The audiences and correlated aim of argument that Stein is trying to deploy would be the ones who are more or less of a Yankees fan.
Stein is portraying himself in a not so friendly manner. He just wants to get right to point of his speech.
In the conversation, I think Stein sees
The danger of an essay like this one would be other folks taking it too far and going about and commenting on it to make it seem as if its really that serious.
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