<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (FOMW @ Jul 21 2008, 05:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jul 21 2008, 03:28 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So now you are saying that your knowledge of their on court displays is limited to nationally televised games? Nice back tracking.</div>
No. What I said was that I taped all nationally televised games (which were a large proportion in those days) and so seized the opportunity to view THOSE games multiple times. I went to my local sports bar for years in college to watch the games available only on dish. But grasping that nuance requires attentive reading and comprehension, which are not your long suits, and God forbid that I spelled all this out concretely beforehand because that's the kind of "verbose" thing that so unnerves you and a few others in these parts. </div>
No, what you've proved is that you are full of crap. You are attempting to portray that you remember such a fine detail as the interaction of Bird with his teammates from games viewed in a sports bar. Not that many games were nationally televised in those days. Hell, in 1986, CBS was still tape delaying playoff games and showing 10-15 regular season games. TBS was showing 50-60 regular season games a year.
Fine you watched tapes over and over, but that doesn't encompass a majority of Bird's career.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>You are transparently insecure about your own intellect and communicative abilities,</div>
Now that is the dumbest, most moronic bit of pop psychology I've ever seen. </div>
The size of the reflexive reaction is proportionate to the degree of truth provoking it. </div>
Wow, I stand corrected. That is the dumbest, most moronic bit I've ever seen.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Only to the incredibly simple minded like yourself is that the equivalent. It is a universal truth that smart people have dumb ideas.</div>
Ignoring for now the (presumably unintended) lunacy of what you just wrote, only someone as false and hypocritical as you would try to portray the REPEATED, HABITUAL invocation of adjectives like "dumb", "stupid", "hysterical", and "laughable" when referring to another's ideas as a response aimed solely at the inanimate ideas rather than at the person/caliber of mind producing them. </div>
There is your lack of confidence projecting on me again. You've got the problem, not me.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>That's your "who, me?" fallback, bullshit, transparent subterfuge for engaging in the kinds of insults that you then chastise others for issuing with less sophistry. If you truly separated ideas from the people propounding them -- and had no wish to offend or insult them, you would simply point out in a reasonably cordial manner the flaws in their ideas, why you disagree with them, and be done with it. Use of inherently inflammatory words like "dumb" or "silly" hinders any kind of respectful discourse and is completely unnecessary because it represents only your conclusion instead of the reasons behind your disagreement with the idea.</div>
Dumb ideas are dumb ideas. I have no interest in sugar coating things.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Further, if you truly separated an idea or opinion from its author, you wouldn't feel it important to keep track of them for years (ala this ghoti thing, for instance).</div>
It really isn't that difficult to keep track of a friend's opinions. I still know the musical taste of my freshman year roommate and that was before some of these posters were alive.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>You wouldn't thrill to "keeping score" on ideas
(i.e., crediting or debiting an opinion/idea to the person who propounded it), as you have done numerous times here in the past, most often, of course, when you can congratulate yourself for having correctly guessed that some player or other would or would not pan out or that some signing would or would not be beneficial to a particular team.</div>
I know, you don't like it when people demonstrate that you are wrong. But talking about sports for most involves the concept of who was right and wrong before and who has credibility.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>If an idea has no intrinsic connection to the person propounding it, it could not remotely enhance or detract from their reputation, perceived knowledge, or standing in this community. If an idea does not convey something about the mind of the person espousing it, you couldn't possibly have come to the "hysterical" (to use your word) conclusion above that I am "simple minded". If you truly "separated an individual's posts from the individual", as you stated, then you wouldn't dislike me as intensely as I dislike you since my posts are all of me that you have known or will ever know. (And, just in case, please spare me any outright lie that you don't intensely dislike me.) So you haven't even the faintest notion, apparently, of the myriad ways you give your motives, feelings, and true intent away.</div>
I wouldn't waste intense dislike on you. Besides, I don't make this stuff personal beyond sports knowledge. Outside of knowing that you are a big Sopranos fan, have a user names based upon an acronym of Fly on Melfis wall, and that you like to play pop psychologist, yes, all I know are your posts and I don't think highly of them.