Re: What's good for the goose. . .

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Thomas Murphy" <tfmiii@worldnet.att.net>

>I take issue not with what you "meant to say" as much as how you said it. 
>The tone and wording of your original post pretty much spoke for itself - 
>you were uncharitable, denigrating, and implied a "hidden agenda". That's 
>what I echoed in the tone of my reply.

I've re-read my original reply to you and I just don't see this at all.  It 
dealt entirely with the merits of your idea.  It asked some legitimate 
questions.  For example, Do you think the team becomes Paul Pierce's with 
the trade?  I wondered if you thought the team would be better off trading 
him for another single skill specialist and asked "Do we have to trade him 
too?".  Was that uncharitable or denigrating?  You certainly seem to have 
read a lot into that sentence. I strongly felt that you were being "casually 
dismissive" of Antoine's skills by insisting on tempering them with comments 
like "for his position".  Is that implying a "hidden agenda"?  I also 
pointed out that it is not a safe assumption that Houston's offense is 
underrated because he's always had good offensive players to play with.  I 
suppose that was a cheap shot.

I wouldn't continue to drag this out, except that I feel like you've made a 
strong public attack on me that was completely without foundation.  I do not 
expect an apology because it is how you feel and you are entitled to that 
opinion about me, just as you are entitled to your opinions about 
basketball.  But I will not lie down and take that sort of abuse, either.

>But I don't take it personal either, Jim, because I've seen you do it to 
>others.

>If they disagree with you, it can't because they simply see the facts
>differently. No - you've got to personalize it because they are just 
>reeealy stooopid and/or have a secret agenda that only you can sniff out 
>(hating Pitino, Walker etc.). Whatever - you're entitled to your opinions. 
>But I can be just as uncharitable as you can. So let's stop the silliness 
>and simply respect other's opinions even if we don't agree.

Of course it is because we see the facts differently.  I never said anything 
that implied anything else.  My reply to your post was no more close minded 
than was your original post.  Is it because I don't put IMHO and YMMV after 
every line that you get so bent out of shape?  Well, it's all just someone's 
opinion, and I'm not going to worry about soothing your fragile ego if I 
happen to disagree with you.

>Truce?

Not if you're going to continue reading things into my posts which simply 
aren't there and calling me all sorts of names in a public forum, no.  This 
will be my last post on the subject, because it has to end somewhere, but 
given your history of wanting to have the first and the last word on 
matters, you may fire away.

Jim
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