Having an editor Ain't All It's Cracked Up to Be
Wow, my own personal editor. The second time someone started a thread for me giving it an entirely misleading name.
See, this whole bit started when I posted a response to what Dukies wrongly perceived as criticism, ney trolling, at all the diving that took place during a rout of a second rate club the other night. I was poking fun at what I thought were some silly postulates about all the diving on the floor that we saw from Dukies. Among other things, I teased that the next little to come to Cameron ought to pay Don Channey to sit on the bench. Case any of you have forgotten, Channey sent a henchman onto the court to break some dude's arm when the other team was trying to intimidate his and the refs were letting it go. I ended that I hoped by boyz from Ithaca were listening.
Just good hearted making fun of what I saw as silly rationales being put forth for what I saw as silly risky behavior that could be taken as provocation and give the Dukies more than they bargained for. That part my new editor left out.
Then came the onslaught about how Cornell didn't have a chance, shouldn't bother even showing up. Now, I could have gotten serious like I did at the end, but I decided to continue with a little mirth. Ended up Devil77 was so embued with his take that Duke is a new and much improved team that he trashed my defense of my alma mater. That is how I got my name on a new thread--by my having mentioned Ithaca in an aside in an otherwise humorous piece refutting the notion that anything good from Duke's perspective could come from all this unseemly diving around.
So, this thread should actually read something like: "Greybeard asks, 'What's up with all the diving; Nobody, least of all the Big Red; is gonna phased by a bunch of Dukies diving around the floor;'" and offers silliness on silliness in a failed attempt to blunt the way too serious defenses offered by some Dukies to a phantom attack on their boyz and their leader""
Now that I could live with.
Having editors can be fun, but you got to put checks on them. Me, I have served as my boy's uninvited, unpaid, secret and unwanted unofficial ombudsman for years. He actually is tickled and impressed with some of my unsolicted comments; even has been known to put them on the air on occasion. He has that choice. He can also deep six them. Ain't he the lucky one. ;)
BTW, Greg Morris was a 6 foot guard. I'd remember the Kentucky game and not take Cornell too lightly. But, then again, I ought to remember the third of WC's three rules and leave youz on your own.