Re: Lady and the Tramp

[Kestas <Kestutis.Kveraga@Dartmouth.EDU>]

At 12:04 3/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Why don't you name who you're actually talking about, because you seem
>to be talking about list members? 

Sure:  Mark Berry, Bentz Kirby, Starke Farrell (who questioned the sanity
of Pitino critics) and others whose names I don't remember now.  [However,
read below]

> As far as I can tell, all the Pitino
>supporters that actively post on this list don't view him as some sort
>of god. I'd like to know who Pitino could supposedly spit on, or 
>whether you're just referring to some mythical "Pitinoite" that you're
>just making up to be generally insulting.

It's the averaged views of the people I named (and that generally belong to
that group) - a prototype of sorts. In that abstracted prototype, whatever
small qualms these individuals may have about Pitino dissipate, and what
remains is staunch, unwavering support for Pitino that is not, as far as I
can tell, affected by any counterfactual evidence - like Pitino's record
with the Celtics. 
Do I believe that these  individuals actually think of Pitino as a God-like
entity? Did I literally mean that he could spit on them and tell them it's
raining, and they'd believe it? Of course not.  These are averaged and
figurative descriptions of the phenomenon based on the prototype Pitinoite.
Let me repeat again at the risk of belaboring the point: it is neither the
actual individuals, nor a "mythical Pitinoite that I'm just making up",
that I'm referring to - it is the averaged, prototype views of actual
Pitino supporters on this list ( If you've been exposed to neural network
or categorization literature, you'd instantly know what I'm talking about).
 If anyone else  took these comments literally, I'm sorry. But figuratively
speaking, I still maintain that no matter to what depths Pitino takes this
franchise, these people will probably always find a way to exonerate him
and blame something or somebody else.