masessa@charter.net

Yeah, I guess we should cancel the Super Bowl, World Series, Olympics, Nationals, NBA Championships, Cycling World Championships. Nobody want's to be the best. Forget those goals and working to be the best. All those people in history just had it wrong.

I do like how you started your comments though... "I'm a little confused"

---- Brian Mack wrote:
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>
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> I'm a little confused - What makes one race on the calendar special
> enough to be called a championship race? Why should I care more about
> winning it vs. any of the other road races out there, and why would
> anyone care if an out-of-stater beat them at that race more than any
> other?
>
> Is the idea that OBRA is so infested with racers from Ca and Wa that we
> have to have a special race just to determine who the best person is in
> this state? Why would anyone care who that was? How about a blonde
> hair championships, or Portland championship, or one for people owning
> an SUV?
>
> Or is it more arbitrary, just saying that everyone in the state should
> show up at some random event so that we can determine who the best rider
> is out of everybody. The winner on that particular day, in the weather
> that it had, on that kind of course, out of the people who didn't crash
> or have flats, whose tactics happened to work... who cares?
>
> Whatever it is that makes the race meaningful is how it should be
> restricted. For my part, if I show up, it'll only be for a chance to
> win a free shirt with a nice picture on the front and pockets in the
> back, and I probably won't care too much if I get beat by a guy from
> Washington, or if he has three legs or drives a Buick or has four
> testicles.
>
> Brian
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