To formerbosox9yo: Please stop with your lists

Can you PLEASE STOP posting these ridiculous posts? The board has been taken over with your meaningless posts. You have an opinion on who is best and how a race will turn out. Fine, you are entitled to it. Everybody has an opinion of who the best is an a particular event but no one else is wasting time posting about EVERY event in track and field (and every position in baseball, etc.). The lists are completely irrelevant; there is no way anyone can predict how a race between a runner from 1967 and one from 2014 would play out. And it is just insane to declare specific times that each would run.

I am starting to believe you are simply a troll who is trying to get under the skin of LetsRun posters because you know there is a lot of hatred for dopers here. Your lists are full of some of the most notorious drug dopers of all time and you defend them like they deserve to be called "the best." Koch, Kratochvilova, Griffith-Joyner -- are you serious? And you purposely leave off some athletes who are universally considered among the best of all time by all authorities on the sport; again, I think this is done simply to be a troll and stir up angry responses.

If you want to make imaginary lists, do so. Just please stop wasting space on this message board with your trollisms. I think the "9yo" in your name is probably accurate.

nobody takes them seriously but you wrote:
Can you PLEASE STOP posting these ridiculous posts? The board has been taken over with your meaningless posts. You have an opinion on who is best and how a race will turn out. Fine, you are entitled to it. Everybody has an opinion of who the best is an a particular event but no one else is wasting time posting about EVERY event in track and field (and every position in baseball, etc.). The lists are completely irrelevant; there is no way anyone can predict how a race between a runner from 1967 and one from 2014 would play out. And it is just insane to declare specific times that each would run.
I am starting to believe you are simply a troll who is trying to get under the skin of LetsRun posters because you know there is a lot of hatred for dopers here. Your lists are full of some of the most notorious drug dopers of all time and you defend them like they deserve to be called "the best." Koch, Kratochvilova, Griffith-Joyner -- are you serious? And you purposely leave off some athletes who are universally considered among the best of all time by all authorities on the sport; again, I think this is done simply to be a troll and stir up angry responses.
If you want to make imaginary lists, do so. Just please stop wasting space on this message board with your trollisms. I think the "9yo" in your name is probably accurate.

I've deliberately limited my postings to one event a day max, with several days of no updates if discussion on one thread is "taking up space". My intent is to avoid taking over a fair portion of the board (dont want more than one thread on the first page), but get good insight into who the greatest runners are in the history of the sport at each event, particularly in events I'm less knowledgeable about. We have great minds here at letsrun.com, and I'd like to tap those heads.

I agree, it's impossible to know the exact outcome between athletes of different eras, but that is part of the fun. Otherwise it's easy for me to tell you that Flip would likely currently win among all european 1500m runners.

Obviously PEDs have historically been a part of our sport. I'm not going to ignore that. I'm looking to determine the greatest runners ever, and to do so you must consider that some athletes may have very well been doped and some we can all hope have been clean. I'm doing my best to equalize, but obviously that is a challenge.

Rather than start a thread with theories about what can or cannot be done, I suggest you make a fair attempt at who would win in a fantasy race, and contribute towards the discussion. You may amaze yourself with what you are able to think of, and maybe you'd bring a lot of light on a particular topic. The point here is to collaborate and build upon each others knowledge. Happy trails.

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