data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.104856 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Re: Jack Morris
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Roger Maynard) writes:
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>To say that one player is better than another is to be able to say ab-
>solutely that player A's team would have played better with player B
>in their lineup. Sheer speculation. Impossible to ascertain.
There are very few disciplines where 100% certainty is necessary to
state something as fact. Baseball is not one of them.
Therefore I can say that I know Clemens was better than Morris last
year, and Larkin was better than Griffin. No, I can't ascertain this.
I can't prove it. But I'm not required to do so.
And since you obviously feel that such threads are meaningless,
why don't you simply stay out of them?
-Valentine
(No, I'm not going to be cordial. Roger Maynard is a complete and
total dickhead. Send me e-mail if you insist on details.)