OK in the 1st degree wrote:
.... your presumptions are about on par what I would expect from someone with his face to a microscope and chemical fumes in his nostrils 8 hours per day. Not impressed. I honestly can't see what's so noble about what you do, but then I'm not a thoughtless lemming. Disease is actually quite necessary, far beyond keeping your unproductive skill set employed.
As to the idiot analogizer, the prize structure at Boston isn't set up as salary or hourly wages. It's too bad that the dorks all hung up on what the clock says can't enjoy the intrinsic beauty of the sport. Probably the same type of dullards who can't enjoy strong team defense in football and basketball or a perfect game or even a shut-out in baseball.
Wow, what a fantastically asinine post! "intrinsic beauty of the sport"...oh, carry on you running wordsworth you. Is Haile Geb a "dork all hung up on the clock" ? Go tell him that yourself jackass. The CLOCK has always been an INTRINSIC part of running, in case you didn't get the memo. And a "perfect game" in running would be a 2:15 marathon for a woman, not a jog and then a kick at the end. Terrible analogy on your part. A better baseball analogy to what happened in Boston the other day would would be: an incredibly boring game for 7 innings, a couple runs scored here and there, some sloppy defense, no one seeming to care and the crowd falling asleep, a few beachballs roll onto the field, maybe a rain delay, and THEN.... a great final two innings with some fireworks with a couple homeruns. Perfect game my ass.
And your mocking of the science person (whether or not they were arrogant ) was absurd. So scientists are "unproductive" and disease is good?!?! Okay, whatever you say. But let me guess, runners ARE productive members of society and someone like Kara Goucher or Ryan Hall contribute so much? you've got some strange views.