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Originally posted by Dave Hensley
But your (the collective you) seriousness and dedication to thorough research sometimes backfires, when it is used to justify a shrill, ultra-sensitive to disagreement, give no quarter, condescending tone with anyone and everyone who dares to question or challenge one of your serious, thoroughly researched pronouncements. More than anything, that is what has happened over at eteamz the last few days, with Warren finding himself in the center of a storm of controversy on a number (I've lost count) of different issues.
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Your perceptions are NOT necessarily accurate either! This whole mess started because someone who is NOT a member of UT posted an excerpt from Carl's new book
51 Ways to Ruin a Baseball Game which was read at eUmpire.com. I started the controversy, WITHOUT any prompting from Carl, or UT or anyone else, by saying I agreed with Carl's position and why. In fact I know Carl and almost everyone else, either within UT or outside, disagrees with my contention that the subject action isn't even a balk! Go figure the party line in THAT!
Now you characterise the posts as "shrill, ultra-sensitive to disagreement, give no quarter, condescending tone with anyone and everyone who dares to question or challenge"? Dave, that is how YOU have perceived those posts. Heck, it may even be how 99.99% of readers perceived those posts. It was NOT the tone, tenor or spirit in which they were written. The problem is I communicate in Australian English. You all read in American English. That leads to lots of miscomprehension and misinterpretation which I usually address at length - probably at too much length. I don't like being misunderstood. It frustrates me beyond belief.
I can solve the problem, at least for me. I am no longer going to post to eTeamz, OfficialsForum or McGriff's. I am resigning my membership of UT, and I am resigning my position as a freelance contributor to eUmpire.com forthwith. Frankly, I give up. I give up trying to deal in a gentlemanly fashion with all the politics, personalities and passions here. It is just too taxing. I'm way too tired of the name-calling, the inuendo, the nastiness and the whole idea that people can READ things like "shrill" and "ultra-sensitive" and "condescending" in a post that is PLAIN TEXT and bugger all else! (you may read both anger and frustration in that last sentence with my approval).
There is little point in continuing, since the consensus of opinion both here and elsewhere is that most people don't listen much to anything I have to say anyway, or if they do they lend it little credibility. After all, I'm just an Australian; what would I know about baseball? Well done, Dave. I'm sure this reaction will convince you that you are right in every detail of your analysis. Pity.
Cheers.