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Another Rah! Rah! moment: Something's Bothering Me... Other than being drunk, I mean...
Don't ask... but this is my first drunken LRD. Remember, intoxicants are not cool and I do not condone them - I am not a good example to kids!
When new people come to this site and act like they don't know what they're doing, it MIGHT be because they don't know what they're doing.
PLEASE, make people that are new to the site feel WELCOME!
How were you treated when you first came to Armchair?
Maybe I had a cup of Flavor-aid or two tonight, but before I came to the chair I had tried a couple different websites only to find ridiculous criticism that almost made me want to quit writing online altogether. Fickleness over bullshit instead of grasping the message I was attempting to convey, the story I was telling or the joke I was spinning.
People, by nature are very critical. That's fine, but don't defend the 'Chair so much that you push away what-makes-this-site-so-great; it's the spectrum from journalist to fan. Everything and everyone is a forum. It's "All Sports, All You", dammit!
I have several amazing friends that would write on this site - FANTASTIC articles from amazing perspectives - but they are afraid of what I call the "grammarnazis". I know how they feel...
When I first came to Armchair, it was a community. I didn't know shit about wiki (I still don't know much) and people helped me. When I slacked, people encouraged me they didn't belittle me for my ignorance and it's not quite like it was then... (Old Man Stiles reminisces of the Wayback Days of 2006) it should be a place where the contributors want the community to be it's best! Isn't that what's best for all of us?
Once people are here for a while and established, you get to know them a while THEN you let them have their come uppance! It's twice as funny then anyway! After all, God made me a Rays fan for a reason...
Anyway: Focus Grasshopper!
The Founding Foursome busted their asses to build the structure for YOUR favorite website and recruit people here... don't push the next VERY entertaining writer/contributor/quiz answerer/poll taker/lurker/Mom of a player you just ripped that Googled her son's name/next SportsGuy/next Hunter S Thompson/next Ring Lardner/next Grantland Rice/Tyrone Briggs/first You!
Help them not find another, more accepting site to at which to write/trivialize/research/contribute.
Manny's challenge to the Beacons of Civic Pride
(Yes, I really am all about myself. Stop the presses wherever they print Sarcasm)
The mission: Near where you live there is the myth, legend or remains of a person whose Armchair biography is lacking. Take a local hero of your area (for whatever reason) and REPRESENT!!!
For instance; my Dad grew up with Gary Collins in coal mountain hills of Pennsylvania. Of course, Creighton Gubanich graduated from the same High School as my Mom. What a small facking world, eh? MLB Stats Bot probably loathes me for creating crappy pages.
If you can brag about them, have heard of them or are just that bored, you can at least fill in a bio for them! I'll even rate them some day (when I need another 86,000 points)
There HAS to be someone worthy of a decent ArmchairGM bio from your area.
Next Time with Drunk Manny: Myth or Fack? "A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2", "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beerholder" and "Good from Far, Far from Good".
