When i first started going onto the message boards on MLB.com i had a lot of fun. There seemed to be so many genuinely intelligent people on them that knew about things that i enjoy, the main subject being baseball. More specifically St. Louis Cardinals baseball. It gave me an opportunity to discuss the thing i love the most with people. I don’t have many friends that enjoy baseball like i do in real terms. So it was fun…for a while.

But then i began to notice that more and more people were merely on them to hurl insults to other people who did the unthinkable act of NOT liking the same team as they do. A crime punishable by nothing less than derogatory remarks about them, their family and even their family pets. Even though nothing more than knowing that that particular individual didn’t share the same unbridled love of the aggressors team. SACRILEGE!

How could ANYONE not love their team every bit as much as they do?

So of course there were names to designate the opposing teams worthlessness such as Scrubs/Cubs & Tardinals/Cardinals among many others for every team competing. These people that tour the message board threads are called “trolls” and EVERY team has their share. They are brave and bold with their epitaths spewed at others on the threads. No one is safe. Women are berated as eagerly as men and women eagerly join in in the beration of others. Children try and act older and tough to make them seem important. Men ACTUALLY wanting to arrange a meeting place to fight over a discussion no sane person would even have. Curse words are the steady foddr thrown at one another even though they are banned from being posted in type. It is very easy to say **** on a thread when all you have to do is space out the letters like this: s h i t.

There is very little control kept on them by MLB.com because they are simply uncontrollable…at least in the way that it is tried to be patrolled. Unless people start getting banned by IP address, it never will be. It’s easy to have multiple profiles because it costs no money to have them. I have spent many nights patrolling and reporting certain threads that have vulgarity, instigation and just plain meaness on them. It is very draining to do so.

Now i’m not saying everyone on the threads are like that. There are many that love nothing more than having calm, civilized conversation in them whether it be about baeball or some other subject. But it seems to me that the patients have overtaken the nurses and doctors and are now in control of the insane asylum.

This is why i have decided to quit posting on them. I will still read at times some of my favorite posters who are soldiering on in them. But for me, i can’t do it. 

So goodbye MLB.com message board threads. You’ve allowed the to be nothing more than  feeding pool for the deviant & anti-social.