re: We always seem divided

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You’ve got a handful of guys whose primary passion seems to be baseball and they see themselves as more knowledgeable than people who strongly support other sports as well as baseball.

They think you can’t possibly be as knowledgeable about baseball as they are bc you also follow other sports. It’s a very cliquish little group.

That’s the reason for the divide in this particular case. They don’t receive opinions of “outsiders” bc they see themselves as experts while the rest of us are “sidewalk fans” even though some of us may have actually played college baseball.

If you don’t attend scrimmages or pay to hear Mainieri speak then your opinion is baseless bc you simply don’t understand the strategy of a long season and the nuances of in game management.

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I agree with all of this.

I have been a passionate, full time baseball fan, for over 20 years, but I am likewise with the other sports. I just love LSU, period. But because I don't make annual threads "breaking down" the roster, or copy and paste recruiting information about baseball, I'm just a bandwagon fan, unless I agree with the baseball "royalty" on this board. It is absolutely a clique type of issue.

We all have opinions, and we're not always going to be right. Some people are almost never right. But there are times when I have stated a straight up fact, and the vitriol erupted from the clique, because they felt that this inconvenient fact was merely the result of a troll, trying to bring down the positivity of the thread, rather than just being an honest statement.

But when I say something positive, I hear crickets. These people only react to what they see as negative, and then accuse you of only posting negative comments, and being an ignorant fake fan.