I've followed a string of locked threads and whatnot to this point, so I feel like here's where I should comment. The main page on the MLB forum has 4 locked threads. One, about a major league pitcher, is locked, and directing people to the minor league forum, where I know a lot of people don't read on a regular basis. Anything at all game related has pretty much been locked down, and I gotta say, I'm in the same boat as MassBrew. With Brewerfan's burgeoning popularity, the game threads are savagely unwieldy. Anything said in game thread with any substance is going to be missed, and asking someone to post something game related in a game thread 14 hours after the game ends is akin to asking them to shout into an empty room. Those game threads are HUGE. If I don't read them as they happen, I'm not going to bother. 14 pages of "Whoohoo!" surrounded by a 1 in 10 chance to see an insightful post, which are being buried by asking people to make sure they don't post ANYTHING game related at all outside a game thread. I understand the need to keep page views and thread counts down, but if there's a handful of people that want to discuss Yost's recent managerial blunders or whatever, directing folks to a game thread is pretty much making it a dead issue. I don't mean to step on toes, it just seems like there's an awful lot of locked threads lately, and people that are voicing their opinions that they don't feel like they can even try to bring up a topic if they think a mod might lock it down. I'm not insinuating that "freedom of speech" exists in a privately owned forum, but it certainly seems that topics that could lead to decent discussion have been shot down or directed to "game threads" that aren't going to get a lot of action after the fact. My 2 cents.