A Comment on Comments

If you submit a comment to one of my posts, I'm happy to include it, but I have a few basic rules:

1. Anonymous comments will not be approved. If you're not willing to take ownership of your comment, I see no reason to include it. I don't even read anonymous comments before deleting them.

2. I will not approve comments containing profanity or other language I consider unacceptable. I get to decide the latter...After all it's my blog.

3. Occasionally a reader will submit a comment dripping with invective. I won't approve these either.

That's it.

Comments: Policy Change

Because of the many rather crude comments I received in response to my posts on the Texas Bowl (Navy 35, Missouri 13), I changed my comment policy so I would have to OK a comment before it was published. It seems, however, that the more rabid sports fans have since departed this blog for venues more suited to their interests; and so, I have decided to open up the comments once again. I will still, however, delete those that are rude, crude, offensive or inappropriate to the purpose of this blog. I have no problem with comments that disagree with me, as long as they are not disagreeable.

By the way, the Navy and Missouri fans were, in general, fine in their comments -- enthusiastic, passionate even, but not rude. It was all those Big-12 Missouri-haters who tended to go overboard. Interestingly, every single comment that related to the Texas Bowl -- the good and the bad -- was sent anonymously. 

Ah, well, I suppose there's no rule that says sports fans have to exhibit sportsmanship. I know this is true because I have been in the stands on many occasions at Yankee Stadium, old Ebbets Field, and Fenway Park.

Blessings...oh, yes, and Beat Army!