You know, I'm getting really tired of the "old guard" posting to tell us how much the forum sucks right now. It's a little hypocritical to complain about how negative everybody is supposedly being, when the only posts you are making are themselves complaints. Two years ago, the team won 96 games. This year, the team is 9 games below .500. Are you really expecting everybody to be dancing in the isles? Nobody is breaking any rules, and there is a lot of intelligent discussion and analysis going on. Maybe you're just not looking hard enough. Perhaps if you added something constructive to the discussions, they'd improve. As to the general attitude of the forum, when the team started out 2-8, I started a thread to try and bring some humor to the forum, and lift some spirits. 90% of the posters completely missed the intent of the discussion.