Fallout from last night's Basebrawl

by snowyman28 on Jul 25, 2008 10:46 AM CDT Comment 17 comments

CNNSI reports that Chiefs "pitcher"--and I use the term loosely--Julio Castillo was arrested last night in Dayton on felonious assualt charges. The link is here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/07/25/pitcher.arrested.ap/index.html

Other related charges proferred against Castillo were impersonating a professional pitcher and decent human being--both misdemeanors in Ohio. I would agree that what that boy needs right now is a good lawyer and a welcoming family back wherever he came from

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Should go in the first thread...

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jul 25, 2008 10:51 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Such a crazy story... all caught on a cell phone

BUT there is a fanpost created on this topic already just a few post below this one, im not trying to be a stickler, but the post would flow a lot better if people placed things like this in an already existing fanpost… but yes thanks for the update

"This balls got a chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannce, GONE!" - Pat Hughes

by SouthsideCUBSfan on Jul 25, 2008 10:52 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ignore the complainers

This is an update and it would be silly to bury it 50 posts down in a different thread that has devolved into bashing a guy nobody knows anything about and defending Ryne Sandberg.

What I want to know is how the Chiefs are going to field a full team for Tuesday night’s game at Wrigley.

by Leon Durham on Jul 25, 2008 10:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Disagree.

The original fanpost on this topic is only five down from the top as I type this – and was posted only 11 hours ago. If we post new fanposts for every “update” to a story, the fanpost bar will become evne more chaotic than it already is. There’s no reason this information couldn’t have been added to the existing thread on this topic.

Nanika Ga Okoru!

by dat cubfan daver on Jul 25, 2008 11:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would guess staggered suspensions.

n/t

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire

by Jettero2112 on Jul 25, 2008 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I apologize

This was just meant as an update. I certainly didn’t mean to bury anything. If this were a really horrible violation of rules and ettiquette here-besides my horrible spelling-I would expect it to be deleted. Again, I’m sorry for any inconvenience my update may have caused.

Time is an illusion--lunch time doubly so.

by snowyman28 on Jul 25, 2008 11:28 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You could just delete it yourself...

...and add the updated info to EJThunder’s fanpost.

Nanika Ga Okoru!

by dat cubfan daver on Jul 25, 2008 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The problem here is...

... that this site is so busy, a lot of people want to contribute. This is a GOOD thing, but if everyone posts the first FanPost idea that comes into their head without looking to see if the topic has been recently covered, the list gets really cluttered and posts move down and off the front page quickly.

I’ll ask everyone here: is this something I need to do something about? If so, what?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Jul 25, 2008 7:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I take it...

That there is no feature that rockets a post back to the top if someone posts in it? I’ve seen a lot of boards like that.

If a fanpost got buried prematurely, someone posting in it could move it up, and the extraneous ones would die off.

Or, is it in your power to resurrect fanposts? Or put some kind of lock on them to keep them from moving down?

Pluto will always be a planet to me!

by DaBard on Jul 25, 2008 9:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well...

... I can republish them with an updated posting time; that would move them to the top of the list. However, that means I have to keep a closer eye on the list in order to do that, something I really don’t have time for.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Jul 26, 2008 3:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Very unlikey

You’ll ever see me hit the litte red button…Fanposts are tricky little devils, one false step and wham-o. I prefer to let you guys create the posts and I’ll add dumb comments that can go ignored…I’d rather spare myself the embarassment.

by StevenABQ on Jul 25, 2008 12:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The social dynamics of posting

and the human’s natural tendancies toward power are really on display around here. Wow.

Not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone/either side. Just, wow.

"We are not equations with hats." -Dean Young

by Kegler on Jul 25, 2008 12:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Observation

Perhaps not relevant to this case, but something I have notice. Here, the other post on the brawl is in the recommended section. IIRC, under the “old” format, a recommended post would appear in both the recommended section and the “recent fanposts” section. Now, it is only in the recommended section.

At least for me, I, ironically, usually skip over the recommended fanposts and go right to the recent fanposts. I think the reason is two-fold. First, I’m used to the old system still, so I subconsciously don’t think that I’m missing anything. Second, the recommended fanposts are usually all minor league wraps. No offense to Josh77 (those take a lot of work and are very well done), but I don’t usually read those (it’s hard enough to find time to keep up with the major league team), and they seem to get less than average traffic.

My suggestion would be to ask sb nation to have the recommended fanposts also show up in the recent fanposts section.

by TC Cubby on Jul 25, 2008 12:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

But...

... if the recommended posts show up in the recent posts section, that would make the recent posts section even MORE cluttered by having certain posts listed twice.

You CAN set the # of recent posts to a larger number if you want; that might help.

Another thing that would help is if people with just a single link to share would post it in the FanShot section.

If anyone here thinks I need to make a front-page post about this, I will. Need some more ideas first, though.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Jul 26, 2008 4:00 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Al

Is there anyway you can get an “ignore” feature for the posts like a recommend feature? You could set it up so that if it gets 5 ignore votes, the post automatically deletes. I don’t know, just thinking out loud here.

by McRipper on Jul 26, 2008 9:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Said this before and I'll say it here again - we need a myFanPosts view

each user needs a way to mark those fanposts that they want to keep visible on their front page. I think someone already mentioned a “delete post” function, which is kinda the same thing – you just mark the ones you don’t want to see again.

Either way, you end up with a view of only the fanposts that you want to see on a regular basis. and when you’re satisfied that everything’s been said that needs to be said, you just unmark it and it goes back into the main fanpost pile.

Incidently, this should be an additional feature – it should NOT replace the existing main view. You still need to have that to ensure you don’t miss a post or can easily go back and see them all should you all of a sudden have many hours to kill…

I sent this in to SBN a long time ago – can’t recall exactly what their response was, but i got the impression it was along the lines of a polite “thanks, we’ll take it into consideration…”.

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Jul 26, 2008 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs