How are any of you not voting for matt stairs? HE'S MATT F...ING STAIRS. The sickest baseball player to ever live.
How are any of you not voting for matt stairs? HE'S MATT F...ING STAIRS. The sickest baseball player to ever live.
The Fort Fairfield girls basketball get my vote.
Let'srun voting has changed the course of history and thoroughly pissed off one soccer player.
A sub 4 in Maine is worth a 3:52 in California.
Come on wrote:
The hockey player was the number one scorer in DI. Riley isn't even the best miler. Sub 4's legit and I would kill to do it, but when making cross sport comparisons here, it's hard to argue against the hockey player.
Not really. The hockey player depends very much on his team to help him get those scores. The runner has to do all the work himself. As far as individual achievement being measured, the runner wins hands down.
All the athletes in the poll deserve some sort of recognition and I congratulate each one of them but voted for the runner.
Riley Masters should thank us for adding to the junk medals and plaque collection that he has accumulated over the years. Honestly, who gives a f$%^ about the Bangor Daily News athlete of the year award? As far as I am concerned, Bangor doesn't have any "real" athletes. I've honestly never even heard of Bangor before but the "Bang" part makes me laugh. Sexual innuendos are always really funny especially when embedded in a name or city.
Anyway, 3:52 is the new 3:59. F^&^ you, Riley. F$%$ you, Bangkok.
put on the brakes son wrote:
How are any of you not voting for matt stairs? HE'S MATT F...ING STAIRS. The sickest baseball player to ever live.
His career fell down the Stairs
Riley's at 717 - over 500 votes ahead of 2nd - woot woot.
I'm shocked the football player is in last place, and equally shocked the soccer player is in second. 1900 yards is absurd, and the soccer player wasn't even the state's highest scorer, just his own team's.
vote for runner wrote:
Not really. The hockey player depends very much on his team to help him get those scores. The runner has to do all the work himself. As far as individual achievement being measured, the runner wins hands down.
All the athletes in the poll deserve some sort of recognition and I congratulate each one of them but voted for the runner.
This is idiotic. Basically you are stating that achievements in "individual" sports are always greater than achievements in "team" sports. This is simply not true.
In regards to him doing all the work by himself...
Does he have a coach to train him?
Teammates to run with him?
Fans to support him?
Did he compete against others in the race?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then he certainly did not do all of the work by himself.
Further:
Did he win the race by a wide margin leading from wire to wire, receiving no potential "assistance" due to wind being blocked or a chase pack motivating him?
If the answer is no, then he did not do all of the work by himself.
Don't be ridiculous. Of course the hockey player is better than this kid. So is Matt Stairs. He is a professional baseball player. This kid won't ever be a professional runner.
How many guys go sub-4 in any given year? It's not that many. It would be akin to making the all star team in MLB. So it has to be between Matt Stair and Riley Masters. The others had nice achivements but they are not really that close to the top level of their respective sports.
Stairs.
Riley Masters kissed me once.
where?
Riley now has over 900 votes, compared to second place with 170.
:D success.
[quote]put on the brakes son wrote:
How are any of you not voting for matt stairs? HE'S MATT F...ING STAIRS. The sickest baseball player to ever live.[/quote
In case of emergency, use Stairs!
A sub 4 minute mile is not world class.
I voted for Matt Stairs. He's in his 40's and still hitting major league home runs.
The vast majority of top North American hockey players play in the CHL as juniors and then are drafted by the NHL when they turn 18. They then either go back to Juniors for another year or two to develop, play in the minors, or a few make it right into the NHL. Very few of the top NHL prospects bother going to college for 4+ years as it restricts their earning potential by forcing them to remain amateur athletes. If the top junior athletes from Canada and the US all decided to start going to the NCAA before going pro, the collegiate hockey player in question would most likely be an after-thought.
By comparison, nearly all of the top high school distance running talent goes on to college, as most runners will never be good enough to earn a living from their sport and most distance runners tend to be well-suited for academic success (driven to get good grades).
For my money, being one of the top collegiate milers is more impressive than being one of the top collegiate hockey players
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... being one of the top collegiate milers is more impressive than being one of the top collegiate hockey players ...
it's because you have a man crush on these runner boys.
Hockey vote.
Don't vote for the hockey player. Top scorer in the nation does not compare to All-American for the mile. The talent pool of college hockey is so small. Outside of the northeast and some states in the midwest college hockey doesn't exist. Masters has to compete with runners across the entire nation and lots of foreigners, more than the chunk of Canadians that play college hockey.
GO RILEY!