[SOC] more BULLS*IT!!!! from adam

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In a message dated 4/14/2002 10:33:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
w2agn@w2agn.net writes:

<< Nascar has indefinitely removed Kevin Harvick from Nascar because he bumped
 > some guy out of the truck race yesterday, this following his "fight" with
 > Greg Biffle a couple weeks ago. >>

 Not being a nascar guy myself, i would think that the fighting and 
controversy will attract more of the nascar crowd...when i was a kid, my dad 
used to take me to the old Riverside speedway, the crowds that showed up were 
usually drunk, aggressive and waiting for a crash, there are always 
exceptions...but thats what stuck out in my mind as a kid. the same type of 
lot that goes to, and gets way overly involved in, pro wrestling "matches". 
and i swear on a Carl Sagan paperback that there are people still out there 
who think pro wrestling is real and the winners succeed because they are 
better wrestlers, not because thats how they rehearsed it. this amazes me!
 I also live in a Nascar city, we have the Las Vegas Speedway here, its 
massive!  theres no other way to put it...theres a ton of money behind it and 
nascar is pushing their product like never before. a wreck or a bit of foul 
play will put asses into the stands, and an indefinate suspension of a driver 
will not stop the marketing machine...not even a little bit, and if this guy 
has even a little bit of of a fan base or marketability, he will be back for 
sure. as long as cars wreck and the glimmer of hope of seeing some carnage 
still exists, the beer generation will still flock to the big left turn 
arena. can you drive by an accident scene without the smallest urge to at 
least have a passing glance?
  Let me make it clear that i respect a guy that can get behind the wheel of 
a machine that goes 240 mph in traffic, theres strategy there in winning, but 
it moves me like a bad laxative. 
  As for pro wrestling, im a performer myself, i go onstage and go off the 
hook...i usually sustain an injury or two just playing my guitar, i cut 
myself up, i come home with bruises, lumps, scrapes and every muscle aches, 
and i dont even notice it until the next day...then i really notice it, but i 
suspect that what i go through for my craft just to deliver a good show is 
small compared to what these people go through to deliver a good wrestling 
performance to the fans, they are huge people doing extremely physical 
routines, they do get injured AND they have to be convincing actors as 
well...i also understand the pressure cooker that is the entertainment 
business, they have no choice but to perform to the best of their abilities 
in order to stay in the fold, regardless of how they are feeling.
 With that said, maybe they are TOO convincing because there are still 
legions of fans who overlook the fact that the huge roundhouse punch they saw 
the one monster throw missed the other guys head by a foot and a half....and 
the bad acting that followed when the second monster flopped around 
exsessively on the mat like a fish. im sure a few of us have taken a punch in 
our time...if someone can explain to me how these two situations look 
remotely similar, im all ears. i know some guys who get all bent out of shape 
FOR REAL when one wrestler "loses" a belt to another one...they are depressed 
for days, i just sit there stunned and look at them.  you want reality?  
watch old tapes of the UFC, theres no faking anything there...those guys have 
serious skills and beat the crap out of eachother, pretty gruesome stuff for 
sure, the two look nothing alike.
 Anyway, my opinion and a dollar can get you small bag of M&Ms...but there 
you have it. :-)

73...Adam, N7YA
SOC 143  FP#86
www.NDUS3.com
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