“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law)

The typical response when this happens would be to shut down the discussion. Or at least to have a tacit agreement to move on to some other thread.

I hope Pete is having a safe and forward-moving trip to Boston.

http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=5.....ticle.html

Um, actually Buchholz has only made one start so far where his defense (Lugo and Casey) let him down. And no Hughes hasn’t thrown a no hitter yet. We missed the match up by two days. I would have loved to see both of them against each other.. we’ll see it eventually.

If someone challenges your opinion it ain’t grounds for invoking the name of history’s worst war criminals. That’s over the top, even kidding around. If you write something that is plainly intended to evoke a strong response, don’t complain when the strong response comes.

This is a shared space and what you voluntarily submit here is fair game for others to read and respond to. Failure to think your comments through is a perfectly legitimate criticism. If you are challenged, respond logically, don’t get your panties in a twist and whine about it.

If you are being criticized, please remember: it’s a sports blog NOT PARLIAMENT. You are on notice that not everyone is going to be gentle and follow Robert’s Rules of Order.

If you are going to criticize, please remember: there are some very sensitive souls out there who write all kinds of aggressive, impetuous, impulsive and illogical things, yet have a pride of authorship as strong as any of the Twelve Apostles. Try to persuade and illuminate when responding to the impulsive, ill-considered and foolish things they have written. Either that or ignore them. But educating these folks, or at least getting them to agree to disagree, works better in the long run in the hit and run, guerilla warfare of the blogoshpere.