I am sure everyone is familliar with oregon live(the oregonian)blogs and i am a member of "field gulls" the Seattle Seahawks Blog site. For the Record, Field gulls? really? ugh. Stupidest name ever. The thing i notice the most about these sites are the mindless idiotic garbage that is posted in the comments of these sites.

Now let me say the Hawks Blog is pretty cool, but there is no moderation by anyone like we have here. Which to be honest when YET another Seahawks player goes down, it is a bit of a stress relief to post something where you sound like Yosemity Sam ranting "rack-a-fracka-ris-a-frackin" Seahawks!!! But it also gets tiresome when it is all the time. Here is a very good example of a bit of distastefullness. Link: http://www.fieldgulls.com/2009/9/20/1045759/seahawks-anonymus-post-game Pay attention to the list of things the poster hates and note the dislike for female pubic hair.......no one cares nor needs to know that info......prime TMI example.

Oregonlive? Wow, that blog site i allmost refuse to read the comments section. The paid authors do a very good job with the stories they write but there is a sharp drop off in quality once you start to read the comments below them. There are a few trolls on there that are just ridiculous..<cough>..Odenisgod35..<cough>..These comments and troll types would never be welcome here and rightfully so. I mean do these people think that if they post 3 times a day that "KP NEEDS TO SIGN LMA!!!" or "FIRE NATE NOW!!" that somehow K.P. will read that and think "wow, i should sign LMA and i should fire nate.?" I wish i lived in that fantasy land.

I love the fact that here we are all considerate of others not matter how much(or how little:) thought was put into a post so long as it isnt offensive or trollish. Cursing is not exactly encouraged and it shouldnt be, we are all adults and capeable of expressing our feelings in classier ways than that. Most people are not abrasive or condisending in the comments they post, saved for the few AK1984 types. (kidding) It is just a very very good atmosphere and no one should feel scared to post there thoughts.

A very good example of this would be the "thank you posts" i started at the end of the year and before the playoffs started. From my point of view it was important to me to express my gratitude and thought is was the best time to do so with the down time between the reg seasn and playoffs. Some really liked the posts, some really hated them after a while. I have to admit some of the comments did make me say "wow, really" but there was also alot of support. My overall point is that if this had been one of the sites i mentioned previously, i shudder to think of the comments and responses.

I feel very lucky and we all should feel very lucky to have a place to go such as Bedge to talk open and honestly about our team. I truely thank Dave and Ben from the bottom of my heart for the work they put in to create such an atmosphere and also our moderators for there diligence.(SP?) So again, as the title suggests, we are all lucky to have Bedge.

P.S. for the record: i could not be more restless for the NBA season to start since im in for yet another LONG NFL season, ugh.