Sox Withdrew Offer to Bay in July Because of MRI

[a700hitter]

And around and around we go...

Your point? I'm not calling it a smear now, and I said that I shouldn't have used the term smear in relation to this incident.

[BSN07]

Your point? I'm not calling it a smear now' date=' and I said that I shouldn't have used the term smear in relation to this incident.[/quote']

 

Ok I see. Sorry I was speed reading to try and catch up.

[a700hitter]

Ok I see. Sorry I was speed reading to try and catch up.

It's a boring and tedious read.

[a700hitter]

Like I said' date=' I don't really feel the need to discuss it further because it doesn't matter.[/quote']What happened to this?

[Imperial59]

No' date=' [b']you very clearly used the term smear campaign to describe how the Sox handle free agents that they let go.[/b] That's why I took issue with what you were saying.

 

My bad' date=' using that word in this instance[/b']. They have smeared others but not Bay. They always spin, sometimes it does rise to the level of smearing like with Nomar.

 

I stand by my statement that you can "smear" someone with a truthful statement. Those are usually the most effective smears' date=' because [b']smears based on false information can be subject to actions for defamation. Smears based on true information happens all the time.

 

I thought that we already agreed that the Bay situation was not a smear

 

I am starting to warm to the theory that Bay unwittingly smeared himself compelling him to respond to his own smear.

 

Your point? I'm not calling it a smear now' date=' and [b']I said that I shouldn't have used the term smear in relation to this incident.[/b]

 

It's awfully confusing, that's all.

[Dojji]

I'd say that's a full 360.

[a700hitter]

It's awfully confusing' date=' that's all.[/quote']Your confusion has been obvious all along.

 

In the second quote, I admitted my misuse of the term in relation to the bay situation.

 

Quote #3 was a discussion of "smearing" in the abstract, not with relation to Bay.

 

Quote#5 was a joke poking fun at Example's theory.

 

Are you less confused now?

[a700hitter]

Like I said' date=' I don't really feel the need to discuss it further because it doesn't matter.[/quote']Again, what happened to this?:lol:

 

Edit: keep researching the thread. You are bound to find the smoking gun.:lol:

[a700hitter]

I'd say that's a full 360.

You are always spinning in circles, so how would you know the difference?

[Spudboy]

I'd say that's a full 360.

 

:blink::blink:

 

Must be the "New Math".

 

a700 has been consistent throughout the entire "discussion".

 

So you must agree with him, eh?

[Spudboy]

You are always spinning in circles' date=' so how would you know the difference?[/quote']

 

:lol::lol:

[Imperial59]

Your confusion has been obvious all along.

 

In the second quote, I admitted my misuse of the term in relation to the bay situation.

 

Quote #3 was a discussion of "smearing" in the abstract, not with relation to Bay.

 

Quote#5 was a joke poking fun at Example's theory.

 

Are you less confused now?

 

I'll give you credit, you have remained very consistent about one thing. Whenever someone points out inconsistencies in what you say, you make personal attacks against them and/or act as if you're exponentially more logical or intelligent than them.

 

I question your thought processes.

 

Their thought process is fascinating.

 

You are always spinning in circles' date=' so how would you know the difference?[/quote']

 

It was not a presumption unsupported by evidence. It's called critical thinking and deductive reasoning. It is based on the evidence at hand. You should try it sometime. People might take your opinions more seriously.

 

Am I 100% certain about my theory? No' date=' but I am very much convinced that I am right.[/quote']

 

You must be the third O.J. Juror in this thread.

 

You just chose not to believe the obvious. Were you on the O.J. Jury with Example.

 

You choose to ignore the obvious.

[Spudboy]

I'll give you credit' date=' you [i']have[/i] remained very consistent about one thing. Whenever someone points out inconsistencies in what you say, you make personal attacks against them and/or act as if you're exponentially more logical or intelligent than them.

 

 

 

This is uncalled for.

 

a700 has shown a lot of self control and patience during this "discussion".

 

If his frustration with being hammered with the same responses from two or three people saying largely nothing over a three day period is mildly sarcastic than you should bare some of the blame.

 

 

By the way, have you read The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn?

[Imperial59]

This is uncalled for.

 

a700 has shown a lot of self control and patience during this "discussion".

 

If his frustration with being hammered with the same responses from two or three people saying largely nothing over a three day period is mildly sarcastic than you should bare some of the blame.

 

 

By the way, have you read The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn?

 

If he was just being sarcastic or joking around, that would be one thing. But I think he was was being quite literal when he insulted pretty much everyone in this thread who disagreed with him. It takes two to argue, if he was tired or frustrated with the discussion, he could have stopped at any time.

 

I have read the book, what's the connection with the book that you were talking about earlier?

[a700hitter]

If he was just being sarcastic, that would be one thing. But he was being quite literal in insulting pretty much everyone in this thread who disagreed with him. It takes two to argue, if he was tired or frustrated with the discussion, he could have stopped at any time.

 

I have read the book, what's the connection with the book that you were talking about earlier?

I was holding back in the face of incredibly frustrating stupidity in this thread. So, what was it that you were arguing about? I believe that it was "probable source" --your language versus "plausible possibility"-- my language. Do you even know what you were arguing about? Maybe it was personal?

 

Basically, you have wasted everyone's time, by arguing with me about something that you stated that you don't have any substantive difference of opinion about-- a "non-issue" as you called it. I'd say that you have made it personal. Why don't you stay true to your own words and stop posting about this, since you think it is a non-issue? ... or you can keep researching threads and quoting me in context and out of context. Carry on.

[Imperial59]

I was holding back in the face of incredibly frustrating stupidity in this thread. So, what was it that you were arguing about? I believe that it was "probable source" --your language versus "plausible possibility"-- my language. Do you even know what you were arguing about? Maybe it was personal?

 

Basically, you have wasted everyone's time, by arguing with me about something that you stated that you don't have any substantive difference of opinion about-- a "non-issue" as you called it. I'd say that you have made it personal. Why don't you stay true to your own words and stop posting about this, since you think it is a non-issue? ... or you can keep researching threads and quoting me in context and out of context. Carry on.

 

I don't understand why you feel the need to continuously point out how stupid or illogical all the other posters are.

[a700hitter]

I don't understand why you feel the need to continuously point out how stupid or illogical all the other posters are.

It must be that I'm a bad person.:dunno:

[Imperial59]

It must be that I'm a bad person.:dunno:

 

I don't know you personally, but I have a feeling you don't go around telling everyone how stupid and illogical they are in real life.

[a700hitter]

I don't know you personally' date=' but I have a feeling you don't go around telling everyone how stupid and illogical they are in real life.[/quote']You are right. You don't know me.

[Imperial59]

You are right. You don't know me.

 

Hey, we agree on something!

[Spudboy]

I smell hypocrisy.

[Imperial59]

So what did Huck say Spudboy?

 

Was it "the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way"?

[Spudboy]

So what did Huck say Spudboy?

 

Was it "the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way"?

 

Well I won't quote the book because if I said what Huck was thinking, it may be viewed by uneducated and unenlightened people as racist.

 

However, while floating down the river on a raft, it occurred to Huck that it was not worthwhile to argue with a person that did not have the requisite intellect to understand the argument.

[Imperial59]

Well I won't quote the book because if I said what Huck was thinking, it may be viewed by uneducated and unenlightened people as racist.

 

However, while floating down the river on a raft, it occurred to Huck that it was not worthwhile to argue with a person that did not have the requisite intellect to understand the argument.

 

I wouldn't say many members of this thread were lacking in intellect, I think most of them had plenty of intellect but they were being stubborn and proud. That certainly includes myself.

[VA Sox Fan]

Good Lord. Please allow this slow time in the off season to end soon. Please.

[Dojji]

we're officially scraping bottom. We thought we'd hit bottom before, but now we know better. This is it.

[a700hitter]

I will split my sides from laughing if on the first day of camp a reporter asks about Bay's MRI

[VA Sox Fan]

I will split my sides from laughing if on the first day of camp a reporter asks about Bay's MRI

 

 

He is gone. Who cares? Let it go. You'll feel better, I promise.:thumbsup:

[a700hitter]

I'm just having some fun.

[Imperial59]

J.J. Putz recently spoke out about what a mess the Mets are. Among other things, he said:

 

he "never really took a physical" and was told by team management to not disclose the details of his elbow injury to the media.

 

“When the trade went down last year, I never really had a physical with the Mets,” Putz said in the interview.

 

“I had the bone spur (in the right elbow). It was discovered the previous year in Seattle, and it never got checked out by any other doctors until I got to spring training, and the spring training physical is kind of a formality," he continued. "It was bugging me all through April, and in May I got an injection. It just got to the point where I couldn’t pitch. I couldn’t throw strikes, my velocity was way down.”

 

So I think I'm gonna side with the Red Sox doctors on this Jason Bay issue :thumbsup: