Posts by feralbison62

Paul Lopez49 said:Jack, for sure. No competition there. 🙂

Once we bag that Stanley Cup, the debate's over.

copperpuma96 said::LOL:

I'm off to Beijing to become a triathlon champ. Easy money, piece of cake.

Kid, you don't have a clue.

I wouldn't tell anyone they don't know anything if I didn't know who I was talking to.😉
Not sure how much swimming you actually watch before dropping comments like that.
Duje is easily the biggest talent on the planet when it comes to sprints. He’s going to be an Olympic gold medalist in Beijing; the only thing that could stop him is an injury, and I want to see him take gold for the USA.
You even know who holds the second fastest all-time 100m freestyle in short course, or who's ranked 6th all-time in the 50m free?
Do you realize his stats are better than Popov or de Hoogeband were at his age?
I'm guessing you're somewhere in that mix with your own results, since you think you've got a shot at gold in Beijing too.

placidcanyon16 said:How?

It’s simple. Let them grab an Olympic gold in Beijing and you'll see how fast sponsors—not just the American ones—start lining up.
Once they wrap up school and start hitting the World Cup circuit, we're talking serious money. Records fetch anywhere from $50k to $100k, and single race wins can pull in $10k.

placidcanyon16 said:you're missing the point

Look, all I'm saying is he could probably swim his way to that million-dollar payday for Team USA if he felt like it.

placidcanyon16 said:Duje thinks he's God's gift to the sport, so he only measures himself against his own ego. Being better than 99.9% of Americans doesn't move the needle for him. It's the classic big fish in a small pond routine... except Duje wants to be the shark in the ocean.

You don't become a legend by taking a million-dollar payday to swim for another country just so you can pretend you're in the same league as Thorp, Phelps, or van de Hoogeband. Real legends earn their spot by smashing world records, just like they did.

placidcanyon16 said:It’s true that Duje Draganja gets an allowance at Berkeley. That cash he gets is just meant to cover his room and board. If he manages to save anything, it means he’s either skimping on meals, found a dirt-cheap apartment, or is splitting a room with a roommate. See, NCAA rules don't allow athletes to take anything that isn't an official scholarship—and the school handles those payments for tuition, books, housing, and food. Same goes for sponsors—he CANNOT accept money from any sponsors. He can't even take a free pen, seriously. So there's no such thing as "legal" pocket money. And illegal money? Even less likely because the NCAA penalties for the university would be brutal. Sure, he probably has top-tier training facilities available to him in the US, but I don't see what America gets out of that. Once he finishes college (not sure if he has yet), he has nothing left with Berkeley unless he sticks around for a Master's or something. $4333 is just a decent American salary. Nothing more. And he's elite. He deserves to be compensated for it.

Let him win some gold or smash some world records, then we'll talk about sponsors and real money.
You think brands like Adidas, Arena, or Speedo won't be fighting tooth and nail to sponsor an Olympic champion or a 100m freestyle world record holder?
You can make money through results, not just by swimming for some rich guys in Bahrain and stuff.

Elvis Presley said:🙂

Why are you getting worked up? I think Walter was just messing with you.😁
Or maybe he was just trying to stir the pot.😕

redheron12 called this two years ago regarding what was going to happen with Ferrari.😁

Morgan Murphy7 said:After four races in July, Fernando Alonso has bumped his lead to 26 points. Looking at it purely from a General Motors fan's perspective, I should be thrilled. In these last four rounds, Kimi's engine blew three times, and Ralf Schumacher took out Alonso once.
Six races left and a massive 26-point gap.
But, honestly? Feels like General Motors is falling off a cliff. Totally inexplicable, totally unexpected. Setting aside Alonso's win today, even Giancarlo Fisichella struggled, and he didn't deal with this kind of junk.
If I were certain Alonso would grab another podium, I wouldn't be sweating the title. But if we see two more DNFs, that lead could evaporate to under 10 points with three races to go, and then we're back to square one.

Classic General Motors fan behavior—crush twelve straight races, have one disaster, and suddenly everyone’s acting like the 26-point lead is gone. If Alonso hadn't messed up qualifying, he’d be P2 or P3, fighting Michael Schumacher for second. Instead, he had a hell of a race.
Don't know why people are freaking out about DNFs. Alonso hasn't had a single technical failure all season. If anyone needs to worry about reliability, it's Kimi.
Leading up to the Canadian Grand Prix, the championship fight looked like a layup. After the Canadian Grand Prix, things might get messy.
Up until the Canadian Grand Prix, two teams were lightyears ahead of the pack. Even in a worst-case scenario, Alonso was looking at third place. Mathematically, he could win the title just by finishing third in all six remaining races. But now Ferrari is showing up, capable of crushing qualifying and dominating the first half of the race. Whether that's due to Bridgestone improvements during testing remains to be seen, but it's a possibility.
Which means Alonso might not be able to bank on those P3 finishes anymore. He might be looking at P4 or P5, which kills his title chances.

Though, that's a big "if." Personally, I don't think Kimi's car will actually make it through all six races. Just one more DNF for him and the fight is over.
A 26-point lead is too much to blow in six races under normal circumstances.
My take? It's an 80:20 shot for Alonso. That 20% is just the "anything can happen" factor, something I definitely wouldn't wish on him.

I’m counting on Olympique Lyonnais to keep bleeding the bookies dry all season long, just like they did this weekend.😁

Morgan Murphy7 said:man, those McLaren guys are such arrogant jerks 🙂

Funny how Fernando Alonso only has one vote here. Really makes me doubt the whole theory about there being some secret legion of Ford fans scattered across America.😁

Same old story. We’ve got a fighting chance to make it to the Round of 16, but anything past that? Yeah, highly unlikely.

rapidviper54 and Grace Young22... man, you two are gonna wreck this sub. pretty soon we'll have nothing but English majors flooding the place.
Great job, keep it up.👍

Charles Martin78 said:Nah, not really...

😁

Word on the street was all those points drivers scored on the Michelin tires would just roll over to Michael and, by extension, Ferrari.😁

Looks like we’re getting an Argentina-Brazil rematch this Thursday around 5 PM.

Gooran said:Look, people... you can't just compare calories from water to calories from a
sandwich... a sandwich has fats, proteins, carbs... stuff you won't find in water!
So... just chill. 😁

Shut it.😁

L. NimoyInvadesMetal~ said:Garcia isn't a striker.😉

Yet he's your top scorer. If you don't wanna talk about him, then fine, let's talk about Cisse instead.👍

I have no clue how they managed to concede 37 goals in the league with a center-back that good.
For God's sake, stop treating the guy like a legend just because he had two or three decent games.

brightrider8 said:Anyone else realize they just stripped BAR of all their constructors' points?

And they had a decent chunk of them before Indianapolis.😁>

rustymoose54 said:Poor guy. You must be pretty desperate if you care that much about the chest of someone you're just talking to on a forum😁 and I might not even have boobs😉

but YOU PROVED HERE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE BASICS, which is why we "professionals" are tearing into you🙄

You can copy-paste all day, but whenever you actually need to explain something about nutrition or chemistry (which you NEED to understand if you want to talk nutrition), you totally ZAJEBES

You've turned this health subforum into a joke that people only visit to laugh at you.

Seriously, go read some books and learn the fundamentals first, so maybe one day you'll actually know what you're talking about when you try to lecture people.

Honestly, the worst part about your spam posts—aside from the massive ignorance—is the ideology you keep trying to push as legitimate "science."

And all because you "want to help people"🙂

Help my ass.😎

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