Another Len Kasper Q&A on Desipio

[Warpticon]

I find it rather hilarious that so frequently this group gets called a hivemind or accuesd of all having the same opinions when certain topics inspire such vehement argumentation, which pretty much necessitates that to not be true.

[nilodnayr]

I find it rather hilarious that so frequently this group gets called a hivemind or accuesd of all having the same opinions when certain topics inspire such vehement argumentation, which pretty much necessitates that to not be true.

 

I think that theres a solid contingent (with obvious exceptions) of frequent/veteran posters who all share a sabremetrically inclined direction that the cubs should be headed. This sometimes is construed as groupthink. However, when a group of people have a similar way of analyzing the game, it shouldnt be a surprise that they target the same players or agree with others of the like mind. However, thas been an influx of new posters whos opinions very often diverge from many of the more outspoken, established posters. For example, there are many who now think the sky is falling because we didn't get furcal, however there were just as many who viewed furcal (even at 10M per) to be extremely overpaid and a move that would hinder signficant improvement of the team.

[MPrior]

I find it rather hilarious that so frequently this group gets called a hivemind or accuesd of all having the same opinions when certain topics inspire such vehement argumentation, which pretty much necessitates that to not be true.

 

I think that theres a solid contingent (with obvious exceptions) of frequent/veteran posters who all share a sabremetrically inclined direction that the cubs should be headed. This sometimes is construed as groupthink. However, when a group of people have a similar way of analyzing the game, it shouldnt be a surprise that they target the same players or agree with others of the like mind. However, thas been an influx of new posters whos opinions very often diverge from many of the more outspoken, established posters. For example, there are many who now think the sky is falling because we didn't get furcal, however there were just as many who viewed furcal (even at 10M per) to be extremely overpaid and a move that would hinder signficant improvement of the team.

 

I'm with you on this one. A lot of people on this board (myself included) look at baseball at least partially from a sabermetric point of view, and so there is often agreement between a lot of us on certain issues. I have, though, disagreed with posts by those same sabermetrically minded people on multiple occasions. I think, though, that there are posters who consistently find themselves in the minority on some major issues, and they often find it easier to accuse the board of "groupthink" and cast themselves as revolutionary thinkers than to actually respond to the arguments or simply contentedly have a differing opinion.