discussion forum—if we aren’t supposed to talk about what we see, why is the point? Just today, someone on the SonsOfSamHorn site—long known for its extraordinarily high standard of discourse—posted this [Re: Red Sox]: “Well, there is a lot of pessimism. So, too, is there a lot of Pollyannaish bs. And if you express any skepticism or concern about this or that, that you're not 100% convinced of a future outcome, you're met with screeching accusations of pessimism.” Well, the Sox have experienced a string of ~last place finishes, just like we’ve seen a protracted downward trend. The dialog matches the context, in my opinion. Not sure what you want. A squelching of honesty, and a promotion of ‘spin?’ Because, what, recruits and transfers will be fooled into signing up because we’re all so super supportive, and because we ignore poor performance? One rhetorical question you ask says it all to me. “Even if it’s true… so what?” Well, truth maybe means more to me than to you. Truth is not an incidental matter. It is [I][B]The[/B][/I] matter. But, we aren’t all going to agree on what truth is. Which is the purpose of a discussion forum. Information, discussion, entertainment, convergence, divergence…. No forum worth a damn is just a pep rally for like minds. When people say they are for “free speech,” except—- one has to question the definition and the motive. Free speech, but only when it tilts one way and agrees with Me? [/QUOTE]

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