Ok, I will. I am not shy about being a homer. I don't give a fuck about Bryce harper, and his stats definitely don't make me rock hard. I'd certainly have a beer with him if given the opportunity, but in baseball land, he's the enemy and I have no interest in his circlejerk. I'm also the kind of fan who will give our star player the benefit of the doubt, and who will give other fans the benefit of the doubt. The kind of fan who likes upvote parties, and who will drop $100 of reddit gold on a game thread on a whim. I don't feel the need to apologize for any of this.

You, on the other hand, are that guy who sits there and eats up ESPN reporting, refuses to admit there is a big market bias in sports reporting, apologizes for our team, and goes to bat for other fans over your brO's because you have this idea in your head that you have to present some kind of inane objectivity on an internet sports forum.

Yeah, I'll concede that maybe I misread the post initially, but it doesn't change my point. I never posted in /r/baseball even once until /r/baseball started bleeding over into /r/orioles. Whether it is on purpose or not, big market teams, with ESPN-backed players, get more love over there. I really don't see how that is controversial in the slightest - it is human nature, and I'm not making any normative statement on the matter either way. I am simply pointing out that the "/r/baseball is completely objective" counterjerk is just as boneheaded as the original circlejerk. Except that the original circlejerk has a place in this sun. Or at least it used to, until /r/orioles decided that we had to be super serious, perfectly objective, and killed the homer circlejerk.

We root differently. That's fine. But there's no reason for either of us to stick our heads in the sand, or get eat our own kind because of it.

Here - take this offering as a sign of good will moving forward. Hopefully it will help bury the hatchet.