Positively Crap Street: McManus Speaks

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Sometimes the words wound. Or, at least, patently annoy. Such is the case of NY Times poker columnist James McManus who took some time out from his busy schedule to inform us that our posts about his poker column were not very…mmm, what’s that word…NICE. Well, Mr. McManus agreed to send along the message to the thatch of poker bloggers that strung him up for a whoopin’:

If there’s gonna be a meaningful exchange of ideas about poker (or anything), don’t we have to avoid wild overstatements and personal attacks?

Jim McManus

Wild overstatements? Personal attacks? That’s crazy talk. Eloquent crazy talk, no less, but crazy.

Previously: Positively Crap Street: Fat, Drunk and Irish is No Way to Go Through Life, Jim [Oddjack]; James McMysoginist vs. Al Can’t Hang [Oddjack]; Positively Crap Street: Bloggers Sound Off on Latest McManus Column [Oddjack]

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