When you asked another poster if he was brave enough to post his comment on AN, my thought was that it isn’t as intimidating to post there anymore since the quality of posters has declined. It just isn’t only the intelligent, well thought out and baseball-educated posters anymore. And again, that isn’t to say those people aren’t still posting, but there are a lot of idiots posting there now as well. It has become a lot more drama than it used to be, with a lot of uneccessary anti-Oakland comments. Bottom line for me is that the AN blog just isn’t the same.