What Happened Here?

zilby · Post #1 » by **zilby** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:14 pm

wow, its funny once the jays start to decline all of the posters and fans do too.

aside from stickied threads, on the first page, there are only 4 multi page topics, and all of them are only 2 pages. recruiting time again?

plz dont lock ozzy, the last ST got 2 pages, it used to be 10 times more than that. see anything?

youngLion · Post #2 » by **youngLion** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:20 am

Yeah I've noticed this too. I'm usually around, but there's no point in talking to myself in the STs.

zilby · Post #3 » by **zilby** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:34 am

youngLion wrote:Yeah I've noticed this too. I'm usually around, but there's no point in talking to myself in the STs.

i have beem sick the past week and yesterday i was on for a few hours and was the only person ON the forum. Avenger made a brief appearance though

iMan69 · Post #4 » by **iMan69** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:33 pm

Probably people weren't too interested in the jays to begin with and its likely their success was the only thing keeping them here. Now that they aren't doing all that well, people won't want invest their time into talking about a lost cause.

s e n s i · Post #5 » by **s e n s i** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:54 pm

I feel like a sell out. I've been working a ton of night shifts but I'm still trying to watch when I can. Sure, the Jays have been disappointing lately, but the progress of Romero, along with the All-Star calibre seasons Hill, Lind, Doc are having themselves, and the resurgence of veterans like Scoots and Rolen make this team still worth watching.

I've written off the season a while back, but I'm secretly hoping we tally off a crazy 10+ game win streak to get the excitement going again.

Osiris · Post #6 » by **Osiris** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:56 pm

I noticed the decline too, which is a shame as I was just about confident enough in my knowledge of the game and this team to begin contributing to the board, only to have them lose and everyone disappear.

Hopefully they take this easy stretch into mid-August and make a bit of a run to get things interesting around here again. Everyone should be back to work and looking to kill time by then.

zilby · Post #7 » by **zilby** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:31 pm

do you guys think we should go on another recruiting mission on the toronto boards?

Post #8 » by **LittleOzzy** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:51 pm

It drops off every season.

As soon as the Jays are out of it the board declines.

It actually declines on the Raptors board too, it's just not as noticeable.

Brinbe · Post #9 » by **Brinbe** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:02 pm

Yeah, after they went on that losing streak in late May against Boston/Atlanta/Baltimore, it began to drop off. Not much you can do at this point, even if we do go on a winning streak. People have seen that before one too many times.

zilby · Post #10 » by **zilby** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:23 pm

LittleOzzy wrote:It drops off every season.

As soon as the Jays are out of it the board declines.

It actually declines on the Raptors board too, it's just not as noticeable.

not really on the raps board but for quite a few hours yesterday ozzy i was the only person on the forum. i swear i was lonely. and you said you would sticky the trade thread near the deadline.

Hoopstarr · Post #11 » by **Hoopstarr** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:34 pm

RealGM is a basketball forum with part-time baseball, football, and hockey fans. There are plenty of great blogs/forums for die-hard Jays fans: Drunk Jays Fans, Batters Box, Bluebird Banter, Tao of Stieb, and Wilner's blog

Modern_epic · Post #12 » by **Modern_epic** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:13 pm

Those are all blags, though. Batter's Box is a vaguely forum like, I suppose. Still, it is a shame that Blue Jays Way went down the drain.

Post #13 » by **LittleOzzy** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:20 pm

Maybe instead of spamming the basketball forum here we should go to other forums online in hopes of attracting people here.

zilby · Post #14 » by **zilby** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:29 pm

LittleOzzy wrote:Maybe instead of spamming the basketball forum here we should go to other forums online in hopes of attracting people here.

nahhhhhhhhhhhh, then the other forums will assume you paid me to do that.

J-Roc · Post #15 » by **J-Roc** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:05 pm

LittleOzzy wrote:It drops off every season.

As soon as the Jays are out of it the board declines.

But the Jays have had so many winning seasons in JPs reign.

Post #16 » by **Geddy** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:25 am

I usually work evenings on most days so I can't watch games and post here as much as i'd like. Sometimes when i'm alone in my office i have a stream going even though i'd probably get in deep doo doo if i got caught. By the time i'm home i can't bring myself to stay on the computer too long.

Weekends i'm usually out when there's a game out so can't post then. Not only that but it's summer now so i guess people aren't at home as much as they would be in the winter for other sports.

oomalay · Post #17 » by **oomalay** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:16 am

I'm still lurking/following, but it's a long season and the Jays aren't giving me much reason to post

dennistokyo · Post #18 » by **dennistokyo** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:43 am

oomalay wrote:I'm still lurking/following, but it's a long season and the Jays aren't giving me much reason to post

What he said.

The Jays have to trade Doc for a killer return, fire JP and go from there.

BasketballAbyss · Post #19 » by **BasketballAbyss** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:04 pm

Well I still happen to watch all the games like an idiot but I guess I haven't found much reason to post either.

The Jays do this to me every year. There's always a period when you think they'll compete and then out of nowhere those hopes are crushed.