Charged Visit?

[Jim Porter]

Originally posted by Alan G
On another board, Jim Porter took me to task for not apologizing publicly for an error. In the thread here, he wrote a long post which had previously been posted in which he asked that words like "stupid" not be used in these baseball discussions. On first reading, I misunderstood and thought he was claiming that I had used the word "stupid."

I wrote: "I read your last post and although there's lots to disagree with, I must go further than that on one issue. I did not use the word 'stupid' in anything I've written on this issue (or any other, for that matter). Please do not make that kind of unwarrented accusation. (I realize that may have been directed at someone other than myself, but it wasn't obvious on first reading.)"

When I had read his post a second time, I understood that his charge was not directed at me, but I thought others might have the same first impression I had. I edited my post to include the parenthetical remark above. In any event, it was my mistake.

Alan,

I neither asked for nor expected an apology, but thank you. And I didn't "take you to task." I simply said that the situation had not been corrected by you, that's all. I felt this mistake was leading you to see me as "attacking" you all the time, or getting personal with you. But it was a mistake - - a misunderstanding. Those things happen, especially on Internet bulletin boards.

I apologized. I hope you noticed that. I continue to feel like you have a hostile tone with me, all due to this misunderstanding. I certainly hope we can put this behind us and move on.