Connecting When Disconnected

by pienso on Dec 14, 2011 9:51 PM EST

Years ago I wrote a thesis on the burgeoning digital medium called weblogs. I suggested that this new medium, like Johannes Gutenberg's printing press of 1455, would be an evolutionary and revolutionary cultural change.

Referencing the village market as a venue that was immensely social, a place that people went there not just to purchase goods but to engage in conversations. I postulated that blogs like the markets are places where people will congregate to talk. As Doc Searls said, "conversation is a profound act of humanity."

This look back is not to suggest that I was somehow a visionary of the future. Hardly. I didn't buy stock in Apple. No this conversation is about the community that is the Card Chronicle. The CC is a marketplace full of humor, reflection, angst, and statistical pontificating. But it's much more than conversations, especially for those of us that live outside the 502 area code.

I smell the grills in the parking lot and imbibe in a bourbon courtside vicariously through this community. While I can't speak for Carolina Card, Remote Card, TCU Card or all the others who aren't in the Ville, I am sure we would all agree that CC is our home away from home. A place where it's safe to have a conversation, to laugh at the blue rubes, and have the occasional man crush. Enjoy the holidays ahead. I'm coming home for the Western game and I'll be that guy that sits in the stands well after the final horn has sounded.

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Awesome

I’m glad we’re all here together.

by Mike Rutherford on Dec 14, 2011 10:03 PM EST reply actions

Me too, me too

by Rike Mutherford on Dec 14, 2011 10:54 PM EST up reply actions

I love how weird this is getting...

Hopefully it doesn’t come down to this.

ALL HAIL

by Cardinal_Pride on Dec 15, 2011 3:15 AM EST up reply actions

I love that fucking name

Fool's names are like their faces, often seen in public places.
Follow @ChickStratino

by Chick-Stratino'sUrDaddy on Dec 15, 2011 10:06 AM EST up reply actions

and I love how he insists on posting right after Mike 90% of the time.

You go.

by Justin Gingey Smith on Dec 15, 2011 11:54 AM EST up reply actions

That was an excellent, insightful and meaningful post,

particularly coming from a guy with a username that I keep initially seeing as “peniso”,

by Leeroy Jenkins on Dec 15, 2011 8:31 AM EST reply actions

Beautifully said my friend.

I can say that I have always been a Cardinal fan, but before CC had no knowledge of the players, the recruiting, the injuries, nothing. There is never anything in our local papers about the team. Just an occasional box score and sporadic basketball game on ESPN. So it has been easy to lose that Cardinal religion. But in the last year or so, CC has brought me inside the program in a way I never dreamed possible. And with ESPN3 showing nearly every basketball game, the reinforcement of the Cardinal spirit is complete. I am sure I check the CC website no less than 50 times a day and often more. I am often kidded about tracking free throw and rebounding stats and charting the success of individual plays for the football team. This is the first time I have ever done such a thing. But being closer to what is going on and wanting desperately to “help” the team improve, it just seems like the right thing to do.

So CC has reinvogorated my passion for Cardinal athletics and brought me insights into the program in a way I would have never thought possibe. And the Card Chronicle is totally responsible for that. For this I thank you (and sometimes curse you – Fuller!).

Thanks pienso for expressing the sentiment so well. Rec’d my friend and GoCards.

PS – Charlie remember to pass 60% of the time in Charlotte especially on 1st down. Get’s us almost 3 times the yardage on average versus running the ball and gets us into the 2nd and short situation you have said that we want. Just sayin.

by Carolina Cardinal on Dec 15, 2011 8:40 AM EST reply actions

This should be green!

I know there are more than three of us that live out of state. I should be home shortly after CHRISTmas.

GO! CARDS!
BEAT!
PURDUE!

by 4ul4life on Dec 15, 2011 9:47 AM EST reply actions

Yep. I forgot to rec it but I have rectified that now.

by Carolina Cardinal on Dec 15, 2011 9:56 AM EST up reply actions

All is forgiven then - by me anyway.

GO! CARDS!
BEAT!
PURDUE!

by 4ul4life on Dec 15, 2011 10:00 AM EST up reply actions

green'd

by an LA cardinal.

p.s. how’s that freezing weather?

by Justin Gingey Smith on Dec 15, 2011 11:55 AM EST up reply actions

I'm in S TX currently... Don't around freezing too much down here.

GO! CARDS!
BEAT!
PURDUE!

by 4ul4life on Dec 15, 2011 11:58 AM EST up reply actions

Bourbon and Benedictine Cheese to all this holiday!

Like most of you that have migrated from Louisville to points beyond, hometown will always mean Louisville sports. The sometimes conflicted feelings of growing up in the Big Small town gives way to pure joy and pride when rooting for our hometown team. It has been great fun to discover this community and share in the love of Cardinal sports with passionate, intelligent, and funny compadres

by CactusCard on Dec 15, 2011 10:53 AM EST reply actions

Agreed!

I haven’t gone very far outside of the 502, but living in northern Ky. has its problems. I’m totally surrounded by wildcats, bearcats, musketeers, and buckeyes. Card Chronicle is a sanctuary, the “voice of reason”. Excellent post, couldn’t have said it better. Nice use of the word “pontificating”.

by cardmaniac on Dec 15, 2011 11:36 AM EST reply actions