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Bias and Objectivity (split from "Grading Omar")

iramets Jun 28 2007 11:15 AM

Please note the eagerness to add a wrinkle to Omar's acquisition of Delgado that helps his perceived excellence (and the absence of eager suggestions that FA acquisitions whose post-season performances were less than stellar (Franco?), or non-existent (Pedro), should be counted against Omar's record. You guys really need to guard against your biases because that results in a skewed assessment system.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 28 2007 11:18 AM

Your earlier response to me showed your bias, which you ought to check at the door. That everyone here, except for you, is an apologist or an idiot.

iramets Jun 28 2007 11:24 AM

Blow it out your ass, please. I'm trying to find a way to judge Omar's expertise on an objective basis that we can agree on beforehand (I'm starting to doubt we will, though) and I keep gettng all of these comical suggestions designed to emphasize his good points and negate any faults he may have committed. If you find the suggestion offensive that on a Mets-fansite there may be a bias in favor of the Mets, then I will regretfully have to dispense with your particular input for this exercise.

Edgy DC Jun 28 2007 11:32 AM

You guys don't need to do any such thing. I still don't like the Delgado trade. Stop escalating as a playground pretext to cry victimhood.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 28 2007 11:32 AM

I'm not participating in this "objective" exercise, because YOU'RE using it as a way to flush out ways to point out how you're the only one who's objective. So I won't be making any more posts in this thread for you to ignore.

iramets Jun 28 2007 11:48 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm not participating in this "objective" exercise, because YOU'RE using it as a way to flush out ways to point out how you're the only one who's objective. . Thanks for informing me as to what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I learn all sorts of things from you. FTR, I admire Omar, think he's doing a fine job, and have (as I noted) recently had cause to question the acclaim that's heaped on him, after reading the Let's-All-Shit-On-Schoenweis thread that, remarkably, I didn't start. I don't know how such a hater of all things Met missed that one, but somehow it seems to be thriving without me. Maybe someone cut off the Koolaid supply? I like to explore why things happen, not just bitch about them happening (and then cheer when it stops happening). Maybe you want to tell the idiots and apologists who do that to look into the reasons the bad stuff is happening in the first place. Nah, you wouldn;'t want to do that. Remember, you said you weren't posting to this thread anymore.

Edgy DC Jun 28 2007 11:51 AM

I will. Stop the name calling now.

iramets Jun 28 2007 12:04 PM

Can't stop if I haven't started. Or was that addressed to Yancy? Or maybe "you guys" is name-calling? You get me all confused sometimes.Stay on topic, please.

Edgy DC Jun 28 2007 12:09 PM

I'm not having this debate.

iramets Jul 01 2007 08:38 AM

No, of course not. You're just dumping it in your favorite circular file. It's kinda senseless for me to think I'm going I'm going to win an argument claiming that one admin is so biased in a pro-Mets directions that he can't even see a legitimate argument, and expect the other admins to back me up, so I'm not going to bother either. Back to the original thread, I guess.

Elster88 Jul 01 2007 10:10 AM

"Circular file"? What is the etymology of that idiom?

Willets Point Jul 01 2007 07:54 PM

Elster88 wrote: "Circular file"? What is the etymology of that idiom? "Circular file" refers to trash cans which are often circular. Of course when one places something in a trash can it is not filed but disposed of, but it's mean ironically.