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Celizic: America's 10 biggest Olympic busts - Winter Olympics - MSNBC.com:
I can develop a cynical attitude at elitist sports jerks who can't peform on demand without your help, thank you very much.
On the other hand, if you sportswriters (along with Nike) hadn't so overhyped Miller in the first place, you wouldn't have had to feel so driven to take him down off the pedestal you put him on. As far as I'm concerned, you (media) turned on him when he didn't perform to your predictions, making you all look bad, so you attacked him instead of admitting that you can't predict a damn thing when it comes to athletic performance.
BTW, none of you put Arakawa, Ligety, Dawson, Cheek, or the U.S. men's curling team on your predictions lists for being anywhere near contenders, which I think supports my point.
By Mike CelizicNice job if you can find it, I guess. Didn't realize that while "fairness and accuracy" were still important in journalism (and granted, Bode was a dumb overhyped jerk), that cynicism has taken over as the prevailing attitude.
MSNBC
Updated: 12:09 p.m. ET Feb. 27, 2006
I got a lot of e-mails during the Olympics asking me why I had to be so negative about the home team during these Games. And all I could say was that it was because there was so much to be negative about.
And, while there were plenty of "happy-happy, joy-joy" stories which are chronicled in a companion piece to this, there were far too many times when the only thing a humble scribe could do was follow the first rule of writing sports columns, to whit: The task of a sports columnist is to arrive at the scene of a catastrophe and shoot the survivors.
I can develop a cynical attitude at elitist sports jerks who can't peform on demand without your help, thank you very much.
On the other hand, if you sportswriters (along with Nike) hadn't so overhyped Miller in the first place, you wouldn't have had to feel so driven to take him down off the pedestal you put him on. As far as I'm concerned, you (media) turned on him when he didn't perform to your predictions, making you all look bad, so you attacked him instead of admitting that you can't predict a damn thing when it comes to athletic performance.
BTW, none of you put Arakawa, Ligety, Dawson, Cheek, or the U.S. men's curling team on your predictions lists for being anywhere near contenders, which I think supports my point.
