I lit up last night. It was a rather pleasant experience…

Oh, I thought we were due for another pot thread.

I have no idea what this post is about!

Just looked through four pages of 2,000-something Timmy Cain comments and all I see is “I blame Timmy Cain.” What did he actually do? By any chance did he say that we’d win this game thereby jinxing us?

Or does this have to do with Fred Lewis?

Or is it the guy who said (paraphrased) “You nerds have never engaged in physical activity requiring teamwork?” Because if so, I have no apologies.

But things are getting a little negative. When a perfectly articulate user comes on and posts something about their personal experience with the Giants, and people jump on him or her because they’re tired of reading that genre, it’s a little discouraging. I guess people are gun-shy because of the spate of “OMG GET MANNY” and “trade this for that and that for this” posts that overwhelm sometimes, but I think it’s a little over the top at this point.

Lecture over, back to the earthquake pics and (god love ’em) animated gifs. I guess gifs are the new LOLcats?

So we shouldn’t post pictures of earthquakes not happening because that will cause earthquakes?

The funny thing is that everyone thinks of the things that get “jinxed” at some point or another. I guarantee many of us were thinking “Alright Giants, let’s sweep the Brewers today” before the game started today. The only people that end up being “guilty” are the ones that actually articulate those thoughts in typing in the gameday threads.

I don’t have a problem with people yelling “Jinx!” in a non-threatening way, but I do agree with you that when a user gets attacked after the game and people start blaming him/her for the loss, it’s a little unnecessary.

I had a feeling you were going to post something like this today while in the GDT.

/Ok, I’ll read it now

Totally agree. I don’t want to say people are wrong for believing in jinxes, but to force hatred upon others because they don’t believe in the same thing as you is one of the very things that a lot of the people in this thread are adamantly against.

would I have ever expected somebody to tell the MCC to lighten up.

I never take the GDT threads seriously anyways. I’ve received tons of hate over Juan Uribe, but it’s never bothered me. Timmy Cain should feel the same way.

I think people posting flammable pictures shouldn’t get upset when they start a fire.

It’s one thing to do it inadvertantly once and another to repeat it. U do it once and ppp tell j to stop u need fm expect that the next time h do it u are going to get shit on

he made the choice to ignore the warning. It’s the ultimate " I do what I Want u can’t tell me what to do"

if that’s the attitude going kn, the the resulting doglike also falls into the “I do what I want on the Internet u can’t tell me what to do” and all is fair in that game

Is to post homophobic remarks in the gameday threads.

That will fix things!

This is the sort of thing that happens when an established community gets an influx of new people. The new people do something or other that violates the unwritten rules of the community for awhile people put up with it… and then one day you have an incident and all the pent up vitriol comes spilling out upon the head of a person who is probably wondering wtf they did, because other people have done it before… etc etc…
but the community had just reached a breaking point and since Botchy wasn’t close enough to vent the angst upon someone else got it.

I betcha someone could get a government grant to study the interactive group dynamics of an online static internet forum.

Does anyone here ACTUALLY believe that jinxes exist? I certainly don’t. But some (like, say, not talking about a no hitter in progress) I follow as a matter of tradition as opposed to actual belief. Others, I might mention in a joking way, and I’m pretty sure others are joking too – for example, when Sandoval hit his walk-off home run some time back, I was taking out the trash and I missed it, so a bunch of people told me I should take the trash out more often.

It’s always been my assumption that nobody here, or at least very few people here, legitimately believe in jinxes and when they yell and scream about them it’s largely in a joking/sarcastic manner. It seems sort of silly to me to get upset when someone says, “OMG I HATE YOU YOU DIE NOW!” when it’s (a) not serious and (b) an established part of the way conversations go in such situations – and not just on MCC.

Of course, jokes and sarcasm can go to far, cross lines, and lead to offense and hurt feelings, and if we’ve crossed that point this is a worthwhile conversation to have. Although “lighten the hell up” is a kind of silly way to put it in that case.

If people really do believe in jinxes and really do hate people for posting a gif of a broom and really do blame those people for losses, that’s pretty ridiculous and dumb.

Life is too short for this shit, Vic. You’re one one my favorite people here, but if you gotta go, you gotta go. I wouldn’t expect you to stay just for the LOLs when the GRRs – which are equal parts in my book, and both part of a complete breakfast – and their butterflies get you down. Yeah, it sucks that, as humans, we sometimes tap into our more base and primal emotions and let those lie roughshod over sense and sensibility. It’s a struggle each man and woman must contend with. We become cultured and educated only to have our most animalistic impulses catered to in Big Biz’s offering: professional sports, lurid gossip shows, highlights of crass and brainless twits for fun and profit, wonton displays of greedy and arrogance for our consumption. It all tries to drag us down. And a lot of the time, it works. We’re all human beings, we’re all going to die, and it doesn’t mean shit, what they’re selling, what we’re buying, why we fight, why we are made to sink low when we could fly high. I get it, Vic. We, as a species are better than this. And it’s regrettable that we fall prey to it. But since we are all one asteroid hit, one fault line slip, one loose nuke, one drinken swerve, one blocked vien, one shot to the brain — we’re all sooooo lose to biting it, is it the best to highlight that we’re all just animals wallowing in shit? “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage”

Anyways. Sorry if you were disappointed. I like you lots. I like everyone here – even SFGuy is growing on me! Hope you don’t leave, but this shit happens. And will continue. Until we’re all dead. So. What.

Nothing matters, and what if it did?

Bla bla bla.

vr, Crash

I missed this whole deal. I assume people werent being serious, jinxes obviously dont exist.

Never a dull moment in McC land!

I have to say I was hesitant to comment on McC because of the amount of negativity that pervades many discussions and the disrespectful manner in which many choose to disagree. I finally decided to post here because despite the derogatory comments, there are a lot of intelligent, well informed opinions espoused relating to the Giants. Also, I genuinely laugh out loud at many of the pictures, opinions and tangents that present themselves on a daily basis! So, it’s fun to participate. That is a direct tribute to the fact that anybody can post here. However, the best attribute of internet chat rooms, blogs, etc. is also it’s biggest drawback. Sites such as this one provide people an opportunity to express their opinions and engage with strangers who share a common interest. I, for one, have very few friends who share my passion for baseball, especially the Giants. So, what better place to express my opinions than on a site that is meant for that exact purpose? However, the biggest downfall to communities such as this one is the excessive amount of anonymity. I wouldn’t know a single one of you if we passed each other on the street. Oftentimes, what this means, is that people feel they can say whatever they want without consequence. So, while we all cherish the notion that we can go somewhere to express our opinions and have others respond, we also have to balance that out by acknowledging that many people do not govern their comments. IMO, when posters respond in a disrespectful manner, they have crossed the line.

We all share a love of the Giants or else we wouldn’t visit this site every hour of the day. Additionally, this has been one of the most exciting, emotional, gut-wrenching seasons in recent memory so tensions are running a little higher than I would imagine they have over the last few years of suck that has been Giants baseball. People should realize that as much as we would like, we have zero control over how the team performs. The only contribution I make is that I go to a few games each year and buy beer and sheboygans (mmm…a sheboygan, I could go for one of those right now!). So, when it comes down to it, if someone wants to post a gif of a broom and you don’t like it, tell them so respectfully or, better yet, IGNORE them.

In the immortal words of that rite bastard Jeff Kent: “Enjoy the game more.”

I don’t really believe in jinxes, and people get carried away with that ish.

So +1, I guess.

All these one run games in September make everybody tense.

Well, I could stand to lose a few pounds, but you didn’t have to be so blunt about it. :(

So basically a bunch of people overreacted on the internet. Not all of them were serious. Some of them were. Boy, I’m glad I caught up on all that.

Once you’ve been in a world of warcraft guild master, you would then know what Drama is!!!

I don’t know what happened here but it seems like it’s ok?

BTW, vic, don’t leave :-(

others have pretty mcuh already said what i was thinking, but i guess i could do a quicky summary
the GDTs are TENSE, especially if you have BENGIE FREAKIN MOLINA AS A CLEANUP HITTER. most of the time, stuff will get said that people probably didn’t mean. if you can’t handle it, that’s fine
re: sweep pic
it wasn’t necessarily the pic itself, it was the fact that timmy cain has mande some dumb comments/posted unnecessary pics in the past (from my memory), and most of us were pretty sure someone was going to post the sweep pic
in the end, people come on here because of the giants, and bork, and barry lincecainchez, and KUNG FU PANDA. stuff will get out of hand, but that’s the nature of the internet
this has to be my longest post since i came here :)

I generally don’t enjoy the game threads; I’ve tried participating, but they become the internet equivalent of too many people talking at once…discussions are rare if not impossible, and they often have a lot of questionable language and reactions, which I credit towards increased emotion from the situations involved.

But I don’t complain. I just don’t go in unless I’m ready to deal with it. And if I’m not, I stop.

I haven’t read the GT in question, but I can imagine from other ones, but I think it’s a lot of overreaction on both sides. Talking about jinxes are fun, and yes, the instigator of a jinx deserves good-natured ribbing…and I don’t doubt the line of ‘good-natured’ was crossed repeatedly and without prejudice. That being said, a ‘change or else I don’t want to be here anymore’ is a pretty extreme reaction. Said with my usual bluntness….this is the internet; wear a cup.

Just my opinion.

I hope you don’t leave over whatever happened today (I wasn’t around).

You know what?

They Giants have a historically inept offense, which drives us all to swear too much and get into pointless arguments with one another about the relative merits of Eugenio Velez vs. Fred Lewis.

And yet the Giants went 3-3 on a very tough road trip (let’s not forget they were 4-14 in their last 18 games in Cheeseland before this weekend).

They’re two games out of the wild card, with three games against the Rockies at the Big Phone remaining.

My friend went to Vegas back in March; the over/under on Giants wins this season was 79. He bet the over. He’s going back to Vegas this weekend to (hopefully) collect his winnings.

Maybe it’s that I just watched the “Glee” pilot online, so I’m in a good mood. Optimism Week begins now, y’all. Post as many broom pics as you want. Don’t stop believin’.

I learned a long time (two months) ago not to say anything serious or heartfelt here. Oops. Why are Grape Nuts called Grape Nuts?

She-Wolf is a great song

Is this because nobody came and visited you at the Rockies games? If I would have known I would have stopped by…
Seriously though, he’s been around a little while – I think he was aware of the tradition of jinx phobia and posted in spite or even because of it. If you purposely post a picture that is in defiance of what passes for a social norm around here, and the thing you are supposed to not jinx happens, you should expect to be shat upon. I think he knew the score and that’s why he seemed to take it so well.
At any rate, I’ve enjoyed your presence here and will miss you’re caustic remarks, iconoclasm and epic pictorial essays.

Yeah, sometimes people get dogpiled, sometimes for good reason and sometimes not. I’m all for being nice whenever/wherever possible, but at the same time, is it fair that this place has to be 100% suitable for everyone? Part of the great thing about the ’net is that there can be specialized groups/spots such as this one.

As much as I love this place, and as good/funny of a writer I think Grant is, especially when covering the Giants, as much as I enjoy the conversation here, how good I think the mods are doing, etc., it’s still just a group of people — people who I don’t think want to be looked up to/viewed as intimidating.

I’m probably the last person that should be talking like this since I’m not a very regular poster (and I think a lot of my posts are actually kind of dumb or just not funny), but I think I’ve been reading for long enough, and if anyone is seriously concerned about not fitting in on a message board, being intimated by the person who started it or the mods, then maybe it’s time to take a step back.

Let’s try not to take this stuff so seriously… I think in the end, if you’re seriously following the Giants and following the discussion here, you’re just another wacko and should fit in in fine.

As has been mentioned, MCC has been growing at an exponential rate lately. I was just looking at a gameday thread from this time of year in 2007 – there were 216 comments for the whole game. Also xanthan had an image for his sig. LOL xanthan.

Anyway, the gameday threads seem to be nearing a bursting point where they’re just going to become impossible to follow if we keep growing like this. So, uh: what do we do? Is there some way to better manage gameday threads so that they don’t make all of our heads explode?

I suppose it’ll probably self-correct, maybe – things will get unmanageable, so people will get frustrated and give up, and then there won’t be such a crazy amount of comments anymore. But that would suck because probably a lot of people I like and who contribute a lot would be among those who give up and leave.

I think discussion on anything is positive. Generally, only good things come from talking about things. However, what I would hate to see come out of the gameday thread discussions are guidelines of what it and what is not permissable (or even preferable) in gameday threads.

lighten the uck up motha uckas!