Re: Magic game

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

You must feel better after that. It's like taking a cathartic. Thanks for
the odorless critique of those that don't agree with your positions.

Dan

At 11:19 AM 10/25/00 -1000, you wrote:
>>From: Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>
>>
>>     I don't know if there is a growing level of annoyance on this list with
>>critics of the system like me, Kestus, Forant and so on. There probably is.
>>Negativity sucks.
>
>Let's compare, shall we?  (Actually, it's more like a Sesame 
>Street-style "Which one of these things doesn't belong?")
>
>Joe: Well-reasoned, well-articulated posts that I don't always agree 
>with.  Almost always provides good, interesting, relevant evidence 
>for his opinions, especially statistics.  Apparently takes losing 
>hard but delights in a victory.  Also apparently losing patience with 
>Pitinoball and associated attitudes.
>
>Kestas: Well-reasoned, well-articulated arguments that I don't always 
>agree with.  Knowledge of conditioning and anatomy well, well beyond 
>my own.  Very critical of certain aspects of the team or players, but 
>always with solid evidence.
>
>Forant: "... if you don't know where the statements come from, use 
>your imagination" and "... you could miss a Celtic game and still get 
>the bad
>news right because the team is consistently awful."  Nuff said.
>
>I'm not the only one who sees the obvious here, am I?
>
>A listmember would like to be negative?  Hey, feel free.  Want to be 
>critical?  More power to you.  Want to just make stuff up, throw out 
>blanket statements with no real basis or just continually spout how 
>the team sucks, sucks, sucks, the coach sucks, the players suck, Ol' 
>McDonald had a farm, and he sucked (with a suck-suck here, and a ...) 
>-- well, I guess people are going to become annoyed.  Imagine all the 
>people... .
>
>Regards,
>
>Bill
>
>