RE: Denver Post/Dahron Ralves article

therealjerk

therealjerk

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Guys and gals of ns-

OK, before i start lets remember what happened last time we got pissed off at The Denver Post. Yeah? When that Scott Willoughby guy called us out in his followup article?

If anybody is mad, i strongly encourage some kind of written rebuttal. Meyer's email is at the bottom of the article. BUT PLEASE keep the profanity and immaturity to a minimum. I think Tanner is one of the best skiers out there and potentially one of the best skiers ever but the last thing we need is somebody getting hotheaded and immature... like my old signature just was. Word?

'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....

-

Pick up my guitar an play

Just like yesturday

And I'll get on my knees and prayyyy...

We don't get fooled again!' -The Who

 
Very good points. We definitely should email this moron back, but keep the profanity to a miniumum and make sure you back up your statements with info. This guy is an uninformed idiot

jibba jabba
 
i hate to bump this but theres no voices of reason right now.

'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....

-

Pick up my guitar an play

Just like yesturday

And I'll get on my knees and prayyyy...

We don't get fooled again!' -The Who

 
yah good call on the writing and also try to avoid death threats and ignorance and other stupid stuff, dont make youself sound uninformed like this guy

********************

Pat

'The deep south? Isn't that the place where the black people are lazy and the white people are just as lazy, but they are mad at the black people for being lazy?'
 
I think I'm going to send him something. Maybe along the lines of breaking down each of his points one by one. Remember kids, spell check before you send. Otherwise you look dumb.

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'Today I washed my shirt with my washboard abs. I didn't even have to take it off, I just poured water on the stain and scrubbed it on my abs.' (My little brother)

'I'm in his nigger crew' (my little brother in response to my statement that he was in my 'digger crew')

'My knee hurts' (Jeff Merat after grinding a lunch table for an hour instead of sitting in the ski patrol shack for his torm mcl and acl which he got earlier that day.)

'I'm not asking for any help, just maybe for you to get off your ass.'(my dad)
 
i cant say i care anywhere near enough to write a response to that article. we should be more motivated to write to the us open and tell them just how un-open their contest really is.

 
Mr. Meyer,

When I read your article full of half facts and assumptions, I couldn't resist contacting you. Your hypocricy is so blatently obnoxious, that it made me question your intellegnce. You write an entire newspaper article about how racing is becoming under appreciated, and disrespected by the 'hip' freeskiers of today, then go forth and disrespect newschool skiers everywhere by making ignornt genralizations such as, 'A lot of kids are doing tricks in halfpipes, congratulating themselves on how hip and brave they are-'. You also included Mr. Ralves comments: '-jumping on rails to me is more like Rollerblades. It's not skiing.' and, '-it's the same thing over and over again.' How can people take your want for renewed interest and respect towards gate chasing seriously, when you go right ahead and offend the fast growing (much faster then racing) sport of freeskiing, and its athletes. And still you go and misinform your readers by making up bullshit such as, 'Hall is upset because Bode Miller makes more endorsement money than he does, so he ridicules ski racing.' The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way more then anything else in your article was what was said in your article regarding newschool skiing being '-the same thing over and over again.' Is this a joke? How can someone say that a sport that involves terrain parks (tabletops, hips, quaterpipes, rails, boxes, ect), backcountry riding (lines, cliffs, booters, powder, ect), urban settings (handrails, ledges, drops, gaps, ect), is repetetive. When all of which are home to an extremely wide variety of technical, highly skilled tricks. All of that compared to racing, which dosn't seem to have much variety besides different coloured gates (yes, I know there's more to it than that). I'm sure Tanner understands the skill involved with racing, as he did it for a number of years in his youth, until he realized what thousands of others have: there is more to skiing then the restrictive sport of racing. Yes, racing takes skill. Yes, freeskiing takes skill. So please, I hope you can be man enough to apologize for you ignorant comments. I hope you and your kids have fun watching the races, I know I wouldn't.

-Nik Lauder (ace@newschoolers.com)

G-Kids
 
Mr. Meyer,

When I read your article full of half facts and assumptions, I couldn't resist contacting you. Your hypocricy is so blatently obnoxious, that it made me question your intellegnce. You write an entire newspaper article about how racing is becoming under appreciated, and disrespected by the 'hip' freeskiers of today, then go forth and disrespect newschool skiers everywhere by making ignornt genralizations such as, 'A lot of kids are doing tricks in halfpipes, congratulating themselves on how hip and brave they are-'. You also included Mr. Ralves comments: '-jumping on rails to me is more like Rollerblades. It's not skiing.' and, '-it's the same thing over and over again.' How can people take your want for renewed interest and respect towards gate chasing seriously, when you go right ahead and offend the fast growing (much faster then racing) sport of freeskiing, and its athletes. And still you go and misinform your readers by making up bullshit such as, 'Hall is upset because Bode Miller makes more endorsement money than he does, so he ridicules ski racing.' The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way more then anything else in your article was what was said in your article regarding newschool skiing being '-the same thing over and over again.' Is this a joke? How can someone say that a sport that involves terrain parks (tabletops, hips, quaterpipes, rails, boxes, ect), backcountry riding (lines, cliffs, booters, powder, ect), urban settings (handrails, ledges, drops, gaps, ect), is repetetive. When all of which are home to an extremely wide variety of technical, highly skilled tricks. All of that compared to racing, which dosn't seem to have much variety besides different coloured gates (yes, I know there's more to it than that). I'm sure Tanner understands the skill involved with racing, as he did it for a number of years in his youth, until he realized what thousands of others have: there is more to skiing then the restrictive sport of racing. Yes, racing takes skill. Yes, freeskiing takes skill. So please, I hope you can be man enough to apologize for you ignorant comments. I hope you and your kids have fun watching the races, I know I wouldn't.

-Nik Lauder (ace@newschoolers.com)

G-Kids
 
^VERY nicely written. That sends a great message that shows his terrible points, while avoiding vulgar stuff. Great job

jibba jabba
 
that ending is fuckin sweet dude^^

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meyers response to me was:

What I wrote is a column, which by definition is an opinion piece. That

means stating my opinion, not reporting 'both sides.'

I have no interest in free-riding -- it looks boring to me -- but I wasn't

criticizing it so much as criticizing one of the competitors in the sport

who said some really moronic things about ski racing. It was natural for me

to do this while covering World Cup races involving what I believe to be the

best skiers in the world.

There is no shortage of people in the ski media who will fawn over the

free-skiing movement at the expense of traditional ski disciplines. My own

newspaper was full of such stories less than two weeks ago. I'm just

defending 'old school' amid the onslaught of stories about 'new school.'

Skiing has always been about freedom. Have fun any way you like, but don't

criticize ski racing or try to say Tanner Hall is a better skier than Bode

Miller. That's absurd.

Don't take life to serious, you will never get out alive.

-Van Wilder-

Suck my Dick!

-Ron Jeremy-

 
i already sent a virus that deleted his hardrive my bad

'Sorry to all those racers out there,' Hall said, 'but in 10 years you guys ain't going to be nothing.'

 
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