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Enter here all who are seeking peace.... if you have given up on the season and are looking to fire everyone in the organization please stay away (ok - if you want Trost, Levine or Igawa gone that's ok). This place if for all of us normal fans who understand the ebb and flow of a 162 game baseball season... if you are not happy with the way we played the Nats that's ok, no one is happy with the last two games, but I remember the teams of the late 70's losing to horrible Blue Jays teams.....

So come in here and post your thoughts - no whining allowed... this is a positive place... we can also make fun of Jonah and his band of merry men.... stay positive and 2 weeks from tonight we'll be in first....

Art Vandelay, president for life

here, here.

Fire Jonah! Ban GOOSE! Release REGGIE44!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two
contradictory ideas simultaneously. The
"ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitudes and beliefs, and also the awareness of one's behavior. The theory of cognitive
dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by
changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or
rationalizing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.^[1] Cognitive dissonance
theory is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.

Dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical
inconsistency among his or her cognitions. This happens when one idea implies
the opposite of another. For example, a belief in animal rights could be
interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. Noticing the
contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states. When people's ideas are consistent
with each other, they are in a state of harmony, or consonance. If
cognitions are unrelated, they are categorized as irrelevant to each
other and do not lead to dissonance.

A powerful cause of dissonance is an idea in conflict with a fundamental
element of the self-concept,
such as "I am a good person" or "I made the right decision." The anxiety that
comes with the possibility of having made a bad decision can lead to rationalization, the tendency to
create additional reasons or justifications to support one's choices. A person
who just spent too much money on a new car might decide that the new vehicle is
much less likely to break down than his or her old car. This belief may or may
not be true, but it would likely reduce dissonance and make the person feel
better. Dissonance can also lead to confirmation bias, the denial of disconfirming evidence, and other ego defense
mechanisms.

Example:

Reality: http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/archives/2009/06/3_up_lousy_yank.html

Fantasy: "The Yankees are going to be fine!"

Result: Cognitive dissonance. Same thing happened last year, and people refuse to admit the Yanks have been chokers since 2004.

You know when it's okay to scream fire in a crowded theater?

Here's to you and those Yankees haters in the media.