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Talking about the U.S. women's loss to Sweden in the hockey semi's, Bill Pidto said on ESPNews
Michelle Kwan, Bode Miller, Lindsay Kildow, Jeremy Bloom. For various reasons, all have helped make this a miserable Olympics for the
Miserable? The women's figure skating hasn't happened yet, so we don't know whether the U.S. is going to have a good result or not. What if they have three women win medals? Bode Miller has bombed out so far, but Ted Ligety pulled it out in the combined. Lindsay Kildow crashed in a training run but was still able to race and finish eighth in the downhill. It's amazing that she even got back on the mountain. Yeah, Jeremy Bloom didn't pan out, but Toby Dawson had a sweet couple of runs and finished third. What about Shaun White, Danny Kass, Chad Hedrick, Joey Cheek, Gretchen Bleiler, Seth Wescott, Lindsay Jacobellis and Hannah Teter? Miserable? Did Pidto and the American public decide that this was only going to be a successful Olympics if the people they expected to win did?
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Thank god Toby Dawon won, for this reason alone: Finally we have a bigger local celebrity than Raj Bhakta from The Apprentice.
Also, I spoke with my brother-in-law in Manchester today who said that Europeans are having a field-day with the Lindsay Jacobellis fiasco. It was "a typical American" pre-celebration that cost her the gold. I have to agree with this one. My only regret is that she was able to get back up and medal. Then again, she just turned 20 and is going to have to live with this for the rest of her life. Um, sucks to be her (except for still having the silver medal and all)
Raj. Dude. I got it. You wore a tie. Is he still around?
I bet it's getting some pub on the international scene. I was listening to Gameday on ESPN radio, and the topic was Jacobellis's fall. People were calling in acting all butthurt about it, but I just feel bad for her. She lost it for herself, not me or some shmoe on his couch in Green Bay. And we're not talking about going from first to last. She won a silver.
How can you feel bad for her? Did you feel bad for Leon Lett when he let Don Beebe catch him from behind in the Super Bowl? Do you feel back for linebackers who celebrate the mundane act of tackling the quarterback, even though they haven't won anything yet? You rant about that stuff all the time, how can you now say that you feel bad for someone when their premature and unnecessary celebration cost them the gold? I think you just feel bad for her because she is white. BHGumbel.
Ah, the inevitable Leon Lett comparison. Very original. My point was that she shouldn't feel bad because she let her country down or any other bs like that. I feel bad for her because she worked for a long time to become the best in her sport, yet she gave that up for a stupid reason. Leon Lett was a fat tub who happened to being the right place at the right time, acted like a jerk about it, and it caught up with him. I would feel bad for the linebacker who did something stupid in celebration if it cost his team the Super Bowl. That doesn't mean I think he's right. I would still say "ha, ha" and point out that it's poetic justice.
What about Raj dude?
It's not nearly as original as the "If a white guy said it..." arguement from the Gumbel piece, but I don't want to split hairs.
I think Raj owns the West Vail Lodge, which is now a Holiday Inn. In fact, I saw him out a few weeks back at a one of the Honda Session events. He was trying to hit on some girl who was having none of it. The guy is the epitome of douchebag.
That seems pretty disingenuous. I had heard Leon Lett's name seventeen times that day, and it required no more than three monkeys at a computer to bring it such a comparison.
As in the "If a white man said it..." comparison, that has been used roughly 5 million times by whites in order to marginalize the merits of something said by a black (including the Gumbel pseudo-controversy), and requires only a third-grade education from a rural-Alabama school. As you know, it's a scientific fact that three monkeys at a computer are much wiser than a rural-Alabama resident with a third-grade education.
Jacobellis is an absolute fool for her arrogance and premature celebration, much like Lett. In no way should we feel bad for her, as in no way did anybody feel bad for Lett (except Cowboy fans).
Yeah, I still don't agree at all. Any comparison to Lett is lazy, thoughtless, and a disservice to anyone who has spent years trying to better themselves in an individual sport.
As Ron Burgandy would say, "Well, agree to disagree then."
"I want to be on you."
"I'm...kind of a big deal."
As Andy Stitzer would say, "Do you want me to be fucking retarded?"
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