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02.16.06 by Widge @ 9:29 pm
"I used to have a better life when I was nobody." There's an easy fix for that, boyo. "This pressure is inhumane, born out of an athlete's need to be number one. Sport should be a pleasure, a challenge against one's self. Sport is an act of freedom. On the piste you can push your limits and that is the essence of life." Rrrrrright…that's why you went to the Olympics, because you thought it would be a nice, quiet, intimate sports thing that might get some play on ESPN2 between the Strong Man Competition and a report on sixth-graders who enjoy miniature golf…? If all you wanted was to just be the best in the world, you could break the record on your own time and just know it for yourself. You know, if you're just challenging yourself and all. Sorry, I just get really pissed off when people work really hard to be famous, then whine about the "price of fame" while talking about how they never really wanted it like they have it. All this while there's no doubt tons of folks who would love that kind of problem. So I'm sure there's plenty of skiers who would love it if you became a nobody again and freed up a space in the limelight, Bode. Just a thought. Taggification: bode-miller, olympics, skiing, sports Filed under: General BS
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Well, if he keeps skiing like he has been so far in these Olympic games, he may be a nobody quicker than you think…
Comment by cosette — February 16, 2006 @ 10:14 pm
Bode Miller will always be a somebody in my heart. He reminds me of a very famous mountaineer named Scott Fischer. Fischer died on MT. Everest in 1996. If you read the early years about both of them & their life styles, attitudes & risks they take..No fear of death or injury, a confidence most men can never match, it is as if Fischer was re-born into Bode Miller today. Scarey but true. Both are great talents no matter how anyone may feel about them personally. I have no doubt that one day in our future, Bode Miller will most likey pass away in a massive accident such as Scott Fischer did. When that happens, people will finally say nice things about him. It is unfortunate that only his death at this point w/ most Americans except me will make him special. I respect him because he does as he wishes & it does not harm anyone other than himself is he lets it. It is after all, his life. He is brave & reckless. He is indeed being an American. Good for you Bode.
Comment by Bunnee — March 25, 2006 @ 4:32 am
Bunnee: No offense, but talking loud and saying nothing, as the song goes, isn't "being an American." It's being a dumbass. I'm glad you have love for him…after his performance, you may be one of five or six people left. I just hope he appreciates your devotion.
Comment by Widge — March 25, 2006 @ 4:43 am
Widge, Bode Miller has a confident manner about him. "He is very brave." He is the faster speed skier on the Earth. I think that is a amazing quality in today's world when it comes to "Who Care's Anymore" w/ the American public. I drove along a busy street not to long ago in CA/USA & spotted a man down in the road. People just drove around him as if he were a dead animal. It made me sick. Bode Miller has the confidence to take on the world & he did. The Media is to blame for all this negitive press about Miller. It sells & the fat guys are getting fatter w/ our money. Miller is a skier, not a commie or towel-head out killing American's. I don't see him burning the American flag. He is a registered voted for goddness sake. Are you? He has the USA flag in his RV, right next to his computer. His colors are always including Red, White & Blue. Not just these past XX Games, but look at his history. He loves America & he is disappointed inside that he did not give us Gold. He just is not that type of man to say it although I know he feels it. Miller is speaking just like every other guy I have ever grown up w/ & I grew up rich. He is not the evil man whom the Media impressed upon us. He is caring & kind. He would stop to help a stranger in the street or in my case, the top of Tahoe, CA when we were teenagers. Do you really sit there & beleive what the Media has said about him? Come on, you're an American. We are taught to not judge until proven guilty. Unless of course only Bode & I are the only one's left in the USA that still agree w/ that.
Bunnee
Comment by Bunnee — April 14, 2006 @ 5:00 am
Bunnee: You can love the country and still be a dumbass. You can vote in this country and still be a dumbass. I suggest you read my post again…when did I say he was evil? I just said he was a whiny dumbass. If you think that we can't have opinions about people until they are somehow "proven" to be dumbasses, then yeah, you and Bode are the only people left here who think that way. Sorry.
Comment by Widge — April 14, 2006 @ 7:26 am