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Started by DGuller, February 23, 2010, 11:41:12 AM

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Eddie Teach

#45
February 23, 2010, 05:26:24 PM
DG, if you compare her to other professional race car drivers she may be mediocre or even poor. But if you compare her to everyone who *wants* to be a professional race car driver, she's obviously one of the best. Even the most marketable athletes need to achieve a certain level of performance to be kept on(or Michael Jordan would have been filling seats in Comiskey Park instead of Birmingham, Ala.)
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

DGuller

#46
February 23, 2010, 05:30:31 PM
Quote from: sbr on February 23, 2010, 05:20:49 PM
So if you were one of the Top 15 actuaries in the country, but not #1 would you be "not good at all" as well?
That's a terrible analogy, and it opens the door to a whole bunch of other terrible analogies.  The goal in any kind of sport is to beat the other people.  If you can't achieve that goal often enough, you're just not good, and don't deserve any hype.  Any terrible athlete is still in the 99th percentile of the population, but that's irrelevant.  Racecar drivers are not evaluated on their absolute driving skills, they're evaluated on their ability to win.

DGuller

#47
February 23, 2010, 05:34:45 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 23, 2010, 05:26:24 PM
DG, if you compare her to other professional race car drivers she may be mediocre or even poor. But if you compare her to everyone who *wants* to be a professional race car driver, she's obviously one of the best.
Is that the standard for evaluating top athletes now?

Eddie Teach

#48
February 23, 2010, 05:42:32 PM
Quote from: DGuller on February 23, 2010, 05:34:45 PM
Is that the standard for evaluating top athletes now?

If they weren't good at what they did, there'd be plenty of people poised to take their job. So yeah.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

DGuller

#49
February 23, 2010, 05:49:51 PM Last Edit: February 23, 2010, 05:51:52 PM by DGuller
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 23, 2010, 05:42:32 PM
Quote from: DGuller on February 23, 2010, 05:34:45 PM
Is that the standard for evaluating top athletes now?

If they weren't good at what they did, there'd be plenty of people poised to take their job. So yeah.
Even assuming the validity of your argument, it doesn't work that way in racing.  Racing unfortunately is not meritocracy, especially not Indycar racing, which is a living corpse these days, threatening to become a dead corpse every off-season.  The teams are just struggling to survive, and often take on drivers who would pay rather than be paid to drive. 

Being able to bring money is a huge part of success for an open-wheel driver.  Danica will not be in danger of losing her seat as long as she's physically able to turn the steering wheel and push the pedals (and doesn't lose her marketing appeal for some reason, obviously).  Her impending NASCAR fiasco will show just how low she ranks on the driving ability alone.

katmai

#50
February 23, 2010, 05:59:39 PM
So DGuller hates woman and is curious about giving oral sex to men...i don't even have to finish the conclusion do I?
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Ed Anger

#51
February 23, 2010, 06:41:41 PM Last Edit: February 23, 2010, 06:49:21 PM by Ed Anger
While I normally don't agree with DorseyGullermeister, I join him in his hatred of Danica. I wish Earnhardt Sr. was still alive to drive her bitch ass ass into the wall.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Strix

#52
February 23, 2010, 07:14:28 PM
She is meh and not that attractive for all the hype.
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garbon

#53
February 24, 2010, 04:11:50 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 23, 2010, 01:21:49 PM
I'm guessing Dguller is just emotionally exhausted from the whole ordeal.  Either that, or she personally told him she'd never have sex with him even if she won a gold medal at the Olympics.

I told him I wouldn't ever have sex with him again. No big.
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Grey Fox

#54
February 24, 2010, 07:38:33 AM
I have no opinion of Downhill skiiers. Boring ass sport.
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HVC

#55
February 24, 2010, 10:31:52 AM
The canadian chick who won the ski cross is way hotter.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Razgovory

#56
February 24, 2010, 12:07:10 PM
She was on the Colbert report.  She seemed nice enough.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

DGuller

#57
February 24, 2010, 12:24:19 PM
She was laughing too much.  :mad:

Razgovory

#58
February 24, 2010, 12:31:04 PM
Quote from: DGuller on February 24, 2010, 12:24:19 PM
She was laughing too much.  :mad:

I was laughing too.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

#59
February 24, 2010, 01:21:03 PM
.... aaaand she crashed again.
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