JKool

B-I,

I hope you didn\'t think that I was questioning the goodness of musings!? In fact, if it were not for musings, we would not get at the truth of things. I very much enjoyed your musings; I just thought that some of them were a bit off track (i.e. merely musings). It is not clear to me that anyone here is accepting the \"herd mentality\"; but I believe that is why discussion on this board is lively and fun.

I agree that it requires vision to put the right pieces in the right places. I think your idea is interesting. However, as it stands, it sounds like this: opinion is nothing more than opinion VERSUS there are some facts of the matter. I think, as you seem to, that opinion and facts of the matter are related. This makes some opinions better than others (the opinions that are closer to the truth are better - it is that which makes us discuss things). Thus, in some sense, it is both. I think we may have been merely disagreeing about what constitutes the puddin\' - I don\'t think the only way to evaluate the goodness of a team is W/Ls.

The point that WhoDat and I may disagree about (though I\'m not sure of this) is that we are doing the same thing over and over again. Notice that our draft this year and last year did not seem to address glaring needs. However, this does not mean that we did the same thing both years. In fact, this year, unlike last year, we drafted \"character\" players. Also, our needs are not the same this year as they were last year, and so on. Thus, when you claim that we are doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, some people (myself included, I guess) will say that we are not doing the SAME thing each year - it only looks the same on the broadest of scopes.

"... I was beating them with my eyes the whole game..." - Aaron Brooks