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Originally Posted by 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!
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I can tell you are a lawyer, you have a gift for twisting words. When you can't agrue effectively, you can call names and then say, "I'm taking the ball and going home. The field is yours." I didn't disparage your job, you did a fine job of it yourself.
You put words in my mouth and that is another sign of weakness. I never indiacted that I treat my partners like 'gum on a shoe'. My partners at the D1 level have been with me for years. We support and chastise each otjer when appropriate. If you feel the need to be coddled and to do the same for others, again it is apparent we don't work the same levels of ball. My reputation mean little when I blow a call. I've had coaches that I've known for years chew me out on the field and then go out for dinner a week later. I can handle sarcasm, confrontation and criticism in the name of the game. I don't think it is appropriate to blow smoke up an assignor's skirt when he asks me about a horrible umpire. If you think that is backdooring a fellow arbiter, then I know you were never in professional ball. The world is competitive and most of us realize it.
Apparently, you don't understand what A2D means. That isn't a surprise, you haven't been able to read what else was written. Every one of your points was addressed and it was done with sincerity and a little self deprecation. You keep harping about how I claim to be so talented. I can't recall stating that, but I am confident in my abilities. Am I as good as I once was? No, age and desire have taken their toll. But I can still do the job and take pride that I earned the check.
Twist some more words, write some more things that aren't true. Chase another windmill Don Quixote, you imagination has gotten the better of you. You are boring me and aren't much of a challenge. In fact, you are beginning to sound an awful lot like someone else who just doesn't get it. Like him, you live for tangental thinking and misdirection. It's too bad, I started to think you were better than that.