Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "The New York Times" channel.

@user-mx9th2fx8r He predicted Trump in 2016. He doesn't go based on personal feelings, but what the data shows.
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@derrsonn Even his model did not foresee the butterfly ballot or the Supreme Court abandoning its long-held stated principles to throw the election toward their preferred candidate.
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@Daniel Bausch People don't get suspended for anti-doping violation based on "accusations that are largely anecdotal." He did wrong by his athletes, and even people like Rupp and Farah who got medals will always be under a cloud of suspicion.
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@nafeeahnafsiraj Brooks is best of all. I tried their shoes 23 years ago and haven't looked back.
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@joshuaantony1975 Yes, everything would work out if she just left, because no one is ever going to exploit vulnerable athletes. Have you ever seen Foxcatcher? The reason something like that is possible is because of how poorly so many sports pay, and people just get sick of starving. The shoe companies are the ones who pay right now, and they are going to compete with Nike in a race to the bottom.
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@nsdfancy You're insisting that Nike bears no responsibility for a project that they spent millions of dollars on and used it to promote its awful shoes. If they are going to get money exploiting these athletes, then they are responsible for the dark side of it. You don't get to pretend you're innocent when you're the one writing the checks and vouching for the coach who did all of these horrible things even after he got suspended.
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@joshuaantony1975 If they're not runners, they aren't relevant to the conversation. Different sports have different business models. Who are you going to point to next to prove your point, Carson Wentz? And do you really think those other shoe companies treat their athletes much better? Watch the video about the runner who competed while pregnant. She switched to Asics, but their policies were almost as bad as Nike's. Something else that you're forgetting: Mary Cain was 17 when she signed for Nike. So, not only are you defending exploiting athletes, you are also defending child abusers. Great look!
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@joshuaantony1975 Oh, my God! You sound like a cultist. Literally, "You are free to leave whenever you want" as though blackballing and exclusive contracts aren't a thing, and you further prove your ignorance by responding to the question about which runners don't have shoe deals and aren't starving by pointing to athletes who have multimillion dollar contracts. It takes a certain degree of ignorance to say the things that you have been saying, and a certain degree of stupidity not to understand that Julio Jones is not in the same boat as someone in a field where 90% of all elites receive less than $15,000/year in prize money. Why do you think there are so few elite runners in developed countries? Maybe if you understand a little bit about how the economic model works and how noncompete clauses work, then you can try to not sound like a total moron when kissing Phil Knight's butt to defend such unconscionable practices.
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 @Typical.Anomaly 1988. Poppy also won Illinois.
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@Valerielopez2002 By any definition, looking at actual economic indicators, the economy is. GDP is up, and inflation and unemployment are down. And if you respond with "prices are still up," then that tells me that you don't understand how inflation works. Either that, or that you are wishing for deflation, which any reading of the 1930s can tell you is bad. It's no coincidence that the last time we had deflation in America was 2009. If you watch his interviews or livestreams, he has explained that one foreign policy key leans blue and another leans red. Re: social unrest, what you are defining as massive social unrest on par with Vietnam or even the BLM protests?
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@user-mx9th2fx8r Yep, you're still basing on hoping that he's wrong. The worst lies we tell are the ones we tell ourselves.
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@user-mx9th2fx8r Oh, and nice dog whistle with the "fake color" nonsense. Tell me you're in the cult without saying you're in the cult.
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@THEBATMAN28AHH And if it wasn't for chicanery with recounts (look up the Brooks Brothers Riot in Miami), he would have won the Presidency. Subsequent analysis shows that Gore would have won the Electoral College had all the votes been counted in Florida.
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Alberto Salazar has been poison to distance running. He got off light that he only got suspended instead of banned for life.
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@ozjohn8657 You mean learning the secrets of micro dosing in order to skirt PED rules? You probably believe that Rupp and Farah are true champions who aren't tainted.
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@ozjohn8657 Rupp and Farah were only the two biggest in the stable. The mere fact that you now praise PED tells me all I need to know about you and your toxic ideas about sports. You probably still praise Asteriskstrong.
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@ozjohn8657 And it ruins the sport. The instant people like you talk about "doing what it takes" in the context if PEDs, you start to legitimize it. And Salazar also had tens of millions of Nike dollars at his disposal to fight off the charges. Then again, people knew he was a crook for decades to the point where Mary Decker Slaney hid her involvement with him... before she tested positive, too.
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@nsdfancy Nike makes money off the coach's bad actions, and it stood by Salazar for years. They don't act in total naivete about what happens with their money. It's like the line in Quiz Show when the president of Geritol tells the investigator, "You're saying that I had something to do with fixing the shows? That's insulting." When asked if he was in the dark, he said, "Now you're saying that I don't pay attention to what people do when I write their checks. That's even more insulting." Nike saw the gold medals by people wearing the swoosh and all of the publicity from the Oregon Project. Bill Bowerman would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what was happening.
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@joshuaantony1975 Show me any elite professional runner who doesn't have a shoe deal. Any one. At all. You also don't seem to understand that the market leader often sets the parameters of the market. Just like manufacturers had to go along with requirements of Wal-Mart at the turn of the century and have to do so for Amazon today, no one is going to go significantly away from what Nike is offering.
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@joshuaantony1975 I'm the only one who is arguing facts. I'm not the one who so very dishonestly charged the question from "runner" to "athlete." I'm not the one defending a known sweatshop merchant that it turns out treats elite athletes in smaller sports with the same disdain.
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@joshuaantony1975 I said you dishonesty changed the question from "runners" to "athletes." Among others, you mentioned a player in the NFL. So, let's look at the economics of the two sports: NFL: median salary of $860,000 and a minimum salary of $465,000 IAAF: 90% of elite athletes receive less than $15,000 in prize money. Yes, those are totally the same.
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@joshuaantony1975 You are too stupid to understand that there is no salary for elite runners unless they get sponsors.
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@joshuaantony1975 You literally thought that you had a point in your favor by not understanding that sponsor salary is the main source of income for runners and that prize money is the equivalent to player salary in the NFL, and thus don't understand why an NFL player would be in a different position than a track athlete. Also, you apparently don't understand that non-compete clauses are a thing. If she left Nike, she couldn't just go to another company. So, she could leave... and try to make it on poverty wages. Understand the economic model of a sport before you try to spout nonsense, and maybe you'll understand why it is nonsense.
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@joshuaantony1975 Which are you, 14 or 12?
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@maximyles Clearly she wasn't "remaining strong." Sadly, history is full of young athletes who were worn out before we could see how great they really were. Gerry Lindgren peaked at 19. Jim Ryun peaked at 20. Mary Cain peaked at 16. This is because they had coaches who saw visions of glory instead of thinking about the athlete and running them into the ground. What nutritionist and doctor helped Salazar determine this was the correct weight for his athlete?
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@zapazap Apparently, in your eagerness to defend Nike and try to make some ridiculous racial argument, you completely missed the point about the economic model of track and field. It is not like major team sports in that you get a salary to compete. You get prize money, and the prize money is so very low that 90% of elite runners make less than $15,000/year in prize money. Even the biggest of the big usually are in six figures rather than the seven or eight of other sports. That answers two of your questions borne by not reading and defending the indefensible: $15,000/year goes a lot farther in East and North Africa than it does in North America and Western Europe, and something has to fill in the gap. Even for those athletes outside of the industrialized world, shoe companies tend to sponsor camps and agents are the ones with ties to shoe companies are the ones who pick people to join the circuit. So, given the economic models that exist now in the sport, how is a runner supposed to make it without a shoe company endorsement?
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@zapazap If by covering up PED scandals and getting positions on athletic boards to keep people from being held accountable as "doing something right," yeah, sure.
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@maximyles Any athlete who peaked young either just had nothing more to prove (Herb Elliott, who never lost and was an amateur who couldn't afford to fly halfway around the world that often) or were overtrained. I don't know your experience in endurance sports, but barring injuries, almost all athletes at any level take about ten years of hard training to reach their full potential. If you don't think that making someone run over 250 miles a week (Lindgren), run hard intervals every day from the age of thirteen (Ryun), or forcing a developing girl to meet an arbitrary weight that clearly left her weakened and exhausted (Cain) had a role in their stunted development, either you are blind to the circumstances, or you are really grasping at straws to defend Nike and their indefensible program and coach.
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@maximyles 250 miles a week is obscene unless you are an ultramarathon runner going extremely slowly. The typical elite 10,000 meter runner (Lindgren's event) typically runs anywhere from 80-140 miles per week. Swimming is far less of a cardiovascular exercise than running, so those aren't comparable. The human body can only withstand so many hard miles (Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers, who propelled the American running boom in the early to mid 1970s, were elite marathon runners and neither are capable of running a marathon today), and being burned out by the time you're 19 means that something was wrong. Also, Lindgren and Ryun weren't never-was. They were both world record holders, and Ryun was an Olympic silver medalist as his downhill began. Part of the reason he won silver instead of gold was because he contracted mono and couldn't train for several months in the spring leading up to Mexico City, a disease that is a symptom of overtraining in endurance athletes. For comparison in terms of when an athlete should peak, here are the ages of the dominance or the greatest performances of other all-time great distance runners: Paavo Nurmi, 27; Emil Zatopek, 29; Ron Clarke, 27; Lasse Viren, 23: Abebe Bikila, 28; Said Aouita, 25; Peter Snell, 23-25; Haile Gebrselassie, 23-27; Kenenisa Bekele, 26; Hicham El Guerrouj, 26; David Rudisha, 24. Any endurance athlete who peaks at 19 or 20 is being done wrong. Since you are familiar with boxing, I will paraphrase one of the greatest movies ever made with a former boxer as the main character: their coaches should have been taking care of them. They should have been looking out for them instead of taking the short end money meets.
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@user-mx9th2fx8r Right, so you are clearly basing yours on personal feelings of wishing this was the time he'd be wrong. Okay. Of course it's possible, but when someone found patterns that held for 120 years in order to develop a system that has held up for 40, there is a question of possible vs. likely. I just don't see this as the election that will break a 160-year pattern. What are you basing yours on?
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@Valerielopez2002 And what specifically are you basing your opinion that he us wrong on those three keys on? What indicators or events? Not just your feelings.
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The NCAA is a huge racket. We need to get rid of shamateurism once and for all.
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