The "Im so sick of Josey taking over every thread"  thread!

It’s only fair that everyone has a say on issues like this. Final say is up to AJM, but I know everyone is fed up with it.

Since when was he banned?

what a crybaby.

Just scroll on by.

the problem is all the people who jump in and try and legitimitely argue with him. I am guilty of it in the past, but now I just throw in a sarcastic comment every once in awhile and move on. I suggest everyone else do the same.

can’t help but feed the trolls. I normally can’t get through a long page of comments without getting a headache.

If he goes, I will stay and be more happy…

If SBN would just allow you to close entire sub-threads at a time

Or get the troll script. Everyone who engages him is just as dumb as he is. You know what you’re going to get, so why even bother? AJM is never going to ban him.

And the Josey stuff has gotten out of hand. I mainly come to get info and have always enjoyed reading the comments. I haven’t been a hard core baseball fan for as long as many people here, and have learned a lot from the different perspectives of the commenters on LSB.

Lately, though, comments from Josey and those responding to him have started becoming too much for me. I would like to come read through the comments to try to better understand the impact of the latest Rangers news, but I often end up giving up because it becomes about Josey and his pet issues.

Josey, this is not a personal attack of any kind. I don’t mind you having your opinions, but this is just my perspective as a somewhat outside and objective perspective. Take it for what it’s worth.

….is quite simply how big of a fucking asshole Josey is, to everyone, all the time.

He loses arguments then always turns to name calling and other such buffoonery. Stupid arguments and an inability to understand logic and reason are annoying, but him being a dick to everyone is the reason I hate the dumb sonofabitch.

is it just that you don’t like greasemonkey/firefox or are using some other incompatible browser.

The other thing I guess I could do is tweak it so that you don’t see anything that Josey writes or the replies to Josey. That might be fun.

As it is, I use it with chrome and it seems to work fine. I haven’t seen one of his comments in a while and I don’t care

The best way to deal with a troll, is to not feed the troll. Yet so many of you do it anyways.

turning the guy into an iconoclast. Hank died for your sins. Repent.

is the establishment’s way of punishing us for our GDT jackassery.

I updated the script. Now it no longer shows the troll post or any replies after it.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/22456

Josey = Newberg trying to put us on

and the “use the Z button!” reply is BS.

I don’t want to HAVE to breeze through all of this shit. Josey gets involved in every sub-thread, and it fucking sucks.

I don’t care if I’m a crybaby for it. Why should any of us have to alter our LSB experience by avoiding his shtick and the people that fall for it. He should have to avoid us.. as in.. forcefully avoid us.

I’m tired of the “Josey, why haven’t you answered my question?” and “Show me a link Josey.” Don’t you fucking get it? He’s not going to! Seriously, do you not understand his bit?!

The troll script was great until I realized that I had to wade through the responses to him. I guess I’ll have to try the new version. I still think he should be booted though.

so, essentially, Phillies end up trading Cliff Lee, Kyle Drabek, Michael Taylor, Travis D’Arnaud, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Knapp, Lou Marson and Jason Donald for Roy Halladay, Phillippe Aumont, Tyson Giles, Juan Ramirez and 6MM.

is that right? Talk about gutting your farm… ouch

to the village idiot it’s best to just do it in the same manner he does. You know, completely ignore the post and just reply with some random bullshit. Either ignore the guy or mock him.

The problem with threads getting hijacked by him are when people actually try and have a serious discussion with the clown and try to get him to admit he was wrong on something. You can’t have a discussion about the Great Game with this guy. It’s amazing how many people try though. LSBers need to stop thinking they can prove him wrong or say “gotcha” with this guy. It will never happen with him. All you are doing is playing into his hand.

And please realize that he isn’t going anywhere. He isn’t going to be banned, and as long as people try and reply to him seriously, he will continue to do what he does.

The only thing that makes him seem worse is that he disagrees with almost everyone on here. The other assholes agree with almost everyone on here, and save their assholeness for OT things.

Just because Josey is the biggest, and dirtiest asshole doesn’t mean he should be banned because really he hasn’t done anything worth banning. Arguing with people over the same thing isn’t worth a ban because everyone here does it everyday. He has his opinions that he’s obviously never going to change, so why argue with him over it?

help everyone vent and get their anger out. God I heart this site!

Does the guy really deserve 2 posts specifically about him?…If you want him to go away, just don’t respond to him.

Get up!

Because you just know The Outlaw is sitting back laughing is ass off with a bowl of popcorn right about now.

Given Adam’s well documented apathy toward this issue, this entire post not only lacks a purpose, but the name-calling contest it degenerates into defeats any purpose that it was intended to serve. It’s just an unwilling part of the Josey sideshow that serves to reinforce exactly how far under this communities skin he can crawl.

You guys wanna know how you get rid of Josey Wales? Self-accountability. LSB needs to accept that he’s not ever going to leave, and he’s probably not ever going to be banned. He’s here to stay. It’s up to us to decide whether we have to deal with him or not.

All you high horsemen saying the same thing over and over.

a top 10 list of the morons who respond to him the most. I suspect Adam and RC Cook would be on the list.

thanks AB03!

One of the things I have noticed is that a lot of you bait Josey into the threads. So many times I reading a thread and someone just randomly attacks Josey, then the others chime in. I saw a comment (I think it was on Evan’s comments but not by him) that described LSB as an echo chamber. I agree with that. Those of us with a different view about the Rangers are immediately attacked, and it’s usually pretty hostile. Because I often agree with Josey I get my share, along with a few others. Seems impossible to have opposing opinions with out the attacks, often personal.

For the record: I think JD has proven himself not up to the job of GM. He was a poor choice to begin with and has had more time than most GM’s would get to put a contender on the major league field. I think Wash is a terrific person but a bottom tier manager. You simply have to have strong leadership and this franchise has been crippled by Hicks, JD and Wash. I am want nothing more than for the Rangers to win and I am hopeful the new owner will make management changes.

then I refreshed the page and they were back to ignore. You have any idea how that happened? Is Josey hacking into the script? HaHa

You are certainly right about the love of baseball in here and the issues being thrashed around over and over. Sometimes when I criticize JD I am asked to explain and I think back to long, long posts I have made detailing my concerns. It’s just too much trouble to spend the hours doing it again and again – so I agree their is a kind of collective knowledge and it tends to sort itself out.

I also agree that the whole JD issue is very nuanced. I have said that the three things I think are key to a successful GM are 1. make quality trades that impact the major league team, 2. make good free agent signings, and 3. build a quality farm system. Obviously JD has done a sensational job on #3 and had mixed results on the first two.

I’m just at the point I really really want to see my Rangers in the playoffs and I don’t think JD and Wash get us there. Hope I’m wrong, but I see the Angels as ahead of us and now the Mariners in all likihood. I’ve met JD and he’s a nice young man, but this club must be about results on the field after a decade of losing.

No good can come from this thread.

….it seems there are quite a few threads where Josey isn’t even involved (up to that point), where other members of this board begin using “Josey’s comments and catch phrases” as replies in the thread. Things such as:

“Oh, I guess we’re gonna have to hear Josey talk about how Johnny Donuts screwed this deal up, but Nolan will have to come in and save the day.”

“Wonder how Josey is gonna spin this report on This Thing”

Etc., Etc…..you get my drift

Seriously, go back and look look at some of the comments in the threads, BEFORE Josey even gets involved. People are inviting him to come in and talk about “stuff”. This post is almost funny to me, because it ignores the group “love-bombing” that some posters engage in, just to “high-five each other” because of another boring or clever post regarding some type of swipe at Josey.

I don’t agree with everything Josey says, nor do I disagree with everything he says. I think he was wrong on Hank, even though I understand what he was saying. Easy for me to move past it. I don’t feel the need to let Josey know how much I agree with him or disagree with him….It’s just not that important.

Banning him??? Stupid “group-think” mentality. I am not nearly as annoyed by the sometimes redundant and/or stupid things people post, but I certainly get tired of the next 5-15 comments talking about how stupid the post was. I like the debate of thoughts and ideas….no matter the subject, as long as it sticks to the topic of debate. I agree….address the issue/argument….not the person who made it. It soon becomes very clear whether the topic you are discussing is worth the effort…regardless of the person/poster.

Sometimes people just like to be on the “good-side” of others, so they engage and assist in the piling on of another, just to be in the “majority” or the “cool group”.

Honestly, I would ban the shit out someone for personal attacks like, “You are a fucking idiot.” before I would even consider banning someone for posting ideas/thoughts I do not agree with.

I do not think Josey Wales should be banned, unless he destroys the board MORE than those who keep wanting to refer to him or his past comments in every friggin thread, or unless he uses an inappropriate manner in which to express his complete disdain for another member of this board. However, with that being the basis of banishment on here, there would be a lot more folks escorted out the door before Josey…and deservedly so.