My pussy itches. Valtrex must be kicking in.
My pussy itches. Valtrex must be kicking in.
Saturday seems much better than Fri - much bigger crowds and it could be live on tv. Who's going to watch on a Fri? I'm a big track fan and I wouldn't waste a day off to watch it on a Fri. On a Sat, you could have people watch a little after the Freedom Run and just people hanging out in the park on their day off.
I am willing to wager that you will not get live national tv coverage for a trials race on a Sat in November. I am also going on record as saying that the majority of people in town for the NYC marathon won't give a shit about the OT. They are too concerned about their own needs, which will include, shopping, dining and sightseeing.
Our papers, just 28 miles from NYC, didn't even mention the results of the half. The News and Post had a blurb of less than 2 paragraphs. The coverage will be the same as St. Louis, Pitt, SC, and Alabama. Only difference is a few more reporters will want to go because it's NY.
Rainbow room wrote:
I am willing to wager that you will not get live national tv coverage for a trials race on a Sat in November. I am also going on record as saying that the majority of people in town for the NYC marathon won't give a shit about the OT.
There will be more coverage in NY than anywhere else simply because we live in the media capital of the world. While the average New Yorker does normally pursue more sophisticated things than most of the country, the Olympic trials are likely to bring many thousands to Central Park.
Shove the sophisticated up your ass. God I wish I knew who you were. Like the previous poster I want my turing of pummeling you...
If New York is so good at getting media coverage of their events, then where has all the coverage of other races there been? Cross-Country Nationals were there this past winter and got basically no press outside New York and very little even in New York. Same with the track meet that was there in June and the 8k Championships in years past. How about the recent New York Half Marathon? Same deal. The annual NYC Marathon gets some press from local media, but very little other coverage. In fact, my local paper will often have a story on the Boston Marathon, but I can't ever remember it having any coverage of New York. NY sub elite, you over-inflated ego and opinion of your beloved city is comical.
You are exactly right. The cross nationals in Boston have received five times the press and 10 times the number of spectators. NYC marathon draws interest because it is a zoo not because sophisticated New Yorkers are atuned to running.
DAC wrote:
The annual NYC Marathon gets some press from local media, but very little other coverage.
I guess that's true - as long as you consider the NATIONAL NETWORK BROADCAST to be "very little other coverage."
Puh-leeze.
Not everybody gets that National broadcast believe it or not because some local affiliates would rather air other programming (they don't consider the NYCM to be a big deal - GASP!). Also, NY coverage is always tape delayed, no more than an hour in length, and is more about P-Diddy or whoever than the elite runners. Boston, on the other hand, has gotten live coverage on ESPN or OLN for years. If you think NY is going to provide any significant amount of additional media coverage for the Trials, you're dreaming. A little more, maybe, but even that's a stretch. Man you NY people are high on yourselves.
NYC sub sandwich wrote:
[quote]DAC wrote:
I guess that's true - as long as you consider the NATIONAL NETWORK BROADCAST to be "very little other coverage."
Puh-leeze.
Ask most people about the marathon and I bet they mention the shot of the start of the NY marathon over any other in the world. Every year it's beamed not only across national television but across the world. Coverage for the trials grew ten fold the day NY was awarded the event.
NY sub elite wrote:
Coverage for the trials grew ten fold the day NY was awarded the event.
Yes indeedy. And even here in our little letsrun community, Trials awareness and discussion is at a much more fevered pitch than usual, thanks to the venue. It's still fourteen months away and people are already this excited - that's really something!
I'm just funnin' with y'all. New York City is an overrated shithole and this marathon was just a heartless mercenary power grab.
I like transsexuals in bunhuggers.
Who am I really?
Here's the deal from what I can tell. The reasons not to have the Trials in New York are many and most of them are valid arguments. The reasons to have the Trials in New York are few, and they're also pretty weak. Sure New York is a fine place, but the Trials aren't about getting a group of guys together to run in a fine place. They should be about the athletes and about picking the best team for the Olympics. Basically the reasons not to have the Trials in NY far outweigh the reasons to, but money talks. The NYRR wanted to buy the Trials, and unfortunately the powers that be let them do just that at the expense of the athletes.
This situation is no different than the track trials. Nike wanted Eugene and offered enough money to USATF to make it happen. The athletes will always be an afterthought.
read Culpepper's interview on RRW last week, he thought having the trials in NYC was a very good idea, and had a whole bunch of reasons.
Is he under contract from New York? If so we are not interested in his opinion as it is being payed for it.
DAC wrote:
NY sub elite, you over-inflated ego and opinion of your beloved city is comical.
A confession, from "NY sub elite". The above quote from DAC is 100% true. I'm not from NY, the posts were meant to be comical and a few of you got it right away. BUT, they did sound like they were coming from a New Yorker, didn't they?
Most of what I wrote in the posts was a re-hashing of comments made around here from the pompus, self absorbed blowhards who act like NY is the center of the world and the rest of us live in their shadow. Hope you had some fun with it. FLAME AWAY!
Money really does talk wrote:
Is he under contract from New York? If so we are not interested in his opinion as it is being payed for it.
Yes, Culpepper is running NY this year, so of course he wouldn't say anything bad about the selection. Most of the top guys wouldn't give their honest opinion because they know that at some point they might want to run races put on by the NYRR and could hurt themselves financially if they made any negative comments. I think most athletes, from the top guys right down to the guys just hoping to dip under 2:22, would have preferred a Spring date, but it is what it is and everyone just has to deal with it. When all is said and done, most of the guys who deserve to be there will get there, but that doesn't excuse the fact that this was a poor decision.