smashmouth59 wrote:Are you kidding? NO. Absolutely not.
SeaTown81 wrote:Field Gulls is 1,000 times better since he left. It went from a site I wouldn't mention by name, to one I read regularly.
kearly wrote:I actually don't read FGs anymore, but that's mainly because of the horrid scheme overhaul they had recently.
BadGuy711 wrote:kearly wrote:I actually don't read FGs anymore, but that's mainly because of the horrid scheme overhaul they had recently.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who stopped going to this site as frequently, despite the good work they're doing, because of this. I find it extremely tough to navigate.
cdallan wrote:Kearly, Morgan wrote an article which explains his condition. And I think that gives a bit of context to his writing.
MontanaHawk05 wrote:cdallan wrote:Kearly, Morgan wrote an article which explains his condition. And I think that gives a bit of context to his writing.
Can you direct me to that piece? I don't think I ever saw it.
cdallan wrote:And I think that gives a bit of context to his writing. He may have been a Stalin-like controller of the comment boards, but if a site is somebody's vanity project then why try to engage in arguments with them? There's a lot of internet out there - just go somewhere else, or put up your own site like Rob and you do - and the traffic will eventually go where the good stuff is.
MontanaHawk05 wrote:Danny Kelly and his colleagues are more straightforward in their writing, but as football analysts they're the best the site has ever had. They can look at a play and go much further into the scheme origins, building blocks, and intentions of a play than anyone I've ever read around here.
olyfan63 wrote:Haven't read this John Morgan guy's stuff, but the way people talk about him reminds me of a guy back in college who I served in student government with. I was 17, he was 35ish, and I kind of looked up to him. However, it seemed he was always starting battles. He had some great insights, but he was never wrong about anything, and went to great lengths to "prove" that he was the only right, pure and just individual in existence, and the rest of us were just corrupt minions if we didn't agree with him. It was interesting and kind of exciting at the time, and I could see many of his points. After a drawn-out battle where he leveled personal attack after personal attack at people I liked and respected, he eventually chose to resign in a very dramatic huff because he wasn't getting his way. 30 years later, I look back on this person, knowing what I now know, and I'd say that guy from 30 years ago shows a lot of traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
A local political parallel is the saga of elected Pierce county treasurer Dale Washam. You can read about him here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/washam/
TNT: "The tenure of Dale Washam, Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer, has turned a minor government office into a fountain of perpetual controversy: six independent investigations; five claims for damages; a recall campaign; charges of violating the county ethics code; and a resolution from the Pierce County Council that declares no confidence in Washam and asks him to resign..
The investigations state that Washam retaliated against his employees, violated their rights, wasted government resources, abused his power and hindered the inquiries. Costs of those investigations and other legal matters tied to Washam's office exceed $412,000. The county has settled the damage claims for a collective total of $1.13 million."
When I see a sequence of events with those kinds of parallels, like the ones Kearly describes, especially involving over-the-top attacks on others and covert retaliation, I just expect that there is some sort of personality disorder (Narcissistic PD, Borderline PD, Antisocial PD) involved somewhere. These people create drama and conflict wherever they go. They are very clever and know how to tie legal/personnel types of systems in knots. They can also be very brilliant in their areas of specialty, so much so that they get an inflated sense of their capability and start assuming they have gifts and talents in *every* area and they are infallible and the rest of us are a bunch of idiots. They get away with a lot of their crap because normal people don't want to believe another human would really do the stuff they pull.
This is part of why I was very skeptical about the Richard Sherman failed test and the violation of testing procedures. A frustrated sociopath with Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder would have no problem creating a false positive and they would do it for the excitement and drama and rush of power. If you've ever been on the receiving end of a "Distortion Campaign" from a Borderline or Narcissist, these people will do anything to damage others they feel stand in their way, and concoct elaborate schemes, destroy and falsify evidence, etc. A little more about distortion campaigns is here: http://angiemedia.com/2008/12/29/bpd-di ... campaigns/ The problem you will have on the receiving end is that many "normal" people will simply refuse to believe that another human could do the things that are being done to you, and will conclude that YOU must be the crazy one, to make up these stories. (look at how things went down with Sherman, he got called a cheater, had phony stories made up about his denials, etc. Even though Sherman has congruently denied the allegations and phony stories from day one, there are posters on this board *still* acting as if those phony stories are true, calling Sherman names.) Borderlines and Narcissists are behind a majority of high-conflict divorces. These issues are rampant in hotly contested family court cases. If not in the ex, good possibility in their attorney, influencing the ex to act that way. Some experts estimates are that about 10% of the (U.S.) population has one of these types of personality disorders or other mental health issues that result in behavior that can only truly be labeled as sociopathic. When you see this type of conflict and drama, start looking for the mental health issues, educate yourself about what you are dealing with, and protect yourself.
cdallan wrote:Morgan wrote an article which explains his condition.
SeaTown81 wrote:cdallan wrote:Morgan wrote an article which explains his condition.
What was his condition? Being a massive egotistical ass hole?
I don't give 2 rips what his excuse was. The guy is a certifiable sociopath.
And I never thought he was a good writer to begin with. He did more in the way of telling you about how great he was than prove it. No offense to those who enjoyed his work. But I think it was all a massive con game. His best skill was praising himself and attracting impressionable readers.
FG is so much better now, it's not even funny. SB Nation's tablet-minded format really is a shame.
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