Start with a quote: "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that," John Stuart Mill once wrote. Elaborate: If he can't refute the other side, Mill continued in On Liberty, he hasn't grounds for his position, and if he hasn't understood why another would think differently, he doesn't truly understand his own view.
Show the relevance: Not everyone likes Byrd as much as I seem to, an opinion you may know from such blog posts as yesterday's (of which this is an update), and they have good reasons which I must face. For a hard hitting case towards that end, (though also a quite flattering reference to yours truly) see Jere's as always on-the-ball blog.And in case you're into "evidence" culled from "objective reality" (weirdo), here are some statistical measurements:
Byrd: 98 ERA+, 101 with the Sox, 1.31 whip. With the Sox, 4.74 K/9, 1 HR and 1 BB per 4.75 IP, .792 opponents OPS overall, .826 with the Sox.
Wakefield: 109 ERA+, 1.21 whip, 1 HR per 6.8 IP, 2.9 BB/9, 5.72 K/9, and only .699 opponents OPS.
My ideological preference for finesse pitchers can blind me to the facts on the ground, making me a hawk for Byrd. But I can see the other side. As long as it's not because Byrd's tipping his hand, I'm ok with that.
End with a rallying cry: San Dimas high school football rules!* This blog post contains almost 50% recycled material. Go green!
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When I try to not be a stodgy old professor by referring to some movie that I like during a lecture, I just end up feeling old when none of my students get it.
Thursday, in some context I don't remember, a student distinguished between hearing and listening, to which I naturally replied that I couldn't hear Jimi... [crickets chirping]
speaking of being out of date, i googled 'san dimas high school football rules', and i guess its less esoteric than i thought; some new fangled band i've never heard of has a song or something so entitled.
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