06-24-2022, 01:09 AM
(06-24-2022, 12:44 AM)Jommybone Wrote: This is a weird conversation. I’ve known who Hollinger is for years. I dislike his analysis and was trying to talk smack about him. I still don’t get your point. He’s a writer. He never balled. I’m unimpressed with his takes. You are of course welcome to be unimpressed with mine.
No, Jommybone, what I am really "unimpressed with" is your jumping on my ass ("My reaction is who the hell is Hollinger and why do we quote him here? Did he even play ball? His formula for rating players sucks.") when all I had done was post two comments that were ONLY verbatim excerpts from an article in The Athletic that had been previously posted and discussed numerous times in this forum. I repeat --- my posts contained ONLY relevant verbatim excerpts from the relevant article, with ZERO additional words of my own (as in ... ZILCH).
John Hollinger had been quoted or referenced literally HUNDREDS of times in this forum before I did so. Did you ever ask, "Who the hell is Hollinger and why do we quote him here? Did he even play ball?" on ANY of those previous HUNDREDS of occasions?
I rarely post here any more because of situations just like this --- I can't even post two simple comments that are verbatim excerpts from an article (with NO WORDS AT ALL of my own) without catching hell from some mean-spirited pompous asshole.
So ... if you "still don't get [my] point," then don't worry about it, because you never will.