I'm not THAT shocked...
I'm not THAT shocked that I saw a grown man cry on the Food Network last night as he competed to win a $10,000 prize in a food stylist competition. Yep, $10K!!!!! Don't get me wrong, I gotz nothing against food stylists. I KNOW how hard it is to make cooked food look appetizing on film, but $10,000?? TV coverage?? Crying???
Jeremiah Bishop won MAYBE $400 for his win at the Shenandoah 100 last weekend, and some douche cries about how his shrimp looked on film?? Not to be a dick, but that dude can go have large amounts of sex with himself. I know chick racers with WAY more ballz than some dude CRYING about the way his food looked. J.B. and other pros train their asses off and get paid shit, so this dude can shove his unappetizing on film pie up his (A.M. EDIT! WHOOO MAMA I GOT CARRIED AWAY!)
Sorry to rant so much, but I know what it takes just to do these races and totally SUCK at them, so whatever the Pros are doing is just off the f*cking charts hard and they get SH*T in return! While people playing poker, food styling, and baking cakes are taking home over 10 large ones. WTF?? To each their own, we all choose what we do, but sometimes I just can't believe that USA Cycling can't pay the way for athletes to compete overseas, and that the National XC series has shit prize money. WHAT is the incentive for our Pros and soon to be Pros to win?? UGGGG!!
Sorry, I just needed to vent a bit.
Later.
posted by Jason @ 8:12 PM
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5 Comments:
Personal satisfaction?
Sorry, I got nothing else :) It is really difficult paying your own way; I can vouch for that!
Personal satisfaction indeed. And that's great for folks like me. But racers like yourself are spending a lot of cash to get to the races and compete. It's accepted that times are tough and sponsorship dollars are few, but when Food Network is giving away $10,000 for food styling and I saw another one where a dude won like $5,000 for his BBQ sauce. Again, these are talents and worth of prizes, but YIKES! You got pros out there winning tires for traveling 2,000 miles to race. It's just sad that fitness oriented sports in the U.S. get so unrecognized. Maybe someday it will be "cool" to fit. ;)
I agree. Someone has to be able to package the events so that nut jobs like me can watch them on TV and we can get some money to the racers. One correcgtion. Every chick racer has more balls than that douche. The chicks are hard.
I don't really get it either, but that is free enterprize for ya. Why is road cyling so popular and profitable in Euorope and barely gets TV coverage here unless Lance is on the ticket? 'Cause fit dudes in Lycra ain't what Americans want to see. Give 'em cage fighting and Nascar (gag)and they are happy. It sucks, but how can we change it?
They watch dudes in tight uniforms every weekend... they are just wearing pads and smashing into each other ;) (FWIW, I'm a huge football fan myself.)
What events do you win tires?! Man, I usually pay my way, travel wherever, and come home with a picture of my results on my camera :D
I think that the sites like Freecaster and Cycling Dirt will only help to promote the sport. Universal Sports actually showed a good deal of the World Cups LAST year, and also showed the Megavalanche races. They haven't this year, though.
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