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To: romanesq

"You don't cite facts, you are expressing opinion.

You don't know the caliber of players in the Negro League"

I don't know the caliber of INDIVIDUAL players but I know the caliber of the group: THAT is a constant (unless you regard blacks as racially superior to all others)

At 9 or 10% of the population at the time, the number who would have made it into the majors IS VANISHINGLY SMALL!

That's a fact, friend whether YOU admit it or not.

As for that 'crack of the bat' rubbish that you admit to me is lore: I'll take an audio clip of any such sound (since I work with pro audio) and change your perception of its heft, volume, density and force simply by altering the distance from the source and the size of the "soundstage" the number of people present as well as a host of other variables. CONVERSLEY I'll make two totally different bat sounds the same in perception. These variables all obtain in real life with ALL of the things we hear every day INCLUDING the crack of bats.

But then that's all pretty time consuming since the two players in question have STATS--there, there's that word again.


235 posted on 05/10/2006 2:21:18 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack

I'm not your friend and your opinions are not fact in regards to the Negro League.

You don't appear to cite your attendance at numerous games in the Negro League and your statistical attempt to dismiss them in total is ludicrous.

Your logic on both counts is a sham. You don't even have measure of the caliber of opinion, yours of which you seem to believe is fact.

It most certainly is not.


236 posted on 05/10/2006 10:45:39 PM PDT by romanesq (.)
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