Peace Out wrote:
Sliced Open wrote:If you're going to fix the race, might as well pick a fast blonde.
I hate to say it/think it, but the "fixed race" theory does make sense, and with Meb, not Ryan Hall. It would be wwwaaaayyyy too obvious if they let a whitey win the Boston marathon. It honestly never occurred to me that this race was fixed until I saw this thread, but I do think it's quite possible.
But yeah, I cried when Meb won (when he started crying) and I'm not even American.
Ok, so let me get this straight:
You didn't even consider for a moment that this race was a setup (likely because you're not a weak-minded, narcissistic, cyncical half-wit,) until the idea was posited here, on this long-known bastion of sometimes utterly hare-brained thought by someone who is as relentless as they are stupid and ill-willed.
But now, in light of this brilliant, and so well-defended (sarcasm implied and intended) theory that will surely earn the poster a Nobel, if not brief notoriety in this sophisticated arena, you've allowed that idea to seem plausible.
I must say, I applaud your ability to throw all reason to the side, your sheer will and dislike of all that may be good in the sport (ah, yes, my judgment must be skewed by blind positivity) combined with the openness which seeks give all opinions their due respect - no matter how utterly stupid and ill-conceived - their day.
So, if you'll allow such a complex set of clues to lead you to supporting the theory of The Crying Man (who no doubt is as broken as he is due to some sort of "Crying Game" situation in his past,) please consider mine, as crazy as it is (and mind you, I may have borrowed a bit of it from something I like to call "reality"):
It's Boston. It's going to be a little warm. It's a stacked field. It didn't go out "pedestrian," only merely a bit conservative. One guy goes who's not exactly the heaviest hitter in the group, goes. The old guy, who'd almost blown up at the 1/2 Championships and is 39, chases him. By the time the rest of the group decides to work together to go get them, it's too late, even though one guy from said group did give chase and almost catch the both of them. What ends up is a warmish day on a course that, up until a few years ago, saw the fastest men in the world find it hard to break 2:08 and, lo and behold, you've got the most experienced, perhaps even toughest, marathoner of the group, taking it in what ultimately amounts to a very good time, historically.
Does is make for a slightly unusual story of how the Boston Marathon went? Sure, but no more so than last year being won in 2:10 when the field included Micah Kogo and Wesley Korir.
The long and short of it is this:
I'm glad you threw your support behind this unbelievably cynical and moronic theory, because it rather perfectly illustrates how conspiracy theories make roots. One nutjob egotist with no grasp of social science comes up with it, lets it loose, and then some well-intentioned, tolerant individuals with the zeal for the imaginative and outside-the-box thinking chime in to say "Hey, I never thought about that, but I suppose it's within the realm of possibility..."
Yeah, lots of things are within the realm of possibility. It's possible that a million cows could balance on the head of a tack, but it's not likely to happen. It's possible that we didn't land on the moon, but it would be astonishing that such a secret could be kept, given the ones that aren't (but oh, isn't that all just part of the grand disinformation plan!)
So, before you go giving people like the Crying Man credibility, I implore you to use your head. The more you do, the sooner people like this guy can get the help they need as they see that they are indeed a one-man audience.
