Mike Rossi hits "rock bottom", vows to "become a better person" after being arrested for "simple assault" of woman

Bravo. I'm glad there's finally someone else on here that wants people to know the real Mike. The real story is the one you don't hear in the news.

Speed up pardners 7 wrote:

I know Mike and he's a good guy. He's a nice guy who definitely would NOT cheat in a marathon. The wife beating thing and other arrest were a total anomaly. His latest charges will be dropped assuming his wife doesn't file for divorce. She won't though as he's a family man that she loves. He personifies greatness through his life. He inspires kids to stand up for themselves and is a sensational leader within the community. He enjoys publicity and obviously the media loves to play up bad publicity and create a villain from a hero.

By all means do not become a statistic. You need help before you or the family get in more serious trouble from a woman beater. Just go talk or call one of the many links that have been posted. You have seen Mike spiral out of control, he is not to be trusted in words, judge his actions.

No hero behaves like Mike. That is just ludicrous and if you can't see it then he has brainwashed you. Get help NOW.

I feel like this is the point where the guy has turned the corner. He acknowledged and made a generalized apology publicly on Facebook - that must have been hard and seems significant. A lot of amends making privately as well one would think.

I think he has suffered enough and made as much of a public mea culpa as reasonably can expect. I wish him and his family and friends good luck.

Ghost out wrote:

I feel like this is the point where the guy has turned the corner. He acknowledged and made a generalized apology publicly on Facebook - that must have been hard and seems significant. A lot of amends making privately as well one would think.

I think he has suffered enough and made as much of a public mea culpa as reasonably can expect. I wish him and his family and friends good luck.

Ha! People like Rossi won't change. When was the last time you saw a wife beater change? Their behaviour is ingrained.

Rossi says he would deactivate his Facebook weeks ago but yet it is still active.

Ghost out wrote:

I feel like this is the point where the guy has turned the corner. He acknowledged and made a generalized apology publicly on Facebook - that must have been hard and seems significant. A lot of amends making privately as well one would think.

I think he has suffered enough and made as much of a public mea culpa as reasonably can expect. I wish him and his family and friends good luck.

Agreed! A general public admission on FB is all anyone needs to do to fully turn the corner. We should just accept it and move on with our lives,he clearly has. Let's hope Victor stops reporting on his behavior too,it can't help that everyone knows what he does wrong.

"...as much as a public mea culpa as can be reasonably expected..."

Really?

The guy carefully admitted to nothing and he is still being a turd on social media. Any remotely aware observer would see through Mike's "apology" as nothing more than an attempt to paint a picture to help his chances of ducking real punishment for his reprehensible assault.

Don't answer the door to salesmen... you seem to be an easy mark.

He has admitted NOTHING.

Cheating, lying, threats of violence and death.

Hi Mike...or is it Hi Cindy!

Liars Among Us wrote:

He has admitted NOTHING.

Cheating, lying, threats of violence and death.

Hi Mike...or is it Hi Cindy!

If you lived in the community you would know how well respected he is. Daddy, business man, family man, coach and always just willing to help those in need.

Buckaroo Bonzai wrote:

Liars Among Us wrote:

He has admitted NOTHING.

Cheating, lying, threats of violence and death.

Hi Mike...or is it Hi Cindy!

If you lived in the community you would know how well respected he is. Daddy, business man, family man, coach and always just willing to help those in need.

Or a wife beater, cheater, drunk

Buckaroo Bonzai wrote:

Liars Among Us wrote:

He has admitted NOTHING.

Cheating, lying, threats of violence and death.

Hi Mike...or is it Hi Cindy!

If you lived in the community you would know how well respected he is. Daddy, business man, family man, coach and always just willing to help those in need.

All lies. Everyone near and far knows him for the despicable woman beating person he is.

Oh please... wrote:

"...as much as a public mea culpa as can be reasonably expected..."

Really?

The guy carefully admitted to nothing and he is still being a turd on social media. Any remotely aware observer would see through Mike's "apology" as nothing more than an attempt to paint a picture to help his chances of ducking real punishment for his reprehensible assault.

Don't answer the door to salesmen... you seem to be an easy mark.

Nope. I am still on the side of forgiving and moving on. If I was the Pope I could just do this and make it happen. As a runner I hereby forgive him and move on, no one else has to. I'll leave the court stuff to the courts they'll get it right. I just think everyone has gone Arya Stark on him enough so let the Hound go. But that's me and I like tinder the good in people. On to Football.

I wonder how many times mike Rossi has posted in this read as a random person defending mike.

This guy is very sick

Buckaroo Bonzai wrote:

Liars Among Us wrote:

He has admitted NOTHING.

Cheating, lying, threats of violence and death.

Hi Mike...or is it Hi Cindy!

If you lived in the community you would know how well respected he is. Daddy, business man, family man, coach and always just willing to help those in need.

Ok, now this one HAS to be Rossi. No one else could say that with a straight face.

Ghost out wrote:

I feel like this is the point where the guy has turned the corner. He acknowledged and made a generalized apology publicly on Facebook - that must have been hard and seems significant. A lot of amends making privately as well one would think.

I think he has suffered enough and made as much of a public mea culpa as reasonably can expect. I wish him and his family and friends good luck.

Turned the corner? Are you kidding me? Yes, he turned the corner and has become even worse than before, or at least the worst part of him has been publicly confirmed.

His generalized apology was nothing more than a self-serving and insincere grab for attention and sympathy. The ONLY REASON he made that statement that you call a generalized apology is because he was busted for punching a woman who was described in the article that appeared to be his wife. Whether it was or was not is irrelevant, he punched a woman! In other words, his apology was because he was caught, not because he felt bad or realized that he done bad things or made bad choices. Most people are apologetic when they are caught.

In addition, I can assure you that he never thought that his arrest would come out, at least publicly. So he made this apology which brought him sympathy and sunshine blown up his butt, because everyone on FB and around him had no idea he beat a woman at a concert that he and his wife attended. The apology was disingenuous and deceptive.

As for his generalized apology,

I have officially hit rock bottom. - Actually your descent started 2.5 years ago and in all honesty, you have not yet hit rock bottom, it just may feel that way because of your hubris and thinking you are above the lectures you gave on Facebook and elsewhere, like another infamous liberal lecturer, former President Obama. He liked to lecture the public but often didn't follow his own lectures. You were akin to his do as I say, not as I do because you felt and believed that you could anything with no recourse, which for you meant, resorting to violence, lying and cheating.

It's been a hellish past 2 1/2 years and despite my positive public persona it's taken a toll on my family and I. - You once espoused about the lessons that your children learned on the trip to Boston. One of the takeaways here is that there are no shortcuts to any place worth going or any goal worth achieving. You cheated and then lied about during these 2.5 years, leaving a wake of destruction for you, your family and countless others. You positive public persona was another lie bestowed upon others at their expense along with your personal attacks, threats and stalking. The toll is solely a result of your own actions, words and choices.

Most of it I brought on myself and I take full responsibility - Actually, you brought it solely (not most) on yourself. No one else helped. It started with your self righteous letter to the principal, who was doing her job according to the Township policies and simply carrying out her professional duties. She was following the rules, rules that you believed you were above, a common theme in your life. In other words, she had and has integrity and ethics. That was the catalyst, but what ignited your downfall, was first cheating and the perpetual lying about it, threatening anyone who questioned you and stalking those who dare ask legitimate questions. Worse, you believed your own lies which fed into your boldness and blind hubris. As for taking full responsibility, well, so far all you have done is said you take responsibility, which given your history of lies, leaves a lot to be desired. Talk is cheap. Actions speaks louder than words. If you really take full responsibility, now is the time to admit that you cheated at VIA Marathon. The public is a very forgiving body. Saying that you take full responsibility is easy, demonstrating it though is the hard part. Time will tell, starting with September 18.

To mask the pain I reached for the bottle and it became an addiction. - Yes, lets blame alcohol instead of yourself. Once again, it is someone or something else. That is the easy way out. Let's blame alcohol for your violence, which in all honesty, had you not assaulted someone this past weekend, in other words, gotten caught, you would not be taking "responsibility" and taking forever to deactivate your Facebook page. Typical I am sorry that I got caught, not sorry for my actions and words!

Now I have to change. Completely - Yes, now you have to because you were caught and given an ultimatum by you know who and you know why. As do we. But it is "you have to change" instead of that you want to change. There is a difference and it is not semantics.

I am sorry to anyone, friends and enemies alike, for anything I said or did to hurt you. Some of the things I've done and said are troubling to me. -

Saying that is one thing, demonstrating it is another thing. "Some"? Confess that you cheated and lied about it, then let's talk.

I am going to fight to become a better person and the man my family deserves. - Fight, huh? Appropriate word choice. It starts with admitting that you cheated and lied because that will dog you forever until it is put to rest and the same demons that you allege earlier will still be there and you are likely to fall off the proverbial wagon again when challenged or asked about VIA. Confess for not only your sake, but more importantly, you family's.

I'll be getting off social media to work on getting better. - Before you do, post an admission that you cheated and lied. Otherwise no matter what you do, that will be there, and you will face it for the rest of your life and you will struggle with staying better.

Now that it is out that you hit your wife, Rock Bottom, everyone finally sees that your public persona was nothing more than more lies littered with hypocrisy. All the bragging about this and that, and trying to convince everyone how much you cherished your wife or bride was a lied capped off by assaulting her and then trying to blame alcohol and everyone else. You recently posted on Facbook several times that when one erases history, history is likely to repeat itself. Yet you have deleted yet another one of your many Twitter accounts and your several Facebook profiles. Hypocrite.

It is time for you to talk less and demonstrate your sincerity..........

Confess that you cheated at VIA. The public can be and is very forgiving. But it is you who needs to take that step first and the rest will follow.

Patek Philippe wrote:

Ok, now this one HAS to be Rossi. No one else could say that with a straight face.

Another Kip tactic, a snowstorm of "what a guy" posts

Down goes Rossi wrote:

I wonder how many times mike Rossi has posted in this read as a random person defending mike.

This guy is very sick

Probably zero times.

You may well be right. Time will tell as this guy is under watchful eye of press so things come out. I choose to hope and think he has turned a corner, maybe I am wrong but I thought this was first time any effort at anything even remotely resembling an apology or accountability of any kind came from him.

So that seems like a change to me but I see how it could be seen as more manipulative survival behavior that is suspect.

Anyway back to football

Yeah if you were the Pope, who looks the other way and protects the pedophile priests.....sounds about right...

It's me wrote:

Ghost out wrote:

Nope. I am still on the side of forgiving and moving on. If I was the Pope I could just do this and make it happen. As a runner I hereby forgive him and move on, no one else has to. I'll leave the court stuff to the courts they'll get it right. I just think everyone has gone Arya Stark on him enough so let the Hound go. But that's me and I like tinder the good in people. On to Football.

Yeah if you were the Pope, who looks the other way and protects the pedophile priests.....sounds about right...

Yeah I don't want to be the Pope. Now that I think about it I think forgiveness is probably not something for me to bother with as I don't know the guy. I just think I will lose interest until the next debacle occurs