i don’t see anything in your post that said something wrong i skip over to s&bp all the time but I am never impressed with their community so i get my fader news from Horse Tracks!

I believe that any organization or group develops its’ own unique culture. All of these different sites have essentially the same platform from which to operate and I think they each have thier own “Guru ” who is a quality guy. The MHR has evolved a culture based on knowledge of the game, respect for the sport, respect for one another, diversity and inclusiveness. This is our culture. People who make banal, rude, or offensive remarks do not feel comfortable here and eventually go away. Conversely, people who embrace the same values we do enjoy the site a great deal. This very topic is the subject of a forthcoming post by me.

Great post Jack. Thanks!

...with some of the other sites. I’ll check them out. A different perspective is always refreshing, keeps you out of any ruts that may develope.

I suspected as much about the San Diego site. Football is not number one down there. They are into other things and that’s alright, I guess. It must be hard on the team though.

And as far as baseball goes. It is the oldest organized professional sport in the world. The National League’s actual beginings are hard to pin down but go back to the post Civil War era. There are people whose great, great grandfathers lived and died for their teams. That’s the kind of tradition that can only come with the passage of a great deal of time. It has its strengths, but also has its weaknesses.

the other day, and it left me all the more impressed with what we have here. Most of them are one-man gangs, with one guy doing all the front-page posting and a few scattered fanposts on the side panel. A few are two-man gangs. Only on MHR can you not really tell who the site founder is, because the Guru’s contributions, valuable as they are, get lost in the profusion of interesting, informative front-page posts, and the posts that don’t make the front page are very good, too. Both in quality and in volume, MHR stands alone. On some sites posts are so infrequent that the bottom post listed on the Fanposts side panel is several months old. Right now our oldest post is 10 days, 11 days if you count the oldest recommended post. This isn’t only because we’re great fans, although we are. It says a lot about Guru’s administrative and people skills in attracting and encouraging the kind of quality and commitment we have here.

When i read your roster-ananlysis last summer – found it by incident… by luck…

than in years of stumbling around on my own. Thank you. You DO provide a quality site and…

...your spelling is much improved! lol.

my bad on my previous comment. I still say the Chargers and their fans suck! I can think of only one other solid Broncos blog and that’s Broncotalk.net He’s a cool guy.