emoney_33
Experienced Starter w/First Big Contract
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I'm called a homer too, and I guess by the nature of this board I am because I see positives.
The thing is that I cannot understand at the completion of the 2nd best decade a franchise has ever had, why anyone wouldnt be a homer? (I define that as giving benefit of the doubt that decisions are more likely to be good than bad)
When the organization had no clue I would have been considered a Chicken Little.
I just havent figured out why the quality of the job done so far by the decision makers isn't 'allowed' as a factor in confidence or doubt about the future.
Somehow it has become fashionable and honorable to trash the organization, BB, and decry the future.
I don't understand the logic.
I think the biggest problem is there is this faction of people who are determined to pass off everything as invalid because a poster is "being a homer" rather than sticking to points being made and using facts to counter-argue. It becomes "you are wrong and the fact that you think you are right means you are a homer". Valid points are stripped, and topics go down the drain. Even the biggest chicken littles and trolls have valid points once in a while
The best discussions on this board (and everywhere) occur when both sides, regardless of or reputation, are sticking to the points and bringing in facts with an open-mind. Any argument you enter in which you have determined it is impossible for you to be wrong, you have already lost. I can't tell you how many times my initial reaction to a post has been "no way that can't be true", but when I went to look at the facts it was shown that I was wrong. Rather than jumping in and arguing the point right away, I put in a little bit of fact checking first to see that the poster was indeed onto something even though my gut reaction was the opposite. I have on more than one occasion admitted fault and had my opinion changed based upon facts and arguments put before me. I am supposedly one of the biggest homers in the universe, and a thankful fan I am but I do not believe my fandom alters my ability to think logically. Sure on the close calls I'll sway in favor of the team, and I think they have earned that benefit of the doubt.
Now, throw me in the ring as an objective homer hybrid!