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Old Wed Nov 01, 2000, 11:11pm
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Golly Jim. Your second line says that you do not want discussions to degrade between us. Then you last paragraph sonds like the last line in a Dear John letter. I have no idea what to make of this.

If not degrading was your mission, I hope I never see your bad side. You don't need to "believe" me. You don't need to put "credence" to my ideas. If I have pulled your "chain" show me where, and I will punish myself. Just how the heck am I supposed to know about this chain pulling you are so paranoid about? Show me anything I have said that is so flawed that my credibility should be questioned. Even in your last paragraph you said that I sound learned but there is something (I don't know what!) wrong with my writing style. Why can't I just be me?

This is amazing and uncivil. I am totally new here. This is the first month I have posted on this board, or any other, and I am nothing without a pedigree and registration number. Sadly, it seems that I have committed the cardinal sin of offering some good mechanics advice to a guy named Jim Porter. Are you only able to give advice? You may be an expert on baseball but you most certainly are not the right person to ride the welcome wagon. You have made me feel bad.

So now you want me to give you a bunch of personal information or I am a nobody?

Jim, I said I was sorry in my last post. I have wanted to talk about baseball but you want to talk about personal stuff. I can hardly believe that I am apologizing again. I am sorry. I really did not know these rules.

From now on I will be a nobody. I will stay in formation like a good soldier. I will not speak of my years in the game or my experience as an umpire. I will not expect you and your friends to respond to anything I say. Will that plaese you?

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