[BlueLawyer]

"You" as you used several times in your posts, in response to me, is personal. So don't try to tell me in one breath that "it wasn't meant to be personal" and then use the second-person pronoun. Viz, your sarcastic remark "Have you spent much time before the bar?"

13 years, WWTB. I am an accomplished trial and appellate attorney. What you call "argument" or "debate" I call ad hominem attacks. Sure, she's a prostitute and a crack addict. That must mean she is not a credible witness and that her eyes are bad. Objection, irrelevant. Sustained.

"Have you spent much time on the diamond?" If a coach asked you that question during an argument, I have a dollar bet it would get him dumped.

Are you a lawyer? You speak with such authority about my job to the point where you condescend to me about that, just like you do to me and eveybody else on this board about umpiring. Before you tell me I misread/didn't read your post (which seems to be a common tactic whenever you get caught in a fallacy), go back to your post on this board about how lawyers routinely screw each other to win the case/get the fee/become a judge. Then tell me "That wasn't meant to be personal. You just know I meant in general. You know. Like everybody in your profession is a backstabbing, soulless bloodsucker. Nothing personal."

And when you tell me you aren't a lawyer, but COME ON, everybody knows that they are sleazy backstabbers, I will tell you that is intellectually lazy at best. It's just like saying COME ON, everybody knows all umpires are blind, on the take and have an IQ ceiling of 80.

Again, you win. Your articulate defense of treating others like the gum on the bottom of your shoe because, well, you're BETTER than they are has convinced me.

Forget the post and the thread, WWTB. Your world, G. I'm just livin' in it.

Strikes and outs!