I used to be into the sports thing. I even took it as far as to have a sports blog. I've been blogging, as it were, since I was in middle school. The very first one I had pertained to baseball stadium designs I had made in a CAD class. I have no idea what happened to it, but I strove on. I do this and I've even gone as far as posting my photographs taken at Gettysburg to their own blog.
As I mentioned earlier, I was into the sports thing. The fighting and bickering among the Pittsburgh sports fans in the online communities sort of drove me away. As I grew older I just didn't have the stomach for it anymore.
An article from Esquire, in just a single usage of a word, instantly brought back the horrors of the carnage that was sports blogging. I've found the worlds of writing about beer and Civil War battlefields much more relaxing in part to the fact that few actually care about the aforementioned subjects. Still, when I see the word "butthurt" in a craft beer post or article I'm instantly thrown back in time to the periods of barbaric keyboarding sports fans partake in.
Yes, I understand that there's arguing in the craft beer spectrum. I just don't see how that word in which I refuse to repeat can even be used in a sophisticated conversation or argument. I don't understand as to why it needs to get personal. I've always been an advocate of being respectful towards everyone else's beer tastes. I don't see the need to troll or make fun.
You don't like a certain style of beer, brewery, or type of glass? Fine. More for me.
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