Mike & Mike rip Rosenberg
On ESPN's Mike & Mike this morning, Greenberg took a big exception with Rosenberg's column today about Lance Armstrong. Rosenberg's take was "now that Floyd Landis says that Armstrong doped, we can no longer assume that Lance's story is true."
What? It is typical Rosenberg to take a convicted liar, who plead his innocent to anyone who would listen, wrote a book and then "told to the truth to free his conscience." Greenie was beside himself with how idiotic that column is.
My response was: You should see his other columns. He is a shock journalist and figures is he attacks the institutions (UM, Armstrong) that people believe in, then he must be doing his job.
In summary, Rosenberg is not an asshole but also just a miserable journalist.
Obviously, the column is typical Rosenberg... sensationalist, conclusory, and not all that well written. THAT SAID, I think we're overstating how much the column is about Floyd Landis' accusations and their effect on Lance's guilt/innocence. The column seems to be more about how Floyd is just the latest in a loooong line of people to accuse Lance of doping. You don't have to believe Floyd 100% to put his accusations (and that's all they are -- unsubstantiated allegations) on the scale and give them whatever weight you see fit...
But, in all honesty, I might just be saying this because if you put a gun to my head and asked me if Armstrong took PEDs, my answer would be an unequivocal, "Yes." Too dirty a sport, too dominant an athlete, too many accusations... smoke, fire, etc.
Cycling is seen as a dirty sport because no other major sport has whole heartedly embraced testing and kicking out cheats. Riders get tests before, during, and after races, and even get random visits by WADA goons at their houses while they're training. Also think about how many professional cyclists there- thousands. There 10x the number of teams than you see in the TdF. Lots of positives because of lots of athletes.
As an amateur bike racer the Rosenberg article pains me. Greenie's defense was a little bright spot for the coverage of our sport in the last few days. ESPN has been OK, but what I really hate is that they choose guys who have no idea whatsoever about cycling to talk about it. The opinion of these guys will drive the public's perception of cycling... and it's total crap.
people are lazy. I had a professor that was a pain in the butt, but I learned a lot. He had one standing rule. "If you quote something without doing your own research on the base material, or if you quote an opinion column, I will fail you. For the semester."
I think a lot of people learned not to trust what they read that semester.
but doping has really ruined my enjoyment of ML Baseball, the Olympics and now cycling. Crap.
But yes, Hosenschmerz is a royal douchebag.
Perhaps Brian should start a separate board on the site solely for talk about Snyder/Rosenberg/the Freep.
Lets see, Rosenberg writes a bullshit article. Famous sports talk radio guys speak out against bullshit article. Thread appears on MGoBoard. I think Rosenberg got what he was looking for. Quit reading his shit.
Rosenberg the grandson of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. That darn family!
I ripped a nasty Rosenberg this morning, could have peeled paint.
Rosenberg is the talk of the day to a group of people who INSIST they hate him. The board has once again fallen under the control of this evil genius.
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From the last [column / investigative report / hackjob that is not worthy of wiping my ass] that [douchebag / dolphin-puncher] Rosenberg [wrote / fabricated / pulled out of his ass], it's hard to believe that he wasn't [drunk / three sheets to the wind / stoned / *hits his head with tennis shoe* "Dude, that was my skull. I'm so wasted!"] at the time.
But a lowsy author. He fails at basic grammar.
Remember English class, (in about 7th grade) when they taught you that paragraphs had to be at least two sentences in length? I do, too. Apparently, Albom forgot, because he typically includes paragraphs composed of about three words.
Like this one.
Its lazy writing, frankly. It may work for a newspaper column in a paper like The Freep, but he's no Ernest Hemingway.
Criticizing someone for being "lowsy" might actually work if you spelled lousy correctly.
But, I didn't hold myself up as a prize-winning author, nor columnist. So there.
...and baseball, and boxing, and well...almost every other sport is full of guys using PEDS. Why people think lance didn't, at any time, take something in a sport KNOWN to be full of dopers is fooling themselves. Don't misunderstand. Lance is a GREAT cyclist and a physiological freak. But I don't think he's being all that honest. It's not unlike Tiger. Lance has a reputation to uphold. Also recall that Lance had cancer and most likely was given EPO. The same EPO that cyclists use to increase their RBCs. Is it that hard to fathom that Lance continued to take EPO?
Athletes today are doping whether we like it or not. I just wish we'd get real and just accept that many of our great athletes these days are using chemicals to help them perform.
What a joke,he is.