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I don't know if it was:
$$$
or US fans not intrested in Europeans. Personally I pay attention to the GPs and know the majority of the riders and where they're from.
I kind of have the feeling that we prefer to be brainwashed by our octopuzzy
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I heard a rumour (from an "insider", of course) that there wasn't enough room on the plane.
That's me with my Youthstream/FIM 2007 Journalist of the Year award. And that came barely more than two years after I was initially denied credentials for the 2005 Irish GP and MXdN, which were eventually granted (thanks in part to DC, who stepped in and vouched for me).
You know how to know you're unbiased? You piss everyone off at some point. I've pissed of Youthstream, and I'm sure DC can vouch for the fact that I've pissed him off as well.
And Rock, you'd have to be thinking something for me to tell you what it is.
Also, the 250 and 450 Words are columns, not reports. They are columns about something - anything - we want to write about. And I chose the subject-matter and spoke my opinions. They are not race reports. The race report went up early Monday, written by the very eloquent Adam Wheeler. We always have the race reports up as soon as possible, and then Tuesday we have Redux (missing this week as Weigandt was absent from the race) and we have these columns, etc.
Why would a website run two MORE race reports on Wednesday after the race, two or three or four days after the race report was up on the site the first time? Some of you guys just aren't thinking.
Now, regardless of whether Americans SHOULD be American-centric, they ARE. Go down to your local Wal Mart and ask the checker to find France on an unmarked map of the world. They're our nation's largest employer.
I was told you guys were in here freaking out about it. Oh well, the only thing worse than criticism is apathy. Keep reading, and keep telling me how wrong I am in a forum I don't read.
Oh, and Rock, I'm pretty sure we all knew you would side with the wrecking crew here, as always. That's not surprising. And, as pointed out above, when you're always on one side, that is a bias. I'm not. And I have my award to prove it. (Best book-end I've ever owned. MAN that thing is STURDY!)
So, I think Mr. Kullas said it best after the sign fell on his head:
Some of you guys need to lighten up.
Or just have fun arguing about this for a few more pages, none of which I will likely see. Nice to know I'm missed, though, and I bet you wish it was mutual.
Gday Steve
Nonetheless just keep it up "wearing the air of superiority" and just ignore the fact that it doesn't fit.
Glad you don't read the forum. LOL
Thanks for the display of omnipotence i.e. I bet you wish. Maybe when you grow up no make that IF you grow up one day you will realize you really don't know shit about other people.
Please.
Turns out some American's were fooling around with the Red Bull arch and.......
Geoff
To many people on these forums are closed-minded and need to think from every side of the arguement.
Geoff, you have to admit there's a huge amount of irony in the Red Bull arch taking out a Monster-sponsored rider.
If anyone needs to lighten up it might be you......Emu's put their head in the sand but we all know where you got your head mate.
I mean getting somebody to take a photo of you with that award, self promotion is the greatest form of being insecure.
Geoff
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Just a suggestion.. If the point of the 250 and 450 words pieces aren't to talk about the happenings in both classes, I wouldn't call them 250 and 450 words. It might confuse people into thinking it has to do with a what happened in the 250 and 450 classes.
Matthes will be no doubt be looking forward to a nice trip to Monaco and a crystal trophy too.
Good to see you.
My thread is seven pages and has more hits!
nah nah
WTF is going on today?!?!?
But as always, Jif, don't let the facts get in the way.
You guys are literally making me laugh.
Mxxer, just to get this correct, I didn't "hardly" cover the GPs, I didn't cover them AT ALL. Not one story was written by me about the GPs that year. Not a single one. Zero. And that's why, when I accepted it, I said on stage that it should have gone to Adam Wheeler. Me getting that award was akin to giving Jif the Pulitzer. In other words, I in no way deserved it.
Jif, you'd think someone in your position would know sarcasm and/or irony when he sees it, but I guess that's asking too much. But to say that my opinion of the GP is biased because I work for DC is completely disingenuous, especially considering that I was initially declined credentials in 2005, about three years before I worked for DC. Back then, the problem was that on Motonews, I was critical of Youthstream for taking the purse money from the riders. I made jokes about the riders, by definition, not being "professionals" anymore. And I know for a fact that was the reason I was declined the credentials because the person who did the declining told me so just before I got my coveted book-end.
MXA has a bias, and that's obvious, as Jody has a vested interest in the GP. All you have to do is look at two articles from MXA and realize they were written only weeks apart with the only difference between the first and the second being that the first one was written BEFORE Glen Helen was going to be a GP, and the second one AFTER:
Here's the first one, written when Glen Helen was still a National:
http://www.motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/WHATS-WRONG-WITH-THE-GPS-TH…
Here's the second one, written after Glen Helen became a GP:
http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/MXA-MIDWEEK-REPORT--6427.aspx
Oh, and this one, too:
http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/WHO-NEEDS-TO-RIDE-THE-USGP-AND-…
THAT is the definition of bias. I'd love for anyone to provide something similar from me.
Rock, we realize you're trying to earn your orange helmet. It's okay. If you want, I can get you one painted up just like it so you can put it in a case on your trophy stand with your other five trophies.
I do have a bias, though. It's true. My bias is this thing called "truth". Facts are fun. And 250 and 450 Words were both factual on the points of fact, and my opinion on points of opinion. I've been consistent. The only thing consistent about some of the other people in here is their biases change with who is paying them, or who isn't.
TFS, you're a showoff.
Okay, I'm out fellas. Have fun arguing. I have actual work to do.
Guess we resolved the likely part, eh?
Nerd for the record your the most egotistical insecure individual I've ever met. Keep telling yourself it's all about the orange helmet.
Also for the record up until you were a jerk about me providing the bar end kits for you I actually could stomach your BS but after that episode I realized the type of person you really are.
EDIT: Just noticed the trophy comment.......pretty strong words coming from a professional practice rider. It's six trophies not five. :-)
BTW, do your MXA links include the part where they said there is no shame in any rider deciding NOT to race the USGP? I respect your opinions on MXA's position but nowhere can you point to where Jody's position on how the GPs are run have changed. You are connecting the dots for the website promoting the USGP to equal his position has changed but it hasn't. Everyone has biases and your anti MXA bias is coming through loud and clear. Jody isn't a business partner of Bud Feldkamp's so your comment about him having a vested interest in the USGP has no merit. He built the EXACT same track for the USGP he was going to build for the National...anyway I'll stop here....I know from experience the facts have no effect on you.
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