People on the net are nasty (myself included)
I posted recently about a disallusionment I had with the current structure of major league baseball.
I was a little sweeping in my demand that all games should be at 8pm eastern time (and hour shift up for East coast teams, 2 hour shift back for west coast teams...maybe 8:30 would have been better...but still...rigid and early baseball times in the West would be unfair to the fans...I was wrong).
So, I've had two people reply...both seemingly intelligent people, articulate and well spoken.
However, both have been really offensive.
I'm willing to debate and ponder alternatives. There is no question that what I said was an opinion, so why should it incur such animosity.
The worst part is, when I feel I'm being attacked, insulted, downgraded, I step up to the same tactics. I act vicious and insulting right back at them...and that's not the person I want to be. I don't want to be insulting people I don't know, or trying to justify my opinion with abusive comments.
I'm guessing this is one of the reasons people have "friends only" journals.

So, this is a general apology to those people in the Baseball thread whom I have been insulting to, it was uncalled for, and just bad manners.

In addition, I basically cut the entry off from the public. I didn't feel like spending my day attending to this. If you would like to read it, I'll send you access to the whole post with comments.