now and then but not sure if I ever commented. Lost track of you until a certain post that multiple sites linked to on SSI several years back. I remember that it was "tomorrow's news today" awhile before I first saw the phrase here but don't recall what it was. The Pineda 2-pitch dominator call was the same thing a few years after, when everyone else was saying he needed a 3rd pitch. For me, AOL years were horrible, waiting often weeks for response to moves when there was anything insightful to ever find about them. I was into the A's back then though (Rickey...)
From my perspective, there's ways the golden age was the mid 90s into 2000s, in ways it's now. I wasn't reading M's boards besides papers until about 96 though. The A's AOL coverage had soured me for awhile even after the early 90s Ms had turned my sight local.
Do you mean golden age in the comic book sense? When all the characters had the same personality? When a phrase from Wonder Woman or Batman could as easily have come from Superman or the Flash? Thanks to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for changing all that. Thanks to Bill James for advancing characterizations in baseball. I guess the golden age of baseball analytics, if viewed as James being the equivalent to Marvel, would be more like the 60s to 70s. For baseball blogs, I've got no idea.
I love being able to read opinions on moves and players before deals are even finalised. Whatever the age is called, I definitely prefer the conversations and coverage of now to my AOL experiences but I wasn't around for what you were referring to.