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And seeing how MC trained Jessy James for his "Jessy James must die" episode I'm not sure MC is a very good judge of other people abilities. What might look routine to him, (especially with his experience on that track) might have been quite a different story for a kid who had never ridden a US SX track before.
Bottom line, they don't like each others. So what?
People underestimate the language barrier.
Plus MC's got a huge ego to try not to trip over. He hates to see some new stallion come along...
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Yeah, Could've been a lost in translation moment....
"That's impossible" - as in "that's amazing" !
i thought MC simply commented that he thought the way CP went about getting a ride for this season was a bad idea and a bad business decision. a simple opinion held by many, including myself.
yes CP had a very traumatic accident. it could have ended his career. it didnt. moving on to present. i doubt the kid has enough money to sit back and do nothing the rest of his life, so his options are: ride a dirtbike and make money or get a real job, period. you can play chicken with potential employers about your salary but in the end you gotta ride or you gotta work. if the risks of riding dont seem worth the money then you gotta work a real job, its simple. sitting out this season is not going to get him the money he is looking for next year as a rider, period.
so the option is take less pay to ride, get some results, win some races, take your lumps for your rookie season in the big bike class. prove yourself and possibly bank next year or sit and be in the same place you are now next year. which seems wiser business wise?
i believe this what MC is knocking CP for. Sitting at home isnt going to accomplish his goal and if he doesnt see that then he is clueless. If the risk is to great then go get a desk job. sitting on the couch for a year isnt going to make him worth what he wanted this year, but it may in fact make him worth less.
CP couldn´t even do a GP post race interview in English at the time, so this seems like a language issue. He couldn´t even form an English sentence back then.
you sir are an ignorant moron
MC is a bad dude but if you havent been in CP's shoes then you cant give input on his decisions.
Perhaps your own ignorance is showing?
Jeremy has earned the right to speak his mind and I have to say I pretty much agreed with all of what he said.
to further elaborate my point, take a listen to buttons podcast and then get back to me homeboy.
i miss the 90s, before every idiot like you got online.
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Jesus, i don't know why everybody in here is getting their knickers in a twist over whether he races next season or not, or whether he waited too long to sign or was too greedy in salary negotitations....
While everybody's posting speculative bollocks online, he's in Chamonix, having fun with his mates on his snowboard. When he wants the public to know his intentions, they'll know......
The salary negotiation's are only a smal part of this. He's only recently been released from his rehab centre in france, he's not going to be at A1 and not going to be on a US factory bike for '11.
If he's not in the mix for the championship i don't see him doing any AMA SX to make up the numbers and if you'd been on the best bike in it's class for the past 2 seasons would you be willing to go onto anything other than factory equipment?
If i was a team manager, i'd rather have a healthy CP in 2012 than a recovering CP in 2011, no matter the salary. What he does in 2011, i couldn't give a shit about. He's proven in the past that he's come back from a full season off, with no loss of speed, to dominate.
Your turn!!
once again, listen to the podcast with button before you act all tough BJ.
ill quit the name calling, when you guys start making rational posts.
feel free to respond with another dumb comment like you always do tho.
The injury; loss of the national championship, again, and the realisation that rehabilitation would hinder preparation for SX in '11. All of which supposedly hurt his chances against riders willing to ride for less, if you trully beleive he wanted so much more than his peers.
The truth is he has come back from a season off previously and waxed the field. If Mitch held him in such high regard and believed in him enough to keep a spot open, then is it not feasible to think that the others regard his talent in the same manner? Maybe with the exception of Honda, if you believe that he burned bridges there and depending on how much clout McGrath carries in terms of rider selection?
Dude, whether CP had signed this summer or not, right now he'd only be days into SX testing due to the shoulder rehab even if it's strong enough to ride, not weeks. I'd say thats a pretty decent factor in holding him back from getting on a team right now along with the fact the rigs are now populated, let alone lining up for A1.
He could do jack shit this spring, ride the French Elite series and select GP's for 2011, get 100% healthy again and i'd bet any US manager would love to have a talent like him on their team for 2012.
This time next year, there'll be factory team openings. I'm not saying he's going to get what he wanted salary wise but CP will get factory equipment if he wants to ride. That, i am sure of. And that's why i'm saying it's nonsense that if he sits out '11 he won't get factory equipment for 2012.
I am a business owner and a recent friend of mine who is also a business owner filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. I have not had the same financial issues as him, but being that we are in the same type of industry and being that the economy is hitting us both financially I can understand where he is coming from, why he is doing what he is doing and so on. The point is that I don't have to be in the same boat as him to understand the situation. McGrath is no different in that respect; he can understand the situation perfectly well and give an informed opinion.
As for your stupid comments and tough guy keyboard bravado....well I think you are like poop, only a bit more smelly.
the only thing lower than the valid points you made is your IQ.
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