This post is to celebrate all of you beautiful creatures. Yes, you, all of you. The trolls, the anti-trolls, the kens, the mikes, the rojos, the doubters, the bloggers, the church goers, the gimp kids, the photographers, the lawyers, the DJs, the British (heaps of us here!), the whole bunch. A special thanks to gatorade and vodka. SaraB, luv, keep up at it. GregTR
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Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?
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RossiCheated wrote:
The "Can you find marathon cheater Mike Rossi???" video on Youtube jumped from 600 views on Tuesday to 750 yesterday to 1,121 right now.
That's a lot of people not finding Mike Rossi on that marathon course.
I hate to admit me, but part of me feels sorry for Mike. Even if letsrun is a niche site, this has got to be extremely humiliating. And knowing all this is out there for family, friends, coworkers to possibly find.
I hope it makes him a better man and not a worse one. Mike -- you can rebound. Cleanse your soul and start fresh. Make your kids proud.
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THE +1 GUY! I FORGOT THE +1 GUY!
somebloke wrote:
This post is to celebrate all of you beautiful creatures. Yes, you, all of you. The trolls, the anti-trolls, the kens, the mikes, the rojos, the doubters, the bloggers, the church goers, the gimp kids, the photographers, the lawyers, the DJs, the British (heaps of us here!), the whole bunch. A special thanks to gatorade and vodka. SaraB, luv, keep up at it. GregTR
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Hi Mike!
And to the posts above yours, Hi Mike and Hi Mike!
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GregTR, good to see the release of the article has got you motivated and returned you to the fold, but some new evidence would be nice, please!
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No need to feel sorry for Mike, he counts on that sympathy to stroke his ego. He feels no remorse what he has put his family through and what they are going to live with FOREVER.Your kindness is misplaced with Mike. Because he is a lying, cheating, POS who cares only about himself.Mike wins!
Not sure why wrote:
RossiCheated wrote:
The "Can you find marathon cheater Mike Rossi???" video on Youtube jumped from 600 views on Tuesday to 750 yesterday to 1,121 right now.
That's a lot of people not finding Mike Rossi on that marathon course.
I hate to admit me, but part of me feels sorry for Mike. Even if letsrun is a niche site, this has got to be extremely humiliating. And knowing all this is out there for family, friends, coworkers to possibly find.
I hope it makes him a better man and not a worse one. Mike -- you can rebound. Cleanse your soul and start fresh. Make your kids proud.
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Why do any of you guys think that VIA had any obligation to include LR in their investigation ? Who are you ?
Do you think the NFL should've included you in their investigation of Tom Brady ? Or the Patriots Spygate investigation ?
Should FIFA be including you in their scandal investigation ?
How about the Pete Rose saga ?
What relevance would anyone associated with this board have in an unbiased investigation ? Particularly when none of you have ALL of the info .
VIA has no obligation to convince you . and why would they want to ?
"OHHHH BUT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SPORT IS SO IMPORTANT" goes the battle cry !
Exactly why you guys were NOT INCLUDED , because the integrity of the investigation required that you be excluded .
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somebloke wrote:
THE +1 GUY! I FORGOT THE +1 GUY!
somebloke wrote:
This post is to celebrate all of you beautiful creatures. Yes, you, all of you. The trolls, the anti-trolls, the kens, the mikes, the rojos, the doubters, the bloggers, the church goers, the gimp kids, the photographers, the lawyers, the DJs, the British (heaps of us here!), the whole bunch. A special thanks to gatorade and vodka. SaraB, luv, keep up at it. GregTR
Thank You !!!
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RossiCheated wrote:
Hi Mike!
And to the posts above yours, Hi Mike and Hi Mike!
Mike's working but I'll pass on your Hi to him tomorrow.
By way, wake up Kenny it's getting close to the time for you to start ranting and raving on here, you've got a lot to top after last night.
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Who are you guys ? wrote:
Why do any of you guys think that VIA had any obligation to include LR in their investigation ? Who are you ?
Do you think the NFL should've included you in their investigation of Tom Brady ? Or the Patriots Spygate investigation ?
Exactly why you guys were NOT INCLUDED , because the integrity of the investigation required that you be excluded .
Two thoughts.
1) If we had video of someone leaking air out of a football on the sidelines of an NFL game, or witnessed a team employee hiding in the stadium videotaping another team's walk through, you can bet your a$$ that the NFL would include us in the investigation. They would interview us, look at video we have, you name it. The marathon committee would have been wise to have done the same.
2) Hi Barb! (Or other LVHN Marathon race committee member who is beginning to know just how seriously you phucked this all up).
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Ken fell asleep wrote:
fafafafa wrote:
Could somebody please fill me in on the history between Ken (LoserMikeRossi) and Mike? I have no desire to wade through the entire damn thread. Thanks.
Ken fell asleep on the job and Mike had him sacked.
From the Ken himself:
LoserMikeRossi wrote:
Your DJ just happened to see me looking down at my phone while he ran to the bathroom. And if it was so embarrassing why didn't she just come over and wake me up. Or didn't you think to ask her that, stupid?
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Mike's co-worker wrote:
RossiCheated wrote:
Hi Mike!
And to the posts above yours, Hi Mike and Hi Mike!
Mike's working but I'll pass on your Hi to him tomorrow.
By way, wake up Kenny it's getting close to the time for you to start ranting and raving on here, you've got a lot to top after last night.
See if you better this one from last night Kenny:
LoserMikeRossi wrote:
I agree 100% with the above poster. Mike went an made a video called Boston Strong and posted it to CNN. He went and cut two baseball jerseys so that one side was Phillies and the other the Red Sox.
To make some kind of video claiming support for the Boston Marathon bombing victims and then CHEAT TO GET INTO THAT MARATHON is a total disgrace. Does he think he paid some kind of tribute to these people? It's sickening.
Then his Boston Video. Who would even watch that besides him and us, now that he is a total joke? Yelling into the camera, "Philly to Boston, baby!" with pride knowing he didn't deserve to be there.
Taking his family on vacation the very day his grandmother died? Is there anybody on this forum that wouldn't have just cancelled an stayed home with loved ones? In less he wasn't very close to her, in which case his point in the letter to the principal about overcoming death is moot.
I hope somebody in that school district is going to be paying extra special attention to the Rossi kids this year. My feeling is that they really need somebody from child services take a look at this household they are growing up in. Mike is clearly not a stable person and not fit to be a parent.
He is a crazed, narcissistic, sociopath, who cannot separate his own lies from reality.
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New evidence, please! wrote:
GregTR, good to see the release of the article has got you motivated and returned you to the fold, but some new evidence would be nice, please!
There is no new evidence and there is no need for any.
GregTR wrote:
The fact that the LVM committee and RD were incompetent and didn't come to the same conclusion as any reasonable person with basic understanding of running physiology, math and social behavior would is just as sad as Mike Rossi's cheating. But I will not turn this into my life's work. I did my due diligence and research to satisfy my curiosity about the validity of his run at LVM. Based on all the evidence and lack thereof currently I am 100% certain that he did not run the 3:11 at LVM regardless of what other people think, say or act. For me to change my opinion on this matter Mr. Rossi would have to produce positive proof that he did run the race or at the very least show evidence that he was capable of such performance. To this day he provided neither. As far as I'm concerned the ball is in his court #RusselsTeapot.
As for the rest of the participant of the thread, it's inconsequential to me what they think or feel. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but they're not entitled to their facts. And currently the facts indicate nothing but that Mr. Rossi cheated at LVM to obtain a BQ time, he is a narcissist a-hole and a total douche nozzle.
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I'm pretty darn proud of Rojo for this article. Good work!
I also appreciate that Rojo reached out to Mike to allow him to provide evidence that this is all just one big probabilistic nightmare.
And he left a HUGE gate wide open for Mike to redeem himself and make $10K!! -- a full year to run a 3:25 -- or, and I thought this was crazy, run a 20:00 5K. If Mike ran that 3:11, either of these are a piece of cake. Even if he didn't run it, both of these are doable for him with some training. How's that for giving the guy an out!
Brilliant Rojo!
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Who are you guys ? wrote:
Why do any of you guys think that VIA had any obligation to include LR in their investigation ? Who are you ?
Do you think the NFL should've included you in their investigation of Tom Brady ? Or the Patriots Spygate investigation ?
Should FIFA be including you in their scandal investigation ?
How about the Pete Rose saga ?
What relevance would anyone associated with this board have in an unbiased investigation ? Particularly when none of you have ALL of the info .
VIA has no obligation to convince you . and why would they want to ?
"OHHHH BUT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SPORT IS SO IMPORTANT" goes the battle cry !
Exactly why you guys were NOT INCLUDED , because the integrity of the investigation required that you be excluded .
I/we know who you are? Some of those same examples were said to me my none other than Mike Rossi. Busted!!!
Hey Mike, show us the pictures that you so loudly claim that you have! Why won't you show us? You post self-validation pictures every single day so we know you are not shy. Come on!
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RossiCheated wrote:
Who are you guys ? wrote:
Why do any of you guys think that VIA had any obligation to include LR in their investigation ? Who are you ?
Do you think the NFL should've included you in their investigation of Tom Brady ? Or the Patriots Spygate investigation ?
Exactly why you guys were NOT INCLUDED , because the integrity of the investigation required that you be excluded .
Two thoughts.
1) If we had video of someone leaking air out of a football on the sidelines of an NFL game, or witnessed a team employee hiding in the stadium videotaping another team's walk through, you can bet your a$$ that the NFL would include us in the investigation. They would interview us, look at video we have, you name it. The marathon committee would have been wise to have done the same.
2) Hi Barb! (Or other LVHN Marathon race committee member who is beginning to know just how seriously you phucked this all up).
Ok , but we don't . same reason we weren't included in the VIA investigation , because we don't have video of Mike jumping in or out of the race , we don't have video of Mike at the local cafe, or at a bar , or anywhere . Our "evidence" is no photos of him that WE HAVE ACCESS TO, that doesn't prove he wasn't in the race , We are missing a link , and it is not VIA or MR obligation to us to provide it to us . If MR was truly bothered by any of this, he'd show us what he may have shown VIA . But we are NOBODY . I know myself that i don't like being callied a nobody , but in this case we are because we don't have a photo or video of him somewhere else when he was supposed to be on the coarse I'm only pointing out the hard facts of why our months of work did not achieve the desired result . MR got away with it plain and simple .
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harsh reality wrote:
RossiCheated wrote:
Two thoughts.
1) If we had video of someone leaking air out of a football on the sidelines of an NFL game, or witnessed a team employee hiding in the stadium videotaping another team's walk through, you can bet your a$$ that the NFL would include us in the investigation. They would interview us, look at video we have, you name it. The marathon committee would have been wise to have done the same.
2) Hi Barb! (Or other LVHN Marathon race committee member who is beginning to know just how seriously you phucked this all up).
Ok , but we don't . same reason we weren't included in the VIA investigation , because we don't have video of Mike jumping in or out of the race , we don't have video of Mike at the local cafe, or at a bar , or anywhere . Our "evidence" is no photos of him that WE HAVE ACCESS TO, that doesn't prove he wasn't in the race , We are missing a link , and it is not VIA or MR obligation to us to provide it to us . If MR was truly bothered by any of this, he'd show us what he may have shown VIA . But we are NOBODY . I know myself that i don't like being callied a nobody , but in this case we are because we don't have a photo or video of him somewhere else when he was supposed to be on the coarse I'm only pointing out the hard facts of why our months of work did not achieve the desired result . MR got away with it plain and simple .
That could be true. I can only speak for myself -- I know that if I had cheated and was called out on the front page of letsrun.com, I don't think I'd be thinking to myself "Hee hee hee .. I got away with it! Yes!!!".
I'd be more like "Oh crap. Who the heck is going to stumble across this? My wife? My kids? My boss? My co-workers? Is this the end or will there be even more? Do all the runners at work go on letsrun.com?"
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abingtonrunner wrote:
Who are you guys ? wrote:
Why do any of you guys think that VIA had any obligation to include LR in their investigation ? Who are you ?
Do you think the NFL should've included you in their investigation of Tom Brady ? Or the Patriots Spygate investigation ?
Should FIFA be including you in their scandal investigation ?
How about the Pete Rose saga ?
What relevance would anyone associated with this board have in an unbiased investigation ? Particularly when none of you have ALL of the info .
VIA has no obligation to convince you . and why would they want to ?
"OHHHH BUT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SPORT IS SO IMPORTANT" goes the battle cry !
Exactly why you guys were NOT INCLUDED , because the integrity of the investigation required that you be excluded .
I/we know who you are? Some of those same examples were said to me my none other than Mike Rossi. Busted!!!
Hey Mike, show us the pictures that you so loudly claim that you have! Why won't you show us? You post self-validation pictures every single day so we know you are not shy. Come on!
Heyyyyy I got a live one on the line oooooo hoo hoo , it'll be a hot time in the ole town tonight . why don't you show me where i was instead ?
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We can agree to disagree.
I see it this way; if a witness said, "Yep, I saw him leave the course," they would have probably called that conclusive and disqualified him. But eye witnesses are wrong all the time. I think the photographic evidence is better than that. Being photographed doing something once, or not being photographed doing something thousands of times have a weight that can evaluated by a jury. I think what we have is conclusive and the Brojos have risked being sued because they agree.
Also, he didn't get away with it. When everyone knows you did something and your legacy will be that you are a cheat, I don't think you got away with it. He has escaped sanctions. That's about it.
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My guess is that Mike just sat in his car somewhere during the marathon. Likely a parking garage near the finish. Looking at pictures of himself on his phone.
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