Facebook Readers Sound Off On Me And A Healthy Exchange Occurs

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Members of the Baseball Life Facebook Group sound off on yours truly, Steve Contursi, regarding the article below. Rough going, but ultimately rewarding…

You write something hoping it resonates with readers. Not in the sense, they’ll hit the “Like” button a hundred times, but more with the idea that you’ve stimulated a reader to react (agree or disagree) to the content.

You’ll find the backbone and more detail of what I’m saying in my replies below. But here’s an exchange that took place between members of the Baseball Life Facebook Group yesterday that stimulated me.

You’ll note the exchange starts off terse and rough on both sides. Gradually, it ascends into a healthy discussion ranging far and wide, becoming an intense learning experiment, again on both sides (my opinion).

All comments appear as written with no edits by me. The original article appears first if you wish to put things in context.

If time allows, please add your thoughts as a comment on this page, as opposed to your Facebook Group page. This, to keep the dialog going…

Respectfully,
Steve Contursi
Writer/Publisher, Reflections On Baseball

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12 Comments

Sean Connor Flannery
- Steve Contursi Not much help if you don’t explain.
- Sean Connor Flannery You’re beyond help and all you do is dump your heavily opinionated and barely coherent articles to like 27 groups on Facebook(sadly I’m a part of several) to get some clicks without ever contributing to those groups outside of using them as a dumping ground for your hack job articles
Henry Maldonado Jr. Steve Contursi I think the issues that some have with your articles is you don’t like feedback.

Additionally, on several occasions, several members have pointed out numerous inaccuracies that go un-acknowledged by you.Perhaps you don’t realize it (doubt it) but you have a heavy anti-Met centric tone in most of your articles regarding the Mets.
This group has a very strong core of knowledgeable and passionate Met fans and I’d implore you to pick their brain on future write-ups. Just a suggestion.
- James Handibode Henry Maldonado Jr. Awwww You called us knowledgeable and passionate ☺️☺️☺️ thank yoooooooou
Joey Saldana Oh look, more horrible articles by Contursi🙄
Adam James This is easily the worst article I’ve ever read.
Biagio Randazzo Wouldn’t u
Steve Contursi Henry Maldonado Jr. Joey Saldana Sean Connor Flannery – now you’re talking. That’s called constructive criticism, and contrary to what you think, I don’t get feedback of this type often. I do, however, make every effort to correct errors when they are pointed out as a comment.
Recognizing that I am not a polished journalist, nearly everyone is nice about it and the correction is made. As you may realize, I go for content – and ideas – as opposed to writing a research paper. For example, in today’s article, would you agree that Syndergaard, much like the other flaming star Matt Harvey, has been a big pain in the ass for the Mets (Examples cited in the article)? And with that, maybe it’s time for both sides to part ways as the Mets (finally) did with Mr. Harvey, who as we know no longer has a job in the big leagues.
Now, if the ADMIN or any of you think I’m a detriment to the Group, I will bow out. I mean no harm. This is just a hobby – there is no profit, and in fact, it costs me between $500-1,000 a year to keep Reflections on Baseball up and running. That’s my choice. The other thing that strikes me and leads me closer to think I’m knocking on the wrong door here is that I write almost exclusively about the Yankees and Mets – Baseball Life has more general interests within MLB. Thus, a reader who believes the Yankees suck will also think I suck. Anyway, it’s almost game time here in New York. Be well. Enjoyed the dialog.
- Sean Connor Flannery Except the only people that make him appear to be a “pain in the ass” are writers. I can appreciate this being a hobby that you spend your hard earned money on to keep going but it just feels like you read other headlines then write your feelings on those headlines without really researching the topics at hand.Noah’s non-MRI wouldn’t have helped anything, team was worried about his elbow, he hurt his back.
  
  Noah complained about the exhibition in Syracuse because it was a farce to put players through that mere hours before opening day and from what I’ve read was speaking on behalf of most of the team. That didn’t stop him from being a professional and flying the Syracuse flag around to hype up the crowd and still participating in the drills.
  
  Noah is comparable to Harvey yes, but they are very much different. Matt secluded himself, Noah has done the opposite of that. He believes in his teammates (hence his support for Jake during his contract negotiation), believes in the team and most importantly has fun with the team and his role in it (the whole Syndergaard fighting Mr Met over Mrs Met’s affection).
  
  And for all the crap and grief I’ve given you over your articles if you ever have a question or want some research done on a player whether just a story or on some analytics or whatever I’d be glad to help.…
Steve Contursi I forgot to mention one thing. One thing you don’t see (but I do) are all the like attached to my stories. Obviously not from Baseball Life, but from others we all belong to. I don’t attach much weight to “Likes and Loves”. I believe they mostly come from readers who don’t read the content. They see the title and the blurb – and say – Huh, I kinda agree with that – hit the like button and move on. It gets complicated. I’d rather just write…