March 22, 200620 yr Good message. I honestly expected a response such as, "We sincerely apologize for unsubstantiated rumors..." I'm glad Soxtalk isn't backtracking on anything. This is an internet forum--such information, whether slanderous in nature or not, should be expected. Not our fault media outlets ran with it. Edited March 22, 200620 yr by Flash Tizzle
March 22, 200620 yr You didn't mention the FutureSox reference that was on ESPN.com awhile ago (I think it was for Ben Grieve), but then again, FutureSox isn't SoxTalk Nice job, and I'm glad to see SoxTalk not apologize, since nothing wrong was really done.
March 22, 200620 yr My take is we never did anything wrong. This is an avenue for posters to make there opinions heard. In some instances we will remove posts, but in no way did we feel one poster sharing what he called a source, being innapropriate. In fact, aside from that thread this site has been always very careful when it comes to labeling players with steroids. And that thread did have fire, considering all the news outlets reporting the news simultaneous with Soxtalk.
March 22, 200620 yr QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 11:44 PM) And that thread did have fire, considering all the news outlets reporting the news simultaneous with Soxtalk. If you mean the smoke-fire thing, I don't know about that. Since the whole thing turned out to be smoke, it's not so much that we had fire -- only that we were smoking the same stuff as everyone else.
March 22, 200620 yr QUOTE(iWiN4PreP @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 05:49 PM) We have 2,960 registered members probably more than half have 0 posts.
March 23, 200620 yr ESPN the Magazine? Wow, congrats on that Jason. I had no idea. Edited March 23, 200620 yr by robinventura23
March 23, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 06:15 PM) ESPN the Magazine? Wow, congrats on that Jason. I had no idea. That was back in Feb or March of 03 if I remember right.
March 23, 200620 yr Bravo on the response! Pride is called for here, and I am glad you took that angle. The rumor was just that, and I think it was handled exactly as it should have been. I choose to visit this site regularly because I really enjoy the other posters here, the admins are fair, and most importantly - this is by far the most knowledgeable Sox site available. And further having seen some other teams' sites, I haven't seen a site for any other team in baseball as knowledge-laden as this one (though I have not seen all the other boards out there). And I'm a recent addition, really - not an admin or anyone getting anything personal from this declaration. So I say cheers to SoxTalk. Keep up the good posting.
March 24, 200620 yr Author I like how the SI response has a rating of like 2.8 on the front page. From everything I've heard from other people, it was a nice little piece. Think other people aren't as happy about it?
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