for folks in nyc, he's doing a book signing at the tribeca barnes and noble until 7pm. there's not that many people here right now, maybe ~300.
I was wrong.It's what's been happening to discourse in this country in the last 10-20 years, no one can ever admit a mistake or say that they were wrong (without a caveat) or reverse course on thinking. If they do, they look "weak" because of course, your first thought is always the correct one.
So people dig their heals in and will defend their original thought even though it's been proven over and over and over and over and over again that it's incorrect.
Exhibit A is Nick Cafardo and Bobby Valentine.
AndValentine couldn’t believe Ortiz remembered seeing his manager “roll his eyes.” But, again, that doesn’t mean Valentine thinks Ortiz’ memory was off.
“That’s amazing,” Valentine said. “I probably did roll my eyes when he said a major league guy was crying in his locker because he got yelled at. That’s a roll-my-eye moment for me. I don’t know, it’s one of those: He’s going to quit on the team unless you apologize to him.”
So he says he was right and that it was the 2012 Sox debacle was not his fault (granted not everything that happened can be blamed on him). I am one of the guys who thought he might be a good choice, and have since changed my mind. And nowhere in the article does he refer to the fact that he did say that David Ortiz quit.Despite what Ortiz said about the 2012 campaign, Valentine still didn’t think his team quit. They were two games over .500 through 104 games, with a team that had what Valentine called “the most injuries in the history of baseball.” Soon after, the team fell off the rails and finished 69-93.
But Valentine maintained his players didn’t quit.
As if he could ever make such a mistake? Never. Never!I thought it was 01216. One after Magna Carta...
I generally agree, but man, this time it was worth it just to get to see Stiffy's post above. Damn I miss that guy.… just another example of why new threads are good.
Perhaps some sort of auto-lock feature should close off old threads after a certain length of time?