TedRoethke wrote:
Look, some people were critical of Dayne from day one. Some of the stuff was over the top and didn't seem at all justified by what we knew or what had happened yet. That was a small number of a small number of DMB customers. There was plenty of other game-related stuff being posted on this forum, though. Even by some of the people who were dogging Dayne. Dayne could have shut most of the criticism up my being a presence on this forum, by communicating about the status of the game, the way he was on the Simnasium forum. Ultimately, he just booted his two biggest critics off the forum.

Ok, here is the straight dope, the real deal and god's honest truth: The worst thing that ever happened to DMB was not Tom's sale to Dayne, but that dark rainy day when a certain black belt purchased the game. That's when everything changed for the worse. That's when what became a community dedicated to baseball research and comraderie turned into a nasty place. He turned these boards into a joke. He brought conflict to the community. And that was BEFORE the sale. Now say what you want about Dayne, (but please consider how different it would be under Tom?) But looking at 2DBB's crashing the chat last night it is clear that this one person has taken it upon himself to cause as much trouble as he can. Dayne - on Memorial Day - is answering questions in a chat and that knucklehead barges in and tries to take over the show. Why? Because it's all about...HIM. Over the years he pissed off Tom, Luke, Jack, Pat, Jim, and everyone who has actually tried to help the game. His takeover of this board - and now the Delphi board - probably turned off hundreds of potentail customers. Yeah, he's been gone a while, but he poisoned this place in a way that continues to this day. That 1924 disk he helped create was wonderfull, but it came with a heavy price. The person who controls the Delphi board - a good man - should shut him down. That board which years ago brought me to this game has become 99.9% negativity and vitriol. No one in their right mind would ever buy this game after visiting either of these boards. And that is the tragedy here.