Wicked style back at CD on wed.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Brilliant. You still don't see where you contradicted yourself.

You said Magnificience did not run a disappointing race. In the very same sentence, you said she failed to meet your expectations with her race.

If the definition of disappoint = failure to meet expectations of someone (you), then that sentence is a contradiction.

Needless nitpicking? Yes. But when you're trying to give everyone else on the thread the high-hat, you ought to check your wording carefully lest you look foolish.

I watched Donovan Bailey run 100m in 9.84 seconds, setting a world record. I watched Maurice Green run it in 9.79 seconds, setting a world record. Both times, the men came away saying that they were disappointed in their races because they felt that they didn't run their best and were capable of better. I'm not sure what is so hard for you to understand here. I expected her to run away and look as good as I saw her last year. She didn't. So that means that she didn't meet my expectations. But in the grand scheme of things, she didn't run that bad a race, a pretty decent time on a new track and surface. Perhaps if you had wanted to just say that my expectations may have been too high, that we may have agreed on. But as you said, this was just needless nitpicking at something that wasn't really confusing at all.