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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

And without my having to dig up the archive thread in question, I believe you're right, It wasn't Ted, but Hal. .. GOOD Memory.

The Ted/Barry tennis match that stands out in my mind was about the Slow Joe Doyle error card.
Believe it or not, what I recall about that thread, had nothing to do with a hyjack.

Being that I own a real Doyle, and at one point in possession of two of Dr. Koos altered jobs, I naturally was drawn to the Ted/Barry Doyle error tennis match.
It was one of the funniest reads ever.
Allow me to explain that.
Ted was not on top of his game.
I could tell that he was not a strong believer in that card during those days, and since then, he has changed his outlook.
During the back and forth, all he could come up with were assumptions, speculations, and theories. ... Ted loves theories, they make his world go round.
During the back and forth, you were paraphrasing everything that I've ever written about the Doyle error card, good or altered.
Being that I worked many years in soap opera's, I can tell when a scene is building to a crescendo.
A crescendo of frustration on your part.
Every time you hit Ted with a Doyle fact, he came back at you with an assumption, speculation or theory.
As one would read the give and take of the thread, one could actually feel the lava building within your volcano.
It was then that I decided to present you with the Congressional
Medal of Honor for Frustration.

My good intentions proved to be a mistake.
Barry, you misread it, and felt that I was attacking you again, like when I told the truth about the 1880's black ball players hyjack.

Why is it that in some circles, the truth is sometimes called an attack?

Why is it that the most sensitive, in most cases, are the perpetrators of insensitivities?

I know people with short attention span, and that can be a problem, but can be dealt with.

This point went totally over Frank Evanov's head, but it doesn't surprise me.

Let's take another approach.
Whenever you get an urge to make a chat room out of an vintage baseball thread, ... Stop and think what it would feel like to have some people call you up during the last day of an auction, with a desire to discuss Sienfeld trivia.

I'm pulling for you.

One more thing.

I still fell that you deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor for Frustration.

Joe P.