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Speaking of the McMasters newser: When I see the sound bite saying Trump may not know the source of the information he gave the Ruskies, all I can think is, "Is this the Sweden Tragedy all over again?"

 

The site keeps crashing due to traffic load.

 

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Man, in an article that mentions Philly so much, this graf was jarring to read.

 

So the intel Trump shared with Russia came from Israel? Lovely.

 

There should be more duels. Bravo could televise them.

Also, Aaron Burr is one of the bigger asshats in U.S. history. He probably would have struggled to defeat Hillary.

 

It's YUGE I tell ya!

 

Sure. The flip side to that is, if you heard a Low-A ballplayer giving pointers to a major league player, you'd think: Where does that guy get off? Which is how I felt watching a student (who later washed out of a shitty site, because he wasn't good enough to work there) telling a Pulitzer winner how to do his job.

The reason "you never played the game" stings is because there is a little truth in it. I don't understand baseball as well as Mike Trout. I mean, that's just a fact. I know baseball, but I don't know it the way he knows it, and I think everyone would agree on that. Same goes for any profession, including writing. I see people all the time talking about how magazine writing works when they have no idea how magazine writing works. It's infuriating if you do know how it works.

 

See, that kind of stuff doesn't bother me at all.

Best practice is to meet (and presumably defeat) the person's critique on the merits. If I wrote that Mike Trout is starting his hands in the wrong place, the most constructive response by Mike Trout would not be to bring up how I was the only player on my team to strike out against the Gary Roosevelt pitcher 22 years ago, and how I got cut as a senior a year later. It would be to explain why I'm wrong about where he locates his hands.

Anything else is just an ad hominem distraction.

 

Nobody 'round here knows as much as me, and I've got the paycheck to prove it.

 

This is correct. Every player who has ever said "you never played the game" should have instead explained why the observation was incorrect. I'm not being sarcastic. It would improve understanding and lessen bad feelings.

But when you're in a bad mood, or you're frustrated, or you've heard the same thing 1,000 times, "you never played the game" is easier and, in the short term, often more satisfying.

When I wrote the @daemon post, it was cathartic as hell. I blocked him on Twitter (which he bragged about on Twitter) and felt exorcized. Long term, it was not a good look for me and didn't do anything positive for anybody.