Thomas Paine
I just wanted to write a word of encouragement to all the "bloggers" that have recently attacked by some of the paid "journalists". One such attack was a comparison of todays bloggers to the pamphleteers of colonial America. As a teacher and fan of American history I have to point out that this is not such a bad thing to be. I don't know much about colonial pamphleteers, but I do know that one of those referenced colonial bloggers wrote a pamphlet call "Common Sense". His name was Thomas Payne. Kind of an important pamphlet. I wonder how long he stood on the street corner trying to get anyone to read it. To learn more about Thomas Payne you could go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine. Since, wiki can be a bit unreliable you may want to visit Philadelphia. This is where Thomas Payne was living when he wrote "Common Sense". I assume that if you lived and worked in Philadelphia, you already knew this.
Great work Adam. Keep the chin up, we could use a revolution of sports media. You just may be the pamphleteer to do it.
I realize you closed comments on a related topic, but I had to mention this. I don't know if this has already been said. I am sure the people who got to read the comments of the other thread will let me know if it has.
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The reason he closed the comments...
And, speaking of brettgardner, maybe we can convince Adam to implement this...
http://investigatethemedia.blogspot.com/2007/11/san-francisco-chronicle-deceives-its.html
by benmor78 on Nov 24, 2007 5:25 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Brett
:(
by miles on Nov 24, 2007 5:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
He declined mine as well
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 5:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
The thing I like
I realize you wouldn't have the balls to apologize, but it's OK because I'm not some crybaby who cowers in the corner. The irony is that you give so many lectures about communication technique and yet you commit one of the biggest logical fallacies out there: discredit the speaker. The substance of any of my comments remains as apropos as ever, and your feeble comebacks remain as laughable.
Like I said before--keep up the funny.
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 5:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Like a lot of children...
by benmor78 on Nov 24, 2007 5:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Just as much as you.
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 5:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
love the irony there.
by Longhorn on Nov 24, 2007 6:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
The only one who embarrassed you...
I may not approve of what Ben did, but it has shown everyone here you are a joke. Keep calling everyone "douche's" and then saying everyone else isn't funny.
Oh...and good luck with that ever so impressive "full time job."
by slc ranger on Nov 24, 2007 6:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
To be fair
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
'ole Brett
brettgardner=daxflame with a dictionary.
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Where have I ever claimed to know anything?
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
but you are in law school...
by slc ranger on Nov 24, 2007 6:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes...
by slc ranger on Nov 24, 2007 6:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Okay
This statement confuses me.
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 24, 2007 6:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Brett you are hilarious
My sig begs to differ.
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I know you're a bit dense
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 7:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i'll respond to the logical fallacy
I think it might actually make sense in that case to point out the fact that all of these credentials are false.
Anyway, I hate it when people screw up logic, or worse, use logic (or stats for that matter) completely incorrectly.
by ab03 on Nov 24, 2007 6:15 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Then you must be very angry
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i guess so
by ab03 on Nov 24, 2007 6:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
"pretend lawyer"...hilarious ab03
by slc ranger on Nov 24, 2007 6:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I missed the deleted thread
by tricer on Nov 24, 2007 6:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
he was claiming to be so...
by slc ranger on Nov 24, 2007 6:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I never claimed to be smarter
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I might as well
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 5:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It's ok
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 5:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
lmao
by Chase Irwin on Nov 24, 2007 6:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Apparently you care
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 6:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
WoW.....
by NYTXFAN on Nov 24, 2007 6:03 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
All of you
ALL OF YOU.
by ncrangerman on Nov 24, 2007 6:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
hardly
by ab03 on Nov 24, 2007 6:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
He's only a cancer
The majority of you have behaved like the junior high girls lunch clique. Someone came here, farted out loud, and you girls pounced with eye scratching, hair pulling, looking down your noses, and giggly banter with each other over how much better you were than the new girl (who farts).
It's you who are pathetic. Only you can't see it because you've got your heads so much up each others butts. To the point that an admin violates a trust and a basic premise of personal privacy and rather than have the decency to move on lest this gets further out of hand, you simply move to another lunch-table and get on with your inane attacks on someone who should simply be left alone.
All the signatures referencing brettgardner. Very mature. Grow up.
by ncrangerman on Nov 24, 2007 6:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
+10000000000000000000
by Longhorn on Nov 24, 2007 6:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
God
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
NYC
I completely agree... lets just drop all of this and move on. Its not that hard, its not like you see eachother by the office water jug every day. You share one thing in common(For sure) and that is that ur a rangers fan. Lets stick to that.
Thanks NYC
by PM Productions on Nov 24, 2007 7:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
No he is actually
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 7:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't see how...
I don't see how I'm the bad guy here.
by benmor78 on Nov 24, 2007 6:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
You aren't...
Nobody will ever take him seriously again after the large quantities of lies he told. Talk about being exposed.
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
When did I ever ask
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 7:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
You are right
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:05 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
You mentioned that
Anyhow, I never argued from authority, you dolt. I never said I knew more than anybody. God you're dense. Hopefully you'll be stripped of this position soon, not so much because of your actions, but because you're an awful writer, a worse humorist, and obviously a terrible person. I'd point you to ranger's post. Stop paying attention to me and go back to your never-ending interweb quest. Got any links???
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 7:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Bro
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
ben localized it
by nirvana on Nov 24, 2007 7:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Not on facebook...
by benmor78 on Nov 24, 2007 7:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
only 1
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
So
by nirvana on Nov 24, 2007 7:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It is one thing to lie
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i don't post that much
You looked up his e-mail address with your admin rights to find his myspace page and then posted his page on this blog...and you don't see anything wrong with that?
by nirvana on Nov 24, 2007 7:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
No it was found by
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 7:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
"a trust
It's my view that you allowed yourself to be baited into a lapse of judgment regarding your responsibilities as an admin of the site. I left around midnight so I don't know how the rest of it played out before Adam stepped in, but at that point the personal info was beginning to surface and I recall one of your posts containing links and a reference to your role as an admin. You've already acknowledged you shouldn't have had any part in that, and that's good enough for me (though you certainly don't need my seal of approval).
by ncrangerman on Nov 24, 2007 7:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
you know what
the point is, as much as you would like to ignore it, you can't. its the same reason you felt the need to post about it at all. its the same reason that if I say "all native americans should get cholera," someone will want to respond to me. its a natural response in a message board. and, especially on a message board you frequent so much, its a natural response to want to clean it up.
and, i would like to point out, initially, he wasn't even expressing opinions that we disagreed with. he was just putting people down, repeatedly. I think it took him like 3 weeks before he even talked about baseball. I'm not signing off on what Ben did but, overall, I don't see that we're the bad guys for not ignoring it.
by ab03 on Nov 24, 2007 7:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
"We"
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 7:05 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
also
by ab03 on Nov 24, 2007 7:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
who is this
....oh but brett, you're the REAL non-factor.
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
That's fine with me
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:15 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm 16
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Well I'm a few years younger than you (20)
Dstar's humor is stupid. I'm actually quite astonished that you went to the lengths of dignifying him with a reply.
by Chase Irwin on Nov 24, 2007 6:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i see how it is
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I would
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Honestly dude
As for your misfire with the "latte lapping liberal" stray, I'm actually libertarian. So do a little reading, then come back and shoot again, if that's the best you have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian
by Chase Irwin on Nov 24, 2007 8:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
umm
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 9:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
lonestarbaseball.com?????
by NYTXFAN on Nov 24, 2007 6:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Actually
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:47 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with you
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
What is
This is your true test...
by miles on Nov 24, 2007 6:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
You're right
Basically, I doubt he'll ever amount to much.
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
No he's wrong about that
by Agreen07 on Nov 24, 2007 6:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Do you
by miles on Nov 24, 2007 6:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Can you think
by brettgardner on Nov 24, 2007 6:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
fairy
by dstar442005 on Nov 24, 2007 6:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
SOME DAYS.......
ANDRUW 08
OH AND GO KANSAS!!!
by bhuckabee on Nov 24, 2007 7:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to close this thread, too...
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 24, 2007 7:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I think you need to put out another...
This off season is getting ugly on LSB.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 24, 2007 7:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I have bene busy with family
by t ball on Nov 24, 2007 7:34 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Isn't it Thomas Paine?
by WyoRanger on Nov 25, 2007 3:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Heh
by brettgardner on Nov 25, 2007 8:18 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes
by kwellborn on Nov 25, 2007 2:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Ugh
Well...
As author of this diary you can edit the title. Why haven't you done so?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2007 9:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Done.
by kwellborn on Nov 26, 2007 5:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Thank you
by Brian Thomas on Nov 26, 2007 9:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I actually
by kwellborn on Dec 1, 2007 1:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Thomas Paine
by Ajax on Nov 25, 2007 8:34 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
With threads
Now, don't you think it is funny that Bill Conlin compares bloggers (who he apparently hates) to colonial pamphleteers. When it was a colonial pamphleteer in Philadelphia (the city Conlin lives and works in) who some would say inspired the colonist to claim their independence by writing a pamphlet.
by kwellborn on Nov 25, 2007 2:47 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I almost hate to enter into this, but......
by tklawless on Nov 25, 2007 4:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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