Downhill Racer

JQ wrote:

"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
...

Provide a reference to a video in which Bode Miller said, "I skied drunk."
Do it. I've already provided _you_ with a reference in which Miller
clarified that he was _not_ talking about speaking drunk. Why do you
ignore that?


I heard an interview with him saying he raced with a hang over, I think that
is the same interview that
Jeff is speaking about.

Right. Help me out with this. "Drunk". "Hangover". "Drunk".
"Hangover". No matter how many times I look at them, they're still not
the same word. Can you clarify for me?

Chuck wrote:

lal_truckee wrote:

Chuck wrote:

*are* exercising the level of discipline demanded by
Olympic competition.

Are you under the impression that the Olympics are more demanding than
the World Cup?


Not more demanding, but more important to Bode. That's my read on his
statement that he wasn't racing (in Garmisch I think) in order to "focus
on the Olympics".

That wouldn't be my exact interpretation. He had the record for most
consecutive WC races -- he hadn't missed one since, I think, 2001 when
he got hurt, right? My read between the lines, and I could be wrong,
was that a lot of people said to him, "You need to take some time off."
IOW, you need to either choose your time to take a break, or the time
is gonna choose you, and it won't be pretty.

The Olympics are _not_ more demanding than the World Cup. It takes
much, much more to win a discipline WC than to win a single Olympic gold
medal. But if you try to consider the Olympics as if it were just
another big race week with races in every discipline, that doesn't work
either, because there's so much more brouhaha, more difficult logistics,
more obligations outside the race and the preparation for the race, etc.
It's the overhead that makes the Olympics stand out, from a difficulty
perspective.

Chuck wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:


Chuck, that you know very little about ski racing, the World Cup, or
Bode Miller's record is apparent.



An assumption on your part, and an incorrect one at that.

So what was that about the downhill being Bode's "best chance" for a
medal?

I was probably
watching alpine racing before you were born, and yes that's an
assumption on my part. I've followed alpine racing since the 1964
Olympics when Billy Kidd and Jimmie Huega medaled for the US and with
the exception of a few years in the 1980s I've followed the sport since.

The state of ski racing has changed quite a bit since then, Chuck.
There _was_ no World Cup back then and certainly no Bode Miller. Look,
I'm not trying to slam you here, but you _have_ made some assertions and
a few "I don't get its" that indicate that your knowledge of the current
state of the sport is not that extensive. That's no sin -- until you
make statements that are just plain wrong, and then what? Should
everyone sit on their hands because you were watching ski racing
(perhaps) before some of us were born? Usenet doesn't work that way.

Mary Malmros wrote:
JQ wrote:

"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
...

Provide a reference to a video in which Bode Miller said, "I skied
drunk." Do it. I've already provided _you_ with a reference in which
Miller clarified that he was _not_ talking about speaking drunk. Why
do you ignore that?


I heard an interview with him saying he raced with a hang over, I
think that is the same interview that
Jeff is speaking about.

Right. Help me out with this. "Drunk". "Hangover". "Drunk".
"Hangover". No matter how many times I look at them, they're still not
the same word. Can you clarify for me?

IIRC he never used the word "hangover," either. These guys should find
another dog to kick.

lal_truckee wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:

JQ wrote:

"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
...

Provide a reference to a video in which Bode Miller said, "I skied
drunk." Do it. I've already provided _you_ with a reference in
which Miller clarified that he was _not_ talking about speaking
drunk. Why do you ignore that?



I heard an interview with him saying he raced with a hang over, I
think that is the same interview that
Jeff is speaking about.


Right. Help me out with this. "Drunk". "Hangover". "Drunk".
"Hangover". No matter how many times I look at them, they're still
not the same word. Can you clarify for me?


IIRC he never used the word "hangover," either. These guys should find
another dog to kick.

Right you are. He said "wasted", which these guys insist must mean
"drunk".

I gotta go find my tiger balm now. The same little kid ran into me
twice today, at full speed (into the same part of my body even, giving
me a Lindsay Kildow wannabee bruise on my right hip), and I'm really
wasted.

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Mary Malmros wrote:

Provide a reference to a video in which Bode Miller said, "I skied
drunk." Do it. I've already provided _you_ with a reference in which
Miller clarified that he was _not_ talking about speaking drunk. Why do
you ignore that?

I said, "If that's not what you want to say, then don't say that." You
made the statement that editing could contort meaning. If you don't say
*that*, whatever *that* is, then there exists no video to contort into
being misconstrued as saying *that*.

I figured out television interviews by the time I was 18. I've done a network
affiliate interview peaking on 1500 ug's of LSD. Never slurred a word. In
fact, I came off quite cogent and coherent. I've done a documentary interview
on backcountry skiing for the Discovery Channel. I've been doing the
occasional broadcast media interview for 33 years.

How many TV interviews have you done? I hear it snowed back there in the
Eastern Seaboard wasteland. Why are you wasting time typing dreck instead
of skiing? Why? God! Why?
--
According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

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Mary Malmros wrote:

Right. Help me out with this. "Drunk". "Hangover". "Drunk".
"Hangover". No matter how many times I look at them, they're still not
the same word. Can you clarify for me?

Before I quit drinking, I used to get the "slows." One morning I was headed
to the bathroom to ****. I was ****ing my little ass off, and noticed it
sounded really funny. I looked down. I'd made it halfway to the bathroom.
I was ****ing in a trash can. Slows. Hangover. Still drunk from the night
before.

Like your broadcast media interview experience, you are obviously light on
the partying with the rock stars experience as well. Mindlessly defend
Bode. I think he's a big boy and can fend for himself. I like guys who
can ski balls out all the time. I know a bunch of them that never got a
TV camera stuck in their face. And they've done a lot for skiing in spite
of their anonymity.

Jump in somebody elses ****. You're talking beyond your experience. I'm
calling you on it. Live with it. And get off the internet and get some
turns. Jesus.
--
According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

Jeff Davis wrote:

In article ,
Mary Malmros wrote:

Provide a reference to a video in which Bode Miller said, "I skied
drunk." Do it. I've already provided _you_ with a reference in which
Miller clarified that he was _not_ talking about speaking drunk. Why do
you ignore that?


I said, "If that's not what you want to say, then don't say that."

If _what's_ not what you want to say, Jeff? What's the actual
_statement_ that you're objecting to? Let's deal in facts, please.

Your advice on how to give TV interviews is all well and good...unless,
of course, it should turn out that the actual "that" isn't what you
think it is.

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Chuck wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote:
Chuck, that you know very little about ski racing, the World Cup, or
Bode Miller's record is apparent.

An assumption on your part, and an incorrect one at that. I was probably
watching alpine racing before you were born, and yes that's an
assumption on my part. I've followed alpine racing since the 1964
Olympics when Billy Kidd and Jimmie Huega medaled for the US and with
the exception of a few years in the 1980s I've followed the sport since.

Watch out Chuck. She races in the Master's Class. That doesn't necessarily
mean they're good, just old. It'll be a sad day when Tommy Moe races in
the Master's Class. Tommy likes me. He always treats me well when we run
in to each other socially. I think Tommy knows a **** of a lot more about
ski racing than Mary does...
--
According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

In article ,
Mary Malmros wrote:
a few "I don't get its" that indicate that your knowledge of the current
state of the sport is not that extensive. That's no sin -- until you
make statements that are just plain wrong, and then what? Should
everyone sit on their hands because you were watching ski racing
(perhaps) before some of us were born? Usenet doesn't work that way.

What's up with your Mary? PMS? What? Now you're the officail net cop?
****. Remember the underwear police that gave me **** 7 years ago for wearing
duofold union suits? Lighten up. Go ski. It snowed didn't it. Jesus.
--
According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."