Re: Magic game

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

Now Cecil, just because you've had your whiskers singed now and then
doesn't mean you have to join the fray with us negatives.

At 07:14 PM 10/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
>RIOT!!!
>
>But true.  There is no way I associate Joe and Kestas with Dan.  Other than
>being members of the human race. (Let's not even go there)
>
>Cecil
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "bird" <birdw@aloha.net>
>To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Magic game
>
>
>> >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
>>
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