You really shouldn’t be.

I guess I am surprised that a Center would rebound worse than a PG… Hawes did worse than Evans.

I know that he isn’t a stereotypical low-post Center, but worse than our PG…. Hmm… That one still caught me off-guard.

Just a last few words and then I am done here.

First of all, I am a researcher and what I do is play with numbers. That is just me and who I am. I like to do it and think of different ways to see things using some basic, and at times more advanced, kinds of analysis.

Secondly, am I down on Hawes, not so much. I would have rather known he was on one good ankle cause he really was and is injured. He did not play tonight. ,

Thirdly, Ed does have an issue with me dating back to some idiocy that Section threatened to kick me off of this site about. Not doing that here Section. Just want to clear the air. Anybody can go back and check that there were post from Ed that took offense.

Fourth, to confirm my third point and separately. I now know, from first hand experience, that it feels like somebody is yelling at you when they use bold and !!!!!! together and repeatedly. Doing so is rude in my book and I take offense to rudeness. It really is not OK. If bolding and using exclamation points is polite conversation in this kind of forum and not to be taken as somebody having serious issues then I would be surprised. But maybe that is common place here as I have not been on this site that long. I just have not seen it before even in really seriously pissed off posts.

Also, disagreeing with one another can be and should be done agreeably. This place is supposed to be enjoyable and entertaining. Not some kind of bullshit you get enough of at work and dealing with people you would prefer to avoid, like my ex-wife. Boy is she a piece of work.

Lastly, I don’t get defensive about presenting stats and my writing to others. I also write professionally and I am used to red ink. I also am not all pissed off about or at Ed. It frankly isn’t worth it. I didn’t appreciate the BOLD and !!!!, but I addressed it. Enough said and done. If I have a problem about something I do speak up. If somebody says something that offends me I can and will address it. Learned that had to be done from my ex, did I mention she was a piece of work?

Anyway, the game was good. More to follow separately.

Hi All,

This is truly disgusting, but I will get back to that part.

The whole concept of bathing in pickles reminded me of a dead possum I once had the misfortune to meet. This stupid dead critter got ran over at the end of my driveway. So I picked it up and through it in my garbage. A couple of days later the front of my house smelled of evil rotten carnage. My garbage can sits in the sun all day and basically the heat did a number on things that sent several running and retching uncontrollably.

SO, what the hell was I supposed to do? The garbage man wasn’t due for a couple of day. That just was not acceptable. The smell was taking over the neighbor’s front yard as well. But I sure as hell wasn’t going in after it!

That is when I had a stroke of brilliance. I was going to pickle me some possum. Yep, I was going to brew me up some pickling juice and take care of that possum. I had me a gallon of vinegar and pounds of rock salt. Add some spices and a pickling I went. It worked to. That damned possum was pickled and all was well with my otherwise irate neighbors.

Now to the disgusting part. What? That wasn’t it. Nope, the disgusting part is every bit as vile as the stench of the possum and where I now sit. Faced with the pickling of my own skin. Faced with the potential stinkifiedness of what I had hoped was an otherwise uneventful post I am getting out my vinegar and salt again.

Yep time to pickle away the stench that has invaded this post. As to the ability of pickling to toughen skin. It may take repeated application. But it sure is clearing out my sinuses. I got to say that this sitting in a bathtub full of vinegar and salt probably burns the eyes more than the skin… that is the disgusting place I am in. But then at least I didn’t buy 20 gallons of pickles. I wouldn’t want to have to avoid the potential violation of sitting on a damn pickle. That would be all I need, some damn pickle stuck up my ass!

Oh well, it can’t be all bad. It definitely has given me some perspective. Getting clobbered by misperception about a one game post on numbers seems insignificant when dealing with a wife who now probably won’t touch a different sort of pickle because I now stink so god damned bad. But hey, it may all be worth it if we can all get along a little better. I now have a new response for those that need similar perspective. “Go soak in pickles.”

We will have to wait and see if this pickling helps as much as it did with possum (which is a true story btw).

at least there were a lot of responses to your first post!

Many get a ‘whatever’.