First off, as I stated "IMHO"
As the Chicago Tribune famously said, "It appears that everybody has a right to express their opinion, but not everybody has a right to their opinion."
If you don't like opinion, that's fine work me. You Rossi Bots defend him no matter what he does.
Turning to insults because your theory is getting picked apart logically is a rather immature tactic.
Funny, if the situation was completely reversed and Rossi went down, all the Rossi Bots would be screaming! The difference with me is, I will defend anyone even if I don't like them.
Common sense dictates that you cannot use an assumption of your own creation to support your argument. I am a Rossi fan, I know he is guilty of riding very aggressively in the past, and if the roles were reversed I would be pissed at him for taking himself out of contention, similar to how I was pissed last year when he wrecked like a goofball.
Just because I like or dislike somebody has no bearing on looking at the situation logically and drawing an analytical conclusion.
Your assumption that others must be defending their idol actually speaks higher of your intentions than your proclamation about being unbiased. We are blinded by our own paradigm.
Personally, I don't like Rossi, I think he is a big clown. He is a great rider no doubt about it, but not the GOAT he thinks he is.
Not to nitpick, but you stated this as fact, when it is clearly an opinion. I would say that your bias is quite evident in the very thin straws you are dancing on to make your point.
If GOAT stands for Goofiest Of All Time, then he earns that title.
Again, your opinion and you are welcome to it.
Rossi is a great rider, but super dirty too.
Can you provide any evidence or list any events in say, the last 7 years, that would lend you to believe that he is still as aggressive as he was one when he was a 22-year old kid? Could it be that time and experience have tempered his aggressiveness, while his talent has allowed him to evolve with the machine?
Marc is certainly talented, but he is very very aggressive, perhaps more so than Rossi ever was. However age and experience will temper him too.
If rubbing is racing, then he fits right in-like NASCAR. He is ambitious for sure and extremely media savvy. Does anyone remember how dirty Rossi was to Biaggi and Seth on and off the track!
Again do you have any examples in the last 7 years of Rossi being a dirty rider? Much like Michael Jordan returning to the NBA with a now-patented fade-away jump shot, Rossi's come back has shown him to be more humble, more calculated, and completely brilliant.
The other reason I don't like him is his claim that he a great development rider.
I think that he certainly struggled with Ducati but had great success with Yamaha before that.
He developed the Ducati into a loser! Only now is Ducati finally turning things around, because Ducati has done away with most of his input.
Your first sentence is factually incorrect and the rest of the quote has a bitter taste of emotional-based thinking. Changing history, inventing "facts" and adding your biased emotions into a statement don't make for the powerhouse evidence you assume... it really just makes your argument weaker.
I don't blame Rossi for taking Ducati's money, that's Ducati's fault for putting so much stock/investment into Rossi's and Burgess's claims that they can turn the Ducati around with simple adjustments.
Interesting, you said that he developed Ducati into a loser, but now you are suggesting that they were losing before... Why turn something that isn't broken around?
Point being, don't claim to be the best development rider/engineer/crew chief on the earth/in the sport then turn Ducati into a total loser!
It was clearly all that evil-doer Rossi's fault and its clearly his fault that Marques turned into him. Don't you see how you are applying the same emotional "logic" against the same person, yet claiming to be unbiased?
Ya I stand by what I said:
watch that video with side/view camera angle Rossi looks right over at Marques when he kicks his rearend out into the front wheel of Marques.
After reading your prior evidence against Rossi, it is quite clear to me that you believe this. However, what you believe and what is factually true are quite different. Sadly, we live in a day-and-age when discounting millions of pieces evidence and data because it disproves stories in your religious book is consider normal.
However lets look at something a little more tangible.
Racing 101, the person in the lead has the line. Rossi was still leaning to his right (although almost vertical) when Marquez began his turn to the the left.
When viewed from both the helicopter and rear camera angle, it is VERY CLEAR that Marquez starts to enter the corner first, leaning to his and Valentino's left. Again, Rossi -as the clear and defined leader- has the line and it is Marc's responsibility to follow.
The move, Rossi accelerating and running wide in order to drop deep into the apex is a clear, clean and typical blocking move. Marc should have conceded the position unless he thought he could pass on the outside.
To suggest that Rossi purposely wrecked Marquez in that manner shows, IMHO, a lack of racing knowledge and common sense. That is a very high risk maneuver where even a few millimeters of difference can change who wrecks and how. While I certainly have a higher praise of Rossi's ability than you, I don't think engineering a wreck on purpose with that level of sophistication in a fraction of a second, while turning your head over your shoulder to see if you are going to get hit again, is possible.
He has done this something to Biaggi, Seth, and many other riders for years and years. He then uses his power in the media to cover/blame the other riders
Please list the other riders or list some memorable events?
I would keep the H capitalized.
