Baby Nationals

hey, I'm not on here correcting anyone else's grammar, so I could give a damn about mine.

Flood him with emails.

you won't do it

I mean maybe if it were clever or funny, but it wasn't even that. Stick to your website Wejo, comedy isn't your thing.

its a short season wrote:

you won't do it

My "send" button hurts.

wejo wrote:

I got an email from someone complaining that we weren't coverng NAIA, DIII, DII Nationals.

So I put up a link to the results.

For my headline above the results I said, "Baby Nationals Underway".

And now the emails are coming in saying it's offensive. I figured a few people would complain as the DIII guys have complained a lot in the past.

I don't think I'm going to change it but I'm open to hearing people's opinion. Are people really that sensitive?

What am I supposed to call them?

Did this same thing happen last year? I'll check the archives.

amazing, the troll sickness has now infiltrated letsrun at the highest levels!!

DONE!

trackshark from now on

Wejo will now refer to these as "the pussy nationals for those afraid to turn pro"

Wejo probably just has sand in his vag because some NAIA, DII or DIII runner stole his girlfriend. She couldn't deal with his insecurity.

I think to get offended over it is really stupid too. It's the writing of someone who obviously is very insecure and wants to feel big. This is not a quality you will find in a confident person. Confident people don't need to say/do things to seem big.

Which is why this whole "issue" is hilarious. Wejo can write whatever he wants. His site. The things people get worked up about are just his opinions. You shouldn't care about his opinion, I know I don't.

It's like on "the week in review" which I generally enjoy reading. If one of the Jo's picked a runner to win, or a team to win, etc...they write about how smart they are for a paragraph or two. I just roll my eyes and hope they are joking.

Guideline for level of offensiveness: would you make the baby national comment in personal conversation with: Joe Vigil Nick Symmonds Pat Porter Bryan Clay Dennis Barker Josh Moen Damn Martin Scott Bauhs. If you wouldnt why not. If you would you are an ass

I'm editing what I originally wrote to make it clearer

I got an email from someone complaining that we weren't coverng NAIA, DIII, DII Nationals.

So I put up a link to the results.

For my headline above the results I said, "Baby Nationals Underway".

And now I've received a few emails saying its offensive.

So my question is do a lot of people really think this is offensive. (after looking in the archives I see this happened last year)

Obviously if I called it "lesser nationals" or something that would be just a slap in the face. But "baby nationals" the attempt is just to designate that these are like the kid brother to the big Kahuna. Are people overreacting and too sensitive or am a jerk?

njmatt wrote:

I think to get offended over it is really stupid too. It's the writing of someone who obviously is very insecure and wants to feel big. This is not a quality you will find in a confident person. Confident people don't need to say/do things to seem big.

Which is why this whole "issue" is hilarious. Wejo can write whatever he wants. His site. The things people get worked up about are just his opinions. You shouldn't care about his opinion, I know I don't.

It's like on "the week in review" which I generally enjoy reading. If one of the Jo's picked a runner to win, or a team to win, etc...they write about how smart they are for a paragraph or two. I just roll my eyes and hope they are joking.

Let me clarify one thing. I think my initial post was poorly written and I have edited it (see the new one if you want). The use of the word baby was not in any way shape or form meant to call the runners "babies". It was an attempt to distinguish the nationals from the DI nationals. Like they are the kid brother to the big Kahuna. I stated that poorly in the original post.

The hostility of the responses

Here's the link from last year:

http://www.letsrun.com/2007/homepage0527.php

I guess we survived then and we'll survive now.

yeah it is offensive and you come off as an arrogant jackass. Those guys work just as hard as any other college runners and in most cases the only difference is they just don't have the same level of genetic talent. Why not just call it DII nationals, or DII or NAIA? I mean do you really think people need to see the "baby nationals" to know what you are talking about? NO. The ONLY reason you do it is to slight those people who work extremely hard and get MUCH MUCH less than their DI counterparts.

Therefor giving us who gave thought negatively of it a Napoleon complex...nice.

But in actuality I just wanted to call you out for coming off as cocky and arrogant. In reality I don't know you. The kid brother thing makes a little bit of sense.

I stand by my point that any self respecting runner (DIII or other) shouldn't care what the founder of a website thinks of them. It's like those people who spew garbage like: "DIII runners are doing it for the love of the sport, not to one day make money"...stupid stupid stupid stupid. Napoleon complexes are just as bad as arrogant people who sit on their high horse.

If anyone has Symmonds or Leer's contact information, I'd love to get their perspective on this blatant disrespect by Wejo.

Give me a break...are you people really that damn sensitive that you take offense to "baby nationals". Suck it up and grow a layer of skin. If something like this offends you, I can't imagine what real issues upset you in life.

It's not like he called it "people that weren't good enough to make D1 at the beginning of their careers nationals"

Quit being babies. No pun intended.

I'm stunned this is at all an issue I went to a D2 and I'm not in the least bit bothered by it. It wasn't offensive and if people are so sensitive as to be offended by it they have no where to look but at their own insecurities to find the reason why.

nate jenkins