So I don't know if that unbridled optimism was directed at me or not, No -- not at you specifically. I do want to clear that up. I was only saying I don't relate well to the overly optimistic, and I don't expect myself or them to change. It' as though you're suggesting that because there are some overly optimistic posters, that you somehow NEED those negative posters. Nope. What I am saying is that we are all hard-wired differently. Some people are pessimistic some are optimistic -- we don't NEED either pessimistic or optimistic posters, we HAVE them by default with our large community -- we shouldn't be asking people to be different as long as they are civil, and JB12 while you may not ever agree with him, almost always brings a solid well-thought out point of view to the community here. And finally, I guess I have to disagree with you. I don't see what was interesting about his observation, or noteworthy about it. I don't know what's interesting about a manager saying what probably 29 other manager in the game would say in the same situation, or what's noteworthy about him saying that Sheets has run into some back luck. Ned Yost has a history of making head-scratching comments that you will never hear from the other managers. For example, "I put Greg Aquino in the game because he fields his position better". "Pattern of bad luck" is a similar type of statement. My point was and is the need to quickly pounce on anything that anyone in the Brewers FO says. Anything that comes out of DM's or NY's mouth gets over analyzed here regardless of the subject matter -- that is the nature of this board. If Doug Melvin said "I am really impressed with Gabe Kapler" you can bet there will be a 30 page thread here worrying about Mike Cameron getting cut in ST. If Ned Yost said "I like Turkey sandwiches" we'd have a 30 page thread wondering what happened to cheese sandwiches -- it's the way we roll here.