SomeGuy
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Reg: 11-22-04
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02-18-21 02:48 PM - Post#320945
In response to Penndemonium
That is fair, particularly about at some point agreeing to disagree. And I definitely made a personal comment that could be viewed as hostile, which I regret and apologized for.
But note that your first point may contradict the second a bit. Yes, we have debated this before. But how did this one start? With a pointed comment from mrjames, not just about whether Penn has a recruiting problem, but referencing posters (presumably me) saying Penn doesn’t have a recruiting problem. What should I be doing there? Rather than just accept the jab, I made some perhaps overly lawyered arguments about why I (still) didn’t think that was the case. He made some good arguments the other way. That’s all fine and good. But then he started down the “I know and you don’t†line of defending an opinion, while likening me to a guy sitting at a barstool making stuff up, which basically becomes something beyond the factual arguments we were making — to me that is more personal, and, from past go rounds on this, mrjames knows I take that personally. I then hit too hard with the “paid shill†comment, but I think I did that after taking a number of unnecessary (though smaller) punches. My point is simply that the hostility/agree to disagree thing should apply both ways — in this case, both sides were being hard headed and showing some hostility.
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