Think about what I said. Bode MIller is a great talent. Ya can’t deny it. I ski most of the shit he does. Of course not at his level. Hell, if I could ski as fast has he does, I’d be f**cking arrogant too. Why not? Millions of dollars for skiing my favorite sport? I would say yes to every dime. No one talks about his donations he’s made. He’s active w/ the boys & girls clubs around America. They get big chunks of his money for sports & other activites to keep the little brats off the streets & doing something positive. You do ski right? I mean, Anyone who makes a comment that pertains to Bode’s skiing damn well better ski. I am not talking about , “Yeah, I skied once.” I am talking what I do & my friends do most with our time living here in Mammoth, CA. If you live here & don’t ski, you are a pussy or 80 years old. Period.. Tell me how many people other than the people we call friends or family are “arrogant assholes in todays world?” I have major talent as a free style & aerial skier. Do I have a Gold medal? No. I ski because I love the sport. I love the danger of it at high altitudes. It’s a massive cum fest on gliding through that beautfiul deep powder. The deeper the better baby!. I wanted to be a math geek & become a cool scientist not a champion skier. Bode Miller wanted to be a Champion skier. HE IS THAT! I think Miller is cool. Not because he CAN be an arrogant ass. But because he is an American. Wouldn’t you be pissed off as hell if some bastard from another country came up & said..Hey Jeff, you can’t say that. We don’t say things like that in our country.” You would respond like I would. “I F**CKING live in the land of milk & honey. I live in freedom. I can stay what the f*ck I want because a lot of brave men & women died & gave me that right.” Then I’d kick that whoever’s ass out of my way, go get a drink & sing “101 bottles of beer on the wall as loud as I wanted too.” WHY? BECAUSE “FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS SUPER COOL !!” Bode can say what the hell he wants. He is an AMERICAN.. He’s ours Jeff. Like it or not, He belongs to us…If he wins Gold or any medal in 2010. I will be proud no matter how much of a ass you & everyone else thinks he is. If he doesn’t, he’ll most likey end up married to some hottie that looks like me (blonde, tall ,blue-eyes, typical American chick ) & have kids. His kids no doubt will be complete hoydens, wild & free types but they will be very proud of their Dad when they look back at his pictures on mags or watch his old races on DVD’s. That’s just his personality. Do I want him to ever insult America again? Hell no. I’m a girl but I have no problem tripping him off a slope if he does this shit again 2010. He gets a second chance. Everyone who is a real American, who learn’s from their idiot mistakes of youth should get another chance. Has hasn’t broken in laws. He hasn’t killed anyone, robbed or been in a street gang. He skis. That’s it. He is the badboy of skiing. He gets a second chance. The Olympics are GAMES. Nothing more, Nothing less. This is not going to war for God sake. He is only hurting just himself. Not me or you physically. Yea it sucks that we want to win but we can’t, not all the time & you get this. So does every one else on here. I am not meaning to be on the red/ white & blue band wagon here but God, he’s not John Wayne & just raped someone & tarnished America the beautiful forever. Lighten up!!! If Bode Miller wants to continue all this world-wide yapping then Bode Miller needs to look at political office space. I think everyones issue w/ Bode is not that he didn’t win a gold metal but the way he said he idin’t care about winning ine. If he doesn’t care about winning a GAME then if can still play. We need extra men on all sport teams to help block so the ego seeking can win for everyone. Bode just wanted to go to the XX games to part of the game. He didn’t care if HE won himself but he was very proud of the rest of the Americans who did win in their games. He said that on TV. I heard it. Does anyone get what I mean by this except me? Bunnee, “hopping away to her little hole to hide from the Bode hunters who might shoot & eat me for having a voice in America. ( Big smile)

Translated into Yoda speak I have:
“with bring beyond god’s to wrath horizon him that just waiting distant mmmmmm. Training at this time Bode is mmmmmmm. Over a stupid course into some bode or not gate off few a seconds a major mmmmmm. Done with Games XX he was, go down no Bode mmmmmm. Race single win every, Alpine highest place, record speed 2010 ever mmmmmm. Love America Bode does mmmmmmmm”

hehe, yeah… please post another comment soon, I needed a good laugh.

While I’m on the subject of Gaelic, how close are Scottish and Irish Gaelic in pronunciation?

Talking of which, wasn’t it great to see Bode’s results? Hypes himself to kingdom come, fucks up totally, then blames the press who he was utterly complicit with for his failure. Truly magnificent.

Even though it won’t happen, I’d love to see Nike put a stop order on their check.

BTW, “win motherf* win” was really just another way of saying “let your game do your talking, not your ass.”

While I respect Bill’s post and opinion, I think it’s an oversimplification to state it as a “win, motherf’er, win “mentality that Bode is resisting. After this olympics, I think most people are saying “care Mother F’er, Care”. I was pretty amazed that Sasha Cohen fell twice and stuck it out to win silver. Not because she won something…,because she kept trying. People might argue that was a dissapointment this olympics, people could argue the same in past olympics of Michele Quan and Dan Jansen but if I’m a parent and my kid is looking for a role model-I can’t think of anyone better to serveas inspirations because they gave it everything they had.

I wouldn’t go after Miller for losing but I would for his nonchalant attitude. He doesn’t seem to care. Unfortunately, the Olympics ARE a competition. If he doesn’t want to be involved in a competition, that’s fine, but stay home and protest. Don’t come and talk about how you could care less about winning and how the media and everyone else is to blame. He should not threaten people with quitting and say how skiing is keeping him from other life pursuits, he should actually quit and allow someone who is perhaps less talented, but more inspired to take his spot. Someone like Ted Liggety. You never know what they can do. In fact, using Miller’s own logic, I would argue that if he keeps a roster spot, simply because he is a better skier than an alternate with less talent but who might be more inspired to compete, than he is guilty of promoting ability over desire.

He showed up out of shape…He was doubled over trying to get air most of the time on the occasions he was able to finish a race. So yes, that means he was trying-but it also means he was waaaay out of shape .
That’s what bothers me. Not that he didn’t win but that he didn’t give himself and those he represents that oppurtunity and didn’t care. That’s all.

As far as his Nike affiliation and those commercials are concerned, it is incredible for Miller to discuss kids, competition and inspiration when those same kids are tuning into 60 minutes, which he certainly didn’t have to appear in, to see their hero brag about skiing in competition while drunk. I mean what is this person thinking?

The guy is a hypocrite, he needs to figure it out and understand he can’t have it both ways. Otherwise, I really hope we send someone without his talent to Vancouver in 2010.