But when Craig takes that front office job with MLB, it will be time to turn on him en masse.

Until then, required morning reading.

Watching a Braves fan lash out as his arch-enemy (Phils) as Craig does is sort of endearing in a way. Right now it reminds me of one of those little dogs that thinks he’s the biggest dog on the block just because he can bark. I don’t mean disrepectfully, only looking at it that way because the rest of the NL East looks like also-rans at the moment. But then we all know that’s why the play the games.

As far as the Phillies being the scourge of the sport, I view them only as the NL flavor of the “scourge of the sport”. Now maybe if we had to hear about 27 trophies or something to that effect I’d feel differently.

Yeah, I noticed that he must hate on Phillies fans at least bi-monthly… I personally love it. As a Philly fan, I know nothing else anyway.. We are the scourge of the sports world and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Is there anything sinister about this social process? No. Can it be abused? Sure; parents abuse it; college professors, scientists, columnists, talk-show hosts, bloggers…you name it. So with credibility and a following comes responsibility. Credibility can also vanish as quickly as it arrived: ask John Edwards. You know all this, Craig. I think you’re letting that “minions” remark get to to you.

But he hasn’t won me over on PEDs and the HOF—though he did try awfully hard with those 75,000 posts over the last few weeks. I can see his side, but I have not been swayed just based on his opinion.

He does get me riled with his passive aggressive—and sometimes just outright aggressive—anti-Phightins stance though.

How’s that Mr. Dark Overlord sir?

I have one thing to add. Craig, you’re a seemingly smart man, because you are.. You also know baseball inside and out obviously. So I think most of time people will tend to agree with you on that topic. So don’t let this guy make you wonder if people actually agree with you because you have some crazy media like control on their thoughts and opinions, when it’s actually because you make sense. Craig, you have swayed me on one matter, and it relates to the HOF. At one time I thought it was a good thing to bar some players for steroid use. And if they’ll keep out Rose and Joe Jackson, then the PED users should be excluded as well. I thought it was an admirable thing to do, to keep the HOF clean of the cheaters. But when it’s all said and done. The HOF is more than likely a heap of cheaters, that happened to be the best ball players ever. And barring some of the best players ever for any reason seems to be self defeating in the terms of the HOF is a history of just that, the best. Cheaters, beaters, drinkers, gamblers, and druggies are already there. Why start being morality police now? I’m not easily swayed. And I never trusted the media. I am no minion. As evidenced by my calling out of you on silly matters where your pinkish side shows. Kiss cams, and the use of scrappiness, and grittiness “issues” primarily. But when it comes to baseball, people agree because you make sense. You’re pretty fly for a white guy Craig.

In fact, Limbaugh is a perfect example of what Arrington is talking about. Here, the medium is not the message, but it may well be the massage (look it up before you comment with a correction) that he’s referring to. Thankfully, Limbaugh’s primary motivation is to create a very profitable echo chamber, but others have had far more sinister intentions. Arrington is not overblowing this when you consider how much more reach the Internet has versus a radio broadcast (how quickly we’ve forgotten Father Coughlin).

* That and $2 gets me a cup of coffee

This winter has also seen a larger than proportional number of posts about Orioles, past and present, and for that I’m thankful. Given the extremely low comment counts on the O’s posts in general (read: crickets chirping), I’m now convinced that Craig is in fact pandering (did it again) directly to me. And I still don’t mind.