Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

switek wrote:

Just Wow. wrote:

All this guy had to do was run Boston and not say a word and he never would've been caught cheating. Makes me wonder how many Mike Rossi's cheat their way into Boston each year?

Is he a radio personality where we can call into his show and confront him on the air?

Station Address :

92.5 XTU

555 E. City Ave (Suite 330)

Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-1137

Business phone: 610-667-9000

Request lines: 215-263-6700

Station Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 5:00pm

Contacts:

Jim Loftus – VP of Sales

Mark Rayfield – Senior VP / Market Manager

Shelly Easton – Program Director

Mark Razz – Music Director

Laura Lombardi – General Sales Manager

Carrie Miller – Promotion Director

http://925xtu.cbslocal.com/contact-xtu/

Can someone in Eastern Pennsylvania tell if Mike Rossi is still "on air" at 92.5 XTU? Believe his time slot was 10am - 2pm.

THX.

Petting Zoo Aficionado wrote:

Also, I love that people who bemoan the T-ball participation award for 4 year olds always have a shrine to their 5k finisher medals in their home.

^fixed.

Seen this new link of photos. A couple seem to be indicating he cheated. Please review:

http://memegenerator.net/Mikerossicheat

Is it just me or is he not on that radio stations website anywhere? I know that is the right station, he has it on his own business website - and I swore I saw him on there earlier this week???

messi wrote:

Can someone in Eastern Pennsylvania tell if Mike Rossi is still "on air" at 92.5 XTU? Believe his time slot was 10am - 2pm.

THX.

If you, or anyone else, wants to continue looking at pictures you are certainly entitled. But I am very comfortable saying that we have looked at every one that is available to us and he isn't there. Perhaps the marathon officials have photos we don't but the odds of you finding him in the available photos is the same as the odds that he ran this marathon; zilch.

Faster than flash photography.

That's the money shot.

Slip Stream Ready wrote:

I also was about to point out that "IP Address" could have simply copy and pasted. Please post a screen shot if this is legit. He may be lying, but he also may be right.

Nope "IP Address" is not right. A google mail server is not a comcastic Internet gateway.

mail-vn0-f46.google.com. is a mail server host that resolves to 209.85.216.46 owned by Google and somewhere in Los Angeles. 98.235.239.44 is an Internet gateway address owned by Comcast located somewhere in Pennsylvania.

I hope that makes sense. I was a dope not to see it the first time.

I agree. We won't find him. I was just checking with another set of eyes.

I may check more next week. But he cheated. In just the sampling of notes I've made. He's no where on the course.

534 wrote:

Raysism wrote:

In reverse order:

7:56 -- 34 photos

7:55 -- 21 photos

7:54 -- 17 photos (includes 2:47 finisher)

Before that, it's just the leaders. Even when there was almost no one to photograph, he was taking a photo every 2 or 3 seconds.

Okay, I found one more place in the photo stream where all the runners who finished within 10 places of Rossi appear. It is an uncrowded path and the runners are fairly broken up. The timestamps run between 9:51 AM and 9:57 AM.

And now excuse me, but I'm going to go drink outside. it's an awesome weekend.

Well done.

HeCheated wrote:

Faster than flash photography.

That's the money shot.

HAHA!

Go to memegenerator.net and search - MikeRossiCheats or MikeRossiCheats1

make your own!

Oh my. Tough love indeed.

Rossi Ruiz wrote:

Seen this new link of photos. A couple seem to be indicating he cheated. Please review:

http://memegenerator.net/Mikerossicheat

messi wrote:

Can someone in Eastern Pennsylvania tell if Mike Rossi is still "on air" at 92.5 XTU? Believe his time slot was 10am - 2pm.

THX.

It looks like he fills in for regular on-air talent because the CBS station has only one mention for him.

**Our own Mike Rossi is running in the Marathon today.**

HeCheated wrote:

If you, or anyone else, wants to continue looking at pictures you are certainly entitled. But I am very comfortable saying that we have looked at every one that is available to us and he isn't there. Perhaps the marathon officials have photos we don't but the odds of you finding him in the available photos is the same as the odds that he ran this marathon; zilch.

Truth. The Yahoo folks have gone through them too.

Oh you guys are FAST & GOOD! memegenerator.net - search mikerossicheat or mikerossicheat1

iiagdtr wrote:

Oh my. Tough love indeed.

Rossi Ruiz wrote:

Seen this new link of photos. A couple seem to be indicating he cheated. Please review:

http://memegenerator.net/Mikerossicheat

A collection would make a great book! Especially for those pre-race potty preparations.

Rossi Ruiz wrote:

Oh you guys are FAST & GOOD!

memegenerator.net - search mikerossicheat or mikerossicheat1

iiagdtr wrote:

Oh my. Tough love indeed.

Apologies if this has been covered (hard to keep up), but the pod thingy on his left foot is the same in both photos, and he reckons he didn't log the Via marathon. Strange.

http://imgur.com/SGqxK2q

http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

If all he did was cheat at some marathon, that's one thing. He used that time to get into Boston which means someone didn't get to go to Boston because of his fraud. That's why it matters.

Experienced Kip Watcher wrote:

wowzersss wrote:

Certainly not Mike and not emotional even a little bit(I know its tough to believe that more than one person on earth thinks you are a loser). I have a life so I don't get as fired up about all of this as you. Just pointing out that you asking questions to yourself is a bit sad and egocentric.

Because repeatedly visiting a thread to pour scorn on the motives of those taking part (which includes you) is so much nobler I see. While you are at it, why not visit every thread on this site to which you don't personally approve and tell them what losers they are, go on, everyone will thank you for such a valuable service.

I could put my finger up my butt and smell it, and that would provide a more valuable service than this thread.

Something substantive to add wrote:

Chinese hacker wrote:

You don't need to know Chinese hackers to spam a board. Any active board attracts spammers. This board intentionally has very lax access controls (like, none), so when spammers see it at the top of google search results, they attack it.

What's the Chinese character for "sarcasm"?

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