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Old 02-14-2019, 10:06 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache View Post
Hey kid, I called that stat meaningless, stand behind it all day long, and didn’t say a word about Smith.

If you are going to be a journalist, you should learn to choose your words to capture your intent more precisely. Unless you are going for Francis sensationalistic crap style. Then have at it.
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache View Post
Sv% is a meaningless stat.
You didn't call that stat meaningless, you called save-percentage meaningless. It would be a slight to the foundations of journalism to use inference to assume that your quarrel specifically rested against the particular stat that I chose in my initial post. In journalism, we're taught to take words at their face value.

Verbatim, what you said is "Sv% is a meaningless stat," not "a three-game sample of save-percentage is too small and can be easily misconstrued to suit an argument." You can say that's what you meant, but after only reading your first post, I did not get that impression.

Please apply the precision you value so much to your own posts.
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