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Is there any point in insisting that the standard you used is not one you really meant?  Is it "parsing" to point out that you did not really mean what you said?  Or should we simply ignore what you say because you don't mean it?  And how should we distinguish when you do mean it and when you don't?  Or should we simply assume you never mean it?  Instead of being defensive, and trying yourself to parse things, such as "ARod is not an option. Let's just stick with the one guy we're talking about," why not just acknowledge you overstated your position, or clarify what you in fact meant?

I really was not trying to play a game of "gotcha," but instead trying to get you to clarify just what your position was, or what your criteria for supporting such a move might be.... because the one you offered clearly was NOT one you really meant, as Dave also pointed out when he sarcastically suggested that perhaps we should sign Pete Rose (or perhaps Dave wasn't being sarcastic and was simply trying to "parse to the greatest degree possible."

But perhaps it was not really worth the effort on my part to try to determine what your criteria might be in supporting something like signing Pujols.  If you are not able to articulate it, it likely is not going to be very convincing.