Oh, Blue Tsunami, Baby!

[Squirrel]

Let it wash all over us! Cleanse the scourge that has infiltrated!

[Craig Arko]

Still gotta make it to January.

[TheLeviathan]

[Permanent Twins Fan]

Can we please get political stuff off of Twins Daily. It's not needed and has nothing to do with the Twins or sports in general. 

[nicksaviking]

28 minutes ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

Can we please get political stuff off of Twins Daily. It's not needed and has nothing to do with the Twins or sports in general. 

This is the Sports Bar, the expectations are a bit more relaxed here because it is NOT essential baseball talk. Personal attacks and spreading hate and intolerance aren't allowed, but if people want to celebrate what is hopefully the beginning of the end of some of one of the darkest times in our country's history, that's fine. Obviously as you object to the thread, I understand you likely don't agree with that. That's OK, I guess. But again, we don't consider the Sports Bar required reading material.

[Craig Arko]

12 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

This is the Sports Bar, the expectations are a bit more relaxed here because it is NOT essential baseball talk. Personal attacks and spreading hate and intolerance aren't allowed, but if people want to celebrate what is hopefully the beginning of the end of some of one of the darkest times in our country's history, that's fine. Obviously as you object to the thread, I understand you likely don't agree with that. That's OK, I guess. But again, we don't consider the Sports Bar required reading material.

Honestly, I don’t think anything here is on the syllabus. 

[TheLeviathan]

2 hours ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

Can we please get political stuff off of Twins Daily. It's not needed and has nothing to do with the Twins or sports in general. 

Here in the bar we shoot the breeze on all of life's goings-on.  From the death of the great Jean-Luc Picard to monumental a$$ kickings to the Republican party.   

[Craig Arko]

2 hours ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

Can we please get political stuff off of Twins Daily. It's not needed and has nothing to do with the Twins or sports in general. 

Make you a deal. You get religion out of sports and I’ll consider it.

[Permanent Twins Fan]

1 minute ago, Craig Arko said:

Make you a deal. You get religion out of sports and I’ll consider it.

Huh? 

[Craig Arko]

8 minutes ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

Huh? 

Points for brevity. 

[Permanent Twins Fan]

5 hours ago, Craig Arko said:

Points for brevity. 

No, I'm actually curious what you mean by that. What aspects of sports do you see religion playing into?

[TheLeviathan]

Can I add getting mindless patriotism out of sports too?  Like...I love America.  It's a pretty swell place, but do we need to be hit over the head with it while I'm watching baseball?

National Anthem?  Sure, the Olympics makes sense.  National pride.  Got it.  A random November game between the Wild and Sharks?  Why?

I'll happily cheer for a vet during the sixth inning but do I need to sit through John Denver this many times in my life?

[Parfigliano]

36 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

Can I add getting mindless patriotism out of sports too?  Like...I love America.  It's a pretty swell place, but do we need to be hit over the head with it while I'm watching baseball?

National Anthem?  Sure, the Olympics makes sense.  National pride.  Got it.  A random November game between the Wild and Sharks?  Why?

I'll happily cheer for a vet during the sixth inning but do I need to sit through John Denver this many times in my life?

John Denver once is too much.

[TheLeviathan]

9 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

John Denver once is too much.

Well said.

I do love spending lots of my tax dollars on "Big jets go "woosh"...'Murica" before games too.  

[Craig Arko]

11 hours ago, Permanent Twins Fan said:

No, I'm actually curious what you mean by that. What aspects of sports do you see religion playing into?

This is not a short answer question. I will offer you a list of those better qualified to answer than I am. If this feels like a cop out, after 69 years on this planet I’ve lost my taste for educating. Mea culpa.

Religion in sports

[Vanimal46]

If it was a red wave the person who started that thread would be issued a warning point and post deleted, right? No political posts is the correct answer here always. 

[Squirrel]

7 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

If it was a red wave the person who started that thread would be issued a warning point and post deleted, right? No political posts is the correct answer here always. 

If you don’t like something, move on. Part of the posting was an experiment to see if we could manage it again.

Since we don’t have a private area any longer for political discussion and people have mostly been avoiding the name calling and disrespect, present company excepted, thought we’d give it a try. But as soon as anyone starts in with the name calling, it will get hidden. I always have hope people can be adults.

[Vanimal46]

10 hours ago, Squirrel said:

If you don’t like something, move on. Part of the posting was an experiment to see if we could manage it again.

Since we don’t have a private area any longer for political discussion and people have mostly been avoiding the name calling and disrespect, present company excepted, thought we’d give it a try. But as soon as anyone starts in with the name calling, it will get hidden. I always have hope people can be adults.

It's not about whether I "like something". It's fairness in moderation. There's plenty of places to post political opinions all over the internet. 

[Craig Arko]

11 hours ago, Squirrel said:

 I always have hope people can be adults.

There are days that I wished I shared your optimism. What the kids don’t understand is that Minnesota won the championship that actually matters.

[Squirrel]

2 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

It's not about whether I "like something". It's fairness in moderation. There's plenty of places to post political opinions all over the internet. 

This is the sports bar, where a wide range of topics exist. There are plenty of places across the internet to post about gardening, too, yet you post about it here. At one time, several years back, we removed all political discussion from this forum because it got too rancorous and difficult to moderate. We had a ‘private club’ where we moved political talk to, but it went unused.

Fairness in moderation  … we DO remove all political posts in the Twins forums, from both sides; at least I do, when I see them. Usually they get reported. And some of those have been pointed, others not; it varies depending on the level of disrespect. People always perceive a bias when it’s their post(s) removed, yet they don’t realize what else we’ve removed and who else we’ve pointed. But some things will never be handled, by your perception, evenly, and that’s spelled out in the comments policy. Racism, misogyny, targeted language, to name a few. But you know all of this.

As I said, I wanted to see if we could handle it again. If not, it will go away. But, if you don’t like it, just don’t click in.

[nicksaviking]

3 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

It's not about whether I "like something". It's fairness in moderation. There's plenty of places to post political opinions all over the internet. 

We're not restricting GOP focused posts in this forum, what we do restrict is providing platforms for intolerance, dismissing assault and violence and spreading dis-information. 

And without trying to be too flippant or snarky, that's pretty difficult to do for GOP focused posts.