this directed to anyone in particular?
Uh, yes, me? It's directed at me. Because that is what I tell myself. I can't begin to count the number of times I've started to write a post, or even finished it, then read over it and thought "oh get over yourself" and closed the page without posting it. It's not so often as to be a problem, but it does happen. Sometimes I don't even listen to myself. I usually end up wishing I did, though.
*adding back in what I removed since context is better than no context*
Like, here's an example. A good one even, as it involves something you said. I think you posted some days back that you liked AAU because there were too many parental politicians in high school basketball. Well when I read that I thought "WHAT?" in all capital letters in my head. AAU basketball was filled with parental politics in my experience. Half a coach's time seemed to be managing parents, controlling gossip, quelling disagreements, placating parents when they want to make this offensive change or that defensive change, keeping parents from pulling up stakes after a bad game or bad season, looking for greener pastures, or so on. So many phone calls. So many meetings in hallways next to the gym. Anyway.
THAT is not the point. This is the point. I started to write something about that not being what I remember, give stories from my experiences -- and then I thought "eh, what's the point? Why you doing this? Why bother?" Maybe your experience was different -- well, it must have been for you to say what you did. Maybe you worked in a bigger AAU program where you could dictate things more easily. Pretty likely. And maybe I was reading your post the wrong way. Who knows? Point is, did I want to get into a disagreement about it? Nope. Did I have a desire to clarify? Nuh-uh. I knew what I experienced, I didn't have a need to share those experiences, or to have them validated or whatever, so ... like I said to myself up above -- "oh get over yourself." And so I did. Closed the page and moved on.
Personally, I think that approach could help a lot of people who get caught up in all these message board shenanigans. It's just a message board. It's not anything more than that.